Chapter Six
He was leaning up against a cold dungeon wall. He wasn't paying attention to anything around him. Which is why he never saw Inessa round the corner, come barreling at him, and slap him in the face.
"I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU! In all my life I have never met such an ass as you, Draco Malfoy! I don't understand why no one else has ever told you this! Hasn't anyone ever noticed how you treat those girls! They're, they're like your own personal HARLEM OF HOOCHIES!! And I will not let Sarah and Shannon become your new toys, and it really pisses me off what you did to Blaise today! Do you have anything to say for yourself!?"
"I know."
"Yeah that's a good excuse, what?"
"Is Blaise alright?"
"What? Who? I mean, why do you care?"
Barely keeping himself under control, "Is Blaise alright?"
"Yes."
"Good, tell her if you talk to her that I'm sorry."
"Okay, let me tell you that this was definitely not what I was expecting from you, I mean you are supposed to be some total asshole, and now you are going all regretful on me, this isn't right."
"Yeah, well sometimes people realize things about themselves too late." Draco turned and began walking further along the corridor. Inessa just watched him go.
"Yes, this is very strange, now I am feeling bad for him, this isn't how these things are supposed to happen!"
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During dinner in the Great Hall a group of school owls swooped in over the student's heads and began dropping off slips of green parchment to several students. Ron looked up and groaned.
"Detention slips, I knew I would be getting one."
"Uh oh," another one fell into Cy's dinner, "guess it wasn't such a great idea to go missing class today.
"I can't believe he actually gave ME a detention!" Hermione whined "Oh, is your clean record stained." Ron mocked.
"Oh shove some more corn in your face!"
Over at the Slytherin table more detention slips were falling. Crabbe picked one up and glanced at it and read Draco's name.
"Hey Draco this one is your's. You're serving it tonight at eight for two hours with Snape, well that won't be all that bad. He is head of house so I bet he'll let you of easy."
"This is great, like my life couldn't get more shitty right now."
Three more slips fell in front of Sarah, Shannon, and Noah.
"It figures, Snape!" Sarah moaned, " 'cause you know I didn't have enough of him in class today. Ugh! I am with him for both of my detentions!"
"Hey Pansy you get one too?" Noah looked over her shoulder.
"Yeah I did, guess we'll have to cancel our date tonight. I'm serving it with Filch."
"So am I, we don't have to cancel I'm sure we'll find some alone time tonight." He wiggled his eyebrows at Pansy, and she just giggled.
"Shannon who are you serving your's with?" Sarah asked, pushing her plate away. Her appetite had disappeared and was replaced by a horrible feeling of anticipation.
"Oh, I'm serving it with Hagrid, is he that real big guy I see working around the grounds. I think he teaches a class, too."
"Yeah I think he does, Magical Creatures I think."
The Ravenclaws were all looking expectantly at the slip Inessa had received. She picked it up and began to read but everyone was still staring at her.
"Jeez don't any of you have anything better to gossip about!" She got up and fled the Great Hall to continue reading in peace. "I'm serving with Snape tonight, oh of all the luck." Inessa had to clear out soon because most students were now finished with their dinner and were pouring into the halls.
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Cy caught sight of Blaise on her way up the stairs.
"Hey Blaise, I'm really sorry but I think I'm gonna have to cancel whatever we were going to plan for tonight. I just got a detention slip." "Don't feel bad about it so did I. I was just about to go owl you about it."
"Why wouldn't you just tell me in person?"
"Well you know how it looks, me talking to you. I'm worried people will see us."
"Like Draco."
"Yeah."
"Don't worry about him, I would never let him do anything to you, I care, I mean umm yeah."
"I think I understand. I'll see you tonight at detention then. Bye!" She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek before running off up the stairs again.
"Yeah, bye."
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"Hey I'll be seeing you guys tonight after detention." Sarah waved 'bye to Shannon, Noah, and Pansy, and began her trek farther into the dungeons.
'You have got to be kidding me if that is the little know-it-all in front of me, ::sigh:: it is.'
"Hey Sarah wait up!"
"Huh, oh hi Ness I haven't seen you at all today, you got detention too?"
"Yeah bummer huh? Well I figure what a better way to begin the new year than a wonderful evening of detention."
The two girls opened the door to the potion's room and found Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy already inside. Draco was on one side of the room, with Hermione on the other. Sarah and Inessa sat near each other in the back.
Snape entered and the room immediately seemed to drop a few degrees. "Well how wonderful, first day of class and already I have four detentions to deal with. It seems my year has begun with a bang. Alright who to get out of my sight first. Miss Granger, I really don't want to see you or hear your annoying comments for the next two hours. So you can take those stacks of cauldrons out to the washbasin that is further down the corridor. And no magic must be used to clean them. Hurry Up! I want you out of here quickly!"
Hermione picked up the first cauldron and began to drag it down the hall.
"Now let's see I need at least three batches of Pepper-Up potion made for Madam Pomfrey, that really shouldn't be too difficult, at least I hope so to all the gods. Umm, let's see Malfoy why don't you work with Miss Wagner.
Both Draco and Inessa gave a groan of discontent and seemed to only make Snape give the hint of a smile.
"Now let me see, the last thing I need is, oh great, Miss Moran you'll be assisting me in the lab, unfortunately you have to be here the night I can't work on this potion with only two hands. Well, come one you two start gathering the ingredients you'll need for Pepper-Up, it's an easy potion I hope you can remember it from your third year. Miss Moran if you'll come with me."
Snape walked through a door near the back of the classroom with Sarah following behind.
"If we have to do this let's make this as painless as possible." Draco cleared a place on the desk, then set up a cauldron and began collecting vials. Inessa walked over to the shelves where the student ingredients were kept.
'You know, I don't really remember everything that goes into Pepper-Up, but I don't want to look stupid in front of mister oh-look-I-feel-bad-so-it- makes-everything-okay." She grabbed some ingredients and headed to a separate table to begin chopping up some daisy roots.
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"What I am going to need you to do Miss Moran is start slowly adding fluxweed to that boiling cauldron over there and stir every five minutes. Can you handle that?"
"Yes Professor, where is your powdered Graphorn, I'll be needing that in about 20 minutes."
"It's over there on the second shelf, wait how do you know that?"
"Well I figured it was obvious that you were making a sleeping draught. I've made them before, in my advanced potions class back in, back in Salem." For a moment Sarah got a pang of homesickness but she shook it off.
"Hmm, fine then, you know where it is get it when you need it." Snape turned and under his breathe mumbled, "I hope you don't become a know-it- all like Miss Granger." Then began making a paste out of asphodel and an infusion of wormwood.
Halfway through her detention, Sarah had finished with her part of the potion. Seeing that Snape was far to involved in his work to ask what he needed next she sat and watched him work. His hands flew all over the table grabbing different vials and checking temperatures on different burners. He never once had too look up from his work, never lost concentration, he made it seem so easy.
'Wish I'll be able to work that swiftly someday.' But Sarah was brought back to reality when Snape turned around.
"Have you finished boiling the solution already?"
"Yes I have, Professor."
"Well just let me look at it." He began to cross-examine her work, and again Sarah studied him. When he was working he didn't seem like the git she would have recognized in class.
"This sleeping draft, you're making it for yourself aren't you?"
Snape looked up startled.
"The shadows under your eyes, the shade they have match exactly to one of the symptoms of using sleeping drafts regularly."
But before he could comprehend what she had said, let alone answer her there was an explosion in the classroom. Snape dashed into the room quickly followed by Sarah. Draco and Inessa were knocked out on the floor with pussy boils beginning to develop wherever the potion had sprayed on them.
"How did the-" Snape looked out in the hall but it had seemed Hermione had finished with the cauldrons and left early, just like he would have wanted her to under any other circumstances. "Sarah run upstairs and find Madam Pomfrey now!" Sarah took one more glance at the two on the floor and ran out the door past Snape.
Sarah was running at top speeds out of the Dungeons ,'Where is the Hospital Wing? Wait, he called me by my first name!'
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'Stupid Flitwick, he teaches Charms how do these desks get so filthy. Well only 20 more to go.' Noah was still scrubbing some of the desks in the Charms classroom when he heard the door open and close. He looked up to find Pansy leaning against one of the tables.
"I finished early with cleaning the trophies how much longer till you are finished in here."
Noah dropped the sponge into the bucket, "Oh I just finished."
"Great, then you wouldn't mind having me around." Pansy turned and began to ward the door. Noah stared at her; he hadn't known any students to already know such powerful wards. "Don't look at me like that, you learn things in Slytherin house. Now come here." Noah could only obey as he walked towards her, she grabbed him and threw him on to a desk, and then she began to kiss him passionately.
"So I guess I--cleaned these--desks for no--reason huh?" Noah was able to say this between kisses.
"Yeah, 'cause they are going to get real sticky, real soon."
Noah's eyebrows just shot up in shock, and then he grabbed her and began to return her kiss even more passionately, if that was possible.
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Out near Hagrid's hut Shannon, Blaise, Ron, and Cy were finishing up detention. They had to traipse through the Forbidden Forest and see if they could find a Fire-Crab that had escaped. Hagrid needed it because he had to breed it with a Manticore in order to get more Blast-Ended Skrewts. Cy had gone along with Blaise and Hagrid, and they were the unfortunate bunch to end up finding the crab and almost ending up burned to a crisp. Ron and Shannon had Fang to tag along. They hadn't spoken all night, and after hearing Hagrid's call they started on their way out of the Forest. Only feet from the edge of the forest Shannon tripped over a root and almost landed face first in the mud if Ron hadn't caught her. They stood there, awkward for a while before Shannon straightened herself up and stood.
"Umm, thank you, for umm, catching me."
"Oh, hey that's not a, umm problem." Ron began to focus very hard on something on the ground.
"Yeah."
"I'm still mad at you for what happened to Hermione today!"
"Well, don't think I'm not still mad at you for what you said about Sarah!" The two of them began to step closer to one another as their yelling heated up.
"Well yeah! I mean, umm, oh what the hell!" Ron grabbed Shannon's face and pressed his lips against hers.
Shannon pulled back, "What the fuck was that for!" The two of them stared at each other, and then Shannon grabbed Ron's face and began kissing him.
"Hey guys, Hagrid says we can go, WHOA! Yeah I didn't see that." Blaise turned around quickly and ran to get Cy before he made the same mistake. "Cy let's just go, I'm sure Ron and Shannon can walk back to the castle fine one their own, they can do a lot more than walk together believe me!"
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Colin again had taken his seat by the window in the library when Hermione ran in.
"Colin I am so sorry I forgot that I got a stupid detention from Snape, but I left early, and I am so sorry."
"Don't worry I have been reading your book and I'm loving it!"
"Oh I'm so glad! You ready to go see the Head boy/girl library?"
"Yep, let's go."
At the top of the East tower near a statue of a crying maiden Hermione whispered the password and they slipped in behind the statue.
"Wow this is great Hermione!" Colin glanced all over the small and cozy library. It was much smaller than the regular library and was stocked with much more teen-centered books. The blue candle lighting gave the room a much more relaxing mood, too.
"Yeah isn't, I come her a lot, when I want to, want to," she wanted to say breakdown, "relax."
"Yeah, I bet this is a great place to unwind."
"Oh it is just look at this view." It looked right over Hogwarts, and the lake, you could even see Hogsmeade from the height. Hermione sighed.
"Are you sure you are doing okay Hermione? You're looking a little frazzled."
"Yeah I'm fine. Everything is just hunky-dory."
"Now I know something is up when you pull out a phrase like that." Hermione laughed, but it sounded forced. "Come on, just tell me."
"Alright, it's just," and then everything spilled out, "with this stupid detention from Snape it is just the last straw, and my Arithmancy project didn't go at all like I had hoped, and it also turns out that my parents are demanding I go to a muggle college for the first two years, but if I do that I can't receive any of my wizarding scholarships, everything just seems like such a mess ::sob:: and in such a long time Colin, you have been the best thing to happen to me." Here Hermione just broke into more sobbing. She crumpled to the floor and leaned against the wall. Colin sat next to her and put his arm around her, and became her shoulder to cry on.
~-~ A/N That was a really long chapter, but I had so much that needed to be included. Hope you all likes. Now I am just going to go and die cause it is 2:30 in the freaking morning here and I am dead!! The potions stuff that was all just kinda made up, I personally don't know much about making a sleeping draught so if you do you can email me or just deal with what I wrote. Whew, I'm knackered! Review!!
He was leaning up against a cold dungeon wall. He wasn't paying attention to anything around him. Which is why he never saw Inessa round the corner, come barreling at him, and slap him in the face.
"I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU! In all my life I have never met such an ass as you, Draco Malfoy! I don't understand why no one else has ever told you this! Hasn't anyone ever noticed how you treat those girls! They're, they're like your own personal HARLEM OF HOOCHIES!! And I will not let Sarah and Shannon become your new toys, and it really pisses me off what you did to Blaise today! Do you have anything to say for yourself!?"
"I know."
"Yeah that's a good excuse, what?"
"Is Blaise alright?"
"What? Who? I mean, why do you care?"
Barely keeping himself under control, "Is Blaise alright?"
"Yes."
"Good, tell her if you talk to her that I'm sorry."
"Okay, let me tell you that this was definitely not what I was expecting from you, I mean you are supposed to be some total asshole, and now you are going all regretful on me, this isn't right."
"Yeah, well sometimes people realize things about themselves too late." Draco turned and began walking further along the corridor. Inessa just watched him go.
"Yes, this is very strange, now I am feeling bad for him, this isn't how these things are supposed to happen!"
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During dinner in the Great Hall a group of school owls swooped in over the student's heads and began dropping off slips of green parchment to several students. Ron looked up and groaned.
"Detention slips, I knew I would be getting one."
"Uh oh," another one fell into Cy's dinner, "guess it wasn't such a great idea to go missing class today.
"I can't believe he actually gave ME a detention!" Hermione whined "Oh, is your clean record stained." Ron mocked.
"Oh shove some more corn in your face!"
Over at the Slytherin table more detention slips were falling. Crabbe picked one up and glanced at it and read Draco's name.
"Hey Draco this one is your's. You're serving it tonight at eight for two hours with Snape, well that won't be all that bad. He is head of house so I bet he'll let you of easy."
"This is great, like my life couldn't get more shitty right now."
Three more slips fell in front of Sarah, Shannon, and Noah.
"It figures, Snape!" Sarah moaned, " 'cause you know I didn't have enough of him in class today. Ugh! I am with him for both of my detentions!"
"Hey Pansy you get one too?" Noah looked over her shoulder.
"Yeah I did, guess we'll have to cancel our date tonight. I'm serving it with Filch."
"So am I, we don't have to cancel I'm sure we'll find some alone time tonight." He wiggled his eyebrows at Pansy, and she just giggled.
"Shannon who are you serving your's with?" Sarah asked, pushing her plate away. Her appetite had disappeared and was replaced by a horrible feeling of anticipation.
"Oh, I'm serving it with Hagrid, is he that real big guy I see working around the grounds. I think he teaches a class, too."
"Yeah I think he does, Magical Creatures I think."
The Ravenclaws were all looking expectantly at the slip Inessa had received. She picked it up and began to read but everyone was still staring at her.
"Jeez don't any of you have anything better to gossip about!" She got up and fled the Great Hall to continue reading in peace. "I'm serving with Snape tonight, oh of all the luck." Inessa had to clear out soon because most students were now finished with their dinner and were pouring into the halls.
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Cy caught sight of Blaise on her way up the stairs.
"Hey Blaise, I'm really sorry but I think I'm gonna have to cancel whatever we were going to plan for tonight. I just got a detention slip." "Don't feel bad about it so did I. I was just about to go owl you about it."
"Why wouldn't you just tell me in person?"
"Well you know how it looks, me talking to you. I'm worried people will see us."
"Like Draco."
"Yeah."
"Don't worry about him, I would never let him do anything to you, I care, I mean umm yeah."
"I think I understand. I'll see you tonight at detention then. Bye!" She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek before running off up the stairs again.
"Yeah, bye."
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"Hey I'll be seeing you guys tonight after detention." Sarah waved 'bye to Shannon, Noah, and Pansy, and began her trek farther into the dungeons.
'You have got to be kidding me if that is the little know-it-all in front of me, ::sigh:: it is.'
"Hey Sarah wait up!"
"Huh, oh hi Ness I haven't seen you at all today, you got detention too?"
"Yeah bummer huh? Well I figure what a better way to begin the new year than a wonderful evening of detention."
The two girls opened the door to the potion's room and found Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy already inside. Draco was on one side of the room, with Hermione on the other. Sarah and Inessa sat near each other in the back.
Snape entered and the room immediately seemed to drop a few degrees. "Well how wonderful, first day of class and already I have four detentions to deal with. It seems my year has begun with a bang. Alright who to get out of my sight first. Miss Granger, I really don't want to see you or hear your annoying comments for the next two hours. So you can take those stacks of cauldrons out to the washbasin that is further down the corridor. And no magic must be used to clean them. Hurry Up! I want you out of here quickly!"
Hermione picked up the first cauldron and began to drag it down the hall.
"Now let's see I need at least three batches of Pepper-Up potion made for Madam Pomfrey, that really shouldn't be too difficult, at least I hope so to all the gods. Umm, let's see Malfoy why don't you work with Miss Wagner.
Both Draco and Inessa gave a groan of discontent and seemed to only make Snape give the hint of a smile.
"Now let me see, the last thing I need is, oh great, Miss Moran you'll be assisting me in the lab, unfortunately you have to be here the night I can't work on this potion with only two hands. Well, come one you two start gathering the ingredients you'll need for Pepper-Up, it's an easy potion I hope you can remember it from your third year. Miss Moran if you'll come with me."
Snape walked through a door near the back of the classroom with Sarah following behind.
"If we have to do this let's make this as painless as possible." Draco cleared a place on the desk, then set up a cauldron and began collecting vials. Inessa walked over to the shelves where the student ingredients were kept.
'You know, I don't really remember everything that goes into Pepper-Up, but I don't want to look stupid in front of mister oh-look-I-feel-bad-so-it- makes-everything-okay." She grabbed some ingredients and headed to a separate table to begin chopping up some daisy roots.
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"What I am going to need you to do Miss Moran is start slowly adding fluxweed to that boiling cauldron over there and stir every five minutes. Can you handle that?"
"Yes Professor, where is your powdered Graphorn, I'll be needing that in about 20 minutes."
"It's over there on the second shelf, wait how do you know that?"
"Well I figured it was obvious that you were making a sleeping draught. I've made them before, in my advanced potions class back in, back in Salem." For a moment Sarah got a pang of homesickness but she shook it off.
"Hmm, fine then, you know where it is get it when you need it." Snape turned and under his breathe mumbled, "I hope you don't become a know-it- all like Miss Granger." Then began making a paste out of asphodel and an infusion of wormwood.
Halfway through her detention, Sarah had finished with her part of the potion. Seeing that Snape was far to involved in his work to ask what he needed next she sat and watched him work. His hands flew all over the table grabbing different vials and checking temperatures on different burners. He never once had too look up from his work, never lost concentration, he made it seem so easy.
'Wish I'll be able to work that swiftly someday.' But Sarah was brought back to reality when Snape turned around.
"Have you finished boiling the solution already?"
"Yes I have, Professor."
"Well just let me look at it." He began to cross-examine her work, and again Sarah studied him. When he was working he didn't seem like the git she would have recognized in class.
"This sleeping draft, you're making it for yourself aren't you?"
Snape looked up startled.
"The shadows under your eyes, the shade they have match exactly to one of the symptoms of using sleeping drafts regularly."
But before he could comprehend what she had said, let alone answer her there was an explosion in the classroom. Snape dashed into the room quickly followed by Sarah. Draco and Inessa were knocked out on the floor with pussy boils beginning to develop wherever the potion had sprayed on them.
"How did the-" Snape looked out in the hall but it had seemed Hermione had finished with the cauldrons and left early, just like he would have wanted her to under any other circumstances. "Sarah run upstairs and find Madam Pomfrey now!" Sarah took one more glance at the two on the floor and ran out the door past Snape.
Sarah was running at top speeds out of the Dungeons ,'Where is the Hospital Wing? Wait, he called me by my first name!'
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'Stupid Flitwick, he teaches Charms how do these desks get so filthy. Well only 20 more to go.' Noah was still scrubbing some of the desks in the Charms classroom when he heard the door open and close. He looked up to find Pansy leaning against one of the tables.
"I finished early with cleaning the trophies how much longer till you are finished in here."
Noah dropped the sponge into the bucket, "Oh I just finished."
"Great, then you wouldn't mind having me around." Pansy turned and began to ward the door. Noah stared at her; he hadn't known any students to already know such powerful wards. "Don't look at me like that, you learn things in Slytherin house. Now come here." Noah could only obey as he walked towards her, she grabbed him and threw him on to a desk, and then she began to kiss him passionately.
"So I guess I--cleaned these--desks for no--reason huh?" Noah was able to say this between kisses.
"Yeah, 'cause they are going to get real sticky, real soon."
Noah's eyebrows just shot up in shock, and then he grabbed her and began to return her kiss even more passionately, if that was possible.
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Out near Hagrid's hut Shannon, Blaise, Ron, and Cy were finishing up detention. They had to traipse through the Forbidden Forest and see if they could find a Fire-Crab that had escaped. Hagrid needed it because he had to breed it with a Manticore in order to get more Blast-Ended Skrewts. Cy had gone along with Blaise and Hagrid, and they were the unfortunate bunch to end up finding the crab and almost ending up burned to a crisp. Ron and Shannon had Fang to tag along. They hadn't spoken all night, and after hearing Hagrid's call they started on their way out of the Forest. Only feet from the edge of the forest Shannon tripped over a root and almost landed face first in the mud if Ron hadn't caught her. They stood there, awkward for a while before Shannon straightened herself up and stood.
"Umm, thank you, for umm, catching me."
"Oh, hey that's not a, umm problem." Ron began to focus very hard on something on the ground.
"Yeah."
"I'm still mad at you for what happened to Hermione today!"
"Well, don't think I'm not still mad at you for what you said about Sarah!" The two of them began to step closer to one another as their yelling heated up.
"Well yeah! I mean, umm, oh what the hell!" Ron grabbed Shannon's face and pressed his lips against hers.
Shannon pulled back, "What the fuck was that for!" The two of them stared at each other, and then Shannon grabbed Ron's face and began kissing him.
"Hey guys, Hagrid says we can go, WHOA! Yeah I didn't see that." Blaise turned around quickly and ran to get Cy before he made the same mistake. "Cy let's just go, I'm sure Ron and Shannon can walk back to the castle fine one their own, they can do a lot more than walk together believe me!"
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Colin again had taken his seat by the window in the library when Hermione ran in.
"Colin I am so sorry I forgot that I got a stupid detention from Snape, but I left early, and I am so sorry."
"Don't worry I have been reading your book and I'm loving it!"
"Oh I'm so glad! You ready to go see the Head boy/girl library?"
"Yep, let's go."
At the top of the East tower near a statue of a crying maiden Hermione whispered the password and they slipped in behind the statue.
"Wow this is great Hermione!" Colin glanced all over the small and cozy library. It was much smaller than the regular library and was stocked with much more teen-centered books. The blue candle lighting gave the room a much more relaxing mood, too.
"Yeah isn't, I come her a lot, when I want to, want to," she wanted to say breakdown, "relax."
"Yeah, I bet this is a great place to unwind."
"Oh it is just look at this view." It looked right over Hogwarts, and the lake, you could even see Hogsmeade from the height. Hermione sighed.
"Are you sure you are doing okay Hermione? You're looking a little frazzled."
"Yeah I'm fine. Everything is just hunky-dory."
"Now I know something is up when you pull out a phrase like that." Hermione laughed, but it sounded forced. "Come on, just tell me."
"Alright, it's just," and then everything spilled out, "with this stupid detention from Snape it is just the last straw, and my Arithmancy project didn't go at all like I had hoped, and it also turns out that my parents are demanding I go to a muggle college for the first two years, but if I do that I can't receive any of my wizarding scholarships, everything just seems like such a mess ::sob:: and in such a long time Colin, you have been the best thing to happen to me." Here Hermione just broke into more sobbing. She crumpled to the floor and leaned against the wall. Colin sat next to her and put his arm around her, and became her shoulder to cry on.
~-~ A/N That was a really long chapter, but I had so much that needed to be included. Hope you all likes. Now I am just going to go and die cause it is 2:30 in the freaking morning here and I am dead!! The potions stuff that was all just kinda made up, I personally don't know much about making a sleeping draught so if you do you can email me or just deal with what I wrote. Whew, I'm knackered! Review!!
