When Love Hurts | Dramione - COMPLETED

Malfunction

" - bloody Merlin, what a long train ride," Ginny complained, sitting next to Harry. "And then I ran into my bloody git of a brother right now, and he was annoying. And then - "

"So!" Harry interrupted. "How was your summer?"

Draco smothered a snigger. 

"It was winter break, Harry," Hermione reminded him. 

"Right," Harry nodded. "How was your winter?" 

"This is going nowhere," Draco interrupted bluntly. "Hermione?"

Hermione sighed. "Ginny, could you accompany me to the restrooms?"

"I never understood why girls have to go in groups to the restroom," Harry observed. 

"Because otherwise we get attacked by trolls," Hermione pointedly said. 

Ginny gave Hermione a weird look. "Um, alright?" 

They reached the restroom, not talking. 

"Okay," Ginny turned around. "What's the real deal here?"

"Well," Hermione said. "You know the entire time travel thing Harry was talking about?"

"Oh, Merlin," Ginny turned away, but Hermione spoke up. 

"Aw, Gin, come on! Help us!" 

Ginny reluctantly looked at her. "It was pretty hard to believe Harry, but he seemed pretty earnest, and it was too complicated for that poor, simple boy to think of and remember if it was just a story." 

The two girls shared a laugh. "It's true," Ginny added. "And I guess it just kind of clicked. But what you're talking about... it's dangerous, 'Mione, even if you had gone through all that in the past."

"We're not asking you to be apart of any of it," Hermione reassured her. "We just - well, Draco had the idea of you distracting Neville. And that's all you'll really have to do, swear on Merlin - "

"Are you bloody kidding me?" Ginny interrupted hotly. "Of course I want to do something more! I mean, saving the world sounds pretty darn good to me. I'm just saying I don't want you to get hurt." 

Hermione's face fell a little. "Yeah, but you're young and - "

" - old enough to take care of myself," Ginny completed. 

Hermione sighed in defeat. "Alright, but if it comes down to wand combat, none of us are letting you - "

"We'll see about that," Ginny grinned. "Anyways, what's this about Neville?"

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"Couldn't I just - "

"Gin, no." 

"But maybe - "

"Ginny, no!" 

Ginny sighed in defeat as she sat down next to trio and Neville at the Gryffindor table.

"We'll be back before you know it," Hermione tried to comfort her. 

"Okay," Harry murmured. "Draco and I are going to go to the bathroom. Hermione is going to casually slip under the table and become a cat."

Hermione sighed. "What a masterful plan." 

"You have anything better?"

"How are we going to explain to everyone around us why we never came back?" Hermione demanded. 

Draco suddenly smirked. "I'll have you know that I'm actually not as unapt as you believe me to be."

Hermione lifted an eyebrow. "Really?"