was worthy of her magic when the rest of the Wizarding world—Slytherins especially—
said she was not.
"You asked us a question and she knows the answer! Why ask if you don't want to
be told?" Ron snapped.
Professor Snape began issuing detentions.
Hermione softly smiled at her friend for standing up for her. Of course, she wished
that he had not needed to do so. She also wished that he had not called her a know-it-
all himself just that morning when she asked if he had completed his Transfiguration essay,
because no, he had not, and apparently, the fact that she had—a week before it was due no
less—was an offence to the very nature of Ron's lazy attitude in regards to education.
It was then that she realised why she enjoyed Professor Lupin's class so much. He
never made her feel like her overly-extended efforts were an offence to magic. Plus, he
seemed to genuinely care for Harry's well-being—calling him by his given name instead of
"Mr Potter" like the rest of the staff. Professor Lupin was relaxed and informal, and it
made her feel like he knew them all and respected them as well. It also did not hurt that
when he smiled at her, she felt like... Hermione's face warmed again at the thought.
Great, she silently scolded herself. Another crush on another professor. Harry and Ron
would never let her live it down. Not after everything that happened with Professor
Lockhart last year.
November 6th, 1993Her fingers were stained with ink, which was not unusual in the slightest. The two
rolls of parchment required for Professor Snape's essay had been finished long ago, and
she was just now adding the final touches to the third roll, silently wondering if he would
actually take points from her for not following directions properly. He had only asked
for two rolls of parchment, but in her defence, the amount of information she had found
would not have fit on just two rolls.
Still, in studying up on lycanthropy, she found strangely little information. Basic
facts like how the virus was transmitted (through a bite from the mouth or scratch from a