Walking through the corridors of Hogwarts, screams of frustration, anger or disgust could be heard. Feelings were expressed through hand signals, words and occasionally orders, all which amused Dumbledore greatly, despite the lack of inter-house unity.

"Malfoy, go hang yourself from the rafters!"

"You can't order that Harry"

"I can always try!"

"Yes you can"

"Malfoy go to the kitchens and get a bucket of live prawns and eat them in front of me"

"Is that a reasonable request?"

"Yes"

"Harry! I can't believe you thought up of that! I just don't want to imagine what he is going to do to you next week!" Hermione exclaimed as Malfoy returned with a large bucket sloshing water all over the hallways.

"Do I have to do this? It is feral!" Draco exclaimed as he unwillingly dipped his pale hand into the icy water and pulled out a large wiggling prawn.

"Yes" Harry replied smirking at his ingenious idea that would cause Malfoy as much discomfort as possible.

"I hate you Potter!" Draco snarled as he lifted the prawn to his open mouth and dropped it in. closing his eyes he regretfully chewed and swallowed, only to gag and regurgitate it. Three times he did this until he heard a voice that he never considered angelic before

"That's enough! Malfoy, you are no longer required to continue this order!" Hermione's voice echoed through the hall as she covered her mouth as Malfoy lifted another wriggling prawn to his lips. "I said enough!" she screamed as she used her wand to vanish the remaining prawns and dashed away as she heard Neville calling her urgently.

"Hermione! He keeps following me!"

"Neville, he is your slave, slaves do that"

"But, I don't want him to!"

"Well order him to not follow you"

"I did, but he didn't stop"

"Try again Neville!"

"Crabbe, I order you to not follow me!"

"You have to order him to go somewhere and to stay there"

"Like, where?"

"The Slytherin Common Room"

"Crabbe, I order you to go to the Slytherin Common Room and stay there unless you have class ALL day!"

As Crabbe turned and lumbered slowly towards the dungeons, Neville sighed and heavily leaned against the corridor wall. "I am so glad that is over!"

"Yeah" Hermione replied while slowly walking away, rolling her eyes at the sometimes incapable Neville and immediately heard her name being called again. "For-merlins-sake what now!" she muttered as she ran towards the voice that beckoned her.

"I ordered you to not speak!"

"Yeah and Zabini said that it was an unreasonable request, so I can speak!"

"Hermione, is it that unreasonable!"

"Uh…yes Ron, I agree with Zabini. It is unreasonable for her to not speak at all"

"Huh! There, I can speak all I want!"

"You can order her to not speak to you though unless it is an emergency"

"Well in that case; Parkinson, I order you to not speak to me under anything but dire circumstances."

Raising her eyebrow to Ron, Hermione looked at him disgusted as he winked suggestively at her. He didn't the hint that she didn't like him like that. "Yes Hermione, I do know the occasional smart word!" rolling her eyes, a distant screaming caught her attention and started to run towards the dull sound.

"Go away! I order you too!"

"Ugmmrph"

"I mean it! Go AWAY!"

"Ughh"

"Hermione, make him go away!"

"Lavender I can't, the only way he can leave you is for you to order him to leave"

"I did!"

"Did you order him to go and do something in particular?"

"No, I just told him to go away"

"Tell him to go and sit in the Slytherin common room and do something there"

"Goyle, I order you to go and sit in the Slytherin common room and learn how to speak or something!"

Rolling her eyes Hermione walked slowly away from lavender, who was ecstatically happy that she had gotten rid of Goyle. "Thankyou so much Hermione! I will always be grateful!" Hermione heard from behind her as she walked quickly back to the Gryffindor common room her thoughts occupying her mind until she collided with something and was knocked to the ground.

Shaking her head in an attempt to regain her thoughts, Hermione noticed that she had landed in a mass of limbs. Looking around she saw the dark-haired Slytherin, sharing supervision duties with her. "Hey Zabini, bad day too?" as he scowled at her.

"Granger I'm not in the mood! Okay? Just leave me be" he almost shouted as the disentangled themselves.

"Did you want to talk about it?" Hermione asked as he impatiently got off the floor and offered her his hand.

"Well what's to talk about?" he sarcastically replied as he started walking with her, "First I had Parkinson writing senseless notes about how Weasely had ordered her to not talk at all, then I had Draco spewing all over me because Potter ordered him to eat four live prawns before you stopped it, then I had Crabbe grunting nonsense that I didn't understand in the Slytherin Common Room because Longbottom ordered him there and I just got news that Brown just ordered Goyle to sit in there and learn how to speak." He stopped and drew a deep breath.

"Well I had to deal with four different fights at different ends of the castle and resolve those issues that you were also dealing with, so I think we're even Zabini" Hermione smiled weakly as he looked at her.

"Call me Blaise; I have a feeling we're going to get to know each other pretty well over these next two weeks"

"As long as you call me Hermione" she replied as she stopped before the Gryffindor portrait, "My stops here, see ya tomorrow Blaise!"

"See ya Hermione" and smiled at her before walking to his own common room in the dungeons

Dumbledore sat in his office smiling as he watched the two students start the inter-house unity that he has always wanted.

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