A/N: I'm baaaacccckk!!!
Pansy sat in Snape's class, two rows behind Hermione. The bushy haired girl's head was down and she was scribbling on parchment furiously; her hair tied up so it wouldn't get in the way. Pansy tried to concentrate on her Potions exam.
To make a sleeping draught, one must…
Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Lavender Brown sneaking a glance at Hermione's paper and then quickly going back to her own. Pansy watched Lavender for the next few minutes, and saw that she was completely copying Hermione's answers. Hermione, so focused on her work, did not notice.
Pansy felt a flicker of anger and immediately went back to her exam.
One must take a pinch of…
She tilted her head up. That bitch wasn't even being discreet. Why didn't Hermione just look to her right?
"Hand in your exams now. Pencils down." Snape boomed from the front. Pansy looked back down at her halfway completed exam. Fuck.
Pansy woke up from a horrid night's sleep. She didn't see Hermione last night because of the fact that they both had prefect duty. Pansy had to patrol the corridors for a few hours while Hermione patrolled opposite corridors for a few hours after that. If they had duty at the same time, Pansy probably wouldn't have considered the chore as dreadful as she did.
When she walked into Potions that afternoon, the first thing her eyes snapped onto was the most menacing face she had ever seen in her life. Professor Snape stood tall at the head of the room, with eyes that communicated pure hatred. Pansy took a seat in the back while the rest of the class filed in.
"One of you," he spat, pacing back and forth, "have committed adespicable act." Each one of his words dripped with the most potent of venom. "Aren't we a bit mature for this now?" Most of the class looked confused, but Lavender fidgeted in her seat. Snape snarled. "Who could dare to cheat on an exam? On one of my exams? Did you think I wouldn't notice?" The class was dead silent.
"If you come forth, cheater," he began, less violently, "I will spare the person you cheated from, and you will receive a zero. If you don't show yourself, you will both receive zeroes."
Pansy didn't know much about Lavender and Hermione's relationship, but she thought that Lavender would obviously reveal that she cheated. This prediction, however, was wrong. Lavender squirmed for a few seconds, but did not rise. Professor Snape inhaled sharply.
"Very well then. Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown, you both have failed the exam."
Pansy saw Lavender heading to the girl's bathroom after she left class. Her eyes were red. Pansy could not believe that Lavender could do such a thing to Hermione, when Hermione had never wronged her. Lavender was just…she was just… Pansy followed her into the bathroom.
She came into the bathroom, fists clenched, and looked around. The bathroom was empty except for Lavender, who stood looking at her face in the mirror. She turned around when she heard Pansy enter. Pansy glared at her, her face red.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Pansy shouted at Lavender, who looked back at her with terror-filled eyes. Lavender just looked at the other girl in surprise. Pansy strode up to the other girl and grabbed her roughly by the collar.
"W-Wha-a-at are you t-t-talking about?" Lavender stuttered in fear.
Pansy dragged Lavender into a stall and pushed her to her knees.
"You fucking…whore." Pansy, enraged, shoved Lavender's face into the toilet bowl. She could hear the girl gurgling in the grimy water, hands flailing wildly in the wrong directions. Pansy shoved Lavender's head down further and pinned one arm to her back.
"Don't you fucking DARE!" Pansy bent down and shouted in her ear, making sure Lavender could hear her. Lavender was making high pitched noises from her throat and slapping the side of the toilet. "Eat some BROWN, Miss BROWN!" Pansy looked down at her. What the hell am I doing? She wondered, taking a second to feel her veins pump with rage. Why am I doing this? Pansy let go, disgusted, and stepped back. Lavender pulled out of the bowl and spattered and coughed up water noisily into the toilet. Her wheezing sounded like a death rattle. Her arms shook and she laid her head down on the toilet seat, her labored breathing sending drops of toilet water out of her mouth and into the bowl. Pansy stepped back, looked at the situation, and bolted out the door.