Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter characters.

Note: This story is not going to be totally based on the movie 'A Cinderella Story'. People keep ragging on me, telling me that it should be more like the movie, what is this site called, oh yeah…FANFICTION…its where fans make stories that they MAKE up! They make them up! Okay, I'm done my rant! To the story.

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A CINDERELLA STORY

Chapter 5

Bad Day

Hermione woke up early in the morning like she always did when she lived at Hogwarts…or maybe it was just a habit from living with Francine. Hermione put on her school clothes and a billowy black cloak and walked down the hall towards the bathroom. As she stepped inside, water up to her knees came surging out. Hermione rushed inside, struggling a bit with the water pushing at her ankles.

As Hermione entered the bathroom, she saw the problem immediately. Water was leaking in from the window. Hermione struggled with the window, trying to close it. Suddenly, she slipped and the window was pulled open…the water the window had been holding back all poured in, all over Hermione and all on the bathroom floor and out in the hallway!

"Help!" Hermione yelled as she was covered in water.

As Harry Potter walked down the hallway towards the Great Hall, he heard a yell for help. He started running down the hall towards the yells. As he got closer, he noticed there was water all over the hallway. He pushed through the hallway looking for where the water had come from.

Harry heard another yell for help; it was coming from inside the girl's bathroom!

Harry flung open the bathroom door and was shocked when a flood of water washed over him. All he could say was that he was really awake now!

Harry struggled against the water as he made his way into the bathroom. He looked around and gasped when he saw the girl from the train…Hermione, being held under the water by the force of it.

Harry made his way over to Hermione quickly, before she stopped breathing and grabbed her then pulled her up and out of the water.

Hermione looked at Harry Potter great fully.

"We have to shut the window!" Hermione gasped out of breath.

They both pushed as hard as they could to get the window shut. Suddenly, with a squeak, the window pushed shut.

Hermione and Harry both took deep breaths, and then examined their selves. They were both soaking wet.

Hermione finally took a deep breath and said, "Thanks!"

Harry looked at her and smiled, "No problem!" Then he frowned, "but what happened?"

Hermione grinned sheepishly, "I came in here and water was leaking through the window so I tried to shut it…I guess my plan of shutting the window didn't work so well," Hermione explained.

Harry smiled at her and Hermione felt herself admiring that smile. All the girls in her dormitory said that Harry Potter could charm a girl just by giving her his famous Harry Potter smile. All Hermione could say was that it certainly was working on her! Hermione couldn't believe that Harry Potter had just rescued her! She looked at him; he was doing the best he could at wringing out his robes. His wet black hair was hanging limply, and, surprisingly neatly on his head.

Suddenly, Harry turned and looked at her. "We should probably get going…breakfast is going to start in a while and I think you'd probably want to dry off…"

Hermione nodded, "Bye!" Hermione called as she headed down to the girls dormitory.

Hermione came out of her dorm 15 minutes later looking about as fresh as a daisy. She walked down the hallway and into the great hall then sat down at the Gryffindor table beside Ron and poured herself some orange juice.

As Hermione sipped her juice the mail came. About 800 owls streamed into the Great Hall dropped letters and parcels to their owners. Hermione was surprised when an owl came and dropped a letter on her lap.

She looked at the letter curiously then opened it. It said:

Hermione,

I am writing to you to tell you that I got you a job at that new restaurant in Hogsmeade; it's called 'Sanchez Place'. You start next weekend. Your shifts are from 5-11pm. You work every Saturday and Sunday until next summer.

I expect you to behave yourself and I don't want to here any complaints!

Love,

Francine

Hermione looked at the letter then sighed. 'Love Francine'! Yeah right!

"What does it say?" Ron asked.

Hermione handed him the letter and sighed again, this time more dramatically.

Ron finished reading the letter then said, "That totally sucks! You have to work every weekend AND do your homework!"

"Thanks for that encouragement!" Hermione exclaimed sarcastically.

Ron sighed then looked thoughtful, "I'm sorry. If you want, I can take part of your shift."

Hermione spent 5 second feeling how glad she had such a good friend, then she realized that Ron probably wouldn't be able to manage that, he that smart, and without the weekends to study, he would probably end up failing. "Its all right Ron…I can handle it."

Ron looked at her sadly then said, "We have Potions with the Slytherins first. How come we always have the worst of everything?"

"We learn to deal Ron," Hermione sighed.

"Well, we shouldn't have to!" Ron exclaimed.

"I know…but…still…that just how it works…" Hermione trailed off.

"We'd better get going to Potions, Snape doesn't like us being late…we'd probably get a detention to top everything off," Ron said.

They both got up and walked out the Great Hall to the dungeons. Hermione stomach growled loudly and Hermione groaned. This was going to be a very rotten day. She could tell. So far, she had almost been drowned, she had been hired for a job that she had to work weekend shifts on, and she was hungry.

Hermione opened the door to the dungeons and Ron and her walked in and took a seat in the back row.

Snape walked in looked like he had just eaten a lemon, no, make that a whole barrel of lemons. "Open you books to page one!" Snape commanded.

There were shuffling sounds as the class got out there textbook and turned to page one.

Hermione glanced down at her textbook; on page one there was a bunch of tiny printing.

"This year you are expected to make every single potion in this entire book. I suggest you get started!" Snape hissed.

The class groaned then everyone looked down to see what they would need then rummaged around in their bags for it or walked up to the supply closet to go get it.

Hermione put her cauldron on her desk and pulled the ingredients for the potion they were supposed to make out of her bag. The potion was supposed to make the person who you spayed it on become a cow.

Ron leaned over to her and whispered, "Why the hell would we want to know how to make a person change into a cow?"

Hermione shrugged then turned bag to her potion. It called for three lizard brains. She pulled them out of her bag, but paused when she heard her name.

"…such a weirdo."

Hermione turned to face the person who was speaking, it was Draco Malfoy.

"Excuse me?" Hermione implied.

"What do you want?" Draco said and he wrinkled his nose.

"If you have something to say to me, please tell me," Hermione said.

Draco snorted, "You think that I would talk about you…dream on mudblood."

Suddenly Snape swept over, "Is there a problem," he asked.

"Hermione is called me names," Draco said.

Hermione gasped. What a liar.

"Twenty points from Gryffindor," Snape hissed.

Ron stood up, knocking his chair over. "But that's not fair Professor, Hermione wasn't calling Malfoy names, Malfoy was calling Hermione names!"

"Fifty points from Gryffindor for back talking to a teacher and see me after class Mr. Weasly!" Snape called.

Hermione turned to Draco furiously, "You liar!" she whispered furiously.

Draco just smiled.

Hermione picked up a lizard heart and threw it at him. It whacked him in the face and left a blackish purple trail of goo as it slid off his face.

Hermione knew she had gone to far.

"Miss Granger! See me after class as well!" Snape hissed at her.

Hermione huffed and sat down in her seat. She knew this was going o be a bad day!

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