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Chapter 3 summary: Hermione explores her new Dorm and finds 'The Glass Room'. After hours of trying to sleep she eventually leaves her room only to be caught by a painting. She obtains slepping potion and falls into a dreamless sleep.
Hermione woke up and removed the grey blanket from herself.
Last night had been one of the first peaceful nights she had had in a month.
Although she could have sworn she heard something in the middle of the night.
Strange.
She got up and made her way down to the Heads' common room.
While she was on her way to her bedroom to put her robes on she saw the figure of Malfoy making his way to the great hall.
"Oh, um good morning Gran...
Good morning."
"Oh so after all the efforts of the bloody war you still can't say the name of a muggleborn. Or should I say mudblood."
She closed her eyes for a second to contain herself. Had she kept them open for a split second she would have seen him flinch at the last word in the sentence.
"what the bloody hell was it all for? For people like you to just continue to be prejudice arses." She continued
Draco froze and turned to Hermione with a hint of a smirk on his face.
"You really think that?"
"Think what?"
"That I can't say your name because I am being prejudice."
There was a pause while she gave him a death glare.
"Fine, keep thinking that. Whatever helps you sleep at night" He grunted before continuing out the door.
After him leaving Hermione stood there for a minute in shock just processing their thirty second long conversation she had just had with Malfoy.
'He didn't even defend himself. And he used a mu'
Once she finally reached the great hall's doors she saw that there was a large commotion around the activities board.
She walked up to the crowd and asked one of the second year students what was going on.
"The time slots for the psychology tests were up"
'Good Godric, I forgot about it.'
"Okay everyone clear the way, keep it moving. The slot sheet will still be up in an hour come back and check in a bit when it's not so busy." She yelled.
The crowd of students made it's way into the hall, which was still divided tables of ten which were no longer divided by house.
After the small dilema that had happened with her friends yesterday she felt quite anxious and scared about going into the hall. So she decided to stall and look at her slot on the board.
'9.15! That's now. Well, looks like I'll have to talk to them another time.'
She was already behind schedule so she had to run all the way to the classroom where these tests were taking place.
She was just about to enter the classroom when...
She hit into someone.
"Granger. We have got to stop meeting like this."
"Hi Zabini. Are you finished in there or should I wait inside?"
"Oh, no appology? He grinned
"Sorry." She mumbled
"I was kidding, go on in we just finished."
"Okay thanks."
She walked in to the room.
It was small but it felt spacious. Instead of chairs there were brightly coloured cushions.
And on one of these cushions was a man in a casual outfit beaming up at her.
"Hermione Granger. What a pleasure to meet you. My name is O'Malley, I will be seeing if you are eligible to continue with Defence against the Dark Arts. If you are, then I will give you a permission slip to bring to your new teacher, but unless you get that slip then you are not allowed to attend the classes and will have to keep coming here until I say so. I would also like to add that everything you say in this room will stay in this room unless it could endanger yourself or other people. In that case I would be going to the Headmistress."
This made Hermione uneasy.
"Yes sir" She said in a quiet voice."
He took in a deep breath and rearanged his seating position so that his legs were crossed.
"OK lets start. I heard that you along with Ron Weasley and Harry Potter dropped out of school last year, is this true?"
"Yes."
"Can you explain to me what you were doing."
"We were trying to find Voldemort's horcruxes."
"After having spoken to both Harry and Ron they both said this journey took a toll on everyone. Do you agree with them?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
There was a pause.
For a second he looked up at her before writing something down. They sound of the pen scratching against the paper was the only sound that could be heard in the room.
Hermione was completely lost in her head with the memories of that journey.
Of how they almost died on multiple occasions.
How Ron left them when they needed him.
How she was tortured.
"Hermione"
She looked down at her arm which was covered by her robe.
She seemed to be doing this more and more.
For some reason looking at it made it all seem better, but at the same time haunt her. She just didn't understand.
"Hermione Granger"
She was woken up from her trance by the sound of her name.
"You don't have to talk if you don't want to."
She nodded as a sign of gratitude.
"I heard that you knew a lot of the people who died in the Order and at Hogwarts."
There was another silence.
Hermione stood up.
"I'm sor...
"NO!" Hermione cut across.
"Everyone knew someone who died. Everyone did."
Tears were starting to appear in the corners of her eyes.
"I'm done here. Tell the professors to come get me when they find a real doctor to come interrogate us!"
And with that she slammed the door behind her as she walked down to the kitchens to get something to eat.
After grabbing an apple from the kitchens Hermione made her way to Herbology class.
Once she was excused for being late by professor Sprout she promptly sat down beside Ginny who was the only girl Hermione was familiar with in the class.
She pulled out her textbook and started reading the page they were on.
They were learning about the Alihotsy tree, also known as the hyena tree, which causes uncontrolable laughter if you touch the leaves.
"So." Ginny whispered
"How was the meeting with O'Malley?"
"Horrible. He was almost worse than Skeeter with all those stupid questions."
"Oh really? Harry and Ron seemed to think differently. They thought it was pretty soothing."
Hermione looked at the pages of her textbook as if she was reading them.
'Of course they would think that. Dr.O'Malley probably adores them.'
"On a side note Hermione, have you seen Zabini this year. He is smokin' hot"
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