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Hermione pored over her textbook, reading the chapter they had been assigned in Transfiguration. Her dorm mates were all out and so she had decided to work there instead of the usually preferred library or Common Room. Both were unusually rowdy, and this chapter was particularly difficult to understand.
"I'm sure it'll work, it'll look fantastic with your eyes," Parvati was promising Erin and Lavender as they came into the room. Hermione groaned; she was enjoying having the room to herself. "Oh, hey Hermione! You should try it too; it's this great eye shadow…" Hermione tuned out the other girl who continued blathering about the cosmetic.
"Oh, no thanks," The bushy haired girl finally cut off, trying to understand the textbook.
"Guess what, Hermione! Parvati and I made a list of full-proof ways to get your Madame Pomfrey to shrink your teeth!" Lavender hit a soft spot, as she gave Hermione a piece of parchment.
600 Ways to Lose the Buckteeth
By: Parvati, Lavender, and Erin
1. Ask out one of the beaters on the Slytherin Quidditch team and hope his girlfriend punches you in the mouth
2. 'Trip' and hit your tooth on your cauldron
The list got more and more absurd until Hermione couldn't help herself and she burst into peals of laughter. Parvati and Lavender looked at her as if she was crazy, as she clutched her sides, straining to breathe.
"Sorry for trying to help," Erin said, feeling snubbed as the girls left Hermione, homework forgotten, tears coming out of her eyes as she tried in vain to regain composure.
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"Ha! So you took our advice after all!" Erin exclaimed triumphantly as she and Parvati went towards the table in the Common Room where Hermione was studiously working on the Potions essay.
"What advice?" She asked absently, leafing through the textbook.
"On how to shrink your teeth! Number four hundred seventy-two—get Draco Malfoy to accidentally hex you with Densaugeo and make Madame Pomfrey shrink it to a better size," Erin exclaimed, pointing to the parchment that she had taken from their dorm.
"There were six hundred ways, Erin, one of them was bound to happen sometime," Hermione said coolly, and got up to leave, having finished the assignment.
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"Here you go, Malfoy," Hermione said, disgust oozing in her voice as she dropped a galleon in his hand. Draco smiled before leaving. He didn't need the money, but getting Granger to pay him to hex her? Who knew she would stoop so low?
Whistling, he walked away, not knowing the jinx Hermione had set on the coin. Tomorrow wouldn't be a lucky day for one Draco Malfoy.
(A/N: Reviews are nice! And I know the character 'Erin' was unnecessary, but I told a friend I'd put her in.)