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Continued;
"Are you mad? The only spell worth considering is the Calculatus spell-"
Draco was really starting to feel much better now he had coffee. And Arithmancy was one of his favourite subjects.
"I never really got that one," Granger confessed, as if she was telling him about her secret life as a Spellstripper.
Well, it wasn't as if this was in public...
"You'd have to be completely stupid not to get that one - oh, wait, there's the reason - Look it's perfectly simple."
Dobby crept off. Draco spent the next hour conducting an across-tables shouting match with Granger about Arithmancy.
Eventually even the absorbed Ravenclaw couple noticed.
"Look," said the boy, "If you two want to talk, can't you just sit together?"
"Go sit on a Blast-Ended Skrewt," Draco suggested sweetly. "Theoremagic is wildly overrated, you bushy-haired imbecile."
They had been Accio! Ing each others' napkin diagrams for some time when the door opened again.
"See here, Ferret boy, Pythagoras' Theoremagic Theorem is a classic," Granger was saying heatedly.
"You mean it's old and useless, Mudblood? Quite so."
"Malfoy! Why are you bothering Hermione?"
Oh, lovely. If it wasn't the Boy Who Lived To Be Self-Righteous, and his sidekick, Weasley the Freckled Wonder.
Granger looked around and beamed. "Harry, Ron! Nice of you to join us!"
"Us?" Echoed the Weasel.
"Granger and the little voices in her head," Draco explained loftily. He finally remembered about his toast, which had gone stone cold. "And I'd be eating, but the sight of you is having such an effect on my upjerk reflex..."
"And the sight of you is having such an effect on my Really Wanting to Pound Your Pasty Face In reflex," growled Weasley.
"One, I wasn't doing anything, Weasel boy, and two, I'd like to see you try it, and three, what do you mean by pasty?"
Draco stood up, weighing the odds. He could take Weasley, Wizard Wannabe alone, and with Potter added... Hmm...
"Just leave it, Ron," Hermione said. "You don't need to waste time on