Harry Potter. Hermione X Male Reader Story

Trips Suspended and Lives Nearly Ended

(Y/N)'s POV

The day of the Hogsmeade trip started out with a bang, we were walking to the courtyard and trying to cheer up Harry, who hadn't been able to get permission, when we saw a commotion.

Lavender Brown seemed to be crying. Parvati had her arm around her and was explaining something to Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas, who were looking very serious. I immediately rushed over to see if everyone was ok. But I couldn't tell over Lavender's wailing.

"What's the matter, Lavender?" said Hermione anxiously as she, Harry, and Ron went to join the group. "She got a letter from home this morning," Parvati whispered. "It's her rabbit, Binky. He's been killed by a fox." "Oh," said Hermione, "I'm sorry, Lavender."

"That's terrible Lavender, I'm so sorry" I said gripping her shoulder, she pried herself from Parvati and clung onto me, still sobbing, I tried to comfort her as best I could and pat her back, but honestly it just made me feel very awkward.

"I should have known!" said Lavender tragically. "You know what day it is?" "Er-" "The sixteenth of October! 'That thing you're dreading, it will happen on the sixteenth of October!' Remember? She was right, she was right!"

I had to force myself into not saying "You have got to be kidding me!" The whole class was gathered around Lavender now. Seamus shook his head seriously. Hermione hesitated; then she said, "You...you were dreading Binky being killed by a fox?"

"Well, not necessarily by a fox," said Lavender, looking up at Hermione with streaming eyes, "but I was obviously dreading him dying, wasn't I?" "Oh," said Hermione. She paused again. Then... "Was Binky an old rabbit?"

"N-no!" sobbed Lavender. "H-he was only a baby!" Parvati stroked her hair and I tightened my grip around Lavender's shoulders. "Sometimes I hate being a Legilimens" I thought as another wave of sadness came over me.

"But then, why would you dread him dying?" said Hermione. Parvati glared at her. I gave her a look to try and say, "Not the time!" But she ignored it. "Well, look at it logically," said Hermione, turning to the rest of the group. 

"I mean, Binky didn't even die today, did he? Lavender just got the news today" Lavender wailed loudly as tears forced themselves to my eyes despite having no emotional attachment to the rabbit. "–and she can't have been dreading it, because it's come as a real shock."

"Don't mind Hermione, Lavender," said Ron loudly, "she doesn't think other people's pets matter very much." Now it was my turn to give Ron the same look.

"Lavender, look at me," I said, wiping her tears as she looked up at me, "I'm sure this was a terrible shock, but Binky had a happy life, and there was nothing you could have done, so how about we all just try to have some fun at Hogsmeade, yeah, in Binky's honour?" She looked reluctant at first but gave a tearful smile.

Unfortunately my kind-hearted nature backfired on me horribly, I spent the next few hours with Lavender Brown practically glued to my arm, it was worse when we got to Hogsmeade, Ron and Hermione were still arguing which was one thing, another was that as soon as Lavender grabbed hold of me Hermione stormed of in the other direction.

And it was hard to enjoy Hogsmeade when Lavender and Parvati spent half of the time in Madam Padifoots tea shop, which might as well have been a broom cupboard for someone of my size and was covered in very expensive and very breakable china cups.

I wouldn't normally mind this, but even the conversation was boring, all they did was look for signs in tea leaves, which was an interesting experience for the first fifteen seconds but after two hours became unbearable. And even when I did manage to free myself Hermione and Ron were nowhere to be seen, when I finally found them, it was time to leave.