So here's the newest chapter, hope you enjoy it. Thanks for all the feedback so far, it's pretty awesome.
Harry Potter was like a cockroach, well at least in Hermione's opinion he was. Somehow Potter had managed to escape Filch and Mrs Norris both which were and impossible task according to the older students. Hermione would have loved to have been able to write to her mother saying she had managed to get rid of Potter. Once you were expelled from Hogwarts you would no longer be able to practice magic and your wand would be snapped in half, what better way to make Harry defenceless.
That morning Hermione's glaring at Potter was halted when the owls came in to deliver the morning mail. Some students whispered and nudged one another while pointing at a long thin package carried by six tawny owls.
The package was promptly dropped, narrowly missing the breakfast below, in front of Katie Bell. Her friends promptly started opening the package dismissing her feeble protests. Once the package was fully opened, Hermione could see that a Nimbus 2000 lay in between the torn brown paper.
"McGonagall is going to have to do better than that if she wants the Quidditch cup," Marcus Flint said from his position at the end of the Slytherin table.
"I heard that they couldn't find a good seeker for Gryffindor, so now Katie Bell has to switch positions," Draco said softly to Hermione who was at his side.
"There is no way they have a chance against Flint's team," Hermione said motioning to the ever smirking boy.
"I heard that Woods pretty good but ever since they lost their seeker the whole teams gone to hell," Draco replied with a smirk of his own.
"That's an understatement, even when they had a proper seeker they always used to lose. Katie Bell is probably an improvement," Pansy said chipping into the conversation halfway, sitting down on Hermione's other side.
"It's such nonsense that first years can't play," Draco said with a vindictive sigh.
"Oh please, you are not that good Draco," Hermione rebuffed the boy's self-pity.
"come on we have to go, or else we're going to be late for charms," Pansy said getting up from her seat, and snagging a stray piece of toast before making her way out of the hall.
The other two quickly followed her but before they could even reach the staircase Draco's body collided with another.
"Watch were you Potter," Draco said snidely as Hermione helped him up.
"You walked into me, Draco," Harry spat out making his way off the floor as well.
Draco stopped from cleaning the dust off of his pristine black robes and looked up at Harry. He narrowed his eyes and quickly made his way over to Harry.
"Mr Malfoy, you should no better than to start fights," A voice said stopping Draco in mid step. The voice belonged to Professor Flitwick.
"Yes sir," Draco drawled sarcastically.
"Mr Potter, are you quite alright?" Flitwick turned to Harry, giving the boy a once over and checking for any damage.
"Yes sir," Harry said politely, smirking slightly at Draco.
"Good now would you be so kind as to get into the classroom.
They all nodded, while Draco gave a frustrated groan under his breath.
"Today we are going to practice a simple levitating spell, now remember what we practised. Wingardium Leviosa,' Flitwick said, swishing his word as he said the incantation.
The feather that the spell was aimed upon quickly lifted into the air, high above Flitwick and the pile of books that he stood upon. The class looked on in awe. Students quickly grabbed their own feathers, excited to finally practise a real spell.
Flitwick quickly paired them up. Draco and Blaise, Pansy and to her distaste Lavender Brown, and Hermione and 'the Weasley' as she not so affectionately named him.
They all practised the spell, after her second attempt Hermione had her feather levitating high above the class, winning her a few more point for Slytherin. Hermione's success had made Ron even more agitated, making the spell even more spectacularly. Hermione didn't even try to hide her snickers from the boy who was slowly turning redder and redder every second it continued.
"You're doing it wrong," Hermione said when she couldn't take the red heads failure to grasp the simple task any longer.
"Yeah because your just so smart aren't you," Ron said sarcastically, annoyed by the girls attitude towards him.
"Yes, that's been rather obvious hasn't it? Since I'm actually able to perform the spell while you just keep failing," Hermione said in a tone that was very matter of fact.
Ron's retort was cut off by a yell and a bang coming from the other side of the class. They looked over only to see a stunned looking Seamus looking down at his feather that was half on fire and half ash.
"Well I think it will be best to end the lesson now before something worse happens," Flitwick said dismissing the class with the clap of his hands.
Draco and Pansy waited for Hermione who was packing up the last of her books, before exiting the class at the back of the crowd. Harry and Ron were slightly in front of them.
"She is just such an insufferable no it all, but she is a Black probably shouldn't have expected any better," Ron said to Harry unaware of the trio that could hear him walking closely behind.
At hearing that Hermione turned and looked at Pansy with a raised eyebrow, Pansy just shook her head in disgust. Draco on the other hand was less than happy that a Weasley thought he could insult Draco's favourite cousin and best friend. Hermione just put a hand on his shoulder to calm him before making her way forward quickly.
Hermione walked through the boys causing them to stumble a little before they quickly found there bearings again in time to see Hermione turn and give them a sickening grin.
"Trust me, you're going to regret saying that," Hermione said, and with that she quickly disappeared down the hall, with Pansy and Draco jogging to catch up.
Narcissa had been going through her memories trying to find the crucial moments that she would have to change in order to make this timeline better than the last. Quirrell was just the first, there were many others that would be unavoidable and she had to work out what they were before it was too late.
The Philosopher stone was still in Dumbledore's protection, as long as the stone was out there Voldemort would be after it. She would need to destroy it for once and all.
Narcissa sat with books surrounding her in her library; all the books were on the topic of Hogwarts or Nicholas Flamel.
"What are you doing Cissy?" Bellatrix's voice quickly shook her out of her thoughts.
"Just looking at some books about Hogwarts, so that Draco and I can discuss something when he returns," Narcissa said, she hated lying to her sister but there really was no other way.
"Oh well….," Bellatrix trailed of in a small voice.
"What is it Bella?" Narcissa questioned her sister lightly, putting down the book she was reading to give her sister her full attention.
"Thank you, you were right. She is the perfect child for me," Bella said in a voice filled with emotional. Narcissa had rarely seen her sister like this, the last time was just before the family had disowned Andromeda and even then it was short lived.
"I love her, I'm not sure why but I do. Sometimes I still want to hurt her but I can't because…because she actually care for me, not because she's scared but just because she want to," Bellatrix said, she looked confused as to why Hermione would care about her. Narcissa knew at that moment that everything she had done and everything she would still do was well worth her sister's sanity.
Narcissa approached Bellatrix like one would approach a wounded animal; she carefully pulled her thin frame into hers and hugged her tightly. A tear fell from Bellatrix but Narcissa said nothing, she knew her sister would hate being viewed as weak.
The Halloween feast put the initial welcoming feast to shame. The great hall was decorated in orange and black, pumpkins replaced the usual floating candles giving the entire hall an eerie feel. The enchanted roof showed a dark story night with bats swooping overhead every couple of minutes frightening the younger students.
The ghost had made their presence known as well on this evening, each going to their own House tables telling ghost stories. The Bloody Barron even managed to make Neville cry much to the joy of the Slytherin house.
Draco and Pansy sat in the middle of their table an open spot next to Pansy was reserved for Hermione and everyone knew it, no one dared to sit in the Black daughter's seat and get on her bad side.
Hermione finally joined them with a vicious smirk on her face.
"She's done something bad," Draco said to Pansy in a sing song voice.
Pansy quickly glanced at the Gryffindor table before returning her gaze to Draco.
"Potter and Weasley are missing so I can say there is 100% chance that Hermione has done something bad," Pansy said with a rare genuine smile.
Hermione heard the tail end of Pansy's sentence and quickly turned to her friends.
"Oh you have no idea how bad," Hermione said grinning back at Pansy.
Just then a ragged Filch ran in, grasping for breath he finally made his way to Dumbledore.
"Troll! Troll on the loose!" Filch said loudly to the entire hall of students and teachers alike.
"Oh I think we have pretty good idea how bad," Pansy whispered to Hermione.
The students all stood in panic, not sure what to do. There was an uproar of sound but it was quickly stilled by Dumbledore.
"Prefects, take the students to their respective houses. Please everyone remain calm and do as you are told," Dumbledore said calmly, a serious expression replaced the usual cheerful one.
The trio quickly followed their prefect to the dungeons, many students when to bed directly after that, leaving a reasonably empty common room.
"Where did you find a troll?" Draco asked quietly while making himself comfortable on the black leather sofa. Hermione and Pansy sat down in side by side in the sofa across from Draco.
"The Forbidden Forest. I found a summoning spell, it was pretty easy actually," Hermione said in an equal tone.
"And Potter and Weasley?" Pansy asked curiously.
"I told them we had to talk, get over our differences and move on. I asked them to meet me in the main corridor," Hermione said with a smirk.
"They really are that dumb," Draco said in amazement.
"Obviously. Well that's enough fun for one day I'm going to bed. Hermione, you coming?" Pansy said getting up and stretching before looking at Hermione.
"Yeah, it's been a long day. Night Draco," Hermione said, slightly waving at Draco.
"Night girls," he replied before going up to his own dormitories.
Hermione got a good night of sleep that night, knowing that Potter might not make it out completely unscathed for once. At the very least he would be scared out of his mind. And with that last thought and a small smile she drifted into unconsciousness.
So who do you guys think would be the best love interest for dark Hermione in later chapters?