A/N: Hello people. Just a short oneshot to get my creative juices flowing for a longer length fanfic I'm starting, featuring a slightly crazy Hermione who is incredibly intelligent, but also incredibly scary, especially to the Ravenclaws who've heard the stories. More on that later. Probably within the next week. I make no promises. Anyway, this is probably all I'm writing for this, though maybe I'll add to it if you guys ask. - Skía
Disclaimer: Skía Shadow is not a J.K. Rowling. Skía Shadow does not own Harry Potter. Skía Shadow is a bad elf because Skía Shadow is not an elf. Skía Shadow is a Time Lord.
Harry Potter had made a decision. An important, life changing decision. He decided to, in his own words, 'screw this shit.' It was not a random decision. He had been provoked. Provoked by none other than Draco Malfoy.
Malfoy had, as usual, been being an arrogant toerag who made bad decisions and was generally an idiot. Harry could have dealt with that, he was used to it, but this time most of Hogwarts agreed with Draco Malfoy. This, you see, was a problem. A very big problem. So Harry, being Harry, decided to do something idiotic and nonsensical.
Harry took the badge Draco was holding out to Hermione. He pinned it to his robes, obscuring the Gryffindor symbol.
'Thank you, Draco. I'm honored to be bestowed with such a gift from a noble being such as a Malfoy.'
Malfoy stared at him, mouth agape. Harry used every ounce of his considerable stubbornness and willpower to prevent himself from laughing at the expression on his rival's face.
'En boca cerrada, no entran moscas,' he deadpanned, glad he had payed attention in the Spanish lessons at his muggle primary school. A large portion of the muggleborns at Hogwarts spoke rudimentary Spanish and it was worth it to see the expressions on their faces. Draco, meanwhile, was stuttering.
'Wh-You-Pot-Button-Huh? Ugh! You insufferable...Urgh!'
'Something you're trying to say, Draco? I'm afraid I couldn't quite understand you.' Harry raised an eyebrow, mouth twitching slightly. Damn. He really needed to start learning how to mask his facial expressions better.
Next to Harry, Hermione also seemed to be trying to hide her amusement, and surprise at Harry. Harry understood. He normally fell, hook, line, and sinker for whatever taunts Malfoy tried to use on him. Mostly it was because Harry was angry and wanted to get into a verbal sparring match with someone. Normally though, trying to spar with Malfoy didn't do anything but make Harry more annoyed. Malfoy was not even remotely witty, which made having a witty 'conversation' with him incredibly difficult.
It had taken him four years, but now Harry understood that there was no point trying with Malfoy. He instead opted to subtly make fun of him by leaving him confused as hell, wondering what Harry was playing at.
After hearing Harry's last comment and taking about a minute to process that it was meant to be sarcastic, Malfoy raised his fist in rage, saying 'Potter…' in warning.
Hermione moved suddenly, as if she thought Harry was going to pull out his wand on Malfoy. Harry did no such thing. He merely put on an innocent face and said 'Yes?'
Malfoy's face turned the color of a blotchy, heavily sunburned, red creature and he punched Harry hard in the face. The last thing Harry saw before he blacked out was Snape entering the hallway. Glad that he was clearly unarmed and not a threat, Harry smiled.
Step one; phase one; mission one: Start cluing Snape into the fact that Draco is the bully, not me. Guess I can check that off.
A/N: En boca cerrada, no entran moscas. - In English this literally translates to something along the lines of 'In one's closed mouth, no flies enter.' (Spanish is not my first language, and I'm still in the process of learning it. This may be slightly incorrect, but the idea is the same.)
As always, please review! And check out my other fic, Other's Perspectives, if you haven't already. It features a Hermione with an awesome mind palace and great questions about platform 9 ¾ existence (I still want those answered, J. !). Thanks for reading, please review! - Skía