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Chapter 36

Quidditch practice got harder and harder and the stormy weather was not any helpful either. Angelina brought out new tactics almost every practice session and they were meant to do heavy physical lifts and twist while playing. Not that Audrey wasn't used to these lifts, twist and exercises, but she seemed to think that ever since she had come to Hogwarts her daily jogs around the school had stopped, she wondered why though, seeing that Hogwarts offered her a way better field, worst part was school started at nine, Beauxbatons started after lunch and ended before dinner, they only did homework on the weekends, but Hogwarts was different and a little difficult for her to get used to, but every time Audrey failed to do a move that Angelina had conjured from the top of her head the more Audrey decided that it was time to wake up early and get back into shape, she had always been fitness conscious and so it was now or never.

So the next morning Audrey woke up early, put on some loose shorts along with a baggy band t-shirt and pushed her wand into the pocket of her shorts. She then proceeded to run down to the quidditch pitch. When she reached the deserted pitch she noticed that someone was already there, running, she wondered who this person was, she ran towards him to join him as she released it was no one but her father. It was odd to see him dressed like that; he was wearing track shorts along with a Slytherine hoodie that was drenched in his sweat and therefore left open to reveal his bare rather shockingly muscular chest. He stopped to frown slightly as he noticed his daughter jog towards him. She beamed when she reached him.

"What—are you doing—up—so early?" he asked panting for air.

"I thought I'd get a run before school," she replied shrugging as he nodded and then carried on with his own exercise as she joined his brisk walk which changed into a sprint.

"Do you run everyday?" she asked as he nodded and they carried on running, they completed two laps together, when Severus checked his watch for the time, since the sun was beginning to come up, another lap and he would have to go inside and prepare for the day.

"What classes do you have today?" he asked as he continued with their third lap, he could see her t-shirt beginning to stick to her body.

"Charms, Transfiguration, Potions and then History of Magic." she replied as he nodded and pulled out his napkin from the pocket of his hoodie, he handed it to her.

"You'll need it—I need to get back before everyone wakes up—carry on," he said as he smiled at her and then zipped up his hoodie and jogged his way into the school. She smiled another thing she must have inherited from him, fitness freaks.

After Breakfast the Gryffindor and Slytherine fifth years lined up outside the charms classroom and waited for professor Flitwick to open the door, which he did instantly when the bell rang.

"Hem—hem," why did Audrey feel like she had been expecting this—after the Trelawney episode, she knew Umbridge was going to sitting through all their subject lectures, she wondered how transfiguration would end up, would her grandmother be able to keep her cool or would she end up transfiguring Umbridge into a toad? Audrey most certainly wished for the latter.

Although, right now Flitwick welcomed Umbridge in with a small greeting in his cute squeaky voice as Umbridge threw him an equally sweet smile but everyone knew the evil behind it.

Flitwick moved from the door to take the attendance as class began and Umbridge sat in a corner and interrupted professor Flitwick while he taught, but the professor was very calm and seemed happy to answer all of Umbridge's questions. At the end of class when it was time for Transfiguration students began to exit the class, Harry, Audrey and Ron noticed Umbridge walk up to Flitwick and ask him some personal details, at the end of her scrutiny of his life, she pulled out a measuring tape and threw it down to the floor, measuring the professor Flitwick's height, Audrey could tell from the look on the man's face as to how badly he had been insulted.

"That will do Filius," said Umbridge sweetly as she scribbled something furiously onto her clipboard as the short professor did not say anything but moved away and looked rather sadly at the exiting students. Audrey gave a small smile as he returned it and nodded his head at her.

Audrey and two boys raced their way into the transfiguration classroom, thankfully McGonagall wasn't there yet and Audrey was glad Hermione had saved them a seat, so Harry sat behind with Ron while Audrey sat next to Hermione as she pulled out her homework and textbook. She noticed Umbridge walk into the classroom and sit down in the teacher's chair as she placed her clip board down on the desk. The class went awfully quiet when they saw her do what she had done, she was sitting on McGonagall's chair, the chair of the deputy headmistress, the chair of the Gryffindor head of house, whose house was currently glaring daggers at her, as she checked her pink watch.

When the bell rang Minerva came into the classroom, followed by Sirius who was carrying cartons of something, he placed one box on Minerva's desk and went into her office to put the rest away.

"That will be enough" said Minerva through gritted teeth as the Slytherine section of the class went quite instantly. Minerva knew who was sitting where but she did not say anything, instead she decided to do what Albus had begged her to, she took in a deep breath and ignored the toad in her seat.

"Ms. Brown please hand out these mice—don't be silly girl they wont bite!"

"Today, we will be continuing our lecture on vanishment of mice. Now, the Vanishing Spell –'

"Right—Minerva—I'm done—so—I'll be leaving," said Sirius coming out of the office and dusting his hands as he removed his shaggy hair from his eyes, a reasonably loud sigh could be heard coming form around the room, as Sirius's ears perked up lightly as he frowned at the class but turned to look and McGonagall when she nodded sternly at him, noticed that the toad was sitting in her chair, he felt a small growl grow in his throat.

"That is were professor McGonagall sits," snarled Sirius angrily as Harry smirked at his godfather happy that he brought it up.

"Oh! But I don't think professor McGonagall wants to sit Sirius," said Umbridge sweetly, one could easily tell by the way she said his name that she fancied him. Minerva took a large amount of air in and then sternly asked Sirius to leave with her classroom with her eyes.

"It's Professor Black—excuse me—have a good day Minerva," growled Sirius still angry that Minerva wasn't saying anything to the toad.

"Now does every one have a mouse?" asked Minerva importantly as the class replied with a quick loud yes.

"Hem hem..."

"Thomas If you do that to your mouse again I shall put you in detention"

"Hem Hem..."

There it was, war had begun and Audrey could see her grandmother's nostrils flare in anger much like a fire breathing dragon.

"Yes?" asked Minerva as patiently as she could manage, she was definitely facing major crisis.

"I was wondering if you received my letter for inspection," asked Umbridge stupidly as Minerva looked at the daft woman in front of her.

"'Obviously I received it, or I would have asked you what you are doing in my classroom!" replied Minerva as sharply as she could, Audrey held back her laughter and so did many other students, even Hermione bit her lips with a tiny smirk on her face while Ron's snigger was heard the loudest.

"Right—as I was saying,"

"Hem Hem!"

"I wonder-?" began Minerva as Umbridge began to say something but was quickly cut in my Minerva.

"—How are you supposed to assess my performance if you keep interrupting me," said Minerva snarkily as the Gryffindors thoroughly enjoyed the class.

Thankfully Umbridge did not follow Minerva when she was looking at the spells the students had performed. But at the end of class she did ask Minerva some question that she had asked Flitwick.

"And how long have you been in this post?" asked Umbridge as Minerva looked at her sharply before answering.

"I will complete thirty nine years this December," said Minerva as she began packing her

"And do you think you got this post because the headmaster is your husband?" asked Umbridge as Minerva looked taken aback by this. The exiting class which obviously had Audrey and her friends at the end stopped moving to listen to this very interestedly.

"No, I met my husband after I became a teacher here, Professor Dippet was the one who offered me the job," said Minerva loudly and as sternly as she could manage as Umbridge smiled and nodded understandingly.

"And what wand do you have?" asked Umbridge.

"13 and half willow wood with essence of unicorn horn and dragon eye as the core," finished Minerva rudely as she snapped her bag shut.

'Very well,' she said, 'you will receive the results of your inspection in ten days' time.'

'I can hardly wait,' said Professor McGonagall, in a coldly indifferent voice. Umbridge smiled and scribbled something into her clipboard as she pushed her way through the crowd and her stout pink figure seen blatantly in the crowd of black robes.

Audrey made her way down to the dungeons after lunch, since she was the first to finish her scanty meal she bid her friends goodbye promising to get a good seat. On her way there she heard rather loud arguing from outside the corridor near the great hall.

"You shouldn't have snapped at her Minerva it is high time you take your anger under control!" said Albus sounding highly annoyed and tired.

"I can't help it if she makes my blood boil Albus," snarled Minerva as she rolled her eyes angrily.

"Minerva enough—I am really in no mood!" snapped Albus loudly as Audrey jumped on the spot startled. She had never seen her grandfather grow so angry, the worst part was that Audrey knew nor had her grandmother. She looked at him shocked; she felt alone, she felt like no one even had the patience to listen to her anymore. Audrey could see her grandmother gulp down sobs and when Minerva passed the tiny little corner Audrey had squeezed herself into she saw that her grandmother had tears rolling down her cheeks as she ran from that spot, Audrey was hurt, she didn't know why, but she felt bad for her, she too wanted to cry and when she turned to look at where her grandfather was standing she noticed him let out a rather loud sigh, she knew that he was aware of that fact that he had wronged his wife. Audrey knew they'd be alright but there was always the lingering notion of them separating seeing how aloof her grandfather had become recently, he didn't even smile at her anymore, it hurt her sometimes but then she always had her father.

"Damn it Minerva—why do I love you so much!" Audrey heard him curse himself as he made his way to her office he knew he'd find her there, she knew her grandmother would forgive him and so Audrey prayed for the best and squeezed out of the tiny hiding spot and made her way to the dungeons.

When Audrey entered the dungeons and then the potions classroom, she noticed that she wasn't the only one there, she saw Draco talking to her father about remedial potions. He jumped and growled softly when he heard Audrey walk in. She noticed him sweat over something that looked like a rather badly brewed healing salve but she did not say much and she threw him a final glance and pushed her bag onto her work station as she pulled out her homework along with her measuring scales and ingredient box along with a small black notebook and her quill and ink bottle.

She noticed her father look at her a little surprised, she knew he was wondering why she was so early, did she need to talk to him or had she skipped lunch again?

"Show me your potion Draco," said Severus smoothly as Draco moved over from his boiling cauldron and let the potions master take a look at what he had been practicing.

Draco could hear a definite sigh in his potion master's voice as the man looked at his potion and smelt it.

"You are improving but not as well as I would have liked Draco," said Severus as Draco slumped a little and then started to pack his ingredients and clear out his cauldron into the nearby basin.

"Another class would be necessary—Halloween would suffice," said Severus as Draco groaned and slammed his head into the work station. When he did that Audrey looked up at his rather distastefully.

"But the first Hogsmeade trip is on Halloween," whined Draco as Severus looked at him pointedly as he raised his eyebrows at the boy in front of him.

"Really? It is for you to decide what you wish to do Mr. Malfoy enjoy your day out or fail your potions OWL—I will let you think about it," said Severus sternly as Draco pouted and sighed like a spoilt little boy, degrading Severus mood, not that it needed any help. Draco then snapped his head at Audrey when he heard her mutter under her breath as she scribbled something into her book.

"Brat!"

"You have something to say Ms. Snape?" asked Severus sternly as Audrey pushed her head up, a rather big smirk sat on Draco's face as he heard Audrey being chastised by her father, who seemed to be have been showing nothing but resentment towards her every class and around the corridors. It hadn't gone unnoticed by Draco or the rest of Hogwarts as to how Snape treated Audrey, he hadn't handed out detentions to her but cutting of points, cold comments and Gryffindor treatment had become a usual thing for them.

Audrey shrugged and shook her head nonchalantly as she went back to her work after a cold glare from her father. She couldn't help but think of how deserving he was of an award, she thought if he was muggle he'd definitely make a perfect actor, even though he wasn't handsome enough, his voice and figure would be more than sufficient. Audrey smiled to herself and couldn't help but laugh at that thought.

Audrey and Draco were soon joined by the rest of their class as Harry sat down next to Audrey and pulled out his essay and other necessities.

"Why is Snape in a foul mood?" asked Harry frowning as Audrey told him about Draco doing badly in potions and how she had walked in on his remedial potions class. Harry frowned a little and then nodded; he wondered when they were going to force him in taking remedial potions seeing that he was possibly worse than Draco.

"Ms. Parkinson please collect the homework and hand these out," drawled Snape as he handed a batch of papers to Pansy who readily did the work. While handing out last times homework, Pansy gave Audrey her parchment and then shuffled for Harry's and gleamed at him. Audrey noticed a 'P' on his essay, he had gotten a poor in his assignment, well that wasn't as bad as what she saw in front of her, a royal 'D' sat on top of her essay. Audrey scowled, a 'D' in potions was impossible, however hard she tried to fail in the subject, she couldn't possibly manage even a 'P' but a ' D', what the bloody hell was going on here? But as Audrey skimmed through her essay she noticed that this rubbish wasn't hers, she did not think crushed Moonstone was used in making Dittany and she was sure that she hadn't written that in her essay either. She noticed that the handwriting on the parchment wasn't hers either, it was way more neater and classier than hers could ever be, Audrey wrote in a web like script, words were never separate from each other, her handwriting always slanted towards the left and was quite sharp at the edges as Audrey for some reason refused to write in curves even though her mother had tried her level best in making Audrey practice curves.

"Umm...Sir, this is not my essay," said Audrey raising her hand while she scrawled at the parchment in her hand. Severus frowned and walked up to her, took the parchment from her hand and flipped to the insides as he went through it quickly and reached the name in the end.

"Mr. Malfoy—," he called slowly as Draco turned to look at him, smiling at the grade he had gotten on his parchment.

"Yes Sir?" asked Draco showing off his grade to Millicent and Pansy as they both smiled for him, knowing how hard Draco tried to score well in Potions.

"I don't think that is your assignment," said Snape simply as Draco's smile fell instantly as Pansy looked rather hurt.

"It is mine sir—I got an 'E'" said Draco as Hermione frowned, she had gotten an 'A' how could Draco possibly manage an 'E' he was worse that Neville.

"Then why does your parchment have my name on it?" sneered Audrey pointing to the end of her parchment at her name, Draco glared at her as she glared back at him.

"Here," said Draco embarrassedly handing Audrey her essay back as she gave him his own parchment back.

"Alright settle down," said Snape dangerously as the class grew as quite as they could possibly, not one moved when Snape spoke as a sharp knock on the dungeon door averted everyone's attention, they would here Snape sneer vehemently as he angrily pulled the door open.

"Good Afternoon Professor Snape, I apologize for my tardiness," smiled Umbridge from the door, as Ron sniggered from behind.

"This is going to be fun," he said as Dean and Neville agreed, Audrey saw Hermione roll her eyes and shake her head. Audrey had to agree with Ron though, after her grandmother had tried to snub Umbridge, she wanted to see her father try and then of coarse if both failed, there was always Sirius, but everyone just wanted to see whether Umbridge tried to feel him up like she had tried her hand at it one time in the great hall in front of the whole school as she had tried to reach for the salt purposely brushing his most sensitive area in his pants, or like the time she spilled Meade all over his pants and tried to wipe it away making Sirius yelp and look like had just been scarred and molested, making Sinistra look at her like she was imagining her death by her hands.

Audrey noticed that her father did not say anything but an expression of indifference sat on his pale face as he let the toad in. He then walked up to the blackboard and began scribbling something on it.

"Strengthening Potion, 250 gms crushed Pomegranate, ½ tbs measures of standard formula..."

" You are to brew this during the lesson—you will find the recipe in your textbooks and the ingredients on the board—begin," snapped Severus as his eyes roamed the class as the students got busy reading the recipe in the text book marking things and beginning their potion. He noticed his daughter crushing the pomegranate seeds first and extracting the juice seeing that the liquid would react quicker to the standard formula and heat along with the other ingredients. Smart girl, he thought a little proudly as everyone began crushing their seeds and dumping them into the cauldrons along with the seeds and the crushed residue. He went and quietly sat down at his desk as he noticed through the corner of his eye that Umbridge went around the room looking at everyone's potions, he saw her stop at Audrey whose book was shut. Umbridge seemed rather surprised.

"Ms. Snape why is your book shut—don't you need the recipe?" asked Umbridge aghast that the girl might just blow up the room.

"No," said Audrey simply as she ignored Umbridge in front of her.

"What do you mean No!" snarled Umbridge as she glared at the girl.

"I know the recipe," said Audrey simply.

"But—you can't possibly know this recipe," snarled Umbridge rather aggressively as Audrey looked at her a little worriedly. Umbridge snatched Audrey's shut textbook and forced it open and pushed the pages open to the strengthening potion.

"Go on," said Umbridge as Audrey looked at her a little taken aback, her eyes went to her father for some support as he frowned and shrugged slightly. So Audrey began narrating the recipe to make a strengthening potion as Umbridge's eyes went from word to word over the page. She shut the book and glared at Audrey. A few people in class blinked unbelievable, Audrey had said the whole recipe note to note—it was as if she had brewed it way more than anyone else in the world.

"Five points from Gryffindor—keep your eye in the book!" snarled Umbridge angrily as she slammed the book on Audrey's work station, spilling half her potion out of the cauldron.

Audrey clenched her jaws as her hands curled into fist, she could hear several Slytherine's laughing within themselves as tears of anger threatened to fall out of her eyes.

"Forget it," muttered Harry under his breath as he looked at her as softly as he could, Audrey gulped and shook her head intensely as the tears in her eyes vanished.

Class ended as everyone deposited their vials of potions onto Snape's desk as Audrey went to place her vial Umbridge who was standing there and speaking to her father glared at her, she glared back as Umbridge took a rather sharp intake of air in indignation. Audrey did an about turn but that didn't mean she wasn't listening in, she acted like she was packing her bag as Harry returned and did the same, Ron went with his vial as he tried to place it behind Audrey's.

"Your wand is?"

"Fourteen and a quarter inches mixture of willow and birch with essence of ebony leaves and hippogriff feathers,"

"And you've been in this post how long?"

"Fifteen years next January,"

"And you applied first for the post of defence against dark arts professor?"

"Yes"

"But you were unsuccessful?"

"Obviously!"

Ron couldn't help but laugh loudly as Audrey and Harry laughed with him as Umbridge left and the bunch of parchment that came crashing into the back of Ron's head.

"Hi, Harry," said someone from behind as Harry was leaving the great hall, he turned to see Cho Chang standing there waving at him, he smiled at her, looked rather stupid with that smile on his face, the one he normally had when he saw her. She walked up to him and spoke to him about quidditch related things, but he couldn't pay fewer minds to it. He had always had a huge crush on her ever since his third year but he had never acted on it. Last year, she had been dating Cedric and she had yet been Harry's first choice for the Yule ball, it was because she was already committed to Cedric that Harry had to ask Audrey out, seeing that he thought they could keep each other good company. So now that Cho wasn't committed to anyone, his feelings for her returned with a sharp jolt.

"But you like Audrey"

"But we're only friends—she keeps reminding me,"

"But you need to act up,"

"But Snape would kill me,"

"But you like her,"

"I like Cho,"

"Suit yourself!"

"Do you want to go to Hogsmeade with me this Halloween?" Cho asked Harry snapping him out of the conversation he was having with himself.

"Sure—I'll see at the three broomsticks then?" he asked her as she nodded and smiled at him.

"See you Harry," she said saying her goodbyes and walking down the corridor to her common room, leaving Harry smiling to himself.

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