part 2: the potion

The Yaoi Love Potion required a large list of very hard to obtain ingredients. However, if there was one thing Hermione was good for, it was obtaining things that were very hard to obtain. Plus, having the total and complete support of the DADA teacher was useful. This all made Sara-chan very happy.

At the moment, Hermione was back to her usual self, reading over huge volumes about yaoi love potions, although they already had all the information they needed.

"Well, Professor Takeshi promised us extra credit if the potion turned out right," Hermione had justified her actions.

"Yes. And it would be damn sexy, too."

"Yes. That too," Hermione agreed. Sara-chan smiled; she liked Hermione as a yaoi fanatic.

Sara-chan, however, was not about to do any extra work, especially if Hermione was willing to do it for her. She danced her stuffed Pikachu around the stone floor of Hermione's dorm room.

"Itooshii hito no tame ni, ima nani ga dekiru ka na? Kanawanai yume wa nai yo! Massugu ni shinjiteru..." She sang loudly, despite the fact that she knew her voice was very much off-key.

"Would you please shut up?" Hermione asked, none too politely. Sara-chan pouted. She handed Hermione a Rabien Rose plushie she pulled out from underneath her cloak.

"Zangoku na tenshi no you ni, shounen yo shinwa ni nare!" Sara-chan sang even louder. Hermione smiled suddenly and joined in.

That was when Harry Potter showed up, breathless and looking sufficiently angry. Hermione and Sara-chan exchanged looks; breathless, eh?

"Sara-chan!" He said as threateningly as he could manage, "In the name of the Moon I will punish you!"

Sara-chan blinked twice, then quickly regained her composure. "Aa! Harii Pottaa, anta wa kawaii~~~~~~~!"

He glared at her. "My Invisibility Cloak is gone. And YOU stole it, didn't you?"

Sara-chan looked over at Hermione again. Hermione looked more than a little guilty.

"Oh yeah," Sara-chan said slowly, "We forgot to return it, didn't we?"

"We?" Harry looked over at Hermione, disbelief on his face. "Hermione, you've been in league with this criminal? I don't believe you! You traitor!"

"Um... Harry, darling... it's okay... ya see, we just borrowed it for a little while, that's all, you can have it back now if you want..." Hermione looked as if she had never been caught like this before. Harry seemed just astonished.

"Hermione, I thought you were on my side! And what's this... Yaoi Love Potion? What's yaoi? Oh, I'm sure it doesn't matter... don't tell me you two stole my Invisibility Cloak so that you can try and steal Draco from... from..." Harry seemed suddenly embarrassed, "From whoever he's interested in now," he finished weakly.

Hermione giggled.

Harry threw in one final glare, picked up his Invisibility Cloak which was lying on the ground conspicuously, and left.

"Sooo gay," Hermione commented. Sara-chan nodded. "Are you sure we even need this potion?"

They looked at each other and burst out laughing.

"Of course!" They said in unison.

***

When they got to the last ingredient, Sara-chan did a double take. No. This could not be happening...

"Okay, read me the last ingredient," Hermione said with her usual bossy tone.

"Umm... well... it involves a white substance... that I think we need some man to help us get..." Sara-chan turned bright red as she said this.

Hermione's voice was flat. "No. You're not serious, are you?"

"Yup," Sara said, "Quite serious. And there's only one man we can ask."

Hermione flinched slightly and they went to visit Takeshi-sensei.

***

"You want me to get you what?" Takeshi-sensei exclaimed. They started to repeat the request, but he stopped them.

"Just this once. Just for Snape-sama... Just for him..." The professor did not look particularly happy. In fact, he looked like he might go insane.

"Arigatou de gozaru yo!" Sara-chan said, bowing several times in gratitude.

"Thank you," Hermione said, slightly more normally.

They had the last ingredient the next day, and the potion was ready.

Coincidentally, that same day there was a Slytherin party planned. Slytherin parties usually scared Sara; they seemed more like Love Volde-poo Days than anything normal. And all the older Slytherins brought alcohol, which scared poor Sara-chan. But at least she got to snuggle with Draco-poo, often quite a bit, especially when he got drunk. ^_^

However, her and Hermione decided this might be the perfect chance to use their Yaoi Love Potion.

They put their plan into action late in the day, only a few hours before the party started.

"Hermione!" Sara-chan said suddenly in the middle of a conversation with Harry, as if she had just thought of it, "I was thinking, there's a Slytherin party tonight, wanna come?"

"Me? Come to a Slytherin party? Are you crazy?" Hermione's voice was perfectly skeptical and imperious, almost causing Sara-chan to smirk. They were great at this...

"Well, you're really my only friend here," Sara-chan said, voice soft and pleading. That was believable enough; only another equally obsessed person could even begin to understand Sara-chan, and no one else had really bothered.

"You seem awfully close to Malfoy," Harry added, jealousy all too obvious in his voice. It was difficult for both Sara-chan and Hermione to keep from laughing.

"But that's only 'cause he's cute. He's still really boring, and mean."

"I don't know... I'm not sure I trust you Slytherins... could Harry come too?" Hermione asked.

"Anou... sure!"

"Wait a minute!" Harry exclaimed, "I never volunteered to come!"

"But you're my friend, Harry, you won't let me go into that snake den alone, right? I hear they have alcohol at Slytherin parties, and sometimes drugs, too..." She said this as if it was the greatest crime ever. Sometimes Sara-chan was happy that she was a Slytherin and not one of those boring, boring Gryffindors.

"Well," Harry said predictably, "Since you're one of my best friends, I'll never leave your side! I owe everything to you!"

"Of course you do," Hermione smirked.

***

The book claimed that they should put a few drops of potion into the drinks of the man they want to be affected, and that the next man they touched they would fall instantly and totally in love with for a period of three weeks. This was fine, because it was exactly three weeks until Christmas Break began, and then Sara would be going home for awhile anyway. Also, it would be just in time for the Yule Ball. Unfortunately, anything that would make people fall in love forever required a much higher level of magic than either Sara-chan or Hermione was able to perform.

"Damn illegal potions," Hermione muttered.

However, it was not at all hard to sneak stuff into Draco's beer, and it was only a little harder to sneak stuff into Harry's water. This difficulty came from the way Harry constantly eyed Sara-chan with the utmost suspicion.

"Damn boring Gryffindors," Sara-chan muttered.

It did not go unnoticed by either Hermione or Sara-chan how Harry and Draco were lounging unnaturally close to each other on the sexy black leather couch of the Slytherin common room. They giggled happily.

Then they fed them the drinks.

As soon as they both took a sip, almost at exactly the same time, a kind of shock spread over their faces. Hermione and Sara-chan watched intently, and breathed a sigh of relief as Harry's hand brushed against Draco's leg.

"Whee," Sara-chan whispered over to Hermione.
They watched as well as that same hand began to stroke that same leg in a very suggestive manner.

"Dude. I didn't think it would make them horny, too," Hermione commented.

"Whee!" Sara-chan repeated.

And that was when it all started.

It was almost sickening, even to the two avid yaoi fanatics. A suggestive Look, another suggestive Look, a slight movement just a little closer...

Sara-chan thought that maybe they should get a room, but then she realized that if they got a room, she would want to get a video camera, and that might be difficult. So she continued to watch happily from a distance, though shielding Pikachu's eyes.

"Harry, I have something to tell you," Draco whispered, quietly but still loudly enough for Sara and Hermione to hear. The rest of the Slytherins were partying, so they didn't notice.

"What?" Harry's replied breathlessly, gazing up into Draco's eyes in such a way that Sara-chan was sure he would have bubbly eyes if he was in an anime.

"I... I'm in love with you. I always have been. Whatever I have said to you in the past, I apologize... It was all the depths of my passion for you, only you... and I want to be with you always and forever."

"Oh, Draco!" Harry replied, "I love you, too! Of course I forgive you for everything you have ever said or done to me... you are the light of my life, my world revolves around you completely... I am madly and desperately in love with you, Draco!"

And they started to make out on the black leather couch in the middle of the Slytherin common room.

And the other Slytherins suddenly did notice, and were rather taken aback.

"Dude," Hermione commented, quite unsure of anything else to say.

"Whee!" Sara-chan repeated for the third time that evening, enjoying the moment quite a bit.

***

"Ron, there's something I have to tell you," Harry said as he returned to the Gryffindor rooms early the next morning. Ron sat up worriedly.

"Harry! Where were you? I was so worried... and then I couldn't find Hermione either... are you okay?"

"I've never been better in my life. Ron, what I need to tell you is... I'm gay. And I'm going out with Draco darling."

Ron just looked at him, utterly speechless for a few seconds, then: "Draco... darling?!"

"Do you have a problem with it?!" Harry asked, again putting on his threatening voice, "Draco Malfoy is a kind, caring, and loving man. He even promised me last night that he would never be a Death Eater, just for me!"

"I don't want to know. I do not want to know," Ron looked slightly frightened, "Look, Draco? The gay part I can deal with, but Draco?! That's just wrong! It's sick, Harry, sick!"

"What's sick about it?" Harry asked indignantly, "I love him, and he loves me."

Ron looked dubiously at his best friend. That was when something occurred to him.

When Harry got upset about something this year, he had kept blaming it, no matter what it was, on either Voldemort or Sara-chan. He doubted very much that Voldemort would do anything to make Harry and Draco go out, it just wasn't his style, but Sara-chan... she was the one who was ogling the DADA teacher, after all... and rumor had it that she had explicit gay sex comic books under her bed...

Ron stormed out of the room and went off to find Sara-chan.

***

He found her sitting in her room with Hermione, both of them staring intently at some medium-sized object with a moving picture inside of it and strange voices speaking in a language he didn't recognize coming from it.

"Where were you two last night?" Ron asked bluntly. Hermione looked up, blushed deeply, and hid the object away.

"Not a good idea to let Ron watch Kizuna," she whispered to Sara-chan. Sara-chan nodded knowingly.

"Well, we were at a Slytherin party," Hermione answered, deciding truth was the best way to go.

"Did you turn Harry gay?" He asked, equally bluntly. The two girls looked at each other.

"How could we do that?" Hermione asked carefully.

"This is a magic school, ya know. You can do an awful lot of harm... well, maybe not you, Hermione, you can only do the right and good thing, I know that, but Sara... what did you do to Harry?"

"I did nothing at all," she lied. Ron glared viciously at her. She suddenly jumped up, pushed her stuffed Pikachu into Ron's face, said "Pika!" and ran out of the room.

"You two have fun together!" She shouted from outside the room.

She left Ron and Hermione staring at each other awkwardly.

***

Unbeknownst to Hermione, Sara-chan had escaped with the remainder of the potion in her pocket. She was running to visit Takeshi-sensei.

She literally bumped into him as he was coming out of the classroom. For a second, she felt mesmerized by the sparkles surrounding him... by his deep emerald eyes...

"Yes?" He asked.

"I... I finished our extra credit project," she smirked triumphantly. "And thanks muchly for your contribution."

Takeshi-sensei turned bright red. "That's very nice, Sara-chan, you are quite welcome... um, perhaps we should go somewhere else to discuss this?"

Sara-chan nodded. He led her to his office, a small, dark little room, with a huge stack of magazines Sara would really have liked to looked at in one corner.

"Okay. Do you know if it works?" He asked her, closing the door behind them and switching on a few lights.

"Very well. We used it on Harry and Draco last night, and they're already going out. And they started to make out on the couch in the Slytherin common room. And it was sexy."

"I see. Tell me the conditions, please. And thank you so much for doing this," he smiled, and the smile seemed to increase the sparkleness in great amounts. Sara could not help but smile back. She told him all of the directions with great caution, making sure not to mess up on anything, and then added:

"Oh, by the way, I don't really care about my extra credit points, I just wanted to make the potion for personal reasons, so could you give double extra credit to Hermione? She did a lot more than me, anyway."

He looked at her with pride in his eyes. "You are a very kind girl, Sara-chan. Of course I will."

"Thank you!"

Sara-chan had never been happier in her life. Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy were going out. Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy had made out where she could watch. Takeshi-sensei was about to start fulfilling those inappropriate thoughts with Snape-sensei. Takeshi-sensei had called her 'kind'. It seemed that everything was going right!

She returned back to her room unthinking, to find Hermione and Ron on her bed together.

Watching anime.

She stood for a moment in shock, when Ron smiled up at her.

"I had no idea this was the kind of thing you were so crazy about! It's great! That Rei Ayanami chick from Neon Genesis Evangelion, she's hot! And I love how those huge robots defend Tokyo, that just rocks!"

Hermione looked at Sara sympathetically.

"Well, I couldn't exactly show him Kizuna," she offered as an explanation, "It's better than collecting Wizard cards from Chocolate Frogs."

Sara nodded numbly.

***

Three things of great importance happened that next day. The first was that the whole school found out about Harry and Draco. They seemed more shocked than anything else; Ginny alone seemed unhappy, but everyone figured she'd get over it pretty quickly.

Now, Harry and Draco weren't exactly being subtle about this. They walked through school all day holding hands, giggling, and occasionally exchanging little kisses. Late in the evening Harry asked to borrow one of Hermione's dresses, and went around wearing that.

In truth, it was all actually pretty damn frightening.

However, Sara-chan and Hermione did not see it in that way. Instead, they were in heaven, watching the yaoi live in front of them, wishing fervently that the three weeks could last forever.

The second important thing was that Takeshi-sensei used the potion on Snape at some moment, and at dinner that night, an announcement was made.

The Professors Snape and Takeshi were to be married.

It came as a shock to even Sara-chan and Hermione, as they had not really realized that their potion could have that big an effect on the people. They were even a little worried, wondering what would happen to the marriage idea after the potion wore off. But oh, well! Everyone was happy for now.

The third important thing was that, because of Ron's big mouth, by the end of the day, practically every student at Hogwarts liked anime.

***

TWO WEEKS LATER

"Darling," Draco addressed Harry, "I have something to ask you."

"Yes?" Harry looked up adoringly at his boyfriend.

"Will you go to the Yule Ball with me, my love, my one and only?"

"Oh, Draco honey! Of course I will!"

***

"Hey, Severus," Takeshi suddenly thought to ask as they were laying in the bed they shared late one night, "We should go to that Yule Ball thing together, shouldn't we?"

"Eh," Snape seemed displeased, "I hate balls. I hate anything with all those annoying kids."

"Please?" Takeshi looked up adoringly at his boyfriend.

"Oh, okay, just for you."

"Yay!"

***

"Hermione," Ron said slowly, face reddening to match his hair, "Hermione, there's something I want to ask you."

"Yes?" Hermione looked up from the Gravitation manga she was reading. It impressed even Ron, who always had total and complete faith in Hermione's intelligence, that she had managed to learn Japanese fluently in two weeks.

"I was wondering... I was wondering... I was wondering if you would go to the Yule Ball with me," he said boldly. Hermione paused a moment.

"Ron..." Hermione looked up adoringly at her boyfriend-to-be. Delight spread slowly over her face.

"Yes, yes I will, Ron," she answered happily.

***

Sara didn't really mind not having a date for the Yule Ball. If she thought about it, the only guys she really wanted were gay anyway. Now, if she could have two man-slaves who would do inappropriate things for her with each other, that was a different story. But a real boyfriend?

That was no fun.

She went, though, and watched as Draco and Harry showed up with their arms around each other, Harry in another one of Hermione's dresses. She watched as Snape and Takeshi-sensei showed up together, a death glare to rival Heero Yuy's on Snape's face. She watched as Hermione and Ron came together, too, Hermione looking more lovely than ever before, and Ron dressed in fancy dress robes she guessed he had great trouble affording.

Tears came to Sara's eyes as she watched each couple dance together, slowly embracing one another with infinite love and tenderness. She noticed that they were dancing to 'First Love' by Utada Hikaru, for it seemed that anime fandom had now completely overtaken Hogwarts.