I took a long shower and got ready for the day slower than I usually did. When I walked back down into the common room no one was there. Even the halls were empty, it was peaceful here, and I liked it. I stopped in front of the double doors that lead into the hall. I took a deep breath and pushed them open, nothing like an entrance.
As soon as I walked in I felt every eye in the room on me. I saw my friends half way down the Gryffindor table, so I started to walk toward them. It was the longest walk of my life because it wasn't just the students staring it was the Professors too. It was completely silent Professor Dumbledore had stopped in the middle of what he was saying. I finally reached were my friends were seated and sat down, I looked up at Professor Dumbledore with my undivided attention.
He started back up immediately, "Tomorrow morning we have a Quidditch match Slytherin against Gryffindor. It should turn out to be an exciting match, now please report to your first class of the day." He smiled and sat back down as everyone got up and left the Great Hall.
As we left the Great Hall someone bumped into me, it was hard enough to set me off balance I turned around to see Draco and his friends behind me. I kept walking I wasn't in the mood to deal with him right now. I turned to Hermione.
"What's our schedule for today? I can't remember I'm all messed up from hitting my head still." I tried to reassure her with a smile. Hermione looked at me for a few seconds longer and then gave me a sad smile.
"Well first is double DADA and then lunch," she was cut off by Harry.
"During which we have a very important Quidditch practice!" Hermione looked at Harry and then turned back to me.
"Yes well, as I was saying after lunch slash practice." She turned to Harry with a mocking smile. "Then Potions and Ancient Ruins." We had reached our destination, the DADA classroom. We sat in our usual seats and class started.
Four hours later and about two hours of homework to look forward to, we all walked out into the hallway. As everyone headed down to lunch we went in the opposite direction for the pitch. It didn't take long for the rest of the team to show up, we practiced all through lunch. Practiced ended and we all huddled up.
"That was a great practice everybody, we're ready for the game tomorrow. Make sure you eat some food today and get a lot of rest tonight." Harry gave the team a huge smile. "Well that about covers everything so see you all later." We said our good-byes and all went our separate ways.
We were almost late to Potions it took us longer to change and lock up the locker room than we had expected. We had just sat down in our seats in the back of the room when Professor Snape walked in.
"Open your notebooks, pop quiz!" there was a collective groan. I dug into my bag and grabbed my book, everyone else did the same. Severus started passing out the pages with questions, "You may begin." It got quiet after all the tests were out. I looked to my left and saw that Ron had only written down his name. I covered my mouth to suppress a giggle. When I looked over to Harry on my other side he had gotten about as far as Ron had. I laughed out loud a little not really enough for anyone to hear let alone care, but leave it to Severus to prove me wrong. He stood from where he had been sitting at his desk and walked over to where my friends and I were.
"Miss Jacobs, what exactly do you find so funny?" I looked up at him, man he could act if I didn't know better I would have believe he hated me with every fiber of his being. I stared back at him with a face I hope mirrored his hatred.
"Nothing Professor, nothing is funny." A triumphant smile crossed his face.
"I thought so." He turned and walked back to his desk. My gaze followed him, until he started grading papers again. I looked back down at my test and started righting down my answers. A couple of minutes passed, and I was almost done.
It was nearing the end of the class period, and as usual Hermione and I were the only two finished with our tests. Hermione had her noise buried in yet another book, and I was doodling on some paper. Eventually everyone started to file up to Professor Snape's desk and turn in his or her tests. Once all of the tests were handed in Severus stood up and wrote our homework assignment on the board. The bell rang, and we went to our next class. Hermione and I started to climb the winding staircase up to the Ancient Ruins classroom, and Harry and Ron were off to the common room for their free period.