Title: Bloody Valentine (1/?)
Author Name: Mary Stardust
Author Email: ohstickyou@hotmail.com
Categories: Romance & Humour
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This all takes place during Valentine's Day, a lot can happen then. Hermione feels bad because she never gets any card or attention, but that's all going to change now, isn't it?
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize isn't mine…
Author notes: I got all in the mood on Valentine's day and started thinking what would people do on Valentine's day at Hogwarts?? Hmm, and here is the result… read on! Oh and I took the title from the Good Charlotte song "Bloody Valentine" because I have no imagination when it comes to coming up with catchy titles. I saw that song and I was like "Hey! It has the word Valentine in it" so I took it… oh, I'll stop rambling now…
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Valentine's day. Hermione couldn't believe it has already been a year and she was there again. The worst day of the year. First of all she had never received a single Valentine's car din her life, except for the one from Ginny last year. But Hermione thought she only gave it to her because she felt sorry for her. She was used to Ginny getting loads of cards. She was gorgeous so why shouldn't she get cards? And Harry nearly drowned in his Valentine cards. She really wanted a card this year. Why? Why didn't she ever get any cards? Or any attention at all for that matter. She didn't think she was ugly, but she wasn't ugly either.
Hermione stood up from her bed and headed to the bathroom trying to push away her thoughts. It was hard, though, as she scanned herself in the mirror. She ran her fingers through her hair. It felt all frizzy and not nice at all. Oh god I hate my hair, she thought. She released herself from her thought as someone banged on the door.
"Open up, quick! I really got to go!" someone shouted.
Hermione recognized the voice as Lavenders and shouted back, "Hold on," she shouted, "I was just going to was my face."
Hermione covered herself in water and washed away the tiredness in eyes. When she was done she opened the door and let Lavender in.
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Down in the common room Harry and Ron were waiting for Hermione to come down. They were supposed to get to breakfast together. Hermione was late and Harry who hadn't slept much last night was sitting in one of the scarlet armchairs flicking his eyes as though almost falling asleep.
"What 's she doing up there?" Ron asked in an annoyed sort of voice as he looked up at the stair to the girl's dormitories, hoping that Hermione would come down any second.
Harry mumbled something in reply as his head dropped backwards. But it shot back up when he heard Hermione rush down the stairs. She looked like she might beat the crap out of the first one that made her more annoying than she already was.
"You don't look very happy, " Ron said looking at Hermione.
"Yeah, well," Hermione said looking dangerously at Ron, "It's Valentine's day." Hermione tried not to sound annoyed but failed.
"Oh, right," Ron, said grinning. "Your favourite day of the year." he said sarcastically. He grabbed Hermione's arm. "I'm sure you get at least one card this year," he said still grinning. Hermione didn't look amused.
"Shut up." She said as she and Ron walked out of the common room, but they stopped in the hallway.
"Where's Harry?" Hermione said looking around not seeing Harry.
"Oh shit!" Ron exclaimed as Hermione started laughing. Ron went back to the common room where Harry was fast asleep in the scarlet armchair.
"HARRY!" Ron yelled and Harry shot up standing.
"What," he said tiredly, "I wasn't sleeping." Harry tried to look awake.
"Yeah, you didn't" Ron said grinning. "Now come on, we got to eat breakfast and you better start sleeping at nights and not sneak around with Hannah up to the Astronomy Tower,"
Harry looked offended. "No way have I been sneaking around with Hannah!" he said trying to keep a clear face. "I mean, I would tell you, right? Don't you trust me?" Ron burst out laughing as he said this.
"Yeah whatever," he said and they went to Hermione who had been standing the doorway listening to the conversation.
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Hermione looked around in the great hall and saw girls getting giggly over red roses and valentine cards.
"Honestly!" Hermione said a little more loudly than she intended to as Parvati ran from the Ravenclaw table to Lavender who was sitting at the Gryffindor table, shrieking "Oh my god! Oh my god! Terry Boot gave me flowers!"
"Bitter, are we?" Ron said trying to hide a smile. Hermione just glared back, but soon got busy looking at Harry. He was looking at a blonde girl at the Hufflepuff table.
He had been very distant lately. She knew he and Hannah had something 'going on'. She hadn't dared to ask anything, because she really didn't want to know details about Harry's love life, but if it made him unhappy, then she might need to do something about it.
"Harry," Hermione said but Harry didn't react, "Harry," This time Harry turned around to face Hermione.
"Huh?" he said looking lost.
"Are you alright?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah," Harry said, though Hermione was not convinced. "I'm alright."
Hermione didn't get a chance to push it more, because the mail was arriving. Hundred were now hooting in the great hall. Hermione didn't even bother to look up to see if she had received anything because she knew she hadn't. Hermione was surprised when a letter dropped into her lap. At first she just started at the red envelope.
"Open it," Ron said from across the table. Hermione picked the envelope up and saw that someone had drawn little hearts all over the envelope. Hermione opened it and inside she found a single piece of parchment with the letter 'B' written on it. This made no sense to Hermione. She looked at Harry and then at Ron. By the looks on their faces it obviously didn't mean a thing to them either. This is some sort of clue, Hermione thought´. But who sent it? And is this some kind of valentine's card? If it is then it's my first, Hermione thought and a smile crept on face. She looked up and saw that Ron was smiling at her too.
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So huh? A little short, but there is more coming…