Chapter Twenty-One: Detention, Summers
A few days later, Dawn sat in Potions trying desperately to steady her hand as she had to pour in exactly seven drops of Hellebore syrup. This was a simple enough task but with Professor Snape leering over your shoulder, hoping you would pour just one extra drop in so he could take points of your house and embarrass you in front of the whole class, it proved quite challenging.
As she counted steadily, she tipped the bottle over one last time for one more drop to tip out and when she succeeded, she heard Snape 'humph' and move on.
She smiled over happily at Hermione and got an approving grin back.
"Weasley, how many drops of Hellebore syrup are you supposed to add?" She could here Snape ask Ron coldly.
"Seven." Ron replied turning red.
"And how many have you added?" Snape demanded.
"The whole bottle." Ron replied and Dawn heard Draco and his friends start laughing.
"Ten points from Gryffindor and start again." Snape said as he waved his wand and Ron's cauldron was empty.
Dawn turned around to comfort Ron and saw his face had gone a bright red, a red she thought no one's face could possibly look like.
"You have fifteen minutes, I expect a vial full of your potion on my desk by then." Snape told the class as he took his seat at his desk.
Ron sighed in frustration and anger, "That prat, I cant do this whole potion by then!"
Harry shrugged helplessly and Dawn thought of an idea.
"You can just use mine." Dawn said and elaborated at Ron's, Harry's and Hermione's confused looks. "I'll give you a vial on mine and you can hand it in."
Ron face lit up, "Really? Not even Hermione would let us do that!"
"Well, consider it repayment for being so nice to me." Dawn said as she filed two vials of her finished potion.
She handed one to Ron and Hermione looked at her disapprovingly.
"That's not very believable, is it?" Hermione asked Ron. "No offence, but, I think he may catch on when yours and Dawn's potions are identical."
"No problem." Ron said as he picked up the Hellebore syrup, "I'll just add a few extra drops of this and he'll be none the wiser."
As Ron pore in two extra drops, he saw the colour become more dark and he grinned happily.
"Times Up!" Snape bellowed as all students began rushing to the front desk to hand in their vials.
As the four of them approached the front desk and gave in their vials, Snape glared at the four of them, catching on.
"Weasley, I would prefer it if you didn't cheat and use other people's work to get credit for it your self." Snape said as he glared at Ron and them moved his eyes to Dawn, knowing he had used her potion.
Ron looked down embarrassed and turned red once again, but Dawn held his gaze, angry, and not allowing her self to be intimidated by him. How could he be so mean? He had purposefully erased Ron's potion before he could make any more to hand in!
"Well, you weren't exactly being fair were you?" Dawn demanded, angry, as Hermione head whipped up, afraid, "You knew he couldn't make another batch to hand in on time! You just want to fail him!"
Snape looked furious as Dawn stared him in the eye. Dawn just knew Hermione wished she hadn't opened her mouth.
"Detention, Summers." Snape said loudly with a look of malice in his eyes, and a back round noise emerged of Slytherin's snickering.
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"Why did you have to talk back!?" Hermione begged as they left class.
"He couldn't get away with it!" Dawn replied as Harry and Ron couldn't stop laughing.
"And what are you two laughing about?" Hermione snapped.
"Ohh, come on Hermione, you had to admit, that was brilliant." Harry said.
"Yeah, something you would of done." Ron said to Harry.
"Great, now you have detention!" Hermione said not letting it drop. "You're going to have to skip Quidditch today to do all your homework before you go."
"I don't have that much anyway." Dawn said happily, although a little bummed she had to waste half her evening with Snape.
"What do you think I'm gonna have to do there anyway?" Dawns asked
"I dunno, but I can bet its gonna be horrible." Ron said.
"Oh fun." Dawn said, slightly regretting her actions.
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An hour later, she was walking down the corridor, taking her time to the bathroom.
She had gotten permission by Binns from her History of Magic class and was in no hurry to return. That ghost could talk about anything and make it sound incredibly boring.
As she strolled along, she paused and saw groups of student out side for their free period. Some were even practicing for Quidditch and she stared out side longingly.
She glanced across the landscape and saw a lone figure walking quickly towards the woods.
She strained her eyes trying to see who it was and saw it was a boy, one with peroxide hair.
Draco.
She swore, he looked so much like a younger version of what Spike would look like.
But anyhow, what was he doing going into the woods alone, and when they were forbidden to all students? And especially with out his two apes following him around.
She stood there, watching him glance behind his shoulder as he entered the forest and disappeared behind its large trunks and branches.
She wished she could follow him, find out what he was up to, but at the moment, she had to get to class.
She promised her self she would tell Harry, Ron and Hermione and see if they thought it was something to worry about.
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"So, what do you think? Should we be worried?" Dawn asked as she finished telling the group about Draco and his trip to the woods.
They sat on the grass near the pitch, Harry and Ron about to practice Quidditch and Hermione and Dawn studying since she had detention later at seven.
"I don't know, its not much to go on." Hermione said.
"What do you mean, 'not much to go on'? Its heaps!" Ron said, "He's obviously up to something."
"That's what I thought." Dawn said, thankful some one agreed with her.
"Yeah, me too, he's probably up to something." Harry said after some thought. "I just wish we knew what it was."
"Don't you think your over reacting?" Hermione said, "All Dawn saw was Draco going into the Forbidden Forest. That doesn't mean he's working with You Know Who, or doing anything wrong for that matter."
"What do you think he's doing in there Hermione," Ron said, "playing checkers? He's obviously doing something against the rules, or he wouldn't be hiding in there any way."
"And, his dad was a Death Eater." Harry added, "He may be, you know, carrying on the tradition."
"That is a possibility but we don't know anything for sure, So until we do, I say we just forget about it." Hermione said rationally. "If he does anything that's out of the ordinary, then we'll worry but until then, lets just leave it for now."
They all agreed and set to their tasks; Hermione and Dawn studying and Ron and Harry practicing Quidditch.
Although they had all agreed just to forget about what Draco could be up to, Dawn couldn't help but wonder why he went into the forest and for what purpose.
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