A/N Ok… not proud of this chapter… infact… it's pretty lame… but -shrugs- What am I gonna do about it?
Riddles in the Dark
Chapter 2: Memories
'Hermione! Get up!' Lavender and Parvarti threw a pillow at the sleeping girl, who snorted, and sat up quickly.
'What?!' she snapped irritably.
'Jeeze!' Parvarti stormed out angrily.
'Don't worry about her... Cordelia and Louisa Riddle came looking for you before, and Parvarti's annoyed that they didn't come to see her – the slut of Gryffindor...' Lavender grinned.
'Oh... SHIT! I have potions in 15 minutes!' Hermione jumped out of bed and dressed quickly, lugging a brush through her honeycomb knot-filled hair.
Swinging her bag over her shoulder, focused on getting to class on time, Hermione didn't hear Lavender's cries.
'Hermione! Wait! We have 1 hour and 15 minutes before the first classes!! The clocks are fast to keep Parvarti in check! You know how behind time she gets when she's dating!'
'Oh...' Hermione dropped her bag, 'Then in that case...' Hermione noticed the hair straightener on her desk.
'Hmm...'
'Hermione... you know what? I think you'd look good with ringlets!'
'What?!' Hermione looked up at Lavender.
'I saw the kit you got last night, and if you want, I could straighten and curl your hair!'
'Oh... if it's not too much trouble...' Hermione sat heavily on her bed, and lavender grabbed the straightener.
An hour later, Hermione Pei-Lin Granger sat in front of Lavender Brown with straight, smooth honeycomb hair.
'Hmm... I don't think we need to curl your hair... you look great as is!'
"Why is lavender being so nice to me??"
'I don't understand it Hermione... for some reason lately you just seem... alluring...' Lavender shook her head and walked out.
Hermione grinned and tossed her shoulder length hair over her shoulder.
Maybe today wouldn't be so crap after all...
'Now... today we will be brewing veritaserum... this must be completed in 3 hours... you may begin... except... Ms. Riddle... you may help the students having achieved highest marks at your previous school...' Snape's lips curled as his eyes set down on the beautiful, blonde Cordelia.
Cordelia's hand immediately moved to Draco's, but was then slapped away by Louisa.
'Remember what father ordered...' she hissed.
'Fine...' Cordelia got up and sat over by Hermione.
'Yes?'
'I'm here to help!' Hermione rolled her eyes, and got up to get the ingredients.
Cordelia summoned a nail file, and set away at her French manicured nails.
3 hours later, Hermione smiled as her potion simmered, a silvery vapour rising off the clear surface... no thanks to Cordelia.
'There...' Hermione bottled a sample for marking.
Cordelia looked up, brushing a few pink strands of hair out of her eyes.
'You know... you remind me of a sister a lost when I was young...'
'Oh Wow...' Hermione rolled her eyes sarcastically, before she looked down, and lost herself in the grey/blue eyes.
'Mione!' Cordelia swept down on the middle Riddle triplet, hugging her.
'Mr. Ford visited me today! Guess what?!' a raven haired four year old, with a dark mauve fringe looked up from her astromagic text book.
'What Cordy?' the grey-eyed girl looked at her bouncing blonde sister of the same age, who calmed and brushed her hot pink fringe out of her eyes.
'He said that when I'm 16 I can be his lead Supermodel! Isn't that great?!'
'Fantastic! Have you told mother?'
'Nope... she's busy in the lab... working on a way to bring Dad back... I haven't got a key pass...'
'Oh...' the four year old raven haired Mione's small hand clasped around a key card in her pocket.
Quietly walking down the tiled hallway, Mione looked around the white walls, reading the embossed numbers.
'32...33...ah... 34!' Mione swiped the card and pushed the door open.
'Mum?'
'Mione! I'm glad you're here! I can't get the viscosity of this emollition right!'
'Oh... what's the alkalifiable proportion?'
'3.4...'
'There's your problem! With a mixture like that, the proportion should be 5.7!'
The two set off working silently, when Mione spoke.
'Did you know that in 12 years, Cordelia's been offered a supermodeling position?'
'Really? Oh... my baby girls are growing up...'
Hermione shook her head, regaining her senses.
'Hmm... bye!' Cordelia straightened herself up and casually left the dungeons.
'What the hell...'
Ok... that's chapter 2... and by the way, I'm not actually a teacher, I'm a teenage student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok now... I hope you liked this chapter, and bear in mind, I am aware that Cordelia SEEMS like a mary sue, but she's a bitchy bimbo! And Snape has the hots for her!
-author slaps hand to mouth -
Whoops! Forget I just said that!!!!!
Oh… and THANKYOU to all eight of my reviewers!!!!!! You guys rock!
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