Draco Malfoy hadn't shown up for classes until late Thursday morning, when the Slytherins and Gryffindors were halfway through their Double Potions class.
He staggered into class, his arm wrapped in bandages and bound in a sling, like he was All That.
In Ron's honest opinion, he was almost hoping he'd have died, but that would've looked bad on both the school and Hagrid, so it's for the better that he didn't.
"How is it, Draco?" Pansy simpered, "Does it hurt much?"
"Yeah," he said, putting on the most obviously fake grimace Lucifer had ever seen.
It was confirmed when he winked at Crabbe and Goyle after Pansy looked away.
"Settle down, settle down," Professor Snape said idly, giving the laziest amount of effort he could into his voice.
Today they were making a new Potion, the Shrinking Solution.
Malfoy set up his cauldron right next to Harry and Ron, instead of anyone from Slytherin.
Lucifer kept looking over at them as he worked with Hermione, keeping an eye on the situation, "Sir," Malfoy called, "sir, I'll need help cutting up these daisy roots, because of my arm-"
"Weasley, cut up Malfoy's roots for him," Snape said without even bothering to look over at them.
Lucifer looked and Ron was brick red.
He said something, but it was so low, didn't hear what, "Weasley, you heard Professor Snape, cut up these roots," he heard Malfoy say.
Draco Malfoy was the most spoiled brat Ron had ever seen.
If it wasn't for Snape, Malfoy, and probably most Slytherin, wouldn't even pass Potions.
Ron take a knife and begin to cut up the roots unevenly and basically making them not useful.
"Professor," he heard Malfoy's annoying drawl, "Weasley's mutilating my roots, sir."
Snape approach their table, and he could barely make out a crooked smile, "Change roots with Malfoy, Weasley."
"But sir-"
"Now," Snape said in his most dangerous voice he had to use on Ron.
Ron begrudgingly shoved his daisy root across the table to Malfoy, then took his knife up again to cut a new one.
"And, sir, I'll need this Shrivelfig skinned," Malfoy said, his voice full of malicious intent.
"Potter, you can skin Malfoy's Shrivelfig," Snape said to Harry before he walked away.
Harry quickly skinned the Shrivel without saying a word.
They began to talk in low voices, so Lucifer couldn't make out what they were saying.
He noticed Hermione's annoyed face while she glared at Malfoy, even her fingers were trembling, "Don't, I know you are trying to flip him off...Snape'll just give you a detention for no reason."
"Can you see how pathetic Malfoy really is? I hope, you don't believe his fake apology from last year!" She is in a very bad, and grumpy mood from the Common Room, being even more clingy to him than usual.
At least, she took her hands off him during the Potions, so Lucifer was able to make his own flawless just like usual.
The rest of the class passed without incident.
Snape really wanted to fault the Gryffindors for their Potions, but all must have been satisfactory enough that he couldn't complain.
Any talking was out of his hearing range, and everyone seemed to be doing alright on their potions from what he could tell, except Neville of Course.
He was too scared to cut his own ingredients.
After their Double Potions, Lucifer and Hermione had to go back to before class started and attend Ancient Runes for a Double period, so they hurried to the classroom and went back in time.
"A feeling I don't know if I'll ever get used to..." Hermione said after they came out of the rewind.
"It's not so bad, I've experienced worse..." he trailed off.
Hermione looked at him and realized she said the wrong thing, "Lucifer, I-I'm sorry..."
"You have nothing to apologize for," He reassured her as the other Ancient Runes students for the period piled in.
After class, they hurried to catch back up with Harry and Ron, making sure to not run into their past selves.
This whole week had Hermione feeling rather exhausted from the extreme workload they both had.
Lucifer didn't feel any different, but his concern for her was evident, "Hermione," he got her attention, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, fine, fine I'm fine," she smiled at him. She was clearly not fine.
She didn't want to continue talking about it from the tone of her voice, so he didn't ask her about that again.
"Hey," Ron said as they got to them, "What happened? Where did you two go?"
"I forgot something and Lucifer was helping me," Hermione lied, knowing that her boyfriend wouldn't.
"Okay..."
"Oh, shit!" Hermione cursed out loud, She was looking at her bag, and a seam had torn on it.
"Hermione, why are you carrying all of your books? You don't have most of these classes today, all we have is Defense Against the Dark Arts," Harry brought to her attention.
"You know how many subjects Lucifer and I take. Of course we are going to have all of these books!" she said breathlessly.
"But Lucifer doesn't' have his bag about to tear itself apart," Ron pointed out.
They all looked at his bag and sure enough, it was holding together, and didn't even look strained.
"Uh... yes well, I'm just better at space management, you know..." Lucifer didn't even convince himself, surely he couldn't have done them either.
"Well, I'm starving, who wants some lunch?" He asked innocently, and directly marched off towards the Great Hall.
Hermione hurried after him, "Wait for me, you idiot!" she yelled, now coming up next to him.
"Hey," he replied kindly.
"So, how do you have all your books fitting in there really?!" She got right to the point.
"I'll explain later when we are alone, okay?" He asked.
"Okay, you better tell me, though," she tried to sound assertive.
"Maybe," Lucifer tried to not smirk, but when she playfully slapped his arm, he lost all control, then pinched her bum.
"Ow!" Hermione rubbed that spot for a few seconds, then glared at him in response.
"Hahah..." Lucifer now outright snorted at her face, she didn't find it amusing, nose scrunched, trying to give him a reprimanding look.
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When they arrived in their Defense class, which they unfortunately had with the Slytherins, Professor Lupin had yet to show up.
Lucifer and Hermione sat in seats that were next to each other, as they always did.
"Eep!" Hermione let out a small yelp, when her anal plug hit the bench, she almost forgot it was even there!
When he looked at her with eyes full of curiosity, then nodded in a weird sympathy kind of undertaking look, Hermione's cheeks turned redder and redder with nothing but shame.
That's why, she decided to not focus on him for the period, but couldn't even begin to imagine what Professor Lupin had in store for them.
He couldn't be worse than Quirrell and definitely couldn't be worse than Lockhart.
She just hoped they actually learned something useful this time around.
She had now gotten her Quill, parchment, and book out, but couldn't help but notice Lucifer hadn't, "Are you not going to get your stuff out?"
"I've got a good feeling about Professor Lupin, from what Weasely explained during the Dementor boarding, he seems like a hands-on Professor and will get right into Practical lessons," he explained.
Hermione agreed with that line of thinking and put back all of her stuff.
When Lupin came in he looked as shabby as ever, but he looked healthier than he did on the train.
He placed his tattered old briefcase on the large desk and turned to address them, "Good afternoon. Would you kindly put your books and stuff away?"
He asked them and they began putting away their stuff, Hermione looked at Lucifer in awe forgetting just what happened to her some time prior, "Today will be a practical lesson and you will only need your wand."
Hermione looked around and saw that many of them were curious about this, and they had good reason.
Except for Lockhart's failed Pixie fiasco, they had never had a Practical Defense class before, which when thought about, seemed utterly bizarre.
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