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Chapter 3: Doors

General Summary:

Hermione and Draco fight about the amount of noise she makes in the dorm and she scorches him with her wand before leaving to research Horcruxes in the library for the entirety of the day, only returning after midnight

While she is gone, Draco goes through the clothing that McGonagall provided for him and, in his boredom, sets to counting things in the dorm, starting with her books

Upon her return, Draco picks another fight with her that leads to them both ranting about their true (nasty) opinions of one another until Hermione magically throws him into a wall and goes to her bedroom

Detailed Summary:

Hermione wakes after only 3 hours of sleep, hoping that the previous night was nothing more than a nightmare

She takes a shower and tries to relax

Draco wakes to the sound of a “feminine moan” coming from Hermione in the shower

Draco attempts to escape the room, first by trying to shove open the window in his room and then by trying to punch the glass, both of which fail

“Yes, definitely trapped. Definitely his new prison.”

He tries to go back to sleep and muffle the sounds of Hermione in the shower

After Hermione’s shower, she answers the door to the dorm where Dobby has a large trunk, and asks him to prepare extra food for her to pick up later

She levitates the trunk to outside of Draco’s door after Dobby is gone, and Draco comes out of his room to complain about how much noise Hermione makes, to which she replies by slamming all the doors in the dorm using magic

“She backed up against the wall and raised her wand, but he didn't cease his long strides. "Don't come near me!"

"As if I would fucking touch you," he growled, stopping only when the end of her wand prodded his chest. "I would sooner die-”

They argue about her noise-making and after he calls her a Mudblood she tries to punch him again but he grabs her wrist to stop her

She tells him to let her go, and when he doesn’t, she lifts her wand to his throat to threaten him, but he only tells to go ahead, and so she does

“"Go ahead, Granger."

And it was his confidence that rattled her the most; that stirred her magic to pour out of her wand and scorch his skin.”

Hermione changes and leaves the dorm for the library and runs straight into Neville in the hallway

She and Neville chat about how he, Ginny, and Luna miss her, and she agrees to meet them for dinner later that day

Hermione goes to her reading spot in the Restricted Section to continue her research on Horcruxes and hopes to distract herself from Draco’s intrusion into her life

Draco unpacks the trunk that Dobby brought and finds clothing for him to wear

He misses his wand and grows bored immediately, though he refuses to go near Hermione’s books as an escape to his boredom because he doesn’t want to touch her things

Hermione doesn’t leave the library until after midnight, having skipped lunch with her friends and taken the extra food she’d requested from Dobby in its and her dinner’s place

She returns to the dorm, puts away the food, and begins to make tea but jumps and spills the tea when she realizes that Draco is hovering nearby

In his boredom, he’d decided to pick a fight with her upon her return

He again commands her to put a silencing spell on his room so he doesn’t have to hear her making noise but she refuses under the reasoning that she doesn’t want to waste her magic on him

In their fight, he goads her into ranting about her true feelings towards him, which are nothing but negative, and he erupts in anger when she brings his father into the conversation

He forces her to hear his opinion about her, which is, predictably, scathing, and in response she magically slams him into a wall and then goes back into her bedroom

He resumes his task of boredom: counting the books in her room

In Hermione’s room, she cries under the safety of a silencing charm so that he will not hear her