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Prologue

It was the middle of the day, near the end of the semester and Hermione along with Harry and Ron were making their way to Potions class. All year Snape had been favoring the Slytherins of course nothing more was expected out of him because he was the Head of the Slytherin house. During his classes he looked for any kind of excuses to punish and withdraw points from the Gryffindores. Such excuses apparently included raising ones hand too much. That had gotten Hermione in trouble at least 7 time just this semester. So it made perfect since for the Gryffindores to feel uncomfortable about their upcoming class where they would be finding out what their main assignment was going to be. An assignment that would be taking up to 45% of their whole Year grade. Hermione actually felt her palms were sweaty.

Hermione took her seat beside Lavender, right behind Harry and Ron. She tended to sit at the very front of the class but today she didn't want to draw unwanted attention, or get more points taken away from Gryffindore house because of her eagerness to learn. The rest of the students swiftly made their way into their seats and waited patiently for professor Snape to make his usual, dramatic entrance. Shortly after Snape did so and then stood at the center of the head of the class, silent and staring coldly.

Hermione actually felt like inching lower in to her seat when his eyes fell on her, but bravely she stayed put.

"As you all know, today is a very important day in your academic lives." Snape said venom icing his voice. "We are now in the beginning of QWL's week and I want you all to know that this class will be your worst nightmare." He finished staring at Harry's table.

The Gryffindores were too scared to even groan. The Slytherins though only snickered.

"This week we will be working on the principles of a very important potion, the Amoris Mortem. Some of you may better know this potion by its traditional English name; Love's Death." Snape continued oblivious to the Slytherins' remarks.

When Hermione heard the Latin name of the potion she immediately cringed. She could remember reading something about that potion during Spring break. That potion was some what like a love potion except it was 20 times stronger. If a simple love potion made someone affectionate towards someone whom they hated, the Amoris Mortem worked and became stronger by feeding off that hatred felt by those two people. The potion would drive the person insane, so much that it would eventually cause drastic and terrible effects, most commonly heard of was death. Why would their potions teacher want the students to learn anything as dangerous as that? It was crazy.

There was a sudden shower of gasps from the class during that instant of silence from Snape.

"Don't be childish. As if I would be held responsible for you . . . beginners . . . I know very well what this potion signifies and also its dangers, that is why I have chosen this assignment for the finals. Of course to make things more . . . interesting . . . you will be allowed to work in a group."

the students almost sighed in relief and were cut off by Snapes' continuation.

"I will name off your partners in order. Clear your desks because you will be sitting together through the rest of the year."

The Gryffindores were hesitant for a moment then cleared off their desks. The Slytherins on the other hand cleared off their desks almost cheerfully. They obviously knew that Snape would never pair them up into teams that they would not be happy with.

Professor Snape materialized a piece of parchment, then proceeded to read students names off in groups of two.

"Millicent Bulstrode, Neville Longbottom. Pansy Parkinson, Harry Potter. Daphne Greengrass, Ron Weasley. Vincent Crabbe, Katie Bell. Gregory Goyle, Parvati Patil. Blaise Zabini, Lavender Brown. Seamus Finnigan, Tracey Davies. Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger. And lastly Dean Thomas and Astoria Greengrass." Professor Snape finished with a smirk across his face.

At first the class was silent. Then realizing, as professor Snape continued on without pause , that he had made no mistake in the pairings, the students looked around at each other in shock. Every Gryffindore was paired off with a Slytherin, each group was male and female, and by the looks of it each group contained people that strongly hated each other.

When Hermione heard her being paired off with Malfoy she felt her body grow numb. She turned to look at Lavender who was pale and visibly shaking. She could faintly hear the students beginning to argue about Snapes partnering plans. Hermione looked at Harry and Ron who were openly protesting. Then feeling her neck and face grow hot in anger she turned to face the far left corner of the class. There, at the very back of the class, almost in the shadows of the corner he sat, leaning arrogantly relaxed and staring straight at her. Her partner for the rest of the semester wore an amused smirk across his face, and his silver gray eyes stared straight in to her own hazel ones.