Chapter 2
Hermione's P.O.V.
The new girl, Alison, was sweet and it was nice to have another girl with me especially when I am constantly surrounded by dim-witted boys. She seemed nervous as we got ready for school in the morning.
"Alison are you okay?" I asked as I was tightening my tie.
She jumped, "Yeah. I'm just extremely nervous. Being a new girl and all." She laughed but it was off. Yep, she was beyond nervous. We finished getting dressed and headed down toward Dinning Hall for breakfast. We found Ron, Harry and Jason and sat down next to them. Jason looked up from what he was eating and smiled at me and his sister. I turned a bright red and looked down quickly. He was so hot, especially when he looked at you with those big green eyes. I grabbed a few eegs and some bacon and just picked at it. Alison followed my lead but she picked at her food for a different reason.
"You're going to need your strength today, to keep up with everyone." I said to her. She took a bite and she pushed the plate away.
"Ugh." she moaned, "The butterfly's in my tummy are keeping me from eating." she put her head down on the gleaming table.
"Don't worry Alison, you'll be fine." her brother said from across the table patting her head, "We survived this before."
"You have?" I asked surprising myself by being able to talk to him, "This isn't your first time being a new kid?"
"Actually, I believe it's our third time." He said. Alison looked up and nodded.
"Yep, but it doesn't mean that it's still not nerve racking." Alison said putting her head back down.
"Why have you moved so often?" Ron asked with his mouth full. Harry was listening too, I could see the curiosity burning in their eyes. I was about to say to them that they didn't need to tell us but Jason beat me to it by answering.
"The first time, it was our mom. She couldn't stand Europe at the time. And the second time, we were kicked out." he didn't elaborate.
"Why -" Harry started but I kicked him and he shut up.
"They don't need to explain." I said looking at Harry then Ron with the don't-you-dare look.
I turned to Alison and saw that she was smiling gratefully. 'Thanks' she mouthed. 'Welcome' I mouthed back.
After breakfast we left for our first class; Potions (with Slytherin). Ugh, another Potions year with the Slytherins and the hateful Professor Snape.
Alison turned to me, "Is Snape nice? I hope he's nice. He doesn't sound nice. Is he nice?" The table burst with laughter, "What? What did I do? Did I say something?" she smiled in embarrassment.
"Relax." Harry said calming his laughter, "Don't worry. No, he's not nice. And be careful he's a hard teacher and it's even harder to stay on his good side."
"Okay," she sighed, "Okay." Jason rolled his eyes when she wasn't looking. His really pretty green eyes. I shook myself out of the reverie and looked down. I would not think about his looks. Maybe later but not now. We all got up from the table and made our way to the dungeons for Potions.
When we entered I noticed that no one (including Slytherins) was sitting down. I then looked up at the chalk board and saw Snape's clumsy scrawl 'I have made a sitting chart. Anyone sitting when I enter will loose five points for their house. No talking.' I turn and grabbed Alisons arm (for she was about to sit down) and pointed at the board. She quickly turned and read. Her lips made an "O" shape and she stepped back from the desk.
Just moments later Snape entered the room with his ridiculous cape flowing behind, "Listen up. Potter and Goyle, first desk here." Snape pointed to the first desk nearest to his desk.
"Granger and Parvati, next desk." he pointed to the desk behind Harry's. I kept eye contact with Alison as I sat down, even though she seemed to calm down some. Her brother moved over and whispered something in her ear.
"Let's see," he looked down at the piece of parchment that he had out, "Summers, Jason and Millicent, here." he pointed to the next desk behind my own. I watched as he walked away from his sister with a secret smile on his face. It seemed like every girl in the room held their breath as he sauntered over and slid gracefully down in his seat. I pealed my eyes off of his perfect body, that is cloths barely hinted at, to Alison who was laughing behind her hand.
Snape continued like he didn't even notice, "Weasley and Crabbe." he pointed to the desk behind Jason's. Snape moved on to the next row over and continued. The students sill standing slowly trickled down till there was only two left.
"Summers, Alison and Draco Malfoy." she pointed to the last desk of the third row. Alison sauntered over, much like her brother, capturing all of the guys attentions and slid down gracefully too. If she was scared or nervous it didn't show as she sat down by Malfoy, who was smirking at me and Harry. I turned to Harry who was staring wide-eyed at me. Ah crap.
Draco's P.O.V.
Being seated next to Alison wasn't something I manipulated. I was surprised when our names weren't called till the very end. I thought that she would have been paired off by then and I would be stuck with some nobody who was as dim-witted as Potter. I guess I got lucky. I was completely and totally entranced as she walked over to sit by me with total determination. I couldn't help but smirk at the others; they only got to watch from afar while I had the front row seat. And she was just as perfect from far away as she was close up. She had the perfect face - full lips, dainty nose, long eye lashes, big dark green eyes (that anyone could get lost in), long blonde wavy hair, and creamy porcelain skin - that distracted me all throughout the lesson. I was vaguely aware of the eyes drilling into my skull as I studied her.
I didn't noticed until she turned the pot fire on that Snape had instructed us to get to work.
I had no idea on what we were doing. I turned to her, "What are we doing?" I hate asking that question, it makes me feel stupid. I was suddenly worried, what if she laughed at me? Or, what if she gave me the your-so-stupid-that-I-don't-wanna-be-around-you look? Those thoughts just made me more angry. No girl ever made me feel so self-conscious.
Thankfully she did neither, she turned to me and gave me a heart-breaking smile, "We are reviewing on how to cure 4th degree burns." what a voice! It was smooth like silk, "Could you go get the herbs we need?" she asked pointing to the board.
"Sure." I said standing up and walking over to the supply room. I grabbed the few herbs needed and headed back to the table. Alison was mixing something in a clear bottle as I came up and put everything down. She shook up whatever it was and handed it to me along with a tube with lines on it.
"Hear," she said, "Fill it up to the thirtieth line." I held the tube with lines up to my face and began to pour the liquid into it, "No!" she said stopping me before I got to the fifth line, "Put it on the table, go down to eye level, and then pour it." I did what she said and put my hand on the other side of the table to steady myself.
"There you go." she said coming down next to me. She put her hand on top of mine and tilted it so that the flow was slower. I turned and gazed at her as she stopped me from pouring anymore and in that instance I did something stupid. I jerked up quickly and moved my hand so that the mixture fell all over me.
"Oh my God." she said quietly, laughing a little, "that was a mixture of sodium chloride."
"Oh God." I said, freaking out, "It's burning." I jumped up and down like a moron. I barely realized that there was no pain, but I was so shocked that my brain was sending signals through my body saying that there was pain.
"Really?" she said looking at me oddly, "Because that was just salt water." she smiled.
I felt my cheeks get hot, and I stopped jumping. I looked around the room and saw that everyone was staring in amusement. Then someone giggled and then the room was over flowing with laughter. Even Professor Snape's lip was twitching, fighting a smile. Soon, Snape snapped at them to returned to work. I turned slowly to Alison and glared at her. She only smiled back like a little girl on Christmas who received exactly what she wanted. I glared at her with the you-are-so-going-to-get-it look some more then turned to dicing the herbs. Great, now it looks like I peed myself, I thought. I glanced over at Alison again and saw that she was smiling a angle's smile. I was transfixed. Crap, this is so not good.
I suddenly realized that looking like I peed myself was not nearly as bad as what could happen.
Jason's P.O.V.
I laughed with the others when Malfoy spilled the salt water water all over himself. I couldn't help it, especially when Alison made the sodium chloride joke. It was perfect. He freaked out and started jumping all over the place. Then she told him that it was only salt water, and he turned bright red with embarrassment when he saw us staring. I giggled and then the room filled with joyous laughter. By the amount of people laughing, I suspected that he was the school bully. Only the Professor had it in him not to laugh, but still, his lips twitched. After a moment or two Professor Snape told us all to get back to work and the rest of the class zoomed by.
After class, I waited with Hermione, Ron and Harry for my sister to come out of the class room. She was smiling hugely and said, "Well what did you think? Class was fun wasn't it?"
"That was bloody brilliant!" Ron and Harry said at the same time. We all laughed as we climbed the stairs.
"Absolutely amazing! It was so clever!" Hermione said linking her arms with Alison, who was glowing with happiness.
"So," Alison said to them, "tell us about this Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Is it fun?" Harry and Ron turned around and walked backwards and began explaining.
"Well yeah," Harry said, "last year's teacher was amazing. We learned a hole lot, it's just basically uh.." he looked at Ron.
"Practice for when we duel and defense if we come by magical creatures that could hurt us." Ron supplied.
"Oh." I said, "Sounds like P.E.W.M.."
"What's P.E.W.M.?" they said all at the same time.
"Physical Education With Magic. It's basically what sounds like what you are doing here," Alison said, "but we do a lot of running and getting into shape along with practicing magic. It was a lot of fun." Harry and Ron turned back around.
"We will have to see how good this teacher is." Hermione said, "You know. New teacher and all." Everyone nodded as we entered the class room.
It did not go well. The Professor, an old-ish woman who only wore pink, said that we wouldn't be learning how to cast spells but instead we would be reading about the functions of the spells. Apparently she thought that we would have no need for them in the outside would. This caused an uproar, many of the students argued but soon they settled down. Only Harry had the nerve to continue.
"The Dark Lord is back! I saw him kill Cedric!"
"Thats enough, Potter! Detention! I will not tolerate students talking back to me." She was shaking, hard, "Turn to page twelve."
The rest of the class was unbearably boring and uneventful. We just copied what was on page twelve four times. By the time I was done, I had no idea what I had just copied down. What a waist of parchment. I met up with my new friends and my sister after class. Harry was supposed to come back during one of his free hours. I mocked punched him.
"I hate teachers like her, the ones who can't handle an argument." I said to him as we headed off to Divination.
"But he is back!" Harry said suddenly angrily.
"We know, Harry." Alison said linking arms once again with Hermione, "I saw him return."
"What?!" Harry, Ron and Hermione said together. They stopped suddenly, and Harry spun Alison around so that he could look at her face.
"But you weren't there.." He said trailing off in wonder. He was gripping my sister's arm, I readied myself to defend my sister incase he gripped too tightly and hurt her.
"That's because it was a vision." Alison said quietly, looking down.
"You can see the future?" Hermione said skeptically.
"Sometimes." Alison said, "I can't control it, and sometimes what I see doesn't happen." she sounded close to tears. Harry put his arms around her.
"Tell me everything you saw." Harry said and Alison did. She told him about the boy in the yellow suit and how he was killed then she described Voldemort. It didn't scare me, his name. Like it did with so many other people. Harry nodded in agreement with everything she said. She even mentioned the cut on his right wrist and Harry pulled up his sleeve to show everyone. They were sitting now, at the nearest bench, I was the only one still standing. Alison had finished talking and hung her head. Hermione had put her arm around Alison and hugged her close. I could have kissed the girl if I wasn't in my protective mode.
I couldn't tell how the next few moments happened but suddenly we were racing down the hall to our next class. We made it with only seconds to spare. Thank the Unknown Gods and Goddesses that made the passing period a half hour long.
Yeah the hole "salt water" thingy was from "John Tucker Must Die"
I couldn't help it. I absolutely love that part. R&R!!!
