Harry Potter H&Hr Fluff Collection

VIII

A Moment In History of Magic

Harry could see nothing but darkness. He feels the unmistakable feeling of a fly on the side of his neck. Harry slaps his neck but even though the feeling of the fly's legs is gone, he doubts that he killed it

Rubbing the side of his neck, Harry opens his eyes to find his head lying sideways on the desk and right in front of him was Hermione who was doing the same thing as he was. They both smiled at each other

Harry then sits up and drums his fingers on the table quietly with his right arm. He glances on the front to see Professor Binns, the History of Magic teacher who is a ghost, droning on the different key events on giants' history. Harry feels something soft on the bend of his right arm which was outstretched on the table. He sees that Hermione (whose head was still on the table) had her head resting on his arm while she was gazing at the back of Ron who was in front of them.

Harry didn't know why but he liked the feel of Hermione's hair on his arm. It was soft and kind of fluffy. Harry looks at Hermione's back which was going up and down very slowly by her breathing, Harry looks at her right hand which was drawing circles on her side of the desk. Harry gazes at her feet which were doing involuntary movements like twirling around, stomping silently and sliding the toes on the floor. Harry found her involuntary movements kind of cute.

As the minutes passed by, Hermione finally left Harry's arm. Harry looks at her as she rests her head on her two hands which were placed comfortably on the desk. Harry does the same and looks at Hermione who was blinking in boredom.

Harry sighed, sat back on his seat and takes out his notebook he puts it on the table and rests his head on it while he placed the tip of his quill inches from the paper. He thinks on what to do. Probably some drawings to pass the time?

Harry lightly draws on the paper making a drawing of a broomstick. He adds detail on the handle giving it wood effects and some bristles to the tail of the broom.

He moves his eyes up to see Hermione looking at the thing he was doing. Harry ignores this and starts drawing again. A little later, he adds a quaffle, two bludgers and a snitch, which were flying around the broom. Harry draws a curved line behind the bludger to give it the effect of it flying around. After adding a bit of detail to the background - which was a Quidditch pitch - he drops his quill to admire his work.

Before he could lift his head and close his notebook, Hermione - who had her head leaning on the table as Harry was - draws on an empty spot of the drawing with her quill. Harry doesn't protest as he sees Hermione drawing a beautiful owl above his drawing. Harry smiles at Hermione showing his approval. He looks at the simple yet well-drawn fowl which was drawn in brown ink, Hermione's choice of ink color when she writes. Harry's ink color was black.

After looking at the final drawing, Harry writes his signature on the lower-right corner of the page. He gets a bit startled as Hermione's hand writes her name below his despite the sudden move, he smiles. She did draw the owl after all.

Harry sees Hermione turning the next page. He watches as she draws four lines that made four intersections on each parallel line. Harry knew what she was doing. She wanted to play tic-tac-toe.

Hermione makes the first move as she placed an X symbol on the center. Harry makes the second move by placing an O on the left side of the X. Hermione draws an X on just above Harry's O which was the upper-left box. Harry sees that Hermione needed one more X to win. Harry puts an O on the lower-right box securing that he's safe from losing but something in Hermione's sly grin made him feel that she might pull something fast. Hermione draws an O on the center-top box and puts her quill down. Harry wonders why and sees the reason: Hermione has trapped him. No matter which O he draws, Hermione will win.

Harry arches his eyebrows in amazement. Hermione was a muggle after all. She probably plays this game during her childhood years. Why would she challenge him earlier?

Harry sits up and closes his notebook. He puts it aside and yawns as he looks at his wristwatch. Only thirty minutes left.

With a groan, Harry rests his elbow on the back part of Hermione's chair. Professor Binns was still droning on the front while the others were either sleeping behind there open books, staring into space or just not paying attention at all. It was kind of peculiar for Hermione to be in stupor at class. Maybe she was stressed out?

Then all of a sudden, Hermione sits up and sees Harry's current position. Hermione then leans on him letting her head rest on his upper arms. Harry grins as she looks at the front absentmindedly. He motions his hand to Hermione's hair and starts twirling a strand of her bushy hair. Hermione turns her head at him and gives him a confused grin. Harry grins back and pats her head abandoning the task of twirling her hair.

Harry removes his arm from the back part of Hermione's chair making Hermione move away from leaning on his arm. Harry lays his arm outstretched on the table like before and just like before, Hermione leans on his arm again. Harry does the same except his head was leaning on hers. He was grateful that she didn't make a sudden movement or a flinch. She was still but Harry could tell she was staring into space and not sleeping since he could see her long eyelashes moving from the blinking.

For the first time in his life, Harry was able to take in the scent of Hermione's hair. It had a very fragrant smell. Harry then realized she was a girl and she was his best friend.

Harry laid there for a few minutes and when his wristwatch told him it was only ten minutes before the time he moved away from Hermione's hair. Harry looked around to see that it was nearly noon. He can't wait for lunch. He's starving.

Harry puts his foot on a beam on the feet of Hermione's chair making his knees a bit elevated. Hermione sits up and rests her left arm on his knees as if it was an armrest of an armchair

Then finally, the grandfather clock that was at the back of the room chimed signaling the end of the class. Professor Binns tells the class those students who were absent last week should get there checked research work. Harry, who was absent on the day those papers were given due to being in the library at the time, stands up and walks to the front of the room while the others exited out of the room. He grabs his paper and was glad to see he got an E for his troubles.

Feeling good about himself, Harry looks at his paper again. When he went back to his table, he sees Hermione has left for lunch and so did Ron. Harry placed his report inside his bag. He got his quill, some parchment and his History of Magic book inside. The only thing left on the table was his notebook which was lying open on the page where he drew a sketch about Quidditch earlier

Wondering how it opened when he knew perfectly that he closed it, Harry took it and was about to close it when he realized there was a change in the sketch. The signature of his' and Hermione's was surrounded by a big heart.

Surprised, Harry looks around and wondered who would have drawn such a thing. Before Harry could elaborate on it, he looks at the heart and noticed something about the heart… it was drawn in brown ink.