18. I will not scare the Arithmancy students with my Calculus book.
Hermione was for the first time ever, running late. She grabbed her books, and stuffed them into her bag, not even looking at them. There wasn't time, so she just grabbed all of them and rushed to her Arithmancy class. Hopefully the professor would cut her some slack, seeing as she was never late.
Racing through the common room, she turned left and headed down three flights of stairs, noting that she was the only one left in the hallways. Running, she got to her classroom seven minutes later, and waited outside the classroom two minutes until her heart stopped racing.
She knocked and opened the door, apologizing for being late and took her seat. She was only late by fifteen or so minutes, so they weren't too far ahead. She took out a sheaf of parchment and a quill, charming the quill to write twice as fast so as to get the notes on the board written down before they were erased. She never got notes from anybody. They could have missed something important, and she couldn't have that.
"Please take out your books, and turn to page two hundred sixty three."
Hermione nodded, and dug through her bag looking for her book. Not finding it, she searched again, and again, though the only thing even related to Arithmancy was her muggle calculus book. She started to panic. Suddenly someone on her left took her book and began to look through it.
"What the hell is this?"
"It's a muggle calculus book Mandy, and I would very much appreciate you putting it down. I don't want your chocolate stained fingers on it."
"What's that?"
"Muggle math. Really complicated stuff, if you get it wrong, the book burns your fingers," Hermione said, trying to scare the girl into putting it down.
Not taking a chance with it, Mandy put it down hastily, sitting back down in her seat telling anyone who would listen that Granger brought a muggle torture device, called calculus, into the school.
By the end of class, people were avoiding Hermione like the plague, hoping not to get burned by the calculus.
This didn't turn out quite like I wanted, but I was busy today, and this is what I came up with. School is going to start on August 25th, but I promise to finish this before I take a break. After that, I'll put up a poll about what I should focus on next. You'll have an update for Red Crayons hopefully Monday, but maybe Wednesday at the latest.
Ciao,
Lilith G. Astroll