Chapter Seventeen: Potions and Charms
When Mione had almost made it down to the great hall for breakfast, she was grabbed aside, into one of the rooms.
"What the!"
"Mione" and she finally realized that Draco was the one who had grabbed her.
Looking up she smiled "Hay Draco, I'm glad you wanted to see me but couldn't you have done it in a more civilized manner?"
"This was the only time I could catch you without body guards." He emphasized the last part, which lead her to understand what he had meant.
"Alright, so what's up?"
"Are you doing ok?" Shocked she looked up. "I had to leave right after the teachers, it was close, I was almost caught, but I was worried, your fine right?" he almost looked like he was pleading.
"I'm fine."
"Good." He seemed to let go of a lot of worry with a single sigh. Smiling he looked back at her. "If anything happens with Harry," he paused, his smile faltering. "Just let me know. I want to know the second your dream may be coming true, or anything else."
Still shocked Mione breathed, "Ok." in a questioning manner, then remembered something, "oh yeah, and you can read the newest entries in my book." Smiling and nodding, Draco squeezed her hand and left the room.
Shaking her head, she predicted that Harry and Ron would act similar. But what she really wanted to know was what had provoked this sudden, protectiveness, in Draco.
Sighing, she left the room thinking how a single sigh could say a million things.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
When Mione entered the Great hall, all talking stopped as everyone looked right at her.
"Ok." And she looked around and caught the eyes of Tom Draco and Harry and Ron. Shaking her head she walked over two her two friends at the Gryffindor table, like everything was normal.
"Hay guys!" she smiled good-naturedly. Then she sat down and became rather serious. "Ok what's going on, whys everyone looking at me?"
Harry shifted nervously, and Ron shook his head. "Are neither of you going to tell me?" She looked taken aback.
"No, its just, how couldn't you know?"
"I just don't, please fill me in?"
"Your scream last night woke up the entire castle, everyone." Harry looked at her oddly. "And for some reason, everyone knew it was you. Hagrid heard it out in his hut! Mione why did you scream?"
"Bad dream," she mumbled, and for some reason, she couldn't look at Harry. ' The dream didn't affect me that much did it?'
"What was it about?" Ron asked.
"Nothing I wish to relive thanks." She smiled and started to eat her breakfast.
Ron and Harry exchanged odd looks then looked back at their friend, who managed to be reading and eating at the same time. With their shrugs as a sort of sign, the Hall went back to normal.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"God did you see how clueless she was!" Draco laughed at his table. Everyone joined in, not daring to challenge his authority.
"Hay, Draco." Blaise looked over at the blonde head, "I noticed you weren't in bed last night, where were you?"
"That's for me to know Blaise." He smirked, and all the seventh year slythrins guessed that he was doing something sly. Mentally shaking his head at their innocence, Draco went back to eating.
"Draco, we have another potions today, double, with Gryffindor. It's after our transfiguration though" Pansy whined, and Draco honestly wondered when she would stop doing so.
"Ohh, what fun." He replied keeping up the act. "We get to bug Granger after all this." He gave an 'I have something planned.' Smirk and all the slythrins joined him in walking up to class.
Unlike the other Slythrins, however, Draco knew that Mione wasn't going to come to class that day, and it made him smile.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When she walked into charms, Mione instantly sat down beside Tom. Harry and Ron looked a bit skeptical but sat on the other side of Mione.
Tom winked at the two boys and whispered, "So when are you going to actually tell them?" into Mione ear.
"When they either let me know that they know something, or when I need them to, never before or after." She whispered back.
"I see, well I hope that they are ok with that."
"They will be."
"What are you two whispering about?" Ron looked over.
"Just wondering what our first lesson will be." Tom said gleefully.
"So who are you?" Harry asked.
"Head Boy, my names Tom." He nodded as if to acknowledge them. They nodded back.
Mione smiled, at least they knew of one of her new friends. Flitwik walked in at that moment and got up onto his stack of books.
"Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!" he smiled at all of them. "This is in my opinion the best year of charms! You are all quite capable of doing all of the charms I assign so this year will be basically, lets see how many useful and fun charms we can learn before your N.E.W.T.S."
Everyone smiled at this.
"Ok so the first charm will be, a dancing charm." Everyone looked hopeful at this. "This charm when cast, makes your target dance and lip sync to a song of your choice. Though since the song will magically play, only one team at a time." He looked around. "Ahh Ms. Granger, would you and Tom mind showing the class?"
"No professor." And they walked up.
"Mione, you wish to cast it?" he looked a bit down at this idea.
"No, you cast." She smiled. "I want to dance."
"Ok you two have whose casting arranged?"
"Yes professor." They said together.
"Great, Now the charm is 'facina -oris'" and he singled them to start.
Tom stood there. Looking at loss for words.
Mione was taken over by a fit of giggles. "Tom, your saying action."
"Oh right." And he prepared his wand. "Facina Oris!" and Mione started to dance, and sing. The items around the room making for quite an unusual orchestra made the music. Tom himself was honestly surprised at how well Mione Danced.
When the song stopped Mione was on the floor in a fit of giggles. "That was great!"
The class cheered. But Mione suddenly stopped laughing, he hand on her chest.
She looked up at tom, very scared. He got worried. "My necklace!"
"What! Aren't you wearing it?" he went over to her, and helped her up.
"It's not on, I must have forgotten!" looking around the room she spotted the Professor. "Sir? May I please go get my Necklace from my room? It's very important to me and I left it off."
Taken aback by the fact that Ms. Granger had forgotten anything, he let her go and told her to come back quickly.
And Hermione ran from the room.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
When Tom sat down, it was in Mione's spot. "How could she forget that?" and he shook his head.
"Forget what?" Ron asked; Harry turned his attention to the conversation.
"Her dragon pendant, it means everything to her."
"The one her mom gave her?" Harry asked.
Praying that he wasn't trying to be sly, and that that was indeed the excuse that Mione gave, he answered. "Yeah, that one."
"If it means everything to her, then why did she forget it?" Ron looked worried.
"Probably her nightmare, she didn't talk much this morning either." Tom looked down at his hands, praying that he looked worried for her. He was worried, but because this was the first time he ever lied. "It must have been awful, wish I knew what happened in it."
"Are you and Mione friends?" Harry asked.
"Yeah. We are."
"Does she tell you anything?" Harry kept pushing, hoping that he could get information from this guy.
"Doesn't need to, it's a gift of mine to know people back to front if left in their company to long."
"Are you friends with Mafloy?"
"What makes you ask that? I thought we were talking about Mione?"
"Well, Miones Been acting differently, so has Malfoy, and if your friends of both, then maybe you know why?"
"I'm Friends with Draco yes, but they both seem quite normal to me. Then again, if this change just happened this year, you should know that I just met both of them, so I wouldn't know any different."
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley? Your turn." And Harry and Ron went up.
Tom sighed. That was close.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ms. Granger!" she heard a voice she didn't like call out to her as she was running. She stopped and turned.
"Yes, Professor Snape?"
"Aren't you supposed to be in charms with your house?"
"Yes, Professor."
"Yet you're wondering the halls."
"No professor."
"Then what are you doing Ms. Granger?" he gave her a questioning look like he knew he had her for something, yet she was trying to get herself out of it.
"Professor Flitwik gave me permission to go get something, and I just did, but he told me to be quick and I'm afraid I have to go now, or that wont happen." She gave him a quick nod and went back to running.
Snape looked at the girl running up to the charms corridor, and shook his head. As a teacher who taught a core class, he knew very well, that something was different about her. He also couldn't help wondering, why the longer she had been in Hogworts; the more she showed signs of belonging in Slythrin.
Turning on his heal, he went back to the dungeons to prepare for the next class, Seventh year, Slythrins and Gryffindors.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
After Charms was dismissed. Mione walked up to Dumbledores office, like she was supposed to.
The gargoyle took one look at her and jumped asides, like she was highly expected.
When she reached the door she knocked and walked in. "Professor Dumbledore?"
"Ahh! Ms. Granger, please come in come in." Even though she was already in, she said hi to Fawks and sat down.
"As you probably already knew, your out of potions." She smiled and nodded. "Good, then Severous told you. Now I have tow bones I need to pick with you."
"What is it professor?"
"First, the facts. You are to do independent study with potions. Let Professor Snape know your project and tell him of anything you need, materials, assistance, and give him a deadline. At the deadline, you are to turn in your work and he will grade it, and that's how you'll get a grade for potions. You understand?"
"Yes."
"Good, now Ms. Granger, your probably wondering why we are letting you do this, correct?"
"Uh yes sir. Why have me take this?"
Dumbledores eyes sparkled like they did whenever he had a plan or idea in mind. "You are at the top of your class, and in potions all you are learning is how to put together things to achieve a certain goal. You already know how one combines all-important ingredients, and I'm sure you'll figure out the others. You know how to time, and you know your basics.
All the others are learning is how to prefect this art, while some of them learn potions easier this way. Snape told me that you were quite capable of experimenting on your own with some assistance, so we are letting you learn the science of the science of potions. Its time you started to learn how to make your own." He looked at her and smiled.
"Thank you sir, for your trust."
"Thank Professor Snape, he was the one who suggested it."
"Yes of course."
"Today, I let you go to the library to start looking up what you want to do." And Dumbledore scribbled something on a piece of parchment, and then handed it to her. "And this gives you full rights into the restricted section. Now go, and have fun."
"Thank you sir," and she left.
"She'll do great things that girl." Dumbledore said to Fawks. "Just watch. She'll be the one who brings us all together." And the bird nodded in response.
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An:
OK Potion things solved! Know you all know. And I'm asked multiple times, when are they going to kiss, and when is Harry going to figure it out.
Well, I tell you this, grasshoppers! You'll know when you are to know, and you'll be glad I won't tell you.
Believe me, it's the journey, not the destination.
Also from now on, when the day changes, (IE it becomes another day.) I'll give you the date. This will come in handy trust me.
Well, keep up the reviews, I'm glad having them! ^_^
Relena~
When Mione had almost made it down to the great hall for breakfast, she was grabbed aside, into one of the rooms.
"What the!"
"Mione" and she finally realized that Draco was the one who had grabbed her.
Looking up she smiled "Hay Draco, I'm glad you wanted to see me but couldn't you have done it in a more civilized manner?"
"This was the only time I could catch you without body guards." He emphasized the last part, which lead her to understand what he had meant.
"Alright, so what's up?"
"Are you doing ok?" Shocked she looked up. "I had to leave right after the teachers, it was close, I was almost caught, but I was worried, your fine right?" he almost looked like he was pleading.
"I'm fine."
"Good." He seemed to let go of a lot of worry with a single sigh. Smiling he looked back at her. "If anything happens with Harry," he paused, his smile faltering. "Just let me know. I want to know the second your dream may be coming true, or anything else."
Still shocked Mione breathed, "Ok." in a questioning manner, then remembered something, "oh yeah, and you can read the newest entries in my book." Smiling and nodding, Draco squeezed her hand and left the room.
Shaking her head, she predicted that Harry and Ron would act similar. But what she really wanted to know was what had provoked this sudden, protectiveness, in Draco.
Sighing, she left the room thinking how a single sigh could say a million things.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
When Mione entered the Great hall, all talking stopped as everyone looked right at her.
"Ok." And she looked around and caught the eyes of Tom Draco and Harry and Ron. Shaking her head she walked over two her two friends at the Gryffindor table, like everything was normal.
"Hay guys!" she smiled good-naturedly. Then she sat down and became rather serious. "Ok what's going on, whys everyone looking at me?"
Harry shifted nervously, and Ron shook his head. "Are neither of you going to tell me?" She looked taken aback.
"No, its just, how couldn't you know?"
"I just don't, please fill me in?"
"Your scream last night woke up the entire castle, everyone." Harry looked at her oddly. "And for some reason, everyone knew it was you. Hagrid heard it out in his hut! Mione why did you scream?"
"Bad dream," she mumbled, and for some reason, she couldn't look at Harry. ' The dream didn't affect me that much did it?'
"What was it about?" Ron asked.
"Nothing I wish to relive thanks." She smiled and started to eat her breakfast.
Ron and Harry exchanged odd looks then looked back at their friend, who managed to be reading and eating at the same time. With their shrugs as a sort of sign, the Hall went back to normal.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"God did you see how clueless she was!" Draco laughed at his table. Everyone joined in, not daring to challenge his authority.
"Hay, Draco." Blaise looked over at the blonde head, "I noticed you weren't in bed last night, where were you?"
"That's for me to know Blaise." He smirked, and all the seventh year slythrins guessed that he was doing something sly. Mentally shaking his head at their innocence, Draco went back to eating.
"Draco, we have another potions today, double, with Gryffindor. It's after our transfiguration though" Pansy whined, and Draco honestly wondered when she would stop doing so.
"Ohh, what fun." He replied keeping up the act. "We get to bug Granger after all this." He gave an 'I have something planned.' Smirk and all the slythrins joined him in walking up to class.
Unlike the other Slythrins, however, Draco knew that Mione wasn't going to come to class that day, and it made him smile.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When she walked into charms, Mione instantly sat down beside Tom. Harry and Ron looked a bit skeptical but sat on the other side of Mione.
Tom winked at the two boys and whispered, "So when are you going to actually tell them?" into Mione ear.
"When they either let me know that they know something, or when I need them to, never before or after." She whispered back.
"I see, well I hope that they are ok with that."
"They will be."
"What are you two whispering about?" Ron looked over.
"Just wondering what our first lesson will be." Tom said gleefully.
"So who are you?" Harry asked.
"Head Boy, my names Tom." He nodded as if to acknowledge them. They nodded back.
Mione smiled, at least they knew of one of her new friends. Flitwik walked in at that moment and got up onto his stack of books.
"Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!" he smiled at all of them. "This is in my opinion the best year of charms! You are all quite capable of doing all of the charms I assign so this year will be basically, lets see how many useful and fun charms we can learn before your N.E.W.T.S."
Everyone smiled at this.
"Ok so the first charm will be, a dancing charm." Everyone looked hopeful at this. "This charm when cast, makes your target dance and lip sync to a song of your choice. Though since the song will magically play, only one team at a time." He looked around. "Ahh Ms. Granger, would you and Tom mind showing the class?"
"No professor." And they walked up.
"Mione, you wish to cast it?" he looked a bit down at this idea.
"No, you cast." She smiled. "I want to dance."
"Ok you two have whose casting arranged?"
"Yes professor." They said together.
"Great, Now the charm is 'facina -oris'" and he singled them to start.
Tom stood there. Looking at loss for words.
Mione was taken over by a fit of giggles. "Tom, your saying action."
"Oh right." And he prepared his wand. "Facina Oris!" and Mione started to dance, and sing. The items around the room making for quite an unusual orchestra made the music. Tom himself was honestly surprised at how well Mione Danced.
When the song stopped Mione was on the floor in a fit of giggles. "That was great!"
The class cheered. But Mione suddenly stopped laughing, he hand on her chest.
She looked up at tom, very scared. He got worried. "My necklace!"
"What! Aren't you wearing it?" he went over to her, and helped her up.
"It's not on, I must have forgotten!" looking around the room she spotted the Professor. "Sir? May I please go get my Necklace from my room? It's very important to me and I left it off."
Taken aback by the fact that Ms. Granger had forgotten anything, he let her go and told her to come back quickly.
And Hermione ran from the room.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
When Tom sat down, it was in Mione's spot. "How could she forget that?" and he shook his head.
"Forget what?" Ron asked; Harry turned his attention to the conversation.
"Her dragon pendant, it means everything to her."
"The one her mom gave her?" Harry asked.
Praying that he wasn't trying to be sly, and that that was indeed the excuse that Mione gave, he answered. "Yeah, that one."
"If it means everything to her, then why did she forget it?" Ron looked worried.
"Probably her nightmare, she didn't talk much this morning either." Tom looked down at his hands, praying that he looked worried for her. He was worried, but because this was the first time he ever lied. "It must have been awful, wish I knew what happened in it."
"Are you and Mione friends?" Harry asked.
"Yeah. We are."
"Does she tell you anything?" Harry kept pushing, hoping that he could get information from this guy.
"Doesn't need to, it's a gift of mine to know people back to front if left in their company to long."
"Are you friends with Mafloy?"
"What makes you ask that? I thought we were talking about Mione?"
"Well, Miones Been acting differently, so has Malfoy, and if your friends of both, then maybe you know why?"
"I'm Friends with Draco yes, but they both seem quite normal to me. Then again, if this change just happened this year, you should know that I just met both of them, so I wouldn't know any different."
"Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley? Your turn." And Harry and Ron went up.
Tom sighed. That was close.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ms. Granger!" she heard a voice she didn't like call out to her as she was running. She stopped and turned.
"Yes, Professor Snape?"
"Aren't you supposed to be in charms with your house?"
"Yes, Professor."
"Yet you're wondering the halls."
"No professor."
"Then what are you doing Ms. Granger?" he gave her a questioning look like he knew he had her for something, yet she was trying to get herself out of it.
"Professor Flitwik gave me permission to go get something, and I just did, but he told me to be quick and I'm afraid I have to go now, or that wont happen." She gave him a quick nod and went back to running.
Snape looked at the girl running up to the charms corridor, and shook his head. As a teacher who taught a core class, he knew very well, that something was different about her. He also couldn't help wondering, why the longer she had been in Hogworts; the more she showed signs of belonging in Slythrin.
Turning on his heal, he went back to the dungeons to prepare for the next class, Seventh year, Slythrins and Gryffindors.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
After Charms was dismissed. Mione walked up to Dumbledores office, like she was supposed to.
The gargoyle took one look at her and jumped asides, like she was highly expected.
When she reached the door she knocked and walked in. "Professor Dumbledore?"
"Ahh! Ms. Granger, please come in come in." Even though she was already in, she said hi to Fawks and sat down.
"As you probably already knew, your out of potions." She smiled and nodded. "Good, then Severous told you. Now I have tow bones I need to pick with you."
"What is it professor?"
"First, the facts. You are to do independent study with potions. Let Professor Snape know your project and tell him of anything you need, materials, assistance, and give him a deadline. At the deadline, you are to turn in your work and he will grade it, and that's how you'll get a grade for potions. You understand?"
"Yes."
"Good, now Ms. Granger, your probably wondering why we are letting you do this, correct?"
"Uh yes sir. Why have me take this?"
Dumbledores eyes sparkled like they did whenever he had a plan or idea in mind. "You are at the top of your class, and in potions all you are learning is how to put together things to achieve a certain goal. You already know how one combines all-important ingredients, and I'm sure you'll figure out the others. You know how to time, and you know your basics.
All the others are learning is how to prefect this art, while some of them learn potions easier this way. Snape told me that you were quite capable of experimenting on your own with some assistance, so we are letting you learn the science of the science of potions. Its time you started to learn how to make your own." He looked at her and smiled.
"Thank you sir, for your trust."
"Thank Professor Snape, he was the one who suggested it."
"Yes of course."
"Today, I let you go to the library to start looking up what you want to do." And Dumbledore scribbled something on a piece of parchment, and then handed it to her. "And this gives you full rights into the restricted section. Now go, and have fun."
"Thank you sir," and she left.
"She'll do great things that girl." Dumbledore said to Fawks. "Just watch. She'll be the one who brings us all together." And the bird nodded in response.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
An:
OK Potion things solved! Know you all know. And I'm asked multiple times, when are they going to kiss, and when is Harry going to figure it out.
Well, I tell you this, grasshoppers! You'll know when you are to know, and you'll be glad I won't tell you.
Believe me, it's the journey, not the destination.
Also from now on, when the day changes, (IE it becomes another day.) I'll give you the date. This will come in handy trust me.
Well, keep up the reviews, I'm glad having them! ^_^
Relena~