A/N
Two new chapters all at once, yay for me!
Chapter 7
Hermione was on her way to potions class and her head felt like it was about to explode. They wanted her to break in to the Headmaster's office and steal the Sorting hat; and all just because she answered a few questions correctly in class?
Her first class had been charms, and it just so happened that just on this day professor Flitwick had chosen the topic to be advanced locking and unlocking charms, which Hermione had read a very interesting book about a couple of years ago. Just her luck that the Black sisters were looking for someone who knew about charms like that.
Hermione sighed, it seemed like nothing was going her way. She reached the door to the potions classroom and pushed it open. She seemed to be one of the last students to enter.
She barely stepped inside before a large man came rushing to her. "Ah, Miss Granger I presume? Dumbledore have informed me that I would be getting a new student today. I am professor Slughorn."
Hermione forced a smile. "Nice to meet you Professor."
"Oh, how lovely manners you got. Let's see how you will cope during today's lesson, maybe you can be a part of the prominent Slug Club," he chuckled. "Let me show you to your seat."
Hermione followed him, keeping her eyes on the floor, trying to look as invisible as possible. The professor had already given her attention that she didn't want by greeting her like that.
"We have already been working with today's potion for quite some time but you'll be partnered with my star student so you shouldn't have any problems with it." Hermione smiled at her professor and then looked behind him to see who she was partnered with. She was stunned, though she shouldn't have been seeing how her day had been going, to see Lucius Malfoy smiling back at her.
"Just what I need," she muttered and sat down. She choose to ignore him for as long as she could, and when it was time to make the potion she took her time getting all ingredients. It really got on his nerves.
"Could you please hurry up? We don't have all day."
"Don't tell me what to do!"
"I wasn't—" he began defending himself but was interrupted by a sigh from Hermione.
"Let's just get this over with."
"Why are you so—"
"You put in the first ingredient whilst I chop the boomslang skin," Hermione interrupted him and began chopping the snake part violently.
An hour later they handed in their potion later and Slughorn examined it. "Excellent work, you get an O for this! I hope you didn't have a hard time making it Miss Granger?"
Hermione smiled. "It wasn't that difficult, professor." She smiled sweetly.
"Of course you wouldn't think that when I had already finished most of it," Lucius mumbled.
Hermione crossed her arms and turned to him. "I'll have you know that I did this in 2nd year – by myself!"
"Yeah right!" he snorted disbelieving.
Hermione fumed. "I did! My friends and I needed to get in to the Slythe—I mean another house's common room, so I made it during my spear time in the girls' bathroom!"
"Are you trying to convince me that a 12-year old made the polyjuice potion by herself? You know, it doesn't suit girls to lie."
"I was thirteen! And I'm not lying!" she shrieked.
"Whatever you say, I'm going now, bye professor!" Lucius left quickly before Hermione had time to react.
"Wha--? Wait, you get back here! I'm not done with you!" She followed him out of the classroom but when she got outside he was already gone. She let out a scream of frustration and stomped her foot. "That slimy little brat! Calling me a liar! He's the liar! When I get my hands on him…!" She let out another scream and then stomped back to the Slytherin dormitories in a huff.
"—that stupid, spoiled, excuse of a man! Who those he think he is, the queen of England!?! Oh, I would love that sight! See him dressed in a—"
Hermione's rambling was muffled by her pillow when she threw herself on her bed after entering the bedroom. Lana and Ally looked at each other and both raised an eyebrow before walking over to Hermione and sitting down on her bed.
"What's going on?"
Hermione turned around. "I'll tell you what's going on, that stupid Malfoy, that's what's going on!"
"What happened?"
"We were making the polyjuice potion in class, and apparently I'm too stupid in his eyes to have been able to do it myself when I was thirteen! He's the stupid one! That stupid, evil, little—"
"Okay, calm down Hermione!" Ally interrupted her. "I'm sure he didn't mean it like that."
"Yeah," Lana agreed. "He was probably just surprised to hear that someone was capable—"
"He doesn't know what I'm capable of! I got ten O.W.L.s for God's sake!"
"Who's God?" Lana mouthed to Ally.
Ally shrugged and mouthed back. "I have don't know."
Hermione put her pillow over her head and let out a frustrated scream. Lana and Ally got up and slowly backed away to the door. "We'll just go and…"
"...be somewhere else, bye!"
They hurried outside and closed the door behind them just as Hermione threw her pillow across the room. "I hate him!"
