25. Chapter 25: Trouble Brewin'

Chapter 25: Trouble Brewin'

"I wish I had some word from home."

"You mean the future?"

"No…I mean from the Granger estate" said Hermione, as she sat on a rough stool near where Draco was splitting logs for Ruth Brenthurst's fire. His face bore a look of intense concentration and his shirt was stained with sweat. She watched admiringly each of Draco's powerful swings of the axe. Hermione felt her heart skip a beat.

"You can't be serious." Draco said, pausing between swings to look incredulously at her. "What do you care what's going on there?"

"I don't care. I was just wondering that's all," Hermione said, looking down.