New chapter, (no crap, duh), new character introductions, more profanity reduction, there might even be a little bit of seduction, so drop anything that might be productive and waste your life away reading what I wrote today, let me hear a thought from you and drop me a review, tell me your thoughts about Hannah, correct my grammar, and let me know if you want to be in this story too.
Honestly I'm just not entirely sober and I felt like writing a rap. But anyway, enjoy this chapter.
Monday approached fast enough. The morning starting with Snape muttering under his breath his hatred toward Umbridge, with her being appointed as High Inquisitor yesterday. On the weekend Mcgonagall had agreed to help Hannah with Transfiguration, and organized a potential student tutor from Hufflepuff.
The school day started with potions, thankfully. Hannah was paired with Adrian as usual, and the lesson went by without being scolded for the first time. Although Snape wasn't favouring her, he for once left her and Adrian alone, and spent the whole lesson scolding Fred and George instead.
The next lesson was transfiguration. As she arrived, Mcgonagall pulled Hannah out of the classroom, along with another student. "Hannah, this is Danielle Ingram, Danielle, this is Hannah Byron. I will be pairing you two up from now on. Danielle has been the most excelling student in transfiguration in this year group, therefore I think it most appropriate for her to be your tutor." Hannah looked up at Dani, who was about a head taller, with short brown curly hair. She couldn't possibly have seen a more friendly face in her entire life. Dani looked back towards Hannah, in a way that almost looked sisterly. "I will leave you two out of the ordinary lesson today, to revisit the older spells that we have covered in previous lessons. I'll see you both when the lesson has finished." Mcgonagall smiled at Hannah, then winked at Dani, before leaving them in the corridor.
Dani lead Hannah to a nearby empty classroom, where she dropped a pile of books onto the desk. "My God I'm glad we can skip that class. I honestly hate having lessons with Slytherins." She looked at Hannah, half forgetting she was a Slytherin too. "I mean like, not all Slytherins, just like t.."
"The intimidating ones." Hannah completed her sentence.
"Yeah. Some of those guys freak me out, especially Snape and that. And then there's the people like Cassius who is just a right clown." Dani sat down on a chair and chucked her legs up on a desk, as she grabbed a book from the pile. "I don't really know how much you know, so we'll just stuff around with the first year spells then work our way up." Dani flicked through her book, found a page, then slammed the book on the table, grabbed her wand, then stood up over enthusiastically. "Half of the spells in this book need an animal, and I really hate using real animals so I'll just conjure one for the time." Dani pointed her wand at a desk and turned it into a rat. "This one we learnt in first year was to turn a rodent into a water goblet. It seems kind of useless actually, I've never had to use it, but I'm assuming she'd ask you to demonstrate it for her." Dani pointed her wand at the rat, tapped three times, and then voiced, "Vera verto." The rat turned graciously into a water goblet. Hannah got the hang of the spell easily enough with the first time of trying. Dani proceeded to flick through her transfiguration book. "Yeah most of these spells are kind of useless unless you wanted to push a cow onto a cruise ship."
An hour and 20 spells later, the bell sounded for the end of class. They made their way back to the classroom to wait for Mcgonagall. They arrived and Mcgonagall lead them both into the classroom. "My expectations aren't too high at the present time for you Miss Byron, but I trust that Miss Ingram's tutoring was sufficient enough for a few basics." She walked to her desk and turned a quill into a rat. "I'm going to assume that Miss Ingram taught you the rodent to water goblet spell, am I correct?" Hannah nodded in response. "Very well, please demonstrate, Miss Byron." Hannah transfigured the rat perfectly the first time round. Mcgonagall smiled brightly at both Dani and Hannah, obviously pleased with the outcome. "Very well, I'll be sure to set further work for you in the future, but for now I'm sure your efforts have been sufficient enough. You may go." Hannah and Dani both headed for the door, Dani grabbed the door handle first, and kept her hand there. "Hannah, if you want to hang out or anything, you'll most likely find me in the library." Dani looked at Hannah with the sisterly look.
"Thanks." Hannah replied, unsure how she felt about the request. They then left the room, Dani went in one direction, Hannah turned in the other, to see Adrian had been waiting outside the door the whole time. Hannah gave a weak smile up at Adrian, he gave a weak smile back.
"Alright there, startled, surprised?" Adrian joked.
"A little." Hannah replied, honestly.
"Had fun? I would've been glad to get out of that noisy classroom."
"I hardly think I escaped the noise. The girl alone could fill the Great Hall with chatter." Hannah replied sarcastically. "She's nice enough, though. Better than a whole class." The two continued to talk through until double Herbology.
The day went fast enough, up until their last class, charms. The lesson was interfered by Umbridge trotting in, sniffing around the classroom for mistakes like a hungry rat. She complained about everything from the size of the teacher to the colour of the curtains. "I don't believe red is a sufficient colour for curtains, I believe white is more appropriate for a learning environment. I am more than disappointed in your lack of effort to attain a sufficient learning environment. I hardly think it is necessary to practice spells, Filius, I am sure that theoretic learning would be adequate." She continued to lurk around the classroom, examining from the ceiling to the students. Her eyes fixed on Hannah, "I believe I'll be seeing you in detention tonight, too, Miss Byron."
That night, Hannah went to Umbridge's office, waiting outside also was Harry Potter. "Detention?" Harry asked.
"No, I actually quite like visiting the cow for cups of tea." Hannah joked. Harry smiled widely.
"You must be Hannah? Fred and George told me a bit about you. Said you wound her up a bit the other day." Harry asked, obviously amused by the behaviour of the Slytherin. Hannah nodded in return. The door then opened to Umbridge standing, with her head held high.
"Come in." She squealed unbearably. She watched as Harry and Hannah sat down on opposite ends of her desk. "Mr Potter, the usual, Miss Byron, you will be writing down, 'My opinion is worthless'."
"Which one of your opinions?" Hannah joked. Umbridge rounded up on Hannah.
"Miss Byron, I will not take any of your cheek. You will write down, the words, 'My opinion is worthless', and you will do so without a word, or else you will receive much worse than lines." Umbridge huffed then sat back at her desk, writing down notes ferociously on a piece of parchment. Hannah proceeded to write her lines. She felt her own words tearing at her skin, but didn't mind. She felt the pain that she knew she deserved. She felt the pain she had always gone out of her way to receive. She felt the pain that she wanted to give Umbridge.
At midnight she made her way down to Snape's quarters, where he was waiting impatiently at his desk. "It's far past your curfew." Snape drawled.
"I had detention, you know that." Harry returned.
"I hardly think detention would've taken 4 hours, Miss Byron." Snape's voice dripped with disappointment.
"Ask Umbridge." Hannah replied, trying to keep her annoyance out of her voice. She tried to walk past Snape's desk into her room, but instead Snape snatched her arm.
"What's this?" Snape asked, his disappointment still in his voice. His eyes lingered on the torn flesh of her hand.
"I told you, detention." Snape's expression turned to complete anger.
"Umbridge did this to you?" Snape questioned, disapprovingly.
"Loosely, yes. It doesn't really matter in the end. I earned the detention." Hannah stood, staring at Snape.
"It's against the wizard schooling laws to use physical abuse on students as punishment, Miss Byron."
"She technically didn't touch me, it was a quill."
"An illegal quill nevertheless. Does the cut hurt?" Snape dropped his angry and disappointed voice as he looked back at the cut.
"Nothing I can't bear." Hannah replied. Snape opened some of the draws of his desk and pulled out a familiar vial.
"Murtlap Essence, put some on. I'll have a word with Dumbledore in the morning about Umbridge. You may go to your room."
Hannah laid in her bed, unable to sleep. She looked at her cat drawing. The cat was sitting up, looking wide awake, yet unmoving.
Adrian laid in his bed, unable to sleep. He looked at his cat. Ligo was sitting up, looking wide awake, yet unmoving.
Thank youuuuuuuuuu for readddiinnngg. If you were confused about the pushing a cow onto a cruise line, that is absolutely fine, it's just a little bit of an inside joke of my friend and mine.
Honestly I should just drop this whole writing thing and become a rapper.
Anyway, if you were to drop a review, that'd be great. If you'd like to be a part of this story, like my friend Dani, just leave a review or PM telling me the name of your character, year, house, and a short description of your appearance and personality.
Thanks and all that good stuff. Next chapter shouldn't be too far away.
