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Once again, I'm not J.K. Rowling and the characters do not belong to me.
I'm not making money etc. etc. you get the picture.

~CHAPTER SIX~

The rest of the week Victoria didn't leave her portrait. Although Hermione had apologized to her, she was still mad.

On Saturday the first quidditch match was held. Ravenclaw against Gryffindor.
Hermione walked towards the quidditch field, her bag of books with her, when she ran into Hagrid.
"Hi Hagrid, how's Barbie?" She asked him.
"Oh she's great, she loves it here." He told her, he started to tell Hermione about the things Barbie had been doing.
"Are you coming to watch the quidditch match?" Hermione asked to change the subject.
"No, I can't. Barbie is asleep and she needs to eat when she wakes up." Hagrid said, he looked a bit disappointed that he couldn't see the match.
"Would you like me to baby-sit for you?" Hermione offered.
"Are you sure?" Hagrid asked.
Hermione nodded, she hated quidditch and this way she had an excuse for not showing up.
And while Barbie was asleep, she could do some homework.

Hagrid instructed Hermione about how to take care of Barbie. From what she should eat 'till the books that needed to be read to her.
Ten minutes after Hagrid had left, Barbie woke up. Her eyes widened when she saw Hermione.
"Hi Barbie, I'm Hermione. Remember me?" Hermione said, a bit insecure about how Barbie would react to her.
The girl stared at Hermione for a few minutes, then she smiled.
"Hermy!" Barbie said, still smiling.
The Head girl tried not to groan, she hated that nickname.

The first thing that Hermione did was feed Barbie. It took Hermione half an hour to feed her.
In the end Barbie had eaten half of the food, the rest was all over Hermione.
"Thank God I'm a witch," Hermione muttered.
With a quick "Evanesco" her robes were clean again. Hermione found it a bit weird, feeding a girl that looked just as old as her.

After she got dressed, Barbie insisted on going to play outside. Once they were outside, it took Hermione all her strength to convince the girl that it wasn't a good idea to play in the Forbidden forest. Somehow Hermione got the feeling that Barbie had been there before. She was glad to see Hagrid returning, babysitting wasn't as easy as she had thought.
"Hi Hermione, how did it go?" Hagrid wanted to know when he had returned.
"Great," She replied "Who won the match?"
Hagrid started to laugh "Gryffindor of course! I've heard there's a party in the Gryffindor common room."

Hermione laughed, there was always a party in the Gryffindor common room after they had won.
It was usually an excuse to drink a lot of butter beer. Even she didn't know how they got it.

After the party Hermione returned back to her own dorm. When she arrived there Victoria wasn't in the portrait. Hermione got out her wand. Now, what was that spell that Snape used again? It didn't take her long to remember "Regresuur" she muttered while she tapped on the empty frame. But Victoria didn't return. Maybe Hermione had used the wrong spell, what was it again? She decided to try again "Regreseur"

BANG

There was a large explosion instead. Hermione was blown back towards the wall. Instead of summoning Victoria, she had blown up the frame.

Professor McGonagall ran towards Hermione. "Miss Granger, what happened?" She asked sharply.
Hermione, who was still confused by what had happened, started to cough, she could hardly breath.
 "Perhaps we should get you to Madam Pomfrey." McGonagall said concerned. She helped the Head girl up and escorted her to the hospital wing.

When Hermione and McGonagall finally arrived at the hospital wing she still had trouble breathing normally.
"Dear, what happened?" She asked concerned.
Hermione couldn't answer, she was still trying to breathe normally. Madam Pomfrey looked at professor McGonagall who shook her head.
"Here take these." The Medi-witch handed Hermione two little blue balls. "Now I want you to swallow them in one piece."
 Hermione nodded and swallowed the pills.
"It will still take a while before you can breathe normally. Just sit down for a few minutes."

McGonagall immediately asked what had happened.
"Professor Snape used a spell….." Hermione started.
Before she had finished her sentence, the professor had walked out of the hospital wing. A few minutes later McGonagall returned with Snape. Hermione was still trying to control her breathing.
"See what you've done!" McGonagall exclaimed, pointing at Hermione.
Snape crossed his arms, he didn't say a word.
"Well," McGonagall continued, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Snape looked at his colleague, narrowing his eyes "What makes you think that I did this?" He asked her.

"She said that you used a spell." McGonagall snapped at him.
He turned towards Hermione "Did I?" he asked her.
Hermione, who still couldn't breathe normal, shook her head.

The moment she tried to speak Madam Pomfrey came to check on her. "You shouldn't talk!" She said strictly, she turned towards the two professors "Professors, Miss Granger needs to rest. If she tries to talk it will take her forever to breathe normal again."

Fifteen minutes later, Hermione could breathe normal again. She had to convince Madam Pomfrey that everything was fine, before she could leave.
When she left, professor McGonagall and professor Snape were waiting for her.
"Ah, Miss Granger, please explain your accusations towards me." Snape told her. "Professor McGonagall is under the impression that I hexed you."

Hermione gulped, "I was trying to explain how I had learned the spell that I used, but before I could finish my story professor McGonagall had already left." She explained.

Snape shot his colleague a nasty look.
"So what did happen, Miss Granger?" Professor McGonagall asked her, trying to ignore Snape.
"The portrait in front of my dorm was empty. I've seen professor Snape summoning Victoria, that's the girl in the painting, a few times. But when I tried it myself the frame blew up." Hermione told her professors.
McGonagall looked confused, "There's a spell for that?" she wondered out loud.
"What spell did you use, miss Granger?" Snape asked sharply.
"The Regreseur-spell that I've seen you use." Hermione told him, she still didn't know what had happened.

"You stupid girl!" He spat at her, "The spell that I used was the REGRESAR-spell. The Regreseur-spell is used to destroy portraits."

Hermione gasped, "I destroyed Victoria?" she asked, her voice trembling.
Snape rolled his eyes. "No." He softly said "You destroyed her painting, but if she HAD been in her frame, you would have destroyed her."

"Severus, can you please explain what spells you have been using?" McGonagall asked the potions master. She didn't look happy at all.
"Just a spell to summon Miss Grangers painting." He answered casually.
"I see." McGonagall said slowly. She turned towards Hermione, telling her that she was able to return to her dorm again.

"Severus, I want a word with you. In private." McGonagall hissed at Snape, when Hermione had walked away.

A nervous Hermione reached Victoria's portrait. Victoria was standing with her arms crossed, an angry look on her face.
"Hi Victoria, how are you doing?" Hermione asked carefully, she had no idea how the girl was going to react.
"Password?" Victoria asked her.
"Listen, I'm really sorry, I had no idea…." Hermione started, she was interrupted by Victoria
"Password?"

Hermione closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Dentist." She said. The portrait swung open and the Head girl entered her dorm.

The next day the whole school knew that Hermione had tried to blow up Victoria's portrait. Other portraits were staring at her and whispering to each other as she walked by them. And Peeves had made a little song which he called 'Hermione Granger the portrait danger'

She was glad it was Sunday, at least she could spend the entire day in the library. In the seven years that she had been at Hogwarts, she never saw a student in the library on Sunday. With the exception of the Sunday before the exams began.

It was dinner time. When Hermione entered the great hall every student was looking at her. The Head girl didn't understand this. So she had gotten a spell wrong, what was the big deal? She didn't even destroy the portrait, just the frame. It's not like she did it on purpose.

Miserably she sat down next to Ginny.
"Hey 'Moine, how's it going?" Ginny asked her friend.
"I had better days." Hermione said. She started to eat her potatoes.
"So what happened exactly?" Ron, who was sitting next to his sister, asked. Every student at the Gryffindor table looked at her, waiting for her to answer.
"I don't want to talk about it." Hermione snapped. She took one bite out of her steak and left the great hall. When she arrived at her dorm, Victoria was still standing with her arms crossed.
"Password?" She spat at Hermione.
"Dentist." Hermione spat back at her.

As fast as she could, she ran up the stairs. She fell down on the red couch, Crookshanks greeted her. "Hi Crooky." Hermione greeted her familiar sadly.

The Head girl felt tired, she went to her bedroom. And fell asleep on her bed, with her clothes still on.

The following day, when her classes were done, Hermione went to the library. She sat down and started to read. Suddenly she heard a voice behind her.
"Hey Mudblood, blew up any more paintings?"

Hermione turned around, Draco Malfoy was standing behind her.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" She snapped at him.
He smirked at her "I just wondered." He said casually.
"Where you are? It's a LIBRARY." The Head girl replied.
"I wondered where a stupid mudblood, like you, learned a dark spell." Malfoy told her, ignoring her comment.
"Well I guess I'm not as stupid as you think." She told him.

Hermione turned back to her book, hoping that Malfoy would leave. "I'll figure it out, just wait." He hissed at her before he left the library.

When her detention was finally over, Snape walked with Hermione to her dorm. Professor Dumbledore forced him to apologize to Victoria.
Victoria was still afraid of him. "Password please." She asked a bit more friendly then usual.

Hermione gave the password and walked inside. Although she was curious how Snape would apologize to a painting, she walked upstairs.
The only thing that she wanted to do now was to go to sleep.

Hermione's eyes widened when she saw the common room. It was a mess. There were books and quills everywhere, her bag had been emptied.
Suddenly she heard something in her bedroom. As fast as possible Hermione ran out her dorm, screaming.

Knocking professor Snape over as she stormed out.

"Miss Granger, what is the meaning of this?" Snape asked furiously. Hermione, who fell on top of her professor, got up as soon as possible.
"There's someone in my bedroom!" She squealed. Snape got up and stormed into the Head girl's dorm. Ten minutes later, Snape returned. He was holding poor Crookshanks by his tail.
"I guess you were right, there was someone in your bedroom." He said softly.
"Don't hold him like that!" Hermione exclaimed. Snape dropped the cat, which landed on its feet, and crossed his arms.
"There was someone in my dorm. There are books and quills lying around everywhere." Hermione told her professor, after she had picked up her familiar.

The potions master turned towards Victoria. "Did you let someone else in today?" He asked her.
The young girl was thinking for a while. "Yes, I did. It was a boy." She finally said.

"Why?" Snape asked her calm.
"He knew the password." Victoria said casually.

Hermione thought about who could possibly knew her password. Even Harry and Ron didn't know it.
"What did he look like?" Hermione wanted to know. If she had a description of the boy, maybe she could figure out who he was.

"All I can remember is that he had blonde hair." Victoria told her.