Chapter 4 - Detention
"That's all I remember," Harry said looking away from my eyes, I laughed at him as I pulled his chin up so my eyes would meet his again.
"Okay, can I tell you the rest now then?" I asked him and he nodded.
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After potions with Snape, Harry, his friends and me all had to stay back for our detention. Granger and Weasley, kept staring daggers at me, most likely blaming me for missing lunch and getting a detention for all of us. But it’s not like Harry and Weasley don’t get their trio into trouble all the time.
“Today’s detention you four must make potions to bring to Madam Pomfrey. These must be made correctly, there will be no talking or child’s play. I have other important things to do, so you must behave while I am gone or all of you will receive another three weeks detention,” Snape said in his usual cold slow tone.
We got given the type of potions to make and how big the batch was to be, then Snape left the classroom.
"Hey Harry, mate, where are you going?" Weasley questioned as he started walking over to me.
"Well Malfoy can't be expected to make his potion by himself, there is three of us," Unfortunately for Harry everyone knew I would be fine making my potion by myself. I was touched that he wanted to spend time with me even while his friends where in the room though.
"I'll be fine Potter," I said with a snarl, “Unlike you lot, I am capable of doing things on my own,”
"Fine then, sorry for the offer," he said with his hands up and defensive. Shit, I fucked up there, I’ll have to talk to him about that later.
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“Yeah! Why did you do that Draco,” Harry butted in, “I just wanted to spend some time with you and hopefully stop Ron from doing something stupid, but NO! Draco Malfoy can do it on his own,”
“Oh, for Merlins sake Harry, we had an act to keep up and that wasn’t going to happen if you helped build my potion,” Draco quipped, “Now in hindsight that may have prevented your situation,”
“Yes that! How much longer until you tell me what happened,” Harry whined, Merlin why do I love this man.
“I am just about to tell you, if you would let me finish,” I said looking at my boyfriend, a smile forming on my face from his impatience and interruptions thus far.
“Oh!” he was blushing now, “Right, ah... Sorry, continue,” he said waving his hand and scratching the back of his neck.
“Why thank you for the permission,” I said and kissed him before continuing.
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I was cutting up my next lot of ingredients for my potion, just crossing the halfway brewing mark, and I could feel eyes on the back of my neck. I thought it may be Harry, but when I turned to look it was his friends, that had been looking at me all last lesson on most of this detention. When I turned back around, I heard a splash in my potion, and when I turned to see what it was, there was a shoe in my potion, why?
“Fuck!” I said pulling the shoe out of my potion, “Quit messing around Weasley, are you stupid,” It didn’t seem like anything happened to my potion, and Snape would kill me if I didn’t finish so I kept going.
Turned out a scolding from Granger didn’t stop him, as he threw more things into my potion, going against my best intentions I threw something at theirs, nothing harmful, just to get them wet. It worked and while I was laughing, Weasley throw one last thing into my potion before Harry yelled out from the potion's cabinet, he apparently walked over too.
"What the fuck are you two doing," he looked very unimpressed.
"He started it," Weasley pointed at me.
“I don’t care Ron, you know better than to throw things into potions, and ‘Mione just told you to stop,” he said walking over, “Now, Ron get over to Malfoy cauldron and help me get everything out,” Why does he have to be so hot when he is bossy, Merlin!
"No Potter it's fine, I can get Weasley rubbish out on my own," I said pushing his hands out the way.
"Merlin Malfoy, we can clean up our own mess," He shoves me backwards and then reached into my cauldron, that's when it exploded.
I was surprised by the power the explosion had, it knocked me over, sent glass bottle crashing to the floor, books fell, the lights flickered, and chairs and tables wobbled. With the light dimmer than usual, it was hard to see, smoke filled the room from my cauldron and when I started to stand my head spun. On the other side of the room Granger was also catching her own head spin. When I looked around it was a mess, if we started now, we could clean it with magic and then transfigure the glasses back before Snape came.
“Harry? Ron?” I heard Granger call, that’s when I realised, I couldn’t see either of them. Granger and I heard it at the same time, a small cry coming from beside my cauldron. We bother raced over avoiding the furnisher, when we got there, I was not ready for the shock.
Sitting in front of us was a young Harry and Weasley, drowning in their school uniform, both looking no older than 5 or 6.
Apon seeing what I saw Granger gasped and put her hand on her mouth. "Oh my!"
They both looked terrified, lucky no glass was near them, but Snape would be back any minute and he would walk in on this disaster. While I spiralled Granger had bent down to be on their level and gesturing I do the same.
“Hey guy, my name is Hermione Granger,” she said pointing to herself, meaning she already established an understanding that they didn’t know who we were, “And this is Draco Malfoy, can you both tell me your names?” Wow she was good with kids, I wonder if Harry is good with children, I am okay but not amazing, thank you Father.
“My name is Ron Weasley,” he said pointing to himself, we then turned our head to Harry, waiting for a name.
“Harry Potter,” he whispered that I only caught it because I was actively listening.
“Ron how old are you?” Granger asked him.
“I am five,” he said holding up 5 fingers, and putting them in Granger's face.
“Harry, how old are you?” she asked trying to keep him included, but before he could answer Snape walked back into his classroom.
It wasn’t a good sight too see, the room was a mess and Granger, and I were crouched down on the other side of the room. Snape walked quickly over to us nearly fainting at the sight of a child version of Harry and Ron.
“Fucking hell! What happened here!” Snape yelled, his eyes flicking around the room in horror. I saw Harry flinch at the scream, and my heart broke, before granger took my attention by talking to Snape.
“There was an accident professor, a potion exploded, it throw Malfoy and I against the wall and turned Harry and Ron into,” She the gestured to the pair of them.
“Get them to Madam Pomfrey immediately Granger, and Malfoy you stay here and help me clean up this mess,” Snape said whipping out his wand, still very angry.
“But professor I can’t carry both the boys at once,” Granger said with Weasley on her hip.
“They’re old enough to walk on their own,” Snape said staring cleaning the mess.
“That may be the case Professor, but Harry wouldn’t have flued before, and I am not sure if Ron knows how without someone.
“Fine, Draco you take Harry up with Granger,”
I couldn’t argue with Snape even if I wanted to, I wanted to know that Harry was okay and the best way to do that was to go with Granger to Madam Pomfrey.
When I turned around Harry was up and ready to go, when I put my hands out to pick him up, he just shook his head and walked slowly behind Granger.