Author's note: This is my favorite chapter so far. :) fun fun fun. This is for Reetinkerbell, because she's given me some words of much

Chapter 22 – The Ordinary Wizarding Levels

OWL: Potions

Hermione stared at the written part of her potions OWL.

Describe the needed preparations for the ingredients for the finirtuis potion:

And suddenly her mind became a complete blank.

Oh, Merlin.

OWL: Charms

Draco was amazed.

For the first time in his life he knew every single answer with absolute certainty. He did not even need to pause and ponder the question, he simply read it and at once the answer came to him.

Who knew that studying would be so bloody effective?

OWL: Transfiguration

Hermione stared at the paper. she had finished every single other answer and checked them all twice. She knew that they were all right.

Now, there was just one question. Just one that she did not know the answer to.

She felt frustration bubble up inside of her.

Who cared what the damn incantation was for the transfiguration of an animal of a certain species to another animal of a slightly different species. Glamour them, for heaven's sake! No one else would bloody well know the difference!

OWL: History of Magic

Draco stared at the question.

The first battle of the goblin uprising of 1456 was fought where?

He knew the answer.

Nassau, Ohio in the United States.

now how the fuck did he knew that?

ah, so this is how it felt to be a swotty know-it-all.

no wonder Granger loved tests so much.

OWL: Ancient Runes

Hermione was fuming.

She wasn't sure how it was possible but this was Draco Malfoy's fault. he did something.

He did something to sabotage her!

How dare he!

Oh god, she wanted to scream.

Two answers she was not sure of.

Two of them!

This could really bring down her average.

OWL: Defense Against the Dark Arts

Draco was quite sure he achieved an O.

Yet another outstanding.

That was the fourth that he was sure he perfected.

This was the only class that he was semi-worried about. he had never really paid attention in DADA before. Didn't think he was going to need much DEFENSE against the DARK arts in his line of work. (more use for the dark arts themselves.) He knew that now, however, he may just need the subject. So when Granger had gone berserk and insisted he study with her so she could talk freely and panic about her studies, her pregnancy and basically every little thing in the world that annoyed her he had actually listened.

Well, most of the time.

Alright, some of the time.

OWL: Arithmancy

Hermione finally felt like herself.

About bloody time, too!

She liked numbers; she liked how she could be certain that they were correct. she liked the fact that finally her massive mental black had passed and she knew the answers again.

Right?

She glanced at her paper.

The answers were correct.

Oh, Merlin.

She spent the rest of the period going though her answers maniacally. By the time she passed the paper in she had memorized them.

And she still wasn't sure that they were right.

Fuck.