Disclaimer: Any plotline, scene, dialogue, etc. that is familiar to the Harry Potter Universe belongs to the people who made them, especially J.K. Rowling, whatever isn't familiar is mine.
After I updated the last time, nearly a month ago, a few minutes later my laptop crashed and then lowered its working time from thirty minutes to ten minutes. So I am definitely in need of a new computer for fan fiction and for college as I do have some online classes this coming semester. That being said the wackiness of when I will update will continue ("Doh!" Slap head in annoyance.) until who knows when. My apologies to the utmost but I will try to write them when I don't have access to the computer. When Walls Come Down I am working on at the moment, the Harry Potter story if you are reading it has several more chapters that I had written before I ever put it up here so it will have more updates than When Walls Come Down will for a bit but just know I am working on it.
The next morning, she woke up to the banging around of her roommates. She groaned, and threw her pillow over her head waiting until her roommates left, and then she climbed out of bed, groaning even more as her left arm acted up. She reached over to her end table and grabbed the vial out of the drawer downing it. As the pain eased up, she took a shower and slipped on her uniform leaving the upper two buttons undone on her shirt and her tie a little loose. She left the dorm and headed down to the common room, where Draco was leaning up against the wall, "Hey, took you long enough."
"I am an only child remember, I prefer to change in private," Sarah groused, Draco laughed, and opened the door before he followed her out. As they reached the Great Hall, Sarah looked around and her eyes locked on Fred and George Weasley. George elbowed Fred and then nodded in Sarah's direction. Fred turned to look in her direction, and grinned at her, she flashed a grin at him as well, and waved discretely to Alicia, Angelina, George, Neville, and Lee before following Draco to the Slytherin table.
As she sat down, she pulled some toast and sunnyside-up eggs onto her plate, before pouring some orange juice in her glass, barely listening to the conversation around her as she worked on waking up completely. Half way through the meal she looked up to see Severus walking down the line of Slytherins, a bored look on his face, giving them their schedules. When he reached her his mouth tipped up slightly, long enough for her to catch it, and then settled back into his customary frown. He handed her schedule to her and slipped a few vials to her as well. She murmured her thanks and then looked down at her schedule.
As soon as she was finished she stood up and headed off for her first class of the day, stopping in an empty corridor to down the potion, before continuing on. She stepped into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, and groaned as Umbridge looked up. "Is there a reason you are in the classroom right now, dear?" The professor asked far too sweetly.
"This is my first class of the day, Professor, I just wanted to make sure I got here early so that I was prepared when class began," Sarah stated, wanting to gag on the overly polite tone in her voice.
"Very well, but from now on you are not to be in class more than five minutes before hand. Do you understand?" Umbridge smiled, a and Sarah nodded taking the farthest seat away from her teacher. As she pulled her book, parchment and quill out of her bag, she groaned at the stupid picture in front. The woman was obviously trying to insult their intelligence with this book for beginners of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
When everyone walked in Umbridge stood up and began explaining the rules in the class, which basically summed up to, in Sarah's opinion, sit down, shut up, turn off your brain, and become a mindless drone. She frowned as she looked down at the book, she had already read the first chapter before coming to class and written notes on the chapter, she sighed in frustration and began to read the second chapter, and take notes on that. Thankfully, Professor Umbridge did not stalk around the classroom, so she was able to plow ahead and finished the second chapter by the time the bell rang.
When Umbridge had dismissed the class, Sarah threw her stuff into her backpack and strode as quickly as she could out of the room, giving the rest of the Slytherins a disturbing reminder of Snape as she stalked toward her next class. She smiled as the Transfiguration room came into sight, and picked up her pace.
As she dropped her bag on her desk, Professor McGonagall looked up with a disapproving glare, "Tell me, Miss Abernathy, why you seem to need to beat up your desktop."
"Defense Against the Dark Arts." Professor McGonagall's lips tightened in a frown, before Sarah continued, "Frankly, I think we need to retitle it for her, Dumbing Adolescents with the Department's Absurdity of teaching and curriculum." She thought she heard a snort of laughter come from the professor and looked up, to see the small smile wipe itself from McGonagall's face.
"That was quite rude Miss Abernathy, please do not let me hear you say that again or I will be forced to deduct house points," she scolded slightly, and Sarah murmured a "yes ma'am" before sitting down.
As the lesson began Sarah grinned, they were learning how to transfigure a toad into a rolling-pin and a rolling-pin into a bludger bat. She was able to do it quickly and spent the rest of the time helping out a fellow Slytherin who had a habit of making cricket bats instead of the quidditch ones.
When the bell rang, Sarah got up and moved out the door, heading for her dorm where she dropped off the morning class's books and picked up her books for the rest of the day, and the vials that Severus needed. As she headed out of the common room, she found herself having to lecture and deduct house points from a pair of fifth years that were trying to convince the first years that the merpeople that lived in the lake could hypnotize and kill them through the glass that looked out on the lake from their rooms.
Having browbeaten the fifth years and sent the first years scrambling head of her to the Great Hall, she headed upstairs to get her lunch. She smiled happily as she made herself a turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, cheese, and pickles. Then placed some fries on her plate, sprinkling salt and vinegar on them, as the kitchens seemed unwilling to supply ketchup and mayonnaise for her fry sauce. As she ate she sipped on her iced tea, and chatted with Draco and Justin Flint, her counter part for the Slytherin prefects.
When she was finished she looked at her watch and realized she had twenty minutes to get the empty bottles to Severus and then to her next class. When she reached the dungeon corridors she broke out in a sprint and slid to a halt in front of the door of Severus's office, he looked up to see a red-faced, panting Sarah. She set the bottles on his desk, waved goodbye and then ran out the door leaving a chuckling Severus behind her, as he scooped up the vials and took them into his laboratory for a refill.
Sarah arrived in the Greenhouse for Double Herbology just as Professor Sprout began to open her mouth to start the lesson. She glared at Sarah a bit, but began to give the lecture, as Sarah quietly took out the book, parchment, and quill she would need. She found herself partnered with a member of Ravenclaw named Adelaide McGovern and the two quickly hit it off, as they worked on their plant that seemed to have developed a particular love for eating quill feathers. Sarah sighed when she was finally allowed to wash her hands and leave the Greenhouse. She waved goodbye to Adelaide, and crossed the grounds for her Ancient Runes class, stopping to down another pain reliever potion on her way there.
By the time dinner rolled around Sarah, was ready to rip out her hair, the ancient runes class was interesting but intense as the teacher had quickly outlined the course and then done a quick pop quiz to see what everyone remembered from the previous year, or in Sarah's case from what she had studied previously and from her exam that summer.