AN: I'm gonna speed up the process here so it like almost Thanksgiving holidays…
Disclaimer: Not mine…
Since the Yule Ball, everything has been bouncy and happy. I felt happy myself, being that I was with the most gorgeous guy on this whole planet. He was even more sweet, if that's possible.
He walked me to every class I had, even some that we didn't even share. He knew how shy I was in public, so we kept our kisses to minimum. On weekends we would go walking outside to be away from everyone else, just for a while.
It was now Friday. Me and Jackie walked to our first class, hand-in-hand. In the winter, the Arizona Wizarding Academy wore wool school colored vest with their symbol, and a long sleeved black or white dress shirt underneath.
Of course our students changed to our robes. It wasn't just chilly in the dungeons, it was cold all over the castle. Jackie said most of their school was getting sick, because they weren't use to the cold weather.
"Man, yall need some thermostats or somethin'!" he said and shivered. I smiled. "Well we're use to it. Just put a warming charm on your clothes." "I already did." he said and I laughed.
"Good chilly morning everyone! Today I will tell you your test scores from Tuesday's test." I gasped. That test was hard. We had to match the scroll names beside the year it was discovered.
"I will say our highest scores first, and then I will call everyone else up for theirs." I shivered, not from being cold, but from nervousness. Jackie rubbed his hands together to warm them up.
"Man when it's cold, I go to sleep." he said before yawning. I rolled my eyes. "Try to stay up. I need someone to talk to." He laid his head down on his crossed arms. "Talk to Draco and Yalonda." he mumbled from his sleeve.
I sighed. "Our highest score is…" I closed my eyes. "Jackie Mitchell, with an E for Exceeding Expectations. Our next highest is Hermione Granger with an A for Acceptable. The rest, well, you'll see for yourself…" Everyone groaned.
Jackie let out a small snore. How did he get a better test grade than me. I study more than he does. He's smart, but I'm smarter. I'm suppose to be!
I nudged him a little. He rose his head up. "Hmm?" "You got the highest grade on Tuesday's test." I said, with a hint of disappointment. He smiled a little and nodded.
"Whatchu get?" he asked. "An A." He frowned. "Than what I get?" "Oh! We go by a different grading system. O is the highest possible. You got an E for Exceeding Expectation. I got an A for Acceptable. It's barely passing." He nodded and smile.
"Well at least you didn't fail baby. All I did was guess…" I sighed and shook my head. He widened his eyes. "I mean, um, I- I guessed the lass few…" I narrowed my eyes. "Whatever, at least I passed."
Yalonda laughed as she looked down on Professor Lopez's desk. "Dang, are you serious?" Professor Lopez nodded his head. "Very much so Ms. Lee. Would you like to make it up?" She nodded.
Professor Lopez began talking to her in a low tone. She nodded occasionally. She took her test and walked back to her seat. "Whatchu get man?" Jackie asked.
She grinned. "A D for Dreadful." They laughed. "That's messed up." Jackie said. "I know, but I can make it up for a passing grade. What did you get honey?"
Draco showed her his paper. He didn't look that happy about it either. "Well, you did better than me baby. We should've copied off of Jackie!" she exclaimed.
Professor Lopez looked up and smiled. "None of that please." The class laughed. I rose my hand. "Si- I mean yes Ms. Granger?" he said with a chuckle.
"Can I make up my grade?" Some people began to murmur. "I want her old grade then…" someone said. He smiled. "No. You already have a passing grade. Your average won't go down much, I promise."
This was a horrible start to a day. In Care of Magical Creatures, I was bitten by a baby Blood Wolf. They craved blood of course, and Hagrid told me it was ok to pet it.
I was sent to the Hospital Wing, the first time… The second time I cut my hand in Herbology with plant- cutting scissors, which were sharp beyond sharp.
The last time was in Defense Against the Dark Arts. Since the Americans were taught this lesson by Mr. Griffin, I was paired with Ron. Ron was testing out a new spell we had just learned.
He said the prefix wrong and sent me flying back against the wall, causing me to crack a rib. Today was the worst school day I've ever had! To make it worst, Madam Pomfrey sent me back to classes, in the last class of the day.
I walked down the halls slowly, so I could miss about 10 minutes of class. I spotted a few people from our school skipping classes. It was Crabbe, Goyle, and another Slytherin named Dennis Ingram.
"You guys should be in Potions right now." I said. They all threw me a smirk. "We don't have to go if we don't want to mudblood." Crabbe said. I flinched. No one had called me that in a long time.
"Don't call me that. Just come to class and you won't get in trouble." I said calmly. "No, we don't follow orders from mudbloods." Dennis said while crossing his arms.
I sighed. "Fine. 50 points from each of you and detentions for calling me 'mudblood'. I don't even care if you come to class anymore." I said and turned around.
"You poisoned the Malfoys, Granger. You and them will pay deeply one day." Goyle said. I shrugged. "Well until then, you have detentions and another for threatening." I said with a small smirk. They groaned. "Good job Goyle!" Dennis said.
I walked up to Snape's door. I sighed. Here we go. I opened it and walked in. "Where have you been Granger?" he asked. "Hospital Wing. I would've been here earlier, but some of your house students were skipping." The Americans 'ooohed'.
He glared. "Who?" "Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Dennis Ingram, sir." I said simply. He nodded. "They'll have detentions with me." "Actually, they'll have two with you." The class laughed.
He nodded. "Fine. Take out your textbook and read these pages. That will be all for today." I nodded and looked in my book bag. I gasped. No! I left my book and my homework on my desk.
I shook my head and put my forehead in my hand. "What's wrong babe?" Jackie whispered. "I left my book with my homework in it." He nodded. "He not takin' the homework up yet." Oh good. "I still need my book though."
I rose my hand. "What is it?" "I need to get my book off my desk sir." He rolled his eyes. "I thought you were suppose to be responsible Granger. You have 2 minutes to get your book." I widened my eyes.
Our house was 5 minutes away! "Sir, I need more time." He looked at me for a while. "No. You're wasting time. Go." he said firmly. "Oh my goodness!" I said to myself as I got up from my chair.
"Do you have a problem with it Granger? You were the one who didn't bring your book." he said loudly. "I think I know that Professor." I said while opening the door.
"You're almost out of time." he said with a small smirk. I glared at him as deadly as I could. "Screw time." I said which made the class laugh. I walked out the door and made sure to slam the door.
I breathed heavily from anger. I knew I couldn't have a good day in there. Nothing he could say could possibly make me feel better. I found some more Slytherins hanging around their portrait door. They were all girls this time.
"You guys need to get to class." I said firmly. "You need to mind you own business, mudblood." one of them said. I bit my lip. "Don't call me that please. Just go to your class, or you will have points deducted and detentions." I said as calmly as I could.
"We heard you did that to Crabbe and Goyle. Such a goody-goody, with your Head Girl badge." another girl said while pulling the badge on my shirt.
I pushed her hand away, which caused her to rip it off my vest. I stopped breathing and held a glare with her. She looked from the badge to me frantically, obviously scared.
I let out a breath. "Hand me my badge." I said dangerously low. She handed it to me, which I snatched. "You all have detentions, 3 of them. 100 points from all of you. Now go. To. Class!" I ended up screaming.
They hurried off in the opposite direction. "Reparo." I said and my badge mended back on my vest. I was so sick of today. I didn't even want to go back to class.
I finally got my book and arrived in front of his door again. I rolled my eyes and walked through the door. The class snickered as I sat at my seat. I ran my hand through my hair before flipping open my book.
"You have a detention." Snape said. I didn't reply, I didn't know who he was talking to. "Granger, you have detention." I looked up at him with a deathly glare.
"Why?" "For your outburst and you didn't come back on time." I bit my lip while shaking my head. I couldn't take it. I slammed my fist on our desk.
"Are you telling me I have a detention for not coming back in 2 minutes?! Our house is 5 or 6 minutes away! And then I had to stop for your Slytherin children again because they chose not to go to classes today! This is all unreasonable and you know it." I finished, tears filling my eyes.
Jackie rubbed my hand. Snape glared at me. "Are you quite done whining? Rules are rules." I gasped. "Try telling your house that! They're breaking the most important rules in the book!" "That's enough! No more from you, or you'll get another detention." he said, angry for some odd reason.
"Actually Snape, that isn't fair at all." Mr. Griffin said while standing against a wall. We looked over to him. "Who told you to come in my class?" Snape said with a glare.
Mr. Griffin smirked. "My kids in here too man. I don't think Hermione should get a detention. She is right. You're bein' unreasonable." he said walking over to me. He put a heavy hand on my shoulder.
Snape glared. "She's not one of your 'kids' so don't worry about it Griffin." "But she's a good friend of my daughter. She gets treated the same…" Snape sighed.
"If I cancel her detention, will you leave?!" he asked now turning red. Mr. Griffin laughed. I could feel vibrations from his hand. "Sure." Snape pursed his lips. "Fine, you don't have detention Granger. Don't talk in my class." I nodded.
"You. Leave." he said to Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin snorted. "Nobody dismisses me." he said while summoning a chair beside Alex. Alex laughed. Snape looked like he was going insane.
"Continue reading. You have 10 minutes to get out." Mr. Griffin checked his watch. "But there's 20 minutes lef-" "They have 10 minutes!!" Snape yelled, which made his voice high-pitched.
We snickered as Mr. Griffin laughed. "Ok, I gotcha…" I skimmed through the chapter and closed my book. "You ready?" Jackie asked. I nodded. Mostly everyone got up.
Mr. Griffin and Alex were playing tic-tac-toe in her textbook. "Um, Alex? We're leaving." Ron said with a smile. "Oh! Come on daddy." she said. We walked to the front of the class.
Mr. Griffin stopped at Snape's desk. "James would've loved that." Harry looked back. "They have 10 minutes!" he said with a girly voice and laughed. We laughed. "Get out." Snape commanded. We walked out the dungeon.
"You knew my dad?" Harry asked. Mr. Griffin nodded. "I was friends with the Marauders. I juss didn't turn into any animal. That's crazy. Me and my older brother was."
Harry smiled. "Me and James always found something to do to Severus everyday. The best one we did was blackmail yo' momma and wrote Severus love letters signed from her." We laughed.
"He was so convinced that Lily liked him!" he said before laughing again. Dumbledore walked up to us. We froze. He didn't know we were getting out early almost everyday.
"What are you students doing out so early?" he asked while adjusting his glasses. "Severus said he needed some concentration. He's gradin' some, um, tests." We nodded. We did take a test Monday.
"Oh, ok. Enjoy the rest of your day then." Dumbledore said and then continued walking down the hall. We let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you daddy." Alex said. We thanked him too.
"No problem, yall juss be good. I knew he was bein' bias Hermione. I couldn't let that go." I smiled up at him. "Thank you so much Mr. Griffin." He nodded.
"You're welcome dear. I have to go home for the weekend Alex. Your momma invited some of her whit- I mean friends over for dinner." The Americans laughed.
"Hey!" Yalonda said with her eyes narrowed. He shrugged. "Well, you are… Bye yall." He nodded to us and left. Mr. Griffin was so cool! My voice was now hoarse and my fist was throbbing.
"Um, I'm going to take a nap. I'll see you guys later." I said. They waved at me. I turned around and headed to the Heads' common room. I was tugged back by my hand.
I turned around to see Jackie with an eyebrow up. "Where's my kiss?" he asked while wrapping his arms around me. I looked up with a small smile. "My voice is hoarse. I don't know if I'm sick or not…"
He smacked his lips and shrugged. "So! I still want a kiss baby." he said while lowering his head. I turned my head. "No! I don't want to make you sick baby." I said innocently.
"Your germs are my germs sweetness." he said softly. I laughed. "Isn't that kind of gross?" He narrowed his eyes and smirked. "I'm tryna be sweet here…" I laughed.
"Fine. One simple kiss." He nodded. He captured my lips with his warm ones. He pulled back and then gave me a quick butterfly kiss. "Ha! That was two! Bye baby." I laughed as he walked away.
I don't know how I lived without him last year and the previous years. He was like an essential I just had to have. I smiled. The last kiss didn't count…
AN: Juss a quick one. Like I said, juss speedin' along the process here…. JussMee
