Time Is Useless
Chapter One: Time Flies By When You Love Someone
"Hermione..? Hermione? HERMIONE." Lavender Brown had been shrieking Hermione's name for three minutes before she finally jolted awake.
"What? What's wrong? Is someone hurt?" Hermione was not used to being awoken by her roommates. In fact, she was the one who usually woke them, as they stayed up late with the boys in the Gryffindor common room most nights.
"Uh…no we're all fine. But erm…well its ten o'clock and we…well you, Parvati, and I all missed Transfiguration and Potions…sorry…" Lavender struggled to get her words out, knowing that Hermione would have a fit once she registered what Lavender was saying
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I CAN'T HAVE MISSED A CLASS…I'M NEVER LATE! IN FACT I'M ALWAYS EARLY!" Hermione jumped out of her bed and tore through her trunk until she found her white blouse and grey skirt.
"Oh no, oh no! Why didn't either of you wake me? How is this possible…Snape and McGonagall will both have my head for this!"
"Lavender, Ginny, and I were…out late…so we overslept as well. You however have no excuse for waking up late" piped up Parvati with a sly smile. Hermione flushed scarlet at the last part. However, she chose to ignore it.
"Yeah, well, looks like Ginny made it to class on time. Where were you three anyway?" Hermione was now jumping up and down on one leg trying to pull her sock on while Lavender and Parvati were still in their beds. "And you two better hurry up or you'll miss all of your classes" She snapped.
"Oh yeah, we're not going. I mean, we've already missed two classes and by the time we're done getting ready we'll have missed four. And I'm not so sure you'll be keen on hearing what we were up to last night…" Lavender shot Parvati a warning look when she said this. Hermione stopped in the middle of brushing her hair and turned around.
"What exactly did you do?" she asked while narrowing her eyes at the pair of them. Lavender's voice had gone weak when she spoke.
"We snuck out and met Neville, Ron, and Harry in the Room of Requirement and..."
"Oh. Well that's not that...oh." The realization slowly crept into Hermione's brain. "Well, okay. That's…that's great? I know you all really um like them so uh…yeah. Whatever, it's fine. I'm going to head to class now. Bye." Hermione sped out of the girl's dormitories as fast as she could. How could they do that? They know how Hermione feels about Harry, yet they go take Ginny to hook up with him anyway? Why couldn't Lavender and Parvati just go to meet Ron and Neville?
"I thought I had finally found a stable group of girlfriends this time" muttered Hermione as she made her way down to the dungeons. "I'll just tell Professor Snape what happened. I'll tell him how I overslept because I was thinking about Harry Potter all night, the guy I've been in love with for five years. Yeah, that would go down really well." But what Hermione had thought to be a whisper turned out to be much louder.
"So Grangers in love with Potter, is that it?" came a drawling voice from behind her. Hermione froze in her tracks. He couldn't have heard that…I said it in my head, right?
Hermione Granger had thought wrong for the first time in her life. She slowly turned on her heel while silently praying that the voice did not belong to whom she thought it did. It was him, her bleach-blonde nemesis.
"Hello, Malfoy. I need to see Professor Snape so if you don't mind, I'll be going now" said Hermione as she proceeded to stalk off in the other direction. Sadly for her, Draco was fast.
"Granger! I was just stating a simple fact, I wasn't mocking you or anything" he said as he caught up to her. Hermione let out a laugh that she couldn't help escaping.
"Oh so you've suddenly turned nice, have you? Fine go ahead. Make fun of me. I know you can't wait to tell your little minions and your skank of a girlfriend all about how the mudblood is in love with scarhead so they can join in on the mocking. I'm used to the ridicule by now. I know it's only a matter of time before you tell Harry and I lose my best friend." Hermione had much more to say but she shut her mouth tightly when she realized she hadn't meant to say any of that. It would only bring on more of his cruel jokes. Draco wanted to calm her down; after all he hadn't meant to get her all riled up. But he didn't. Instead he did exactly what she was expecting; he made fun of her.
"First of all, my girlfriend is not a skank. Don't you dare insult her again, you piece of filth" he said as he stepped so close that their noses were almost touching.
"And you pretty much said it all for me, haven't you? Except you left out on little detail…Potter will never love you back! Haaa!" He knew as soon as he said it that it had definitely crossed the line, the line that normally did not exist for a Malfoy such as himself.
Hermione's eyes welled up with tears as she started to back away which was not what he had been expecting. Granger normally had some witty retort that would make him smile later on. "That…that was just mean, Draco." She then sprinted off back towards the dormitories, without even consulting Professor Snape about her unexcused absence.