Hermione Zabini

Chapter Twenty

A/N: And the story goes on. Whoop whoop! Feel free to drop a vote because it really brightens my day. :)

Also because Cosmia knows quite a lot about poisons, most pov's will be by her until Serafina is back in the picture. 

Cosmias Pov

If there is one thing us Slytherins can pride ourselves on, it is determination. 

We had come to the unfortunate conclusion that we can't help Serafina by wasting our time in the Hospital wing. One of us goes to check on her each day but we are relying on Madam Pomfrey to help keep her vitals somewhat stable. 

Pansy, Beth, Daphne and I were sat in the Slytherin Common room not many hours after Leona had gotten the permission to get whatever books we needed from the restricted section. 

Leona, Draco and Blaise had been back and forth from the library 3 time already, each time carrying a signifcant load of books all about poisons and their cures, case studies and dark magic. 

We had been excused from our lessons due to the 'poor health of our friend.' While waiting for the guys to come back with another load of books, Pansy, Daphne, Beth and I are sorting the books into piles of 'Dark Magic', 'Remedies and Cures' and 'Case sSudies.'

What made the situation more odd then necessary was that Harry Potter was sat on the floor next to us, also helping us pile up the books. 

He had insisted on helping and Beth had stopped giving him so much of a hard time now she understand that he actually seemed to want to put his all into helping her. Sure dragging Harry Potter into the Slytherin Common room had granted quite a few stares but once Draco ahd explained what happened to Serafina and how he was helping, he was left along and everyone went back to normal.

Well normal is sort of a lie. Slytherin loved Serafina and many of them wanted to help. So Pansy had taken charge and set of mini tasks to at least half the Slytherins. They all wanted to contribute and help, this made our job a tiny bit easier. 

Potter was surprised, he claimed people in Gryffindor didn't do this for each otgher. He was shocked that Slytherins looked after their own and that they really wanted to help Serafina. She was the Slytherin Princess after all. But it was quite amusing watching Beth tell Potter in a dead tone that his house must be really shit then. 

The portrait hole burst open and the guys entered followed by a group of Slytherins who had taken some of the books off them to help carry them. 

'That is all.' Leona said and collapsed into the seat panting. Daphne and I silently take a bulk of the books and began sorting them. 

Draco and Blaise sat on the armchairs and faced us. 'So how are we going to do this?' Blaise asks. 

Pansy clears her throat and pulls out a piece of paper she had been writing on earlier. 'Well obviously we know very little on the case study relating to the Witchchest Leaf. There are...' She paused to count as Daphne and I finish putting the new books into the piles. '8 books on the case studies, if  we all take a book, as there is eight of us, and we read it tonight. We meet here tomorrow morning and we discuss what we learnt.' 

We all npdded and Potter opened his mouth in question. Then Pansy motions a student to come over and he hands her a box. She thanks him and opens the box and takes out small blue vials. She hands out one to everyone. 

'This gives your brain energy and sleep is not required. Your body functions would be the same as if you had a full night if sleep. Use this to study tonight.' 

Potter looked shocked and didn't say anything. Pansy reached in the box again and pulled out eight purple vials and handed those out too. 'This helps with memory.' She says quietly.