Teach Me Perfection

Chapter Eleven

Author's Note

I am so very sorry that it has taken me this long to update. I didn't have a laptop or any computer access and I work far too much and I'm going through a lot of personal shit and it sucks but hey whatever right. I wrote the first half of this chapter on my phone, yeah my android has Microsoft Office on it. Pretty tight. Sorry rambling and stuff but I will be updating more I promise. Might just take me awhile because I'll usually be doing this on my phone. Hope you enjoy! And this hasn't been beta'd so forgive that.

Lots of Love,

Kaley


Draco Malfoy woke up with a feeling this particular Monday morning. Not a bad feeling, per se, just a feeling that something was either going on and he was not invited in on it, or that something was going to happen today. He could not decide which it was so now he also had a headache. Hermione tapping her quill on that bloody glass was not helping.

"Look, Granger, we have been somewhat friendly lately. Don't make me have to end that by murdering you because I have a headache and you will not stop with the damn tapping." Draco said calmly as he massaged his forehead with his fingertips.

Hermione gave him a look. "Just because you're grumpy doesn't mean that you can take it out on me."

"Ah, but Granger you are the only person who I am aloud to grace with my presence. By default you are the only other person who I can take my frustrations out on."

"That still doesn't mean that you can yell at me because you have a headache and then try to blame me for what I am trying to stop you from doing."

Hermione was getting flustered with Draco, and the fact that it was nearly time for bed and she hadn't eaten anything today did not help the situation. She took a deep breath and tried to concentrate on the last few pages of her book, but kept fighting black spots in her vision. Now she was debating on whether or not she would be able to make it to her room upstairs.

Draco sighed. "You yelling at me is not helping my headache either so I think I am going up to sleep now." He stretched and made his way toward the stairs. "Goodnight Granger."

"Goodnight Malfoy." Hermione replied closing her book and putting her face in her hands. Now she was getting a headache.

She stood, steadied herself and made her own way up the stairs and into her room. She barely managed to kick off her shoes and make it to bed before the black spots in her vision finally took over and she passed out.


Ginny was sitting at the Gryffindor table for breakfast reading over her answers to the charms homework she was given yesterday. Ever since Fred and George gave her a trick quill her second year, she had been very critical of her work before she handed it in. Of course, you would be too if Snape gave you detention for two weeks for saying one of the properties of wolfs bane was for greasy professors to wash their hair.

"Hey Ginny," Parvati said as she sat down next to her. "What are you up to?"

"Just checking over my homework before I turn it in." Ginny replied putting her paper back inside her satchel. "What about you?"

"Breakfast of course." Parvati grabbed some bacon, eggs, and toast. "I'm famished."

Ginny looked down at her plate and nodded. "Yeah, I wasn't very hungry this morning so I think I'll head to class a bit early." She got up and grabbed her bag. "I'll see you later."

"See you." Parvati waved and dug into her food wholeheartedly.

The truth is, Ginny just thought that it was easier on herself to not eat until quidditch practice with the team tomorrow, to see if it was making her faster. So she'd go to the library for lunch and the quidditch pitch alone for dinner tonight.


Draco Malfoy was livid. He'd been banging on the Head Girl's door for half an hour, on and off of course or his hand would be bloody. It was locked, but he didn't know if she was dead, or cursed or bleeding or something else.

He knocked one more time.

Bloody women. He thought when she still didn't answer the bloody door.

"Alohomora." He pointed his wand at the lock and it clicked open. He saw her sleeping on top of the cover of the bed.

"Granger, wake up. We are five minutes away from being late for class. You need to get up or I will shave every frizzy piece of hair from your silly little head."

Hermione stirred slightly. "Bugger off, Malfoy." He heard her mumble.

"Me, bugger off. You bugger off, Granger." Draco made his way over to the bed and poured the cup of water on the nightstand on her head.

Hermione bolted upright and screamed. "What in the ruddy hell Malfoy?"

"We are now three minutes from being late for class and you are in here asleep like a dead person. That's what in the ruddy hell. Now dry off and let's go." He motioned towards the door.

Hermione glared at him but saw reason and decided not to argue. She picked up her wand from the bedside table and waved it over herself to dry off. She grabbed her bag and the pair made their way quickly to Professor Sinistra's classroom.


Ginny had just started on her solo quidditch practice for the afternoon and she wanted to at least get a solid hour in before she went in to dinner. However on the beginning of her second warm up lap it began to thunder and pour down rain. Deciding that it would be too much trouble to try to practice in the rain, she dismounted and made her way back towards the castle.

As Ginny approached the entrance to the castle Blaise Zabini ran up to her. "Hey Weasley can you do me a favour?"

"Unless you are asking me to hex you there is no favour I am doing for a Slytherin." She glared at him and kept walking.

"Now now. There is no need to be hostile. I am neutral in this little war between good and evil being fought. My mother's track record with men has led to the benefit that no one really messes with her or us anymore. Nonetheless, you can't judge me based on my house. As a Gryffindor you should be that honourable."

Ginny stopped and looked at him. "You realize that would make you a hypocrite assuming I am honourable just because I am a Gryffindor."

"No you are the only one who wants to be a hypocrite. Either way you at least have to listen to what I want to ask because either you have enough honour to listen to the bequest of another even of they are lower than you. Or you don't have any honour and therefore have no right to not listen to me because we would be on the same level."

Ginny just looked at him for a moment. He had just successfully insulted and flattered her in the same breath. "Whatever, Zabini just tell me what you want because this conversation will not end until I hear you out."

"Would you happen to know where Granger is keeping the blonde dunderhead I am always with? I have something really important to talk to him about and it is a little time sensitive."

Ginny knew that Hermione did not want her giving out the location of the Heads' common room. "Well I can't take you there but I was going up there anyway and I will tell Malfoy that you wanted to talk to him."

"Thanks Red." Zabini smiled and walked away.


Hermione had just gotten settled in her room after classes. She was preparing for her weigh in for the day because she hadn't had time this morning. After putting all of her books and homework on her desk in neat piles she walked to her bathroom and closed the door.

She put her scale on the floor and stripped. She stepped on it and smiled a little when she noticed the number was smaller than yesterday's. Hermione opened her journal and recorded everything about the day and her weigh in. She would allow herself something for dinner now, so that maybe she wouldn't feel like she did yesterday.

Hermione put the scale and journal back in their places in the bathroom and walked back to her room. Just as Hermione put on her pyjamas and sat down to work on her homework, Draco called her from the common room.

"Oi! Granger! The Weasley girl is here to see you!" His voice called from downstairs.

She got up and went downstairs to see what Ginny would want, when Hermione found her and Draco talking at the door.

"Yeah, he just walked up and said that he wanted to talk to you about something really important that he heard. I told him I would let you know that he needed to talk to you, but I couldn't show him where your common room was because of rules."

"Thanks. I'll send him an owl and tell him to come up here." Draco walked by Hermione going up the stairs as she was coming down.

"Hey Ginny what's up?" Hermione said as the both sat down on the couch.

"Nothing really. Blaise Zabini wanted to talk to Draco about something important. I was doing my good deed for the day by delivering the message." Ginny replied. "What about you?"

"Just getting ready to study and do some homework." She replied.

"The usual then."

The pair laughed and chatted for awhile about classes and everything that was going on with the Order and the war. However about half an hour later there was a knock at the portrait and Draco came down the stairs to answer it before Hermione could.

"Blaise." Draco greeted his friend as he entered the common room. "So what is so urgent that it couldn't wait."

You could tell that Blaise had just ran very fast for a period of time because he had to catch his breath before he could talk.

"Draco, I heard someone talking in the common room this morning." Blaise started and looked at Draco with a weird face before continuing. "And I overhead about someone's mission for next weekend, but its not a student's mission its one of their parents."

"Okay and what does that have to do with me?"

"I'm pretty sure you left something important in France, seems that someone else found out and they're going to go get it before you do."


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