"I wonder where Hermione is?" Harry Potter asked his best friend, Ron Weasly. "She said that she'd be in the library," Ron replied. Harry nodded his head, since the library was where Hermione Granger usually was in her spare time. "Well, I don't want to wait for her to come back, so I'm going to bed," Ron said. Both boys walked up the spiral staircase from the Gryffindor house common room, got into their pajamas, and went to sleep. Harry was awoken at 5:30 the next morning, because the birds outside the windows wouldn't stop chirping. "Stupid animals," he said as he got dressed. He picked up the book Hermione has given him for his birthday ("Everything You Wanted To Know About Qudditch and More") and walked down to the common room. When he got down to the common room, he found Hermione, asleep on the floor. Someone had been nice enough to give her a pillow and cover her with his or her cloak. Harry shook Hermione until she woke up. She sat up, looking quite irritated. "What?" she demanded. "Um. why are you on the floor?" Harry asked. "I must have fallen asleep working on my Ancient Runes homework," Hermione answered. "Now let me go back to sleep!" "At least move onto the couch," Harry pleaded. "FINE!" Hermione said. She got up and moved everything onto the couch. Then she went back to sleep. It was only a matter of time before Ron woke up as well. "Let's wake her up for breakfast," Ron said. Ron started to shake Hermione. "WHAT do you want?" she asked. "Um. it's time for breakfast," Ron answered. Hermione got up and walked up the spiral staircase to the girls' dormitories. "We should return the clock to who it belongs to," Harry said. He picked up the cloak and read the nametag. He shrieked. The nametag said "Professor Severus R. Snape". *:::::*:::::*:::::*

"Huh?" said Ron, not knowing what he was about to hear (Hermione was his girlfriend) "Se. Se. Sev." Harry sputtered. "Oh, get on with it? Who does it belong to?" Ron said. "Snape," Harry managed to whisper. Ron looked at him then laughed hysterically. "Snape," Harry whispered again. "Yeah, right," Ron said. But he knew that Harry wasn't kidding, because Harry's face was pale and he wasn't smiling. Ron got up and took the cloak. He screamed too. "What's going on down here?" Hermione asked as she walked down the spiral staircase. "What's going on? What's going on?!" Ron yelled. "Here's what's going on: We found your little buddy's cloak!" He threw it at Hermione. Hermione's face turned as red as blood as she said, "Ron, let me explain! "What is there to explain?" "Ron, please, don't make a fuss." "Don't make a fuss?! Don't make a fuss?!?!" "Ron, let's go down to breakfast," Harry said. "Good idea!" Ron said. He gave Hermione one final glare as he spun around. "Ron, wait!" she called after him as the two boys walked out of the portrait hole. They walked out of portrait hole but bumped into someone. "Oh, sor." Harry started. It was Snape.

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