A/N: Woo-hoo! Thank for all the reviews...even though there weren't a thousand (I didn't expect a thousand anyways), I'm just glad someone read them! Anyways, here's the third very short chapter! Heh heh.

ALSO: Tonight I have absolutely no homework (woo-hoo!), meaning that I've been writing practically all night long. Thanks for many of the appreciating reviews and some of the constructive criticism review *shudders*, but um, yeah, hope you enjoy this third chapter!

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Stung By a Billywig

Chapter 3 ~ The Annoyance

Everyone stood in complete silence as Hagrid slowly took off the lid. The only thing that could be heard was the faint humming of the billywig, and Neville whimpering.

Although Hermione had read about billywigs, just like she had read about many other things, she had never seen a billywig before. She stood there, also in silence, concentrating on the black box, so as not to be distracted by anything else. Like Draco Malfoy, for example.

Draco Malfoy, on the other hand, wasn't paying any attention to anything. He was constantly yawning and as Hagrid's hand slowly moved, Draco wished that he could just yank Hagrid's hand off and take the lid off himself.

The lid finally came off, and, for a split second, everyone swore they could see a deep blue blur, that strangely resembled a small flower, before it zoomed out of sight. Now everyone was on the look-out, while Neville went to hide in bush for fear of getting stung.

"All right, careful now!" Hagrid cried cautiously, as everyone looked out dumbfounded.

"Okay, now where's that little bugger?" Ron muttered as he looked around wildly. "I'm going to squash it!"

"Ron!" Hermione exclaimed. "You can't do anything to the billywig - it'll just get even more annoyed."

"The same thing goes for other things as well," a voice said behind Hermione. Hermione swung around, and much to her infuriation, Draco was looking her in the face.

"What do you mean, Malfoy?" Harry asked carefully, casually putting his hand in his robe pocket which contained his wand.

"I mean, Potter, is that some things also get even more annoyed, even at the slightest thing," Draco continued.

"Yeah, kind of like me," Ron said, taking a break from his wild chase, "I get annoyed by Malfoy's voice."

"I get annoyed at his face," Dean Thomas added.

"I get annoyed at everything about him," Neville cried suddenly from deep within the bush.

Draco scowled. "Shut up!" he shouted. "I also get annoyed, you know. I get annoyed by Potter, also known as the boy who lived to annoy me. I get annoyed by Weasel, the hand-me-down boy. I get annoyed by Neville, that pathetic little slime ball, who's frightened by even the smallest thing. There's also Granger that I get annoyed by..." But Draco stopped suddenly, as he tried to think of words to continue. How did she annoy him? Looking at her, with her face scrunched up into an angry look, he said, "...Well...she's a know-it-all braniac, and a Mudblood to boot, reading a book wherever she goes. Honestly, her book is shoved so far up her nose it could come out of her arse."

The Slytherins, who were now assembled around Draco, began to howl and cackle with laughter. Hagrid looked at them as a warning, but they continued to laugh. Hermione felt her eyes sting with tears, but she managed not to cry. "Do you want me to beat him up for you?" Ron muttered in her ear. Hermione found herself shaking her head, and now began to look at Draco as though she was about to kill him.

"Well," Hermione began, "at least I don't have a broomstick shoved so far up my arse!" All the Gryffindors howled, and even small laughter could be heard from the bush. Draco turned a furious shade of red.

"Nobody insults a Malfoy and gets away with it!" he exclaimed as the laughter began to die down.

"Well she just insulted you," Ron said, "so how is she not going to get away with it?"

"Like this," Draco replied. Casually taking his wand out of his pocket he cried, "Accio billywig!"

Everyone watched as Draco caught the whizzing billywig casually and held the billywig tightly in his palm, almost as if he was squishing it. Hagrid looked outraged. "MALFOY! YEH PUT IT DOWN THIS INSTANT!" Hagrid bellowed.

"Don't have a cow, you great lump," Draco said. He then cried, "Wingardium Leviosa!" which gained complete control over the billywig. He even pronounced the spell correctly. Everyone watched, their mouths wide open in shock, as the billywig struggled to get away. But Draco lifted it into the air, high above...Hermione's head.

Ron urged for her to run away from the apparent 'maniac', but Hermione stood and watched cautiously what Draco was about to do. "You better not go and do what I think your going to do Malfoy," Hermione warned as the billywig began to squeal in pain.

"And what's that, Granger?" Malfoy asked dully, as his wand rose higher and higher.

"Don't you dare let that billywig down anywhere near me and let it sting me," Hermione answered, "or else..."

"Or else what?" Draco said, watching in amusement as the Gryffindors and Slytherins slowly backed away from him and began to gaze at him as though he was a maniac, and as Hagrid watched the poor billywig and was beginning to count how many points he would take off Slytherin.

"Malfoy, yeh better let it down or else it'll be 200 points from Slytherin, I'm warnin' yeh!" Hagrid cried.

"Or else what?" Draco repeated, ignoring the fact that Hagrid was about to rip him apart.

"Or else Hermione'll shove that broomstick even farther up your arse, you daft idiot!" Ron answered, looking absolutely infuriated.

"Is that so?" Draco asked. As though a person dropping a hundred stories down, so it was as Draco suddenly dropped his wand, causing the billywig to come flying down.

Hermione opened her mouth as wide as it could and looked up as the billywig came, stinger first, right where she was standing. Ron was frantically trying to get her out of the way, but Hermione stood rooted to the spot, apparently from shock. The Gryffindors screamed, Hagrid began to yell, and the Slytherins began to pat Draco on the back for a 'job well done'.

The billywig dropped down on Hermione, and, by accident, it stung her in the neck. Instantly, Hermione's eyes began to droop. "Your arse...is going to hurt...a-after I'm done with you," Hermione promised, as she dropped onto the ground unconscious.

"HERMIONE!" Harry and Ron cried. They looked from Draco, to Hermione, and finally to the billywig, who apparently wasn't finished with it's stinging business. Regaining it's control, it flew towards Draco in a great blur and struck him quickly in the arm.

Draco's eyes also began to droop and his mouth sagged open. "Well....my arse won't hurt....as much as my arm," he said as his knees began to bend weakly. And with a last blink, Draco collapsed to the ground in a great heap.

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A/N: WOOP-WOOP! Sorry, but I'm complete amazed that I managed to finish this. I thought I was stuck at a dilemma (no matter what I do, all I think about is you...) because I didn't know how to continue this, but here you are and don't fret (unless you really want to) because there's going to be more to come!

ALSO: Thanks to the reviewers, you know who you are, unless you've got a nasty case of amnesia. You greatly helped me, through encouraging words and uhh...criticizing words. *lol* Don't worry, criticizing does help, just as long as it's not....really mean criticizing which results in tears and frustration and....geez, I've been spending too much time in my English class!

ANDDDDDD: Sorry about the *clears throat* 'arse's'. Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) used it in the movie when he was mocking Neville, so I figured it'll be all right since that was rated PG. Bwahaha!

THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO: Jenni, aka KAOS....without her, this chapter would not exist. Well, actually it would, but she helped greatly so this is for you! Woop-woop! I-I can't be a wizard...'cos I'm Jewish! (inside joke)

CHAPTER 4 WILL BE UP SOON! (unless I don't get any reviews...heh heh...)

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