Chapter 7- Snakes and Lions and everything else

The five Hogwarts students facing detention, were...at the moment... all sitting around talking about meaningless things that would get them nowhere...but no one was complaining yet...

"So..." Draco began, Turning his attention towards Harry "...Potter...what'd you do to get in here? Forget to wash your jock?"

Harry shot and icy glare towards him "No..." he said "I..." he shifted, uncomfortably "I did something else..."

The other four eyed him curiously, as he stared toward the ground. Harry wasn't one to cause too much trouble. He was more of a 'save-the-day' kindof guy. So what could he have done?

"I..." he began... "I cursed a few Hufflepuff fifth years to sing 'Mary Had a little lamb' as loud as they could whenever a teacher addressed them..." he smirked "Apparently, the spell never died down, causing their voices to crack...I uh...gave them all sore throats like the bloody devil and they're still up in the Hospital wing..."

Draco cracked a smile, as did Hermione...but Luna and Colin were staring at the two, apparently flabbergasted.

"That was you?" Colin asked, shocked "YOU did that to David?"

"And Emma?" Luna asked, looking very angry. Harry gulped, and smiled at the both of them

"Y-yeah...you know them then?"

The two nodded, with shocked looks on their faces. It seemed to all, that the two were friends with the ones Harry had cursed. This wasn't good on his part, seeing as how Colin had worshipped him for the past five years. It was a bit scarring. Draco on the other had was laughing, trying his hardest to hold it back. Finally he gave up, falling backwards. Hermione huffed at him.

"You're so immature..." she scoffed. That shut Draco up. He sat up, glaring at her.

"That's just what I'd suspect from a tease..." he hissed. Hermione glared at him right back. She was not a tease, no matter what he said.

"I am not a tease nor will I ever be..." she mumbled. She turned to face Luna who was grinning madly.

"I am..." she exclaimed "I'll do anything sexual and I don't need a million galleons to do it...I'm a nymphomaniac..."

The three boys stared at her, wide eyed. Hermione on the other hand rolled her eyes. "You're lying..." she stated.

"I even told my psychiatrist..." Luna informed them "But when he found out...well lets just say he nailed me..." a smirk spread across her face. Hermione shot her a disgusted look.

"Ugh! What is wrong with you?" she snapped. Luna just went on with her story, ignoring the outburst.

"I don't think by legal standards what he did was wrong, considering I paid him..." she confessed. Draco smirked. Harry smiled. Colin gaped. Hermione's eyes snapped closed, too grossed out to say anything.

"Why," she finally said "Would you do that to yourself, Luna? Don't you have any self respect?"

Luna smirked "I don't screw for respect...That's the difference between you and me..."

At this point, all three boys had sat quietly for too long. Draco decided it was time to end the silence. He turned to Hermione, flashing her a smile, like a Tiger would smile before pouncing upon its prey. "So you screw for respect then, Granger?" he asked her. "Hmmm...How do you go about that? It must be a very difficult... or have you ever done any of the things Luna has?"

Hermione shot him a glare that could melt an iceberg. "I don't even have a psychiatrist..." she muttered, avoiding the question. Harry rolled his eyes, wanting to know as well.

"Stop avoiding the question, Hermione..." he said, "Have you ever done it?"

Hermione shot him a look of complete hate. Why did he have to do that to her? It seemed as though everyone wanted to know, as every pair of eyes were set on her.

Colin was next to speak up "Yeah, answer the question..."

"C'mon Granger what have you got to lose"...

"Just answer the question, what's the big deal?"

"Answer the question..."

"NO!" Hermione screamed "I never did it!" She glared at every single one of them, before turning her gaze back to Luna.

Luna smiled "I never did it either..." she confessed, leaving Hermione's mouth open "I'm not a Nymphomaniac...I'm a compulsive liar..." she grinned.

Hermione had it with the girl "I can't believe you... You don't say a word the entire day, and then when you do, you open up your mouth and unload all of these horrendous lies everywhere!" she stated the obvious. Draco smirked at her, knowing that she was tense at the moment.

"You're just upset because she got you to admit something you didn't want to..." he said, adding the icing on the cake. Hermione kicked at his leg hard, causing him to wince in pain slightly.

It was Colins turn to talk. "Hey guys...what happens when we all leave here...I mean..." he swallowed "Are we all going to be friends?"

Hermione sighed "You want the truth?" she asked, almost tearing up. The truth always hurt. Collin nodded. She sighed again "I don't think so..."

Colin looked as if he was going to cry. Harry glowered "That's real positive outlook, Hermione..." she muttered.

Hermione rolled her eyes "Oh come one Harry, what would you do If Colin came up to you in the hallway?" she asked, glaring right back at him "I know exactly what you'd do...you'd wait for him to leave and then you'd bash him in front of Ron and Seamus and all of your other jock friends so they wouldn't make fun of you..."

Luna raised an eyebrow at Hermione "And what if I were to come up to you?" she asked.

Hermione sighed "The same thing..." she looked towards the ground. Dracos smirk had turned into an icy glare, pointed right towards Hermione.

"YOU are a BITCH!" he shouted at her, causing her to turn to look at him.

"Why? Because I'm being honest? THAT makes me a bitch!"

"NO! Because you KNOW how horrible that is to do to someone!"

At this point hermione shot him a glare back.

"Well what about you! You Hypocrite! Why don't you go take Colin out to the grounds to get stoned, OR Luna to one of your heavy metal Slytherin parties, Or howabout me!" she asked "What would your friends say if they saw us walking in the Corridors? They'd laugh their asses off, and you'd probably tell them that you were doing it with me, just so you wouldn't look bad!"

Draco's eyes narrowed "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't look at any of my friends, you don't talk to any of my friends, and you certainly don't have any reason to think about any of my friends! all right! So just bury your head in the sand, and wait for your fucking Yule ball and graduation you filthy disgusting ruddy Mudblood!"

"SHUT UP!" Hermione kicked at him hard, beginning to cry. She couldn't even look at him.

Draco wouldn't shut up "And as far as I'm concerned about the Corridor thing, you can just forget about it! Because It's NEVER going to happen! You can bet on that!"

"I hate you!" she told him.

"Yeah? GOOD!" he responded, folding his arms and looking away.

At this point, Colin spoke up again. "So I guess that makes me and Luna better people then you right? Us weirdoes?"

This caught the attention of everyone. Colin turned to Luna "What would your friends say if I walked up to you, Luna?" The girl smiled.

"I don't have any friends..." she whispered. Colin sighed

"But if you did..." he asked again. Luna shrugged.

"I don't think the kindof friends I'd have would mind..." she said. Colin nodded and turned towards the others. "I just want each and every one of you to know, that I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't and I will not.."

Hermione shook her head "That's because you look up to us..."

"You're so conceded, Hermione..."

"I'm NOT saying that to be conceded...I hate it I hate having to go along with everything everyone says..."

"Then why do you do it?"

"I don't know..." Hermione wiped away a few tears "You don't hang out with the same people that Harry and I do...you don't...you don't know the kindof pressure they can put on you."

Colin scoffed "What? Pressure!... You don't think I understand pressure, Hermione? Well, FUCK YOU!" she shouted. "Do you have any idea why I'm here?...DO YOU?" He wiped away his own tears. "I'm here because Professor Snape found a gun in my book bag..."

Every single pair of eyes grew to the size of galleons. Guns really weren't common in the wizarding world, but Colin was of course Muggle born. But why had he had a gun in the first place. Everyone was a bit scared to ask at the moment, but Harry did anyway "Why Colin?"

Colin sniffed, "I had to make a polyjuice potion for Snape...and ...usually I get pretty good marks...I mean they're almost perfect..." he admitted. "My parents are very strict about these things. So when my potion didn't work, I knew I was ...in for it..."

Hermione sighed. "Colin that's no reason to-"

"YEAH WELL I DIDN'T, DID I!" he snapped. "No I don't think so..."

Harry gulped. "Was it a handgun, Colin?" he asked, ignoring the puzzled look on Dracos face. He obviously didn't know what a handgun was.

Colin shook his head. "No...it was a flare gun...it went off in my bookbag..."

At this point everyone started to snicker, besides Draco. A bloody flare gun! Hermione tried her best to keep her laughter in, but soon she was joining the rest of them. Luna smiled. "Do you want to know what I did to get in here?" she asked them.

They all stopped laughing to look at her. She grinned "Nothing...I came because I didn't have anything better to do..."

That set all five of them into a fit of grins and giggles. Even Draco was laughing this time.

Draco had snuck back through the vents, leaving the other four wondering what their next form of entertainment would be. No matter how evil Slytherins could be, they were known for their entertainment and hardly any of them were ever found to be bloody bored.

Hermione, Harry, Luna, and Colin all sat together, silence hovering over them like a ghost. There was the usual cough or clearing of the throat, but other then that, everyone was pretty damn bored. Hermione decided to break the silence, turning to Colin.

"Hey Colin..." she said "Do you plan on writing that dumb paper that was assigned to us?"

Colin shrugged. "I suppose...why?" he raised an eyebrow towards her.

Hermione smiled "Well I was just thinking, maybe you could write it for all of us and not just you...I mean none of us are going to do it, so why not?" she asked, trying to persuade him.

He looked thoughtful for a moment "You're just trying to get out of not writing yours..." he said, smirking. Hermione rolled her eyes, but smirked right back.

"Well, yeah...I mean who wants to write a dumb paper telling him who we are?" she asked, not particularly toward anyone. Colin shrugged.

"Ok...I'll do it..." he agreed, getting up and walking over to his desk. He sat down and began to write, a thoughtful expression on his face as he chewed the feathery end of his quill. Hermione smiled at his concentration. For a moment he reminded her of herself, when she was in deep thought.

She turned to Luna and Luna stared right back. Hermione eyed the girls completely messy hair and tattered cloak. She smirked, getting one of her many ideas. "Come on Luna..." she said, getting up and motioning to the girl to follow.

Luna shot Hermione a look of suspicion. "What are you going to do?" she asked.

Hermione pulled the girl along with her. "You'll see...just come on..." she pulled her into a small reading room, taking her purse along with her.

Luna had her eyes closed, as Hermione brushed a soft brown color over them. "See this will bring out your eyes, and complete the tone..." she said, knowing Luna probably didn't even know what a tone was.

Luna cringed "I can not believe I'm letting you do this...Just don't poke my eyes out ok?" she said, a little tensed over the entire idea of putting on makeup. Hermione just grinned.

"I promise I wont..." she said, adding a touch of blush to Luna's pale cheeks. "Ok...I'm done...do you want to see the final result?" she asked, grinning.

Luna rolled her eyes "No, actually...I'd like to know something first..." she said, looking at Hermione with confusion in her eyes "Why are you being so nice to me?"

Hermione shrugged "because you're letting me..." she smiled. Luna smiled back.

Draco was sitting in the Storage Closet, levitating broken things above his head and letting them fall with a CRASH. He found it quite amusing, and was about to levitate a huge wooden desk, when a knock was heard at the door. His head snapped toward it, as a very happy looking Hermione entered.

He smirked at her, not caring that his eyebrows were raised. "What are you doing in here?" he asked her.

She shrugged and made her way over to him. She sat next to him, not saying a word.

Harry was utterly bored. As Colin was still set on finishing their paper and Hermione had wandered off somewhere, he was alone. He wondered where Luna was, but didn't care all too much.

Luna, however answered his wondering, when the door to the reading room opened. She walked through the doors, looking around. It had taken her a while to get used to the new look Hermione had given her, but she felt that now was an ok time to emerge, so she did.

Colin was busy thinking of what to write next, when he saw her. His jaw dropped and his eyes widened. Luna's cheeks immediately began to burn with the feeling of embarrassment.

"H-how is it?" she stuttered. Colin grinned, giving her a thumbs up. She smiled and walked toward Harry.

Harry had found a broken exploding Snaps Pack, and was previously trying to fix it, when she came to sit by him.

"Hi Harry..." she bit her lip.

He looked over at her and then back to the set of cards..."Oh hey Lun-"

He stopped in mid sentence, and did a double take. "Umm...Hi Luna..." he said, his jaw looking just as Colins had. He raised his eyebrows at her.

"What happened?"

She began to feel the burning sensation in her cheeks again. "What?" she snapped "Hermione did it..." she looked away from him.

Harry smiled. He was seeing a totally different side of Luna, a side he was beginning to like. Her hair was different, it was no longer messy, instead it fell down her shoulders in soft wavy curls. Her eyes were brighter and she wasn't wearing her cloak anymore. Her white tank top revealed curves that Harry could bet no one ever saw.

Luna looked back at him, blushing "It's not too horrible is it?" she asked him.

Harry shook his head vigorously. "No...not at all...it's different..." he smiled.

Luna smiled back "In a bad way?" she asked.

"No...In a very good way..." he replied.

Hermione was staring at Draco, with a look in her eyes that he'd never seen before. "What is it?" he asked, smirking at her.

Hermione shook her head "I don't know..." she replied. "I suppose I just got bored with the others..." she lied.

Draco smirked again "No, I think it was because you just can't handle being away from me for too long..." he joked.

Hermione gave him a sly smile, before moving closer to him. It wiped the smirk off of his face, when she planted a kiss on his neck. He gaped at her as best a Slytherin could gape.

"What'd you do that for?" he asked her.

She shrugged "Because I knew you wouldn't..."

The two sat in silence, much like it had been in the Library. Hermione looked up at Draco, and he looked back down at her, smiling. Not smirking, but smiling. She smiled back.

"I have a question for you..." she asked "Do you really not believe in just one guy on girl?"

Draco nodded but calmly replied "No..."

Hermione smiled.

LOL OK long chapter isn't it! Kinda jumpy, If you ask me but I wanna know what you think...I hope you guys haven't given up on my story lol...review plz! there will be one more chapter don't worry! I';m not leaving out the oober super ending!