Hermione's Unlucky Day
Harry, Hermione, and Ron had quite a hard time getting to know the castle. They were, to Hermione's disappointment, late to 3 of their classes, but were excused. The three entered History of Magic class fully energetic, came out two yawning and one full of energy, not to mention notes. "What a interesting lesson, who knew magic was so feared in the medieval times!" Hermione babbled and continued even though Harry and Ron were staring at her as if she was mad.
"Great gods, we're going to be late for potions," Ron said looking at his wristwatch. It had two hands, one with the words "to be at" and the other saying "here" and the "to be at" was nearing potions. They ran as fast as they could, they ran so much they couldn't even see where they were heading. The next place they noticed was the Great Hall, which was the place they started at before.
"Harry, Hermione, Ron, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in class?" Nick appeared out of nowhere on the ground. This startled them, which please him very much.
"We can't find out way to the dungeons Sir Nicholas."
"Exit through that door and you should see several stairs to your left, take the one furthest east down the stairs and then head to your right, the dungeon should be within a minutes walk from there," Sir Nicholas said tipping his head as a gesture of goodbye.
"Thank you!" They said in unison and ran in the directions Nick gave them. In no time, they found the dungeons and a very happy Snape. "Sorry professor, Harry/ Hermione needed to use the bathroom - I mean I -couldn't just leave Harry/Hermione." They were wishing one of them would shut up, so the story would seem real, God however, didn't seem to be on their side of the field.
"Even came up with a story, eh, Potter, Granger. It does seem that children of troublemakers and fame don't mix, do they." Snape grinned like the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. If Harry and Hermione didn't have such a strong friendship, they would have been at the other's throats. "Detention both of you... Level Four punishment." Snape's grin was growing in width a mile a minute as Harry and Hermione cowered at the last three words.
The school had a new policy of punishment thanks to Snape and Filch. After many debate, Dumbledore finally agreed that teachers of other houses were allowed to punish students accordingly and fairly of their crimes. Harry and Hermione's crimes were being late "on purpose" and trying to lie to a teacher while looking at him straight in the eye. Since no teacher could judge how awful the crime was, the heads of houses were to be fair and not to go beyond their jurisdiction. The lowest punishment was level one, where the student must write lines like those that a muggle school would punish. Next was level two, where the parents would be warned by owl, and left the punishment to them. Level three punishment is probation of leaving the tower none other than to eat or go to class. Level Four punishment was extreme, it has been rumored that Filch purposely pour slugs all over trophies, medals, plaques, and memorials, and the one whom is punished much clean all the items in the trophy rooms the muggle style. Level 5 was extreme, and the student must leave campus under suspension, but this level of punishment must be given proof before it could be handed to a student. Expulsion was still under heads of the certain houses to Snape's disappointment.
Hermione was pacing around the Gryffindor Common Room mumbling in anger. "Hermione, for the five-hundred-forty-eighth time, I'm sorry. Now would you please stop and calm down? Detention is not until tomorrow Saturday evening. Now can you just sit and relax?"
"Sit and relax? How can I sit and relax? Level Four detentions Harry, this is going to stay in my permanent record for sure, I will never be a decent witch. Do you want to know how I got this punishment? It is because my worthless jerk of a friend couldn't keep his mouth shut!" Hermione screamed at the top of her lungs. Harry was so shocked he couldn't even come up with anything to throw back at her; instead, he just got up and left for the boys' dormitories. Hermione sat by window peering outside it waiting for Harry's comeback, but nothing came, she glared behind her expecting him to be glaring back, only to find him heading up the stairs.
"Wait Harry."
"Oh don't let this WORTHLESS JERK get in your way of your record." Harry shouted continuing up the stairs not even looking down. "Unless you need this WORTHLESS JERK to scream at some more, I have no business down there."
"I didn't mean for the words to."
"Hurt me? Oh, I'm touched." Harry interrupted and slammed the door of this dorm.
".Come out that way." Hermione said silently and sat by the fire staring down on her lap crying until she fell asleep.
No matter how Hermione treats him, Harry would always find her as a friend. He spent half an hour tossing and turning in bed, trying to get some sleep, but ended up surrendering to his guilt and went back down to the common room hoping Hermione left for her dorms. He went down cursing his luck that she was still in there, but also thanking it for she was still asleep. He sat on the couch that was quite far from where Hermione was sleep and stared into the fire. He later noticed her shivering in her sleep and he then cursed his gentlemen ways and went up to his room to get a blanket for he was still unable to transfigure one out of thin air. He covered her completely with the blanket and sat back at the couch.
He noticed her shiver clamed down and he then felt cold, he edged toward the fire for some warmth rather than to disturb her. He stared into the fire deep at thought, trying to think of the best way to punish her for calling him a worthless jerk (A/n: believe me, all guys first think of revenge before thinking of forgiving or forget). He decided to give her the silent treatment which was known as the best way of showing anger without truly hurting the other's feelings.
"We are to find out what our punishment is in a few hours, and it's time for breakfast, your stomach's been growling all morning (A/n: Yes, thank you for correcting me)," Harry said as grumpily as he could while trying to hold back a smile.
*Seems like he is still mad at me, at least he is still talking to me,* Hermione couldn't have been more wrong. Harry was only doing this because he just didn't want her to get into more trouble by not turning up. Hermione smiled and went up to her dorms to take a quick shower and change. She came back down to the common room to find it several morning students but no sign of Harry. *Must be really hungry,* she thought and left for the Great Hall. Harry began to eat as fast as he could and left the table before Hermione could sit, "Are you avoiding me?" She asked, but he just ignored her. He left for the staff's table and headed toward Professor Snape whom gave him a sheet of paper and used the banishing charm to send the other slip to Hermione.
Just as the rumors predicted, her slip said to clean the trophy room. Surprisingly, only one trophy was dirty and was hardly one wipe, but level four detentions were supposed to be at least three hours long, if they finished early, they would then have another task. Hermione found it strange that she was alone and Harry was nowhere in sight, she just shrugged it off guessing he is probably at the bathroom or something. Just as the three hours were about to be over, she began to get suspicious, and looked at her detention slip once more. As if by magic, her sheet now said Mop Whole North Tower, it wasn't supposed to change unless the teacher told the paper to do so… *Snape!* She thought and ran to the North Tower as fast as she could.
When she got there, the first nine floors were already sparkly clean and Harry was almost done with the tenth. "Oh look, the witch who believes someone worthless should do all the work for him," Harry shot bitterly and made the final touch to the tenth floor and the mops and buckets disappeared from sight. He didn't even care bout the silent treatment anymore and stormed past her before she could say anything, like the mops and buckets, he disappeared from sight.
"Well done Ms. Granger, extra credit points for working alone, not that you need them as much as Potter though," Professor Snape said coming down from the Divination room. His smile was so wicked it was nauseating.
"Congratulations Hermione, now you should know how Columbus feels when he took credit for discovering America, you know, I defended you when you were called selfish, mean, and bossy. Now, I don't know whose side I'm on anymore." Harry said to her and he went up to his dormitories.
>->->->->Sorry if this seems somewhat sad, what am I thinking 'somewhat', I mean really sad. I got this idea from a friend who said all guys are jerks. Well, thanks to you all for reviewing, I appreciate the reviews all of you have to give ^^ <-<-<-<-<