Hermione Granger’s Pitiful Creatures Crusade
Chapter Two Flashback:Â November, 1994Â [link] Written to "It's Called: Freefall" cover by Paris Paloma
They marched over to their petrified skrewt, side by side but not together, their steps just disjointed enough to communicate their mutual reluctance to be in the presence of one another. Hermione bent for the leash, but Malfoy dropped into the cold grass a little ways off instead, facing the lake with his weight braced on his arms.
“What do you think you’re doing?”Â
“Relaxing.” He cast a quick Tempus. “There’s half an hour till the bell. I don’t see why I should spend it walking a horrid beast.”
Hermione rested her hands on her hips. “Horrid as it may be, we’ve been charged with its care—”
“I meant you, Granger.”
