When Hermione Fights

Old Secrets and New Discoveries

Chapter beta: Dani

Chapter translator: Aivy

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When we left the shop towards the Apparition Point, the streets were already very empty. It was dawning, and at such a dangerous time, the good, decent citizens were quickly drawn home to the safety of their own four walls.

The Twins were glad that Lee lived in the apartment above the shop, too, thus always made sure that the protective spells on the house were intact. But shall I tell you the truth? The fact that the Twins lived undisturbed despite their daring advertising had to do with their excellent connections to the Death Eater scene!

Well, no Death Eater would attack a house that belonged to a Malfoy in this life and if they did, they wouldn't have that life much longer.

Standing in front of the cottage I braced myself. As soon as we entered, we froze at the sound of raised voices, venomously berating each other. We three exchanged looks of horror. It didn't sound good at all!

In a hurry, we stormed into the living room and saw Draco almost getting into a brawl with Harry, Blaise had a rearing Ron in a headlock and the two girls were trying to shout at their friends to calm down.

It was chaos! It was funny how Harry tried to strangle Draco more or less and Draco in turn tried to kick Harry between his legs with a bright red head and a fierce expression. If they hadn't all meant it sincerely, I would have laughed but with the way things were I just got angry.

Now everyone was mad and crazy! First the Twins with their jealousy, now the rest of them fighting wildly. This could not be happening! Today they all seemed to be cracking up. I pulled out my wand and cast an Immobulus and let the maniacs freeze in their movement, so that now everyone looked at us in the entrance with big eyes. Since they were frozen they could not say anything, which was a relief after the loud noise they had created.

I saw how everyone stared up at me pleadingly. The twins in my back wisely didn't say anything for once. At the moment, I was even more angry and after last night I, once again, had a slight headache. I could already feel the creeping throb behind my temples. What was that about?!

"I hope you all have an excellent explanation for this!" I hissed softly. "Draco, what were you doing? That's... Ugh, if you make so much as a sound, I'll hex all of you once again... Got it?" I spat viciously. Everyone tried to signal their agreement with their eyes and so I released the spell with a flourish, whereupon everyone hit the ground more or less un-gallantly. I had no pity at all when they tumbled loudly one after the other.

Panting and moaning could be heard, but very quietly, and so everyone came back to their feet and looked at me apologetically. Harry tried a crooked smile and Draco brushed off his trousers emphatically and indifferently as if none of this affected him.

"Hermione, I'm so glad to see you," Harry said. "The ferret told us that... that... that... you were... well... just... and we asked him where you were. You didn't contact us; we thought that they-" Ron interrupted him with a bright red head.

"Yes, dammit. We thought, now the madman has caught you... And he was the most arrogant arse you can imagine," Ron said while staring Draco angrily into the ground, while the blonde only looked pejoratively at his fingernails.

"Draco...?" I asked, and he looked up at me with cold, grey eyes.

"That's what you get for trying to be nice! I thought you might be here. We were finished earlier than expected and, well, after this morning Father was not at all pleasant company," he twisted his pretty mouth. "I thought I'd tell them you were alive when I saw that you were not here yet. What I did not expect was that you had forgotten them," Draco put his finger on the wound with the precision of a surgeon. Ouch, very nice.