A/N: Thank you guys so much! I love you! Now, I'mprobably won'tturn this into a pairing, but here's a little something for all you HGSS shippers. This is just a filler chapter, really. I needed a reason for Hermione to have an all access pass to the Restricted Section, and this is what I came up with. Just so you guys know, I have no idea where I 'm going with this. I am making it up as I go along.

Disclaim Her: Away, demons! -waves wand at swarming lawyers- Don't make me get my flying monkeys!

Chapter 13: Disturbing Revelations

When I told them about how I wasn't going to go to Dumbledore, Ron asked me why.

"Because I told Malfoy and he told me that it would be a very bad idea."

"You trust him more than us?" Ron almost sounded...hurt.

"No, but he's more rational. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense that he wouldn't be all that happy finding out that his precious little Gryffindor is a Daemon."

"But what about Professor Lupin?" Trust Hermione to come up with that excuse.

"He's only dangerous once a month, and there's a potion he can take to deal with it."

"Are you saying you're dangerous?" Ron was getting nervous again.

"No, I'm saying that the rest of the world will think I am, and even if Dumbledore is okay with it, they won't be. Do you think that they will want a dark creature takng classes with their children?"

"I guess not." At least Hermione could see reason. "You're right. It's probably best if we don't tell him. After all, the last thing you need is to get kicked out school because of something you have no control over."

"I agree completely."

She laughed.

Ron looked a little put out. "Why aren't you allowed to check that book out again? I wouldn't mind seeing it."

"Because," said Hermione exasperatedly. "Necromancy is a very sensitive subject, and not only are there laws about letting underage people study it, there's also the reaction of the wizarding world to think about. Hermione Granger, best friend of Harry Potter, studying Necromancy, the most controversial branch of magic there is?"

"Hermione, how did you get an all-access pass tothe Restricted Section in the first place? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing teachers just hand out."

"Professor Lupin probably gave it to her," said Ron. "Right?"

"No. I asked him for one, and he gave me this speech about how it's 'unethical' for teachers to give that sort of thing to students for no reason."

"Well then how did you get it?"

Hermione blushed. "Snape, um, gave it to me."

"He did?" Ron asked. "How did you get that to happen?"

She ducked her head and mumbled something I couldn't quite understand.

"What was that?"

"I-well-I kind of...seduced him."

"What!" Ron stood up, fury and horror written all over his face.

I laughed. "You're joking, right?"

"No, unforunaltely, I'm not joking. It was in last week's potions class, you know, when I told you I had some questons to ask? After you left, I shortened my skirt, unbuttoned the top few buttons of my blouse and stayed after class to 'talk' to him."

"I do not want to hear this." Ron sounded sick.

I was shaking in laughter. It was so unbelievably unlike Hermione to do something like that. And what was funnier was that Snape fell for it.

"I kind of, you know, did all those things Lavender and Parvati do around Harry. In the end all it took was a little flirting, some innuendo, and he caved."

"Oh, god, how am I going to face him in class after this?"

"The same way I have." Hermione was glaring. "With a straight face. If anyone finds out about this, I am going to blame you, I hope you know that."

"Hermione, what were you going to do if he wanted you to...deliver?" I was trying not to fall off my chair laughing while I asked her that.

"Well, I figured that I'd slap him, accuse him of molesting a student at the top of my lungs, then use that to blackmail him into giving me the pass."

"You should have been in Slytherin."

"Why, thank you, Harry."

Ron choked.

BREAKBREAKBREAKBREAKBREAKBREAKBREAK

Our next Potions class was...interesting, to say the least. Now that I knew what to look for, I noticed that Snape was jumpy when he walked by our table, and that he kept shooting strange looks at Hermione. It was very hard to keep a straight face, especially with Ron trying not to throw up in the seat next to me. Hermione was glaring at us to act normal, but it damn near impossible just to not burst out laughing. Finally, the ordeal was over, though I had managed to lose twenty points for Gryffindor by the end of class. Hermione was livid.

"I can't believe you two! I should never have told you!"

"You should never have done it, that's what you should have done."

"It was necessary! I did it for Harry!"

"Hermione," I broke in, sensing a huge fight about to break out. "While I appreciate what you did, there probably was a better way to get the pass."

"But I asked all the other teachers, and none of them would-"

"And Ron, if Hermione hadn't done that, there is a very good chance that we would still have no idea what I am."

"But you just said-"

"So I want both of you to play nice. Agreed?"

"Agreed."

They sounded rather disappointed. If I didn't know better, I would say they almost enjoy fighting with each other. Hmmm...