The Dying Flower

32| The Secret behind the Door

"You see nargles  live inside mistletoe, you see this necklace it will help keep them away."

"Yeah yeah very interesting..."

"Luna made it for me."

"Of course she did.."

"I can ask her to make you one if you-"

"Nope it's okay Hermi, I don't need one."

"Okay, but if you lose something I'll just say I told you so," Hermione said with a grin and skipped away. Draco rolled his eyes and ran after her.

It has only been two days since Hermione recovered, but the results where...slow. She skipped down the halls and ended up in front of the Fat Lady. Hermione smiled at her and she smiled back asking for the password. Hermione was about to answer, but Draco grabbed her by the arm and dragged her to the Great Hall.

"The was very rude," Hermione said with her arms crossed.

"Well I'm a rude person," Draco said the pushed open Great Hall door and let go of Hermione's arm."Behave yourself please and don't talk to strangers."

"But we are all-"

"Shush and obey me," Draco said with his pointer figure on Hermione's lips.

"Yes, Drake," then she walk off to the Gryffindor table.

She sat next to Valentine, who telling Ginny about a muggle sport called baseball and Ginny was caputived with the sport.

Hermione didn't care about the sport and turned around to the Ravenclaw table. She smiled when she saw that Luna was right behind her.

"Luna do you have the latest Quibbler yet?"  Hermione asked with a smile.

"Yes I do, and there is an article that I think you will like," Luna said while pulling out a newly designed Quibbler.

Hermione smile grew and gladly took the Quibbler. She thanked Luna and turned back to her table. There where articles on the new minister of magic, others where on newly found creatures, but the one that caught her action was one that read: 'Dead or alive'.

Hermione staired at the actical quizly and turned to the page number. She found the page and read:

Many believe that Voldemort is dead,but is he really. What if I told you that Voldemort never truly died. What if he is outside of Hogwarts waiting to kill again. How is that possible you may ask? I, Ruthanne Skeeter, will tell you how. Death eaters, that's how. A  daughter of an old couple,Desmond and Caroline Laird, found her parents dead in the woods by their cottage. Their Daughter, Elizabeth Laird, is a muggleborn witch so she reported the sight to Aurors and they are still looking for the Death Eaters, who did this. How Death Eaters have to do anything with Voldemort coming back? Well these death eater seek revenge on none other then Harry Potter. Meaning by going back in time, before Voldemort killed his parents. Yes all the time-tuners where destroyed back when Potter and his friends tried to save Sirius Black, but where they really all destroyed?

Ruthanne Skeeter

Hermione read the paragraph again just so she know she read it right. She shot up from her seat and walked down the table to Harry and Ron.

"Look at this," Hermione said when she slammed the Quibbler in between Harry and Ron.

"Yeah I know that Kingsly is the new minister Hermione," Harry said with his mouth full of food.

"The next page Harry," Hermione sighed.

He nodded and read the paragraph, his eyes widen as he realize what he was reading. He looked up at Hermione and swallowed his food.

"That's just rubbish," Harry said then threw  the Quibbler on the floor.  Hermione gasped and grabbed the Quibbler off the ground. She huffed at him and walked out of the hall, Draco trailing behind her.

"Hermi, what happened?" Draco asked when he caught up with her.

Hermione turned her head to Draco." He called the Quibbler rubbish."

Draco opened his mouth, but closed thinking twice on what to say. Hermione eyes widen and walked faster.

"You think it's rubbish too, don't you?" Hermione squeaked.

"Well..."

"I knew it," Hermione said and ran up the moving stairs. Just her luck the stair case moved, leaving Draco behind her.

Why does she feel so hurt it's just a article that is clearly not true, but she wants them to believe her. She shrugged, she can't make them believe. This isn't Peter Pan, this is reality.

She sighed and walked to the head callumroom, trolling her necklace.

"Uh huh that will totally work," a voice said from inside a classroom.

"This is serious," another voice said back to the first.

"She is the brightness witch of our age, she will see right though you," the first voice said.

"Yeah, but she isn't herself lately and she will be an easy target," the second voice said.

"I know she has been hanging around Loony, but it doesn't make her wits leave her brain," the first voice said.

"Shut up my plan will work," the second voice said and turned the handle on the door.

Hermione jumped and ran to the corner of the hall, waiting for them to come out.

A girl came out with a boy behind her, Hermione squinted her eyes to see them just right. She almost gasped, but she covered her mouth with her hand. It was Bardou and Cunningham. She slowly walked backwards and ran to the callumroom.

"Password," Snapped said.

"Chocolate," the protairt opened and Hermione ran to her room.

She search for a specific type of potion.  She checked her bed, her drawers even her bath room, but no Veritaserum. She yelled in fruition, making her want to pull out her hair.

"Looking for this," Hermione turned her head to the voice and with a sigh of relief it was Draco, who was holding the potion she was looking for.

She walked over to him and snatched the potion out of his hand.

"Thank you very much," Hermione hissed and grabbed a book off her bed.

"Hermi..."

"Don't Hermi me," Hermione snapped and pushed past him.

She skipped down the stairs, walking out the cullumroom. She ventured to the headmistress's office, ready to tell her the story of the writing on the wall, but a hand grabbed her making her stop.

"Drake not right now...."but she stopped when she looked up and it wasn't Draco. She gasped and tried to free herself from his grip. "Leave me alone!"

"Sorry can't do that," he said looking down at her with an evil smile.