Chapter 7: Back to school
You really looked forward to the end of the sorting as you were very hungry having missed the food trolley on the train. You were glad to sit with the fellow Gryffindors too. Finally when the last 1st year, Emma Wavery, was sorted into Hufflepuff, loads of food appeared on the tables. Everyone started to eat merrily.
After dinner you waved goodbye to Hermione and Ron who had to take care of the first years and went up to the tower with Harry. He was still down because of the death of Sirius. You sent letters to each other every 3 days or so during the summer. You tried to help him dealing with the loss. You got past the Fat Lady into the Common Room, where you waited for the others to arrive. (Of course you used shortcuts to get there so you didn't have to climb the stairs like all the others.) When everyone was there you talked for a while then went to sleep with Hermione. (You shared a dormitory.)
Next day Professor McGonagall gave out your timetables. You were a good student, of course not as good as Herms, but you had great brains. You got 10 OWL's and 7 of them were O's. Secretly you wanted to be an auror but you couldn't tell this to anyone in your family as they were on You-Know-Who's side. It would have made quite a big fuss if you'd told them you wanted to catch dark wizards and witches.
You had the same timetable as Hermione only her having Arithmancy instead if Divination. You wanted to drop the subject with her but Harry and Ron were begging so much you finally kept it. You had a great imagination so you had no serious problems with making up the most unbelievable things.
"That's great, Lil! We almost have every class together." Herms stated with a happy face.
Blaise soon came around too.
"Hey love! What's up?"
"Hi Blaise! Nothing special. What's your timetable like?"
You compared the two and learned that you'll have Potions, Divination and Defense Against the Dark Arts together during a week.
"Well then, I see you at Potions!" He kissed you and set off for his Transfiguration class with the other Slytherins.
Your first lesson was Charms which you were pretty good at. You always liked Prof. Flitwick too. It was very funny to see Ron struggling with a particularly difficult spell. Harry laughed along you, but he couldn't master it either. Herms and you however got it right after some attempts.
"Very good Miss Granger, Miss Sparks! Thirty points to Gryffindor!"
Later you met up with Blaise during lunch break and discussed your morning.
"It's only our first day and I have to write an incredibly long essay on the Aguamenti Charm!" You told Blaise gloomily.
"It's the same for us too. Don't worry love we'll manage everything."
He reassured you sweetly.
Next you had DADA with the Slytherins, so you went to class with together. You met the others in front of the classroom.
"I wonder what Snape will be like." You thought out aloud.
"I'm sure he will be worse than ever." Ron said with a disgusted face.
He was right. Now you had no doubts why Dumbledore didn't want to give him the post in the first place. Snape was fascinated with the Dark Arts. He also humiliated Hermione in front of everyone so you were boiling with anger now. Snape took away 10 points from Gryffindor just because he held his wand higher than he should have. The Slytherins however had a fantastic time enjoying the humiliation of the Gryffindors. Especially Malfoy seemed to have the time of his life.
You were practising non-verbal spells on each other in pairs. Your partner was Hermione and you two were doing brilliantly. After half an hour you could both use several spells without saying them aloud. Any other teacher would have given housepoints for this but not Snape. He just merely nodded his face in your direction. Then suddenly when you were just about to cast a fire spell at Herms, someone pushed you and you missed her instead hitting Snape! His black cloak immediately caught on fire. Of course he thought it was on purpose and you got detention for Friday. You turned to see who did this to you when you caught Malfoy imitating the attraction to his fellows. You couldn't have been more furious but you tried to control your anger not wishing to get more detentions. In the Common Room however it all got out of you.
"But that's the date of the Quidditch tryouts!"
"Lil, you know you are a permanent spot on the team, don't you?" Harry told you.
"But this is your first year as a captain, Harry! And I wanted to see who the new players will be."
"Try to convince Snape about postponing the detention. Maybe he'll agree..."
"I doubt it, but I'll try. Nothing to lose..."
You took Ron's advice and asked Snape about the postponement but it was pointless. He just became more delighted and told you that this way you'll remember more not to attack teachers. He didn't believe you telling him the whole thing was an accident.
You couldn't make out why Malfoy did this to you either. You were sure he had some plans you were involved in.
It was Thursday evening; you were sitting with Blaise in the library doing some research together.
"Lil, have you heard that Draco got detention too?"
"What?! Really? That's good news. I mean I know he's your friend and everything but he's fault is that I got detention."
"Yeah I know. And guess what happened."
"Hmm. Did he sneak out after curfew?"
"Nope. McGonagall caught him making out with Pansy right in front of the office of Dumbledore. She was furious without them doing so, they caught her in a very bad mood. They both got detentions. For Friday at the same time as you."
"But how comes that we have it at the same time?"
"Snape tried to save their skins, but McGonagall was unbending. The only thing he could do was to ask her if he could give them punishment as their Head of House."
"And she agreed."
"Yep. She had more than enough problems. "
"So now I can spend my detention with them. Great." You said sarcastically.
"Don't worry darling. It's just one afternoon. Then there's the whole weekend to us.
