[COMPLETE]
[BOOK ONE]
In Hermione Granger's fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she finds herself falling for the most popular boy in school, Cedric Diggory. But when Cedric's life is threatened in the last of three dangerous...
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Hermione's grasp around Harry was cut short by the cough of Professor Snape.
"Miss Granger, once again, your love life should not be shoved in my face. I will not tolerate your diffy-daffy behaviour any longer. Fifteen points from Gryffindor," he snarled, giving Harry a side eye filled with so much hate that Harry might die, should looks be able to kill.
Harry went to shoot back an insult at the Professor, but Hermione held out her hand in an attempt to keep him quiet. "Not now," she whispered. "We already got points taken away." He nodded and kept his mouth shut, though Hermione could tell that he was saying some pretty nasty things about Snape in his head, many of which he would later be repeating furiously to Ron and Hermione.
The two fourth year's watched as Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall dragged Barty Crouch Jr. down the corridors and to the ministry officials that waited outside. They turned to find that the real Professor Moody had emerged from the large trunk and was wearing his false eye and leg.
"I'm getting too old to do these things, Albus. Don't know how long this leg will put up with the weight of being an ex-Auror. Maybe I shouldn't come back next year. Consider me resigned," he said grabbing his staff and marching out the door. As he passed Harry and Hermione he gave them a rough nod and patted Harry on the shoulder before exiting the castle.
Hermione checked her watch.
7:28 p.m.
She had forty six minutes before having to go up to the Headmaster's office again, but she was dying to see Cedric, so she left Harry and Professor Dumbledore alone in the office and ran to the kitchens, where she knew he would be. He wasn't supposed to stay in the Hufflepuff common room that night, and the teachers would definitely want to hide him somewhere they thought students didn't know how to get in to.
Hermione approached the portrait of the bowl of fruit and tickled the pear. The painting swung forwards and she looked inside the kitchens, but was surprised to see that Cedric was not sitting in the kitchens, but in his place was Ian, and many of Cedric's other friends. Maybe they had hid him in Professor Dumbledore's office. Hermione closed the painting as swiftly and quietly as she could and checked her watch again.
7:57 p.m.
She walked to the closest staircase and looked around to see if Filch of Ms. Norris were around and quickly ran towards the staircase that lead to the Headmaster's tower. She followed it up three long flights until she reached the gargoyle at the entrance of the office and was about to say the password when she heard someone coming up the stairs behind her. She ran to the nearest statue and hid behind it, and when she looked around the statue she watched her alternate self say the password ("cockroach clusters!") and enter the headmasters office. She waited several minutes and then did the same thing, waited for the gargoyle to move, and then ran up the stairs to the office. She peered through the crack in the door and finally when she saw her past self start to disintegrate, she rushed in to the room and stood exactly where her alternate self stood before, trying to create the illusion that she had stood still the entire time.
