Grace Malfoy, The odd one out.

Part 9- troll

I woke up to see Harry sitting next to me with my legs on top of his legs. His eyes were closed leaning his back and head on the couch slightly snoring peacefully. His face looked so soft and gentle I had the urge to stroke his soft, light cheekbone until his eyes flustered and started to blink his eyes open.

"Hello sleepy head, want to get dinner?" I asked softly to Harry, since he was just waking up

"hey Grace, are you hungry?" Harry asked me stretching up, leaving me on the couch sitting down, watching him...adoring him...no, no, no. Harry's a friend, plus father wouldn't accept me to be with someone like Harry...

"uh, sure, wanna go?" I said coming back to reality

"sure, come on now" Harry gave me his hand to get up so I gently took it putting my jumper and shoes on, following Harry until someone bumped into us, I grunted a bit annoyed to ruin my happy mood after sleeping....until I saw it was Ron.

"Oh, sorry Grace" Ron and Harry helped me up and I shook off my annoyed mood to use the happy one

"It's okay, what are you doing here? Where's Hermione?" I asked Ron who seemed to be asking the same question to himself

"uh, I don't know, I went to go to the bathroom after talking with her and then Hermione was gone, I think she's in the girls bathroom or something, so I was on my way to see if she was there.."

"You were planning to go into the girls bathroom? Uh-uh, no way, if a girl's in a bathroom that means she's upset or something wrong." I said denying that fact he's going to go into the girls bathroom 

"She probably wouldn't want you to come...so I'll go, just go to dinner and we'll catch up" I said to Ron and Harry, they both nodded and I walked to the girls bathroom.

"Hermione? Are you there" I said walking into the bathrooms and looking underneath the toilets to see if there was any feet there, and then I saw Hermione's shoes

"No." Hermione said sniffling her nose like she was crying

"I know it's you Hermione, there's no point lying" I said to her, she didn't respond so I tried to be nicer

"Are you okay?" I asked now in a gentle voice, trying to get her out of the toilet. It worked, she opened the door looking down with dried and wet tears stained on her face

"Hermione, what's wrong?" she then looked at me and hugs me tight, I hug her back gently while she hides her face on my shoulder sniffling

"Ron said I'm so boring and no wonder I hadn't got any friends" Hermione said hugging me tighter and crying more. 

This made me angry now, Hermione is the smartest, prettiest and most interesting girl I know! And for a Weasley to make fun of her and start insulting her terribly I wanted to violently hit him for that!

"Don't listen to that terrible, dumb git. He doesn't know how wonderful and amazing you are. You are too good for ANYONE to say to say your not the brightest, greatest and smartest wizard I know, for our age anyways" I said smiling at the thought she really is everything I think she is, and that'll never change.

She pulled away with a smile on her face, wiping her tears away and cleaning herself up and said

"Thank you Grace" she said smiling at me and hugged me again, I chuckled

"anytime 'Mione" I said smiling at her new nickname. We pulled away from the hug and Hermione's eyes widened, looking behind me with a terrified face...

Harry's POV:

Ron and I were evacuated from the hall with everyone else from the news, it's weird there's a troll in Hogwarts, rooming around the bathrooms....Ron and I were heading towards our common room until Draco stopped us. Surprisingly he wasn't with his dumb goons.