It was a warm spring day, and it was a sunday morning. Harry, Hermione and Ron were sat under a tree just outside the entrance, staring across the lake.
"Hey, Ron, want to play wizard chess?" Harry asked him.
"Yeah sure! Let me go and get my wizard chess set." Ron said.
"I will come with you!" Harry said eagerly. "Hermione, want to come to?"
"No, I will stay here."
"You sure?" Ron asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay then." Harry and Ron both ran up the steps and out of sight. Hermione layed down underneath the tree, and closed her eyes. Before she knew it, she was sleeping.

*Dream*

She was falling, falling through thick fog, and she couldn't see anything. She couldn't tell whether she was the right way up, or which way she was facing. As she fell, the fog started to change shape around her, into a million tiny faces, all staring and shouting at her. She had started to panic, and as the faces began closing in, she began to scream.

"Hermione, wake up!" She was being shaken awake by someone.
"Hermione..." She opened her eyes to see Ron and Harry watching her. She could see the chess board infront of her, which looked like it was in the middle of a game.
"Wh...What?" She said, obviously confused.
"We came back and saw you asleep so we thought we would leave you sleeping, but then you started moving around and moaning so we thought you were having a nightmare." Ron explained.
"Yeah so we decided to wake you up." Harry continued.
"Oh. Um. Well, thanks for, erm, waking me up then." She began to sit up, and when she did, she noticed that she had a slight headache.
"Do you want to play a game of chess with me when we have finished this game, Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Um, yeah, okay." she replied.
"Cool."

She watched Harry and Ron finish their current game, and when they had finished, Hermione took harry's place on the grass.
"Um, you'e move Hermione."
"Oh, is it? Okay." She commanded for her chosen piece to move.
"Ah ha!" Ron said. He had just taken the piece Hermione just moved. "Your turn again."
"I know." she moved another piece, just for Ron to take it.
"Concentrate Hermione!" Harry called out.
"Im trying!" Hermione snapped back. She hastily moved another piece.
"Check. I win! You never let me win before!"
"I didn't let you win!"
"You're joking right?"
"No!"
"Yeah you are." Ron smirked at Harry.
"Guys, I swear I didn't!"
"You're serious?" Ron rasied his eyebrows at Hermione.
"Yes!"
"YAY! I finally beat the unbeatable!" He playfully punch Hermione in the upper arm. "Hip hip, HOORAY!"
"Congrats mate." Harry patted Ron on his shoulder.
"Yeah, congratulations." Hermione said.
"I think its just about time for dinner." Harry said. Ron got up, but Hermione stayed sitting.
"You coming?" Ron asked her.
"Um, Im not really hungry. Im gonna go upstairs and get started on my transfiguration homework which is due tomorrow."
"Wow, for the first time in ages, maybe even ever, I did my homework before you." Ron smiled. "But you should really come to dinner. Surely you must be hungry?"
"Some people just are not hungry all the time, like SOME people." She emphasized the 'some' because Ron was always hungry.
"Yeah but you have to eat something..."
"Im not hungry, okay?"
"Okay then, suit yourself." Ron said. "Lets go, Harry. Bye Hermione."
"Yeah, bye Hermione." Harry said.
"See you."

She stood up, and she noticed her headache a bit more. She started to go up the staircase and make her way to the common room, when Neville passed her.
"You not going to dinner Hermione?" he asked her.
"No, not today. I forgot to do my homework." She admitted.
"Wait. You? Forget your homework?" he said, shocked.
"Yeah." she blushed.
"Ha ha ha! Okay Hermione! You can stop joking with me."
"Im not joking." She whispered.
"Yeah okay Hermione." He said still laughing. "See you later."

She understood why he didn't believe her, as she had always done it in advance before. What made her forget this piece of homework?

Inside the common room, she gathered the books she needed and sat down in an armchair next to the fire. This chair is very comfy, she thought. She put her books on her lap, and decided to close her eyes for a second. Before she knew it, she had fallen asleep again.

She was being shaken awake again by Harry and Ron. She opened her eyes, and to her horror, she saw it was light outside.
"Oh my gosh! Its the morning!" She said.
"Yeah, we saw you asleep last night after dinner and decided to let you sleep." Ron said.
"Why! I didn't do my transfiguration homework!" She was panicking now. Never once had she missed a homework deadline.
"Relax! You have never done this before, so why would youget in trouble?" Harry pointed out.
"STILL! Ill never get it done in time!" She stood up, and she suddenly felt dizzy, and had to hold onto the chair and close her eyes, hoping it would go away. It did, but slowly, and it didn;t go unoticed.
"Hermione, are you alright?" Harry asked, concerned.
"Yeah."
"Are you sure?"
"Well appart from the fact that I forgot to do my homework, Im fine!" She snapped, and walked up the stairs to her dorm.
"Something isn't right..." Harry said to Ron.
"Yeah I know..." He agreed.

Both boys went to get ready for their next class and met each other in the common room by the portrait.
"Shall we wait for Hermione?" Ron asked.
"She probably already went." Harry said, and with that, both boys left the common room to go to Transfiguration.

As they entered the classroom, they Hermione sat on her own at the back of the room, and went to sit with her. She had her elbow on the desk and was resting her head on her hand. She didn't look too well.
"Hermione, are you sure you are alright?" Harry asked.
"Yeah." She turned around and both of them could see she had been crying.
"Whats wrong?" Ron and Harry asked at the same time.
"Professor McGonagall told me to stay after class after I told her that I didn't do my homework! She will probably give me detention!" She started to cry again.
"Hermione! She will not give you detention, I am sure of it! She didn't give me a detention the first time I forgot my homework!" Harry tried to comfort her.
"I guess..." She wiped her eyes on the back of her hand.

"Okay class. I want you to practise not only transfiguration, but also charms. You will cast 'Wingardium Leviosa' on these leaves, take only one each, and transfigure it into a fruit of your choice. Begin."
Everyone at once took out their wands and cast 'Wingardium Leviosa' on the leaves at the front of the room. Many did it easily, while other struggled. Hermione was one that struggled. She managed to lift the leaf and get it half way to her desk, but it kept dropping.
"Ugh! Ive had enough!" She got up out of her seat and picked up the leaf and put it on her desk.
"Cheat!" Draco called from the other side of the room and pointed at Hermione. "Professor! She just picked it up without bothering to do the spell!"
"I did, its just I couldn't get it the whole way." She replied.
"Miss Granger, this isn't the behavior I would expect from you. Five points from Gryffindor." Professor McGonagall said.
"But Professor I-"
"No 'but's Miss Granger."
Hermione looked down and tears formed in her eyes. She picked up her wand and tried to concentrate on transfigurating the leaf into a strawberry. She managed to do it, but only at the end of the lesson.
"If anyone does now have a fruit infront of them, you may feel free to eat it. However, if you didn't, would you kindly return the leaf. Class dismissed." Professor McGonagall instructed. Hermione waited until everyone had left before walking up to the teachers desk.
"Miss Granger, are you feeling alright?" She asked her.
"Um, yeah." She replied, surprised how sore her throat felt. Professor McGonagall put her hand to Hermiones forehead, and gasped.
"Miss Granger, you are burning up!"
"Am I?" Hermione shivered.
"Yes, you most certainly are. How long have you been feeling ill?"
"I dont know, I think it was yesterday afternoon." She thought.
"Well why didn't you come to the hospital wing?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"I thought it was nothing..." Hermione said.
"I knew something was wrong when you walked in here, and to top it off you forgot to do your homework, which isn't like you at all."
"I know, Im sorry." Hermione started to cry again.
"Don't cry, Miss Granger! Im sure it isn't your fault that you forgot."
"But it was! I fell asleep outside yesterday afternoon and in the evening!"
"Exactly, you couldn't help falling asleep could you?" She said.
"I guess not." Hermione suddenly felt very hot. She could feel the blood rush to her face. The sudden change in temperate made her dizzy. She clutched the desk for support.
"Miss Granger?" Professor McGonagall said, worried.
"It doesn't matter, im fine." Hermione said.
"Hospital wing. Now."

Professor McGonagall grabbed Hermione by the arm to keep her steady and walked with her outside the room. Hermione began to get dizzier, so she was glad that she could lean on her professors arm. It got so much worse that she ended up shutting her eyes and letting Professor McGonagall lead the way. She had also gotten increasingly tired just by the short trip. Upon entering the hospital wing, Professor McGonagall was practically dragging Hermione. Madam Pomfrey hurried over to the both of them, andgrabbed Hermiones other arm. Hermione couldn't think anymore, and even with her eyes shut, she could see colourful stars. Her knees gave way but never touched the floor as her professor prevented it. Hermione knew no more.