Chapter 1 :

Wrong Way To Go

The dark classroom was filled with silence. The class had started 20 minutes before, and the students knew well to keep it silent while in Snape's classroom. He was the most feared teacher in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Except for the Slytherins for whom he was the head of house). Snape was fine with this; he liked being feared, in a way.

As he was walking around the room, as he always, did checking on potions, he spotted two (of many) of which he loathed so much. Ron and Hermione had just finished making a potion for curing the hiccups. Hermione laughed at Ron's comment about what they might be making next.

"I mean, really, what would you say if the next potion we have to make is to help with a runny nose or something?" He asked.

Hermione couldn't help but snort.

Little did they know, Snape was standing behind them the whole time, "50 points from Gryffindor!" Snape yelled so that everyone in class could hear.

"Mr. Weasley, you now have a weeks detention with me," he said with a sneer, "and Miss Granger you will now go work with Longbottom." He cleared their already finished potion out of the cauldron. When he did this he made no marks so they got no grade for the day.

"Hi, Neville." Hermione said walking over to him. "Why are you working by yourself?" She asked nicely. "Harry was my partner yesterday, and I guess he had to be somewhere today." He answered.

'Harry was absent from class because he was out on a thing for the Order.' Hermione thought to herself.

"How far are you to being finished? I'm supposed to help you." Hermione stated while looking back at Snape and Ron. Ron was being yelled at for what he had said.

"I'm almost done." He said looking up from his work, "What happened to Ron?"

"Oh, Snape is just mad because he overheard Ron and I laughing about having to make such a stupid potion." Hermione said with anger in her voice.

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Later on when class was halfway done Neville said, "I think I got it. Just a little dash of..." He was interrupted by Snape,

"Longbottom, Granger, aren't you two finished yet!"

He scared Neville and made him add too much of the tiger claw powder.

"Neville look out!" Hermione shouted, but it was too late.

The potion turned from a calm light brown, to a bright orange, to blue, and then to a dark purple... Snape noticed it and told everyone to clear the room. All the students ran for the door.

"Look what you two have done." He yelled as Hermione was coming out of the room. He closed the door.

"I know that I'll have to let that smoke clear for the rest of the day."

"What smoke?" Neville said without thinking.

"That," there was an explosion, "smoke... another 25 points from Gryffindor."

"Now did any of you see the last color of the potion?" Snape asked.

"I think it was pink when I came out," said one of the Slytherin girls.

"I saw green," said Draco.

"I believe it was brick red and I was almost the last one out Professor," said Dean.

Snape looked even angrier then before. "So in other words nobody knows!"

Hermione couldn't believe she didn't think to look she was the last out of the classroom.

"Well, Potions is now out, because of you," he looked a Hermione and Neville, "so go! Be on your way!" he yelled as he walked down the hall murmuring words of anger and rage.

"He needs to learn to lighten up," said Ron. "I know," she looked at him as they to started walking away.

"When do you think Harry will be back?" Ron asked Hermione as they stopped in the middle of the hallway.

"I believe he told me it four weeks or longer. Must be a fun job, that one." Hermione replied thinking and hoping Harry would be safe.

They went back to walking. They really had no more to say. Hermione was trying to think of a reason to get away from Ron.

After a long silence, "Well I'm going to the library," Hermione said to Ron.

"How did I know you were going to say that?" Ron sighed, "If you're doing that then I think I'll just go up to the common room; see if anyone wants to play me in a game of chess, maybe." Ron said smiling and left her to be on her way.

At the library she picked out a bit of reading (about seven in long length) and sat herself in a corner to be alone with her books. She was reading in the library for what only seemed to her as a very short time when she felt a little off. She stopped reading Hogwarts, A History for the thousandth time because she felt funny. Then she saw that it was dark outside and thought she was getting tired and headed to the common room.

The common room was empty. It must have been a little after 11 o'clock. But she still had her homework to get done. So she walked over to her pile of homework that she had left near a window. She looked at them but really didn't feel like finishing them.

'Me, Hermione, not wanting to do her homework?' she thought, amused 'What would Harry and Ron say!'

She chuckled, and began up the stairs to bed.

A/N: You know what to do, so if you please, please review!