AN: I did not write chapters 1 through 5 they were writen by LucyFerina

Chapter 3

Of Detention And Death Eater

Hermione was sprawled on her bed after a long first week of school, now she definitely liked learning new things but she discovered as well that she didn't like very much studying for marks. 'It should be fun knowing useful information' and deep down she thought she understood why everyone tried to just scrap pass mark because at the end the important things in life were others.

She was almost falling asleep when she remembered her encounter three days ago in one of the corridor with Malfoy.

She was scanning the west wing of the castle in search of student out after curfew when turning an angle she smacked into something hard.

"Watch it Granger! I still don't understand how filth like you is allowed to come in this school." His piercing grey eyes where alight with something deeper than dislike, was that hate?

"Malfoy, I don't think it's necessary to remind you who has got the best marks in this school, because the last time I checked it wasn't a Slytherin inbred and son of a convicted Death Eater. I think that you are more tainted that I will ever be."

Hermione was shocked, she would have never had imagined that she could be as bad as he could. 'I have fallen to his level, I shouldn't have bothered answering him.'

Malfoy looked at her very coldly and getting closer whispered in her ear "You will see soon how more tainted than me you can be Mudblood. It will be my pleasure to have you as a gift from my Lord" and after that he quickly left for another corridor, after all he was a prefect too.

Hermione stayed rooted to the spot where Malfoy threatened her for a long time, she couldn't almost breath and all thoughts had left her. She was scared, not just scared she was terrified and it wasn't as much for Malfoy's words but for their implication. He was a Death Eater and he planned to make her life hell.

She sighed turning on one side of her bed and finally very tired she decided to take a nap. She was just wondering why she didn't tell Harry and Ron about the meeting with Malfoy. 'I think that this year I'm going to be brave and I will try to solve my problems without involving the boys. After all I'm a Gryffindor and there must be a reason why I was put in this house and not in Ravenclaw.'

She was soon woken up by Lavander who reminded her about dinner. She descended the stairs from her dormitory and together with Harry and Ron she walked to the Great Hall.

When everyone started to eat she turned her attention once again to Professor Snape 'In class he almost doesn't say a word, he either take off points from us or he corrects mistakes but he seems like he doesn't care anymore. What has happened to him?'

Hermione was beginning to be annoyed, it seemed that this summer had changed both Slytherin men for the worse. On one hand Malfoy wanted her head as a gift for his services to the dark Side and on the other hand 'Severus' seemed having lost even the will to bother the students. She always thought that it was for him a great pleasure to torture students but now he was distracted and even more introvert than usual.

Yesterday Hermione went down in the dungeons to ask Professor Snape about a Potion, well, that was the excuse. She really wanted to see if she could have a reaction out from him.

She knocked at the door of his office and the only thing she could feel was her heart beating so fast. His silky voice said "Enter" timidly Hermione opened the door and approached his desk. "Good afternoon Professor, I just came to know whether you wanted us to research about a potion on sleep walking or sleep talking I asked my classmates but nobody was really sure"

Severus looked at her and after a minute of silence said "Miss Granger, I am sure that the reason you are here has nothing to do with your homework, you know I don't like wasting my time so ten point off Gryffindor and detention tomorrow night. That will teach you silly girl to come here uninvited" and so Hermione turned on her heel and very sadly got back to the Gryffindor tower.

Hermione sighed and after finishing her meal started to walk towards the dungeon 'there wasn't anything I could say to him, he was in such a bad mood that I was surprised I lost just ten points, and maybe with this detention I can find what's wrong with him'. She didn't see that two boys were looking at her while she was living.

Harry was concerned about Hermione, she had been so quiet this week that sometimes he thought he wanted to scream at her, ask her what was going on. Why was she always looking at Malfoy or even worse at Snape. She was always lost in some dreamland and he got to him that he wasn't invited to share. That first day he had offered her his help with Malfoy but two days ago she talked to him and told him not to bother with their plan, Malfoy was not worth their time. But Harry knew better, he saw that she was biting her lips and that wasn't a good thing 'she always bite her lips when she is lying' what has happened to make her lying to him?

Draco watched Granger leaving the Hall, he recalled his encounter with her three days before. She had stood there with her fiery eyes and she had been very nasty too. He liked that he could provoke in her such strong emotions, she looked always so perfect, with her little friend who were flawless and in her little world where everything was nice and faultless. 'I will teach her what it means to be in the real world, only the strong survive and if she shows me her strength I may keep her with me as a pet rather than leave her to the other Death Eaters.'

Yes, Draco was a Death Eater one of the youngest but one of the more ruthless, some of the old ones were almost scared of his cold and merciless behaviour. In the summer he had trained under the best Death Eaters, he learned from Snape every kind of nasty and awful potion, most of all he learned how to resist the veritaserum. From MacNair he learned the fine art of torturing and raping muggle and from the Dark Lord himself he had learned to sustain the Unforgivable curses for long period of time without uttering a single word.

The strange thing was that his dark mark wasn't visible, his Lord seeing how important the young Malfoy could be in his struggle for the power created this new-generation mark which couldn't be seen by anyone who wasn't on the Dark Side. All the new and young Death Eaters were to obey young Malfoy who proved to be the new and useful right hand of the Lord.