Over the Edge
Chapter Two- Blood on the Hands, Murder in the School
The next morning was a Saturday, it was very quiet when she woke. Hermione opened her eyes, she was alone in the dorm room, everyone else had probably gone to the Great Hall for breakfast. She turned over, her hand landed in something cold and wet. Looking, it was covered in a deep red liquid. Blood. Hermione sat up, there was blood under her on the sheets as well as next to the pillow.
But it wasn't hers.
The blood wasn't coming from her, but something on her body. She was in the same clothes as the night before, going to bed late enough to not bother with changing. Hermione leapt out of bed and tore off her cloak, throwing it back on the mattress.
Running her hands across the cloth, blood covered every inch of her hands, it was soaked. She jumped back, gazing at her hands. She didn't know who's blood it was, or how it got on her cloak. And now, her hands. Hermione was panicking, she cleaned her hands on the cloak as fast as she could then covered it with the comforter. She then ran out of the dorm room.
Everyone, every student in Gryffindor, were crowded in the common room, buzzes of conversation all around. The first person to greet Hermione when she came downstairs was Ginny Weasley.
" What's going on?" she kept looking around.
Ginny looked horrified, " a student is dead", her eyes widened, " we have to stay in here".
" Dead?" Hermione gasped, " w-who was it?".
Ginny shrugged, " they haven't said, all we know is that it was a murder".
Hermione suddenly felt light headed and sick. The blood, in her room, in her bed, on her clothes, and now someone turns up dead. Worse yet, murdered.
Footsteps were heard in the portrait hole, and the room went silent. Professor McConagall appeared before them, with her everlasting facial expression.
" No student is to leave the common room until further notice, meals will be served here at their usual times. As for the tragic events of early this morning, any student with any information they may think is helpful is encouraged to write them down and give them to me. They will be passed on toProfessor Dumbledore. Any information at this time may help to find the person or people who are responsible for the death of Colin Creevey".
Everyone in the room gasped at least once. Ginny had tears in her eyes, sometimes Hermione had a way of absorbing her emotions when she didn't know how to react.
" Oh my god" Ginny cried, " I'm going to go talk to Dennis" she walked into the mob ahead.
Hermione went in the other direction, seeing Ron and Harry by one of the windows, alone.
" How weird is this?" Ron asked when he saw her coming towards them.
" It's so sad, I can't believe it, an innocent boy like Colin" she looked at Harry who was staring at the stained glass, " did you see anything? You were out last night".
Harry turned, " not a thing".
" I doubt anyone saw anything" Ron said. But Hermione was still focused on Harry, the way he was responding to things and how he wasn't very alert.
That's when she began to wonder, if she did have information, on who murdered Colin.
Foreshadowing Chapter Three- Who does Hermione think the murderer is?