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Chapter 4: Snakes and Ladders
Exhausted. It had been a long day. Actually, no. The day was good, until she woke up. Then had her first potions lesson. Normally, she would have no problems completing a difficult potion, getting 100 percent scores. But normally, she wouldn't have to put up with two asymmetrical Wealsey's that were determined to be childish, idiotic, irresponsible, stupid, chaotic and…Hermione couldn't think of what else they were. Well, in that sense. After all, the mind is always active, and despite all the many, many things Hermione knew, some thoughts could not be helped, some wanderings unavoidable.
"Stupid emotions"
Giggling came from behind the portrait hole. That could only mean one thing. Well, it could mean two things. Either A, Parvati and Lavender were entering the Common Room, preparing to peck at her like vultures pecking the proverbial dead ox. No, forget that. Lion, she liked that better. She was a Gryffindor after all.
Option B, while less likely, was still entertaining to think about, was that Malfoy had ingested a potion that made him into a woman, and was hoodwinked into believing he belonged in the Gryffindor Common Room.
"So, how was class, Ms. Seventh Year Potions?" the annoying voice of Parvati floated into an entertaining image of Draco as a female.
"If I tell you, will you leave me alone for the rest of the day?" she asked darkly, never wanting to deal with the two of them, which only doubled after the day she had.
"Yes, fine" Lavender said hurriedly, sitting next to Hermione on the plush, red chair that belonged in the Common Room.
"Well…" Hermione proceeded to tell them all she could remember about the Twins' antics. It was hard to tell everything, seeing as the most prominent memory that kept frequently appearing in her head was when a smoke bomb that, when makes contact with skin, causes green humming pimples to burst forth on the unfortunates face, went off earlier than planned, their immediate reaction was to grab/ double bear hug Hermione and hide under their desks.
Hermione had of course went rigidly still, not daring to move. That was, now, a bad idea, as being under a desk for 20 minutes, still as a statue, does tend to lead to rather inconvenient muscle fatigue.
After finally managing to carefully edit this prank to suit her, she then went on to the next one.
They were set to the task of removing snake fangs from snakes. And Snape being the person (though Fred and George, and most of the school questioned his humanity) that he was, made them make a sedation potion from scratch, to knock out the snake to get the fangs, to add to the potion.
Fred and George had other plans, as they mixed a completely different potion from the available ingredients, which resulted in a whole bunch of snakes and ladders around the dungeon. The snakes would slither up the top of the ladders, which in turn would periodically fall down over the students. The end result was a completely uncivilised classroom, a dishevelled Snape, as was not exempt from said ladders, a dumbfounded Hermione, and a very pleased looking pair of Wealsey's. They weren't even phased when they lost Gryffindor 50 points, and were sentenced to a week of detention.
Hermione was at that point dumbfounded, as when a particularly snake-ridden ladder was falling towards her, Fred and George had taken it upon themselves to move themselves somewhat in front of Hermione to shield her from the ladder. But, seeing as there was still lingering smoke, harmless by now, but still visually disabling, the ladder conked them on their heads before they could push it back.
"We were playing the knights in shining armour, seeing as the damsel in distress would have killed us if she were subject of our terror" one of them had said through the thinning fog. Though she was quite sure that it was their fear of her wrath that they had jumped in, they did both wink at her on the way out of class (simultaneously of course).
The rest of the day had sucked, as she was dizzy from the smoke (yeah, 'smoke') and sore from the early settling of fatigue.
"I see," said Parvati, disappointed that Hermione didn't admit to some juicy secret. "Ah, those two are pretty handsome though, I wonder if I could get one of them alone?" Lavender said off-hand, escaping into a fantasy better left unknown.
"Hermione…" Lavender turned on Hermione with that sickly sweet voices children use when they want something. 'Oh Lord, here it comes' Hermione thought, preparing for the worst. "Could you put in a good word for me and Pav, please?" she said, pouting which Hermione surmised she used to get her own way.
"Here" Parvati thrust a piece of paper in Hermione's lap. "Read these, and say that it's from us, k?" she stated, before they both exited much as they had entered, giggling and chattering about who knows what.
"Why? Why is it always me, huh? Why me?" Hermione asked the ceiling, and wouldn't be surprised or mind if it answered. It didn't.
"Tomorrow is going to be a long day" was the last thing the Common Room would hear that night, as she headed toward the Girl's Dormitory for a good sleep.
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Wow, go me! This chapter was a long'un!
Was it long enough for you? Hope so!
Just a little question, how old do you think I am, judging by my writing style, skills etc.
Take a jab, and I'll tell you next chapter.
Bye!
Gemagi-chan