ROOTS ~~ dramione, hinny, bluna

4: lessons

Hp

Me and Ginny both slept great. Ever since the war, both of us, mostly everyone in the wizarding world, has had nightmares. When we sleep together, they go away. It used to be like that for Hermione and Ron too, but then they broke up. Ron doesn't have them anymore, because of Lavender. But Hermione does. I hate Malfoy, but I really hope he can fix that.

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Hg - nighttime

I came to the bedroom from the bathroom to see Malfoy already on the bed.

"No! Get off!" I said, pulling out my wand.

"No! We dueled, and no one won so first one here gets it!"

"No, I won! You were stunned!"

"Weasley did that! Not you!" He said defensively.

"You don't know that! Maybe my shield made your curse rebound!? And Ron just opened the door?! You don't know!" I screamed back, knowing he was right.

He just shook his head, staying in the bed.

"Fine! I get it tomorrow! And once you get me pregnant, I get it everyday!" I yelled.

"Guess what Granger?! By the time you're pregnant, we'll probably be sleeping together!" He screamed back.

"Fine! Humph!" I made the sofa comfy and fell asleep.

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I woke up to a whimpering sound and checked the time: 2:37 am. I sat up quickly, grabbing my wand. When I looked around, I realized it was Malfoy. He was probably having a nightmare. I walked over to the huge bed, shivering slightly.

He was still asleep, but he was shaking. His face was contorted in pain and anger. And fear!

I climbed in next to him and threw my hands around him.

"It's okay, the war's over. You're safe at Hogwarts in bed..." I whispered softly in his ear.

He stopped shaking and woke up.

"Granger? W-what are you doing here?" He asked, sounding confused.

"You had a nightmare..." I replied and his face turned from confused to ashamed.

"Oh, how did you stop it? It normally takes hours for me to be fine..."

"When I was with Ron, he would have nightmares too, we all did. I knew that sleeping together worked for Ginny and Harry, so we tried that. And it worked. Whenever one of us had a nightmare, the other one would crawl into bed with them, hug them, and whisper things in their ear. But when we slept together, they stopped completely."

He nodded, "Did you have nightmares tonight?"

I nodded and he spoke again, "Would you want to... you know, stay?"

I nodded and settled into the bed. We both fell asleep in just a few minutes and didn't wake up all night.

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Nl

Daphne Greengrass had wanted one of us to sleep on the sofa, and I was fine with that. Until nighttime, when she said that we could share the bed. We didn't have to do anything weird, yet, and we could sleep on separate sides.

I agreed because classes started tomorrow and I wanted to get a good sleep. I was dreading DADA, until I realized... Snape was dead! I shouldn't be happy, since he was on our side, but still!

In the morning, I woke up to Daphne shaking me awake.

"There's 10 minutes till class! Wake up! Also you snore... a lot!"

"I know, sorry..." I said, rushing to get dressed.

"It's fine, it's actually kinda cute!" She said, giggling a bit.