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"Excuse me?" Hermione asked shaking.
"It looks like you are going to be one of the candidates for the queen in the upcoming hatching." Lessa replied.
Hermione was slowly shaking her head, "You can't be serious, I can't "impress" a dragon!"
"That's up to the dragon." F'lar replied.
Hermione kept shaking her head. Harry was worried. Hermione was even paler then when she was unconscious.
"I can't, I won't." Hermione kept saying over and over.
"Historically-" Robinton started saying.
"Maybe for you!" Hermione shrieked and stood up. "This isn't even our bloody planet!" Hermione was completely hysterical.
Harry and Ron stood up.
"Hermione calm down." Ron put his hand on her shoulder.
"Oh shut up Ron!" She pulled out of Ron's grasp. "You'd be a bit upset if you just got told you were going to have to deal with a dragon!"
Harry smiled wryly, but then stopped when Ron glared at him.
"Hermione, come on." Harry said.
"Don't tell me to "come on" Harry!" Hermione shrieked. "You just keep them away from me!" She was slowly backing away from the table where the Weyrleaders and Masterharper sat.
Robinton stood up slowly, "I think you should calm down Hermione."
"I think you should shut up!" Hermione yelled, then she spun around and ran into the bathroom attached to the room.
Ron chased her but Hermione slammed and locked the door.
Ron turned around and stared at Harry, mouth agape. Neither of them had ever seen Hermione act like this.
F'lar and Lessa stood up slowly. They exchanged a look with Robinton who nodded.
"We'll check back in later." Robinton said quietly to Harry, then he and the Weyrleaders left.
"What the bloody hell is her problem!" Ron said quietly to Harry when the door was closed.
"Stress?" Harry replied, he turned to Ron. "I half expected this from both of you."
Ron was taken aback "Why?"
"Well think about it, here we are, supposedly stranded on a different planet, I haven't been calm since.." He trailed off, but Ron knew he meant the rebirth of Voldemort and the death of Cedric.
Harry cleared his throat, "Look at it this way, you and Hermione have a family to go back too. I'd have been quite happy to stay at Hogwarts the whole summer staring at a wall."
Ron opened and closed his mouth a couple times like a fish.
Harry sat down on his bed and starred at the bathroom door.
"She's not going to come out of there anytime soon is she?" Ron asked looking for an excuse to change topics.
"Where's a troll when you need one." Harry said smiling.
Ron started shaking, then he burst into laughter. Harry joined Ron and the two sat there laughing for the first time in a while.
After a few minutes of hysterics both stopped laughing at almost the same time gasping for breath.
Harry took off his glasses and whipped them on his shirt, while Ron sat clutching a stitch in his side.
"What are you two so giggly about?" Said a voice.
Harry and Ron turned around and saw Hermione had finally emerged from the bathroom.
Hermione's face almost set Harry off again. Ron didn't keep his composure and started laughing.
Harry bit his lip and tried to calm himself down enough to explain, he looked Hermione straight in the eye and said "Troll."
Hermione raised an eyebrow, "What?"
Ron pointed at the bathroom door and continued giggling.
Hermione suddenly realized what they were talking about and burst out laughing.
There the three friends sat laughing.