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Chapter 3: They begin…

Everybody's spirits seemed to be down with the coming of 'Exam week.' No friendly banter among students during a revision session, just silence broken with the occasional sound of pages turning. The most probably reason for this was that Mr Snape was in control of these session and actually enjoyed this time. The 'help' took place in the library from eight am to nine, that was when the first exam began and unfortunately for them it was science. Snape took great pleasure in watching the students squirm as they looked back at their notes. A few mutters started to surface with things like "Did we even study this?" and "Well where the hell was I?!" but there was one student who showed no signs of panic, Hermione. As usual she was scanning through her carefully made notes and threw smug glances to a rather unorganized Ron every now and then. It seemed she had gained a new attitude, she had decided to push Ron out of her head at least until the exams were over. She didn't need to be thinking about someone who obviously didn't see her anything more than a stubborn little know it all when her future was at stake.

"Always has to be so damn perfect" Ron muttered under his breath "every bloody day"

Harry lifted his head out of his book to ask who he was talking about but quickly stopped as he noticed Ron was occupied with other things, mainly Madison. She had took a seat next to Ron and he was having a lot of trouble even communicating. A giggle left her lips as he blushed slightly, which only made matters worse, as Hermione saw what was happening and started to glare daggers.

Think anything else…and stop looking at them! Hermione thought to herself as she pretended to read her notes.

"Ronald, are you ready for this exam" Madison asked with an amused expression as Ron elbowed Harry in the stomach to stop him giving a sarcastic remark.

"Ah me" he boasted "couldn't be more prepared, honestly. Ask me anything" he said with a small nod of his head.

"Oh is that right?" Mr Snape said, he seemed to have a gift to be in the right place at the right time especially if it meant, making a student feel worthless.

Shit, crap, bugger, crap, bugger! Ron thought to himself as his complexion turned a violent shade of red.

"Well I'll certainly look forward to marking your paper Mr Weasley, I'll take great pleasure in informing the rest of the students of your grades. I'm sure you'll make a fine example of excellence" he sneered as his gaze was averted to Neville Longbottom because around 20 books were on top of the boy

"Typical" Harry muttered to himself as he noticed Draco Malfoy enter the library.

"Well, well, if it isn't the little book worm" he spat at Hermione as he approached her table "your little friends got bored of the sight of you, then again I wouldn't even blame weasel of leaving a loser like you" his gang of friends laughed amongst themselves while knocking a few of her notes off the table.

She kept her eyes fixated on the books as Harry and Ron both sprang from their chairs "Why don't you go and kiss Snape's arse, Malfoy" Ron responded "I'm sure you'll need the practise, considering your exam is in 5 minutes, don't want to go disappointing daddy now" Hermione smiled inwardly as Ron quickly came to defend her.

Stop it! He likes Madison, you fool!

Draco simply glared "How dare you speak to me like that, you filthy little weasel! Don't you know better? You need to respect your superiors!"

"I hope you don't mean yourself" Hermione said jumping to her feet "Why don't you go and crawl back under the rock you came from because I think you'll be doing us all a favo-"

"Miss Granger, restrain yourself!" came the familiar drawl of Mr Snape "Now everyone line up" he shouted to the rest of the class, then lowered his voice to the trio "I'll deal with you later"

Hermione glanced over to an even redder Ron but her heart sank yet again as he sees Madison taking his hand and walking to the queue.

"Wow, she moves fast" Harry said to Hermione as the two joined the line.

"Do I care? Does it, actually look like I care who Ron dates, Harry!?" she snapped at him.

The exam lasted for 2 hours hr

After the exam

"Well I couldn't have done wo-" Ron started then saw Madison "better, how about you?"

Harry, Hermione and Madison all arched an eyebrow at him. "What!?" Ron said in disbelief "it could happen"

"Ron, even Hermione found it hard" Harry informed him, as if that answered the question. Ron made a 'O' sound before looking back to a giggling Madison.

Is that all she does?! Hermione thought.

Madison leaned over to Ron and whispered something to him, causing Ron to blush again "Erm Hermione" he said once Madison had walked away to get her things to leave "do you still need a lift because, well, Madison…"

Hermione had to bite her tongue because the thoughts in her head were becoming too much "No, it's fine" she forced out through tight lips before Ron walked away.

"Just tell him" Harry said.

"What?"

"Tell him. It's Ron and even for a guy, he wouldn't know if a girl liked him if she threw it in his face"

She was speechless "See" Harry said to her "I'm not completely stupid, no matter what Snape says" and with that he walked away, leaving Hermione to think about what he had said.

AU: Well all the exams won't be like this, I may skip to "After the exams" I'll see what kind of response I get with this chapter. Sorry it took so long for an update but please review it 