Given Thoughts
Summary: During an accident in Potions, Hermione is able to hear the thoughts of everyone who she comes in contact with. She then learns things that not even she would think possible.
Chapter One: Ponder
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It was warm, beautiful spring day. The sun shone brightly, beautiful flowers swayed with the wind, and Hermione Granger was stuck inside.
She sighed longingly out the window, but realized she only had five minutes to make it to Double Potions with the Slytherins. She quickly gathered up her books and shoved them in her bag, threw on her robes and ran out the Gryffindor portrait hole.
'Please let me make it, please let me make it, please let me make it.' Hermione pleaded silently. She knew Snape would not go easy on her even if she were only a few seconds late. She quickly turned a corner and made her way down to the dungeons.
She heaved a great sigh of relief when she stepped in the dark classroom to find Snape wasn't there yet. She took her seat on the far right side of the room, exchanging looks with Harry and Ron who sat on other sides of the classroom. Snape had assigned them seats so that they couldn't sit together.
Right when she took her seat, Snape burst into the class with his black robes billowing behind him. The class immediately hushed their whispering and focused their full attention on their Professor. After taking a quick attendance he began his lecture.
"Today class, we are going to brew a Ponder Potion, can anyone tell me what a Ponder Potion is?" As usual Hermione's hand shot in the air and Snape ignored her.
"Mr. Malfoy?" Hermione glared at Malfoy as he smirked at her, but then answered the question.
"Sir, a Ponder Potion gives you the ability to hack into your enemies mind and read their thoughts. It was once banned in the Wizarding World in 1634 for reasons unknown. It was allowed back in our world in 1947 when the Ministry of Magic needed it to question the loyalty of Wizards who decided to turn away from the Dark Arts and join them."
"Exactly right Mr. Malfoy, fifteen points to Slytherin." Snape said with an evil smirk towards the Gryffindors.
"Does anyone know the proper ingredients for a Ponder Potion?"
Once again he ignored Hermione's raised arm.
"No one knows?" Snape sneered, avoiding having to look in the direction of Hermione's hand.
"In that case, I'll write the ingredients and instructions on the board, you can find them all in that cupboard over there; follow the instructions exactly as it says. One mistake could be drastic." Snape said as his eyes flickered over at Neville who cowered in his seat.
After Snape had written the ingredients and instructions on the board, Hermione began making the potion in her cauldron, she made sure she got all the ingredients from the cupboard and began.
She was nearly done; she had to wait five minutes before putting the hair of a Centaur in. She looked around to see some students struggling, some were still chopping up some of the ingredients, and others were waiting like Hermione to add another ingredient.
When the five minutes passed, Hermione carefully added in the Centaur hair and stirred for exactly three minutes.
"After you have added all the ingredients, your potion should be a dark, maroon color." Snape said, and then started yelling at Neville whose potion was a bright yellow instead of maroon.
Hermione smiled when she saw that her potion was a dark maroon. She sat down and awaited further instructions.
"Now, take only one teaspoon of your potion and pour it into your flagon and take just one sip. After you've done so you should be able to hear the thoughts of your fellow classmates for exactly thirty - five seconds." He instructed, everyone who had done there's correctly took just one sip from their flagon and awaited the results.
"Hey Weasel! I didn't know you used sleep with a teddy bear!" Malfoy teased, Ron just turned red and began wishing that the thirty - five seconds pass quickly.
After the thirty - five seconds passed everyone was ordered to clean up and then was assigned a three and a half - foot long essay on why the Ponder Potion was banned hundreds of years ago and if it was necessary.
When it was time to leave, Hermione listened as Ron and Harry complained about how unfair it was of Snape to assign such a long essay.
"Oh! I'll catch up with you guys in a bit! I forgot my parchment in Snape's class!" Hermione said as she took off.
She knocked on the door to Snape's class and when no one answered she let herself in. She quickly ran in a grabbed her parchment. As she was walking back out, she didn't notice a book lying on the floor or the cauldron in front of her that was still full of the Ponder Potion.
"Ah!" She screamed in surprised as she tripped over the thick book and went flying head first into the cauldron. She quickly brought her head up from the cauldron and gasped for air. Her whole entire face and head was now covered in the thick, maroon potion.
"Oh no!" She knew she had swallowed large amounts of the potion and didn't know what the side - effects of the potion would be if someone would consume a large amount of it. She quickly hopped out of the cauldron and muttered a charm, her clothes, hair and books were immediately cleansed of the potion. But it did not get rid of the amount of the potion that she had swallowed.
"What idiot would forget to clean their cauldron?" Hermione muttered to herself.
She knew if she told Snape she would lose many points for Gryffindor, and if she told Dumbledore, Snape would eventually find out and try to find a way to either give her a month's worth detention or get rid of her Prefect position. To him, she would have been trespassing in his class when she was not allowed and she couldn't risk losing her Prefect badge.
"I guess I'm going to have to keep this to myself." Hermione muttered as she cautiously stepped out of the classroom, shut the door, and continued on down the hall to her next class.
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The incident in Snape's classroom escaped Hermione's mind when she got to Care of Magical Creatures Class. It was extremely warm outside so Hermione along with a few other students took off her robes. But then she heard something that nearly made her fall over.
"Nice ass Granger." She heard Malfoy drawl she quickly turned around to find him now looking to his right.
"Excuse me Malfoy?" She hissed, she looked over to Harry and Ron who had been standing right next to her, but obviously did not hear what Malfoy said because they were talking to each other.
'That's weird,' Hermione thought, 'They usually hear everything Malfoy says when he's around, how come they didn't hear him now?'
"What?" Malfoy looked at Hermione in confusion, she just narrowed her eyes.
"Don't play dumb with me! I heard what you said!" She hissed in a low voice, this made Malfoy look her with even more confusion.
"You must be hearing things Granger because I didn't say anything, if I did, don't you think Potty and Weasley would be defending their little Mudblood girlfriend?" With these words, Ron and Harry turned round and glared daggers at Malfoy who just smirked, Hermione was just confused.
'He's right, he said that loud enough for Harry and Ron to hear. But I swear I heard him say that!' She said to herself. Finally Harry and Ron turned away from Malfoy and watched as Hagrid began his lesson.
Then Hermione heard Malfoy speak again,
"For a minute there I thought she could read my mind." Hermione paled.
'That's it!' Hermione looked around at everyone and began hearing voices. She turned to Ron and heard,
"I wonder what McGonagall would look like in Chudley Cannon robes."
She then looked over at Harry and heard,
"Stupid Malfoy, stupid Snape, stupid Fudge, stupid Dudley, stupid Voldemort, s -"
Hermione shook her head in disbelief and looked back at Malfoy and heard,
"This new hair - gel seems to bring out the shine in my beautiful, platinum, blond hair."
"No!" Hermione thought in horror, "I can hear everyone's thoughts!"
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There you have it! The first chapter to my new story! I promise the other chapters will be longer! Well, what are you doing? REVIEW!!
Phoenix - Wings
Summary: During an accident in Potions, Hermione is able to hear the thoughts of everyone who she comes in contact with. She then learns things that not even she would think possible.
Chapter One: Ponder
*~*~*~*
It was warm, beautiful spring day. The sun shone brightly, beautiful flowers swayed with the wind, and Hermione Granger was stuck inside.
She sighed longingly out the window, but realized she only had five minutes to make it to Double Potions with the Slytherins. She quickly gathered up her books and shoved them in her bag, threw on her robes and ran out the Gryffindor portrait hole.
'Please let me make it, please let me make it, please let me make it.' Hermione pleaded silently. She knew Snape would not go easy on her even if she were only a few seconds late. She quickly turned a corner and made her way down to the dungeons.
She heaved a great sigh of relief when she stepped in the dark classroom to find Snape wasn't there yet. She took her seat on the far right side of the room, exchanging looks with Harry and Ron who sat on other sides of the classroom. Snape had assigned them seats so that they couldn't sit together.
Right when she took her seat, Snape burst into the class with his black robes billowing behind him. The class immediately hushed their whispering and focused their full attention on their Professor. After taking a quick attendance he began his lecture.
"Today class, we are going to brew a Ponder Potion, can anyone tell me what a Ponder Potion is?" As usual Hermione's hand shot in the air and Snape ignored her.
"Mr. Malfoy?" Hermione glared at Malfoy as he smirked at her, but then answered the question.
"Sir, a Ponder Potion gives you the ability to hack into your enemies mind and read their thoughts. It was once banned in the Wizarding World in 1634 for reasons unknown. It was allowed back in our world in 1947 when the Ministry of Magic needed it to question the loyalty of Wizards who decided to turn away from the Dark Arts and join them."
"Exactly right Mr. Malfoy, fifteen points to Slytherin." Snape said with an evil smirk towards the Gryffindors.
"Does anyone know the proper ingredients for a Ponder Potion?"
Once again he ignored Hermione's raised arm.
"No one knows?" Snape sneered, avoiding having to look in the direction of Hermione's hand.
"In that case, I'll write the ingredients and instructions on the board, you can find them all in that cupboard over there; follow the instructions exactly as it says. One mistake could be drastic." Snape said as his eyes flickered over at Neville who cowered in his seat.
After Snape had written the ingredients and instructions on the board, Hermione began making the potion in her cauldron, she made sure she got all the ingredients from the cupboard and began.
She was nearly done; she had to wait five minutes before putting the hair of a Centaur in. She looked around to see some students struggling, some were still chopping up some of the ingredients, and others were waiting like Hermione to add another ingredient.
When the five minutes passed, Hermione carefully added in the Centaur hair and stirred for exactly three minutes.
"After you have added all the ingredients, your potion should be a dark, maroon color." Snape said, and then started yelling at Neville whose potion was a bright yellow instead of maroon.
Hermione smiled when she saw that her potion was a dark maroon. She sat down and awaited further instructions.
"Now, take only one teaspoon of your potion and pour it into your flagon and take just one sip. After you've done so you should be able to hear the thoughts of your fellow classmates for exactly thirty - five seconds." He instructed, everyone who had done there's correctly took just one sip from their flagon and awaited the results.
"Hey Weasel! I didn't know you used sleep with a teddy bear!" Malfoy teased, Ron just turned red and began wishing that the thirty - five seconds pass quickly.
After the thirty - five seconds passed everyone was ordered to clean up and then was assigned a three and a half - foot long essay on why the Ponder Potion was banned hundreds of years ago and if it was necessary.
When it was time to leave, Hermione listened as Ron and Harry complained about how unfair it was of Snape to assign such a long essay.
"Oh! I'll catch up with you guys in a bit! I forgot my parchment in Snape's class!" Hermione said as she took off.
She knocked on the door to Snape's class and when no one answered she let herself in. She quickly ran in a grabbed her parchment. As she was walking back out, she didn't notice a book lying on the floor or the cauldron in front of her that was still full of the Ponder Potion.
"Ah!" She screamed in surprised as she tripped over the thick book and went flying head first into the cauldron. She quickly brought her head up from the cauldron and gasped for air. Her whole entire face and head was now covered in the thick, maroon potion.
"Oh no!" She knew she had swallowed large amounts of the potion and didn't know what the side - effects of the potion would be if someone would consume a large amount of it. She quickly hopped out of the cauldron and muttered a charm, her clothes, hair and books were immediately cleansed of the potion. But it did not get rid of the amount of the potion that she had swallowed.
"What idiot would forget to clean their cauldron?" Hermione muttered to herself.
She knew if she told Snape she would lose many points for Gryffindor, and if she told Dumbledore, Snape would eventually find out and try to find a way to either give her a month's worth detention or get rid of her Prefect position. To him, she would have been trespassing in his class when she was not allowed and she couldn't risk losing her Prefect badge.
"I guess I'm going to have to keep this to myself." Hermione muttered as she cautiously stepped out of the classroom, shut the door, and continued on down the hall to her next class.
*~*~*~*
The incident in Snape's classroom escaped Hermione's mind when she got to Care of Magical Creatures Class. It was extremely warm outside so Hermione along with a few other students took off her robes. But then she heard something that nearly made her fall over.
"Nice ass Granger." She heard Malfoy drawl she quickly turned around to find him now looking to his right.
"Excuse me Malfoy?" She hissed, she looked over to Harry and Ron who had been standing right next to her, but obviously did not hear what Malfoy said because they were talking to each other.
'That's weird,' Hermione thought, 'They usually hear everything Malfoy says when he's around, how come they didn't hear him now?'
"What?" Malfoy looked at Hermione in confusion, she just narrowed her eyes.
"Don't play dumb with me! I heard what you said!" She hissed in a low voice, this made Malfoy look her with even more confusion.
"You must be hearing things Granger because I didn't say anything, if I did, don't you think Potty and Weasley would be defending their little Mudblood girlfriend?" With these words, Ron and Harry turned round and glared daggers at Malfoy who just smirked, Hermione was just confused.
'He's right, he said that loud enough for Harry and Ron to hear. But I swear I heard him say that!' She said to herself. Finally Harry and Ron turned away from Malfoy and watched as Hagrid began his lesson.
Then Hermione heard Malfoy speak again,
"For a minute there I thought she could read my mind." Hermione paled.
'That's it!' Hermione looked around at everyone and began hearing voices. She turned to Ron and heard,
"I wonder what McGonagall would look like in Chudley Cannon robes."
She then looked over at Harry and heard,
"Stupid Malfoy, stupid Snape, stupid Fudge, stupid Dudley, stupid Voldemort, s -"
Hermione shook her head in disbelief and looked back at Malfoy and heard,
"This new hair - gel seems to bring out the shine in my beautiful, platinum, blond hair."
"No!" Hermione thought in horror, "I can hear everyone's thoughts!"
*~*~*~*
There you have it! The first chapter to my new story! I promise the other chapters will be longer! Well, what are you doing? REVIEW!!
Phoenix - Wings