After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 5 Book 2

The Wanderers

Tuesday:

Hermione sat in the great hall. Eating breakfast with the Slytherins and Gryffindors since the tables were still combined. Hermione was still in the hospital wing when the tables combined. She never actually figured out why.

"Why did the tables combine in the first place?" Hermione asked Harry. Him and Ron were sitting across from her. Draco was sitting further down the table, he refused to be near her or any of their friends.

"The Gryffindors asked McGonagall to combine the tables because we all missed you." Harry said. Hermione smiled. All the Gryffindors in hearing range nodded.

"It was probably just to keep you away from Malfoy though." Ron mumbled. Hermione's smile quickly turned into a frown.

"Why would McGonagall want to keep me away from Draco?" Hermione asked, slightly annoyed because she thought Ron had moved on from this.

"Have you not noticed how much she dislikes you being with him? Even if most of the school disagrees." Ron said.

"Can we please not talk about this?" Hermione asked.

"Your the one that asked." Ron said. Everyone returned to their food. Hermione played with her food mindlessly. She stared at the table for a while.

"Want to go to Hogsmead today?" Maya asked. The question broke Hermione's thoughts.

"What?" Hermione asked since she missed it the first time.

"Do you want to go to Hogsmead today?" Maya asked. Hermione looked up from her food.

"We have classes and I'm behind on my studying." Hermione said. Maya rolled her eyes.

"You don't need to study! You already know everything!" Maya almost yelled, she gained many students attention. She actually had the entire great hall looking at her. How could she possibly have gained the attention of everyone? She barley even yelled. Hermione looked, they weren't looking at Maya, they were looking at the door. Hermione turned to looked at the door. Hagrid! He had been away for so long. Before Hermione could think. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were standing and running towards their friend.

"Hagrid! Where have you been!?" Harry asked. Hermione looked back at the tables for a moment. Everyone had gone back to eating.

"Had ter pick up a package fer McGonagall." Hagrid said.

"Took you long enough!" Ron said.

"Well, me bike broke down half way there." Hagrid said.

"I'm just glad your back." Hermione said. Hagrid smiled and looked around the great hall. He made his way to the teachers table, he gave a small package to McGonagall before making his way to his seat. Hermione was going to sit back down but the food had disappeared.

Tuesday, after classes are over:

Hermione walked to Dumbledore's office. She opened the door to see Maya, Pansy and Solomon already in there.

"What are you guys doing here?" Hermione asked as she walked in and shut the door behind her.

"You said you were studying, you've already read every book in the library so these are the only books you haven't read so we wanted to go ahead and study with you." Maya said. Hermione smirked and grabbed a few books. Hermione sat down in a bean bag chair and opened a book.

"So where's the last Wanderer?" Pansy asked. Hermione sighed and shut her book. She really couldn't study with friends like these.

"He doesn't want to be around me." Hermione said.

"Well, I understand that you guys aren't together anymore but that doesn't mean he can avoid everyone all together." Solomon said.

"Its not that, we discovered a few things." Hermione said.

"Like what?" Pansy asked.

"Me and him are the Second Chosen One." Hermione said. Her three friends gave their full attention to her now.

"How do you know that?" Solomon asked.

"Voldemort did something to him, if I touch him, that area on my back where I was stabbed feels like iv been stabbed again. It only effects me though. Why else would Voldemort want to keep me and Draco from being together?" Hermione explained.

"If you are the chosen ones, you have to figure out how to fix this thing where you cant touch him." Pansy said.

"Only way to defeat Voldemort is together." Maya said. Hermione nodded.

"That's why we have books. Dumbledore has many books, they could teach us something we need to know." Hermione said. "I mean, look at how smart Dumbledore was." She started reading again.