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Chapter 4 The accident

It was 8 o'clock and Hermione was making her way to the dungeons. She was dreading it her entire walk down there. Draco Malfoy had met her outside the Great Hall before dinner.

"Hey Granger," Draco called to her as he pranced towards her from the dungeons.

"What do you want Malfoy?" Hermione had asked him through gritted teeth. Hermione felt compelled to punch his snotty little ferret face but had to be civilized because he was Head Boy.

"I'll be seeing you in the dungeons tonight. Professor Snape warned me that tonight we had to put up with and I quote "the Bucktoothed know it all" tonight." Draco smiled nastily at her.

She found her outside of the Potions classroom once again and knocked loudly. She heard Snape bark "Enter" and she walked in defiantly. Draco was already there and he turned and flashed her a grin. She sneered back him.

"Miss Granger," Snape said icily, "Next time you knock on my classroom door do refrain from trying to knock it down."

Hermione just nodded her head and went towards her work station to set up for her experimenting. Snape stopped her.

"Miss Granger, your going to be working from my private brewing room." He said leading to his office door and she followed obediently.

"I did not think it wise to work on your project with Mr. Malfoy in the room with you."

"Thank you, Professor, I suppose you are right."

Hermione quickly began setting up her workstation with a cauldron and sheets of paper and a quill. She was going to test one theory tonight. She was going to try adding powdered bezoar into a strengthening potion and then she would test the effects.

About half an hour later she went to the store cupboard to get some more salamander blood for her potion and she noticed Draco and Professor Snape were talking vigorously. They noticed her presence and stopped immediately.

Draco looked up at her and looked smug and Professor Snape looked raged. She decided to ignore it and continued about her business.

"Miss Granger," Snape called to her from the doorway. She turned and faced him. "I need to leave the room for a moment. Please stop brewing until I return. I should only be a moment."

"Yes Professor" She said obligingly but couldn't help but notice the look of concern in his eyes. "Is there something wrong Professor?"

"Nothing of your concern, Miss Granger" He said before sweeping out of the room.

Hermione thought nothing of it and just continued looking for the salamander blood. After 5 minutes she heard the door open again. She walked out into the main classroom and saw Draco standing just outside of Snape's office door and Snape making his way through the desks.

"You may resume your brewing." He said to both of them and sat behind his desk dismissing them both.

Hermione walked passed a snickering Draco. She glared as she walked passed but his smile just widened. She went into the room and looked about. She n noticed nothing wrong. She went over to the cauldron.

The mixture inside was a pinkish color and swirling around in the cauldron. She smiled at it knowing it was the correct color and added the salamander blood. Her mixture began to bubble.

She frowned. This isn't right. She thought. She reached to check her notes noticing the fowl smell when the cauldron exploded spraying the potions everywhere. She screamed and saw Snape running into the room before she blacked out.

Snape looked at the clock on his desk. It was 7:50. Draco had just arrived to work on his project. Great just great not only do I have to be tortured with Miss Granger and that annoying dream I have to be tortured with Draco. Snape thought to himself.

Draco was working on the properties of the an Everlasting Elixir tonight. His project was entitled, "Philosopher's Stone: Fact or Fiction". Snape knew for a fact there was a Philosopher's Stone but didn't want to deter the boy. He was getting tired of maintaining this charade.

"The mudblood will be arriving soon." Draco said happily to his Professor.

"Mr. Malfoy, I'm well aware of how much time I have left to spend in peace before Miss Granger interrupts it." He had said cooly. Draco was his godson but he still annoyed him.

"You know, my father wouldn't like you calling me "Mr. Malfoy", Severus," Draco said a little snotty.

"Mr. Malfoy, may I remind you that we are in Hogwarts as such you will regard me as your teacher and use professional terms only." Snape barked.

Saved by the knock was Hermione. He watched her come in and thought of his dream immediately. He snapped at her to take his mind off of it and make himself feel just a bit better.

He had taken Hermione into his private brewing room to get her away from Draco. He had been instant on playing some sort of childish prank on her. Besides, Lucius was a Death Eater and it would not look good for himself if Draco told Lucius Hermione was working on a cure potion for The Killing Curse.

When Hermione had emerged from her brewing their fight had stopped and Snape excused himself. Draco had tiptoed into Hermione cauldron and added unicorn blood that Lucius had given him. She had continued her way to the store cupboard. Snape had followed her with his recalling more and more of his dream with every step.

While she was in the cupboard Dumbeldore had come to the door and he had had to step into the hallway. Quickly, before leaving, he had asked both students to discontinue brewing until he came back inside.

When he came back inside he told Draco and Hermione they could continue brewing. He watched her again cross the room and enter his private brewing room. He couldn't help but notice Draco's smug face. He was snickering under his breath. Just as he was about to snap at Draco for being well Draco he heard an explosion from the doorway.

Fear. It was an emotion Severus felt often in these dark times. It was the only emotion he felt as he ran towards his private stores. He knew that Draco had probably put something in her cauldron and knowing the Malfoy's...Malfoy Senior had probably given the little brat some dark ingredient.

As he entered the room he saw Hermione sprawled out on the floor. She was unconscious. He knelt down beside her to check for a pulse and was relieved when he felt one. She was covered in a silverish goo which was no doubt her potion. He picked her up not caring if he got the goo on his robes and walked into his main classroom.

"Clean up your things and get out, Mr. Malfoy. Do not enter the other room or I'll have you expelled." Snape snapped before running out of his room with Hermione still in his hands.

She felt weightless in his arms. She didn't stir or shift at all the entire way to the hospital wing. Upon arrival Snape swung the door open with his foot and yelled for Poppy setting Miss Granger on the nearest bed.

Poppy came hurriedly from her office.

"My goodness Severus, what happened?"

"Her potion exploded. This is how I found her."

Poppy began to run her wand over Hermione body testing her with various charms. Severus took a chair beside Hermione's bed. Complete with her examination she gasped.

"Severus, this is terrible." She said looking at his face worried. "I don't think she's going to make it through the night.

Ok, so I'm having terrible terrible writers block on this story. I'm just warning everyone now that I'm probably not going to update this story until I can get an idea for it. Please review and tell me what you think about it.