Snogging Pox

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"I know you didn't like getting marked off on your paper Draco, but that's no reason to kill your godfather! ... and why are you plotting this in front of him? Why are you naked?" Greg yelled when he saw that Severus was indeed naked. He was more than a little confused at what was going on and his confusion only worsened when everyone started laughing. "Why is this so funny?!"

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Neville rushed onto the Hogwarts Express and went to find Ginny and Ron. Ever since he received that letter from Harry in the snitch he has been worried about the green eyed wizard. The news about Dumbledore was shocking even though his grandmother never liked the headmaster and made it very clear that the old wizard shouldn't be trusted. It's one thing growing up hearing her telling him to be cautious, but having the proof that revealed a very dark side to the light leader is quite a different thing. He has never been so angry and worried at the same time and the fact that Harry hasn't contacted him again only made it worse ...

"Neville! Over here!" The Longbottom heir looked over his shoulder and saw Ginny looking out of the compartment he raced passed. "Ron and I were looking for you." She waved happily and all but dragged Neville into the compartment when he came within range. "Good, now we don't need to worry about that bitch." She said clearly referring to Hermione who has not been seen yet. The compartment was full with Ron, Ginny, Luna and, surprisingly enough, Theodore Nott who was being cuddled by Pansy and Daphne.

"Umm ... hi ... I didn't know you guys were together." Neville said nervously as he tucked his trunk pu in the luggage racks before sitting next to Ron.

Theo blushed lightly, "It kind of came out of nowhere." He said softly as the two girls smiled and nuzzled his arms. Both Neville and Ron understood the feeling since certain feelings of their own seemed to pop up out of nowhere as well. Ginny and Luna just congratulated the three for getting together. There were a few other couples that came out of nowhere too, but no one thought much of it beyond winter romance ...

"Oh! Fred and George said they'll be hunting down Hermione to do ... Merlin knows what to her, so we'll hopefully see her looking very different." Ginny smirked sadistically.

Daphne snorted, "I hope so. I'm not a huge Potter fan, but Granger went insane over a meager batch of cauldron cakes prize for potions."

Pansy turned a little green, "I saw the blood ... I feel sorry for Potter. I hear he was transferred to Professor Snape's Newt class so he'll be stuck with her alone. Why he'll still be transferred after that maniac slashed him I don't know."

Neville frowned, (The headmaster is cruel that's why.) He mentally answered.

A split second later Fred and George threw open the compartment door laughing hysterically. Ginny thought they were hit with tickling curses or something, but when she tried the counter curse and it had no effect she smiled, "What did you two do to Granger?"

"Nothing!" They gasped through their laughter. "She stole something with security wards!" Laughter coming from the rest of the train drew everyone's attention. Their curiosity was too strong so everyone in the compartment poked their heads out and looked down the hallway.

There at the front of the car was Hermione and she looked awful. Her hair turned clear so she looked bald, but considering it looked like she would get pulled by her hair every few steps you could assume that the hair was moving and grabbing things to trip her. Written on her head were the words 'thief', 'crook', 'untrustworthy' and 'fool'. On her face was a set of black worm like shadows moving around making silly signs on her face and the final touch was that her hands were glowing bright red.