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Hermione breathed a sigh of relief as soon as Astronomy was over. Astronomy was one of her favourite subjects and because of that git, she wasn't even really listening. Normally, she would have taken detailed notes, but today she just jotted down the main points in a deeply untidy scrawl which looked a lot like Ron's.
Speaking about Ron..." Hermione, why are you staring at the ferret? Did he say anything?" he asked her as she stared worriedly at Malfoy expecting him to rise up and recite everything he knew about her to the class in his mocking voice.
She jerked. " No, no, Ron. It's not that..."
" Crap. I have detention with Snape today." Harry interrupted her and looked remarkably like a kid who had his candy snatched away from him. Ron immediately flitted to his side and both began an intense discussion of whether or not Snape was trustworthy. Hermione bit back a small smile at the thought of Harry's and Ron's reaction if she ever decided to tell them she thought Snape was better than Trelawney anyday.
They made their way to the corridor. They had a 5 minutes break before lessons started again. The 5 minutes break was decided to be spent under the shady little beech tree down the lake.
" Hey, Hermione, Harry.." Hermione looked up to see Ginny walking to them, her hair rippling and a careful smile etched across her slightly tensed, freckled face as she looked at Hermione.
Harry immediately perked up. " Hi, Ginny!" he smiled at her. Hermione did not resist the urge to roll her eyes. She rolled them freely and smirked when Harry flushed and looked embarrassed.
" Don't you have class now, Ginny?" asked Ron and played what he apparently thought was ' the big-brother role'. Hermione was left to ponder upon how much exercise her eyes would get if she rolled them every 5 seconds.
Ginny complacently ignored Ron and turned to Hermione. " How's things?" she asked.
When Harry raised his eyebrows, Ginny informed him that they had a few " girl-things" to discuss which made the boys depart quickly.
Hermione avoided looking at Ginny. She knew what was coming. Normally, she was the responsible one who gave advice to people and helped them when things went wrong. "The ferret was now stripping her of her pesonality! " she thought angrily.
Hermione folded her arms across her chest and pressed her mouth into a thin line causing her to look like Prof Mcgonagall. Ginny shivered at the freaking resemblance.
" Hermione, did you ever want to purse teaching as a career?"
Hermione looked perplexed. She thought Ginny was going to ask her about Malfoy. She shrugged and replied " I've always wanted to do something that would promote SPEW. Treating other creatures as human." she finished, determination showing on her chocolate eyes.
Ginny nodded understandingly. She looked sideways and saw her old boyfriend Dean Thomas snogging Parvati Patel. With a sigh, she asked " Malfoy say anything?"
Hermione pursed her lips once again. " No." She couldn't help but , add " He must be plotting of something. Something that would ridicule me to no end."
Ginny placed a comforting hand on Hermione's shoulder. " Don't worry." To make things a bit lighter ,she said in a really believeable upbeat voice " Maybe, we can steal Malfoy's diary and retaliate?"
Hermione smiled. " Sure. Operation Malfoy's diary indeed. If he has one."
Would someone like Malfoy keep a diary? She didn't think so. Boys rarely kept diaries. They saw it as 'girlish.'
Hermione caught sight of blonde hair rushing past her.
The lessons were over for the day. Harry, Ron and Hermione were climbing up the staircase to their common room. By now, all worries of Malfoy had left Hermione. She thought herself silly to be afraid of someone like Malfoy. Heck, she wasn't even afraid of nasty Skeeter. She smirked as she thought about Rita's secret.
" Why do you look so evil, Hermione?" asked Ron as they climbed inside the common room through the portrait hole.
Hermione raised one eyebrow. " Don't you have homework to complete, Ron?" she asked in a sweet-honey toned voice.
" Spoilsport" muttered Ron.
There. Her homework was complete. Her reading for tomorrow was complete. Her background reading was complete. Now, all she needed to do was write her diary. She froze as the day's events replayed itself inside her head. Well, well, today she would have a lot to write indeed.
Once, she finished arranging her books neatly , she refilled her eagle feather's quill with blue ink. Her bag was lying on the chair next to her and she reached out for it.
But, she couldn't find it. Her Diary. No, that was her Grade 6 Spell book, this one was Hogwarts: A History and ... she got panicky as she continued her frenzied search for the leather bound, brown diary with " Hermione Granger" in gold italics.
Her thoughts rushed madly about her head, threatning to reform itself outside in the form of a scream. Harry sitting opposite to her asked her if anything was wrong. She shook her head . She knew she was over- reacting.
She couldn't find it. It was inside her bag during Astronomy, Herbology ... a sudden sneaking suspicion took hold of her. She had passed Malfoy on her way to the common room. Could he have...?
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