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The First Hour
No sooner had Snape's footsteps died away, then Draco Malfoy got on his feet, and started to make his rounds of the room. His eyes hovered on Ginny Weasley, inwardly laughing at the thought of another howler coming to the Gryffindor table. Then he locked gazes with Harry Potter.
"Pathetic Pothead. Guess you couldn't take the heat anymore, could you? Had to take matters into your own hands, didn't you?" Everyone in the room was staring now. Draco had captured all their attention, except for Hermione, who was too intent with reading up on the "505 Uses for Flubberworm Mucus". Draco glanced up, seeing the one person in the room that wasn't looking at him, and left Harry alone.
"Trying to impress teachers with your goody too-shoe act still?" he smirked, pulling the book away from her face with the point of his dagger. "I would have expected better of you, Granger. From what I've heard, I suppose Potty and you aren't talking very much anymore, either."
"Sod off, Malfoy," she grumbled under her breath, before turning and lifting the book up again.
Shrugging, he did as she had asked, heading to his next target, Cho Chang. The girl in blue and silver robes tried hard not to make eye contact with him. She moved her head down, only to find his face was nearly there as well. After a few minutes, they were finally staring at one another intensely.
"Leave her alone," Harry's voice came roughly from the front of the room.
"You want to fight, Potter?" Draco asked back, raising his knife.
"Stop it both of you," Ginny cried, standing up at the sight of the blade. Both boys' faces snapped to her panic stricken face. Harry glared at Draco, who put the knife back in its sheath at his waist. With a roll of his eyes, the Malfoy boy sat on top of Hermione's desk.
"Merlin, this is boring!" he sighed, running a hand through his sleek, blonde hair. He leaned back on the desk, eyeing up Hermione. "What do you say, Granger? Wanna help a guy out?"
"No thank you," she replied simply, turning her back on him, while still reading. She had totally ignored his entire presence. This made Draco Malfoy not a happy camper. He grabbed the stool that was aside of her and with a howl sent it crashing into a thousand pieces across the room.
Hermione flinched, but refused to look at him. "Fine," he hissed, straightening up his clothes. "I'll find someone else who actually has a life, beside their silly mask of perfectness."
As he stalked to the front of the room, he didn't notice her glance up at him, a tear streaming down her cheek.
Ginny was done applying all her make-up. She tapped Harry on the shoulder. "Do you think it looks ok?" she asked, motioning to her face. He looked at her eyes, which had a bit too much purple on them, her lips that were so red they could have matched her hair, and the lines under her eyes that made her look sleepy.
"You look great, Gin," he lied.
"Actually, Weasley, you should lay off that Muggle shit. I heard it can make your wrinkles appear larger," once again Draco Malfoy had managed to enter a conversation that he hadn't been invited into.
Ginny looked like she was about to cry. Harry grew beat red with anger. "Why do you have to do that?" he shouted. "Why do you have to put everyone down? What did she ever do to you, Malferret?"
"Nothing, just like you Saint Potter, nothing. You all are in here because you're perfect little angles. I'm in here to tempt you, as if I were the devil. That's why the five of us are in this goddamn room with nothing to do so that I'm bored out of my mind." He paused from his chaotic yelling. Collecting himself, he said, "Does that answer your questions? Because if it doesn't," he made a fist, flexing the strong Quidditch muscles in his arm.
"Whatever, ferret boy," Harry mumbled, turning back to his Quidditch magazine.
Hermione was tired of listening to them bicker. She turned around to face Cho. "Hey," she smiled, trying to get a grin from the girl. Cho said nothing. "What did you do to get in here?" Still nothing. "Are you alright?" she asked, finally.
Wrong thing to say. Immediately, a scream erupted from Cho Chang's mouth that could have woke the entire castle. All the people in the class were staring at here as if she had just appeared. She shrieked for a steady minute, no breath required. Only after she had ended, did anyone attempt to breath themselves.
"Sorry for asking," Hermione whispered, going back to her books before she could cause anymore trouble.
"What was that!" another voice bellowed. All the students jumped to their correct places as Snape broke down the door. "Well?" he demanded. "Who was screaming like that? You nearly brought back the dead!" Here Harry laughed, and Snape smacked him behind the head.
"It was her," Ginny pointed to Cho with disgust. "I don't know what's wrong with her."
"Oh, she's just sore from losing to Gryffindor," Harry grumbled.
"You stay out of this," Snape barked.
"Cho Chang," he yelled. "What are you screaming about?"
Silence.
"Cho?"
Still nothing.
"CHANG!!!!!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Don't yell at her sir," Hermione pipped up. "It was my fault. I got her upset. I said something to her about…Cedric Diggerory."
"CEDRIC!!!!" Cho suddenly wailed, her face flopping down into her arms, as she sobbed. (A/N: If you don't know me very well, then you don't realize that I have a great passion of hate for Cho Chang. Hehehe!)
"Oui Merlin!" Snape grumbled. "Don't let it happen again or you'll earn yourself another detention. Do you understand me, Ms. Granger?"
"Yes sir," she nodded, lowering her head.
"Now all of you, get to work on that scroll," he instructed strictly, "you've already lost an hour!" He stormed out just as he had entered, charming the door once again.
"Yay, for Granger. I think she just officially pissed off the worst tempered teacher inside the Hogwarts grounds," Draco chuckled, starting to clap. As for the rest of the students, they were sitting mutely, staring at their blank scrolls.
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A/N: Wow! 17 reviews for the first chapter! I hope everyone thought I did that well on this chapter. I tried to make it as much like the movie and still in character as possible. I don't really like Cho, for those of you who haven't noticed. Usually, I like Draco/Hermione & Harry/Ginny pairing, which is probably how it's going to come out to. I know that wasn't how it happened in the movie, but I always felt bad for Brian who had no one after he had written that whole essay. It was so sad, when he was so nice. *sighs* Oh well. REVIEW! Please? ~ Neveada