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He slowly opened his eyes. What had just happened? He was duelling with that mudblood, and then he thought of the Densaugeo curse, then... the pain! The excruciating, unstoppable pain. How has that happened? What had she done? Is it possible that that goody goody Granger had used the Cruciatus? He cast a look at her just as she was sitting up. He looked around him. Everything seemed normal; no one seemed to have noticed the incident except…

"What have you been doing here? What sort of nonsense is this?" hissed an irritated Snape, "Are you mocking my class? Miss Granger?"

"Sir, I don't know what happened, I was duelling and suddenly he hit me with something and I…"

"Oh rubbish, you hit me first, I didn't have time to attack you, you moron" answered Draco

"You filthy lying piece of…"

"Mr Malfoy will you please watch your language, this is a classroom. And you Miss Granger, you just cost your house 20 points for improper language. Now I want you both back to your desks, since you seem incompetent to duel. I expect you to wait after the class has finished. "

"But sir…"interrupted Hermione

"I don't want to hear it Miss Granger, to your desks now."

Seeing that arguing would lead nowhere they started moving towards the desks.

"Well done mudblood!"

"It was all your fault you arrogant…"

"SILENCE" echoed Snape.

So without another word they sat at their desks and waited for the end of the class.

Not being able to do anything for 20 minutes infuriated Hermione even more than trying to puzzle out what Malfoy had done! How could this arrogant snake have got them into so much trouble? She could see how this was going to go, Snape will see that Malfoy put the cruciatus curse on her and he will get away with a slap on the wrist and what will she get?!?!? She will have detention until the age of 25 because she was not "smart enough to avoid it" or "quick enough to stop it" or because she used that stupid arrow charm. She was convinced that Snape would find something to give her detention for. Stupid Slytherin I hope you rot…

But Snape's voice stopped her lovely train of thought.

"Now, what did you do?" he said in that quiet and dangerous tone his voice took when Gryffindors were involved.

"Sir she put the Cruciatus curse on me!"

Hermione was shocked. Her mouth fell open. He dared to accuse her of that. He..She just couldn't believe her ears.

"Sir I would never… If anything HE put the cruciatus on me. I attacked him with the relashio curse and then I felt the pain it was terrible, it felt like…"

"I'm not interested in the story of your life Miss Granger, when I start suffering from insomnia I will ask for it." At that Malfoy chuckled. "Now, since it is obvious that one of you used a forbidden curse of some sort your wands are confiscated until I find out what has caused this."

At that he extended his hand and their wands shot out of theirs, landing in his palm.

"For the time being I will not punish any of you until I find out who did it. But if I find any banned or forbidden charms were used by either of you my rage will be terrible. Now go! Both of you."

As they were moving towards the door Malfoy turned to Hermione and said loud enough so that Snape could hear:

"Nice Avolo Calamus charm Granger…Not that legal though…."

Hermione looked at him with pure loath. The dirty rat.

"Miss Granger, you used a banned charm?"

She looked at Malfoy as he was exiting the room hoping that the snitch would just drop dead. But he didn't. And he left, and she was stuck with a furious Snape. She turned to look at him.

"Sir I'm sorry, I didn't know it was banned." she mumbled.

"You, Miss Granger? You said you didn't know something? Well I'm simply mortified…" said Snape sarcastically. "Anyway, I believe any punishment should fit the crime and of course, the offender, so it is my decision Miss Granger that because of this your next assignment is an immediate failure. Now leave my sight or I would change this to your next two assignments."

Hermione was horrified. He would fail her. He was going to fail her. As she was getting to the corridor the anger was beginning to rise. She knew that if she only got Malfoy in her hands she would curse him to the next century. How could he be such a…

And then two icy hands grabbed her and dragged her to an empty classroom. Malfoy squeezed her arms and crashed her against the wall…

"What did you do Granger?"

"Let me go! Let me go or else"

"Or else what? You'll scream? It's the dungeons remember? Tell me what you did and you are free to go."

"I didn't do anything. I don't do dark magic you know… as opposed to you" spat Hermione.

"Well, I didn't do it, if had I wouldn't be and idiot to let it backfire." He said.

"Yes, because you master every single spell to perfection?!?! As if..."

His fists squeezed her arms tighter, she started feeling her hands and forearms going numb…

"You are hurting me!"

"I don't care! And for your information mudblood perfection, is something you will never understand because you were born in a quagmire. Tell me what you did!"

"I didn't do anything!" she screamed, "and why are you so bothered anyway you arrogant toad? Snape will see it in my wand if I had done something and I'll be expelled. So what is your problem?" She yelled the last part as loud as her lungs allowed her. Her arms were completely numb. She started to kick him so that he let her go… but his grip was too strong.

"What is your problem?" She repeated.

"IT IS STILL HURTING ME!" his voice was a combination of pain and anger. His eyes were turning black from rage. For the first time in months Hermione was scared.

"What do you mean?" she whispered. She was terrified.

He looked at her, his voice icy again. "I feel the pain still. As if a red hot iron is slowly burning my lungs. I feel bleeding inside." With these words he let her go. She was reaching the door when she turned and looked at him.

"Malfoy I didn't do that. I hate you with every fibre of my body but this- I didn't do it."

"Make it stop."

"I can't I don't know how it happened. I don't know how! Why don't you go to Madam Pomfrey? I'm sure she…"

"Make it stop" he said louder.

"I told you I can't" she snapped.

"MAKE IT…" and then suddenly he fell quiet. His expression froze completely. He looked at her with a glacial calmness, he grabbed her hand…She panicked and stepped back… And then a voice sounded. It was not Malfoy's. It was coming from his mouth, she could see his mouth moving but the voice was not his. It was as if the voice belonged to a corpse. As if it was coming from the grave. Quiet and menacing.

He whispered:

"How could you do this Hecate?"

And then he froze again. Her arm fell to her side. His pain returned. His eyes got back to that agonizing expression they had before. His voice was back to normal when he said:

"Undo it Granger."

Hermione took a few seconds to recover from the shock. Then she said:

"Who is Hecate?"

"You really think it's the right time for you to expand your general knowledge?"

"You called me Hecate!"

"When…?"

"Just now Malfoy, you said "How could you do this Hecate?""

"You are either deaf or hallucinating, I said: "Undo it Granger.", that's you, you know… your name, Granger. Now undo it!!!"

"I cannot undo it because I didn't do it in the first place!" she answered "Why is it that you don't want to go to Madam Pomfrey? Why did you black out? Who is Hecate? Answer me!"

"Are you ordering me about now mudblood?"

"Yes!" She looked at him straight in the eyes. She realised she had probably just pushed it too far, she knew that much. She needed to know though. She needed the answer!

"I did not black out" he said quietly.

"You did and you are avoiding the other questions. Which can only mean one thing."

Without further warning she lifted the cloak from his left forearm. And she saw.

The Dark Mark.

"I knew it" She whispered as she ran to the door. She wasn't quick enough though. He grabbed her arm and said:

"If you even breathe a word of this your parents will die the slowest and most painful death. Your cousins, aunts, uncles your whole family will be wiped out… It will be the doom of your family because of you, it will be all your fault…"

"You wouldn't dare!" She spat.

"Wouldn't dare what? Dare to kill muggles? Hasn't Potter enlightened you as to what Death Eaters do exactly? What do you think; we meet and play gobstones, drinking firewhiskey? Don't say a word, and they might make it. Whisper my secret and you'll have to beg me to kill them and stop their sufferings."

He took a good look at her, and with an arrogant yet elegant air he left her alone in the dark classroom.

She could almost hear her parents scream…

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