"Miss Granger."

The voice cut through the classroom. I looked up to see Professor Snape looking down his hooked nose at me.

"Where in my instructions did it say to add ashwinder eggs?"

I froze,my hand holding the freshly chopped eggs over my cauldron. Glancing quickly at the

board I saw that it actually said ashwind roots. I quickly removed my hand from the opening of my cauldron.

"Ten points from Gryffindor for Miss Granger's stupidity." Snape called out,making sure to put emphasis on stupidity.

"Bloody hell Hermione." I heard Ron moan from behind me. "Haven't you lost us enough points?"

I felt my face flush. Across the room I could hear Malfoy and his gang losing their minds. They obviously thought my mistakes to be hilarious.

When they had settled down and I had retrieved the proper ingredients though,I noticed something. Missing was the voice which laughed for far longer than was needed when someone,especially me,made a mistake.

I glanced over at Malfoy only to see him looking sullenly at his paper,as if it had said something mean.

He suddenly looked up and I quickly turned away,knocking my inkwell over my notes.

Malfoy snickered and I felt calm again. Everything was normal,just like it always was.

I quietly cast the cleaning spell on my paper,revealing my painstakingly handwritten notes. I checked at the next step on the board and saw that the next item needed was bulbers. Looking at Snape's desk I saw the bowl was empty.

Glancing around the classroom I quickly found the remaining bulbers. Crab and Goyle,Malfoy's bumbling idiot bodyguards,had taken the contents of the bowl and were building a large tower.

I groaned internally,but got up from my chair to walk towards them. When they noticed me coming they got up to form a protective wall around their tower.

"What do you want Grager?" Crabbe muttered.

"It's Granger." I corrected,rolling my eyes at their stupidity

"What do you want?" Goyle cut in,taking a step towards me.

"What I need are those bulbers you two imbeciles took from the bowl."

"Wow Granger," A voice shot out from behind Crab,who shifted to reveal Malfoy smirking,"been using a dictionary as some light reading?"

"I'm surprised you even know what a dictionary is." I sneered at him. Noticing a gap between Goyle and Crabbe I swiftly plucked a bulber off the top of tower. I smiled sweetly as I turned towards my desk.

A loud crash made me whip back around. Malfoy's gang stood slyly next to what remained of their tower. The majority was all over the floor.

"Who," Snape's voice was now dark and menacing," did this?" He gestured towards the mess of bulbers on the floor.

Without a moment of hesitation Malfoy,Goyle,Crabbe,Pansy and all the others pointed at me.

"Miss Granger detention at 8:00 tonight." Snape was waving his wand frantically,collecting the bulber back into the bowl.

I nodded meekly,knowing that fighting was pointless with Snape. He only listened to his favourites.

Returning to my desk I saw a folded note that hadn't been there before. I slipped it into my robes pocket before grabbing my parchment and quills.

I followed the group towards the door when I heard someone whisper my name. I turned slightly and saw Malfoy looking directly at me. His eyes widened,like a deer caught in headlights.

Rolling my eyes I turned back,scanning for Harry and Ron. I ran ahead to walk with them,the note knocking against my leg with every step I took.