In the common room.

It had been a pretty normal day for Miss Granger. Normal lessons, normal assignments and normal levels of being called a know-it-all. It was all pretty normal. She stumbled into the common room, arms filled with rolls of parchment. "you alright there Hermione?" Harry asked, looking at the bundle of scrolls. "yeah, perfectly fine" she replied, staggering past him. She climbed up the stairs, strode into the dormitory and dumped the parchment on her desk. She sighed and slumped on her bed. "wow, they sure do keep you well-stocked" Ginny exclaimed, looking at the parchment tower. "it's not even mine" Hermione panted. "they're actually meant to go to the owlery later, but it's too far for me to go" Ginny scooped the rolls into her arms and dumped them on top of her bed. Hermione kicked her shoes off, dumped her robes and scarf on the floor and stretched. "that tiring, huh?" Ginny asked chuckling. "even I'll admit I study too much" Hermione replied, sighing. "well, I'll leave you to it" Ginny muttered, leaving the dorm. Hermione rolled over, drew the curtains around her bed shut and began to strip off. She dropped her clothes in her bedside drawer and settled under her bedsheet. "please don't disturb me" she muttered before drifting off to sleep.

When she reawoke, the sun had set and everything was silent. She sat up and looked around. The fire in the middle of the dorm was crackling, bathing the room in a faint orange glow. She rubbed her eyes and smiled. "huh, did I really sleep that long?" she quietly muttered to herself. She slipped out of bed and pulled her uniform back on. "well, seeing as there's no-one around, I can sort out what I need to do without getting distracted" she grabbed her bag, scooped the rolls of parchment into her arms and quietly slipped out of the dormitory. As she got to the common room, she noticed harry sat by the fire, flicking through his notes. "what are you still doing up?" she hissed, catching harry by surprise. "oh, Hermione. um..." he tried stuffing his notebook into his bag but she grabbed it before he could. She flicked through the pages and chuckled. "so nothing harmless then" she exclaimed, handing him his notebook back. "where are you off to anyway?" he asked. "well, I've gotta drop these rolls at the owlery and then I'll get some revision done in the library" she explained. "I thought we weren't allowed out at night" he said. Hermione flashed harry her prefect badge and smiled, before heading out of the common room. Harry shrugged and went back to his notes.

As Hermione rounded the corner to the common room, she spotted one of the other prefects at the end of the hall. "hi Hermione" the boy said. "hi. do you know if the owlery's still open?" she asked, lifting the rolls up. "it's always open" he replied. "oh, I was meant to give you this earlier" he grabbed a sack from off the floor and handed it to Hermione. "professor Dumbledore wanted to give it to you, make it easier to carry those rolls" she chuckled, dumped the rolls into the bag and slung the sack over her shoulder. "see you around" she said, setting off for the owlery. She rounded the corridor and looked down at her uniform, which was coated in dust. She sighed. "I knew I should've cleaned that drawer out" she muttered, trying to brush the dust off her jumper and robes with little success. "I could drop by the prefects bathroom and give my clothes a quick clean, but I need to drop these rolls off before morning"