Solving Riddles

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Hermione threw her back her wand and walked away before she had the chance to say anything. Slytherins, she thought, shaking her head, what a vicious bunch.

Only to bump into the most vicious of them all, Hermione fell onto her butt and Tom glared down at her.

'You should really watch where you're going Bellouve.' he sneered.

'S-sorry I'll be more careful next time.' she said ducking behind her hair shielding her face from view. Tom just sent her a dirty look and walked away, Hermione shrugged and continued on her way to the room of requirement.

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What an odd girl, Tom thought as he walked towards the Slytherin common room, dull and snarky, not a good combination. He wondered who she was, a complete mystery to everyone that's what she was, barely uttered a word to anyone unless someone tried to pick on her although she never seemed really bothered about any of it. She spent most of the time in the library and always had a weird look in her eye whenever he spoke to her. She was hiding something and for some reason, Tom wanted to know what it was, he shrugged, it was probably nothing too big or important but maybe he'd take a little peek into her mind the next time he saw her just to know.

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Hermione sneered as she kicked the dummy repeatedly, sweat was running down her forehead, some of her hair was sticking to her face and her body was aching but still she kept punching and kicking, she was letting her anger out on the dummy, she'd been doing so for hours actually but still her anger was still trapped inside her, it felt to her that the more she hit the dummy she angrier she got.

Hermione stopped hitting the dummy and sat down, she was panting and felt exhausted, she could hit no more. The thoughts of losing the war were what fueled her with hatred, the pain and the anger had come rushing back to her like a flood and now that she had got rid of the anger, all was left was the pain.

Tears started pouring out of her eyes and soon she was sobbing, Hermione cried harder than she ever had before, she screamed and cried, clutching her knees rocking back and forth.

Hermione had no more tears to shed and so she sat the hiccuping still rocking back and forth, she felt better than she ever had since landing in the past.

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Hermione sat in the great hall slowly eating her toast when she felt eyes on her, she looked up to find Tom staring at her, she felt him pushing at her mental barriers, she strengthened her shields as he began to push harder at her barriers, he narrowed his eyes at her and she stared blankly at him her face not showing any of the annoyance that was now beginning to boil inside of her. She broke the eye contact and continued to eat her toast trying to ignore Tom who was still trying to break into her mind.

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So the girl knew occlumency, maybe what she was hiding was a bit important after all. He'd wait till she let her guard down and then he'd try to break into her mind again.

Hermione sighed she'd need new plans, she didn't know how but he knew she was hiding something he'd probably begin to watch her more closely now, she'd have to tread carefully.

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Hermione stood in the DADA classroom practically bored to death, they were having practicals and her opponent was too foolish to notice that with each spell he sent at her, the less he had a chance at winning, not that he ever had a chance in the first place. She sighed and decided to end the duel with a quick expelliarmus. Her opponent glared at her and she smirked back at him. She then turned around to look for another opponent, there were no girls; in this period of time women were looked upon as weak and feeble-minded and therefore they were given the chance to go study their books in the library or stay for the practicals, Hermione was the only one who stayed.