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16th Gryffindor Note [Written] / [Action for housemates plus Draco later]

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[Early morning: Hermione's sitting at the dining room table with her journal and her notebook. There are a couple of ink blots where she's tried to write, but her hand is shaking too much. Eventually, she manages to get out what she needed.]

For those who have been here for a while. I know this is probably a silly question, but I admit I'm curious. After someone returns from the Malnosso, about how long do the effects take to wear off and how bad can those effects be? Call it a study, if you will.

[Action for housemates plus Draco later]
[It's been days since Harry got back from his mallynapping and he's steadily gotten worse. She's watched him flip out about Voldemort one too many times not to know that something is desperately wrong now. His scar's been hurting like it did all fifth year, and nothing anyone has said has done anything to help him. And now, when she just went in to check on him, she's noticed that he's asleep in his bed. But he looks sick. Something is so not right.

And what do you do when all else fails? Call on the DA. So, she's going to knock on each of your doors as soon as she can tell you're all awake. She looks about as worried as Hermione gets.]

"We need to talk. All of us. Something's wrong with Harry."

[And then it's down to the next person. She'll be waiting for you all at the dining room table, which is right under Harry's room so she can tell if something changes with him. Terri the otter will be waiting in the living room for you guys to lead you all to her when you get there, but the Patronus is flickering, like Hermione's having a tough time keeping her there. The witch has her notebook and journal open and she's scanning the pages of each, desperately searching for an answer. Feel free to threadjack into one action thread.]

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[There are bigger problems than just the usual suspicions.] What kind of something? He'd asked me to find something the night he came back. Do you reckon it's related?

[Oh so true.] It likely is. What did he ask you to find? [She has a feeling she knows what it is, but she's hoping she's wrong for once.] I don't know what they've done, but he thinks Voldemort's here. I don't see how he could be.

...I promised not to tell. [And though that promise didn't specifically exclude Hermione, it didn't include her either. And even if Boss Potter wasn't in his right mind, he was still the boss.]

[And that just secures her worst fear. Hermione lets her hands come up to cover her face.] I knew it. He's gone into fear-mode on us. Where are the others? We need everyone here.

[Seeing Hermione's message, Ron heads down towards the dining room, pausing briefly when he sees the flickering image of Terri. Shaking his head, he goes into the dining room and looks from Hermione to Neville and back again before moving to sit across from Hermione.]

If you know the Patronus isn't your best charm, you really shouldn't be trying to pull one when you're this stressed.

[In a more serious voice, he adds:] I take it this is about Harry?

[He gives Ron a solemn nod, happy for the distraction to break Hermione from possibly trying to weasel information out of him.] Hermione suspects he's gone under the Malnosso's influence.

[From behind her hands, so a bit muffled:] He's not been acting right and now he's asleep and nothing's like him. He's acting like Voldemort's back. And I was hoping T- my Patronus would be at least able to tell you lot where I am. Has anyone heard from Luna or should we just explain it to her when she gets here?

[Honestly, it's not Luna she's really worried about attacking Draco.]

So he's still going on about You-Know-Who? [Worried Ron is worried, especially since he knows Tom Riddle had been here recently.] I haven't seen Luna, but... well, how do we know he's not here? He was sort of here once before, right?

[Neville's shifting a bit at all this mention of You-Know-Who's name, because even though he's used to it from Harry and Hermione, he's not really used to it.] I can fill her in later when she's ready to hear it. [Because he knows his BFF well enough to understand she'll come flitting around when she's good and ready, and not a minute sooner.] Do you have any idea about how to fix what's been done to him? Do we need a countercurse?

He won't stop and I'm worried.

[Hermione nods at Neville's mention of Luna and finally lifts her head to look at both boys seriously. Not that she hasn't been serious before, but, well, this is definitely SERIOUS serious.]

Yes. I... I don't know exactly what's going on, but there's something else and I need you to promise you won't row or throw curses or other spells today. We need someone else's help. Just trust me, all right? Please.

[Her eyes are pleading, looking from one to the other. She's serious and she's worried.]

[For a second there, Ron's too worried to get what Hermione's getting at. Sure they need another person; that's what they'll be calling Luna in for, right? Why would he and Neville row about-

... wait. Bloody hell.

He narrows his eyes at her as he tries to think up other possibilities besides that awful one his brain cooked up.]

What someone else?

[And though Neville's been following the words exchanged between Hermione and Ron, he doesn't quite grasp the meaning until Ron reacted with anger. Ron's asked the important question though, and Neville watches her with a pensive stare. Hermione, what did you do?]

[...Oops. That was the reaction she expected and she sighs wearily, looking pleadingly at them both.]

You can row about it after Harry's okay again. You can row with me over it. I don't care. We need Harry to wake up again and for that we need- [Take a deep breath and just say it, Hermione.] -Malfoy.

[And she keeps going because she's pretty sure they're not going to listen to her if she doesn't. Unfortunately, they probably won't listen anyway. She has to try, though, right?] Please. Both of you. I have an idea, but it requires Malfoy. It requires all of us, really. And the more people we have, the better. It's only once and with any luck, Harry will wake up and that'll be the end of it. You know I wouldn't ask this if it wasn't serious. I want Harry to wake up as soon as possible. You both know I wouldn't let anything happen to him if I could stop it.

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[The mere mention of Malfoy's name sets Ron to fervently shaking his head. Honestly, what the hell had gone on here for Hermione to trust Malfoy with Harry's well-being? And to trust Malfoy before she trusts him? Or even Neville or Luna? No way, sorry, Ron's hurt to the core right now.]

You're off your trolley and you better bloody well know it. I'd rather have a waltz with the ghost of Aragog than live to see the day a Weasley accepts help from a Malfoy.

[Though... hearing this hair-brained scheme of Hermione's might not hurt.....]

What the hell do you need him for, anyway?

[/but while Ron is busy decrying it as a bad idea, Neville's at least listening, even if he hates what he's hearing.] Is there something in particular you think he can do to help that we can't? [Neville's still not convinced Draco didn't have a hand in putting Harry in that coma in the first place.]

[She winces at Ron's words, but she's still looking imploringly at them both.] Maybe I am off my rocker, but you always said that about Dumbledore, so you can't blame me too much. I think it's more that the presence of someone Harry's had problems with might be enough to help pull him back. First we're going to have to find out what's going on, but I'm not saying anything else until you promise not to blow each other up.

Besides, if it really is Voldemort, Malfoy will know how to find out. Out of all of us, he's the only one. We need his help.

[This is Hermione. This is Hermione lying through her teeth.]

[Ron presses his lips together, really wanting to scream and rant and maybe even shake Hermione a little. But if even Neville's keeping his calm, the least he could do is follow suit... for now, at least.]

So long's he doesn't try to push my buttons and I don't have to be in the same room with him for more than five seconds, your bloody precious Malfoy might get out of this in one piece. Assuming he actually proves useful.

Hermione's got a point, Ron. [Neville rests his elbows on the table, chin nestled in his folded hands.] He'll probably be less dangerous if he's here where we can see him, but we should also go in expecting a double cross. What we need is a backup.

[She's staying calm until Ron says something that makes her yell and shoot up out of her chair:] HE'S NOT MY 'BLOODY PRECIOUS MALFOY!'

[Technically he's Harry's. It takes her a minute to realise what she's just done and she blinks and then takes her seat again.]

Right. Just don't go in hexing him. Wait til he does something. [Which he better well not do.] I'll tell you all the rest when he gets here.

[And before either of you can protest, off goes Terri the Patronus through the wall.]

[Ron flares up and is really close to turning this into a screaming match, but he chokes back on his own yell at the last minute. Harry. This is about Harry. Bloody hell, if the bleeding 'Chosen One' isn't really sick enough to warrant this headache, Ron might just have to kill him.

His hands are clenching the side of the table hard enough for his knuckles to be turning white, but better that than to have this turn ugly in front of Neville. Hermione would never forgive him for that.]

'Wait til he does something,' she says. So in other words, give it a ten-second wait before drawing our wands.

[Neville kind of jumps in his seat when the yelling starts, and passes a hard stare between them, the one that normally is used to express "Lavender and Parvati, are you seriously passing notes at a time like this? Someone should be getting dittany if you've got time to play." He's seen Ron and Hermione row far worse than this, but now is very much not the time.] So in other words, we wait for him to make the first move. We let him expose himself first.

[She's stressed, she's strained, and her separate groups of friends are twisted and angry with each other. It's enough to drive one insane, but she just sighs and nods.] Please.

[And that's when Terri comes back through the wall to jump up on the table. Oh good otter Patronus. She looks quite comfortable sitting up there next to Hermione, peering up at the other two boys. Hermione knows what this means, though. Malfoy's on his way.]

[Give it a few moments and soon there's a Draco striding into the dining room where the other three are. He's definitely on-edge, but not enough to outright attack any of them. He's just going to stand near the entry-way and stare at Hermione, blatantly ignoring Weasley and Longbottom just for now. He knows what they're thinking, anyway.]

Granger.

[It's weird enough having a silver otter just hopping onto the table like it's completely natural, but it's another thing to see Malfoy strolling into the dining room as though he'd been invited (even though Ron knows he was, but he's not going to admit that). His hands clench against the table again, which is the only thing keeping him from going straight for his wand before his own ten-second rule, and rather than say anything scathing, he shifts his glare away from Malfoy to Hermione. At least he can look at her without giving rise to violent urges.]

[Neville may have been ignored, but he doesn't return the favor. He stands at Malfoy's entrance, having a better time than Ron of swallowing back his distaste.] Hermione says you know how to help Harry. Do you?

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/threadjacks because I can... finally

YAY HI!

/celebrates

/passes butterbeer all around

/spikes it with firewhiskey. :3

/drunk within half an hour

/ brb laughin' at the lightweights

:O that's cruel Janet!

;o; I can't heelp eeeet

it's not cruel to laugh at something that's funny!

If it makes other people sad, sure it is!

nah I know it's the truth XD /has a couple of seconds to tag one thing DX

See, Stella takes no offense. /needs to stop playing insensitive blockheads like Ron

Then all is well! :D

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welcome to the party, bb~

Draco's threadjack broke my notifs. DAMN YOU MALFOY. :|