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Chapter 4 – First day of classes
Hermione woke up bright and early the next day. She had, had the best nights sleep of her life. Her new bed was the most comfiest she had ever slept in.
She got out of bed and ran to the shower. Luckily Malfoy wasn't up yet so she had a bit of extra time to enjoy the hot water
Ten minutes later she stepped out of the shower and wrapped herself in a towel. She was trying to find one that covered her legs but couldn't seem to. Now she wished she had bought her clothes with her too.
She exited the bathroom and found Malfoy lounging on one of the sofas.
"Good morning her-mio-ne" he said and saluted her
"Nice legs"
She ran up to her room 'lecherous git' she thought to herself as she put on her school uniform. She pulled her hair into a messy yet sexy bun and applied a small amount of make up, she preferred the natural look, unlike lavender and parvati who seemed to like the town trollop look.
When finished she made her way down to breakfast and to her surprise Ron and Harry were already there.
"Morning" she said as she sat down and grabbed a couple of slices of toast
"Morning" Harry replied
"Morning"
Ron repeated "so how did last night go?"
"Not too bad
actually" she told them, she told them all about the marble tablet
and Dumbledore's messages, and how nice the place was
"That sounds good Hermione" Harry said "I wish you were still in Gryffindor tower though"
"I know Harry and in some ways I do too" she told him and gave him a friendly hug
Over at the slytherin table Malfoy nearly choked on his juice at the sight of them. 'Hugging again! There is something wrong with them'
"Ok so this years timetables" Hermione said and started passing them out,
"Great we have every lesson with the slytherins this year. I wonder why?" Harry moaned
"Dumbledore wants interhouse unity this year" Hermione told him "he said with Voldemort liable to plan an attack sometime soon, we need to all get along and so he is pairing up Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw and then Gryffindor and Slytherin. Which I suppose makes sense really. Although Slytherin is probably full of death eaters so I don't really know how well that's going to work"
"When did he say all that?" Harry asked
"In the prefects meeting on the train" Ron said "I forgot about it to be honest mate"
"Why am I not surprised?" Hermione asked
First class on Mondays was double potions with the slytherins as it had been for the last five years.
"Ooh my favourite" Harry said sarcastically as they made their way to the dungeons
They all made their way into Snape's dungeon classroom. The place was as dim and intimidating as Snape himself.
Hermione, Harry and Ron all sat together
"Right" Snape yelled "before any of you go getting comfortable we are having a switch around this year on Dumbledore's orders. I shall read out the pairings and then you will sit with your partner for the rest of the year."
He pulled out a roll of parchment and began to read
"Potter, Zabini….Weasley, Goyle….Longbottom, Crabbe…Brown, Parkinson….Patil, Bulstrode….Granger, Malfoy…"
Everybody moved around
"What did I do so wrong to get stuck with you yet again?" Malfoy asked as Hermione sat down next to him
"Just lucky I guess" she said and smiled sweetly at him
"Eurgh!" he groaned "do I have to be with granger?"
"Yes Draco, you do and her name is Hermione I believe. I want to talk to you two after class actually" Snape said grinning at Malfoy
"Oh joy" Hermione muttered
"I heard that ms granger" Snape snarled at her
The lesson went quite smoothly Snape had them researching the potion that made people able to read each others minds for a week.
"you can only read the persons mind who's hair you put into the potion, a little like polyjuice potion in that aspect" Hermione said answering a question that she had been asked
"Yes so you will be able to read Mr Malfoy's mind for a week and vice versa" he told her
They were all dreading making the potion and using it next week
"I do not want you reading my mind for a week Hermione" Draco told her
"The feelings mutual Draco" Hermione said scratching away
At her parchment with her quill.
"I think I would probably end up insane"
For the rest of the day classes went quite smoothly. Although it seemed that they had to stick with their potion partners in all lessons. Snape had indeed seen them after class to tell them that he felt it more beneficial for the head boy and girl to work together as they would be able to fit it in round their head duties better than they would if working with others and also to tell them about the password for Dumbledore's office for their visit later on,
