[This is a repeat of last chapter, except using Hermione's perspective. Draco got... mighty distracted.]

Alright. Head up, Chin high, Hermione thought, as she tugged her eyes up from the penises on her chest. Eyes just the least bit teary.

Gryffindor all the way.

Hermione briskly huffed down the hallway, stalling only a half step to wind up behind Professor Snape as he walked into the Potions Classroom.

I am just going to go to my seat, and pretend like this isn't happening. There's only a seat upfront - nothing to it but to go and sit down, and get to work.

The boys are drawing their wands. I love them, but they're idiots.

"Malfoy-" Harry growls, while Ron belts, "What did you do?"

Malfoy's drawling, "Was that you, Pansy dear?"

Pansy responds, "No, I thought it was you?"

But every other Slytherin hasn't so much as glanced at Malfoy. They're all looking at Nott, who is utterly unconcerned.

And Parvati can't act - but nobody's going to notice that.

God above, are they twitching? Hermione thought, her heart rate increasing from the really weird sensations.

Snape hasn't realized anything is wrong. Ah, his usual swish and swirl, deftly precise as always.

Snape's eyes widened just a fraction, his chest rose, and he strode towards me. Chin up, just a hair.

Snape sneered,"That is hardly appropriate attire for class, Miss Granger."

Give him a glare as good as he gets, and lift that chin. Pugnacious. Jaw set, jutting out just a bit.

Snape's eyes flick away from me, and I fight back a grin, "Potter, Weasley, what have we said about wands in Potions class?" Snape isn't even mentioning that they're pointing them at his favorite student. By the flush of their cheeks, the boys know they're in the wrong. "That will be a months worth of detentions, and you can make that another month if you don't put them away."

"Very well," Snape said, and for a defeated accuser, he sounds remarkably even-keeled. Plus, he knows that pugnacious look - and not just from Harry.

Everyone said that Snape wanted the DADA post, and after this day, no one would be able to say he wasn't qualified, Hermione thought as he started an increasingly elaborate set of dispelling charms. I wish I could write these down...

"Alright, we'll do this the hard way," Snape said, and cast a full invisibility spell on Hermione Granger herself. "Distraction managed."

Hermione Granger could finally, finally let herself grin. She worked as efficiently as usual, and left the classroom as soon as Snape had taken her potion.

She went upstairs to Gryffindor Tower, locked herself in her room, and didn't come out until Monday. The only words she said the entire time were, "Lavender, your spell is genius! And completely undispellable!" Lavender laughed back, her eyes sparkling.

[a/n: Hermione spent the rest of the time reading. And Lavender and Parvati brought her food.

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