A/N Here is the next chapter, I hope you like it. Sorry for the wait. READ AND REVIEW!
CHAPTER 4: Dark Lord and Veritaserum
Hermione was the first to wake up, but soon Millicent and Pansy woke up too. They were ready to go to breakfast within a few minutes, not like Lavender and Parvati. Hermione walked down the stairs, to find Draco, Kameron, Crabbe, Goyle, Nott, and Blaise waiting for them.
"So Hermione, how did you sleep last night?" Draco said as they left the common room and headed for the Great Hall.
"Surprisingly fine. So did you boys have fun last night?" Hermione asked, raising her eyebrow at Kameron.
"Hermione, we had a very nice talk last night thank you very much." He said, rolling his eyes. "What did you girls do last night?" He asked, eyeing her right back.
"Talked as well." Hermione answered as they arrived at the Great Hall. They group sat down at one end of the table. About half-way through the meal, Hermione had a thought. "Kameron, can I please speak to you alone for a moment?" She asked. Kameron nodded his head and they headed out of the hall. They made their way down one hallway, stopping at the end.
"Kameron, why hasn't Dumbledore done anything since I am gone, I mean Hermione Granger?" She asked.
Kameron looked puzzled for a second, before answering. "I really don't know, I mean he is suppose to know everything that goes on here and yet he doesn't know who we are. Maybe he isn't such a good wizard as we thought." He spoke the last part very harsly.
"Have you ever thought of going to the dark side?" Hermione asked suddenly.
"Yes, I have. Have you?"
"Yes… are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Yes, we need to ask Draco if he can get us to meet the dark lord." Hermione agreed.
The twins headed back to breakfast, finding that it was almost time for class. "Lunch," Kameron whispered as they hurried to potions, their first class today. It was a double potions class, three hours long. Hermione couldn't figure out why everyone was always complaining so much. They made it just in time, sitting at the only two empty seats, next to Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
Hermione took the seat closest to the two boys, Kameron sitting down next to her. Hermione leaned over, whispering to Kameron, "That's Harry and Ron."
Kameron studied her for a moment, before deciding what to do. "I will switch with you if you wish." He whispered.
"No, I have to face them sooner of later, avoiding them will never help anything." She whispered and started to unpack the things she needed for potions.
"Hi, I'm Ron Weasley." Hermione looked up to see Harry and Ron looking at her. Ron seemed to be the one who spoke.
"I'm Hermione, Hermione Derdando." She said, smiling at both of them.
"I'm Harry Potter." Harry said, smiling right back at her.
"You two are Gryffindors, right? Well I would watch the food you are eating; Draco is planning to do something to it. By the way, I'm Kameron Derdando." Kameron said, joining the conversation.
"Wow, you two look a lot alike." Ron said, staring back and forth between the two.
"Let's hope so, Ron. Kameron and I are twins." Hermione said, rolling her eyes while laughing a bit.
"Oh, Well I knew that." Ron said, nervously smiling a little. "I was just giving Harry a chance."
"Sure Ron." Harry said and right then class began.
Snape stood in front of the class and waved his wand and words appeared on the board. "Today you shall be making Veritaserum. It will be tested on you when you are done, to check if you have done correctly. The directions are on the board, begin working."
The class hurried to begin working and Snape sat back at his desk. He watched as the two new students, Hermione and Kameron Derdando began to work right along with the rest of the class. The girl, Hermione, she was doing odd things. She wasn't necessarily following the directions; she hadn't even looked up to read them. But Snape decided that if she did it wrong, it was her own fault, not his.
About two hours went by before anyone was done. Hermione bottled her potion and headed up to Snape's desk. He looked up as she came forward. Hermione held out her potion and spoke. "Professor, I am done."
"Really, well let's try it out. Drink it." He said and Hermione drank a few drops of the potion. "I will ask you a series of questions. What is your name?"
"Hermione Holly-Jane Derdando."
"How old are you?"
"16."
"What did you and the other Slytherin girls talk about last night?"
"My parents, my brother, my hair, and you."
"What did you say about me?"
"Nothin-." Hermione didn't get to finish her answer as Kameron came up.
"You know he will find out sooner or late." Kameron said to her, handing Snape his potion.
"Yes, but I was trying to play along. My potion is perfect." She said, turning to glare at Kameron. "I guess it is time we tell him." She finally gave in to the look her brother was giving her. Since she had known him, she could never resist that look. Hermione turned to look back at Snape. "Professor… my brother and I are immune to Veritaserum." She said.
Snape was surprised to here this. "What?" He said shocked, but he recovered quickly. "Why are you?"
"Our mother thought it was best for both of us to be immune, in case anyone was to ever catch us."
"Very well, I shall test your potions on others." He waved them away and the twins sat back down. Soon enough, Potions was over and everyone began to pack up. "Derdando twins, please stay behind." Snape said as they were almost out the door. Hermione and Kameron stayed behind and waited before everyone else left before going up to Snape, bringing their bags with them.
"Yes sir?" Kameron asked and Hermione stood next to him.
"I would like you two to follow me." Snape said and hurried out the door. Hermione and Kameron followed behind him, almost having to run to keep up with his long strides. Soon they were in front of the statue to the headmaster's office. Snape said the password and they hurried up the stairs and into the office.
"Severus, what a wonderful surprise. It is good to see you Hermione, Kameron." Dumbledore said, greeting both the twins and the professor. "What is it you needed Severus?" He asked, turning back to Snape.
"These two are immune to Veritaserum. Ms Derdando made it without even looking at the board. She seemed to know what she was doing, but yet she didn't. She didn't quiet use the ingredients and amounts written. But yet she made the potion perfect, in about two hours." Severus said while the twins sat down in the seats Dumbledore motioned for them.
"That is wonderful!" Dumbledore said, smiling brightly at the twins.
"It may be very good Albus, but something is a little strange. First the fact is that these two are brand new to Hogwarts, no one had even heard of them before. They seem to make potions from memory; especially one that is not usually even attempted by most potions masters and can be deadly is made incorrectly." Snape said, pacing up and down the room.
"Professors, I have been able to make Veritaserum since I was a third year. There is not very much anyone could teach me anymore." Hermione said, looking up to her professor. "You can even check my grades; I have been very good in school since I when I became a first year. I mean, my friends were never the brightest but I helped them out." She said, smiling at the memory of Harry and Ron, at least of helping them.
"See Severus, there is no reason to jump to conclusions. Hermione and Kameron obviously just know quiet a bit about potions." Dumbledore said, chuckling a little.
"Yes, we do. Potions is probably our best subject. I stopped learning about potions in my forth year. I mean seriously, making the poly juice potion in second year." She said, suddenly covering her mouth with her hands. Kameron rolled his eyes at her.
"You made the poly juice potion in your second year? That potion is an OWL level potion." Snape said, astounded. "You were taught to make it in your second year at your old school?"
"Well, no. In fact we learned it for OWLs, but my friends and I needed to know some information that was a life or death problem, and so I made the poly juice potion. It worked perfect for them, but I had a slight problem with it… not, that anything was wrong with the potion. More, with the hair I used." Hermione said, thinking about the cat hair.
Kameron looked over at her and started laughing hysterically. Hermione just glared at him, she had told him all about being half cat. "Oh shut up Kameron James Derdando." Hermione hissed, still glaring at him.
"Do we even want to know?" Dumbledore asked looking between the two, Hermione glaring daggers and Kameron who was laughing so hard tears were falling from his eyes.
"Well, when my… dear sister used the polyjuice… potion, the hair she used… wasn't what she expected it to be." Kameron said, as he began to calm down. When Dumbledore looked at him strangely, Kameron continued. "My sister turned into half a cat. She was covered in fur, had a tail and the ears." He said. Shortly after that, they were allowed to leave. Hermione headed to lunch, where they found Draco.
"Draco, can we speak to you alone?" Hermione asked. Draco nodded and followed them out of the hall and into an empty classroom. Hermione did a quick silencing charm, before sitting down next to Kameron on a group of desks. Draco sat on another group, across from them.
"Draco, you are a deatheater, right?" Kameron asked. Draco looked at them for a moment before finally deciding; he nodded his head in agreement.
"Draco, we would like to speak with the dark lord about becoming deatheaters." Hermione said. Draco looked surprised but then nodded his head once again.
"We have a meeting tonight; you shall come with me. We shall arrive there early, so you two will be able to speak will the dark lord. We will leave as soon as dinner starts." Draco said, looking between both of the twins.
A/N Sorry everyone for the long wait. I hopefully shall post more maybe Wednesday, if I don't then it might be Saturday or Sunday. By the way, in your reviews put suggestions, I love reading them and I love using them too. I think it makes for a better story. Although if I do use your suggestions, I can't say in which chapter. I already have I think chapter 10 written, so yah. So REVIEW!
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