Author's Note: Here's the second chapter. I tried to proof read it as best I could, but it's hard to proof your own stuff. If any of my readers out there is bored and a good editor, I would love a beta!!! Please!!! Enjoy, hopefully I'll be posting 3 tomorrow!
Angel
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Chapter 2 The Plot
Down in the Slytherin common room that night, Draco and Blaise were discussing their potions class.
"So how long do you think that Granger girl will last?" Blaise asked
"I don't even know how she got into that class, Snape would never let her in voluntarily; Dumbledore must have made him."
"Yeah, how else could a stupid mudblood like her have made it into the class?"
"What has this school come to when they'll let anyone into the advanced classes?"
"Wish there was something we could do about it."
"Maybe there is."
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That night Hermione studied quietly at one of the tables at the back of the common room while the boys and Ginny sat by the fire discussing their first say of classes. She was just finishing the essay that Professor Snape had set that day in class when Ron, Harry, and Ginny interrupted her.
"Hermione are you still doing homework, come on, you've been at it since just after dinner!" Ron nagged.
"Ronald I happen to have been assigned a huge essay from Professor Snape today that I would rather not leave for later, just because you always wait to do your homework until the last minute does not mean I have to!" She shouted back annoyed.
"Geeze, sorry 'Mione. I just worry about you; all this work can't be good for you."
"Thank you Ron, but I'm fine, I'm just tired. I think I'll go to bed."
"Hermione, it's only 9, are you sure?" This time it was Ginny.
"Yes, it's been a long first day. Goodnight."
Hermione went up the stairs to the girl's dormitory. She got her pajamas on and climbed into bed. They're going to figure out that something's wrong if you keep hiding Hermione…You're not even tired now are you? She lay there thinking about her day and trying to keep her mind busy so that it did not wander to those memories. She closed her eyes and eventually she drifted off to sleep.
Her sleep was not peaceful though. Ginny was woken up at two in the morning to Hermione's screams.
"No, please, not again, I don't want to, please…Don't…" Ginny leapt out of bed and rushed to Hermione's four poster bed.
"Hermione, Hermione, wake up, it's just a dream! Hermione, it's me Ginny, wake up!" In a flash Hermione was awake; tears streaming down her face and a wild look in her eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry for waking you up Ginny."
"What were you dreaming of Hermione? It sounded pretty bad."
"Nothing…I…I don't even remember now." She said weakly, hoping Ginny would just drop it.
"Don't give me that line, I know you remember. Just know that when you decide that you want to talk about it I'll be here for you; no matter what." Ginny smiled, trying not to pry because she could tell that Hermione was in no shape to discuss it right then.
Ginny closed the hangings on Hermione's bed in defeat. Hermione grabbed her wand and cast a silencing spell so that if she had any more nightmares she wouldn't wake Ginny up. Hermione never did go back to sleep that night.
She showered, got dressed, and went down to the Great Hall just before the end of breakfast.
"Hermione, where've you been, we were just going to send Ginny back up to find you?"
"I just felt like a long shower this morning. Besides I've got enough time for a quick breakfast."
"You weren't up late studying were you Hermione? You look like you haven't slept."
"Harry James Potter, you leave her be! You're being very rude." Ginny snapped at him.
"I didn't mean to be rude. I'm just worried about you 'Mione."
"Harry, I'm fine. Now if you'll excuse me I've got to run to class." Hermione got up from the table and left.
"Now look what you did Harry."
"I didn't mean for her to get up and leave, Ginny. What's her problem anyways?"
"She didn't sleep very well last night Harry and she doesn't need you to point out the obvious, ok?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."
"Don't apologise to me Harry, save it for Hermione."
Hermione's first class was Arithmancy and she left the Great Hall so early that she was ten minutes early so she was the only one in the classroom.
By the end of the day Hermione was so tired she could barely keep her eyes open. She shuffled towards the Great Hall, not really watching where she was going. The next thing she knew she ran into a very tall, black, and oddly warm wall. Struggling to get herself up off the floor with all her books, she took the hand that was offered, not really looking at whose it was. When she was up on her feet she looked up, only to find that the tall, black wall that she had run into turned out to be Professor Snape.
"Miss Granger I suggest you watch where you're going or don't leave your precious tower."
"I'm so sorry sir; I didn't mean to..."
"That much is obvious. Don't let it happen again." He began to walk away, but as he did, he looked back over his shoulder, "I'll see you tomorrow evening at eight for your detention Miss Granger."
"Yes sir." Hermione replied defeated.
Just as Hermione was turning around to get underway to the Great Hall again she heard a voice call out behind her.
"Way to go Mudblood, detention by the end of the second day; even I'm impressed."
"You would be ferret." Hermione continued her walk away from Draco and towards the Great Hall.
"Yeah. Quite a feat for the precious Gryffindor know it all." Blaise chimed in.
She was quite close to the Hall now.
"Hermione, there you are! I haven't seen you all day." Ron shouted as he caught sight of her. She breathed a small sigh of relief.
"Hi Ron. Come on, let's go I'm starving." Ron and Hermione walked together into the Hall and sat down across from Harry and Ginny.
"I'm sorry about this morning Hermione. I didn't mean to be rude; I was just worried about you." Harry began as they sat down.
"It's alright, I was very tired. Actually I still am, but I should probably eat some diner so I can rest up for my detention tomorrow night."
"Detention?" Ginny, Harry, and Ron said together.
"Yeah. I was on my way here after classes and I wasn't watching where I was going and I ran into Professor Snape."
"That git!" Ron exclaimed. "Just because you ran into him, he's giving you detention? It's not like you talked back or insulted him or something right?"
"Well, actually, I think the only reason I got detention because Malfoy and Zabini were coming down the hall."
"What makes you think that Hermione?" Ginny asked logically.
"Well, for one he helped me up off the ground after I ran into him. For two he only mentioned detention as he was walking away. Malfoy and Zabini were just about to pass him in the hallway so I knew that they had to have seen what happened. I think he only did it because he didn't want to lose face in front of Death Eater children."
"Oh come on 'Mione. He just likes being a slimy git!"
"Come on Ron, Snape is a git most of the time, but if he were planning on giving her a detention he wouldn't have helped her up and he would've done it right after she ran into him." Harry replied.
Hermione had noticed over the past six months or so Harry had began to mature a lot. He was beginning to put the past behind him and look towards what he knew needed to be done. Harry had begun to take his studies a little more seriously and he had been practicing his defensive spells in the Room of Requirement.
