Harry puched Hermione playfully and let her continue on her way to the common room. Harry walked into the Great Hall and sat down next to Ron. Draco Malfoy came up to him and sneered "Hello Potter, Weasly" in his usual manner.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry replied coldly.
"Oh, nothing. I just wanted a friendly chat, and I was wondering wether you knew where that mudblood was" Malfoy sneered.
A girl with long, black curls from the Ravenclaw Table walked over to Malfoy. "Leave Harry alone, he's done nothing to you. Why do you have to be so damn aggogant Malfoy?" The girl said, giving Malfoy a push on his shoulders, light enough not to hurt him, but hard enough to make him stumble. The girl turned towards Harry, "My name is Nicole Radcliff, I'm from Ravenclaw, hence the blue trimmed robes, and I'm in seventh, same year as you." The girl held out her hand and Harry shook it. Nicole smiled and walked over to her table. Harry sat in his seat and turned to Ron, who had an amused look on his face.
"She was hot, did you see her eyes? They were like emerald stones on an ivory base. Her fingers were pretty slender, I'll bet she plays the piano, or something" Ron said, tearing his eyes away from Nicoles' shining curls. Harry shook his head in disbelief at Ron, and glanced at Malfoy, who was sitting at the Sytherin table, shooting a glare in Nicoles direction.
Harry walked towards his first class, and he was late. "Harry, Harry Potter!" a voice called from behind him. Harry turned to find Nicole hurring to catch up with his fast pace. "Nicole Radcliff, how pleasant to see you" Harry said, being oddly formal for some reason. Nicole gave him an odd look, and casually asked what his next class was. "uh.. Potions, then Herbology." Harry said, checking his timetable.
"Well I have Defence against the Dark Arts, and Charms." Nicole said, flashing him a winning smile. Harry smiled back and dashed off towards his class, leaving Nicole standing alone. Nicole narrowed her eyes and her mouth slightly dropped open. Harry Potter had not been swayed by her charm, Oh well, Nicole reasoned I'll just have to try harder.
"Potter, I see you finally decided to show for class. Have a seat" the potions master glared.
"Sorry, Professor, I got held up in one of the corridors." Harry took a seat inbetween Hermione and Ron. Malfoy sneered silently at Harry, who ignored the petty insulter and copied down the homework. Herbology was slighty better, they had to re-plant all the Boil-Buster plants and Sleeper Deeper plants for Madam Poppy Pomfrey. Hermione was paired with Harry and Neville with Ron. Neville popped one of the seeding flowers on the Boil-Buster and his hand was covered with puss, burning puss. Neville started to wail and caused Ron to jump, dropping the Sleeper Deeper plant at Nevilles' feet, which caused Neville to fall staight asleep, and the room was quiet once again.
Hermione raised her hand and asked to get her book on 'removing plant puss' from the Gryffindor Common Room and Professor Spout agreed, completely occupied with trying to revive Neville and calming dow Ron.
Hermione wandered over to the portait of 'The Fat Lady' and said the password. As Hermione climbed through the portait and into the common room, she noticed that something was terribly wrong. The usually neat and orderly common room had been turned into a cut out fighting scene of 'Terminator'. Hermione stepped into the rom and saw a small figure lying on the floor. Hermione walked causiously over to the person and stopped dead. Hermione's face went dead white, her eyes widened and she whispered "Ginny?"
Cliff-Hanger! Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Tell me what you think! Good or bad, I don't care! I know this chapter is short, but it was written at 3:00 in the morning...
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