After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 33 Book 1

After a War

They had been sitting there for hours in the Slytherin common room. At first they were actually coming up with good names but now they were just saying random things, barley paying attention to what they were saying. Hermione was the only one still sitting up straight, maybe the only one still sane. There were many names that would fit for one specific person, not all of them.

"Wonderers?" Pansy asked.

"Not too bad." Hermione said as she added it to the long list she had started.

"Wanderers?" Malfoy asked. He hadn't said anything for the past hour or more. It was actually a surprise that he did say anything. It was also a surprise that he didn't just get up and leave hours ago. Everyone was staring a him now.

"You spent a hour of silence, thinking about Wanderers?" Maya asked.

"No, I spent a hour in silence listening to you all babble, I took a few seconds to come up with the name." Malfoy said calmly, he shifted in his seat so he was laying down in the armchair with his legs hanging over the edge. Everyone but Hermione was tired, they were all in comfortable positions. Hermione rolled her eyes at him and eased into her seat more.

"Wanderers is better than anything else we've come up with." Hermione said. Malfoy smirked. Pansy groaned.

"Cant we just go to bed!? I'm tired!" Pansy yelled.

"Yes, yeah, lets just go to bed." Maya said. Pansy basically bolted to the dorm room. Maya said goodnight to Solomon and Malfoy before going into the girls dorm room. Hermione said goodnight to Solomon and made her way towards the girls dorm room. Her hand was on the knob, about to turn it.

"Goodnight Hermione." Malfoy called from behind her. She turned around. her hand still in position to turn the knob. She put her hand to her side quickly.

"What?" She asked in a barley audible whisper.

"Goodnight." Malfoy repeated.

"No, no the other thing." Hermione said.

"Hermione?" Malfoy asked.

"Yeah. That. Goodnight." She paused. "Umm, Goodnight Draco." She turned around and grabbed the doorknob. She bolted into the room and shut the door quickly behind her, making a loud bang. She sat on her bed and didn't move. Maya was already in pajamas with her hair up.

"What's wrong?" Maya asked. Hermione turned her head to face her slowly.

"He called me by my first name." Hermione mumbled.

"Draco?" Maya asked. Hermione winced at the name.

"No, Malfoy." Hermione corrected. Not wanting to hear the first name ever again.

"Ok, Malfoy called you your first name. What's wrong with that?" Maya asked.

"Everything! Everything Maya!" Hermione yelled.

"Shh!" Pansy snapped from her bed. Hermione groaned, frustrated. She rolled over and went to bed.

"Goodnight lover girl." Maya teased from her bed. Hermione growled again and went to sleep.

She peeked out of under her blankets to see if anyone was awake. Nobody was as usual. The sun wasn't up and neither was the squid. The water flowing on her windows was still. She changed into a simple outfit and put her hair in a messy bun. No school that day. She was free to do whatever she wanted. Free to run in the woods, or talk to Harry and Ron. She would talk to them some before and after meals. She was very confused with the Gryffindors. They had always seemed to dislike Slytherins but they opened up to her immediately. As if she was a Gryffindor herself. That blasted book. She had met Ron's siblings, three of them at least. Fred, George, and Ginny. They were really nice. Fred was a ghost, she found it amazing that he could still attend classes. Not that he did, he sometimes pulled his brother out of classes. Ginny was super sweet and got along with Hermione well. There were many other Gryffindors that Hermione got along with. She was starting to introduce Maya and Pansy to them. She looked at herself in the mirror and once she was pleased with the look, she grabbed her bag and walked to the girls dorm door.

"Please don't be there." Hermione whispered as she hoped. She turned the knob and closed her eyes. She took a step forward and opened her eyes. Naturally, he was sitting in front of the fire. She walked by the couch towards the door. Before she put her hand on the handle, she looked at him. "I'm going out, you don't have to send Pansy to spy on me this time though." She said before stepping out and shutting the door behind her. She heard him call her. She walked quickly and didn't look back to see if he was following her. She walked to the kitchen and found a house elf who wasn't working on breakfast with the others. She was cleaning the floor. Hermione knelt down to be at eye level with the short elf.

"Hello Miss Granger." The house elf greeted happily. Hermione smiled.

"Hi Jizzel." Hermione greeted. "I was wondering if you could get me a few apples, grapes, random things that wont melt or need to stay cool. I was going to go off on the grounds and explore some." Hermione smiled and sat cross legged on the floor. Jizzel nodded excitedly and wandered to get some food. Hermione sat there and hummed a song that her mom would hum to her when she was a baby. Jizzel returned with a platter full of options.

"What a delightful tune." Jizzel complimented.

"My mother taught it to me when I was little." Hermione said as she gathered many of the things off the platter.

"Your mother had great taste in music." Jizzel said softly. Hermione stopped when she felt she had enough food and looked at Jizzel. She nodded at the house elf.

"She was amazing, as was my father." Hermione said. She grabbed more food incase her friends did decide to stalk her into the woods. When the platter was empty, Hermione looked inside the bag. It couldn't get full, naturally but she felt she may need more. Even though she had enough to feed herself for a few days. She felt a odd urge to get more.

"Would you like more miss?" Jizzel asked softly. Hermione nodded and the house elf wandered away again. She sniffed the air, breakfast always smelled good. Ron would love that. She could bet he was getting ready to eat now. Waking Harry up and telling him it was time to eat. She smiled. She barley knew the two but they were hilarious. Jizzel returned again with a larger amount of food.

"Thank you Jizzel. I don't know why I'm packing so much food. I just feel like I should." Hermione said as she quickly filled the bag with more food. Jizzel nodded and smiled. Hermione stood when she was done. She smiled at the house elf and bid her goodbye. Hermione checked each hall before going down it. She reached the outdoors. She looked around for other students, nobody. It was still dark outside. Hermione used to have to wait until sunrise to be able to see but being a Animagus had its perks. She looked around with her new night vision. She ran over to Hogsmead and got into a store. They were all open earlier with today being Saturday and all. She bought a few outfits. She really didn't know why she was doing it but she really felt the need to. She did need to go to Diagon ally soon and get herself a new Dragon Heartstring core. Hers was almost out. She left Hogsmead when she saw the other student start to arrive the very second the sun was up. She bolted to the woods. Hagrids hut was empty again. She was actually starting to worry about the giant. She looked back at the woods and secured her bag very tightly. She had made it to where she could wear it while in fox form so she wouldn't loose her wand again. She walked into the woods and the first step she took she felt like she was being watched.

"I told you, we care enough about you to not let you go out alone." Malfoy said from behind her. She turned and her fellow Wanderers were standing there. Arms crossed. Hermione groaned.

"I just wanted to go for a walk today, explore more." Hermione said. She motioned towards the huge forest behind her.

"Mhmm, and if you go attacked again?" Maya asked.

"I'll have my wand at the ready this time." Hermione said.

"I thought you had to replace your core?" Pansy asked.

"I do, I just have enough for two or three days." Hermione said.

"Mine goes out today." Pansy said.

"Mine too." Solomon said.

"Mine is in three days." Maya said.

"Mines out." Malfoy said. He didn't even have his wand with him. Hermione turned away from her friends and towards the woods.

"You can just come with me then." Hermione said. There were groans behind her but footsteps followed her as she began to walk.