This is my first ever fic and I hope you will all enjoy it. The beginning is kinda boring but it gets better, I promise!

Chapter 1: Spew Crew Spats

Hermione Granger barged down the halls toward the Gryffindor common room dangerously close to tears. Nobody in the entire school seemed to realize that the school was cleaned, fed and slaved over by hundreds of little slaves who were brainwashed to believe they were happy.

She had started S.P.E.W. but that idea had been shunned by her friends and peers. The bushy haired witch sunk heavily into a cushy red armchair by the roaring fire. She frowned slightly and anger burned in her eyes as she recounted her miserable day.

FLASHBACK

Hermione walked past the house tables watching her peers help themselves to breakfast. Surely they didn't realize that they were shoveling into their mouths, the fruits of the house elves' labor. She turned past the Slytherin house table and spotted Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil chatting animatedly about the latest robe styles they had seen recently at Madam Malkin's.

"Hey Lavender! Parvati!" She called (rather loudly now that she recalled it) "Wanna join S.P.E.W?" Hermione rattled her box of S.P.E.W badges eagerly in anticipation. "S.P.E.W. is a nonprofit organization designed to help promote the rights of house elves," she recited.

Lavender and Parvati stared at her like she had just stripped naked and proclaimed her undying love for Snape. After a moments pause Parvati said gently as if she were talking to an idiot, "Hermione? In case you didn't realize, the house elves enjoy working here at Hogwarts. Can't you see that they just don't want freedom?"

"But they are brainwashed and uneducated!" Hermione yelled indignantly. "They don't know freedom is good because they've never had it."

Draco Malfoy approached along with Blaise and Crabbe. "Well if it isn't Mudblood and the spew crew," he smirked icily.

"It's S.P.E.W!" she shrieked

"And we're not in the 'spew crew' thank you very much," Lavender retorted, "Sorry 'Mione, house elf rights aren't exactly on my list of priorities." She and Parvati walked back to their seats at the Gryffindor table concerned once again only with shopping, clothes and makeup. They left, unknowingly leaving poor Hermione to deal with three menacing Slytherins on her own.

"So," Malfoy sneered, "You're planning to attempt to set the house elves free? How noble" with that he snatched Hermione's box of badges and tossed it casually into the air. "Dynosarium," he whispered coolly and the contents of the small tin box exploded into charred bits of cloth and rubble. Crabbe guffawed and clapped stupidly while Malfoy and Blaise looked smugly at Hermione.

"You evil little ferret," she yelled at him, " I spent hours designing those!"

"So what?" he spat "Purebloods are meant to be served and obeyed by all lesser creatures, but I suppose you wouldn't know that now would you? Mudblood."

Before Hermione could hex him, he turned and swept away as Blaise knocked the young witch over with a heavy blow to her ribs. She staggered away clutching her side in angry tears of pain.

END FLASHBACK