First day of classes and I'm late for breakfast already? Hermione thought glumly. She pushed herself out of bed and slumped into the washroom. She stared at her reflection. Nothing had changed much. Her hair was as bushy as ever and it annoyed her. Maybe a simple spell will work. It was far easier and it will probably last all day. Hermione changed out of her PJs and got her wand. Racking through her brain for the right spell while Ron continued pounding on her door.
"Oculus Lufico," Hermione muttered.
At once, her hair became straight and shiny in the light. Hermione smiled at her new reflection and walked out of the washroom. She got her school bag and swung it over her shoulder. She opened the door to the girl's dormitory just as Ron was about to pound on the door again. Ron accidentally hit Hermione straight under her left eye.
"Ow! Ron!" Hermione hissed. "You idiot!"
"Oops?" Ron said sheepishly.
Hermione rubbed the spot under the eye and walked downstairs, ignoring Ron's long string of apologies.
"Hermione! Did you run into the wall or something?" Harry asked looking concerned and surprised.
"No! Ron hit me." Hermione mumbled.
"By accident," Ron pointed out from her side.
"Let's go get breakfast. We got to get our schedules anyway," Hermione said.
The three of them left the common room and hurried to the Great Hall. Students were chatting and pointing at their new schedules. As Hermione, Ron, and Harry sat down, Colin hurried over clutching 3 parchments.
"Your new schedules! I got it from McGonagall just for you!" Colin smiled happily at Harry.
"Err... thanks Colin," Harry said.
"You're welcome! Hermione, what happened to your eye? Did you run into the wall? I always run into walls, I got used to it a long time ago though," Colin continued. "In fact, I've become sort of immune to it."
"That's nice," Hermione muttered taking a parchment from Colin.
"I'll leave you alone so you guys can eat, bye Harry!" Colin waved furiously. He handed Harry and Ron the schedules and quickly left.
Hermione poured some orange juice into her goblet and got some bread. Harry scanned the schedule with Ron.
"Double Potions after lunch. We have Charms first, then Transfiguration with Hufflepuffs," Ron said.
"Double Potions?" Hermione groaned.
"Yea-- Hermione, your hair!" Ron gaped at her.
"Took you long enough to notice!" Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Looks nice, was it a spell?" Harry asked.
Hermione blushed and managed to mutter a "yeah." Harry shot Hermione a smile, which made Hermione's heart beat a bit faster. She quickly looked away before she could blush even more. What was wrong with her? Harry was just a friend, and nothing more. He sure was looking much more handsome this year though. His wild unruly hair, his soft pink lips, his bright green eyes, his nice tight-- no! NO! Hermione shook her head, what was she thinking? Bad, bad thoughts!
"Hermione!" Ron shouted.
"Huh?" Hermione said, confused.
"Come on, we're going to be late for Charms!" Ron said.
"Oh? Oh! Right," Hermione mumbled while getting up to leave the Great Hall with Ron and Harry.
"It's scary, you were staring into space." Ron pointed out.
"What? Busy thinking about someone?" Harry teased.
"Of course she was! Thinking about THE hottest Gryffindor ever, me!" Ron said proudly.
"Yeah! Ron you are sooo hot!" Hermione gushed while throwing her arms around Ron.
Ron smiled smugly before the three of them bursted out laughing. They took their time walking to class but sped off running as soon as the bell rang. Professor Flitwick stood outside awaiting his students. Charms went by smoothly, they were let off without any homework. Transfiguration was as strict as ever. They started right away learning how to turn a piece of clothing into an apple, ending the class with a pile of notes and homework.
"Potions," Ron groaned right after lunch.
The trio proceeded down towards the dungeon. They decided to sit at the very back, as always. As they were un-packing their potion's ingredients, Snape strolled in.
"Longbottom, sit down! Ms. Brown stop talking," Snap snapped as soon as he walked in.
"Still the bunches of dunderheads since the first year aren't you all? Today we will be making a Memory Potion. Turn to page 172 in your textbooks and read it carefully, that means you Mr. Longbottom and Potter. The lists of ingredients are listed there."
Hermione started to read at once, taking down notes once in a while. She took out the ingredients needed after she was finished.
"Hermione, do you put the crocodile skin first, or the bark thing?" Ron asked frustrated.
"The bark thing is called Cleriss back, it's a tree that-" Hermione started to explain but got cut off.
"No need to explain the whole thing to us!" Ron said.
He turned back to the potion he was making with Harry, and handed Harry the bark. Hermione rolled her eyes and started working on her potion again.
"Professor Snape? Professor Flitwick told me to give you this message."
Hermione turned around in time to see Ginny. She walked over casually and gave Snape a folded parchment.
"Hermione! Is your potion supposed to be purple?" Ron asked again, poking his cauldron.
Hermione ignored Ginny's glare and turned to Ron.
"Tell Flitwick that we'll talk about it later, you're dismissed." Snape said with a careless wave of his hand.
Ginny nodded. She dropped a note in Hermione's cauldron. Hermione's robes got sprayed with the potion. Ginny pretended she didn't notice anything and walked away. Hermione scowled after her and rubbed at the spot where the potion landed.
The class continued until Snape stopped them.
"You all must have finished the Memory potion by now and if not, that would be too bad for you," Snape's thin lips curled into a nasty smile directed at Neville's nervous face.
"Hermione, what colour is the potion supposed to be?" Ron asked quietly.
"I told you! Blue," Hermione whispered back.
"Anything you would like to share with us, Ms. Granger?" Snape drawled.
"N-no," Hermione said.
"Well since you weren't paying attention,I'll test your potion."
Hermione looked nervously at her potion. Instead of blue, it had turned a dark shade of yellow. Just as Snape walked over with a ladle, the bell rang. Relieved, Hermione quickly dumped all her belongings back in her bag. Snape scowled.
"We'll test it out next class. I'll bottle these," Snape said.
Students hurried out of the classroom, their stomach's growling in need of dinner.
"That was close, I could hardly breathe when Snape wanted to test the potion on me," Hermione said.
"Enough about that, let's go eat, I'm starving," Ron said.
The Great Hall filled with sounds of clattering knives and forks. Everybody talked with their mouths full of delicious food. Sleepy students went back up to their common rooms. Hermione sat on the couch doing her Transfiguration homework. Just as she pulled out her textbook, a note fell out. She looked curiously at it for a second before reading it.
Better watch your back Granger, I'm watching you.
Hermione scoffed.
She tries too hard, Hermione decided, as she finished the last page of her homework.
A/N: Wow, I finally decided to type out chapter 2. Problem is, I only have 2 reviews so far -.-' Okay just to tell you guys, this will have romance in it later on in chapter 7. A long way from here, but that's okay! I already have ideas for my next story. Anyways, now you've read chapter2, PLEASE review! Thanks!