This is the story of Hermione and her partner and how they have to do the dreaded flour babies project for home economics. This story starts a couple of weeks into the 5th year. Albus Dumbledor has brought some of those muggle classes to Hogwarts. As of right now, there is nothing fluffy but I'm pretty sure that there will be some in later chapters. I do not own any of the characters, except Professor Ross. The rest are all owned by JK Rowling. But I wish I owned them. :)
It was a normal day at Hogwarts. Hermione was wandering around during her free period, Ron was at a class that was a prep class to become an auror (to be even considered right out of school, you had to go through three years and pass the test. Hermione thought that he was screwed royally since it meant that he had to do all his homework well.) and Harry was practicing flying out at the quidditch field. Hermione glanced at her watch and realized that she needed to start heading towards her next class to be on time. Her class was called "Home Economics". She despised it. Professor Dumbledor had introduced a bunch of different muggle classes and told the students that they had to take at least one of them. It was an easy class and Hermione knew everything anyway. She usually just spaced out and thought about the cute guys at the school. She had decided over summer that she didn't want to be tied down to a guy that she wouldn't even see that often so she and Krum decided to just be friends. It left her free to dream about the other guys- like Harry, whom she had had a crush on for a long time and Lee Jordan, whom she thought was cute but too much of a bad boy for her. Ron and Harry were also in this class. Harry could do most of it because he had done it for the Dursley's but Ron struggled with almost everything muggle. The class was an odd mixture of muggle and magical skills one would need. Many purebloods struggled with it.
Hermione arrived at the class with about 5 minutes to spare. She looked around for the professor of the class, Professor Ross (whom was muggle born also) but was disappointed to see that she wasn't in. As she waited for Professor Ross to come, the other students started to crowd around the door. When the bell rang, the door opened and there stood Professor Ross, like she had been waiting for them the entire time. The class filed in, sat down and took out their books. Professor Ross had other ideas though.
"Put away your books. Today is the start of another part of our studies taken directly from a muggle class." There were many groans through out the class. "Quiet. This one is going to be easier for you purebloods. It is called the Flour Baby Project." She waved a paper around. "On this paper is a list of the partners for this project. I will read out the names and when I say your name, go and sit with your partner. First, Cho Chang and Harry Potter." Hermione glared at Cho. She had wanted to be Harry's partner. Harry looked totally stoked about being Cho's partner, but she looked less than thrilled. "Next is Vincent Crabbe and Pavarti Patil." Neither of them looked to happy. "Ron Weasley and Pansy Parkinson." Ron didn't even try to hide the look of horror on his face. The list continued on and on. Finally, Professor Ross stopped and asked, "Does everyone have a partner?"
"Professor, I don't have a partner and I'm pretty sure that Granger doesn't have a partner either." Draco Malfoy's voice piped up from the back of the room.
"Well, then, you two are partners." Hermione glared at Malfoy as the professor continued on. "This is a project to show you what parenting is like. It isn't a magical thing and it isn't a muggle thing. It is a human thing. What is going to happen is I am going to give you a sack of flour. We covered cooking already, so you guys know what flour is and how messy it can be. That means that you are going to have to treat that sack of flour nicely. It will be your child for the next 2 weeks. Your partner is your spouse in this project. Between you and your spouse, you need to fill out this paper today. It has the baby's gender already filled out but you decide what it looks like, its name, and other such things. If you finish it today, I can make a copy of it and give a copy to you before you leave.
There are some things that you need to know. There are people watching you to make sure that you don't harm this flour baby in any way. I am not just watching. Also, there is no way for you to get another flour sack. If your flour sack opens up and the flour comes out, your baby dies and you do not get a good grade. If you are caught not being a good parent, it will be reported to me and you will lose points. If you need to go somewhere and cant take the baby, you either need to have your partner take it or you need to find a babysitter. You must actually pay the babysitter. They are doing the job of a babysitter so you must pay them as one. It should be established where the baby sleeps each night.
I have just one more announcement, then I want you and your partner to come up to the front and I will hand you your baby and your information paper. Each of your names is put on the sack magically, so we will always know whose is whose. Now, my announcement is that if you want to learn how to be a better parent, there will be a night class in 2 days time. You don't have to sign up and it is after dinner. That is all. You may now come and get your baby."
Malfoy glanced at Hermione and said, "Well, shall we?"
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