Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger (duh)
Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter, yada yada
Beta'd by: Naiyo-Nightbringer
Challenge (from Calliandra): A fic that centers around the library, where Hermione spends all her spare time and unknown to Harry and Ron, a certain Malfoy does as well. Should be told from the library's point of view, and the challenge is to create the library's own personality; it can either be match-making, or just enjoying the mayhem that ensues when Hermione and Draco are together.
Second Challenge-which I will do my best to stay on as well-(from Kailing):
* Include the quote: "Ah me, sad hours seem so long" (from Romeo and Juliet)
* Have a scene in which Ron exclaims "He's nothing but a pink fluffy TOWEL!"
* Hermoine having sneezing fits whenever she's around Draco (you can name the curse that causes this whatever you wish)
* Magically NOT have either Ron or Harry like Hermoine as well
* Draco and Hermoine must act IN CHARACTER
* Story told from the point of view of a Hufflepuff in the same year as Hr/D
* Draco cross dressing as a gothic ballet dancer
* Crookshanks eating a cookie
Summary: What happens when a girl, stuck for all eternity as a transfigured book in the library, takes a certain interest in the goings on at Hogwarts, namely the interactions between a certain member of the Golden Trio and the Slytherin Prince?
A/n: I don't write all that much, at least not continuously. Taking on this challenge as a goal for myself, so please bear with me as I will probably update sporadically. Anyway, point is, I love you all and will do my best to actually FINISH this story.
Word Count: 205
The girl groaned for what seemed like the 20th time that day (inaudibly of course) and wished again that she hadn't tried so hard to seduce the strangely beautiful, yet harsh and cold Tom Riddle back in her 5th year at Hogwarts. He had-as she now knew-confounded one of his flunkies who was skilled in the arts of transfiguration, and sent her a very poetic love note which told her to come to the library. Since she was so naive back then, she had readily complied. His "friend" cursed her with petrificus totalus, and then transfigured her into a book, all without her seeing it was coming. She'd been stuck here for the past 52 years, and was getting more annoyed with every slow day that went by. The summers were the WORST though. At least when school was going she had the students to watch. She did so hope that bright 4th year girl would notice her. Even from her position of sitting alone on a hidden shelf. Perhaps she would even help to return her to her body. She seemed rather nice, especially for a Gryffindor. It was of course, a well known fact that Hufflepuff's were FAR superior to the other houses.
More a/n's: This is just a preface to give you a bit of background. I will cross of the checklist of challenges as I go. Here is the math for the timeline by the way
*Riddle is a year older then "the book" (henceforth Lux) at the time she was transfigured, as we all know girls fall for the older bad boy routine
*1943-Lux is 16 and starting her 5th year (birthday September 18th, 1925)
*1943-Tom Riddle is 17 and starting his 6th year (birthday New Year's Eve, 1926)
*1995-Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Malfoy start their 5th year at Hogwarts
One more little side-note, the time of year in this preface is sometime mid-late summer, late July-early August.
Sorry for the shortness of the chapter, next one will be of normal length.