A/N- Making Prof. Vector a male. The gender is never
said in the books, but I always pictured Vector to be a guy.
Oh, and sorry to one of my friends, I used their nickname
later in the chapter.
Beautiful
During that first week, I got odd looks from all my teachers. They seemed convinced that my new image would change the way I act at school. I was used to my teachers having their opinions of me, I was a hard worker, a know-it-all, the best student. The list was endless.
But this was different.
I took the time to do extra research for my last Potions essay. I aced an Arithmancy review test. I was always ahead in Transfiguration, always the first one done, always put my hand up to answer the questions.
I was still looked at differently.
~*~
I walked up to Professor Vector's desk and handed in my test. "First one done, Hermione." He flipped through the four page booklet. "Good job. Take a seat, there's only a few minutes of class left. "
I sat down and put my stuff in my bag. "Garret, eyes on your own paper." After about a minute, the majority of the class had handed in their tests. The bell rang.
"Wait class." Professor Vector stood up from his desk. "Remember to do pages 314-315. Odd questions only." I grabbed a pen, which I kept in my bag in case I ran out of ink for my quill, and wrote the assignment on my arm. When I walked out of the room, Ron was standing there.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
Ron mumbled something, he was playing with a small tear on the sleeve of his robe.
"What?" I asked.
Ron looked up. "Waiting for you. Harry wanted to get there early so he could talk to Hagrid. I thought I'd come down to your class and walk with you."
"Thanks, Ron." I said, then laughed at myself, I sounded incredibly stupid. Thanks, Ron what was with that anyway? Parvati must of hear me and thought the same thing because she looked back and smiled. To break the awkward silence, Ron started telling me about what they did in Divination. I hated the subject, and the teacher, true seers were rare and it was clear Trelawney wasn't one. Ginny walked past us without saying anything. "Hey" Ron called after her, but she was too far away to hear. "Why is she in such a hurry, she doesn't have any classes that way."
When we got to class, Harry and Neville were talking to Hagrid and I wasn't surprised to see that Draco wasn't there. Were they skipping class to be together? Come to think of it, Draco wasn't in two Potions classes this week. I made a mental note to talk to Ginny about it.
We heard the bell from the castle, and Ron and I found a large tree stump to sit on. A few people laid their robes on the ground and sat on them, others just sat on the grass. Hagrid took attendance, then looked at the class. "Get yourselves a partner everyone, I'll be righ' back." I partnered with Ron. Hagrid walked behind his house and brought back a medium sized cage, he opened it and whatever it was walked out.
It was an odd looking creature. It was small with fluffy white fur. It seemed to have a body similar to a rabbit, but the legs were a little longer and it was had the face of a kitten . Hagrid picked it up and it jumped out of his hand, he picked it up again.
"What are they?" I looked back and saw that Draco had just arrived.
"Kirattes. Jus' born a few days ago. I thought we'd start off the year off with a project. That's why I told you all to get yourself a partner. You're going to raisin' em over the next few months." Hagrid looked around. "C'mere so I get write all the pairs down and I'll give ya a number which will be on the Kiratte's collar. They don't have any names yet, so when ya can pick the names fer them."
Hagrid went around and got some more of the creatures. Compared to the cages they were very tiny, I wondered how big they would grow. "Ron and Hermione, go get number three. It's a female. Hagrid said as he wrote down our names. I walked over to the cages to pick one out. "Draco and, who's your partner? Pansy. Okay, go ahead. Number seven, "
I looked at the collars of six of them until I found ours. "Where is she?" I asked when Draco walked over. Obviously, by 'she' I meant Ginny. I thought they were skipping class together, but Draco showed up.
Draco looked back, Lavender and Dean were signing up. "I'm not sure. We saw each other before class, I told her to go to class but she probably went to the library or the great hall."
I went back to Ron and handed him the Kiratte. "Hey, little guy." Ron said, holding the Kiratte in the palm of his hand.
"Ron, it's a girl."
"Oh. Well, what you suppose we name her?
By the end of the lesson, we had named our Kiratte Shay, and tried feeding her little bits of food that Hagrid had gotten from the kitchen. Lavender and Dean's Kiratte had eaten a black olive. Harry and Parvati managed to get theirs to eat a two grapes. So far, Shay had eaten a fourth of a small strawberry and a flower petal Ron gave her as a joke.
After class, we went up to the great hall. Sure enough, like Draco had said, Ginny was sitting there. A book was in front of her and she seemed to be copying some notes out of it.
"Where have you been lately?" Ron asked, when we reached her.
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked. "I see you everyday." She pulled a fruit basket towards her and grabbed an orange, I grabbed on to
"I mean today, at lunch. And every other day this week." Ron said.
"There are other places to eat lunch, Ron. Plus, I've been here for supper." Ginny replied calmly, peeling her orange.
"Okay then, where have you been eating lunch?" Ron asked, Harry and I rolled our eyes at the same time and then started to laugh really hard, I felt silly since Ginny and Ron were having a serious talk right beside us.
"Some teachers allow you to eat in their classes at lunch, you can eat outside and there are plenty of empty classrooms to eat in."
"So, basically, you've running off to an empty classroom everyday, without saying a word to anyone, to be by yourself? I've been asking people all week and none of them could even give me an idea where you are."
"Yes." Ginny replied and went back to copying her notes. Ron wasn't sure what to say after that.
~*~
Long after supper, I went to the library and then to the dormitory. It felt good to take my bag off my shoulder for awhile. I laid down on my bed and pulled the curtain around me. The other girls were playing truth or dare and talking about things that happened throughout the week. The biggest topic was that Lavender and Dean had become a couple.
I was about eighty pages into the first book when the laughter and talking of the other girls had gotten to me. I looked at my watch, it was shortly after nine. I went down to the common room and sat on the couch beside Ginny. Ron and Harry had went out to the Quidditch Pitch to practice.
There weren't too many people in the common room tonight. It wasn't unusual though, it was a Friday night. People were outside on the grounds, in the dormitories, meeting up with their friends in nearly deserted areas of the school and some people even sneaked out to Hogsmeade. A few seventh years were sitting in the corner of the room doing homework. Colin Creevey was playing chess with a fifth year I didn't know. Four first year girls were playing a wizarding board game.
"Can you hold on a minute?" Ginny asked.
"No problem." I replied, and Ginny ran up the spiraled staircase to the girls dormitory. A minute later, she returned with an envelope in her hand.
"What's that?" I asked, but then I recognized. Ginny had been sorting through her letters the about a week and a half ago and there was one that was slightly different.
Ginny sat down beside me. "Okay, don't get mad at me. Remember when we were fighting at Grimmauld? You avoided coming into the room, and when you were out one day a letter came for you. I didn't know what to do with it because we weren't talking to each other. "
I wasn't sure what to say. Ginny passed me the envelope, I turned it over. It was a letter from Viktor.
~*~
Okay, It's a little longer than the last few. I plan to make the next one even longer. I wasn't sure how to end this exactly but I don't know how to write a story based around Hermione and not have a little of Viktor in it. I know it was a stupid thing to have Ginny not give it to her right away but I wanted to put it off for a little while.
The Kiratte's? It's not supposed to sound like Karate, but rhyme it with pirate. They sound kind of dumb, right? I couldn't think of anything.
It's late right now, around one in the morning (late for me anyway). I don't have my muse and I'm tired so sorry if the chapter was disappointing.
Beautiful
During that first week, I got odd looks from all my teachers. They seemed convinced that my new image would change the way I act at school. I was used to my teachers having their opinions of me, I was a hard worker, a know-it-all, the best student. The list was endless.
But this was different.
I took the time to do extra research for my last Potions essay. I aced an Arithmancy review test. I was always ahead in Transfiguration, always the first one done, always put my hand up to answer the questions.
I was still looked at differently.
~*~
I walked up to Professor Vector's desk and handed in my test. "First one done, Hermione." He flipped through the four page booklet. "Good job. Take a seat, there's only a few minutes of class left. "
I sat down and put my stuff in my bag. "Garret, eyes on your own paper." After about a minute, the majority of the class had handed in their tests. The bell rang.
"Wait class." Professor Vector stood up from his desk. "Remember to do pages 314-315. Odd questions only." I grabbed a pen, which I kept in my bag in case I ran out of ink for my quill, and wrote the assignment on my arm. When I walked out of the room, Ron was standing there.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
Ron mumbled something, he was playing with a small tear on the sleeve of his robe.
"What?" I asked.
Ron looked up. "Waiting for you. Harry wanted to get there early so he could talk to Hagrid. I thought I'd come down to your class and walk with you."
"Thanks, Ron." I said, then laughed at myself, I sounded incredibly stupid. Thanks, Ron what was with that anyway? Parvati must of hear me and thought the same thing because she looked back and smiled. To break the awkward silence, Ron started telling me about what they did in Divination. I hated the subject, and the teacher, true seers were rare and it was clear Trelawney wasn't one. Ginny walked past us without saying anything. "Hey" Ron called after her, but she was too far away to hear. "Why is she in such a hurry, she doesn't have any classes that way."
When we got to class, Harry and Neville were talking to Hagrid and I wasn't surprised to see that Draco wasn't there. Were they skipping class to be together? Come to think of it, Draco wasn't in two Potions classes this week. I made a mental note to talk to Ginny about it.
We heard the bell from the castle, and Ron and I found a large tree stump to sit on. A few people laid their robes on the ground and sat on them, others just sat on the grass. Hagrid took attendance, then looked at the class. "Get yourselves a partner everyone, I'll be righ' back." I partnered with Ron. Hagrid walked behind his house and brought back a medium sized cage, he opened it and whatever it was walked out.
It was an odd looking creature. It was small with fluffy white fur. It seemed to have a body similar to a rabbit, but the legs were a little longer and it was had the face of a kitten . Hagrid picked it up and it jumped out of his hand, he picked it up again.
"What are they?" I looked back and saw that Draco had just arrived.
"Kirattes. Jus' born a few days ago. I thought we'd start off the year off with a project. That's why I told you all to get yourself a partner. You're going to raisin' em over the next few months." Hagrid looked around. "C'mere so I get write all the pairs down and I'll give ya a number which will be on the Kiratte's collar. They don't have any names yet, so when ya can pick the names fer them."
Hagrid went around and got some more of the creatures. Compared to the cages they were very tiny, I wondered how big they would grow. "Ron and Hermione, go get number three. It's a female. Hagrid said as he wrote down our names. I walked over to the cages to pick one out. "Draco and, who's your partner? Pansy. Okay, go ahead. Number seven, "
I looked at the collars of six of them until I found ours. "Where is she?" I asked when Draco walked over. Obviously, by 'she' I meant Ginny. I thought they were skipping class together, but Draco showed up.
Draco looked back, Lavender and Dean were signing up. "I'm not sure. We saw each other before class, I told her to go to class but she probably went to the library or the great hall."
I went back to Ron and handed him the Kiratte. "Hey, little guy." Ron said, holding the Kiratte in the palm of his hand.
"Ron, it's a girl."
"Oh. Well, what you suppose we name her?
By the end of the lesson, we had named our Kiratte Shay, and tried feeding her little bits of food that Hagrid had gotten from the kitchen. Lavender and Dean's Kiratte had eaten a black olive. Harry and Parvati managed to get theirs to eat a two grapes. So far, Shay had eaten a fourth of a small strawberry and a flower petal Ron gave her as a joke.
After class, we went up to the great hall. Sure enough, like Draco had said, Ginny was sitting there. A book was in front of her and she seemed to be copying some notes out of it.
"Where have you been lately?" Ron asked, when we reached her.
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked. "I see you everyday." She pulled a fruit basket towards her and grabbed an orange, I grabbed on to
"I mean today, at lunch. And every other day this week." Ron said.
"There are other places to eat lunch, Ron. Plus, I've been here for supper." Ginny replied calmly, peeling her orange.
"Okay then, where have you been eating lunch?" Ron asked, Harry and I rolled our eyes at the same time and then started to laugh really hard, I felt silly since Ginny and Ron were having a serious talk right beside us.
"Some teachers allow you to eat in their classes at lunch, you can eat outside and there are plenty of empty classrooms to eat in."
"So, basically, you've running off to an empty classroom everyday, without saying a word to anyone, to be by yourself? I've been asking people all week and none of them could even give me an idea where you are."
"Yes." Ginny replied and went back to copying her notes. Ron wasn't sure what to say after that.
~*~
Long after supper, I went to the library and then to the dormitory. It felt good to take my bag off my shoulder for awhile. I laid down on my bed and pulled the curtain around me. The other girls were playing truth or dare and talking about things that happened throughout the week. The biggest topic was that Lavender and Dean had become a couple.
I was about eighty pages into the first book when the laughter and talking of the other girls had gotten to me. I looked at my watch, it was shortly after nine. I went down to the common room and sat on the couch beside Ginny. Ron and Harry had went out to the Quidditch Pitch to practice.
There weren't too many people in the common room tonight. It wasn't unusual though, it was a Friday night. People were outside on the grounds, in the dormitories, meeting up with their friends in nearly deserted areas of the school and some people even sneaked out to Hogsmeade. A few seventh years were sitting in the corner of the room doing homework. Colin Creevey was playing chess with a fifth year I didn't know. Four first year girls were playing a wizarding board game.
"Can you hold on a minute?" Ginny asked.
"No problem." I replied, and Ginny ran up the spiraled staircase to the girls dormitory. A minute later, she returned with an envelope in her hand.
"What's that?" I asked, but then I recognized. Ginny had been sorting through her letters the about a week and a half ago and there was one that was slightly different.
Ginny sat down beside me. "Okay, don't get mad at me. Remember when we were fighting at Grimmauld? You avoided coming into the room, and when you were out one day a letter came for you. I didn't know what to do with it because we weren't talking to each other. "
I wasn't sure what to say. Ginny passed me the envelope, I turned it over. It was a letter from Viktor.
~*~
Okay, It's a little longer than the last few. I plan to make the next one even longer. I wasn't sure how to end this exactly but I don't know how to write a story based around Hermione and not have a little of Viktor in it. I know it was a stupid thing to have Ginny not give it to her right away but I wanted to put it off for a little while.
The Kiratte's? It's not supposed to sound like Karate, but rhyme it with pirate. They sound kind of dumb, right? I couldn't think of anything.
It's late right now, around one in the morning (late for me anyway). I don't have my muse and I'm tired so sorry if the chapter was disappointing.