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A Horribly Nauseating Class
Chapter Ten
Hermione hurriedly got dressed; she was already late as it was. She threw on a random outfit and ran down into the common room; carrying the egg with her.
Even after two weeks the Lariza egg was still the same, Hermione couldn't see anything different with it. But she shrugged it off, happy to get the chance to spend time with her friends.
Harry and Ron were already waiting in the common room talking about Quidditch. Hermione just smiled and sat down next to them.
Ron looked up, "Oh, hello Hermione." he ran his hand through his hair.
"Good morning." Ron seems nervous about something. Hermione thought, I wonder what's bothering him?
Harry stood up, seemingly in a hurry, "Well come on. We've got to get to Hogsmeade before lunch." He was already at the portrait hole, leaving Hermione and Ron to catch up with him.
"Harry, why are you in such a hurry?" Ron asked between breaths. Harry looked puzzled for a minute, but he did slow down. Hermione started walking alongside Harry, Ron breathing heavily from running. Hermione just shook her head and smiled at Ron's 'new ability'.
"We're meeting Ginny in the front foyer." Hermione pointed out, trying to see if she could get some kind of reaction from Harry. But Harry just continued walking; not even acknowledging that she had said anything.
Hermione shook her head; he was hopeless.
(1)
Draco woke up hating the sun even more. Even if the dungeon didn't have any real windows, Draco always knew when the sun came up. So every morning he would wake up at dawn.
Draco would usually be able to go back to sleep for an hour or two more, but today didn't seem like one of those days. Groaning he got up out of bed, and noticed that only Crabbe and Goyle were asleep.
That's odd. Draco thought, the sun just came up, and almost everyone is awake?
He shrugged his shoulders and slowly got dressed, yawning about five times. Draco walked down to the common room and was met by the sight of Blaise about to go out of the portrait hole.
"What are you doing, Blaise?" Draco was very confused, first everyone else had been awake before him, and now no one was in the common room.
"Well, Draco. I'm going to Hogsmeade. And don't you have to go meet someone?" Blaise smiled innocently.
Draco slapped his head; inside at least it wouldn't do to have a Malfoy slap his head in public. "Why did you have to remind me? I was hoping to be free of the Mudblood today."
Blaise frowned, but then shrugged, "Whatever you say, but I wouldn't want to get on Granger's bad side; who knows what she would do." Blaise turned around and headed out of the portrait hole, a smirk on his face.
Blaise does have a point. I hate to admit it, but the mudblood could harm my appearance if she ever got the chance. But then again I could just have Father come and torture her for me.
Do you even want that?
Great. It's you again. How many times are you going to bug me? I already talk to you five times a day.
How about six? And don't you have somewhere to go?
No. What have I been thinking about for the last five minutes!?
Don't you want to see the egg though?
Not particularly.
Just go, or I'll start talking to you ten times a day.
Fine. Fine. Just leave me alone. Draco heaved a sigh, pretty sad. He didn't want to spend time with the mudblood but now it looked like he would have to.
(2)
Hermione stood before the gates leading to Hogwarts castle; getting fed up with every passing minute. Can't that Ferret just hurry it up already? I want to get this over with so I can spend time with Harry and Ron. She sighed.
"Who made me have to be paired up with him?" Hermione was about to go on when someone spoke.
"Well, I certainly know it's not my fault. After all, Malfoys could never be at fault. We're perfect." Hermione knew who it was even before she turned around. She took a deep breath; after all it wouldn't do good to have a death against here record.
"You came late on purpose didn't you?" Hermione glared at Draco, who opened his mouth as if to say something but Hermione just held up a hand.
"Just don't say anything." She glared, "Let me guess, you were going to say 'I told you Malfoys are perfect.' Weren't you?"
A look of pure contempt crossed Draco's face, "We have really got to stop spending time together. You know me too well." Draco sighed, "But I guess that just happens when someone thinks that you are too irresistible."
Hermione laughed dryly, "As if." She muttered, shifting the egg in her arms.
"Did you say something my little mudblood?" Draco drawled sarcastically.
"Of course not my charming ferret. Do you think that I would ever say something horrible about you?" Hermione blinked innocently.
"Of course not. After all, I am irresistible." Draco smirked, which made Hermione grimace.
"Let's just get this morning over with. I'm already getting sick." And without another word Hermione walked off, Draco reluctantly following. Say goodbye to sanity. Draco thought sadly.
Yes, I guess you would have to. After all she is getting to you.
I'm being a good little boy; I came, now go away. Draco sighed in relief when he heard no response. And all of a sudden a thought that came from the deepest, dankest part of his brain came floating up, since when were the voices in my head nice?
Draco frowned; I'm not even going to think how that happened. Maybe I'm getting too soft. Guess I'll have to go back to that evil training again, after all it worked so many times before. He sounded almost happy about the thought.
Draco was pulled roughly out of his own thoughts when he was pushed from behind. He fell forward, plummeting towards Hermione. He was getting closer and closer (Hermione oblivious of that fact) when all of a sudden...CRASH...Draco hit the ground.
It seems that at the precise moment that he would have fell on Hermione that she had rushed forward towards a shop window. She didn't even turn around when he fell. Draco got up off the ground and dusted his robes off. First Draco looked around to see who it was that had pushed him.
Upon seeing no one that seemed suspicious he growled and went up to his partner.
"Isn't that really nice?" Hermione ignored Draco, and continued to look at the book that was in the window. But Draco continued on anyway, he knew that she was really listening, "When someone falls, no one tries to see if he's alright."
This time Hermione really did turn around, "Oh, is our little ferret hurt...." She trailed off as she saw Draco's face. Her eyes widened.
Draco frowned, "What is it? Is there something wrong with my face?"
Hermione held up a finger as she put a hand inside of one of her robe's pockets. A second later she wiped out a small mirror and held it in front of his face.
Draco almost screamed, but held it back since Malfoys don't scream. His face was covered in blood, and it was all coming out of his nose.
"Looks like you've got a bloody nose, Malfoy." Hermione calmly pointed out.
Draco glared at her, "I wouldn't have known if you didn't say anything, dear." Hermione just rolled her eyes and grabbed his wrist, dragging him along behind her.
"Where are you taking me?" once again Hermione just ignored Draco and continued on. Soon, after about two minutes of continued walking and bleeding Hermione stopped in front of a bench that was in front of the Shrieking Shack.
Draco was about to open his mouth, but Hermione pushed him down on the bench. "Now sit there and don't move. This shouldn't hurt, much." Hermione took out her wand and pointed it at Draco's nose. After muttering some incantation under her breath she touched his nose, checking to see if it was broken.
She nodded her head once and said another spell, after re-pocketing her wand Hermione once again took out a small mirror and held it up. Draco nodded; at least now my face doesn't look like it went through a war zone. How come I've never done a healing spell before?
Probably cause Father won't let us.
I am not going to listen to you today. I will be mean to the mudblood if I want and you will have no say. Now leave me alone.
How come I never get any credit for anything?
The voice trailed off, and Draco sighed. Hermione, mistaking it for a sigh of relief for having his face back to normal, smirked.
"I think that you are in my debt now."
Draco raised an eyebrow, "And, please tell, how is that?"
"I helped you, so whenever I need your help, for one time only, you have to help me." Hermione smirked, as if she had just usurped a throne rather sneakily.
Draco glared at Hermione, "I don't think that that is fair. After all I could have done it myself."
Hermione rolled her eyes, "Well you didn't seem like you were capable enough to. After all, if you were able to you would have stopped me." Draco opened his mouth as if to say something, but he abruptly closed it, at a loss for words.
She got you there.
So much for you leaving me alone.
What can I say; you need me.
What the heck are you talking about? I don't need you, I was doing a fine job of my life before you came and ruined it!
How come I'm never appreciated? It seems that no matter what I say you disregard it. You're just like father.
I am not. Oh, why am I even having this conversation with you anyway? And with that Draco dragged himself out of his thoughts to find Hermione looking at him rather confusedly.
"Are you alright, Malfoy? You're face kept on changing it's expression for the last two minutes. Maybe you should go and see Madame Pompfrey."
Draco smirked, "Somehow I always knew that you cared for me."
Hermione glared, "Yeah, in your dreams, Malfoy." She tightened her hold on the egg, which seemed a little warmer than usual. Draco was complaining about something or another, but Hermione wasn't really listening because she was looking at the Lariza Egg that seemed to have a slight glow around it.
Draco seemed oblivious to what was happening because he was still droning on and on, like Professor Binns on a rather boring day in History of Magic. After a minute or two of the weird glowing it went away and left the egg changed.
"What? That was odd..." Hermione was still looking at the egg and what had happened to it. There was a small green streak next to a slightly larger red one in the middle of the egg.
Hermione suddenly smiled brightly, "Oh, Malfoy! Look! The egg just changed! It isn't white any more!!"
That seemed to drag Draco away from whatever he was lecturing about. "What do you mean changed, Granger?" he tried to see what was different with the egg, but it was kind of hard considering Hermione's arms were covering the majority of the project.
"There are two streaks of color on it!" Hermione happily said, "See? One's red and one's green!" she looked about ready to jump ten feet in the air.
"Actually I can't see right now cause your arms are all over it!" Hermione conceded and handed the egg to Draco. Now that he could see it, he noticed that sure enough there were two small streaks of color, the red streak slightly larger then the green one.
"How come the Gryffindors always are better off than the Slytherins?" Draco scratched his head, a little confused.
"What do you mean?" Hermione looked confused for a moment before she understood. "Oh, you think that the red is for Gryffindor and the green is for Slytherin. Well it always is a possibility. And I think I have a solution!" Hermione smiled.
Draco raised an eyebrow, "And, please do tell, what is your solution oh smart one?" Draco definitely meant to be sarcastic, but Hermione didn't seem to notice.
"Well, since I have taken care of this poor defenseless egg the majority of the time over these last few weeks, of course it should show Gryffindor colors, but since I'm not the only one taking care of it the egg has to show that you held responsibility too!"
Draco blinked for a moment trying to let it all sink in, "so what you're saying is that Professor Wildheart is using this...this...egg as a grading system, and when she looks at it she'll know I haven't been spending a lot of time with it?"
Hermione nodded and Draco looked back down at the egg.
"Alright Mudblood, I've got a proposition. I get to take care of the egg for the rest of the day and you get it tomorrow." Draco smirked.
Hermione nodded slowly, "All right, and since the half of the day that I have spend with you is over...Have fun!" and with that Hermione took off to who knows where, leaving Draco and the egg all alone.
Draco stared after her a little longer, wondering why she would want to leave so soon. Ah, well. Who cares anyway?
"But you know, there is a thing called a farewell. Why are people today so hasty?" Draco muttered to himself and slowly but surely, as if he had to prove to somebody that he wasn't a hypocrite, Draco trudged off towards Hogwarts Castle.
Too bad he didn't notice the rustle of some bushes and what sounded like the giggle of some schoolgirls.
Karana: I know, I know. This isn't as long as it usually is, but my inspiration for this fic has seemed to run away from me. Now, don't get me wrong, I shall still finish this little fic, and I won't start any more multi-chapter stories. I also have a very important question for you: What do you want the egg to turn into? Any idea that you have at all will be appreciated and if you don't have one, don't worry cause I have one of my own.
Anyway! Please review!!