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Hmm…
A very groggy Hermione rolled over in her bed, pulling the covers up over her head. She simply refused to believe that morning had come so quickly. A loud knocking started at her door.
"Mione! Come on it time to get up!"
"Alright, alright!"
Malfoy had taken to waking her up so she wouldn't sleep through her morning classes. Hurriedly, she pulled on her robes and made herself presentable. She walked out of her room and looked at the large grandfather clock that was in the common room.
Hmm… I still have some time to kill before breakfast, I'll go down to the Gryffindor Common Room and surprise Harry and Ron! Having made up her mind she walked over to the door that would take her to the common room.
"See you in Potions!" she called to Malfoy.
He watched her leave. It was really something, how they were friends now, after being enemies for six years, but he couldn't for the life of him think of any good reason to hate that girl. Malfoy desperately wanted to tell Hermione about Eve, especially because she was such a mystery to him. She came to him about four or five days a week, but she always just appeared. He never even heard her come. But no matter how hard he tried he could never find her. She was never walking around in the corridors of the school. He only ever saw her at night, and that was all her doing. His mind began to speculate things, maybe she wasn't human, maybe she was a vampire or something. Stupid git! She couldn't be a vampire, or else you'd have been dead along time ago! This was true. Why then, could he never find her? He wanted so desperately to know.
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Hermione opened the door and steped into the Gryffindor common room. She looked around and saw Harry and Ginny sitting in tow chairs over by the fireplace having a conversation. As Hermione approached, Ginny jumped up from her seat.
"Uh, Hey Mione!"
"Hey Gin, what's up?"
"Uh, nothing I was just leaving actually, bye!"
Ginny turned and went up the hall to her dorm. Hermione eyed the girl curiously. It was obvious by her strange behavior, that the latter girl never really got over her crush on the wondrous Boy-Who-Lived. Hermione was saddened by how her relationship with Ginny was dwindling. Sighing, she turned to Harry.
"Ready for Breakfast?"
"Yup," he said getting up and kissing her cheek, causing Hermione to smile. They waited for Ron and then headed down to the Great Hall.
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Hermione was sitting in the potions classroom in between Harry and Ron. She looked up at the clock, three, two, one. The door burst open and their potions teacher sauntered in with his black cape trailing behind him. Why does he feel the need to make such elaborate entrances? Hermione thought rolling her eyes.
"Today we will begin work on our end of term projects. Each of you will be paired with a member of the opposite house. The two of you will be responsible for researching a potion and brewing it. We will be testing these the last week of the term. Only those with potions that work will receive a passing grade in this class."
The students looked around the classroom, it was full of Gryffindors and Slytherins, there was no way anyone was going to pass potions.
"I will be assigning your pairs now."
Hermione ended up being paired with Malfoy, which wasn't bad since the two were friends now. Harry and Ron weren't so lucky. Ron was paired with Goyle, and Harry was paired with Pansy. Malfoy moved over and sat by Hermione; they began talking about what potion they would be using. It seemed that they were the only two that were getting any real work done, the rest of the class was either sulking or fighting.
Just then Malfoy said something that made Hermione giggle.
"Miss Granger! Is there some thing funny about the subject of potions?"
"No Professor."
"Then why are you laughing and otherwise creating a disturbance in my class?"
"It's just that,"
"It's just that you weren't doing the assignment. Fifteen points from Gryffindor!" Snape interrupted before she could explain herself.
"But Professor that's not fair! We were doing our work!"
"And another ten points off for talking back."
Hermione opened her mouth to say something, but Malfoy elbowed her. She knew he was right, there was no use trying to reason with their potions master. But that didn't stop Hermione from being upset. The nerve of that guy and when they had been the only group actually doing the stupid project! He probably knew it too, the dirty rat!
The bell rang signifying the end of potions, and not a moment too soon. Hermione gathered her books and walked briskly out of the classroom.
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And that's the end of my chapter, u know what that means…time to review! Thank you to all of you who sent me reviews and a special thanks to Loki for proofing my chapters, I owe u! sorry this chapter was remotely uneventful, but things are about to pick up and get…involved. Until next time!
~Atiannala
