A/N: Bonjour! Chapter 5 is up!!! Drunk Enough To Dance by Bowling For Soup is brilliant!
Chapter 5: Big Squaw Hermione
After Ron had promised dutifully to Professor McGonagall and Hermione never to do anything like on the train for at least 3 months, the 6 kids settled back into Hogwarts relatively easily. Though the 5th Year Gryffindors weren't happy with their timetable.
"Double potions on a Monday morning followed with Divination and…what?"
Ron pointed to a new spot on his timetable with a puzzled look on his face.
"OWL practice times. It's like revision except your watched by a teacher and it takes up to three hours, their never satisfied unless you read the book at least 6 times and then you have to write notes afterwards!" Fred said, "It'll be worse for us, we've got the NEWTs practices this year." He said glumly.
"Who've you got?" Asked George.
Harry ground his teeth and said, "Trelawney. Crap…"
"Count yourselves lucky! We had Snape for ours!" Exclaimed George.
This was met his a hiss of sympathy from everyone. Hermione still looked outraged at the idea of Prof Trelawney taking them.
"Honestly, she couldn't teach even if she was under the Imperius curse. She's still giving me dirty looks for quitting you know. Probably come round and say some rubbish about Harry dying or Ron's got a bad temper. Useless bat…" she muttered angrily.
Everyone sat looking at Hermione, grinning at her outburst.
Harry and Ginny were amused, Fred and George were shocked and Ron had that strange look of pride about him. Hermione just smiled back, blushing slightly when she saw Ron's proud, though with a large gap at the bottom, grin.
Potions…
The dungeons still had that familiar damp stench about it. The trio grimaced and walked into Snape's room.
Malfoy paled slightly as he saw Ron walk in. Ron ignored him and got out his potions things.
Hermione smiled as she picked up the new set her mother had bought her; it had fresh chemicals and herbs, clean tubes and a new set of knives.
They all sat down and listened to the cold drawl of Professor Snape.
After a tiring and particularly dangerous lesson, Neville coated most of the dungeon floor in fire," You think the slime would have stopped it!" said Ron.
Hermione was packing away during the chatter of the Gryffindors, and then Malfoy walked up to Ron.
"It's a shame it all happened before term, Weasel. You would have been expelled other wise, possibly even banished. I'd watch my step if I were you…" he barely more than whispered this remark.
"I'd watch mine too, Paleface." He growled quietly.
Most of the Gryffindors were interested and had turned around to watch, thanks to Ginny, the whole school knew about the big fight on the train.
Hermione smiled evilly.
"Me got big knife, me scalp um paleface!" she said, brandishing a cleaver.
The Gryffindors howled with laughter and Malfoy muttered something like, "My father", and stormed out. The rest of the day seemed to clear slightly for them, the look on Malfoy's face had made their week…
A/N: Hope that was better! Lossa love, Xodox xxx