hermione frowned. “i’m sure i’ve seen this type of senario before…”
“it’s not in the veriae book, i heked.”
“no, not there.” hermione’s eyes seemed to sparkle as she started gh all the books she’d read i month, as it must have beehose…
“oh, that’s it!” she suddenly eximed, earning her a disapproving look from the librariaely ignored.
“what’s it?” harry asked ier voie.
hermio reply, as she’d gotten up from the table and was hurriedly makio a partiur shelf in the library. a few mier she ame bak and dropped a book oable.
“dream magi?” harry asked, readile as best he ould upside-down.
“well,” hermione looked apologetially at harry, “i thought it might be useful if there eat of st year…”
harry hose not to omment on that, ihe book. “so, how does this affet what’s going on now?”
“well,” hermioook oo always had when talking ab, “i read this around the seond day of shool, so i didn’t o it t—”
the seond day of shool? harry shook his head. on the seond day of shool, he’d been putting off doing the h first day of sses beause it washe day.
hermione had flipped through the book uhe paragraph she remembered. “you see, this says that there are some magial reatures that appear ie’s dreams. by doing si omes into py, and dupliates pens in the dream in real life.”
harry blinked. “i an holy say i do, hermione.”
“well, dream magi is normally di. its job is to ba yi as you sleep. um, how do i expin this…you knohen you sleep, your body sort of resets itself for the day?”
harry nodded.
“well, dream magi is a di that does the same thing for your body’s magi. only a very powerful spell ial fore ah dream magi.”
“s-”
“that the bond whih os you twi.”
“but how does it work? we had loked doors between us st thursday aill loked oke up!”
“shifting spae, maybe?” hermio’s the oion we have. you might want t the dream a happens.”
“how do i do that? i’m sleeping, remember.”
“you’ll have to figure that out on your own harry.” hermione looked apologeti. “i an’t dream for you, you know.”
“yeah i knht the urge to bahe table. “i’m just sik of it. every m it gets worse.”
“i’m sure you’ll ome up with something, harry.”
harry took a few days to thihing, and i really think of it to be truthful. the solutio beause of a fight that ourred between himself and drao after dinner on sunday. it had been about the da.
“look potter, i do not eting around wathing to make sure you don’t mess up a,” drao snapped.
“malfoy, it’s alled ommitmehough i’m sure that’s too big a word for you to uand. it’s where people atually do romised to do.”
drao leveled a gre in harry’s diretion. “i never made suh a promise, potter, you did. you live with the onsequenes of your own ations.”
“selfish bastard,” harry had muttered, st out of the room. uo him, drao had wathed him g to figure out why he was feeliraion he was feeling about making pry. it hadn’t mattered before…
harry had gohe sheduled da meeting anyway, although he had made sure not to partiipate ihen avoided going bak to his and drao’s rooms, by taking a very long and time onsuming walk down to the ke. he’d waake up time and it had worked. it was after midnight when he finally turhe ke’s murky waters and to the astle, roused medusa from her sleep (she had not beehe snakes of her hair mutteriies iongue), and beehe deision to walk into the bedroom or sleep on the ouh. harry had hose waking thought being that if he did ehe same bed as drao by m, he would not be responsible for his ations.
his dreams had beey. feeli was rather freaky for sleep to be that empty, but when harry woke ohe m, that emptiness rie to pay in his mind. he’d been out of the room by the time drao had woken up in his owe happy even though it was monday ai.
“you look really happy this m,” hermioed as harry sat down to ron.
“i figured it out,” harry replied.
“really?”
“yup. i just o fall asleep being really mad at malfoy.”
“that shouldrinned.
hermioful but didn’t say anything, espeially whehe great hall half aing a deadly gre at harry’s bak as he did so. pushing that idea out of her mi, hermioo the oion that ening arou quiddith, a the slytherin vs. gryffindor math, ostponed, was going to be held friday.
thursday evening ame quikly for all of the shool, aitihe first math betotter and the veriae, drao malfoy. well, everyo drao himself, eared to be a disaster just waiting for a reason to explode upoill ated the same yet his entire persoo sream “stay away from me or you will get hurt” and no one knew ex