Chapter 2: The Bad advice
Hermione Granger sat on her bed at seven thirty that evening. She was wearing a blue tee-shirt with a smiley face on it that had a saying that said "Send a smiley gram!" Her hair was in braids, and she was wearing blue fuzzy pajama-bottoms little yellow smiley faces on them. Her blue fuzzy, sparkly slippers were by her bed. She was gazing at her necklace, just opening and closing it.
Lavender and Parvati walked in from the common room and saw Hermione's necklace. Immediately, their eyes opened widely and their mouths dropped. They walked over in complete awe.
"Hermione, is that yours?" Lavender asked breathlessly, and Hermione thought she was in disbelief that Hermione Granger could have anything remotely beautiful.
"Yeah, it is. Why? What, what is it?" Hermione asked looking at the picture and not at them.
"Hermione, it is so beautiful! It looks so. oh perfect!" Parvati said with a sigh.
"What?" Hermione said in disbelief. "You think it's nice? Whoa, that's odd." Hermione wasn't sure what to believe.
"Hermione - wow, it is so beautiful - who gave it to you?" Lavender asked.
"I.err. I don't know! It was from an admirer!" Hermione stammered, blushing. She closed the locket and placed it on her nightstand. She then proceeded to tell Lavender and Parvati what had happened after dinner.
"Hermione, you need to find out who likes you! I mean, guys sometimes don't always show their emotions. They sometimes like to be very quiet!" Lavender said giggling at the bottom of Hermione's bed.
"What do you mean they like to hide their emotions?" Hermione asked bewildered. She really didn't know anything about guys at all.
"Well, guys sometimes don't want to know they like someone. Some people can be total jerks to the girls they like. They sometimes pretend they hate the girl but in truths they love them dearly. Sometimes they are really cute when you are the first girl they have ever liked. And they don't know what to do! They can be so obvious!" Parvati explained what she believed to Hermione.
"You know what? We should really all get together sometime, and snoop to find out who this special secret admirer is!" Lavender said. And they all agreed to do so. They agreed to meet every day and go over their notes on what people were doing.
The next morning, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati all went down to the common room together after they dressed brushed their teeth Hermione had put her hair in two very tight braids and went down to break feast her necklace and bracelet on. She had all of her things for potions with her.
At breakfast she sat across from Ron who was next to Harry. She was next to Ginny, and they were all talking about Quidditch. Well, everyone except for Hermione.
Hermione at a bagel and drank her juice nodding and smiling at times when it was needed. She had much more important things to talk about then how good their team was getting. As soon as she was done eating her bagel, she got up and left the bench. She grabbed her things going down to the potions class room. She walked over to a table in the back of the room and was about to put her things down when professor Snape walked in.
"Mrs. Granger, you are here early," Snape said in a voice carrying no emotions what-so-ever. Hermione looked up at her professor for the first time that day.
"I wasn't in the mood to goof off and talk today!" Hermione said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Well-well.I see you don't know but this year we are going to be sitting in mixed groups. I am giving you all partners. Have fun with Malfoy." Snape sniggered and pointed her to a table in the front. "Malfoy and you are here. Did you notice the papers on the desks? They are the names of the students at that desk. Muggle invention, seating arrangements," Snape smiled and walked off.
Hermione set her things up and sat down calmly. She was ready for any of the ridiculous jokes and taunts Malfoy would say to her. Then she remembered what Lavender and Parvati had said. And she hoped beyond hope it wasn't Malfoy.
"Granger," Malfoy said in disgust his eyes lingering on hers for a minute. Not showing pure evil or pure hate. "We have to work together here, so what work will you do?" He asked in a slightly disgusted tone.
"On first thought what will you be willing to do?" Hermione asked, empathizing the word "you", her eyes not flickering.
"I'll-I'll.I will do.the preparations of the potion." Malfoy said in a calm tone and a sense of confusion in his words.
"Okay, then Malfoy, you have to make sure we use all of the ingredients. We need to make a potion that's what it says on the board; invent a potion for health." Hermione said, grabbing a large book of minerals and herbs from her bag and putting them on the table. "We should make it taste good and also be effective." Hermione said in a getting-down-to business manner.
"What the heck are these!?" Malfoy asked, looking at the books Hermione had pulled out, the herbs, minerals and other necessities in magic.
"It's a book I got a Muggle store. Written by a witch who was a really good potions maker," Hermione said and got out a scroll and jotted down various things to use in the potion.
"Class as you see, we have two people who have followed my class description on the board," Snape said and smiled. "Granger 50 points for your house and Malfoy same to you! Everyone else work!" Snape snapped. Hermione was shocked that she got fifty points from Snape, but was happy at the same time.
For the next twenty minutes Malfoy and Hermione both looked up ingredients and figured which would make it taste remotely 'okay'. When they were done writing the potion and what they needed they decided to do a trial and error kind of work. This was where Hermione did one version of the potion, and at the same time Malfoy did another version. They only took two tries and they found the right one.
They wrote down the potion and then had to clean up and give professor Snape a vial of it. After that they had to write a 24in essay on making new forms of potions in the new day and age and why it was important.
Hermione felt Malfoy eyeing her when she was writing her essay and it made her feel uneasy. She didn't want it to be Malfoy, but right now it looked like it was. He didn't do any jokes on her, didn't call her a mud-blood and didn't say anything rude about her. 'What is going on?' She wondered, and turned in her essay. She went back to her seat and looked back at Harry and Ron who were working together. Parvati and Lavender walked up to her when class was done and she was putting her things away.
"Hermione, I think the admirer could be -erm- Malfoy," They whispered.
"He was eyeing you all class, He even looked at your chest.hum, I'm afraid it could be him," Parvati said and helped Hermione get her things.
"Do you want to have dinner with us? We know a way to make food appear in the dorms for when you need to eat in the dorm. So how about it?" Lavender said in a quiet tone.
"Sure, why not? We could talk about what is going on and maybe just... you know. Try to finish the Potions work today, seeing it's dinner now." Their potions class happened to be an all-day class for the sixth years. "Bye!" Hermione said and went off to tell Harry and Ron that she wouldn't be a dinner with them.
In the dorm Hermione met Lavender and Parvati and Parvati did a spell called: il summoner di cibo, food summoner. And they summoned all sorts of muggle foods like pizza, soda, chips and dip, fries and candy.
"I love muggle food" Lavender said taking a bite of a piece of pepperoni pizza. She laughed and wiped some sauce from her cheek.
"Yea, its really good food!" Hermione said taking a sip of her coca-cola. "I really love these potato crisps and dip you got. They're American." Hermione smiled and told them of the time when she visited her Uncle John, Aunt Belle and cousins Ana, Cameron, and Sara-may, who were from Hawaii.
"It's really nice there in Kauai," Hermione said smiling and remembering the sand on her toes. "Guys, what do you think of you know - the Malfoy thing you know - him being the admirer?" Hermione asked hugging her knees.
"It is definitely a possibility. I remember reading in my mum's diary from when she was younger that Snape had a crush on Lily Potter. That's one reason he hates Harry!" Lavender said as she again became the gossip queen. "Well, so he could like you." Lavender smiled. "Still its sweet if it is or isn't him, but you know it probably is. He was so hitting on you in potions today and. well so you know. He is probably the guy who sent you the letter." Lavender said and began to ramble.
"Okay, god. now I am convinced," Hermione said as she saw something on the back of the locket an engraved letter, or letters. Some of them were clear but one was really clear an M. "There is an M engraved into this necklace." Hermione sighed and went to bed to have nightmares of Malfoy liking her and interrupting her dates with Ron.
Hermione Granger sat on her bed at seven thirty that evening. She was wearing a blue tee-shirt with a smiley face on it that had a saying that said "Send a smiley gram!" Her hair was in braids, and she was wearing blue fuzzy pajama-bottoms little yellow smiley faces on them. Her blue fuzzy, sparkly slippers were by her bed. She was gazing at her necklace, just opening and closing it.
Lavender and Parvati walked in from the common room and saw Hermione's necklace. Immediately, their eyes opened widely and their mouths dropped. They walked over in complete awe.
"Hermione, is that yours?" Lavender asked breathlessly, and Hermione thought she was in disbelief that Hermione Granger could have anything remotely beautiful.
"Yeah, it is. Why? What, what is it?" Hermione asked looking at the picture and not at them.
"Hermione, it is so beautiful! It looks so. oh perfect!" Parvati said with a sigh.
"What?" Hermione said in disbelief. "You think it's nice? Whoa, that's odd." Hermione wasn't sure what to believe.
"Hermione - wow, it is so beautiful - who gave it to you?" Lavender asked.
"I.err. I don't know! It was from an admirer!" Hermione stammered, blushing. She closed the locket and placed it on her nightstand. She then proceeded to tell Lavender and Parvati what had happened after dinner.
"Hermione, you need to find out who likes you! I mean, guys sometimes don't always show their emotions. They sometimes like to be very quiet!" Lavender said giggling at the bottom of Hermione's bed.
"What do you mean they like to hide their emotions?" Hermione asked bewildered. She really didn't know anything about guys at all.
"Well, guys sometimes don't want to know they like someone. Some people can be total jerks to the girls they like. They sometimes pretend they hate the girl but in truths they love them dearly. Sometimes they are really cute when you are the first girl they have ever liked. And they don't know what to do! They can be so obvious!" Parvati explained what she believed to Hermione.
"You know what? We should really all get together sometime, and snoop to find out who this special secret admirer is!" Lavender said. And they all agreed to do so. They agreed to meet every day and go over their notes on what people were doing.
The next morning, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati all went down to the common room together after they dressed brushed their teeth Hermione had put her hair in two very tight braids and went down to break feast her necklace and bracelet on. She had all of her things for potions with her.
At breakfast she sat across from Ron who was next to Harry. She was next to Ginny, and they were all talking about Quidditch. Well, everyone except for Hermione.
Hermione at a bagel and drank her juice nodding and smiling at times when it was needed. She had much more important things to talk about then how good their team was getting. As soon as she was done eating her bagel, she got up and left the bench. She grabbed her things going down to the potions class room. She walked over to a table in the back of the room and was about to put her things down when professor Snape walked in.
"Mrs. Granger, you are here early," Snape said in a voice carrying no emotions what-so-ever. Hermione looked up at her professor for the first time that day.
"I wasn't in the mood to goof off and talk today!" Hermione said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Well-well.I see you don't know but this year we are going to be sitting in mixed groups. I am giving you all partners. Have fun with Malfoy." Snape sniggered and pointed her to a table in the front. "Malfoy and you are here. Did you notice the papers on the desks? They are the names of the students at that desk. Muggle invention, seating arrangements," Snape smiled and walked off.
Hermione set her things up and sat down calmly. She was ready for any of the ridiculous jokes and taunts Malfoy would say to her. Then she remembered what Lavender and Parvati had said. And she hoped beyond hope it wasn't Malfoy.
"Granger," Malfoy said in disgust his eyes lingering on hers for a minute. Not showing pure evil or pure hate. "We have to work together here, so what work will you do?" He asked in a slightly disgusted tone.
"On first thought what will you be willing to do?" Hermione asked, empathizing the word "you", her eyes not flickering.
"I'll-I'll.I will do.the preparations of the potion." Malfoy said in a calm tone and a sense of confusion in his words.
"Okay, then Malfoy, you have to make sure we use all of the ingredients. We need to make a potion that's what it says on the board; invent a potion for health." Hermione said, grabbing a large book of minerals and herbs from her bag and putting them on the table. "We should make it taste good and also be effective." Hermione said in a getting-down-to business manner.
"What the heck are these!?" Malfoy asked, looking at the books Hermione had pulled out, the herbs, minerals and other necessities in magic.
"It's a book I got a Muggle store. Written by a witch who was a really good potions maker," Hermione said and got out a scroll and jotted down various things to use in the potion.
"Class as you see, we have two people who have followed my class description on the board," Snape said and smiled. "Granger 50 points for your house and Malfoy same to you! Everyone else work!" Snape snapped. Hermione was shocked that she got fifty points from Snape, but was happy at the same time.
For the next twenty minutes Malfoy and Hermione both looked up ingredients and figured which would make it taste remotely 'okay'. When they were done writing the potion and what they needed they decided to do a trial and error kind of work. This was where Hermione did one version of the potion, and at the same time Malfoy did another version. They only took two tries and they found the right one.
They wrote down the potion and then had to clean up and give professor Snape a vial of it. After that they had to write a 24in essay on making new forms of potions in the new day and age and why it was important.
Hermione felt Malfoy eyeing her when she was writing her essay and it made her feel uneasy. She didn't want it to be Malfoy, but right now it looked like it was. He didn't do any jokes on her, didn't call her a mud-blood and didn't say anything rude about her. 'What is going on?' She wondered, and turned in her essay. She went back to her seat and looked back at Harry and Ron who were working together. Parvati and Lavender walked up to her when class was done and she was putting her things away.
"Hermione, I think the admirer could be -erm- Malfoy," They whispered.
"He was eyeing you all class, He even looked at your chest.hum, I'm afraid it could be him," Parvati said and helped Hermione get her things.
"Do you want to have dinner with us? We know a way to make food appear in the dorms for when you need to eat in the dorm. So how about it?" Lavender said in a quiet tone.
"Sure, why not? We could talk about what is going on and maybe just... you know. Try to finish the Potions work today, seeing it's dinner now." Their potions class happened to be an all-day class for the sixth years. "Bye!" Hermione said and went off to tell Harry and Ron that she wouldn't be a dinner with them.
In the dorm Hermione met Lavender and Parvati and Parvati did a spell called: il summoner di cibo, food summoner. And they summoned all sorts of muggle foods like pizza, soda, chips and dip, fries and candy.
"I love muggle food" Lavender said taking a bite of a piece of pepperoni pizza. She laughed and wiped some sauce from her cheek.
"Yea, its really good food!" Hermione said taking a sip of her coca-cola. "I really love these potato crisps and dip you got. They're American." Hermione smiled and told them of the time when she visited her Uncle John, Aunt Belle and cousins Ana, Cameron, and Sara-may, who were from Hawaii.
"It's really nice there in Kauai," Hermione said smiling and remembering the sand on her toes. "Guys, what do you think of you know - the Malfoy thing you know - him being the admirer?" Hermione asked hugging her knees.
"It is definitely a possibility. I remember reading in my mum's diary from when she was younger that Snape had a crush on Lily Potter. That's one reason he hates Harry!" Lavender said as she again became the gossip queen. "Well, so he could like you." Lavender smiled. "Still its sweet if it is or isn't him, but you know it probably is. He was so hitting on you in potions today and. well so you know. He is probably the guy who sent you the letter." Lavender said and began to ramble.
"Okay, god. now I am convinced," Hermione said as she saw something on the back of the locket an engraved letter, or letters. Some of them were clear but one was really clear an M. "There is an M engraved into this necklace." Hermione sighed and went to bed to have nightmares of Malfoy liking her and interrupting her dates with Ron.