Chapter 3: The "Extra-Credit"

A/N: So I started with this story two days ago, and already I'm getting favourites and follows, as well as a few reviews! I'm so excited about this, so I'll just say thanks so much to Comic Critic for reviewing! Hope you like this chapter too!

Growing marijuana or hallucinogenic mushrooms is not "an extra-credit project for Herbology".

"Don't let them hear you!"

"I won't!"

"I mean it Pansy, this is important, so you'll probably mess it up."

"... Shut up Blaise."

"OW!"

"Ssssshhhhhhh Daphne!" Five voices chorused.

"Blaise stomped on my foot!"

"No one cares." A short pause, and then:

"OW!" Four voices again chorused: "Shut up Blaise!"

"No fair! Daphne stomped on my foot!"

A chorus of: "Daph?!"

Then: "He said no one cared!"

Then everything escalated into petty bickering. Sentences such as: "Pansy don't pull my hair!" "Why Blaise, do you love it more than your face? Cause I can gouge your eyes out too!" "Pansy why are you nails so long?!" And "Adrian, Theo hurt meeeeeee!" Could be heard. Draco sat back, torn between smirking and conjuring popcorn, and facepalming, or maybe he should just interfere. A yowl: "BLAISE I YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS TO MOVE YOUR HAND OR IT BECOMES A PERMANENT WALL ORNAMENT OF MINE!" Nope, too much fun to interfere. But when Daphne and Adrian started making out again, and Pansy got out her wand, and was pointing it at Theo's nose, while simultaneously punching Blaise, he knew he had to do something.

"Okay kids, enough is enough. Let's all just calmly sort this out, so we can still be on time to meet Granger at the greenhouses, without getting caught. Alright?"

Immediately they all straightened up. Blaise simply smirked and drew out: "Why Granger again?" Draco rolled his eyes and muttered the excuse he had come up with earlier. "She's the brightest witch of our age, Blaise. She's a muggleborn. She knows this." After a still smirking Blaise whispered "Yeah right." Just under his breath, the group set off again. "Where did you say you'd gotten an invisibility cloak again, Draco?" Blaise asked innocently. "It is a bit small to cover all five of us. And isn't Potter the only one who has a cloak like this in school?" Draco ignored him and they walked on. Finally they arrived at the greenhouses. There, under some foliage, sat the Gryffindor princess, Hermione Granger. She was wearing a strange black, skintight outfit, which left just her head uncover. Her hair was trapped underneath a black beanie, and she had two black face paint stripes on each cheek. "Granger. Why on Earth are you wearing?" Draco hissed. "I'm a ninja, Malfoy. I have class." Five confused faces stares at her. "A ninja?" "Yes Zabini. They're Japanese warriors, dressed in all blacks, with long swords, who operate on secret missions during nighttime." Looking at their confused faces she simply beckoned them to follow her. They tiptoed past Hagrid's hut, to the edge of the forbidden forest, where Hermione gave them each a small lamp. They checked if everyone knew the plan, and then split into different areas of the forest. Hermione and Draco seemingly split up, but as they had agreed, met up a little further in. There, they sat on a tree stump, waiting for the time to pass. Well, 'waiting'. More like kissing. Intensely. With fervour. Or passion. Or both. Oh my, was that Hermione's shirt that went flying?

Anyways, as time passed, they reluctantly moved back to the edge of the forest, where the six teens grouped together the mushrooms they had found. Blaise went first. "Psilocybe Tampanensis. Also known as Philosopher's Stones. I thought they would be fitting. Once ingested they give you a deep thinkers attitude. It's easily controlled, and good for lessons. Cause it makes you profound. Get it? Hehe." He put down a couple of mushrooms that bore semblance to small rocks. Pansy followed. "Psilocybe cubensis. Golden caps? We've used these in potions, you know the ones that bruise?" Everyone grunted noncommittally. Daphne, Theo and Adrian all chipped in with their 'magic mushrooms', as they had been dubbed. Then everyone turned to Hermione and Draco. They both shrugged sheepishly, and claimed to not have seen anything.

Quickly they all snuck back to the greenhouses. When they entered the last greenhouse, the student initiative one, Blaise motioned to a piece of unused ground with a dramatic sweeping gesture as he said: "Now for the grand finale!" Hermione smirked at her, a mudblood, being important to Blaise, a pureblood supremacist. "Have you got the plants, Granger?" He asked. She nodded, and quickly gathered some marijuana seeds onto the patch of ground. Simultaneously the Slytherins all let out great whoops of joy. Which was their doom. As Hermione shushed them all, they realised that they would have been heard from all the way over to the castle, or at least Hagrid's hut.

And they were, because looming in the doorway, a great big shadow stood, accompanied by his slobbering dog. "Hermione? What are you doin' with this lot?" The figure asked. A stuttering, bright red Hermione tugged on one of her bushy locks. "Well... I... We... I was helping them with an extra-credit project for Herbology you see." "After hours? For Herbology?" The half-giant's thick eyebrows rose halfway up his massive forehead. "Yes sir, she's been kindly helping us study different types of mushrooms sir. These particular ones can only grow past midnight, before the sun rises. So you see, we came out here." Draco piped in. "And Professor Sprout knows about this?" The gamekeeper asked incredulously. "Not exactly, sir. We were... Uhm... Surprising her with it!" Daphne said politely. She was one of the few Slytherins who was unfailingly polite. "Alright then. That's okay, I s'pose. Go along then, back to yer beds." He waved one giant dustbin lid sized hand at the group. Everyone ducked their heads down and quickly raced through the open door.

They were walking back when Theo grasped Hermione's arm, and hissed: "So why is the goody-two-shoes Mudblood helping us?" She froze, yet he pushed her forwards, forcing her to pretend nothing was wrong. "Answer me, Mudblood." She gulped and said hesitantly: "It's a profit. Draco promised me a share of whatever you made. And I can use some of these mushrooms for actual extra-credit potions." They both blanched for a second and then: "We left the ingredients!" Hurriedly Hermione explained to Hagrid that they needed to run back and fetch the plants they left quickly. Hagrid hurried them along, and before they knew it, the group was back at the greenhouse. Just before Hermione slipped inside, Theo whispered in her ear: "Don't think you're off the hook, Mudblood, you called him Draco. She shuddered and moved away from him quickly, into the greenhouse, and grabbed her mushrooms and marijuana. As she was walking back out, Hagrid got a good look at the plants the star student was carrying. "Hermione? Is that... Marijuana?"

"No sir?"