Hermione made her way to her first class of the day: Transfiguration. Despite having a Dumbledore supporter as a teacher, Hermione loved Transfiguration. McGonagall was a good teacher for the class and the fact that Hermione was pretending to be a loyal Gryffindor helped gain her trust.

Hermione then made her way to Potions with her fellow Gryffindors. She sat next to Neville; as usual and they began working on the potion 'Draught of Living Death'. She noticed that Snape was subtlety staring at her; she knew he knew about her and Barty's future engagement. She and Neville finished the potion with 5 minutes to spare, she silently smirked at Harry and Ron.

In Defense against the Dark Arts, Professor Monty started to teach them about other magical creatures like vampires and giants and how to protect themselves against them. Hermione knew that the oaf Hagrid was a half-giant and that Madame Maxime had giants in her heritage; somewhere.

At lunch, Hermione and the other Gryffindors talked about the other classes for the day. Hermione, Harry and Ron had charms followed by Herbology.

Charms went by as usual; with Professor Flitwick teaching them some new spells like more advanced shielding charms and offensive charms such as Reducto, Bombarda and they learned Expecto Patronum.

Finally in Herbology, Professor Sprout taught them about a plant called Aconite. When Professor Sprout asked what it was Hermione raised her hand.

"Yes, miss Granger" Sprout asked when she saw her raised hand.

"Professor, Aconite is also referred to as Monkshood and Wolfsbane, it's the same plant. It's often used in Potions and can save you from most poisons" Hermione said; with a great deal of confidence because she had known about this plant for years.

"Very good, 20 points to Gryffindor for your correct answer miss Granger" Professor Sprout said; admiring her knowledge.

Hermione just smirked softly; so no one could see, but one person did see it. Hermione saw her cousin smirking at her; he had seen the smirk on her face and found it incredibly funny that the teacher thought no one would know the answer.

As supper came around, Hermione was very pleased with herself. She had managed to continually fool every Gryffindor around her, as well as all the teachers and even the 'oh so powerful and undefeatable' Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Hermione wanted so bad to stop pretending to be who she wasn't and help her daddy, mom and future fiancée, but she knew that her information was very critical to the success of her father's reign and she would get what she wanted to do: kill any Gryffindor who dare opposes her like every Weasley, Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil. But she would not kill Harry Potter because that was her daddy's duty to do.

As Hermione and all her 'friends' made their way up to Gryffindor Tower, Ronald Weasley knocked into her on the staircase and she fell through all the students to the bottom of the staircase.

When she finally landed, she was unaware of anything; she could see the blood on the side of her head and could feel it in her hands. She thought she heard screaming but she was not sure as she saw Harry, Ron and several Professors who had heard the screaming crowding around her.

She suddenly felt herself being lifted; magically through the air by Professor McGonagall and brought to the hospital wing. She was awake just long enough to hear that she had a major concussion, a broken wrist; thank god it was her left wrist not her right wrist; because she needed to write with her right wrist. She also had several cuts to the back as well as front and side of her head; she also saw that her ring was still on her right ring finger for which she was very grateful for.

Hermione was suddenly put to sleep by Madame Pomfrey and even in her subconscious mind she knew her father would probably kill Ronald Weasley for almost killing his little girl. She knew her mother would want to finish off Weasley as well and Barty would want to come and tear the boy apart; limb from limb.

Back at Riddle Manor, Tom, Bellatrix and Barty were enjoying a comforting evening by the fire when all of the sudden an owl emerged into the house. They knew that any letters sent to the muggle parents of Hermione would automatically get sent to their manor. Bellatrix was worried for what the letter said, as was Barty and Tom; well let's just say that he practically ripped open the letter and started to read it aloud:

Dear Mr and Mrs Granger,

We wanted to inform you that your daughter Hermione Jean Granger has had an accident. From the information we have gathered, she was walking up to her dormitory with the rest of her friends when one of them; Ronald Weasley accidentally knocked Hermione of her feet and sent her spiralling down the staircase. She was not critically hurt but she did suffer a major concussion, a broken left wrist and she had several cuts on the back, front and sides of her head. She will be kept in the hospital wing for about a week to make sure she is alright. We wish we didn't have to deliver this news but we felt it necessary to inform you. We'll let Hermione send a letter when she is fully recovered.

Yours truly,

Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall.

When Tom finished reading the letter he was fuming, that little Weasel would pay for hurting his little girl. He looked up to see the very angry faces of his wife and future son-in-law, Bellatrix looked ready to kill and so did Barty.

Tom went over and held his wife in his arms, she started to cry; she would never be seen crying in public but while alone with Tom and Barty she felt totally comfortable to cry.

"I'll kill him when I get my hands on him" Tom and Bellatrix said at the same time, "she'll be alright, she will pull through but we have to remember that we promised Hermione that she'd get to kill the Weasel and now this incident will make her more determined than ever to kill him" Barty said and Tom and Bellatrix nodded.

They all went to sleep that night; extremely worried for the welfare of their daughter and future fiancée, all they could do was wait for a letter from Hermione.