Locked in a Closet with Draco Malfoy

Locked in a Closet with Draco Malfoy

Kiana Grulke

Hermione Granger quietly walked through the silent halls of Hogwarts. As she walked, the moonlight steamed though the hall windows, creating an almost ghostly aura around her. Hermione sighed as she looked down at her watch.

"Damn it. It is only nine fifteen...." Hermione thought to herself as she turned to go up one of Hogwarts many staircases. Hermione was the Gryffindor prefect, and tonight was one of the nights that she patrolled the halls, making sure that no student was out of their House when they shouldn't be. Hermione again sighed to herself as she walked down another quiet hallway. It wasn't as though she minded doing her prefect duties, it was just that there was a test in DADA in seven days that she knew she should be studying for.

As Hermione turned a corner, she noticed that there was a dim light coming from farther down the hallway. She quickly sped up toward the light.

"It is probably some first year trying to practice spells without his roommates disturbing him." Hermione thought to herself as she reached where the light was coming from.

Surprisingly, when Hermione had reached where the light was coming from, she noticed that it was a broom closet.

"What in the world....?" Hermione said out load as she slowly opened the door to the broom closet.

What or perhaps who was in the closet surprised Hermione more then anything. There was Draco Malfoy, also a prefect, in the closet writing on what looked like several pieces of parchment. Draco suddenly looked around at Hermione, with an alarmed look on his face which quickly dissolved into anger.

"Granger!" Draco hissed. "What are you doing here? Go away!"

"Excuse me Malfoy??! What am I doing here? I am doing hall duty and I believe the real question is what in the hell are you doing in here?!" Hermione hissed back.

"What I am doing is none of your business! I believe that I told you to go away!" Draco practically yelled as he tried to hide parchment that he was holding.

"You don't own me Draco Malfoy - no one owns me except me! Don't you dare try to tell me what to do!" Hermione roared as she stormed into the closet trying to grab the parchment in Malfoy's hands, not realizing that the door shut quietly behind her.

"What is this Malfoy? Why are you sneaking around at night and looking at this in a closet?" Hermione demanded as she tried unsuccessfully to get the parchment from Draco.

"That is none of your business Granger! Why don't you just leave me alone and finish your duty?" Draco sneered as he held the parchment high above Hermione's head so that she couldn't reach it. After several tries, and several cuss words throw at each other, Hermione finally gave up on trying to see what was on the parchment.

Hermione stood there for a minute, looking up at Draco, and trying to gain her composer.

After taking a deep breath, Hermione finally spoke. "Alright Malfoy. I realize that I am fighting a losing battle with you. However, I don't want to catch you in here again." Hermione demanded.

"What are you going to do? Take points away from me?" Draco asked, looking almost amused.

"I might just do that...or I might tell Dumbledore what you were doing...or maybe I'll tell him that you were doing something that most boys do when they are laying on their bed, with their curtains closed, late at night." Hermione smirked as she saw Draco's cheeks flush pink.

"Alright fine," Draco sneered at Hermione. "Will you just leave now?"

"Fine. I think I will. Just remember what I said about catching you in here again." Hermione added as she reached for the door handle. She tried turning it one way...then turning it the other way....but it wouldn't open!

"Draco! What in the hell did you do to this door? Open it NOW!" Hermione screeched as she looked behind herself at a perplexed Draco.

"I didn't lock it! YOU must have done something to the door when you came in!" Draco said as he pushed Hermione out of the way to try and open the door.

"Damn it Granger!" Draco muttered under his breath as he found that he had as much luck as she did when she tried to open the door. "What did you do to the door?"

"Move out of the way Malfoy! I'll try to get it open!" Hermione said as she shoved Draco out of the way.

Hermione tried every spell she could think of....even the really simple ones. None of them would work to open the door.

"I am not going to be stuck in here with this git for the whole night! I am not going to be stuck in here with this git for the whole night!" Hermione repeated to herself again and again as she tried one unsuccessful charm after another.

Finally Hermione gave up. She looked around to see what Draco was doing; he was sitting on a bucket that he had over turned and was wearing a smirk on his face.

Hermione sighed heavily...it was going to be a long night....