What Have I Done

One potions class late November...

"Harry? Harry!" Ron yelled. Harry woke up suddenly and knocked over their cauldron. Snape walked over to them as Harry started to fall asleep again while Ron tried to clean up the potion.

"Potter! Falling asleep in class are we? Twenty points from Gryffindor and detention tonight!" he said and the bell rang.

"Harry! Wait!" Hermione called after him as he ran up the stairs and out of the dungeons. She eventually caught up with him as he got inside the portrait of the fat lady. After giving the password, she followed him up to the boys' dorm. She walked in to find him sobbing on his bed.

"Harry? Are you alright?" she asked him and he didn't reply or even look up.

She went closer to him and touched his back. He quickly turned around and stared at her.

"Oh, it's only you Hermione."

"Are you alright Harry? Why are you crying?" she asked.

"I have detention!" he cried into her shoulder and she awkwardly patted him on the back, never having seen her friend cry before.

"Don't worry, Harry, it's going to be ok," she said, comforting him. He suddenly perked up and looked at her with wide eyes. He stood up and dug in his trunk for his invisibility cloak.

"Let's go!" he said and pulled her under it with him. She followed but stopped when they left the portrait hole

"Harry! Where are you taking me?" she whispered as they weaved in and out of a bunch of Slytherin first years.

"You'll see! Dissendium," he whispered to the statue of the witch in front of them and her hump opened to reveal a tunnel. She followed him through it and he broke into a run. Hermione tailed behind him, carrying the invisibility cloak with her. When he finally stopped, she was out of breath, her cheeks gone red from trying to keep up.

He took the cloak from her and threw it over them. She stood rooted to the stop and didn't go when he told her to come.

"No, Harry! I want to know what we are doing here!" she said and he took the cloak off of her and pushed up a trapdoor before going through it by himself.

She tried to follow but knew where this tunnel lead and realized that if she didn't have the cloak and got caught in Hogsmeade...She shuddered at the thought and settled herself on the stairs.

About a half an hour later, the trapdoor opened again. It closed and Harry pulled off the cloak. Hermione quickly got up.

"Where have you been?" she asked him angrily.

"In Hogsmeade of course!" he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"You know what I mean, Harry!" she said irritably.

"I'll tell you when we get back to my dorm!" he said and followed him as he walked back down the tunnel.

"You left me sitting here for a half an hour!" she said and rolled his eyes.

"If you hadn't been so stubborn, I wouldn't have had to leave you there!" he said and it took all of Hermione's energy not to strangle her best friend right there and then, knowing it wouldn't be good for her friend in his 'condition'.

"Now can you tell me what you were so desperate to go to Hogsmeade?" she said as he settled down on his bed back in the dorm. Harry pulled out a brown paper bag from inside his robes. He reached inside it and pulled out a bottle of butterbeer.

Her left eye twitched, and then Hermione did the strangest thing. She started crying. You know that feeling, when you want to kill the person but yet, you start crying instead, that's exactly how Hermione was feeling.

"Hey! You got butterbeer!" Ron said as he came into the dorm and joined Harry on his bed. Harry handed him a bottle while Hermione just stood by the door sobbing.

"Umm, Harry?"

"Yeah Ron?"

"Why is Hermione crying?"

"Dunno. Ask her."

"Hermione? Why are you crying?"

"Butterbeer! He dragged me out to Hogsmeade for Butterbeer!" she said and Harry protested.

"Did not! I also got chocolate frogs!" Harry replied, pouring the remaining contents of the bag onto his bed.

Hermione just stormed out of the dorm and Ron shrugged before they tucked into the sweets.