Mismatched Love

Chapter 4: The Wrath of Hermione

Hermione stared open-mouthed at Snape and then at the rest of the class. Most of them had similar expressions on their faces and were either in a severe state of denial or glaring at the bearer of ill news.

"Ok class, now that you know who your partners are, you'll be required to work with him or her for the next two weeks on the project assigned to you. I will not tolerate plagiarism of any sort or requests for change of partners. I can assure you all that all the names were randomly selected. Class dismissed!" Snape said calmly at the class of angry students.

Hermione stood up and walked to the front of the class as the rest of the students filed out.

"Professor are you sure you did not make a mistake, I mean… I can't… You CAN'T be serious… I have to work with that… that mudblood Gryffindor?!!" Hermione screamed at the Potions master.

"Miss Granger as I have said before, the names were chosen randomly, I certainly had disapproved of the Headmaster's idea to get the Gryffindors and the Slytherins to cooperate with one another, but of course I have no say in the matter, so I suggest Miss Granger that you work with Mr Malfoy, half of your Potions grade depends on this project." Snape replied coolly and walked out of the classroom, leaving behind a seething Hermione.

"What the bloody hell does Snape actually think he's doing!?" Ron said as he turned to face his two best friends, Harry and Draco.

"I mean, you can't expect me to actually work with pug-faced Pansy!! I mean… gawd! Looking at her already makes me want to puke, let alone work with her for two weeks!!: Ron angrily spat out as the three headed for their next class.

"Ron, look at it this way, at least your not working with Goyle. I mean, even a troll has more brains than him!" Harry groaned.

"Yeah Ron, I mean Pansy intelligence-wise is WAY better than Goyle's, Goyle probably can't even spell his name without help from someone!" Draco pointed out to his two friends.

"Draco, just shut up ok? You obviously have nothing to be worried about. I mean, your partner is Granger! She's most probably the smartest witch around after you." Ron snapped.

"Oh yeah? Well, you also forgot to mention that she's the Princess of Slytherin and the worst of all the Slytherins!!" Draco cried out.

"Guys!! Just chill ok!! Most probably knowing Snape, this project must be worth half our grade or something. There's no point in grumbling, in the end we have to work with the Slytherins." Harry said, intervening.

"Fine," Ron mumbled.

"Ok.. so you guys wanna head down to the library?" Draco asked.

Harry and Ron stared at their friend.

"To research for the projects?? I mean you guys just said yourselves that we have to work with our greatest enemies of all time and we obviously can't get along, let alone get a project done." Draco said to the two staring at his friends.

"Oh yeah… good point, Draco." Ron said, his ears turning slightly red.

"You guys wanna head down to the library now then?" Draco asked cautiously, he knew how hard it was to get the both of them to the library,

"Are you kidding!?" Ron said.

"After all, it's only Trelawney's class, a waste of time if you ask me."

Draco said disgustedly, "I knew I should have taken up a different class."

"Miss Divination and give up a chance of getting an easy pass?" Harry said, "No way."

"Yeah, I mean you said yourself that we have to work hard and the only way for me and Harry to work hard is during Divinations." Ron pointed out.

"By that, you mean slack. I mean how hard can staring at a load of soggy brown mess be considered homework?" Draco retorted back, slightly angry at the two, "You can just say that you don't want to go to the library with me."

"Hey, sorry we didn't mean to get you mad, Draco." Harry apologised.

"No sweat, I guess I been stressing too much too," Draco replied.

"Let's just head for Divinations." Ron said.

The trio strolled down the hallway as they headed for Divinations.

Hermione stormed out of the class. "Half the grade depends on the project and I'm stuck with that mudblood! Arrgh!! Why can't life just go according to the way I want it for once!" Hermione thought angrily, "Stupid old man! Dumbledore should have been replaced a long time ago! Father should have pressed that idiot Fudge to have him replace a long time ago."

Hermione cursed inwardly. Good thing Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle had left her alone, otherwise they would have been subjected to the brunt of her anger. Hermione walked down the hallways of the dungeon and took a secret passageway to the second floor. Her Arithmancy class started in a few minutes and she was nowhere near the classroom.

"Damn! Stupid staircase!" Hermione cursed as the staircase in front of her disappeared. It was the fastest route to class.

"Damn!!!"

Hermione sped off to another stairway which she knew would not disappear… she hoped.

(A/N: So you finally get to see the Gryffindor trio in action. Hoped that this chapter would make up for the many days I haven't been posting. Thanks again to all those who reviewed!! See you at the next chapter!!)