If anybody could be exceedingly excited for the evening to come and to gracefully back out in missing a full meal at the table for some wretched detention punishment, it was plainly and painfully obvious to everyone who that individual would be. Draco.
He absolutely could not sit still in any class afterwards. In potions, his legs would not keep still, which was a big difference from his usual self. Usually he was still as the dead, which matched his overall mood for every class that he had. His ever-moving legs bothered the hell out of Blaise. This was significant because Blaise tolerated a whole lot of Draco's habits and mistakes.
"Will you cease to move that piece of limb of yours?" Blaise grumbled with attitude. "What the devil did you eat? Are you on some sort of illegal medication, mate? Might that be that lover girl, Granger, of yours?"
"I'm only seizing the opportunity like you said," Draco replied, shaking his head. "But might that be an actual case of an actual drug-high, then yes. Course, I am."
The time passed by slowly to Draco's standards. Where's to Hermione, it went by awfully fast. Too fast for her liking.
"Sorry you received detention," Ron grumbled to Hermione."
"Why bother apologizing?" Hermione said, giving Ron a small smile. "It wasn't your fault."
Ron ran his fingers through his hair. "Argh. I know. It wasnt mine. It wasn't yours. It was Malfoy's. He was being such a bastard."
Harry shook his head. "No, Ron. He is a bastard."
"It's fine," Hermione whispered. "We're just cleaning for rats!...Or at least that's what we were told."
Ron scoffed. " 'Rats' my butt! Filch's cat goes around eating every single one it sees! I doubt there's any left!" Ron exclaimed. "Poor mice..."
Hermione waved her hands in the air as if to get rid of any malicious thoughts. "You guys... It's fine. It's just one detention. 2 hours at best. Not the end of the world. I have gotten detentions before from Snape."
"When?" Ron asked.
"Well," Harry said, slowly. "First year or second year, didn't we go into the forest to help Hagrid out with something?"
Ron put up a finger. "Oh yeah! Haha, that seems so long ago! Gosh...Wait...Argh!"
"What is it?" Hermione said.
"Just when my thoughts left Malfoy to go take a warm walk down memory lane, it goes right back to Malfoy again!" Ron cried.
"Because?" Harry and Hermione asked in unison.
"Malfoy was there too, remember?" Ron said. "He was ratting us out, but ended up getting himself dragged in too."
"Bloody hell, Malfoy's just everywhere these days," Harry cursed, lightly. "Haha, even infiltrating our thoughts."
Hermione gave a weak smile knowing all too well what Harry was saying.
Hermione took a look at the poor excuse of a clock on the wall as she walked down the hallway. She was walking slowly, because there wasn't much need to walk with god speed. And plus, frankly, she was in no hurry to reach Snape's dungeon-like classroom, despite the fact that it was one of the few rooms with windows.
Hermione had left for her detention punishment earlier than the time that Snape had told them to arrive all for the reason of not seeing Draco while walking there or having to see his face when she enters the room for the first time. Hermione sighed. Honestly, she was doing well enough without Draco. In fact, she had been completely fine until he started tugging at her robes again! Honestly, she was great. For a while she even forgot who he was!...Ah, Hermione grunted. Who in Merlin's name would believe that rubbish. Rats wouldn't even have been interested in that.
As Hermione was nearing the classroom, she pulled herself out of her thoughts and looked around. The place never looked anymore haunted. It was fine in daylight and class hours, but this was such a contrast. She shook her head and grabbed the handle for the door. Surprisingly, she only had to accidently nudge it for the door to swing slowly open, revealing light inside. Hermione was somewhat surprised. The classroom never looked brighter. It was brighter than when it was in use.
Her thoughts were then interrupted when she caught a small, black figure scurry right by her feet. She turned swiftly black only to see a black rat for a split second before a green flash abolished it.
"Granger!" cried a voice. "Get in and close the damn door! Are you out of your bloody mind?"
Hermione quickly let herself in and shut the door. She looked up and saw who she didn't really expect to see...
"Malfoy!" Hermione said. "What the devil a-are you..." She stopped. She looked around and there were several black rats roaming around the classroom. After a short while in watching them Hermione realized they were multiplying...
"Take out your wand and help me out here!" Draco cried. He, with swift movements, pointed and shot one rat at a time using various spells. The most common one was infamous avada kendavra. "Damn Snape. When I came in the class this rat appeared. I figured he put up a charm that would be triggered when another magical being walks in the room, but this is just so damn ridiculous. They. Keep. Bloody. Multiplying!"
Hermione soon found her own rhythm and helping to the cause of decreasing the rat population. "How smart of you to walk right into this sort of thing," she snorted.
"Granger, explain to me how I could've known," Draco replied. "Would you have known?"
"If you just used your head for once, Malfoy, then just maybe you could have known," Hermione retorted. She then killed another. "When has Snape ever had students sit and write down repetitive words and phrases as punishment? When will he start? I'll tell you when. Never!"
"What's with the attitude?" Malfoy asked, giving her a look. When Hermione didn't give him an answer, Draco kept talking. "And if you want to know, I'm kind of tired of using my head."
"When exactly did you ever start using it?" Hermione bitterly asked.
Draco's patience was slowly depleting. It was half gone during the time he was trying to kill all those damn rats. It slightly went up when Hermione came walking through the door, but the attitude of hers just down right massacred it. Draco tried to keep his cool, which in the beginning of that evening he was planning on ACTING cool, but now that was all breaking down. Draco tried to keep his calm and be nice, but it was all in vain.
A/N: Another update. Dang. Sorry. It's short. This is actually 2 small chapters combined. You fanfiction guys were behind a chapter. I uploaded the small one on quizzazz. But whatevs. It's here now! Enjoy! Sorry for it being short again!
Im Not Sure About This: Well, if you look up it does say "Fanfiction". I think it makes more sense to have ron as a headboy than to make draco suddenly have the unicorn hots for hagrid, sooo.. *shrug*. Harry's dad wasn't exactly the best student(Bully, didnt get the best grades, aparrently, etc), but he made it (if i recall correctly). How'd that happen? Hmm :/ Like i said. FAAAANFICTION.
PiperElizabethMclean: Thanks for your reviews! and thanks! lol. I try to keep Draco in character, but i've always thought that my stand on writing him in character has been slipping away. But thank you for saying otherwise! :)
28: Lol. Thanks. I as pretty sure i spelled it correctly. Wikia.
Starofhearts: It was a risk writing that "Room of Angels" chapter, but hell. I like confusing shet :D lol.
Roon0: Thank you :)
Flower of Dusk: Thanks, I dont blame you. I had a different plot twist for Blaise in the beginning. He was suppose to secretly hate Draco and wanted him to suffer in the beginning but i kind of slowly steered away from there and just made him into a know it all best friend. He's also my best friend. He explains a lot of confusing shet for me on here.
Cheshire Cat23: Oh i know right :)
Thanks for the reviews! Keep writing them! I read them all despite my in-activeness because you guys make me wanna get up and write something even if its just a sentence.