Home to another one (Dramione)

Chapter 4

Dragging her large trolly along the cold Slytherin dorm's corridor Hermione cringed.

She had brought her largest suitcase, the one she had brought with her every year. It's a bit wonky, with some pretty bad bumps and one of the wheels missing.

She never gave too much thought to the condition of the bag. But now as the old suitcase kept rattling on the ground and spinning strangely left and right and around as it only had three wheels and was therefore definitely out of balance, she was suddenly brought back to her first day at hogwards all these years ago.

Harry and Ron had offered to help her lug the huge bag up the girl dorms' many many steps and she obliged, happy that the boys she had met on the train earlier that day had stuck around.

"Ron I swear to god if you keep slamming it into every wall shape will come and behead us for being in the girls dorms"

Ron was panting, his ginger hair sticking to his forehead "we're not even in the girls dorms" he said rolling his eyes

Harry inhaled and stared at Ron from his place three stapes ahead, which made Ron bump into the suitcase and nearly Plummet down the entire flight of stairs.

"Hey watch-" he started
"If I catch a student even breath-" Harry halted for dramatic effect as he executed a fairly accurate impression of the scary professor "near the other genders dorms I will personally punish them"

"Wait I didn't realise that its not allowed, I don't want to get you guys into trouble" hermione started, breaking off from the wall where she had watched the two boys banter with crinkly eyes

"Don't pay him any attention Mione" Ron stated, pushing the luggage onwards and almost tripping harry backwards, who gave him a pretty nasty glare "Harry here is just being a goody goody, but as we've discussed" he gave harry a pointed look "we're going into year four and its time to have more fun and break some rules"

Hermione watched harry as he sighed and picked the bag back up "fine, but stop jamming this thing into every nook and cranny, I mean it!

"Yeah yeah I'll be more careful"
Ron gave Hermione a 'can you believe this guy' look which earned him a giggle.

just as they were nearing the few final steps Ron slipped and the suitcase slammed into the wal with a loud thud, one of its wheels fell off and skittered down, making a loud sound on each step it hit
"Ron!!! What did I just say!!"

Ever since then whenever Hermione looked at her suitcase she smiled.
Sure, it was way harder to carry with three wheels and she found herself dragging it more then rolling it most days but that missing wheel always made her grin.
It reminded her of the beginning of their friendship, of her first year of Hogwarts.

Now as she trudged up the stairs all she could see when she looked at the bag was how the dragging of the suitcase with a missing wheel made a much louder sound among the warily silent slytherin dorms.

She could already imagine the look pansy would give her nasty bag and the snide comments lavender and cho would make.

She was actually so caught up in that thought that she collided into a hard surface
"Shit" she muttered as she felt herself begin to fall

Two strong arms cupped around her elbows, stilling her.

"You should be more carefull with where you're going granger, wouldn't want to make a bad impression on your first day in your new dorms"