Chapter 5

Detention

Hermione hurried down the stone stairs to McGonnagal's office. As soon as she got there, she panted and leaned on the table in front of McGonnagal. "May I help you Miss Granger?" She asked. Hermione never wanted to say anything so she just shut her eyes and handed her the detention slip. She looked at it in amazement. "Are you sure this is yours?" Hermione just nodded slowly trying not to look at her in the face. "I don't know how on earth you out of all people would of gotten a detention for this long period of time!" She said with her eyes widened as she read the slip even more. "Ah, its signed Professor Snape, hum, now I see...not that I'm saying anything negative, just, well, yes anyway, just go through those doors and I'll come in later to talk to you about your punishments." Hermione slightly rubbed her eyes and muttered.

"Yes miss." Hermione ran to the door as she whispered to herself. "I lost about 200 points for Gryffindor, the possibility of being expelled, Rita Skeeter is back in Hogwarts...who knows what that means...and I have detention for almost 3 months... my day couldn't get anymore worse..." But Hermione's opinion suddenly changed when she opened the door to the detention room...

"Malfoy?!" Malfoy was slumped over on a bench. He raised his head slowly and his mouth dropped.

"Granger?! I don't believe this! Like my day could get any worse!"

"Your day!?" Screamed Hermione.

"Yes my day! What do you think Granger!" Malfoy howled.

"Why are you here anyway?" Asked Malfoy in a snotty voice. "I mean, aren't you miss prissy perfect all the time?"

"Excuse me?!" She shouted.

"You heard me!" He yelled.

"Why would you care anyway?" She asked.

"I don't know, I thought it would make it better if we talked about something..."

"Well I'd rather ignore YOU the whole entire time then even talk to you at all!" She screamed.

"Yeah, well, same here! Here, tell ya what, you don't talk to me, if I don't talk to you." Malfoy stated.

"Sure I can ignore and not talk to you so easily, I mean, I do it all the time! So it sho-"

"Well your talking now!" He screamed.

"So are you!" She screamed back.

"You're doing it now!" He screamed yet again.

"Yeah well...what do you call what you're doing now!" She screamed YET AGAIN...

"So are you! And-" Malfoy was stopped by Professor McGonnagal storming in.

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE!?" She screamed.

"Sorry miss...I...was..." Hermione and Draco were speaking at the same time, each word they turned and gave a nasty look for the other to stop. Then they turned away to there opposite directions and crossed their arms and shut their mouth.

"Well what ever this ruckus is, make it stop! Well, I might as well tell you the things to be done while I'm here." Hermione looked like she was going to cry. Draco just rolled his eyes. "Well, most of your tasks will be with Mr. Filch. You will also be helping Dumbledore with some letters to the Ministry of Magic and you will also be joining a program that helps the first years with magic. All you have to do is teach them the spells right and the correct wand movements. It is only an hour a day." Hermione and Draco sighed.

"Um, Miss?" Draco said in a high pitch voice.

"Yes Mr. Malfoy?" She said as she turned in to Draco's direction.

"When does this all start?" He asked.

"Ah, yes, just come here tomorrow morning and I'll get you started." She finished.

"OK" They both said.

When Hermione was heading back to the common room she felt really sick. Her head was killing and her stomach was rumbling. She guessed it was all because of her horrible day, but all she wanted to do was rest. So she climbed into her bed and shut her eyes, and soon she was fast asleep.