The bell rang and it was Defence Against the Dark Arts next with the Slytherins. Hermione wondered if she would see Malfoy there, given how he was so preoccupied with the fifth floor. Hermione made her way to the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, and she saw students all queued up outside, waiting for Professor Snape. Harry and Ron were not there yet and neither was Malfoy. For a class taught by Snape, Hermione was surprised at the lack of punctuality from Malfoy as he was always on time for his lessons. The students started piling up and most of them were outside the classroom. Hermione recalled to when she came there last year, she didn’t think of it as Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons, it was just mindless books, reading and writing. No actual magic used under the terrible Professor Umbridge. That was when Hermione, Harry and Ron had devised a plan where they would study their own lessons against the Dark Arts in a different area of the castle, up on the fifth floor, in the room of require-