I looked up to see Snape glaring at both of us. Behind him stood the Carrows. Uh oh... "Potter, Draco follow me." We followed after Snape and the Carrows in silence. I was feeling slightly singled out since I was the only non-death eater in the group. I didn't know what was going to happen, but I knew it was not going to be good. Amucus' words kept ringing through my head "Another wrong move and the dark lord will here about everything." It wasn't my fault. Malfoy had attacked me, but they wouldn't care. My head was still spinning when we reached the entrance to the headmaster's office. We entered the room and Snape gestured to the two seats in front of the desk. Malfoy and I both sat down. I could tell Malfoy was nervous, was he on a tighter leash than I had expected?
"Would one of you like to explain what happened?" He said looking at the two of us. We probably looked pretty pathetic as we both stuttered over what happened, trying to be louder than the other. "SILENCE. One at a time. Draco, you first." "Of course," I muttered. "What was that Potter?" He eyed me carefully. "Nothing." "Good, Draco?"
"She insulted me. She told me to shut up and called me pathetic and a suck up!" I almost wanted to laugh because I knew that was enough to condemn me. They would not ask why I had done those things. "Is that true, Potter." "Yes, but..." Snape glared at me. "Then I thinks that's enough." I practically shouted at him. "I only said that because he insulted me first and wouldn't stop. Then he bloody tried to hex me. If I hadn't gotten my wand out in time I would be in the hospital wing instead. But perhaps you would prefer that." The whole room was staring at me. It was as though they had never seen someone interrupt the headmaster before. It was nothing new to me. I did it all the time to Dumbledore and I liked him. Snape was a whole different matter. Snape finally spoke. "Ten points from Gryffindor for interrupting. Now Draco, did you insult Potter?" Malfoy looked torn. "Sort of. More taunted." It was Malfoy's turn to be glared at. "And did you attempt to hex her first?" Malfoy's voice got quitter. "Yes, but only after she called me pathetic." I jumped in. "Only because you called me pathetic first."
"Enough. I thought I said one at a time Potter. It seems you are both at fault, though you did not need to react to Draco's comments Potter. That was rather childish." I scoffed. "Oh, so now I'm childish for standing up for myself." "That is not standing up for yourself. It is being foolish and rash. Now you will both receive detention tomorrow night and ten points from your houses." I rolled my eyes. "Um, professor, I already have detention tomorrow night." I said, my voice dripping with sweetness. "For what Potter, its the first day of school?" Snape looked baffled. Could I really have gotten more than one detention in less than a day. I may be a Potter, but I wasn't Harry. Even he hadn't done that. Surprise I now had nine.
"For poor behavior in class. In fact, I believe this whole siduation leads back to Potter's behavior towards her classmates this afternoon." Amucus said. I turned around to see him smiling evily at me. Did he really want to bring Voldemort upon me? "What happened?" Snape practically growled at me. I gulped. "Um, well, the usual. We had Dark Arts with the Slytherins. In my opinion that should never happen unless you want there to be problems. Anyway, the Slytherins tried to act like know it alls. The Gryffindors had a laugh. The Gryffindors got in trouble, mostly me. I didn't think I should be in trouble. I got into more trouble because that's the way my life goes. Class went on. Teacher asked me to stay after, about like what used to happen in potions and Umbridges class. I irritated teacher and got in more trouble. Malfoy saw me in the hallway and decided to poke fun at the trouble I was unfairly in. I ended up in here in more trouble. So goes my life." I spoke rather dramatically for emphasis. That was not a very clear answer, but from what I gather you deserved the trouble you got, as usual. Perhaps detention the next night?" "I have detention then, too. In fact I have it for a week." I said with a slight smile. I had done it. I had baffled Snapey. My smile faded when Amucus stepped in. "If I may interject. I can handle Potter's punishment. She knew very good and well what getting into anymore trouble meant. You see not only did she insult myself and her classmates, but the Dark Lord. She will be dealt with." I balked. Was he really going to tell Voldemort when what had happened with Malfoy wasn't even my fault. "You have to be joking. I didn't ask Malfoy to attempt to hex me. How is any of this my fault? Heck, I never asked for any of you lot to be here at all. All I want is a normal school year with my brother, but because of your precious lord he can't be." a lot of nasty glares. "Hush, Potter. That's enough from you for one day. That mouth of yours may get you into a lot of trouble someday, perhaps it already has. Severus I think Draco needs to see Madam Pomfrey. He has some rather nasty cuts." Snape looked Malfoy over. "Yes, indeed. I will take him." What about my injuries? "If you don't mind Alecto and I will deal with Potter. We will see you at the manor in an hour." Snape nodded and led Malfoy out of the office. Amucus roughly grabbed my arm and dragged me out as well. He brought me to the first spare room we came across, Alecto followed behind. When we reached a room he roughly shoved me inside and closed the door.
"I had told you earlier that the dark Lord would here from me if you misbehaved again. Mark my words he will, escpecially after your last little rant. The Dark Lord will not be pleased. Now we have an hour to kill and I think you still need that extra detention." uh oh! I was on the floor before I could blink. I hadn't seen Amucus pull out a wand and it took me a second to register that it must have been Alecto. Her's didn't hurt as bad, but I still was in some serious pain. When it stopped I gasped for breath. It started again, almost immediately. This time was Amucus. Yep, he was worse. The second time the curse stopped it did not start back up again. I was about to get up when a sensation almost like cutting yourself ran down my arm. I gasped in pain and looked down to see a decent length cut on my arm. It stung badly. I looked up at Amucus who was staring down at me with a curious expression on his face. After a moment he spoke.
"It really is a pitty you are so stubborn. I had hoped last night that you would not be." With that both Carrows exited the room. I stood up and walked into thehallway when I was sure that they were gone. I made my way down to the hospital wing. I was grateful that I could see no sign of Malfoy or Snape when I got there. I did see Ginny though. She was actually getting ready to leave. Ginny waited while madam Pomfrey helped me with my arm. We talked on the way back to the common room about what had happened. She was really worried about what was going to happen to me. The Dark Lord generally didn't take insults lightly. I didn't much care. Whatever was going to happen would.