Chapter Three... Enjoy!
Chapter 3
Hermione turned to look at the smirking Malfoy. Suddenly, all of her feelings for him just disappeared. He was NOT nice at all.
"Miss Granger why don't you go and sit next to Mr Malfoy. Thats right gather up you're things," he gave her another wide smile as he watched her move her belongings. Malfoy edged away from her as he sat down,
"Don't come too close Granger, these are clean robes."
"Don't worry I won't be coming close, I don't want slytherin germs."
Hermione hissed back. She sighed,
"Look Malfoy lets put our differences behind us for this project. I need to get a good grade and so do you, so lets just be... nicer to each other."
Malfoy rolled his stony grey eyes and flicked his blonde hair out of his face,
"Alright, alright Granger."
Hermione saw Ron shoot her a sympathy smile from his desk, but it soon slid off his face as he was partnered with Pansy Parkinson. Once everyone had a partner Slughorn moved back to the front,
"EVERYONE QUIET PLEASE!" he bellowed. He straightened his jacket and carried on,
"This project is a big and important. Since you will be getting no other homework from any of you're other classes I expect the potion that you show me to at least be complete. The more complex the potion the more points you will earn. That is the end of you're first class. The theme for this week is, as my example, humour. Each week, you will have 2 potions lessons, its you're choice how you use them but I would suggest leaving yourself at least one of them to actually brew the potion. Now class dismissed!"
Hermione then saw Slughorn take Harry's hand and pull him to his desk.
She turned to Malfoy,
"Malfoy when shall we talk about what we are going to do?"
Malfoy waved his hand dismissively,
"Oh Granger come to the Slytherin common room entrance and we can go to the library."
Hermione smiled,
"Alright."
At five to six Hermione brushed out her hair and grabbed her bag. She knew it would take a while to find the slytherin common room entrance. After walking down a few corridors she bumped in to a green robed girl.
"Um excuse me, could you point me in the direction of you're common room. I'm meeting someone outside it."
The girl looked at her with annoyance, and pointed her the right way. When she turned round the corner she saw Malfoy waiting at the entrance of what was obviously their common room. She walked towards him. Malfoy must have heard her steps for he looked up.
"Ah Granger, you're late."
"Sorry took me a while to find this common room."
So they through the corridors and in to the library. They spent at least 3 hours studying potions. In that time Hermione noticed that Malfoy was different. After about 2 hours he loudly whispered,
"I'VE GOT IT! Granger? Where are you?"
Hermione's head appeared from between the bookshelves.
"What? What? What potion is it?"
Malfoy tapped the book,
"An anti-hiccuping solution. Its quite advanced but the ingredients look easy enough to get hold of. Oh except eels eyeballs, we can always go in to hogsmeade for those."
Hermione nodded,
"Ok yeah, that could work. Theres a hogsmeade trip in 2 days right?"
"Yep."
The next day Hermione saw Harry and Ron walking to the Great Hall for breakfast. She ran up to them.
Harry turned round,
"Oh Hermione do you want to have some breakfast with us?"
Hermione nodded,
"Ok, I will be there in 2 minutes."
She ran up to the slytherin table to find Malfoy. She got to where he was sitting,
"I found another book for the potions project."
As he looked up at her, he thought she looked rather pretty. Her long hair was windswept and her cheeks had a glowing pink flush from running. His grey eyes met her brown ones for a second and then he took the book gratefully.
"Thanks Granger."
Hermione smiled at him, still breathless,
"No problem Malfoy."
After she had turned her back she could hear whistles and shouts.
"Oi Malfoy! Got yourself a new girlfriend?"
"Seriously Malfoy? A filthy muggle born I cant say much for your taste."
Hermione felt tears come to her eyes as she heard these comments, she hurried back to the gryfinndor table and sat down next to Harry and Ron with Ginny opposite. Hermione ate a piece of toast and excused herself. She went up to her dorm and burst in to tears. She didn't normally get touchy about people making fun of her but she was sick of it now. Faced with Draco Malfoy on top of that she couldn't hold her tears back. What was she thinking? Why did it matter that Malfoy was there? She sighed and remembered Ron feeling her forehead. Maybe she was ill...
A day later they had their next potion class. Now they had decided on their potion they had to begin making it. When she talked to Malfoy she found herself blushing far too often. He seemed far nicer i class than usual. He concentrated well and was always helpful.
"Could you just grab that book for me?"
Hermione said pushing her hair out of face. She was stirring the potion quickly. Malfoy laughed from bookshelf and found the book she was looking for.
"Come over here you lazy bones!" said Hermione looking up from the potion. Malfoy came over and put down on the book.
"Wow Granger calm down, you don't need to stir that fast."
Hermione looked at him,
"Yeah I know you're right. Anyway the potion just needs the eels eyes now."
"Great well we are going to hogsmeade tomorrow."
"Malfoy?"
"Yeah."
"Do you mean... a date?"
"Errr... yeah I guess. Is that ok with you?"
Hermione paused. Her heart was screaming yes but her brain was apprehensive.
"Sure thats fine."
She was forced to look away from those astounding grey eyes when Slughorn began to speak.
"Now does anyone want to display how their potion is going? Ah harry my boy?"
Harry shook his head,
"Sorry sir, our potion is no where near ready," he gestured to Goyle who had just tipped an array of different ingredients to their brown potion.
Slughorn looked disappointed,
"Ah well, Miss Granger and Mr Malfoy, is you're potion decent?"
"Yes sir, we need one more ingredient- eels eyes- to complete our anti-hiccuping solution."
They're master nodded in agreement,
"So can you tell us the precise colour this potion is supposed to be?"
Hermione opened her mouth but to her surprise, Malfoy got there first,
"Yes sir our potion will end up a strawberry red colour hopefully. After we have put in the eels eyes and given it 3 anti-clockwise stirs."
"Well aren't you two a dream pairing?"
Guffawing carelessly, he replied,
"I must congratulate you on you're excellent choice of the anti-hiccuping solution. Obviously I thought most of you would go for the clowning concoction but seemingly not. Of course the anti- hiccuping solution is advanced enough but not so difficult it would take longer than the desired time to brew. Now Miss Grange or Mr Malfoy I'm sure one of you will be able to tell me exactly how long it must brew for and the stages that it goes through."
Hermione put up her hand and, before being asked to speak, started,
"The anti- hiccuping solution requires exactly 21 hours to brew. During the day the solution is supposed to turn a sort of indigo colour and bubble. During the night the potion is supposed to start turning a shade of magenta, then scarlet and so on until it is the colour of a ripe strawberry."
Slughorn gave her a knowing smile and waggled his finger,
"20 points to gryfinndor! Absolutely correct Miss Granger!"
He looked at the clock on the wall,
"Gosh is that the time already? Well you better hurry along to transfiguration now," he began to shout as the murmur of chatter and scraping of chairs began to fill the dungeon, "Please have you're potions ready by tomorrows lesson."
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