Okay so this isn't one of my best chapters, honestly regret writing it but I wrote it ages ago and didn't see the point in deleting it. Anyway, next chapter is moving onto year two, and so on.

Also a little cannon, but changed a tiny bit in this chapter, curse me please!

8 months. 8 months since Hermione Granger had stepped into Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Where she has befriended the boy who lived, Harry Potter and the boy who had an obsession with chocolate, Ron Weasley. Unexpected friends but friends nonetheless. Harry was kind, sweet, brave and was always willing to do anything for his friends. Ron was goofy, true…...infuriating, aggravating, annoying, Ron was…...just Ron.

Hermione was really settling into life at hogwarts, she had amazing friends, she was always getting good grades, but it was a lot to adjust to. I mean, going from cars on the streets to flying on brooms. Hogwarts didn't even have cell phones, just old fashioned radios. She missed her parents, even though she saw them last break, it was still hard. They would send letters, update her on how the Muggle world was going and they even sent her the new gameboy but it was quickly taken off her by Professor Black after not even a day of having it.

Speaking of the wicked witch of the west, Professor Black made her way towards the back of the grand hall and towards the other Professors. Her heels clicked loudly, alerting everyone of her arrival and as always, she was fashionably late. Hermione could almost think that the woman had to drag herself out of her classroom, force herself to come out of her office and actually communicate with real human beings. Her face was stone cold as always, she wondered if the Professor actually ever displayed emotion.

While on the subject of annoying teachers, her eyes then darted over to Professor Snape, someone she had been trying to avoid. After what she witnessed 8 months ago she was sure to stay out of his grasp, she didn't want to end up like the glass after all. Just like everyone else, Snape's eyes were on Professor Black as she strolled into the hall. But he suddenly looked away when their eyes met, Black looked down and Snape turned to the other professors before attempting to engage in a conversation. Her eyebrows contorted as she tried to make out what Snape was saying but was also watching as Professor Black sat next to Professor Mcgonagall on the complete opposite side to Snape, but Hermione would catch the two glancing at one another every so often. Unfortunately her detective skills were cut short when a voice interrupted her.

"Hermione!" Ron hissed waving his hand in front of the slightly older girl.

"What?" she questioned as her eyes darted to him to see that him, along with other Gryffindor students in her year were staring at her.

"You alright?" Harry asked concerned

"Fine, why" she replied quickly, almost too quickly.

"You kind of zoned out there" Ron remarked shrugging his shoulders.

"I got distracted" she argued

"By Professor Black" Harry replied, eyes narrowing at her.

"What? No!"

"If I didn't know any better I would think you have a little crush" Ron remarked but earned himself a hard slap on the back of the head

"I do not" Hermione replied shaking her head

"Anyway.." Harry grinned as Hermione death glared Ron "Hagrid wants to meet with us after breakfast"

"Why?"

"He needs our help"

"With?"

"I'm not exactly sure, he just told us to bring wellington boots"

"That can't be good" Ron groaned


"Hagrid!" Ron shouted as he eyed the creature in front of him, his wand securely in his hand. Both Harry and Hermione broke out into a fit of giggles as Hagrid ran out of his hut.

"This is the 3rd time Ron" Hagrid groaned as he crossed his arms.

"Well get your...creatures under control" he stuttered

"They're not gonna hurt cha"

"Look at t-those c-claws!" He tried "and that beak!"

"Ron!" Hagrid said firmly "It's a chicken!"

"I don't care what it is! It was going to attack me" Ron defended himself

"Oh for heaven's sake" he walked over to Ron and snatched the bucket from his hands before throwing a bunch of seed out towards the chickens.

"Little Ron is afraid of some chickens" Hermione laughed clutching her stomach

"Oh shut it" he hissed

"Okay Okay" Harry breathed wiping his eyes from the tears that made their way down his cheeks "Why are we even doing this?"

"I thought it could be a learning curve" Hagrid replied as he continued to throw the seeds out.

"What? feeding the devil themselves" Ron replied rolling his eyes

"Chicken!" He growled "Say it with me Ch-ick-en, Chicken"

"I know a chicken when I see one and that it not a chicken"

"They are given different food to make them grow, so what?"

"Grow?! Three times as big!"

"They need to be like that"

"Why?" Hermione asked, actually intrigued

"Well the dragons aren't going to eat them small ones are they" Hagrid replied

"Dragons!" Harry said shocked

"What, you've never heard of dragons?"

"I have" Ron replied "My brother Charlie works with them in Romania"

"That's amazing!" Harry said as he mirrored the smile on Hermione's face "Can we meet one?"

"Oh no, they are very dangerous boy" Hagrid replied shaking his head "Besides, they are mainly stationed in Romania"

"Mainly?"

"We have a few here but they are safely kept away"

"Kept away?" Hermione asked "Like prisoned!"

"No, they live on blocks of land. Dragons are centuries old, they find solace on witches and wizards blocks of land"

"So someone from Hogwarts could have a dragon?" Harry asked

"Highly unlikely" He replied "Very rare they are, probably cared for by the older and wealthier houses"

"Have you ever met one?" Ron asked

"Unfortunately I haven't, but I would absolutely love to"

"If the dragons are in Romania" Hermione started "Why are the chickens breed here?"

"We have the better crops. They grow in summer here, but when it is summer here it is winter over there-"

"So the crops don't grow in winter" Hermione finished

"Also because the dragons like to rest in winter"

"Like hibernation?"

"Kind of, they just aren't as active"

"So hibernation"

"But they aren't sleeping?"

"Hibernation is a state of inactivity, therefore they don't have to be asleep to be hibernating"

"Miss know it all" Ron muttered

"You learn something new every day" Hagrid grinned "Let's finish feeding these little guys shall we"

"Little-"


Everyone stood back as Professor Black set up a vase on top of a stool that she placed in the middle of the classroom. She pulled her wand from her sleeve and pushed it into her right palm before putting her right foot back and her left foot forward. She aimed her wand as the vase and said.

"Flipendo" a spark of purple shot out of the end of her wand and suddenly the vase shattered as it fell to the ground.

"Awesome" Neville muttered and Professor Black turned to face her class.

"Can anyone tell me what type of spell that was" She questioned and Hermione's hand shot in the air "Anyone that isn't the encyclopedia we know as Granger" the class laughed as Hermione put her hand down in a huff "Potter"

"Uh…" he tried, not really acknowledging the class at all "A knockback jinx"

"Very good, 5 points to Gryffindor" She replied "Now sit down and open your books to page 97" she walked around to the front of her desk and waved her hand in the air and muttered 'reparo' Hermione watched in fascination as the Vase started mending itself together and it sat back on top of the stool as if nothing happened. Shaking her head Hermione sat back in her chair and turned to the correct page.

20 minutes had already passed and Hermione had already filled up two pages of her exercise book. She has drawn diagrams more than written but as she moved onto her next page an alarm started sounding through the entire school. Everyone started muttering and Hermione could briefly hear someone muttering 'Lock down'.

"Enough" Professor Black said firmly as she walked to the front of the classroom, everyone's conversations coming to a hush. As she opened the door she saw Professor Mcgonagall standing there, she quickly rushed in and shut the door behind her "What's happening? Why are we on lock down?" Hermione watched as Professor Mcgonagall leaned in and whispered something in Black's ear. Her face contorted for a brief second before turning back to stoic, she then turned to the whole class "If any of you move I will personally seek out and deliver consequence" with that her and the Professor left.

"What do you think is going on?" Ron questioned turning to Hermione and Harry.

"I'm not sure" Hermione replied as she started looking around the classroom. As she was studying the students who either looked terrified or bored her eyes landed on an empty desk that had a pink folder, pink pencil case and pink accessories on it. Confused, she walked over to the desk and her hand brushed against it.

Luna Lovegood sat in the last cubicle of the girls toilets. She could hear something groaning outside and fought the urge to scream. She tucked her knees further into her chest as she let out quiet sobs, pleading that someone would find her. The room shook every time the large creature took a step and every time it did Luna could feel her heartbeat loudly in her chest.

"Luna!" Hermione suddenly said as she came back to the present, her hand falling to her side "S-She's in the bathroom, alone!"

"I'm sure she is fine" Ron replied shaking his head

"She is upset!"

"How do you know that?" Harry questioned

"I-I just do" Hermione tried "We have to go get here, she could be in trouble"

"I'm staying right here, you heard what Professor Black said" Ron remarked

"Well I'm going, with or without you" Hermione replied as she quickly got up and ran towards the door.

"She needs our help" Harry said turning to face Ron before he got up and ran out the door.

"Damn it!" Ron cursed as he also stood up, chasing after the other two.

Hermione didn't even look where she was going as she ran down the halls of the place she called home for the last 8 months. She quickly ran past the boys toilets and stopped at the entrance of the girls.

"We are not going in there" Ron said, bending over, hands on his knees to catch his breath.

"We have to" Hermione argued

"It's the girls toilet"

"Suck it up, Luna is in there" Hermione didn't waste another second as she sprinted in followed by Harry and a very hesident Ron. Harry rammed into the back of Hermione as she came to a complete stop and looked up at the massive creature in front of her. Warts covered it's arms, legs and torso, two large feet blocked 5 entire tile squares on the ground and it's large green ears suck out from its face like a sore thumb.

"Why did we stop" Ron asked as he rammed into Harry's back.

"Shut it Ron" Hermione hissed as she slowly took a step back, almost falling into Harry when he didn't move.

"I-Is that, a-a troll" Ron stuttered

"Shut it!" suddenly the troll swung around with it's large bat and look down on them. Letting out a large saliva filled growl the troll started running at them. Instantly they all dived to the side and watched as the troll ran into the wall. Hermione pulled out her wand and started firing small hexes but they just seemed to die out or bounce off.

"Nothing is working" Hermione cried as she jumped to the side to avoid the oncoming bat flying her way.

"We need something stronger" Harry replied as he ducked

"We aren't that powerful yet, if you didn't notice" Ron groaned

"Try anything!" Hermione hissed as she continued to move around

"Titillando" Ron shouted as a hex flew out of his wand. Unfortunately the hex hit a metal circle that was clamped around the trolls neck causing it to backfire and hit him instead. His body went flying and he felt his back collide with the wall but also felt a sudden urge to keep laughing. "Owww" he groaned but let out a laugh.

"The spell backfired" Hermione explained at Harry's confused expression.

"Help!" screamed a voice from inside the stall, Hermione instantly recognised it as Luna.

"Luna!" Hermione shouted "We're coming" she fired off another Hex before running over to Harry "I need you to go get Luna"

"What and leave you?" he questioned

"Exactly"

"No!"

"With the amount of racket going on in here I'm sure the professor's already know, we need to get out of here as soon as possible"

"Fine" he shook his head at finding understanding in her words. He fired a Hex at the troll before sliding under it's right arm and over to the stall where Luna was and started banging on the door.

"Luna!" he shouted "Open up, it's Harry!" suddenly the door opened and Luna jumped straight into Harry's arms, engulfing him in a hug "We need to get out of here" Luna nodded and grasped onto Harry's hand as they started running towards the door.

"Ron!" Hermione shouted at his unconscious form "Goddamnit" having no other choice, Hermione held up her wand and did a spell that she had only read about "Reducio" a spark shot out of the end of her wand and hit the troll directing in the chest. Suddenly the troll let out a scream and Hermione scrambled backwards as it slowly started shrinking. It's bones bent at an unnatural angle but then mended themselves when it finally reached the height of Hermione's shoe. Wearing pants that were too large for the troll Hermione scooped it up in the pants and used the ends to tie it together.

Suddenly she heard some commotion outside and let out a sigh knowing it was the professors. She watched as Professor Snape ran in followed by Professor Black and Professor Mcgonagall.

"I can explain" she tried looking down at the small Troll that was dangling in oversized pants

"You better hope so" Mcgonagall hissed, tucking her wand back into her robes

"I specifically told you to remain in the classroom" Professor Black scolded, but she didn't put her away her wand.

"But Luna was in danger!" Hermione argued

"You also put yourself and two other students in danger" Snape replied "One of which is unconscious on the floor of the girls bathroom"

"Wingardium Leviosa" Professor Black waved her hand in front of Ron and suddenly he was floating a few feet off the ground "Hospital wing now! We can discuss punishments there" Hermione nodded and started to rush out of the bathroom.

"Miss Granger" Professor Mcgonagall said stopping her. Hermione turned back around and saw her hand was outstretched. With a sigh she handed the older Professor the dirty pants the troll was now caught in. She instantly turned back around and started heading towards the hospital wing, grabbing Harry and Luna on her way past.


Once they reached the hospital wing Madam Pomfrey sat them each down on a bed but no before scolding them for idiocy. Not soon after she saw Ron's floating figure entering the room followed by all three of the professors. She watched as Professor Black waved her hand again and Ron's body was placed on one of the beds.

"Right!" Professor Black growled as she stalking towards them all "What on earth were you thinking!"

"Bellatrix!" Mcgonagall tried, frightened herself by the yelling.

"No! They need to hear this" she replied "You all disobeyed a direct instruction and nearly got yourself and others killed! Never in my years have I ever witness such idiocy and stupidity!"

"Bella…" Severus tried. Even though he himself was a hard professor he will admit Bellatrix was going a little overboard.

"Are you serious right now Severus!" Bellatrix raised her eyebrows believing that he would be on her side.

"50 points from each of you" Snape announced turning towards the students, ignoring the glare he got from Professor Black.

"That's like 200 points!" Harry whined

"I know, maybe you should think twice before running into danger"

"It wasn't their fault" Luna argued "They came to get me"

"And you should have been in class"

"I needed to use the bathroom"

"You just came off your break, enough is enough. 200 points from Gryffindor and detention for the rest of the week, I expect to see you all there" they each let out a huff and let Madam Pomfrey start to heal them. Snape turned back to Professor Black who was wearing a scowl with her arms crossed.

"How dare you" she hissed in a quiet tone

"Bella-"

"No! You know that safety is one of the utmost important things!"

"I know that-"

"Are you sure, because it doesn't seem like it!"

"They are children"

"That is no exception, we are responsible for them, is is our job to look after them. We were responsible for-" suddenly she stopped herself. She quickly swallowed her words, shook her head and stormed off.

"Severus" Mcgonagall said walking over to him "Leave her to cool down"

"She's not the only one who-" he shook his head trying not to think about it.

"She knows that"

"She sure doesn't act like it" he shook his head and let out a sigh.

"Have you talked about it"

"S-She won't, she is just pretending like the past 15 years haven't happened, that we didn't…." with that he glanced over to the students for a brief second before walking out.

Little did they know Hermione sat back and watched the entire interaction. She didn't quite understand what they were fighting about but she knew by the looks of both professors, it wasn't over.

Copperlex: Sorry, this definitely can't be a Bellamione, although maybe in the future I might do one!

ZoeyOlivia: Close...