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All I own is the empty bag of potato chips that's in front of me, and the plot to this story.
The last time I checked, the HP-characters still belonged to J.K. Rowling.
 

~CHAPTER THREE~

Hermione walked back towards her room, feeling rather depressed. This was nothing like her. She didn't even know why she had listened at the door. To prevent herself from crying she looked at her shoes. "Dentist." She told the portrait without looking up.
But nothing happened. Tears were starting to well in her eyes. Slowly, she looked up. The young girl on the portrait wasn't there.
Hermione sighed. Great, just what she needed. Grimly, she thought about an expression she once heard. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.* Or something like that. Suddenly she heard a voice, "Why are you crying?"
The young girl in the portrait had returned. "Nothing, just….." Hermione started. "Are you homesick?" The girl asked her gently. "Yes, homesick. Just a bit." Hermione said quickly. "Can you let me in now?"  The girl shook her head, "Not without your password." After saying the password, Hermione went straight to bed. Crookshanks wasn't in Hermione's bed, which was a bit odd. Hermione was too tired to wonder where her familiar was and fell asleep.

The next day Hermione didn't have classes until the fourth period. When she headed towards the library after breakfast, she remembered something.
She had to serve detention tonight, but she also had 'duty'. As quickly as she could she walked towards the dungeons. When she arrived, she saw Draco Malfoy and the rest of the Slytherins waiting in front of the D.A.D.A. classroom.
"If it isn't the mudblood. What's wrong? Can't find your way to your own class anymore?" Malfoy scowled at her. Instead of answering him she just shot him a nasty look. The last thing she wanted was to be caught by Snape while she was insulting Malfoy. No doubt that would give her even more detention.

Hermione entered Snapes classroom. It was empty. "Professor." She said rather loud.
There was no reply. Realizing that he might be in his office, Hermione slowly walked towards the office door. She knocked two times. "Professor." She said again.
There was still no reply. Hermione reached for the doorknob, the door was unlocked.
Slowly she pulled the heavy door towards her. It opened just a crack, when…………

BANG
Someone had closed the door by pushing it. As quickly as she could, a startled Hermione turned around. Snape was standing in front of her, his hand still holding the door closed.
"Professor, I….I…..I….I…" Hermione started, she was lost for words. "I……I…"
"Although the letter I is a fascinating letter, I would like to know what you are doing in MY classroom when you shouldn't be here, Miss Granger." Snape hissed at her. "I…..I….I'm sorry." Hermione began "I needed to speak with you and I thought you might be in your office."
Snape crossed his arms. "And what was so important that it couldn't wait any longer?" "I have detention tonight." Hermione said quickly. "Are you here to remind me of the fact that you have detention?" Snape snapped at her. Hermione took a step back, her back was now against the door of Snape's office. "No sir, I also have Head girl duties tonight. To make sure that there are no students who are roaming the hallways after curfew."

There was a long pause. "You will have detention immediately after dinner." Snape finally said. "You will have to serve detention until your duties begin." Hermione nodded. "Now get out!" Snape yelled at her. Hermione left the dungeons as fast as she could.

Since it was very crowded in the library, Hermione decided to study at the quidditch field. Harry and Ron were practicing. Amazed by the fact that they couldn't seem to find the motivation to do their homework, but were never too tired to practice their sport, Hermione started to read.
A soft cough behind her disturbed her. Irritated Hermione looked up while shutting her book. It was Damien Daniels, the head boy. "Hello." Hermione said kindly, silently wishing he wouldn't stay for a chat since she wanted to continue her reading.
"Hello, mind if I sit here?" He asked her. Hermione shook her head, cursing on the inside. There was a long silence between the Head boy and Head girl.
"Nice weather isn't it?" Damien finally said. "Yes, very nice." Hermione replied. She opened her book again, hoping that Damien would get the subtle hint. Again, there was a long silence. "I haven't seen you much the last couple of days." Damien finally said.
"What?" Hermione asked confused. "You're usually are in the library every night. Except for the last days." Damien explained. "Oh that!" Hermione exclaimed "I've been in detention." Damien frowned "You? Detention? With who?" "Snape." She said. Damien nodded in understanding. "No doubt he would do anything to give YOU detention." He told her. When Harry and Ron walked towards them he left. Leaving a confused Hermione behind.

"Hey Moine." Ron greeted her. "Hi. Is practice over?" She asked him. Her two best friends were standing in front of her. "Who was that?" Harry asked, trying to sound casually. "Damien, he's the head boy." Hermione told them.
"Was he bothering you?" Ron asked sharply. They always did this whenever a boy spoke to her. It was like having two older brothers. Suddenly, Hermione understand what Ginny had been complaining about all these years. "No. He just wanted to know when the next meeting with Dumbledore is. That's all." Hermione said casually. Although she didn't like to lie to her friends like that, it was the only way to get them off her back.

Luckily the two boys were satisfied with her answer and started to talk about quidditch, yet again.

Right after dinner Hermione went down to the dungeons. She knocked on the door, there was no answer. She knocked again. Hermione was in doubt whether she should enter the classroom or not. The last thing she wanted was to get even more detention. "Professor?" She said rather loudly. "Yes?" a silky voice behind her asked.
Hermione jumped "Professor! I'm here for my detention." She said quickly. "I know why you are here." He said, looking into her eyes. Hermione nodded. There was a long silence between the Head girl and the potions master. "Well?" Snape suddenly asked, narrowing his eyes. His question confused Hermione "Well, what?" she asked. Snape rolled his eyes "Well aren't you going to go inside for your detention? Or would you like to serve more of it?"' he hissed at her.

Hermione blushed. How could she be so stupid? While she opened the door, she apologized to her teacher. "You can start cleaning the cauldrons, Miss Granger." Snape snapped. "Without magic."

Without making a sound Hermione started to clean the cauldrons. If she never had to clean one again, she would die happy. She worked in silence while Snape was grading papers. After she had worked for an hour Snape got up from his chair. "Miss Granger, I will have to go to the Head master for a few minutes. You are to remain here until I return." He told her. Hermione nodded, "Yes, sir."

Snape walked towards her, holding out his hand. "Your wand, Miss Granger."
"What?" Hermione asked him in confusion. For a moment she thought it was a joke. But this was Snape, and Snape didn't make jokes. "I asked you for your wand, Miss Granger." He said impatiently. Hermione got nervous "Why do you need my wand?" She asked him, her voice trembling. "I'm taking it with me to make sure that you don't use magic while I'm away." He explained to her. Hermione's eyes widened. "No!" she exclaimed "I'm not giving my wand away." This was absurd. Why would she give her wand to someone else? "Miss Granger, I don't have time for this. Now give me your wand." Snape snapped at her. "No." Hermione snapped back. She didn't care if he would give her more detention, he was not getting her wand. Without it she would be helpless.
"Accio wand." Before she knew what had happened her wand flew into Snapes hand.
He walked out of the classroom without saying a word.

Hermione continued cleaning the cauldrons, tears started to well up in her eyes. Half an hour later, Snape returned. He began to smirk when he saw the tears in her eyes. "Here's your wand, Miss Granger." As quickly as she could she grabbed her wand, putting it safely away in her robes. She finished cleaning the cauldrons in silence. When she was done it was nine o'clock. Her duties didn't start until 10.30. She sighed in relief, good that way she had some time to do her homework.
She walked towards the professor, who was still sitting at his desk grading papers. "Uhm, professor? I'm done cleaning the cauldrons. I'll just go now." She told him.
He looked up, "What time is it?" Hermione looked on her watch "Nine o'clock, sir." He nodded "What time do your Head girl duties start?" "10.30, sir." Hermione replied. "You will stay here until 10.30, writing an essay about the Femilica-potion. Seeing as you were so interested in it yesterday." Snape told her. He opened his desk drawer and got out a large piece of parchment, a quill, a bottle of ink and a book. "Your essay will have to cover this piece of parchment, now start." He snapped.

As quickly as possible Hermione sat down. She couldn't believe that Snape still let her stay until 10.30! That was longer then a normal detention. Hermione also knew that if she said anything about it, he would only give her more detention. Once she had put all of the things Snape gotten her in front of her she took a look at the book. There was a piece of parchment sticking out of it. Unsure what she had to use the book for she looked at the potions master, he was busy grading papers. Hermione opened the book on the page where the parchment was sticking out, the page was about the Femilica-potion.

She dipped the quill in the inkbottle and started to work on her essay. Every five minutes Hermione glanced at her watch, but it didn't make the time pass any faster.

Finally it was 10.30. Hermione made sure that she finished her essay just in time, the last thing she wanted was for Snape to give her another assignment.

Slowly she got up. She coughed a few times to get Snapes attention. He looked up, rather irritated. "I've finished my essay." Hermione told him, putting the piece of parchment on his desk.

Snape looked at if for a moment, got his wand out and tipped on the parchment while he muttered something. Hermione wondered why he did that. Her question was answered when she saw the piece of parchment ripping itself apart. She couldn't believe it. It took her an hour and a half to write the essay and all Snape did was destroying it without even reading it. She bit on her lip to prevent herself from snapping at the professor, which only would lead to even more detention.

"It's 10.30, Miss Granger. You'll have detention tomorrow at eight o'clock. You may go now." He told her in his usual cold voice. "Yes, professor." She answered before she left the potions-classroom.

It was a calm night for Hermione. She only caught two Hufflepuffs in the Astronomy tower. For some reason that tower was real popular with students who wanted to be alone. Around midnight Hermione heard footsteps near the library.

She grinned by the thought of catching another student out of bed. She didn't know why, but for some reason she liked doing that. It was pretty dark when she had reached the library. "Lumos." Hermione muttered. The footsteps had stopped. Hermione listened carefully, but the footsteps didn't continue. She walked towards the place where she had heard them. There was someone walking past the library entrance. When the person saw Hermione, it stopped. Hermione lifted her wand to shine on the person.
The person shielded his, or her, eyes with her hands. "What are you doing here?" Hermione asked sharply. "The same thing as you." A familiar voice said. "Could you stop shining in my eyes please?" Hermione lowered her wand. After she had done so, she saw who the person in front of her was.

*Murphy's law:  'If anything can go wrong, it will'

AUTOR'S NOTES:

Ckat44: Thanks, HG/SS is my favorite ship too! But it's gonna take a while before it happens. And Harper will continue to piss Snape off J

Christie Chang: Thank you!

Melwasul: Poor Hermione? There are a lot of people who would trade places with her. LOL

Daintress: Thanks, I'll update at least once a week. BTW Your 'Lucius got run over by a snorkack' fic is hilarious!!!