How Hermione stays awake in History of Magic:
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the original list which was written in Shakespeare class between passing notes With Shadowsylvia and Emma Lipardi. Check out their stories…"Harry's Savior" and "An Aunts Love" respectively.
And now…On with the story
Harry's head jerked, violently bringing him back to consciousness. He was sitting in Binns' History of magic class, as he did every Tuesday and Thursday after lunch, fighting a losing battle with sleep and boredom, as he had for the past seven years in every single History of magic class he had ever been in.
Ron was to his left, only drooling slightly as he slept using his bag as a pillow. Hermione was to his right taking notes as one would expect from his know-it-all friend.
He quickly scribbled a note on a scrap of parchment and slid it over to Hermione.
'How do you manage to stay awake and take notes?'
Hermione read the note and suppressed a small smile before she gave a slight shrug of her shoulders and returned to writing.
Hermione read the note and suppressed a small smile before she gave a slight shrug of her shoulders and returned to her "notes".
She had already read the curriculum for this term and discovered that Prof. Binns was merely reciting the text to the class with no additional commentary. So rather than taking notes as she dutifully did in every other class, she used this time for other mental exercises.
She had been working on a fan fiction based on Terry Goodkind's Seiries "The Sword of Truth". She wanted to have atleast two chapters written and ready to type and post on her favorite Fan-fic website when she got home for term break, but she had been fighting with her OC that was turning out rather Mary-Sueish so she took a short break to contemplate Harry's question.
Pulling out a new sheet of parchment she started a list.
How I Stay Awake in Binns' Class:
Write fanfiction
Fantasize about Snape (wouldn't the boys be shocked)
Make funny lists
Read "Hogwarts: A History"…Again
Imagine ways of escaping:
Make my quill a port key
Pull a Weasley
Dissaparate (bloody wards)
Brew some draught of the living dead and force feed it to Binns (do potions work on ghosts?)
Summon Fawkes
Owl for help
Skiving snack boxes (yes I'm that desperate)
Have Dobby drop pudding on Binns' head (again…would that effect a ghost?)
Avada Kedavra Binns (again…Ghosts?)
Hail the knight bus
Jelly legs Jinx Binns (I really should research how curses effect Ghosts)
Terentangula Binns (maybe I'll test these on Myrtle)
Use Harry's invisibility cloak
Fantasize about Ron (mmmm Quidditch Robes)
Fantasize about Draco (mmmmm Bad boy in Quidditch Robes)
Fantasize about me in the middle of a Ron Draco Sandwitch (Ok Hormones run amok here)
As the bell that signaled the end of class tolled Hermione quickly stowed her parchment, quill and ink in her bag and started out of the classroom with a bleary-eyed Ron and very relieved Harry following after her.
"Hermione…could I borrow your notes from class today? I dind't manage to take any." Ron asked
"Honestly Ron, How are you ever going to learn what you need for your NEWTs if I give you the notes. Try reading your book." Hermione said trying to cover for her lack of notes and the rather incriminating scroll list in her bag. note to self…hide the scroll in my trunk
"Come on you two. We're going to be late for Hagrid's class." Harry said as he picked up his pace out of the castle.
note to self…hide the scroll in my trunk Hermione thought as she followed the boys down to Hagrid's Hut for Care of Magical Creatures.
