Chapter Three

She continued looking into Ron's eyes like they were heaven. The emotion was just so strong. Eventually, Ron grabbed her into a tight hug, which seemed to take all her emotion away from her. It all seemed to go to him even though his body seemed not to have taken it yet.

"I'm sorry." She said.

"For what Hermione?"

"For letting you know all this… I never wanted to put this burden on either of you but-"

She was cut off by the bell signaling that there were twenty minutes before there first class was to start.

"Come on Hermione, we should get going." Ron spoke, slightly spooked by her words. He grabbed her hand and led her out of the Room of Requirement. The three took as long as they could, just taking in the fact that they were together.

The three of them slowly mad there way to Snape's dungeon. Out of all the places they could go in this school in this situation, it had to be potions.

They had walked so slow that even though they had left early they barely made it on time. But they were the lucky ones. None of the Gryffindor's had been awake yet because they had been partying and had scrambled to get dressed after hearing the bell. Most of the rest of the class was late and Snape didn't exactly go easy on them.

"Finnagin, you're six minutes late. You will be serving a two-hour detention with me

tonight. Take your seat before I make it longer. Patail, you ten minutes after the bell. That's too late to even participate in the class. Leave. Come back next lesson on time and I might not fail you for the day."

Hermione dreaded what would happen if Snape ganged up on her. She didn't feel she could take it, that she would just run out of the room crying.

Eventually, Snape started teaching. "Today we will not be touching your cauldron. This will be a written pop quiz. Everyone take out a quill and parchment. The questions will be on the bored when I flick my wand. Ready, start." He flicked his wand and five questions popped onto the chalk bored. Hermione read the first question, 'When toad hearts, newt eyes, garlic, and unicorn blood are mixed together, and standing for 31 days, what potion is made?'

Hermione's mind drew a blank. She had no idea. She moved down to the next one and the same thing appeared. Nothing. She had been so focused on her death she'd been slacking off on her homework and studying. She hadn't even started studying for her N.E.W.T's.

She looked over at Ron and saw he was already on question three. She decided to do what she hadn't even dreamt of dreaming. Cheating. She saw Ron's first answer (The Vampire Acid) and wrote it down, praying it was right. She did this for each question until the last, which she faintly remembered and wrote down.

When Snape called for papers to be handed in, Ron took hers for her and brought it up. Thinking of him suddenly gave Hermione a strange feeling inside. She liked him. More

then just fifth year. She really liked him. She was brought back to reality when Ron came back to the seat next to her and grabbed her hand once again. It was warm and comforting.

Snape quickly graded the papers with his wand and began to look through them.

"Nice job Mr. Malfoy… 25 out of 25. Ahh. Ms. Granger. I think you should have studied a little harder. 10 out of 25. Even Potter did better then you. But Mr. Weasly…" Snape suddenly stopped talking. His lip, which had already begun to curl, was now looking as curled as Hermione's hair, and a wide grin was across his face. Eventually, in fact, it was a complete smile.

"Mr. Weasly, are you aware you got the same grade as Ms. Granger?"

Ron looked stunned. "No sir"

"And also, are you aware that you and Ms. Granger have the same answers for all but the last question?"

"No sir"

"Also," his lip curling if possible more. "That with these findings I believe you cheated off Ms. Granger thinking she had all the answers right?"

"I didn't cheat." Ron said, his temper getting the better of him, and his face turning a bright red.

"Yes you did you little liar." Snape was no longer smiling. He was an inch away from Ron's face and spitting all over him and not to mention yelling. "If you don't admit it I'm going to give you a weeks worth of detentions!"

"I didn't cheat! It's just a coincidence!" Ron hollered back, his face as bright as a cherry.

"Oh, and I suppose it's a coincidence you sat next to Ms. Granger to day as well"

"STOP IT!" Hermione had to break loose. It was killing her. " I cheated! OK! Don't blame him! I'M the one who cheated!"

Snape suddenly had his smile back. "Thank you Ms. Granger. I knew you'd come clean. 25 points from Gryffindor and detention tonight. And Mr. Weasly, 10 points for yelling. That is all class. You may leave."

A/N- god snape is an ARSE! Ok, pll who have read this before, just to let you know, things don't start changing till later. Maybe…. Chapter..7 or 8. Just incase ur wondering. REVIEW PLEASE!