Chapter 4: Duties
Hermione yawned as she woke to the new day. The sun was peeping through the heavy brocade curtains.
They were coloured in the Griffindor colours of course, as was the same with her bed covers.
She jumped out of bed eagerly, and then dressed in her school robes. She couldn't wait till her classes started!
Hermione walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth and found that there were different flavoured toothpastes.
Not like fluoride and mint, there was raspberry, ice cream, chocolate and jellybeans. Mmm. A delightful way to start the morning!
After, reluctantly, rinsing her mouth, Hermione was just about to leave the bathroom when Draco walked in.
He was in his Slytherin dressing gown, his hair mussed up and a sleepy gaze in his now soft blue eyes.
Hermione stood speechless in shock as she felt a delicious shiver make its way down her spine.
Draco was also staring speechless, as he watched her face, as it was still flushed a delicate peach from sleep.
He was the first one to break of the daze that had descended. "Finished yet Granger?" he snapped his lips thinning.
"Not quite just yet Malfoy." She smiled a sickly sweet smile, animosity reeked from her forced smile and ridged stance.
Hermione turned back to the sink and proceeded to brush her hair. Slowly.
"That bush of yours in a tangle Granger?" Malfoy sneered, his eyes hard as rock.
Seeing her childish revenge backfire Hermione didn't dignify him with and answer and left the room
One of these days she was going to snap, she thought to herself.
Draco walked into potions class in a foul mood. He'd gotten another letter from his father this morning, urging him to join the death eaters.
Ugh! Screw the death eaters. Voldermort was a generation ago.
He was the new generation, a fresh start for the Malfoy's. No more death eaters in this family.
His father being on had caused enough trouble to the Malfoy reputation. He could almost guarantee that more trouble will be ahead.
He sat down and saw Hermione out of the corner of his eye, writing meticulously the instructions on the board with a black feather quill.
She wrote gracefully the way she did everything else.
Malfoy had stopped a bar on his thoughts. It's not like she or anyone else could read them, thankfully.
Everyone started on their potions for transforming a snail into a small snake.
Hermione cut up her ingredients with certain precision, leaving no room for mistake.
She dropped a few slice of merry leaf into the bubbling cauldron and turned away to finish preparing the rest of the ingredients.
As punishment for making him think and notice such things about her, he sprinkled some hemlock powder into the brew, and hurried back to his own cauldron unseen.
"Boom!"
The contents of the cauldron exploded everywhere, the yellow muck splattering on people closest to her cauldron.
"Five points from Griffindor!" Snape snapped "For such stupidity and carelessness for the safety of the other students."
"But-but-" Hermione spluttered.
"Silence! Or another five points will be taken off." Snape cut in nastily, a delighted sneer on his face. He'd been wanting to put the girl in her place for years now, but hadn't had the opportunity.
Hermione closed her gaping mouth with a snap.
There was no use protesting against Snape's unfair prejudice. He was always picking on Hermione and her friends.
It was usually Malfoy's fault.
Hermione gritted her teeth in anger and frustration, glaring at Snape's retreating back, cursing him under her breath.
While Snape's attention was on another student, she gestured rudely at Draco, making his mouth drop open with surprise. She knew he was behind the "mishap".
Finally Potions finished and Hermione sighed with relief. Thankfully it was also the last class of the day. But then again it would mean that she would have to spend time with Draco.
She shuddered with something that was not quite revulsion.
Harry and Ron walked by her side as they left the class.
"Do you want to come with us to see Hagrid? He wants to show us the new creature he has for Care of Magical Creatures Studies." Ron enquired with a frown on his face.
His worry was justified, as Hagrid usually chose creatures that seemed to be the most dangerous.
"Sorry. I can't I have to do Prefect stuff." Her face scrunched up in a grimace.
They stopped at a corner, said their goodbyes and parted.
As Hermione waved at her friends, looking back at them, she bumped into a solid wall and fell over.
Looking up she saw who the wall was. Malfoy.
He stood above her, his legs parted in an arrogant pose.
With an eyebrow raised he offered his hand to her.
Still in a daze she took it, feeling a jolt, of what could be electricity, run through her body.
Snapped out of her daze she reluctantly offered a thankyou. Malfoy just stared at he in shock unable to believe that he gave her his hand and that she would actually thank him for it.
"Well shouldn't we get to work?" She asked.
"Sure." He replied.
They walked down the corridor towards their dorm and to their duties.
Hermione yawned as she woke to the new day. The sun was peeping through the heavy brocade curtains.
They were coloured in the Griffindor colours of course, as was the same with her bed covers.
She jumped out of bed eagerly, and then dressed in her school robes. She couldn't wait till her classes started!
Hermione walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth and found that there were different flavoured toothpastes.
Not like fluoride and mint, there was raspberry, ice cream, chocolate and jellybeans. Mmm. A delightful way to start the morning!
After, reluctantly, rinsing her mouth, Hermione was just about to leave the bathroom when Draco walked in.
He was in his Slytherin dressing gown, his hair mussed up and a sleepy gaze in his now soft blue eyes.
Hermione stood speechless in shock as she felt a delicious shiver make its way down her spine.
Draco was also staring speechless, as he watched her face, as it was still flushed a delicate peach from sleep.
He was the first one to break of the daze that had descended. "Finished yet Granger?" he snapped his lips thinning.
"Not quite just yet Malfoy." She smiled a sickly sweet smile, animosity reeked from her forced smile and ridged stance.
Hermione turned back to the sink and proceeded to brush her hair. Slowly.
"That bush of yours in a tangle Granger?" Malfoy sneered, his eyes hard as rock.
Seeing her childish revenge backfire Hermione didn't dignify him with and answer and left the room
One of these days she was going to snap, she thought to herself.
Draco walked into potions class in a foul mood. He'd gotten another letter from his father this morning, urging him to join the death eaters.
Ugh! Screw the death eaters. Voldermort was a generation ago.
He was the new generation, a fresh start for the Malfoy's. No more death eaters in this family.
His father being on had caused enough trouble to the Malfoy reputation. He could almost guarantee that more trouble will be ahead.
He sat down and saw Hermione out of the corner of his eye, writing meticulously the instructions on the board with a black feather quill.
She wrote gracefully the way she did everything else.
Malfoy had stopped a bar on his thoughts. It's not like she or anyone else could read them, thankfully.
Everyone started on their potions for transforming a snail into a small snake.
Hermione cut up her ingredients with certain precision, leaving no room for mistake.
She dropped a few slice of merry leaf into the bubbling cauldron and turned away to finish preparing the rest of the ingredients.
As punishment for making him think and notice such things about her, he sprinkled some hemlock powder into the brew, and hurried back to his own cauldron unseen.
"Boom!"
The contents of the cauldron exploded everywhere, the yellow muck splattering on people closest to her cauldron.
"Five points from Griffindor!" Snape snapped "For such stupidity and carelessness for the safety of the other students."
"But-but-" Hermione spluttered.
"Silence! Or another five points will be taken off." Snape cut in nastily, a delighted sneer on his face. He'd been wanting to put the girl in her place for years now, but hadn't had the opportunity.
Hermione closed her gaping mouth with a snap.
There was no use protesting against Snape's unfair prejudice. He was always picking on Hermione and her friends.
It was usually Malfoy's fault.
Hermione gritted her teeth in anger and frustration, glaring at Snape's retreating back, cursing him under her breath.
While Snape's attention was on another student, she gestured rudely at Draco, making his mouth drop open with surprise. She knew he was behind the "mishap".
Finally Potions finished and Hermione sighed with relief. Thankfully it was also the last class of the day. But then again it would mean that she would have to spend time with Draco.
She shuddered with something that was not quite revulsion.
Harry and Ron walked by her side as they left the class.
"Do you want to come with us to see Hagrid? He wants to show us the new creature he has for Care of Magical Creatures Studies." Ron enquired with a frown on his face.
His worry was justified, as Hagrid usually chose creatures that seemed to be the most dangerous.
"Sorry. I can't I have to do Prefect stuff." Her face scrunched up in a grimace.
They stopped at a corner, said their goodbyes and parted.
As Hermione waved at her friends, looking back at them, she bumped into a solid wall and fell over.
Looking up she saw who the wall was. Malfoy.
He stood above her, his legs parted in an arrogant pose.
With an eyebrow raised he offered his hand to her.
Still in a daze she took it, feeling a jolt, of what could be electricity, run through her body.
Snapped out of her daze she reluctantly offered a thankyou. Malfoy just stared at he in shock unable to believe that he gave her his hand and that she would actually thank him for it.
"Well shouldn't we get to work?" She asked.
"Sure." He replied.
They walked down the corridor towards their dorm and to their duties.