Secrets and Misery

SEVEN

CHAPTER 7

I got up from my bed, changed into my robes and got ready for the day. There wasn't much to do this time of year other than attend class. It was raining, which meant that teachers wouldn't let us go outside. Even so, I made my way to my first class of the day, DADA.

"What do you think Professor Lupin has for us today?" Said George as we entered. As soon as we did we were all greeted by a bad surprise. Instead of Lupin standing in his usual spot, was Snape.

"Where is Professor Lupin?" I asked.

"He can't attend class today and has no more questions. I'll be giving you class today." Said Snape.

I said nothing as I knew Snape's detentions were the worst and I wasn't in the mood to get one, but not everyone thought like me.

"Why not?" Said Fred. He couldn't just keep it to himself.

"I said no questions, Mr Weasley, unless you want detention."

"No, I demand an answer!"

"That's it, detention for you, Mr Weasley."

The class had started on a bad note. I didn't really care that he had got detention, in fact, I enjoyed being able to rub it in his face. It was one of the few times I could annoy him and he had nothing to say back.

Snape had given us a lovely presentation of some magic creatures and some other things. I had spaced out a long time ago and didn't know what was happening.

"Ms Black, could you tell me what I was just saying?" said Professor Snape. He always seemed to know when a student was not paying attention.

"No sir."

"Oh didn't know you wanted detention, Miss Black." He said with a smirk on his face, as if making my real last name more public was amusing to him.

Classes finished at one point of the day, regardless of that I had loads of homework due tomorrow. To add to the bad day, I had detention with Fred before dinner. I was heading to the library. The main difference between The twins and I was that I did study and did better in school, it is not like they had no capacity they just don't care about school. As a result, I never saw them near the library.

"What the hell is this?" I said under my breath, trying to figure out what my homework was about.

"What?" Someone said. I turned and saw Hermione which wasn't a surprise due to the fact she only could be in two places here or with Ron and Harry.

"Oh hey Hermione, I am just trying to figure out my homework."

"Well in that case I'll go back to my book."

"What are you reading by the way?"

"Oh, nothing, studying for potions."

"Mind if I sit with you instead."

"Not at all, go ahead."

"Thanks, I am studying for charms, Flitwick gave us a ton of homework." I moved my books out and continued studying. Silence fell in the room for a few minutes but it was soon broken by Hermione.

"Why haven't we talked before?"

"I don't know; we should talk more. It seems like every time I'm in here you are too."

"Yeah, it's nice to have someone else when studying in here."

"I know- oh shot!" I said as I got up from my chair and collected my books. "I have to go; I have detention with Snape!"

I got to Snape's office door out of breath. Waiting outside of it was Fred, I went up to him and when he noticed me he spoke.

"Oh my Merlin, you couldn't just miss detention, could you?"

"You wish I was not here, but I think it is more fun when I can annoy you."

At that very moment, Snape's office door was opened by no other than Snape himself. -Come with me.

He led us through the halls until we arrived at the room where we displayed the school trophies.

"You must clean all of them until you can see your reflection on them. I will not be present this time but I will be back so don't think you can get away from this. If you are not here when I come back or this isn't as clean as I expect it to be then you will get detention tomorrow." And like that, he took off.

"Stupid asshole, one would have thought he had learned something from George and I." Fred said.

Instead of cleaning everything by hand as Snape had suggested, we cleaned it with a simple charm we had seen Molly use to clean the house. This process was quick and left us with a big gap with nothing to do.

"Looks like you actually can do one thing right, puppy." Fred spoke and it was as if the words came from thin air.

"What the hell did you just call me"

"Oh come on Black, it's not as if you thought you could keep that a secret from me too, or did you?"

"Even though I was not looking at him I could hear his grin."

"Have you been spying on me? Are you really that obsessed with me?" I did not notice but he was slowly coming closer and closer to me. To the point that his next words did not need to be said out loud but whispered, softly in my ear.

"You wished, little puppy."

At that exact moment, the door of the trophy room shut open. To my surprise, it was not Snape, which I was expecting it to be, but Hermione.

"Elle are you here?" said Hermione.

"Yes, I am, what happened Hermione?"

"Buckbeak has been sentenced to death!"

"Oh no! Poor Hagrid, is he ok?"

"I don't know yet. Harry, Ron and I were going to come to see him and I remember how fond of him you are so I thought you might want to come."

"What are you waiting for Hermione?!" I started to move towards the door but I only got two steps closer than what I was.

Fred had grabbed my wrist and wouldn't let me go. "You think you can get out of this that easily. If I have to stay here, you will have to stay here too."

"I really do not get you, Fred, weren't you just saying you wished you had detention without me? Let me go, this has nothing to do with you."

I was not expecting him to actually let go of my arm. I was surprised when he did and said nothing, he only looked away and let me go.