Et Serpens album

Part 18 a

Vivienne kept this new development in mind it might bust this whole case open, she would have to admit her spinless Professor had guts not to crack yet, she thought.

Every time they passed the third-floor corridor, Harry, Ron, and Hermione would press their ears to the door to check that Fluffy was still growling inside. Snape was sweeping about in his usual bad temper, which surely meant that the Stone was still safe. Vivienne was the most lucrative of the group saying Snape wouldn't be stocking the halls looking at the children wiry as a sign he has the stone and distancing themselves from the professor sights as a good plan. 

Vivienne during one of the latest meetings dropped what happened when she pursed Snape in the woods and her hypnosis let just say didn't go well.

"What if you were seen, merlin knows what he would have done to you," Hermione berated her loud. Vivienne sarcastically response "Yes and tell it to the world, Mrs Pince would very much love the discussion," The looked to see the old lady's pricing stare and then swiftly the volume went down.

"So he is pressuring Querril to get access to the stone," Ron said quietly. Neville felt bad for the poor guy having Snape breathing down your back sounds unnerving at best. 

Aside from Vivienne who still behaved cold and removed from her teachers Ron, Neville behaved more friendly with the professor, Whenever Harry passed Quirrell these days he gave him an encouraging sort of smile, and Ron had started telling people off for laughing at Quirrell's stutter.

Hermione, however, had more on her mind than the Sorcerer's Stone. She had started drawing up study schedules and colour-coding all her notes. Harry and Ron wouldn't have minded, but she kept nagging them to do the same. 

"Ten weeks," Hermione snapped. "That's not ages, that's like a second to Nicolas Flamel. "

"But we're not six hundred years old," Ron reminded her. "Anyway, what are you studying for, you already know it's an A. " 

"What am I studying for? Are you crazy? Do you realize we need to pass these exams to get into the second year? They're very important, I should have started studying a month ago, I don't know what's gotten into me." 

Unfortunately, the teachers seemed to be thinking along the same lines as Hermione. They piled so much homework on them that the Easter holidays weren't nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones. It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon's blood or practising wand movements. Moaning and yawning, Neville and Ron spent most of their free time in the library with her, trying to get through all their extra work.

Vivienne was a different breed, she never seemed to be doing her homework but by all majesty always has hers done and have better grades than Hermione. 

 "I'll never remember this," Ron burst out one afternoon, throwing down his quill and looking longingly out of the library window. It was the first really fine day they'd had in months. The sky was a clear, forget-me-not blue, and there was a feeling in the air of summer coming.

 Neville, who was looking up "Dittany" in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, didn't look up until he heard Ron say, "Hagrid! What are you doing in the library?"

Hagrid shuffled into view, hiding something behind his back. He looked very out of place in his moleskin overcoat.

Vivienne who was reading with a bored expression looked up indifferent at the half-giant. 

 "Jus' lookin'," he said, in a shifty voice that got their interest at once. "An' what're you lot up ter?" He looked suddenly suspicious. "Yer not still lookin' fer Nicolas Flamel, are yeh?"

Vivienne was about to tell him, no, but Ron answered "Oh, we found out who he is ages ago," said Ron impressively. "And we know what that dog's guarding, it's a Sorcerer's St--"