Snape swept in, his robes swishing after him quickly. All talk stopped almost instantly, Snape didn't look to happy, his teeth were bared and his eyes were sweeping over everyone.

"Class I will be choosing your partners this year, do not argue with me, I'm not in the mood to be told off by kids who think they rule the universe" His eyes swept over Harry and Draco, making eye contact with them.

"The pairings are; …Potter and Goyle, Malfoy and Weasly, Granger and Parkinson, Brown and Crabbe, Patil and Zambini, Williams and Parker, De'luca and Adams, Thomas and McGuire, and finally Finnigan and Perks."

The silence was deafening. The first to get over his shock was Malfoy

"Sir, please tell me you are joking! I will not be partnered by that weasel!" He yelled angrily. He stood, as did many, the Slytherins stood angrily, not understanding why their own head of house would partner them with their enemies.

The Gryffindors just sat, breathing deeply, seeing no point in arguing as it would only lose them points.

"Dumbledore has made me do this, do not blame me!" Snape spoke just as angrily as his students had.

Malfoy turned to the Gryffindors

"You bunch of wimps, why are you not arguing about this! Do you want to be partnered by Slytherins!"

Hermione stood

"No, but it seems his mind is made up, and also if we were to stand and argue with the professor we would lose points, unlike you!" She said, trying and failing to keep her voice sounding cool and calm.

The Slytherins had to agree with that. Many sat, them too knowing Snape would not change his mind.

"Now that you are all calm again please move to sit with your partner"

He caught Hermione's eye and gave a slight nod, to say that he thanked her for calming everyone down. She nodded back and moved to the back where Pansy sat lazily, glaring at Hermione. She rolled her eyes and thought this will be fun…

They were making a happiness potion, which made the drinker very happy at everything for 1 hour. For both Pansy and Hermione it was simple as both of them were very good at potions.

Soon they had finished and both drank their potions. Both waited for the feeling of happiness, but it never came…

"Granger?" Pansy asked

"Yes?"

"Do you feel happy? Because I don't" She said her brows furrowed in confusion

"I don't either; we must have done the potion wrong!" Their eyes went wide, neither had gotten a potion wrong in all their time at Hogwarts.

"What are we going to do, we have to go up their and prove that we are happy!" Pansy asked

"I have an idea, but…"

"But what Granger?"

"But we'll-we'll…have to work together. We go up there and we pretend to be happy"

Pansy looked at her for a moment before saying

"I'm in"

5 minutes later their names were called and they skipped up to the desk, big grins on their faces, looking like the world was perfect. Then Snape asked them

"What ids wrong with the world today Granger?"

She but a dreamy face on and said "Nothing, the world is wonderful"

"What about you Pansy?"

"What she said sir, the world is perfect"

Then they sat back down having passed with O's each.

They hi-fived then looked at their hands like they had a disease.

"Did we just hi-five Granger?"

"Yes, but I don't know why." They both edged away from each other and when class ended they ran out of the class room, wanting to get away from each other as fast as they could.

Potions was their last class of the day and so Hermione Harry and Ron went down to the hall together, Ron and Harry arguing about who had the worst time, Hermione stayed surprisingly quiet, though the boys didn't notice.

Halfway through her chocolate sponge a headache started to make Hermione's vision go a bit blurry, she could have sworn she was sitting next to Malfoy. She excused her self, not noticing as Pansy did the same.

As soon as Hermione's head touched the pillow sleep took her, she lay on her side with one arm bent and under the pillow, the other at her side, But as the clock struck 12 she changed her position to curled up in a ball, her arms laying wrapped around her knees that were to her chest.

Pansy lay in bed curled up, but as the clock struck 12 her position changed to lying on her side with one arm bent and under the pillow, the other at her side…