Hermione's Chocolate

"Yummm…… chocolate…"

"Stop it, you're making me feel really sick"

Hermione couldn't have doing anything less interesting. She was sitting in the Gryffindor Common room watching as everyone else bolted down chocolate in front of her face.

Finally she couldn't stand it anymore. "I'm going to bed," she said to Harry and Ron who were sitting next to her, their hands and face covered with chocolate. She started picking her way out of the common room to the staircase, trying to avoid the gooey chocolate icing on the floor. But when she got up to the dormitory, an even more unwelcome sight greeted her. Lavender, Parvati and some other girls were in there, sharing a portion of the giant chocolate cake Dumbledore gave to Gryffindor house as a prize.

In a moment's decision, Hermione had decided to go to the library, the only chocolate free place she knew in the castle. There, she looked up everything she could think of until Madam Pince came to shoo her away.

"Time to go, Miss Granger, it's ten o'clock already. You've been in here long enough. Don't you want to go back to the chocolate cake?"

At the mention of the chocolate cake Hermione almost puked. Madam Pince saw her expression and told her to go to the hospital wing for the night, not because she was sick but because she obviously could not bear to go back to Gryffindor Tower.

So in the hospital wing she stayed that night, chocolate-free but trying to block out the moans of the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan, who tried their new invention lollies and ended up with extra fingers and toes that they couldn't get rid of. They were very disappointed because they could not be back in Gryffindor tower enjoying the chocolate cake. Madam Pomfrey asked Hermione why she was at the hospital wing because she looked fine with just a little bit of a green tinge. When Hermione explained her chocolate cake problem Madam Pomfrey just nodded knowingly and showed her to a bed.

Hermione tried to sleep, but dreaded what would the next day bring.