You're Not Alone-Hermione Granger(Currently Editing)

Eighty-Eight

Ever since the first task, the hate Juniper and Harry had been getting for being champions had seemed to stop. Harry believes it was thanks to Cedric though Juniper isn't so sure that's the case as she literally turned his friend down.

Juniper and the Golden Trio interrogate Hagrid in their last Care of Magical Creatures class of the term, wanting to know how his interview with Rita Skeeter was. The last class was more relaxing as everyone was behind his cabin, preparing different foods for the Skrewts.

Juniper would rather curse herself than sit with Draco and the rest of the Slytherins as last class Pansy tried to duel her. Apparently her and Draco were buddy-buddy again seeing as Pansy was hanging all over him. 

"She didn' seem very int'rested in magical creatures, ter tell yeh the truth" Hagrid admits with a shrug. "She jus' wanted me ter talk about you, Harry." Hagrid glances around to make sure no one is paying any attention to them and lowers his voice.

"Well, I told her we'd been friends since I went ter fetch yeh from the Dursleys. 'Never had to tell him off in four years?' she said. 'Never played you up in lessons, has he?'. I told her no, an' she didn' seem happy at all. Yeh'd think she wanted me to say yeh were horrible, Harry." Hagrid explains.

"'Course she did" Harry sighs, throwing dragon liver into a large metal bowl, moving to cut more. "She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring" Harry adds.

"She wants a new angle, Hagrid. You were supposed to say Harry's a mad delinquent!" Ron jokes.

"But he's not!" Hagrid shrugs.

"She should've interviewed Snape. He'd give her the goods on me any day. Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school" Harry mutters mockingly and Ron, Hermione and Juniper all laugh.

"Said that, did he? Well, yeh might've bent a few rules, Harry, bu' yeh're all righ' really, aren' you?" Hagrid compliments and Harry grins up at him.

"Cheers, Hagrid"

"You coming to this ball thing on Christmas Day, Hagrid?" Ron brings up and Juniper glances at Hermione who seemed interested in the food she was cutting up instead. 

"Though' I might look in on it, yeah. Should be a good do, I reckon. You'll be openin' the dancin', won' yeh, Harry, Juniper? Who're you takin?" Hagrid wonders curiously and Juniper grows red in the face, rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly. 

Harry seems to go red as well on the question, Hermione still very interested on the food on the table, not even looking up while Ron looks between the two of them curiously as well.

"No one, yet" Harry shrugs and Juniper hums, everyone leaving it at that. 

*****

Hagrid's class wasn't the only chill end of term lesson. Professor Flitwick let them play games the whole time for Charms while he talked with Harry about the spell he cast during the first task. Juniper, Lucas and Summer had a little wizard's chess tournament, though unsurprisingly, Lucas had won. There were other classes however, that weren't so easy.

McGonagall, Professor Binns and Moody were set on working them until the final second. As for Snape, he decided he would test them on poison antidotes which no one was happy about.

"Congratulations on your date with Parkinson. I hope she faceplants" Juniper says to Draco as they sit together during their potions class that Snape decided to have in the Great Hall. It was their second to last class the last one being their test and Snape was having his class study, though, in the Great Hall.

Something about there being too many people now that they had to start using other rooms for classes like the Great Hall and the library. Snape's potions class was in the Great Hall as well as a few others. Including Lucas and Summer's class who were sat across from them, though focused on their own work.