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Chapter 4 – Detention
Hermione walked sad down to breakfast. She looked at the happy people in the hallways. They were laughing and smiling with people they cared about. And here she was... Ugly, sad, almost crying and all alone. 'Life is so unfair,' she thought and kept walking.
She saw three girls standing and giggling while they added some more makeup to their faces. She stopped walking and looked at them for a moment deep in thoughts. 'They look so... So... Well actually they look like they despise each other.' Hermione noticed one of the girls give the two others a look that said 'I'm-so-much-better-than-you' before she smiled sweetly at them like they were her best friends.
"You guys haven't even commented my new hair... Do you like it?" Asked the one with the 'superior' look the two others. She turned around so they could fully see her new hairstyle. Then the girl made a small catwalk down the corridor. Hermione saw that the two remaining girls looked at each other before smirking.
The 'cat-walker' returned and the girls started to smile and giggle. Suddenly the girls noticed Hermione looking at them and stopped immediately with the giggles and looked rather pissed. They gave Hermione a small "humph" and walked away.
'Perhaps I should have my hair done. God knows how long time it is since I had it fixed. I think I will try to find a spell after detention,' she thought and felt immediately much better.
She walked the rest of the way down to the great hall and took a deep breath before she entered. Even though she always sat alone, the great hall could somehow find a way to cheer her up. Almost like it knew when she felt down and unhappy. One look at the enchanted ceiling and she was back in her dream world once again.
She walked almost happy and cheerful over to the Gryffindor table and found her usually seat. The hall was almost empty. There were only fifty or so people in the hall. Not many came to an early breakfast like Hermione always did. Hermione made a snort and started to fill her plate with her favourite breakfast. She took some bacon and a bit of scrambled eggs with one piece of toast and no butter. Butter wasn't her favourite. It tasted fat and was not something she preferred on bread.
After eating in silence for about fifteen minutes she took some pumpkin juice and looked around in the hall while she slowly drank it. It was nice and cold and delicious, one of her favourite drinks. Well... Butterbeer was the best, but pumpkin juice was second.
And then suddenly out of nowhere a voice interrupted Hermiones silence and happiness. "Ah... Miss Granger. I see you have already eaten! Well then, what are you waiting for? The dungeons... Now!" Said Snape.
Hermione stood and followed Snape out of the doors. Typical he would show up and ruin her happy morning. Right outside the doors in the corridor was the trio. She looked down to the ground, hoping they wouldn't see her. She looked at Snapes shoes, following his lead so she wouldn't fall.
She looked up. They hadn't seen her yet.
'Perhaps this is one of my better days... Almost past them without them noticing me,' she thought happily. But after sun comes darkness and Hermiones happiness was once again over before it had really begun.
She stopped when she saw where Snape was leading. Snapes shoes walked over to the Slytherin trio.
"Boys... Why aren't you at breakfast?" asked Snape the boys. They smiled an innocent smile at him, like they were completely angels and not the devils Hermione knew.
"Well hello Professor Snape. How are you today? Good I hope," answered Potter and smirked. The boys stood with a rather stiff back and heads high like they always did whenever a Professor or someone important was nearby. Which meant that when Hermione was around they were more relaxed and acting more 'superior' like the girl in the hallway did. They had severally times said and 'showed' her that they didn't see her like an equal. She was, after all, by their opinions, just a mudblood who didn't deserve to live.
Hermione rolled her eyes at his answer. 'God! How stupid can Snape be if he believe those morons actually respects and cares about him,' she thought.
"Well Professor. We were just heading to breakfast. Care to join us?" Asked Weasley and smiled, in Hermione's opinion, a disgusting and hideous smile.
"Thank you for the offer, but as you can see, Miss Granger has to serve her detention now. So I must say no," said Snape while he made a gesture towards Hermione. This made the boys notices her.
Hermione noticed their smirk and then she realized, 'Oh no! Now they know that I will be in detention and then they will probably be somewhere around when I'm finished... FUCK!'
Malfoy smirked at her and now she was so angry that she forgot to be tactful and nice, so she sneered at him, which caused him to stop smirking. He looked at her, catching her eyes and held them there for the longest time ever. 'His eyes look almost like silver... I never noticed! It kind of... Suits him... Oh no! Did I just think that Malfoy has pretty eyes?' She thought and shivered at the mere thought. Then he started to smile but the smile turned into a new smirk.
Snape waved the boys away. She looked at Malfoys back. 'Did he almost smile a real smile to me? Spooky!' She thought and followed Snape down the grey and cold stairs towards the dungeons.
They walked in silence. Once in a while Snape would look over his shoulder to see if she was still there. His icy glance made Hermione walk faster so he didn't have an excuse to say something. She tried to think of something else than her detention, but with no use. It was hard to think of something else with him walking right in front of her with fast steeps she had to follow.
Snape stopped right outside the door to the potion classroom. He opened the heavy door and waited for her to walk in first.
'Well... So there is a gentleman hidden inside of him, eh?' She thought but didn't say anything.
She walked inside and stood up in front of his desk and waited for his instructions. She heard the door close but she didn't hear any steps. She turned around and found the classroom empty except for herself. She looked around the classroom confused.
"Where did he go?" She asked herself while she scanned the room. It was slightly dark and cold and really impersonal. The only light was from a small window right under the ceiling. It was so small that she had to get closer to see if it was actually a real window or an illusion. It turned out to be a small window with no glass in it.
'That must be why it is so cold here... It has no glass in it,' she thought and tried to hold back a shiver. The morning breeze was even colder than the afternoon breeze was, so when she breathed out she could see her breath forming like a tiny smoke stack.
She turned her attention back to the front desk and saw a paper lying in the midst of the desk. She walked closer and saw that the paper was indeed to her. She picked it up and silently read the paper out loud:
"Miss Granger! You are here to serve your detention and will be here until you are finished with your assignment. I will not be here to supervise and check on you because I have more important places to be. Your assignment is to clean all the desks and the floor. You may use your wand on the floor but NOT on the desks. It will cost you another detention if you do so! You may leave when you are finished. Oh yes... The door is locked and will not open before you are completely finished – Professor Snape."
'Well... That was just... Peachy!' she thought and smiled a fake smile to the wall.
'What shall I use to cleaned the desks?' She thought and on cue some cleanings stuff appeared in front of her at the desk. She picked one of the bottles up and looked at the blue liquid. There were no sign on the bottles to tell her what it was, so she did what she had to do and opened the bottle to smell it.
It smelled strong and she quickly removed the bottle from her sight and closed the bottle again. The next bottle smelled like flowers... Like tulips... Or roses. Then there were a bucket with water and a piece of soap.
She picked up a wet rag and added some soap on it. She picked a random table and started to wash it off. It was hard work because there were many different spots on the table, like burn marks, old potions and old ingredients. She scrubbed and scrubbed so hard she could and after ten minutes of scrubbing she could finally see a result. A small white spot was now added to the brown- blackish table.
"Great! Then I just have to get the rest of this table plus twenty or so more tables cleaned, and then the floor... Just great," she muttered under her breath. She continued to clean the tables, because giving up was not something she did. She would continue until she was completely finish and she was sure Snape would be satisfied.
After eleven more tables she was so exhausted that she could barely scrub anymore. 'Okay, only one, two, three, four, five, six... only ten more tables and the floor,' she thought while she counted the 'needing' tables.
She continued to scrub the tables and finally after have been in the dungeons for perhaps four or five hours she was finished with the tables and only had to do the floor, which she could use her wand to.
She grabbed her wand from her pocket and said the spell, "Lavatum." The floor cleaned it self magically piece by piece until the floor was as white as a stone floor could be. She scanned the room for anything she might have forgotten to clean, but it appeared that she was completely finished.
She took a steep towards the door and heard the 'click'. The door was now open, so she quickly gathered her stuff and left the room. Even though it was warm and fully daylight outside, the corridor was dark and cold and she felt very alone right now.
"Are you going somewhere?" Asked a voice. Hermione jumped when she heard it, because she was so sure she was alone in the corridor. She looked around to see where the person was.
"Where are you? Who are you?" She asked and continued to look around. She couldn't see anybody, only her own shadow.
AN: So... What do you think? Like it? Hate it? Please review and let me know smiles... Thanks!
Oh yeah... 'Lavatum' is Latin and means, 'To Wash.'
And thanks to Lady Coia for helping me with my grammar and spelling!