part 3: epilogue

Three weeks had past. The love potion was supposed to have already worn off.

"I don't know what I was thinking, going out with you!" Sara-chan overheard Draco yelling at Harry. Sara flinched.

"You're right, it was crazy," Harry replied bitterly.

The argument continued for a little while, and Sara was beginning to think maybe her potion did do more harm than good, when Harry suddenly threw himself into Draco's arms.

"Draco, the truth is, it wasn't really crazy... it wasn't bad or stupid at all... I don't know what got into us that night, to make us start going out, but I don't truly regret it, do you?"

Draco looked shocked, but not half as shocked as Sara felt. Could it be...?

"No," Draco replied softly, carefully, "You're right, I don't know what got into us. I wasn't being myself. But, honestly, I did love you long before that night... you mean more to me than you can imagine, Potter, and I know it may seem strange or even sick, but I do really love you." The words came out awkwardly from his mouth, as if he had never said such a thing before.

That was when Harry started to cry.

"And Draco, Draco, I have needed you, I have loved you, and I thought you would never even realize it..."

And they kissed, a true, real kiss, unaffected by any potion.

"Wheeeeeee!" Sara exclaimed to herself and her Pikachu, and ran off to check on Takeshi-sensei.

"The wedding is still on," he said as she burst into his office, relief obvious in his voice. "I thought the end of the potion would mark the end of his love, but it didn't, Sara-chan, it didn't!" He looked at her with gratitude shining in his already sparkly eyes. "In those three weeks, we really did fall in love!"

"Wheeeee!"

And she ran off before he could say any more. She went to Hermione's room.

Hermione sat on her bed with Ron, eyes glued to the portable DVD player, some Slayers episode playing.

"Hermione, I've decided to go back to America," Sara-chan announced. Hermione looked up at her, obviously surprised.

"But the school year is only halfway through!" She exclaimed.

"You can't go, Sara-chan," Ron interjected, "You brought anime to this school! You have changed our lives forever!"

Sara-chan smiled happily. Ha. Finally, someone appreciated the value of an anime otaku.

"But, I've done all I really wanted to do, and more," she replied, then added, "Well, besides Draco Malfoy, but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon."

Ron looked disgusted, and went back to watching Slayers.

"I promise I'll send you all lots of anime, okay? And Hermione, you can keep that Rabien Rose plushie."

"Yay!" Hermione put her fingers up in a little victory sign. "Yatta!"

Sara-chan then went to see Dumbledore with her request.

She realized that, in all her time there, she had not yet seen Dumbledore. When she did see him, she thought he was scary looking.

He agreed to let her go back to America, and also volunteered to do one thing in her memory, as Hogwart's first ever American exchange student: Put in a big screen TV at Hogwarts just for anime viewing.

She was just about to leave when she remembered that she hadn't ever seen Oliver Wood or Percy. She ran off to ask Hermione about them.

"Idiot, they graduated two years ago," Hermione said with her old know-it-all voice.

Oh, yeah.

Sara-chan packed up all her bags and was almost out of the door when she was confronted by Draco Malfoy.

"Draco-poo! You do love me after all! You came to say good bye!" Sara-chan exclaimed.

"No. I know what you did," he stared at her, unmoving, "I know how you and Hermione drugged me and Harry."

Sara-chan cringed. Not good. Not good at all...

"Thank you, Sara-chan! Thank you so much! We would never have realized our love for each other if it wasn't for you!" And for the first time ever, Draco hugged Sara-chan.

And everyone was happy. ^_^