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'If no one survived. How was the story told?' - Captain Jack Sparrow Pirates of The Caribean
Chapter 4
After breakfast Hermione, Ron and Harry headed out of the Great Hall to collect their bags for lessons. They were almost to the door when Professor McGonagall stopped them.
"Hermione, Professor Dumbledore would like to see you and the Head Boy in his office at the end of today's lessons. Please be sure to tell Mr. Malfoy. Don't be late" Professor McGonagall then walked back into the Great Hall.
"I wonder what that's about." Ron asked looking at Hermione.
Hermione, who was still in a bad mood from when Ron and Harry ganged up on her, had no intention of being nice to them. "How should I know? It's probably Head duties."
Harry and Ron just looked at each other in shock at Hermione's little outburst.
They followed Hermione to the dungeons for double potions. Once they got in there, they took their places next to Hermione. "Hermione, we didn't do anything wrong. Why did you snap at us?"
Hermione shot them a look that could have turned them into stone. "Not done anything wrong? You ganged up on me; I've never felt so useless in my life!"
Harry shot Ron a look as to blame him. "Hermione, we're sorry we didn't mean to gang up on you. We wouldn't do anything to make you feel useless."
After that, Hermione couldn't stay mad at them any longer so they chatted happily. That is, until Snape breezed in to the room, his cloak billowing behind him, making the class quiet as usual.
"There will be no foolish wand waving in here, as you already know. Today we will be brewing a potion called Veritaserum; some of you will know what it is, some will not. It is a truth potion. Whoever drinks it will automatically tell the truth. It does, however, take a long time for the potion to be complete, a full month to be exact. I will put you into pairs, you will concoct the potion and in a month's time you will test it on each other. As usual, the ingredients and instructions will be on the board." He flicked his wand once and the instructions and ingredients came on.
"Now for the pairings Mr. Potter and Mr. Goyle, Mr. Weasley and Mr. Crabbe, Miss Granger and Mr. Malfoy…"
Hermione wasn't listening to the rest of the pairings and it seemed neither was Harry nor Ron. "Why do we always get stuck with those morons?"
"Now, everyone get into your pairings and start on the potion. It takes precisely one and a half hours to brew, and you have exactly one and a half hours to do it in."
Hermione made her way to Draco, who she knew had no intention of moving to her. They gathered up the ingredients and started to brew the potion following the instructions.
"We have to see Professor Dumbledore after last lesson today." Hermione said, as she carefully cut the ingredients to the exact length.
"Why?" Malfoy replied while taking care to measure the ingredients exactly.
"I'm not sure, probably something to do with head duties."
When Malfoy didn't answer, she looked up to see him concentrating hard on measuring his ingredients. She had never realised before now, that he actually cared what grades he got in his lessons. She always thought that he never cared what grades he got, and that he was just lucky when he came to do an exam or test. But it actually turns out that he worked hard.
When Malfoy noticed that she wasn't working he looked up and saw that she was staring at him. With no expression in her eyes what so ever.
"What are you looking at mudblood? I don't want to mess this potion up because of you."
Hermione came out of her thoughts and glared at him "If anyone will be messing up this potion, it would be you."
They continued to work in silence. Every once and a while, it was broken by Malfoy sneering at Hermione for the way she cut a certain ingredient, or that she nearly put something in too early, or that she hadn't stirred enough times.
At the end of the lesson they had to bottle up some of the potion. Then they were free to go to their next lessons.
Harry, Ron and Hermione spent the next few hours moaning about the potions lesson and what their partners had subjected them to. That carried them until the last lesson of the day.
Hermione said her goodbyes and headed to Professor Dumbledore's office. However, once she got there, she realised that she didn't know the password. She stood there for a few minutes trying to think of the password. Harry had told her about Dumbledore's fascination with muggle sweets, she was just thinking of a few when…
"Granger, why aren't you in there?" Hermione turned to see Malfoy striding towards her.
"Because, Malfoy. I do not have the password." As soon as she said it Draco stood dead in his tracks, evidently he did not know the password either.
"Then how are we supposed to get in there?"
Just then the stone gargoyle sprang aside to let them in, they looked at each other confused then stepped into the stairs, and started to move upwards.
They reached the doors and knocked.
"Mr Malfoy, Miss Granger, please take a seat. I guess you are wondering about two things at the moment. Firstly, how was the stone gargoyle opened and secondly, why you are here. Am I right?"
Hermione and Malfoy both nodded.
Professor Dumbledore chuckled "The doorway opened because of this map." He produced the Marauders Map "This lets me see who is where, very helpful actually. Mrs Norris seems to follow me every time I go for a midnight stroll down to the kitchens. I find it quite unnerving. And now for the reason you are here. As Head Girl and Head Boy you will have your own quarters. This means that you will share a common room and you will have each your own bedroom chambers. You will also be sharing a bathroom. However, you will have full uses of the prefect's bathroom as well. Now do you have any questions?"
Hermione looked at Malfoy. She was going to have to share a bathroom and a common room with him! This year wasn't turning out very well. "Why were we in our house dormitories last night?"
"Well we had a little trouble getting into your common room, the lady in the portrait it seemed had gone on holiday visiting one of her other portraits so we had to wait until she got back early this morning, we were able to decorate it then, any more questions?"
Draco looked at him "Yes, where is the common room?"
"It is three portraits down from the prefects bathroom, the password at the moment is Lemon sherbet. However when you get to the portrait, you can reset the password to whichever you may choose. Now if there are no more questions I would like to get going I have to go meet an old friend in Hogsmead who has a rather large collection of muggle sweets that I am eager to try. Your things are already in your new dormitories."
Hermione and Malfoy nodded and left the Dumbledore's office.
Malfoy was the first to speak "I knew that he was a crackpot old fool, making us share living quarters. What, does he expect us to be friends? Fat chance of that. I refuse to befriend a mudblood."
Hermione had had enough of his taunts from earlier that day "No, Professor Dumbledore obviously had us share living quarters because we are Head Boy and Girl and we are supposed to be responsible, or at least be civil towards each other, but I doubt that would happen. Just stay out of my way Malfoy and I will stay out of yours."
Hermione turned around and headed to the prefects bathroom. So that she could count the paintings and go to bed. She was in no mood to talk to anybody.
Draco watched her walk away and couldn't help but notice, that her bum swayed side to side as she walks. 'She looks really hot when she is angry and take a look at her arse… NO don't look at her arse! What are you thinking? That is GRANGER! A MUDBLOOD she is beneath you.'
Draco made his way to the heads common room, taking his time not wanting to run into her. With the mood she was in, he was sure that she would bite his head of. If he had learned anything from living at the Malfoy Manor, it was that hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
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