Christmas Challenge 2007 Fics (7/12)
Title: Her 'Gift'
Author: artsy_aura
Rating: K
Pairing: Draco/Hermione
Word Count: 544
Disclaimer: As always, I am not JKR and don't make any money for playing with her creations.
Notes: Nothing I've written so far has been officially beta'd.
Originally posted in December 2007 at dramionedrabble for the Twelve Days of Christmas challenge; day 7 prompt: Gift. Continued from where the big drabble chain I did for the Halloween Challenge left off. There is a total of nine drabbles before this one, with only 985 words of actual story between them. They are posted together here.
Looking back on it now, Hermione would have to say that she had had her 'gift' her entire life, or at least as far back as she could remember. Its earliest manifestations had been easily confused with coincidences, part of 'normal' magical occurrences, or were simply ignored. Compared to the explosive way her magical abilities had manifested themselves, her 'gift' had been no more than a blip on the radar. So she had a penchant for 'lucky guesses' and an 'incredible memory'. She did have a photographic memory, so for the most part things could be attributed to that and an observant nature.
As her body grew and matured, so did her 'gift', more so than even her magical abilities did, but the sporadic flashes could usually be excused as something else, memories of a vivid dream perhaps. It took her a long time to recognize it for what it was. Her disgust at the shoddy 'lessons' offered in Divination had only put her in denial.
It had become obvious that that Trelawney woman could not control her own gift, and didn't recognize it during the rare times she had made an accurate prediction. If she couldn't control her own powers, how could she be expected to instruct Hermione in mastering her 'gift', especially since they seemed to manifest themselves so differently.
Hermione didn't go into trances (or at least she hadn't yet). She saw images: sometimes in flashes; sometimes in like a movie reel going alongside or on top of what she was actually seeing; and there were other images - people's auras for instance - that were always there, but became more visible and easily distinguishable and easier to interpret as her powers grew.
Hermione was very alone in this. She didn't want to admit to having her gift because of her embarrassment over the vocal stand she had taken on divination and the fear that someone might try to use her for the gift that she was still trying to understand.
She would grab a biography of a famous Seer every now and then and read it in the library behind her mountain of books. Never checking them out, or straying into the divination sections for too long when others might see, for fear of this 'strange interest' of hers becoming noticed or having a record to trace back to her. She learned many things, but unfortunately they were all from at least second-hand sources, and Trelawney was utterly useless for her needs.
So it came as almost as much of a relief as it did a surprise to have Draco Malfoy become her unlikely ally. He was still in Divination, and He had access to the immense Malfoy Library filled with rare and ancient texts, and He had a doting mother to whom he only needed to write a vaguely phrased request to receive boxes and boxes of books on ANY subject he might need. He had also said that on his next break, he could look for some that were more specific to the questions she might have.
Yes, theirs was an unlikely relationship, but as long as they could keep the world from finding out about it, and it's cause, this burgeoning friendship could be a very good one.
~end
Author: artsy_aura
Rating: K
Pairing: Draco/Hermione
Word Count: 544
Disclaimer: As always, I am not JKR and don't make any money for playing with her creations.
Notes: Nothing I've written so far has been officially beta'd.
Originally posted in December 2007 at dramionedrabble for the Twelve Days of Christmas challenge; day 7 prompt: Gift. Continued from where the big drabble chain I did for the Halloween Challenge left off. There is a total of nine drabbles before this one, with only 985 words of actual story between them. They are posted together here.
Looking back on it now, Hermione would have to say that she had had her 'gift' her entire life, or at least as far back as she could remember. Its earliest manifestations had been easily confused with coincidences, part of 'normal' magical occurrences, or were simply ignored. Compared to the explosive way her magical abilities had manifested themselves, her 'gift' had been no more than a blip on the radar. So she had a penchant for 'lucky guesses' and an 'incredible memory'. She did have a photographic memory, so for the most part things could be attributed to that and an observant nature.
As her body grew and matured, so did her 'gift', more so than even her magical abilities did, but the sporadic flashes could usually be excused as something else, memories of a vivid dream perhaps. It took her a long time to recognize it for what it was. Her disgust at the shoddy 'lessons' offered in Divination had only put her in denial.
It had become obvious that that Trelawney woman could not control her own gift, and didn't recognize it during the rare times she had made an accurate prediction. If she couldn't control her own powers, how could she be expected to instruct Hermione in mastering her 'gift', especially since they seemed to manifest themselves so differently.
Hermione didn't go into trances (or at least she hadn't yet). She saw images: sometimes in flashes; sometimes in like a movie reel going alongside or on top of what she was actually seeing; and there were other images - people's auras for instance - that were always there, but became more visible and easily distinguishable and easier to interpret as her powers grew.
Hermione was very alone in this. She didn't want to admit to having her gift because of her embarrassment over the vocal stand she had taken on divination and the fear that someone might try to use her for the gift that she was still trying to understand.
She would grab a biography of a famous Seer every now and then and read it in the library behind her mountain of books. Never checking them out, or straying into the divination sections for too long when others might see, for fear of this 'strange interest' of hers becoming noticed or having a record to trace back to her. She learned many things, but unfortunately they were all from at least second-hand sources, and Trelawney was utterly useless for her needs.
So it came as almost as much of a relief as it did a surprise to have Draco Malfoy become her unlikely ally. He was still in Divination, and He had access to the immense Malfoy Library filled with rare and ancient texts, and He had a doting mother to whom he only needed to write a vaguely phrased request to receive boxes and boxes of books on ANY subject he might need. He had also said that on his next break, he could look for some that were more specific to the questions she might have.
Yes, theirs was an unlikely relationship, but as long as they could keep the world from finding out about it, and it's cause, this burgeoning friendship could be a very good one.
~end