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I'm really sorry that I haven't posted in a while :( I have been having a CRAZY time at school, like 5 tests a week, and moving into our newly renovated school. Like I said, crazy, but I am finally writing the next chapter! :) Thanks for reading!
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Chapter 10: First Day of School
I woke up to a loud thudding and shaking. I groggily sat up and rubbed my eyes, and the thudding and shaking continued. I looked down at the couch and saw a foot kicking the leg.
"If you don't wake up now I swear I will curse you until you can't even SLEEP!" I jumped up off the couch and began wildly looking around for the source of the shouting.
"Stop that and go get ready!" I looked behind myself and saw a livid looking Malfoy standing beside the couch.
"What are you doing?" I asked. He brought both of his hands up to his head and started to rub his temples. He took a deep breath, and then looked at me.
"You have exactly 10 minutes before we have to be down in the great hall." I was about to talk when he interrupted me. "And before you ask I received an owl from Dumbledork* saying that we had to walk down to breakfast together, for whatever reason, and you are going to make us late!"
"Just give me 5 minutes!" I shouted as I ran to my bedroom. I opened my trunk, stripped out of the clothes I had been wearing, and put on a fresh uniform. I used a simple detangling spell on my hair, which was about as big as the couch that I had slept on. I pulled my shoes on and then ran out into the common room. When I walked in Malfoy looked me up and down, and walked out of the room.
Was it just me, or did it actually look like his eyes went down a notch when he saw me? I shook my head, trying to dislodge any thoughts like that from my head as I ran to catch up with Malfoy.
I caught up to him after running down one flight of stairs.
"Stop walking so fast! You have longer legs than me, and so it's hard for me to keep up!" I could see him roll his eyes and look away.
"If you would have gotten up on time we wouldn't be having this problem."
"Well, if you had woken me up sooner, this situation could have been avoided!" I shouted right at the moment Malfoy and I walked into the great hall.
Everyone stopped eating and talking and looked at the two of us. I blushed scarlet and rushed over to the table where Ginny, Harry, and Ron were sitting. After a couple minutes people began to start talking, but it didn't help me stop blushing.
"That was some show." Ginny said with a huge smirk on her face.
"He aggravated me. I didn't know that we had just walked into the great hall!" Harry chuckled but Ron didn't reply. It seemed that he was still not over my name change.
"Don't worry. He'll come around eventually." Ginny whispered in my ear. I smiled at her, then began eating.
10 minutes later we received out schedules, and started to compare them. I had Potions, Herbology, and Defense against the Dark arts with both Harry and Ron, while Harry and Ron had every class together except Divination.
"Nnnoo, we have almost every class with Slytherin!" I looked down at my schedule again, and sure enough, every class that I had with Harry and Ron I had with the Slytherins as well.
"At least you have each other, right?" I asked. Harry and Ron looked sadly at each other and slowly nodded. Dumbledore stood up, and the room fell silent.
"I hope that everyone has an excellent day, and goes through your classes with an open and fruitful mind." He nodded and the room erupted with the noises of people moving around and people talking.
"Well, let's get this over with." Harry said, after hugging Ginny.
I nodded, and also hugged Ginny before walking off with both Harry and Ron.
We walked into the potions room, and chose a table that had several other Gryffindors already seated at it.
"Alright class, let's begin." Slughorn said as he waddled into the room and up to the front. He lifted up a piece of parchment from his desk and looked at us over it.
"To begin I will start by giving you your partners. You will be working with these people for half of the year, after which you will switch partners." Everyone groaned as he started to call of names.
"And Dean Thomas, Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson and Ronald Weasly, and lastly Lavender Brown and Hermione Zabini." I groaned inwardly as I heard my partner's name. After what I had gone through in 4th year, I hadn't been very fond of Lavender Brown. She also didn't have a very good work ethic which would most likely mean that I would be doing all of the work. Slughorn clapped his hands together.
"Alright everyone, get together with your partners, and begin working on page 3 in your books."
I looked over at Lavender who was making no move to come over to me, and picked up my books. I sat them down beside her and sighed again when she didn't even look up at me.
"I'll get the ingredients, and you can start setting up the cauldron." I said. I wasn't expecting much of a reaction out of her, but she quickly stood up and looked at me with hate filled eyes.
"Just because you are a pureblood now doesn't mean that you can boss me around, got it?" I was rather taken aback by this, but was equally mad at her for thinking that I would think that way.
"First of all I wasn't bossing you around, and second of all I don't think like that!" she smirked at me and put her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, I bet you don't." she said before turning around, smacking me in the face with her hair, and walking off to get the ingredients.
I sank down into my chair and put my head in my hands.
I would not be able to work with her if this was how she was going to treat me the whole time! I would have to ask Professor Slughorn for a partner change.
I stood up and walked over to his desk where he was reading an extremely large text book.
"Yes Miss. Zabini?" he asked, looking up from his book.
"Professor, I was wondering if I could have a partner change." He looked up sternly at me and crossed his arms.
"Can you not work with Miss. Brown?"
"Believe me Professor, I wouldn't be asking if I did not feel I could work with her." He sighed and stood up.
"Alright Miss. Zabini, but I'm only doing this because I do not want this interfering with your work."
"Thank you Professor." He nodded and looked around the room, then shouted,
"Mr. Malfoy, you will be switching partners. You will now be working with Miss. Zabini." I gulped as I looked over at Malfoy. Working with Lavender was bad, but working with Malfoy might just be worse.
First of all I put an astric beside Dumbledork because when my family went to Harry Potter World my father was getting into the spirit and was saying Dumbledork, Her Hinny, and Gryffindorf :) Anyway, thanks for reading and please review!
A hui hou everyone!
