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I'm not making money etc. etc. you get the picture.

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~CHAPTER FIVE~

"WHAT?" Harry exclaimed.
"You never told us that you had a daughter." Hermione said.
"I didn't know I had a daughter until a few months ago." Hagrid explained.
"So who's her mother?" Ron wanted to know.

Hagrid started to explain that Madame Maxime, Barbie's mother, had sent the girl to live at Hogwarts.
Now that Voldemort was back, she wanted her daughter to be at the safest place possible.
From the window, they could see that she was heading towards the lake. Hagrid got up and tried to stop her from falling in.

"But he only met Madame Maxime in our fourth year. Barbie looks like she's our age." Harry said carefully to his friends.
"I don't think she's our age." Hermione said after a few seconds. "I mean she IS the daughter of two half-giants."
Ron and Harry nodded understandingly.

"I wonder where she's staying when Hagrid is teaching." Ron wondered when he, Harry and Hermione were walking back towards the castle.

"I don't even want to think about that." Harry said, shaking his head.

"So what are you going to do tonight?" Harry asked Hermione.
Tonight was her first night without detention and Hermione had it all planned out.
"First I'm going to take a long bath. And then I'm going to do some homework and catch a bit up on my reading." She simply said.
Ron snorted "Only you would enjoy reading on a Saturday night."

Hermione decided to ignore that comment.

The first thing Hermione did after dinner, was going to the library. It didn't take her long to find the books that she needed.
She hurried back to her dorm. When she arrived at Victoria's portrait, she saw that the girl wasn't there. Hermione sighed, why couldn't she have a portrait that stayed in her place? Victoria was probably visiting the portrait of her little brother, Nigel.

Hermione waited for almost fifteen minutes, wishing that she knew where Nigel's portrait was.
The Head girl got tired of standing in front of the empty portrait and, since she had no desire to go to the Gryffindor common room, she decided to sit on the floor in front of the portrait. She opened one of the library books while looking up at the portrait every five minutes.

After sitting on the stone floor for ten minutes Hermione started to wonder if it wasn't smarter to go to the Gryffindor common room.
There she could at least sit more comfortable. She looked at the portrait again, it was still empty.
"What on earth are you doing here?" said a cold voice in front of her.

Hermione looked up, it was professor Snape.
"I was just sitting." She said quickly as she stood up.
"That I can see. WHY were you sitting here?" Snape asked impatiently.
"The girl in my portrait is somewhere else." Hermione replied, pointing at the painting.
"I was just waiting for her to return." She added quickly, hoping that Snape would understand.
The potions master narrowed his eyes. "How long has she been gone?" He asked sharply.
"Uhm…let's see….. I've been waiting for about…. thirty minutes." Hermione answered while she looked on her watch.

"Does this happen a lot?" Snape asked. Hermione wondered why he wanted to know all this.
"This is the second time, only last time she was back pretty soon." Hermione said.

Snape walked towards the empty portrait. Slowly he pulled out his wand. He tapped on the frame and muttered "Regresar".
Two seconds later Victoria appeared in the portrait. Wow, I must remember that spell, Hermione thought.
She walked towards Victoria, but Snape was blocking her way.

"What on earth were you thinking, stupid girl." Snape hissed at the portrait.
Victoria's lip started to tremble, "I was just visiting my brother for a while and…." She started.

"You've been gone for more then thirty minutes!" Snape interrupted her. "You KNOW that you can only leave your frame for ten minutes.
Or have you forgotten about the rule?"
There's a rule for that? Hermione thought. She had never heard of it, it wasn't even mentioned in Hogwarts: A history.

She wasn't sure if she should defend Victoria. True, she had been gone for quite a while.
But Snape was overreacting by yelling at the poor girl like that.

On the other hand, Hermione didn't want to get even more detention. Finally Snape was done yelling at Victoria, who was now crying.
Hermione never knew that a portrait could cry and, after Victoria apologized, she could finally go into her dorm.

The first thing she did when she was in her dorm was feeding Crookshanks. Hermione had saved some of the fish, which was for diner, for her cat.
Crookshanks was happy with all the attention he got from Hermione.
"Oh, I know, I've neglected you for the last few days." She whispered to her pet, "I'm so sorry."

While Crookshanks was eating the fish, Hermione took a long bath. After bathing for an hour, Hermione started making her homework.
As usual, the weekend was over too soon. Hermione was glad that she had finished all her homework on Saturday, that way she could spend Sunday with her Gryffindor friends.

On Monday they had Care of Magical creatures. Harry, Hermione and Ron were curious what Hagrid would do with his daughter while he teaches.
But they didn't have the courage to ask him, even if they were Gryffindors.

"Today I have something special for you." Hagrid began his class. Hermione smiled at him but she feared that he was going to show them some horrible beast.

"Now, all of you just follow me." He said. Hagrid started to walk towards the Forbidden forest.
Harry started to walk next to Hagrid "We are not going into the forest are we?" Harry whispered.
"Of course not, just moving a bit closer to the forest." Hagrid answered.

The group of students were lead towards that was just a few foot away from the Forbidden forest. In the high grass there were six trees.
Hagrid had hung up some sort of blue ribbon, which made it impossible to reach the trees.
"Just stay on this side of the ribbon if you don't want to get lost in the forest" Hagrid told the students.
The students didn't even dare to cross the ribbon after this warning.
"Now, does anyone of you know what Forest fairies are?" He asked.

Hermione was the only one to raise her hand.
"According to legend Forest fairies live in trees. They have been known to help those who are in need of help.
Since the year 1574 Forest fairies have been extinct." She said confident.

"Very good, 10 points for Gryffindor." Hagrid said, smiling. "There's only one thing wrong, they are not extinct." He continued.

"Now, be very quiet, they are extremely shy and don't cross the line." He gestured to the blue ribbon. The students were as quiet as possible.
Suddenly something moved behind one of the trees.

About five minutes later they could see someone staring back at them. The someone was hiding behind the large tree, showing only her head.
The head disappeared behind the tree again. A minute later she showed her head again, but this time she didn't disappear behind the tree again.
After looking at the students for a few seconds she showed herself.

Hermione gasped, there was a Forest fairy standing in front of them. The fairy had long blonde hair, which she wore in two long braids, which reached 'till the ground.

She was wearing a light green dress that looked like it was made out of silk. On her back there were two big purple wings.
Her eyes were twice as big as normal, and they had the same purple color as her wings.

The students were staring at her with there mouths wide open. Hagrid stepped forward and the Forest fairy hid behind a tree again.
"Now I want you to form groups of four people. Each group will stay here and watch while the other waits over there.
You will make notes and, if it's possible, try to make a drawing of Ninfa."

The groups were formed and Harry, Hermione and Ron were teamed up with Neville.

"Do you think that he found her in the Forbidden forest?" Neville asked Hermione, while they were walking towards the ribbon.
"I don't know." Hermione answered "According to every book that I have read they are extinct."

As quiet as possible, the four Gryffindors were standing in front of the ribbon. Harry was going to make the drawing while Hermione was taking notes about Ninfa's behavior.

This time it didn't take long before the fairy showed herself again. At first she moved closer to the ribbon, this gave Harry a good change to make a decent drawing.
Then, she started to fly back towards the try. While she was flying the purple wings weren't visible at all.
For a few minutes she sat in the tree, her green dress made it almost impossible to notice her. She decided to return to the ground and landed just a few inches away from the ribbon, looking at the four students. Harry had stopped drawing because he was afraid that the sound of him drawing might scare Ninfa away.
Hermione had also stopped writing down her notes. Ron and Neville were just standing as still as possible.
The fairy stood in front of Neville, studying his face.
Neville tried his best not to move. Suddenly Ninfa gave him a hug and flew back into the tree. 

Even Hagrid was amazed by what Ninfa had done. "Wow, I've never seen a Forest fairy touch a human before." He exclaimed.
Hermione had written it down as soon as possible.

Neville gulped "Why did she do that?" He asked nervously.
Hagrid started to laugh "I think that you've just made yourself a friend."

The other students were also amazed what had happened. In the other groups Ninfa had just moved closer to the ribbon, but she hadn't hugged any of the other students.

That night, Hermione had detention again. To her surprise, there weren't any cauldrons in the classroom.
This was a bit odd, considering that it was a potions-classroom. Hermione looked closer.
She noticed that all the desks were gone, even Snape's desk had vanished.
"Uhm…professor? What happened to the cauldrons?" Hermione asked Snape.
"You don't have to clean any cauldrons tonight, Miss Granger." He told her, "Tonight you are going to clean the floor. Without magic."

Hermione took a close look at the floor and wondered when the last time had been that it was cleaned.
There was no way that she could clean the entire floor all by herself. Snape saw the expression on her face.
"Don't worry, Miss Granger. You're not the only student who has detention tonight." He spat at her.

Hermione sighed in relief. A few minutes later Damien walked in.
"Hello." He said with a smile on his face. "How are you doing Hermione?"

"Silence!" Snape yelled. "This is not a tea party. You are here to serve detention. There will be no talking."
After Snape had instructed Damien what to do, the Head boy and Head girl started to clean the floor.

Around eleven o'clock the room was almost cleaned. Snape let Damien go back to his dorm earlier then Hermione.
The Head girl had to put the desks back to their places, also without magic, which took almost an hour.
"You can return to your dorm now." Snape said as soon as Hermione had finished.
 "Miss Granger, has the portrait in front of your dorm been empty since Friday?" Snape asked just when Hermione was about to leave the classroom.
"No, sir." She replied quickly, hoping that Snape would believe her.
The truth was that Victoria, the girl in the portrait, had been gone most of the time that Hermione wanted to enter her dorm.
"10 points from Gryffindor, for lying to a professor." Snape said. The Head girl wondered how he could tell that she was lying.
"How many times has she been gone?" Snape wanted to know.
"Almost every time I returned to my dorm." Hermione answered honestly. She silently wished that she had remembered the spell that Snape had used to summon her back to the portrait.

"Miss Granger, follow me." Snape suddenly said. Hermione walked back to her dorm with the potions master.

They had almost reached Hermione's dorm when there was someone walking towards them. It was Damien.
The smile on his face faded when he saw that Hermione wasn't alone.
"Mr. Daniels, 50 points from Ravenclaw." Snape spat at him "I don't believe that you have Head boy duties tonight."
Damien stared at the floor "Yes sir." He said before leaving towards his own dorm. Hermione wondered what he was doing near her dorm at a time like that.
She also wondered why Snape didn't give him detention.

Hermione and Snape arrived at the Head girl's dorm, but Victoria wasn't in her portrait. Snape reached into his pocket, he got out a small golden pocket watch.
"Uhm…what do we do now, professor?" Hermione asked insecure.
"Now we wait." Snape told her.

Precisely ten minuteserHH= later Snape got his wand out and muttered "Regresar" while he tapped on the empty frame.
Victoria appeared two seconds later. Her eyes widened when she saw the potions master standing in front of her.
"Miss Granger, you can go inside. Tomorrow your detention will begin immediately after dinner." Snape told Hermione softly.
She nodded and gave the password. After the portrait had closed she staid on the ivory stairs, so she could hear what Snape had to say to Victoria.

"What did I tell you about the rules?" Snape hissed at Victoria. There was a long silence, Hermione could hear the young girl sobbing.
"What did I tell you about them? Snape asked again.
"That I'm not allowed to leave my frame longer then ten minutes." Victoria replied.
"Exactly!" Snape spat at her. "And you were gone for more then ten minutes, weren't you?"
Victoria sobbed again.
"If this happens one more time, I'm going to erase your painting!" Snape yelled before started to walk away.

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