After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 29 Book 1

After a War

Hermione was very late for Muggle Studies, but in her defense, most of the students were late too. She was surprised at how much everyone had learned over two days. It was delightful to see her students and fellow Slytherins excited about school. Some were eager to play something they had learned for her while others tried to avoid her gaze and played quietly in the corners. She made sure to give everyone a reward. No homework from her for a week, well, no real homework. She was required to give homework, just not required to give hard homework. Malfoy hadn't shown up for class, obviously. She made an excuse for him. He was stuck as a Lynx still, he was sitting in the Slytherin common room. Hermione didn't know what else to do with him. Maya made Hermione say Malfoy was her new pet cat. It was Ridiculous! She couldn't make excuses for him not being in class every day. She was now outside, with a Lynx walking by her side. She was 'walking' him so people wouldn't get suspicious as to why he was always inside. He hissed and growled and pawed at things constantly. She ignored most of it and was silent. She didn't want to talk, not to a cat at least. She wanted to punch the cat in the face at the moment. He had discovered that he had very sharp claws, that got caught in wood, and everything else that he wanted to get his claws into. He had already clawed at her leg, she guessed it was because she sort of made him turn into a Lynx in the first place. She sat by the trunk of a tree. Sitting in the snow was never a good idea, unless she was willing to get covered in the white power. She pulled a book out of her bag. Hogsmead was as crowded as ever so the tree she was sitting under was closer to the shrieking shack. She looked up from her book. The Malfoy cat was gone. She stood up and looked around, he wasn't there. She felt a paw on her head. She turned around to see the Lynx in the tree.

"Your a idiot." Hermione said as she sat back down. "Just because you have claws that can climb, doesn't mean you have to climb." she added, half distracted with finding the page she was on in her book.

"Granger." Malfoy said. Hermione looked up in the tree again, he was human! She Dropped the book and stood up again. She was going to get so much exercise with how her friends always kept her on her toes. He smiled.

"Took you long enough." Hermione mumbled. He rolled his eyes and jumped out of the tree.

"A fox?" He asked. Hermione smirked.

"I like it, foxes are sly, beautiful, almost magical creatures." Hermione said. She looked in Hogsmeads direction and started walking towards it. He followed close behind. "So, a Lynx?"

"Is that what its called? I couldn't exactly see myself. All the mirrors in the common room are really high up, as a cat at least." Malfoy said. She smiled and shook her head.

"Cats are able to leap into the air, you could jump over a full grown adult without a piece of fur touching their head." Hermione said. She was happy with her intelligence, even if Malfoy often challenged it.

"What a nerd." Malfoy said as he shook his head.

"Me!? Your a nerd too-wait when did you learn muggle words like that?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know, its like I studied Muggles or something, its like I just don't remember." Malfoy said.

"Odd." Hermione said.

A few hours later, in the Slytherin Common room. Maya, Hermione, Pansy (Falcon form still) Solomon, and Malfoy are sitting in front of the fireplace.

Hermione stared blankly at Maya.

"Your kidding." Hermione mumbled. "McGonagall would never let students in-"

"That's why she wont know!" Maya said quietly. Hermione shook her head and looked around for someone who would hopefully agree that it was a wild idea. Nobody said anything so Maya continued. "We'll have a bird to watch out anyway." Hermione almost stood up to yell but Pansy squawked.

"See, Pansy agrees with me." Hermione said.

"We aren't going to destroy the place Granger, just look around. Who knows, there could be books." Malfoy said. She shot the worst glare she could at him.

"Your just trying to get me to go, but, unfortunately for you, I don't need to read those books." Hermione snapped. He laughed.

"Even if they're really good books?" Solomon asked. Everyone looked at him. "What? Iv been in there before and I may have read some of the books."

"If I go, and we get caught, I blame all of you." Hermione said.

"Good, can we go now?" Maya asked.

"Now!?" Hermione yelled.

"Yes Now!" Malfoy yelled.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Hermione said, she ran her fingers through her hair.

"Nope, lets go, before it gets too dark." Malfoy said. A hand grabbed hers and dragged her along.

"Anyone else want to go undercover?" Maya asked. Before anyone could respond she stood up on a bench, jumped off of it and turned into a wolf mid-air. Why were they such teenagers? Malfoy didn't want to transform, Pansy was stuck as a bird and Solomon was careful about who saw his form. Hermione just stayed human.

"She's way too excited that I agreed to do this." Hermione mumbled.

"I know." Malfoy mumbled back. Solomon was trying to keep up with his adopted sister and Pansy.

"I mean, breaking into Dumbledore's office isn't a good idea, at all." Hermione added.

"I know." Malfoy repeated.

"Then why did you say we should do it!?" Hermione punched his arm. He rubbed the spot she punched.

"Because, I don't care whether or not its a bad idea, I wanted to go, so I am." Malfoy said. They almost crashed into a wall, they turned and entered the office. Maya was already in there with Solomon and Pansy. She was human! Hermione smiled. She looked at the wall of books and walked over. None of them were in the library. She picked up two or three and scanned through them to see if they were somewhat familiar. None, she couldn't recognize any of them. She was in book heaven! She stuffed as many books as she could in her bag.

"Why take the books? We can come back here whenever we want!" Maya said. Hermione looked at Maya, then the book she was trying to shove in her bag.

"We can stay?" Hermione asked. She was now one hundred percent into this.

"Yes." Maya said. Hermione put many of the books back.

"We could change it up, nobody ever comes in here anymore. Decorate it." Solomon said. Hermione looked around, the room was dark, not many lights, grey, dusty, very boring.

"I guess we could." Hermione said.

"Magic way or Muggle way?" Solomon asked.

"Well, Maya doesn't know the muggle way, Malfoy doesn't know the muggle way, I don't know if you know the muggle way, so, I think magic way is good enough." Hermione said.

"My dad was a muggle, but yeah, magic way is faster. We could go both ways. Maya and Draco in charge of Magic, me and you in charge of Muggle." Solomon told Hermione.

"Deal." Maya said. Her and Malfoy got their wands.

"We'll make all the items, you place them." Malfoy said.

After they were done, green chairs, couches, bean bag chairs, a TV, gaming sets, books, and everything that they needed was set up. Malfoy was just pulling up a loose floorboard. He was going to replace it with a new one.

"How long does it take to pull a board up?" Maya asked, everyone else was getting impatient as he had already been doing it for ten or more minutes.

"It wont come up with magic or anything, you'd think it'd just slip right out with how loose it is but no, it must be some kind of spell that has it put there." Malfoy said. Hermione walked over and pointed her wand at the floorboard. It flew right up after she mumbled the spell. "That's the same spell I used!" Malfoy yelled.

"Well, look, I got it up." Hermione said. She picked up the board. There was a book under it. She grabbed the book.