After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 26 Book 1

After a War

"Obliviate." Was mumbled and she fell back unconscious.

Hermione sped into the classroom. She was so late. She was going to get detention for sure. She peaked in the room, all the students in the room looked at her. Luckily the teacher wasn't there. She slowly walked into the room and shut the door behind her. Muggle studies shouldn't have been a required class for her to take but Slytherins had to take it. She was one of the only Muggleborn Slytherins. She sat by Maya.

"What's going on? Where's the Professor?" Hermione asked.

"He never showed up." Maya responded. "You should do the class, today was supposed to be about music." Maya nudged her shoulder. Marcus Flint and Blaise Zabini turned around in the chair in front of the girls to see them.

"Maya's right, your good at piano, just teach the class so we can say we learned something." Blaise said.

"Well-" Hermione started.

"Just do it, please?" Marcus begged. Hermione smirked and stood up. She walked to the front of the classroom. There were many instruments to play but she sat in front of the piano. Hermione glanced at Maya, who gave her a thumbs up. Hermione looked at all the Slytherins in the room. She cleared her throat.

"Our professor decided that he didn't want to show up today, so I was asked to teach the class, so we could get it over with." She paused. "Are there any questions before we begin?" Hermione asked. Nobody raised a hand or anything. "So, Muggles don't play music like be do, they use instruments instead of charming them to play music for you." Hermione glanced around at the many curious Purebloods. "This is a piano, many of you know what it is but, do you know how it works?" Hermione asked. Everyone shook their heads. "Why don't I show you then?" Hermione asked. Many of the students stood up and walked up to the piano. "This, is a classical piano," She gently pressed down on one of the keys and the string inside vibrated. "The sound that the piano makes, comes from vibration, much like our voices." Hermione explained. She started playing simple and slow songs to let her fellow Slytherins see the strings vibrate. "We all enjoy the sound it makes, correct?" Hermione asked.

"Why do Muggles listen to music though?" Maya asked.

"Its calm, and relaxes the brain. Some of it helps you learn, some of it helps you get through hard times, some of it even can prevent someone from killing themselves, music moves people in a way other things cant. Playing notes like this, is more relaxing than using a wand to make sure the piano plays by itself." Hermione answered. She played a much faster song. She stared at her hands as they oved quickly up and down the keys. She hit one or two wrong notes but in her opinion, it made the song better. She hit the final note and stopped.

"Your a better Muggle studies teacher than the professor." Maya whispered to her before returning to her seat. Hermione smiled.

"That's all, but, I want everyone to try one of the instruments here, I don't care whether or not you sound good, I just want you to choose one, try it, and learn about it." Hermione said before standing up and returning to her seat to get her bag. Many people stood up and crowded around the piano. She actually saw Pansy go for the violin. Blaise went for drums, and Malfoy went for acoustic guitar. Hermione smiled and helped everyone out as much as she could. The professor eventually came in and said he got the times mixed up, he was overjoyed to see Slytherins actually doing something though. He pulled Hermione to the side.

"Miss Granger?" The man asked.

"Yes Professor?" Hermione asked.

"Would you like to continue to teach this class? Iv been wanting to go into retirement, McGonagall was going to search for a new teacher but I think I beat her to it." The older man smiled happily.