Mischief Unmanaged ➰ H.P

V. Don't Fall in the Lure

Every hour seemed to last ages in Professor Binns' class, the ghost teacher wasn't aware or maybe not just paying attention to see half of his class already sleeping on each desk.

Even Hermione who's the only student that could stand him, was also have her eyes locked on the window. She lifted her lolling head upon seeing Harry sitting under an old tree beside the lake, strange because he's all alone and surprisingly looks too busy reading a book.

On the other side, she could see Draco,Theo and Blaise pulling some prank on First years which made them the center of attention. Hermione don't understand how on earth those preposterous junk they got from Joke Shop were even worth a galleons.

"Miss Granger?" Hermione twitched on her seat when a cold hand tapped her on the shoulder.

"Y-yes sir? Sorry, I didn't hear your question," she felt her cheeks burnt pink.

"No, you're dismissed, do you have some worries regarding anything else in my class that you want to talk?" Hermione glanced around the room to find all her classmates already gone.

"Er.. Nothing professor, have a good day," she seized her bag and immediately jogged outside the room, feeling so much embarrassed for losing concentration in the class.

She headed straight to Hogwarts grounds to shoo the bunch of First years playing Exploding Snap.

"Oi Granger! What's your problem huh?" Draco, Theo and Blaise approached her, wearing their undeniably charming smirks.

"Doing my job as a Prefect, I guess," Hermione said without any trace of intimidation.

Draco took a step forwards, his face went serious and dark, "I know you put those filthy Polyjuice Potion in our soup Granger, just a tiny bit of advice," he even leaned closer, making Hermione moves back. "Constant Vigilant."

Hermione stared at him sharply, feeling her blood starting to rise up to her head.

"What's going on here?"

Everyone turned their gaze to Harry, Hermione noticed the sudden tension between him and the other three.

"None of your business, Potter. Go back to that filthy books of yours," Draco scoffed.

"Are they bothering you Hermione?" Harry's gaze fell on her own. She felt some butterflies erupt from the pit of her stomach, just by staring at this man was enough to left her speechless so she just shook her head.

"Come on then," Harry turned his back from three friends and began walking away, confident that Hermione will follow him.

And she did, Hermione sighed before turning to her heels, but before she could even takes a step, Harry turned back and pointed a wand before her, leaving her in utter shock.

"Expelliarmus!" for a second she thought that the spell will hit her square to the face but it missed her by inch and rammed into Draco, knocking him of the ground.

Hermione was left awestruck for a moment, and before she could gather back her composure, Harry already jumped on his best friend and gave him a hard blow on the nose.

"Get him off me!" Draco shouted, Theo and Blaise both struggled to yank Harry away from Draco.

"What do you think you're doing?!" The headmistress came running towards the four, followed by Professor Snape and Flitwick.

Snape casted a spell to separate them, he grabbed Draco on the sleeve and pulled him away from Harry who's been held by Blaise.

"He's going to attack us!" Harry bellowed, his face was red and blood was dripping out of his nose.

"Liar!" Draco howled.

"Silencio! All of you, in my office now!" She furiously flicked her wand, making everyone fell silent. "As well as you, miss Granger," he threw her one more dismayed look before heading back to the castle.

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All the four Slytherin bad boys and the Gryffindor nerd were sitting on a long magenta couch inside the Headmaster's office.

Hermione has her eyes locked on her shoes while mentally hexing herself for being involved in that chaos. Harry was on her side, next to Blaise, Theo and Draco on the other end.

"What's going on with the four of you?" Dumbledore said with his hands clasped together over his desk.

"Nothing," Draco snapped.

"Mr. Potter? We both know that your father did a lot of unpleasant things during his school days, and maybe you're following his path. But boy, you're going too far now," Dumbledore turned to Harry who refused to even lift his face.

"No one want to tell me what's going on? Then I guess Miss Granger could give me a bit of information," The headmaster then looked at her.

Hermione chewed the inside of her cheeks while anxiously glancing at the old man, "Uhm.. H-Harry said that he's been keeping a distance from the rest of them since he thought that they're being severely mean now,

"And.. What happened lately was entirely not his fault. He's just trying to defend me from Malfoy who's I think, about to hex me that time," Hermione couldn't help feeling the weight lightened inside her chest upon seeing Harry's smile.

She did the right thing, she stood for the man she hated for almost five years, but also her very first love.

"Is that all, Miss Granger?"

"Yes professor," she nodded.

"Alright then, as your detention, all of you will go with Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest to have a meeting with the centaur. You will help him deliver the healing potions in exchange to raw ingredients, off you go," Dumbledore gave them a faint smile before gesturing to the door.

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"I think that old man has already lost it, he shouldn't be running a school, the Ministry should put him in St. Mungos. Seriously, he's insane!" Draco rasped while running back to their common room to change. "That forest wasn't called Forbidden forest for bloody nothing!"

"See you later, Harry!" The trio stopped on track and looked at Hermione and Harry who were waving good byes to each other before the nerd witch jogged upstairs.

After she disappeared into the Fat Lady's portrait door, Draco, Theo and Blaise cracked in a good laugh before attacking Harry.

Draco began ruffling his hair as he wrapped an arm around his shoulder. "Good-fucking-job!"

"Brilliant!" Theo mocked.

"That's- incredibly amazing," Blaise chuckled in agreement.

"You're forgiven for breaking my nose," Draco let go of him and they began walking towards the dungeon.

"Yeah, geez how much longer do I have to do this? Honestly? She smelt like those hundred year old books in the library," Harry spat.

"You won't wait any longer, trust me, just make her fall deeper to the lure," Draco smirked.

"Wicked!" Theo beamed before jumping inside their common room.

"You're all Satan's disciple," Blaise sighed as he climbed up to their dorm.

"You are one of us, arsehole," Draco and Harry said in unison before bursting in laughter.

To be continued..

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So here it goes, the story sequence will be fast because I have so many plot twist in my head and I'm trying to fit them all in this story. 😂😂

Sorry for that.
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