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Pansy felt a finger prod her in the back.
"Pansyyyyyyyy…"
The dark haired Slytherin huffed and did her best to ignore one of her closest friends, who like her was incredibly bored during potions. Unfortunately, Blaise appeared to have a very annoying way of dealing with his boredom. She felt his finger poking her again.
"Paaaaaannsyyyyyyyyyy…"
"BLAISE WOULD YOU STOP THAT!?" Pansy snapped angrily, only to pale when she realized that she had snapped a little too loudly, and that the entire class was staring at her.
"Ms. Parkinson please refrain from shouting in my class." Professor Snape drawled. "Next time points may be deducted." At this Pansy shrugged and went back to studying the properties and uses of lime root, knowing that Professor Snape would never deduct house points from Slytherin. Unfortunately the Gryffindors were not so lucky…
"It's not as if Parkinson can help it that his class sucks ass," Pansy heard Harry Potter whisper to his red-haired sidekick. This wasn't the first time she had heard Potter talk about her either Classes had been in session for a little over a week and Pansy had noticed that ever since the incident on the train, the messy haired Gryffindor had been paying much more attention to her. It would have been unnerving had she cared a bit more.
"Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley, if you think I have such poor teaching methods then perhaps you should try forcing knowledge upon a class of ungrateful and arrogant 7th year Gryffindors. Fifteen points from your house each!" Snape barked to Harry and Ron before continuing his lesson.
Pansy looked to her left to see Draco wearing his classic Malfoy smirk and they high fived under the table.
"Nothing beats watching Potter and Weasel let down their house, eh Pans?"
"Nothing in the world." She replied, smirking.
"By the way Mr. Potter and Ms. Parkinson, since you two enjoy making such trouble I've decided to make you partners for the duration of the year."
"Damn it, I know Snape hates us but that was absolutely ridiculous!" Ron fumed as he, Lavender, Harry and Hermione emerged from the potions classroom.
"Actually Ron, as much as I hate to admit it Professor Snape had full right to deduct points!" Hermione responded coldly. "Although Harry's punishment was crueler than hell itself."
"Whose side are you on anyway Hermione?" Ron snapped.
"Logic's. You and Harry questioned a teacher's skill, which is disrespectful, no matter whom the teacher is. Any teacher would have deducted points."
"It doesn't matter." Lavender said, giving Hermione a smirk as she wrapped her arm around Ron's. "Won-Won's point is that Snape is a bastard, which he is."
"Um no, his point was that Snape was being unfair, which I partially proved wrong."
"Well why the hell are you defending Snape?" Ron snapped, taking a step towards Hermione.
"I'll give you three guesses. No wait, that's not enough time for your brain to figure it out." Hermione snapped back, also taking a step. Harry rolled his eyes and planted himself between his two friends. Things had been tense over the summer but the starting of classes had brought things to a whole new level. Things were worse now because Lavender had joined Ron's act of subliminally taunting Hermione and Harry was sure that Hermione was going to hex her any day now.
"Hermione what class do we have next?" Harry asked distracting his two friends from each other.
"Lunch, Harry." Hermione answered, giving him an obvious look. "That's why we're mere seconds from the great hall." Harry replied by shrugging and looking at his feet.
"Well Granger you're going to have to find another way around!" The group looked up to see Malfoy leaning against the doorway, smirking slightly.
"Or what?" Hermione replied icily. She was clearly already annoyed, but appeared to be getting used to Malfoy's shenanigans.
"Or I'll have to keep this, and that would be a shame." He said, smiling and fondling Hermione's favorite quill.
"Though I'll never know how you managed to get that quill from my room I'm going to have to demand it back right now!" Said Hermione as she lunged her arm forwards.
"Or what?" Malfoy replied, mimicking Hermione.
"This." Hermione said, proceeding to kick the Slytherin in the shin and grab the quill before navigating around him with her friends.
"Only the shin Hermione?" Harry laughed, "Your getting soft!" Hermione was about to respond when another Weasley joined the group of Gryffindors.
"Malfoy wants you!" Ginny sang, as she came up behind the five other Gryffindors as they sat down at their table.
"Please. If anything he's been such a pest these past few days!" Hermione snorted. Harry could have sworn he had seen his friend blush.
"Ginny has a point though." Ron added
"Shut up!"
"Well his taunting has become more of a flirting sort of taunt than actual ignorant and hateful taunting."
"Where do you even get these theories?" Harry asked Ginny. "You know so much about Slytherin these days you may as well be in it!"
"Trust me Harry." Ginny replied, "I'm not a Slytherin, but I do have my ways."
"Well Malfoy does pay a lot of attention to you." Harry said, turning his attention back to Hermione.
"He pays no more attention to me than you pay to Pansy Parkinson!" Hermione countered.
"Yeah, I've noticed that too." Ginny added. "What's up?"
"Nothing is up." Harry replied heatedly.
"Right…" Hermione smirked, taking a sip of pumpkin juice.
"Seriously there is nothing going on between Pansy and I!"
"I'm sure nothing is going on between you and Pansy." Hermione smirked. Of course, only Harry caught that they had realized his slip in calling her by her first name. But that was forgotten when Ron opened his mouth to speak.
"Thank Merlin! For a second I thought you had actually fallen for that Slytherin bitch!"
"Well what would you have done if it ended up that he WAS attracted to her?" Ginny asked.
"I'm not sure." Ron shrugged. "It seems so ridiculous that one of my friends would fall for one of them."
"Oh…" Ginny sighed, glancing over towards the Slytherin table where a similar conversation was taking place.
"Draco man, you need to learn how to be more subtle." Blaise urged his blonde friend.
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Please Draco." Pansy mused. "If you continue to act in that manner the entire school will know just how much you want Hermione Granger!"
"WHAT!?" Exclaimed Draco as he choked on his pumpkin juice.
"Well we've noticed because we're your friends, but give it some time and the whole school WILL know."
"Well you do have to cut Draco some slack." Blaise mused. "This is Draco's first time actually having to pursue a girl. With most girls all he has to do is wink and next thing you know, he's got himself a new girlfriend." Blaise chuckled and took a sip of his water.
"It's not my fault that I was born into a life where I automatically get whatever I want." Draco shrugged happily.
"Well that's not going to work this time is it?" Pansy snapped
"Draco wants what he can't have." Blaise sighed
"Stop taunting me!" Draco snapped angrily. "For your information I can have her – it's keeping her that's the problem!"
"Oh really?" Blaise and Pansy mused replied together.
"We made out in the common room three days ago." Draco said; he smirked for a second but then he frowned. "Since then, she's been either avoiding me like the plague or being incredibly cold."
"Well forcing yourself on someone isn't exactly looked well upon in society these days." Pansy sighed rolling her eyes.
"I did NOT force myself on her!" Draco hissed, slamming his fist on the table and startling some first year Hufflepuffs that were walking by. "It was more of a 'caught in the moment' thing… but I have a plan that will change all of that. Besides Pansy, you should worry less about me and more about your potions grade." At this Draco and Blaise both broke out in an incredible fit of laughter.
"Shut up!"
