The next morning, Hermione was up early as usual. The previous night they had all been sent notes to remind them that they must attend breakfast with their partners and they must be engaged by the end of December. Hermione waited in the common room for Draco. She didn't expect him up early and was surprised when he woke up minutes after she did. She waited downstairs while he showered.
"Lets go," he said to her with a snarl.
"Ginny and Harry will be down in a minute," Hermione said.
"Fine!" Draco said angrily and sat in one of the armchairs which him and Blaise had conjured yesterday.
Ginny and Harry came down the stairs hand in hand. Blaise and Luna also came down at the same time.
"Can we go now?" Draco looked at Hermione angrily.
"Yea," Hermione nodded and got up. Harry and Ginny walked in front, Luna and Hermione behind them and Blaise and Draco behind them.
"Should we have waited for Ron and Lavender?" Ginny asked.
"No Ron sleeps in and so does Lavender!" Hermione replied.
"Hermione what classes you taking?" Luna asked as they walked down the stairs.
"Care of Magical Creatures, Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Herbology, Astronomy, History of Magic, Ancient Runes, Arithmancy and Defence Against the Dark Arts but I think I'm going to have to drop Care of Magical Creatures," Hermione smiled. "You?"
"Herbology, Charms, Potions, Transfiguration, Defence against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Muggle Studies and Divination," Luna smiled.
"Nice selection," Hermione replied as they entered the breakfast hall which was more or less empty as it was still early.
Like Dumbledore had said, the tables were round and there were no house tables. The group picked one towards the side. They didn't talk much. Harry and Ginny acted all loved up, Luna and Hermione talked a bit and Draco and Blaise talked a little.
The Professor McGonagall approached them, "Good your here." She handed them a timetable. "These are new timetables, your classes have been moved around so you can have them with your partners and with people in your dorm and some from your houses. There's also an additional class on there, Life Class, starts tomorrow afternoon for everyone in the hall."
Hermione looked over her timetable, like she had discussed with McGonagall Care of Magical Creatures had been dropped.
"Any problems come see me or the head of your house," McGonagall turned and left.
"Life Classes?" Ron said as he and Lavender approached the table with their timetables. "Why do we need them?"
"Probably to help people deal with the fact their getting married and everything else," Ginny suggested.
"And to make sure everyone is sticking to deadlines," Harry sighed.
"And probably teach us charms, like contraceptive charms and potions to speed up chances of pregnancy," Lavender said.
Ron looked stunned, "P...pregnancy?"
"Yea one of the deadlines is to be pregnant by August," Lavender sighed. "Guess I'm going to be loosing my figure."
Ron was still shocked, his mouth fell open.
"Close your mouth Weasel that's disgusting," Draco scowled.
Ron closed his mouth.
"So anyone set any wedding dates yet?" Luna asked, Hermione, Draco, Blaise, Lavender and Ron nearly chocked.
"Its too soon!" Lavender said.
"Well we have," Ginny grinned.
"December 3rd," Harry smiled.
"Already?" Hermione asked shocked.
"Yea in the Christmas holidays," Harry grinned. Then he looked at Draco and Blaise. "I guess you're both invited too."
"Can't wait," Draco rolled his eyes. "Potty and Freckles wed."
"Ignore him, I'm planning to," Hermione smiled.
"We better hurry, classes start in a few minutes," Lavender noticed the time.
"Finally I can get away from you lot," Draco muttered as he and Blaise walked away. It took Draco a lot of self control to stop himself from insulting everyone at the table.
Hermione sighed, "Why am I marrying him?"
"Unlucky," Luna said sympathetically.
"Oh well," Hermione got up. "Time for class!"
They all got up grudgingly. Hermione, Harry, Ron and Luna had potions. Ginny had Defence Against the Dark Arts while Lavender had care of magical creatures. Hermione and the other three headed to the dungeons. Snape was not here yet. This year Snape and Slughorn were dividing the classes they were teaching. Snape would teach all fifth years and above twice a week, Slughorn once. First years would get Snape all week and Slughorn would teach all second, third and fourth years.
Today was a Snape lesson. Hermione looked around, Draco and Blaise were in this class as well as Pansy and a few Ravenclaws.
Harry and Ron took a desk at the back. Luna and Hermione also took a desk at the back in the middle row and to Hermione's displeasure, Draco and Blaise were on the desk beside them.
Snape walked in, "This is your final year, up until now I've put up with some of your ridiculous excuses for potions. I will not any more. You make a mistake and you will be serving detention until your potions perfect. Today's potion name is on the board. Open your books, you have an hour and fifteen minutes!"
Everyone opened their books and began to get the ingredients.
"I'm going to be in detention everyday!" Ron moaned.
"Not if you work hard!" Hermione said.
"Easy for you to say your perfect!" Ron said bitterly moving away from her.
Hermione sighed, trying not to seem hurt. She continued to make her potion, thinking of how Ron had looked at her. He's only jealous, I worked hard to do this.
"Oi Granger," Draco snarled.
"What?" Hermione asked angrily looking up.
"You put the powdered root in first, the potion won't work!" Draco said walking away.
Hermione looked at the book, he was right. She put the powdered root down and put in the eagle feathers first.
"Thanks," Hermione said to Draco who was a cauldron away. He just shrugged.
Hermione continued to finish the potion. At the end only five people had made the potion correctly, Hermione, Draco, Harry, a Ravenclaw girl and to everyone's surprise, Luna.
"Rest of you detention tomorrow night, 7pm!" Snape barked. "Now leave!"
When they were outside Ron stared at Harry, "How did you do that potion?"
"I took Hermione's advice and practised over the summer," Harry shrugged.
"AND NO ONE TOLD ME!" Ron shouted.