Chapter Three: Lions and cloaks

Kae and Malfoy, once again together, walked down to Potions lesson.

"And Granger, your cousin that is, she's a stupid know-it-all" Malfoy explained. Kae rolled her eyes.

"I know. Last time we saw each other she went and explained me maths and we were only four!" she said growling. Malfoy opened the door for her and she entered the room. Most of the people were already taken and Malfoy sat down on his, ignoring Kae now. The girl strode up to the teachers desk and waited.

The door slammed closed and Professor Snape walked up to his desk and looked down at the girl.

"Ah. Found anything in my dungeon to criticize?" he asked her snidely. Kae looked around.

"You don't really want to know, do you?" she asked.

"You are to treat me with respect, Miss - " he looked at her, as if he had forgotten her name. But he new perfectly well, and he didn't approve of this girl in his house.

"Granger" Kae said and looked over to her cousin who was glaring daggers at her. "Kae Granger, that is."

"Very well" Snape said and looked around. "You can sit there. Next to Weasley" he said. Ron pulled a face. Kae hadn't been very friendly the first and last time they had met. Kae walked over and sat down next to him.

Snape looked over the class.

"Today we will be brewing – an ointment to change ones appearance. I've told you about the Polyjuice Potion in you second year" he said glaring at Harry. "And this is not it. It is a different kind. One doesn't change into someone else but changes into an animal." He walked behind his desk. "You will be brewing this ointment twice, the highest. Now and perhaps at you NEWTs."

Hermione breathed in deeply and focused on her most hated teacher more before. Snape waved his wand and the ingredients appeared on the blackboard in chalk.

Kae yawned loudly so everyone knew she wasn't interested.

"I will be walking around and seeing how you do" Snape said with a side look at Kae. He would have taken points, had she been in Gryffindor, but he couldn't risk taking points from his own house.

Harry, while looking for his Rabbit's Hairs accidentally knocked over his Snake Skin. Snape grinned.

"Ten points from Griffindor for making my dungeon dirty" he sneered. Malfoy grinned.

Ron was watching open mouthed as Kae took her ingredients and without looking at the blackboard once finished up her potion in ten minutes. When Snape came around to put down Ron, he saw Kae sitting back, her shoes on her desk, and cleaning her nails with a pencil.

"Have you finished?" Snape asked Kae, now ignoring Ron. Kae herself ignored Snape. Ron poked Kae in the side, for some reason he couldn't explain to himself. Kae jerked up and fell to the ground. She groaned as she got up and sat down on her chair again.

"Ow" she mumbled.

"Finished, Miss – Granger?" Snape asked Kae. She looked up.

"What? Yes" she said. Hermione looked over at Kae and then back at her own cauldron, where here potion simmered in the ready too.

"Well, let's see" Snape said and nodded towards her. Kae rubbed her eyes and the took a spoon of the ointment. She sighed and dabbed a bit onto her hand where she then rubbed it in. Slowly her hands grew dark golden fur and then turned into what looked like lion's paws.

"A lion?" Snape asked slightly conceited. Kae raised and an eyebrow.

"Where did you get that from?" Snape asked.

"I tend to have a liking to using lion's ingredients instead of rabbit's. Who scared of the big bad rabbit?" she asked mockingly. Snape's nose twitched and then he turned and strode away mumbling: "Five points for Slytherin."

The rest of the class was now watching Kae, who in her turn was examining her paws.

"Good. Now I won't need to clean my nails" she said.

"How did you do that?" Ron asked amazed, forgetting that he actually didn't like her. Kae looked up.

"Oh… Bite me" Kae then said and turned her back to him. Ron looked at Harry who shrugged.

After the lesson Hermione began her usual rant about her cousin.

"It's only been a day and Hermione can't keep her mouth shut on her cousin" Ron told Harry. Harry nodded sighing.

"And Malfoy's hanging on every word Hermione's cousin says" Harry added. Ron turned and saw Kae still with her lion's paws explaining something to Malfoy. He pulled a face.

"She has bad taste" Ron said. Sadly Hermione overheard Ron's words.

"She's always had. Remember I told you met when we were four, well…" and on and on she continued. Ron sighed and shook his head.

"Well, find yourself a seat" Professor McGonagall said. Kae huffed. She'd show this woman who was boss, acting superior of her. Kae scanned the class room and saw that the only empty place was quiet far in the back. And to her dismay far from Malfoy. Somehow she had found a liking to him and his arrogant attire.

"Today" Professor McGonagall began. "We will be changing a piece of cloth into a piece of garment." She took a multi-colored square piece of cloth from the table. Holding one end up by her fingertips, she tapped the cloth once with her wand and then: "Togarum!" The cloth curled itself up into the corner she was holding and then hug down again as a pair of multi-colored pants.

"Who would like to try?" she then asked the class. "Miss Granger?" she asked addressing Kae. Hermione hrmfed and dropped her hand to her table.

Kae picked the piece of cloth off the table, tapped it once and "Togarum!" Just as Professor McGonagall"s piece of cloth had done, her white piece curled itself up and then fell low, though not as a pair of pants. Kae's piece of garment was a cloak of a silvery material.

"An invisibility cloak" Ron hissed to Harry.

"My, that was extraordinary" Professor McGonagall said. "That is an advanced kind of the Togarum spell." Kae smirked.

"I try" Kae said smugly. Professor McGonagall nodded and then walked away.

"Ten points for an excellent transformation to Slytherin" she said. "Miss Granger?" she addressed Hermione.

"May I have a try?" Hermione asked glaring back at Kae who threw her cloak over her shoulders with an arrogant look at her cousin. Professor McGonagall nodded.

Hermione sat up straight, leaving her piece of cloth on the table, tapped it once and: "Togarum!" Hermione's piece of yellow and white cloth curled up and then unfolded as a hat with a decorative yellow sunflower on it. Professor McGonagall gave a faint smile.

"The Granger family seems to be very well-practiced in spells. Ten points for another excellent transformation to Gryffindor" she said and walked back to the front of the room. Hermione looked back and grinned at her cousin who looked unimpressed.

"Very well. Now you all try" Professor McGonagall said. A few seconds later a small cloud of dust rose from Seamus Finnigan's place and he frowned at himself. Malfoy's piece of cloth settled from doing anything and Ron and Harry's tied each other together and turned into a swan made of cloth.

Nyahahah!! She is a brilliant child now, isn't she… But as the saying goes… Nobody's perfect… wait up for the next chapter ^^