Chapter 4: Party Time!

Authoress: Dodge-This

Based on idea by: PookaSeraph

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            Hermione looked over the finished product that was her classroom. She had just finished warding the door to her personal rooms through the hall, the passage to her rooms from the supply closet, and finally the door into the supply closet. She looked over her room one last time. Desks had been situated on both sides of the room, in about ten minutes they would be stacked high with food from the kitchens. She had conjured streamers and balloons, which were situated around the room. There was an empty floor space for dancing, and she had transfigured some of the student chairs into more comfy couches. As a final touch she laid a spell she had found in an advanced charms book that would undo it all at 10. The students' curfew was at 9:30 as six and seventh years, so that would be plenty of time. Finally she took a boom box, which she had witched to work in Hogwarts, and set it to playing modern music.

            She let out a final sigh and sank into one of her couches. Hmm, comfy. She yawned. The students would arrive in about twenty minutes, she could take a little snooze.

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            Hermione's eyes cracked open to be greeted with massive amounts of students littered about her room. Apparently it was a good plan. She scanned the crowd. She shook her head. There were nowhere near sixty students in her classes combined. Extra turn out, oh well.

She looked around until her eyes rested on Ginny, strangely enough she was sitting in a group with Neville and a bunch of Slytherins in a corner where some couches had been relocated. She wandered over behind the red head on the couch. As she was about a meter behind her, the red head knelt on the floor and spun an empty bottle of butterbeer. She observed as Ginny settled back on the couch, discretely pulled out her wand, and started twirling it behind her back, before slipping it away as the bottle came to a complete stop.

            "Lucius," Ginny said with a smile on her face. She got to her feet.

            Hermione grinned and settled her arms on the couch behind Ginny's vacated spot.

            Ginny stepped over the bottle and straddled Lucius, who sported a large smirk on his face. She lowered her lips to his and threaded her hands behind his head. Lucius' hands came to rest on her hips. It was a few moments before the group started with catcalls, cued by this Ginny leaned into the kiss. As far as Hermione could tell from behind the couch, both parties were getting rather into it. Eventually Ginny retreated breathlessly as the catcalls died down. She faced an amused Hermione.

            "Join us?" Ginny said, making room on the couch next to her.

            Hermione shook her head, "I don't think---"

            "Please?" The little red headed vixen beside her pleaded.

            Hermione caved and settled in beside her friend, rolling her eyes. She sat and waited.

            "You turn, Prof." Pansy Parkinson? She was not in my class this morning.

            Her eyes widened. She nodded and knelt, she spun the bottle and settled back into her spot to wait. Ginny fidgeted beside her. The bottle slowed and came to rest on…Snape.

            Goddess only new how much she wanted to kiss him, but considering he was a student, short and sweet was probably more kosher in the situation. She rose to her feet and crossed the center of the circle. Short and sweet, short and sweet, she thought. Hermione settled one knee beside him and leaned down, with every intention of short and sweet. As their lips met Severus snaked a hand to the back of her neck and held her.

            Tricksy little Slytherin, she thought. She accepted his attempt to deepen the kiss, and was quite…actively participating until he let her go. She hesitated a moment before pulling away and settling back in her seat, trying to keep the smile off her face…and failing…miserably.

            Strange gathering. As some Slytherin sixth year leaned to spin Hermione excused herself whispering to Ginny, "I'm gonna go make rounds."

            Ginny smirked as she watched Snape's eyes followed her path out of the circle. She laughed to herself, have to tell her about this later.

            Hermione exited the circle with her hand to her mouth. Hm, not a bad kisser. Whoa, bad bad bad thoughts. Severus Snape. Another part of her brain continued, Mmm, Snape, We've liked him for, what, 2 years now?

            She shook her head and went to mingle.

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            Hermione looked at the grandfather clock near her door. 9:10 already? No trace of Ginny or Lucius for a good hour. Have to ask about that later. Hermione excused herself from the group of Ravenclaws she had been chatting with and shouldered her way up to her desk. She looked over the sea of people she had approximately eighty people squished into her classroom.

            "Sonorus." With her amplified voice she spoke over the music and crowds, "Alright. I'm afraid your night has drawn to a close. You all have twenty minutes to get to your rooms. Did you all have fun?" She was actually wondering if this was worth looking into as maybe a monthly occurrence. There was a roar of cheers from all the students. She nodded, "Then I'll look into making this tradition." She nodded. "Now scat all of you, class tomorrow. Off with you."

            As the students filed out her door she placed a charm to record everyone's name. After the last had left she looked at the room. The food had vanished from the table by some means, the plates as well vanished before her eyes, no doubt returning to the kitchen.

            "Quietus." She murmured, wand pointed at the throat. She pointed her wand at the room. "Scourgify." Crumbs, food, and spills were taken away with a slight breath of wind. "Now that's better." She yawned and warded the classroom, letting the time on her spell run out and undo her work.

            She yawned and moved to her supply closet, warding it after her, then moving to the back of the long narrow room and tiredly drew the last wards, tapping a sequence of stones, and falling into her bed after re warding her room.

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            Hermione opened her eyes to be greeted with bright sunlight streaming in through the only window in her room. To make up for its loner nature it was a very big window. In fact leading out to a pleasant little patio. But that was not the concern of the moment. Sunlight meant that Hermione should have been a awake at least an hour ago.

            Hermione looked at the light and hurried her aching body into her shower. She quickly shampooed and conditioned before hopping back out. She stared at her hair and decided it was not worth managing. She rushed to her room to find some ornamental muggle chopsticks. She rushed back to her mirror and wound her hair into a bun sticking the chopsticks through until it all stayed up.

            Hermione then opened her wardrobe and shoved past the stuffy wizarding robes with far too many buttons for her liking. She danced herself into some black jeans and a button up collard shirt. She grabbed some sandals and composed herself on the way up to the Great Hall, noticing her charm had returned her room to its former state.

            She smugly headed off to the Great Hall through a passage she learned from the map

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Reviewer Thanks:

Suzaku West: Thank you much!

Sarahamanda: Shall do.

Sabrina: Thank you, idea was my sisters, but she was too lazy to write it.

CassandraTheEvil: Thank you.

fleria: I noticed the owwie thing when I was writing it, but forgot to go back n fix it. The schedule thing was more of how I see a lot of fics that don't think about it and have them in the same class like every day of one week, tre annoying.

Lily of the Shadow: Actually I was going on that all the death eaters were young, but that many would have died since they were the loosing side, as well as the fact that I don't really like them so I wasn't focusing on it.

 Slytherin Queen: I kno, but I don't want it to be a pointless WAFF fic, so I thought I'd try to make it as realistic as I could, a difficult task considering its fiction…

Alarase: I was gonna touch on the topic of what the Death Eaters knew in chapter 5, so all the more reason to look in in a few days/ a week.

Dark Lady Mara: I noticed that, chapter 5 is gonna touch more on how Sev acts out of Herm's view.

Sonja S.: (see above for another chapter) lol

Parody-of-an-Angel: lol, it is, or was?

artemisgirl: thank you for encouragement!

chickens: oki, thanks, some people have been buggin me to italicize thoughts and stuff, but I don't wanna so I'll just do it my way.

crazley: thank you

Irina Derevko: As far as I know Snape is acting as a double agent, meaning he is still an active death eater, but spying for Dumbledore, because of this he was a death eater, and besides I don't think the dark mark would go away anyhoo.

Goth Princess: lol, Snape, electric slide, lol, I seriously thought of putting it in, but then, its not really him, is it?

Authoresses Notes: Whee!! Party Chapter finally done, me thinks the next chapter or two will be Hermione talking with Bill and Charlie, lecture by Bumbledore and the Gryffindor/Slytherin class.