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Pansy looked a little annoyed when she walked into one of the decidedly Slytherin compartments to see Draco seated quite comfortably between Crabbe and Goyle. Blaise, who was already seated across from them laughed at the look on her face, causing Draco to look up. He shot her something between a smile and a smirk.

“Maybe next time, Pansy dear.”

Chapter 23: A Decidedly Good Friday

“First day back in school after vacation but do you think the teachers could go a little easier on us?” Ron looked forlornly at the stack of homework that he had piled in front of him on a table.

“You’ll find that if you actually get started on it, Ron, the work goes much faster than you think it will.” Hermione told him from where she was already working on her Arithmancy homework.

Ron looked at Hermione’s pile of homework, which was about half the size of his because she had already been working on it for an hour. In a last resort effort, Ron turned to Harry, who also had a rather large homework pile in front of him.

“Harry?”

Harry was too absorbed in his Potions text to register the question. Let’s see…R: Radish, Ragweed, Ragwort, Raspberry, Red-root, Reed (common), Reed (giant), Rose, Rosemary, Rocket (Eruca sativa), Rue, Rush (common), Rutabagas…

“Harry!”

Harry looked up. “What?”

“Ron was trying to find a way out of starting his homework.” Hermione stated, shooting Ron an annoyed look.

Harry grinned sheepishly. “Sorry, Ron. I have a Potions essay due first thing tomorrow.”

“But you don’t have Potions until the afternoon.”

“I know.”

In the silence that followed, Hermione looked up from her calculations. “Harry, are you sure Malfoy won’t mind us being in here?”

Harry shrugged. “It’s not like we’re sitting on his bed, Hermione.”

Ron didn’t hold back the shudder that idea sent through him. “Like we’d want to be.”

Harry returned to the index. He’d run out of R words. But “Rosa Rubiginosa”, the ingredient he was supposed to be doing this essay on the uses of, was nowhere to be found. “Where’s the Rosa Rubiginosa?” he asked the book exasperatedly.