Two o'clock. Advance Potions room was filled with fear. Hermione looked over at Draco, who was sitting with Blaise, of course, nervously.
'Don't worry.' he mouthed to her.
She nodded and tried to smile. He smiled back and looked back to the front of the classroom.
'I'm so scared.' she said to Harry who was sitting next to her.
'Don't be.' he replied smiling.
She looked up at Lavender, who was not sitting next to Parvati, but next to Ron. Hermione smiled to herself as she watched them talk. She noticed Parvati sitting next to her twin. She also looked over to the other side of the room. Pansy and Lana were whispering and staring at Draco. Crabbe and Goyle were whispering and staring at Lana.
Hermione rolled her eyes and felt proud to be Draco's girl, rather than the sluts lusting after him.
Professor Snape's booming voice through off her concentration on the other side of the room.
'There are strong anti-cheating charms on these tests.' he called as he passed out a thick pile of scrolls to each student. 'If I see or hear anyone talk or look at another student during the test, you will be given a failing grade.'
Hermione took her test from him and stared at it. She felt her hands sweat, the quill in her hand sliding around.
She wrote her name carefully and looked at the first question.
#1: What potion gives you the appearance of someone else for a short time? And what ingredients are needed?
Hermione sighed happily. She knew this question well.
She wrote, Polyjuice Potion: lacewing flies, leeches, powdered bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed, boomslang skin, and a bit of who you want to turn into, in neat cursive.
She smiled and kept going with the test.
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An hour and a half later she finished. Her wrist hurt like a brick was thrown on it from writing so much. And she knew she probably expanded a little too much on each question, but rather be safe than sorry, she told herself. She looked over the test two or three times for good measure, then rose from her seat.
She walked up to the front of the room and placed her test on Snape's desk. He didn't even look up from his large book when she approached. She turned and saw a good number of people were still taking their tests.
'Good.' she thought, 'I'm not the last one.'
She looked at Ron. He was not even halfway through the test.
'Poor Ron.' she thought.
It wasn't two seconds after Hermione sat down, when Draco stood up. He walked up to Snape's desk. Snape looked up from his book.
'Very good, Draco. How do you feel you did?'
'Good. Hard questions, though, made even me second guess myself on a few.' Draco smirked.
'I'm glad.' Snape said, almost smiling.
'Stupid favorite...' Hermione thought to herself. 'Not only does Snape acknowledge Draco, he asks him how he did as well...stupid suck-up.'
She almost laughed out loud as she realized she was talking snottily about her fiancee. Draco wasn't her stupid, bullying, suck-up enemy any more.
As Draco turned and walked back to his and Blaise's desk he looked back at Hermione and smiled. She smiled back. He blew her a quick, sultry kiss and his eyes looked at her seductively. She giggled quietly and blushed. She then licked her lips enticingly. His eyes widened and smiled excitedly. He finally sat down. She smiled to herself as she writhed her hands eagerly. She then felt eyes on her. She turned to see Harry staring at her with laughter in his eyes. Her eyes widened and felt her cheeks pink. He shook his head jokingly and continued with his test.
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At 4:00 PM, Snape let the class out. A sigh of relief filled the halls as the students filed out.
'How'd you do Harry?' Hermione asked.
'Okay I guess, you?'
'Good.' she smiled.
'How was that tempting Malfoy goin' for ya?' Harry chuckled.
She hit him hard.
'Ow.' he winced, still laughing.
'Shut up, Harry.' she said blushing. Ron then caught up with them, followed closely by Lavender and Parvati.
'That was so fucking hard.' he cried, 'I barely finished in time.'
'Oh come now Ron, it wasn't THAT hard.' Harry sighed.
'I'll be lucky to pull of an A.'
'Acceptable? That's not too bad.' Parvati chimed in.
'That's borderline passing.' Lavender explained.
'Oh.' Parvati blushed.
'You'll do better than that, Ron.' Lavender smiled, 'I have confidence in you.'
'Thanks.' he smiled, ears reddening a bit.
Hermione caught this and smiled.
'Ron's finally going for Lavender again.' she thought happily
'Well, I have to go study up for Tranfiguration tomorrow.' Hermione said.
'Trangfiguration? You don't have to study for that, Hermione. It's your easiest class.'
'I still need to study.' she called running up the steps.
She ran into her room and jumped onto her bed, very happy that her Potions test was over. She went to her desk to retrieve her books and saw a folded note. She took it and opened it.
Hermione-
I was wondering if you could help me study for Transfiguration, you know i'm not that good. Could you come to my room around 6-ish? I'd appreciate it.
-Draco
She smiled. She was surprised, however, nothing about 'messing around' or anything. He must really need help, she decided. She looked at her wall clock. 5:45 PM. She gathered her things and set them next to the door. She felt a chill, Hogwarts must have the air conditioning wayyy up. She took of her beater and put on a white zip-up sweatshirt that she zipped up til no cleavage showed. She didn't want Draco to get distracted.
She grabbed her bookbag and left the Gryffindor tower. She heard much celebration down in the great hall. 'Probably the Potions students celebrating that it's over.' she thought.
She went to the Slytherin tower and said, 'Snakes and Spiders' to the portrait. It opened quickly. She stepped in, there were a few Slytherin students in there, most not studying, not unusual. They looked at her, not effected, they were used to seeing her. It didn't phase them really. Draco was still their king, which made what ever girl he was with okay in their minds...well most of them. Exceptions are made to every rule. She thought immediately of Lana, Pansy, Goyle and Crabbe.
'Is Draco in his room?' Hermione asked Blaise, who was talking to Theodore Nott.
'I think so. It's been really quiet in there, he's probably freaking out about his Trans test tomorrow.' he replied. 'Stupid git. Study? Ha!'
She shook her head and went to Draco's room.
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