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Forever is Eternity

Chapter 3

"What to do then?" Harry asked in a falsely bright voice. Karen looked at him her eyebrows raised in obvious contempt. "Sorry Karen, so why don't we partner up for next lesson, whatever it is. What do you think?" Karen nodded "So whatever happened with you and Dudley?" she asked grinning. Harry laughed "Well."

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Professor McGonagall cleared her throat "Students will you please partner up, we have some experiments to do, quickly now everyone." Hermione made a move to Harry, getting there to him she smiled. "Sorry Hermione, I promised that I would pair up wit Karen, old times sake, ya know?" Hermione smiled.just, and made her way over to Ron.

"Wow Harry, you're really apart from her, I'm shocked." Karen said teasingly "Did you ever doubt me?" he asked questioningly, Karen laughed.

Hermione looked over to Karen and Harry, it wasn't that she didn't trust Harry but.well looking at that girl, she was very pretty. Hermione crinkled her forehead in frustration, that girl was flirting with her boyfriend. She felt like going over there and slapping her in the face. Yet there Karen was laughing with her Harry. She was too busy staring at them, that she didn't hear Ron talking to her. "MIONE" Ron bellowed in her ear, "Sorry?" she turned around guiltily. "What's up with you?" Ron asked "Nothing" Hermione replied, shaking her head. "Oh sure, and hey I think I see a pig flying crazily up in the air." Ron told her sarcastically, Hermione pointed her wand to the ceiling and muttered "Oinkus Mobilus" and a small pink pig shot from her wand, sprouted wings and started flying. "It was supposed to be taken literally Hermione. Sheesh you make it hard for a guy to make a point." She laughed at Ron's joke, feeling a little better.

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"Now class, the partners who you have for today will consequently be your partners for your next assignment, and don't take this lightly class, this assignment will account for 50 % of your grade. Now each of you should recall the Lingoras Rule, most commonly used in the theory of transfiguration. There are a few counterparts to this rule, your job is to figure them out. They range from easy to hard, but either way you must figure one of them out and present it. Any pair who cannot complete this assignment will fail and I will not accept late assignment. That is your homework and the due date is 4 weeks from now, and believe me class, you will need all of these four weeks, if you want to get a satisfactory grade, you may go." Finishing off her long speech with a nod, Professor McGonagall turned back to her desk to mark some third year's essays. Hermione scowled, as much as she knew Harry wasn't going to cheat on her, she hated the fact that Karen was gonna spend four weeks with Harry.

She told her girl best friends Lavender and Parvati on the way back to the Gryffindor common room. Both Lavender and Parvati nodded sympathetically, and as Hermione parted off to the Owlery to send Hagrid a note. Lavender and Parvati sat talking about Hermione's dilemma "Hey Lav, I got an idea, what don't you mention stuff to Ron, I mean it looks like Mione's not gonna talk to Harry for awhile. So if Harry asks Ron why, Ron can tell him.then they will get it sorted." Parvati told Lavender quickly. "Yeah great idea Vati, I'll do that. Don't you think Karen is such a bitch? I mean it is so obvious that she wants to get her claws into Harry." Parvati nodded and both of them started bitching about Karen.

20 minutes later Jon, Parvati's boyfriend came up behind them and was welcomed into Parvati and Lavender's conversation, they were still talking about Karen and Hermione. As it turned out Jon's best friend was in Ravenclaw and incidentally was the cousin of Lan Lan and Cho. And so when they next met up Jon told Dawei about it, and Dawei being the cousin to Lan Lan told her. Lan Lan told Karen and Karen laughed.

"I don't understand why you are laughing, I mean Lavender and Parvati and Hermione are known, and well kind of respected and yet you laugh.the whole school is gonna know about this, Harry will know about this!" Lan Lan told Karen "Oh Lan, Harry will laugh. He wont take it seriously." She replied. "How do you know Karen huh?" "Because I know him. Just trust me Lan."

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Draco Malfoy watched Professor Snape in an amused fashion. he was getting angry at some stupid Ravenclaw girl, since they had put Ravenclaw's with Slytherin's instead of Gryffindor's, potions had become more boring than usual. Draco didn't need to listen too much to Snape, much to his and his fathers delight Draco had scored 120% on his last test, he even beat that mudblood. Draco looked around the classroom. It was always the same. Boring. And Draco still had another hour to go.

Karen was writing a note to Lan Lan. To Snape it looked like she was writing down his words but Karen wasn't really listening. She knew what Snape was talking about so instead she and Lan Lan flicked notes to each other. Karen was currently raving on about her mother.

And it was writing to her mother that Draco first, really laid eyes on her. She and her Asian friend were flicking notes to each other. Snape had finished talking and was directing them to write about Death Potions. Draco called out to Snape "Professor, I have a bit of a headache.I was wondering if I could go outside its really stuffy in here." "Of course Draco, maybe you should go down to Madam Pomfrey. Ms. Harding, how are you going with your essay?" Karen looked up startled "Fine." She answered "Well Ms. Harding would you please walk down with Mr. Malfoy to sick bay." It wasn't a question but a statement and Karen nodded mutely, wondering why Snape had picked her. As she got out of her chair the Professor sidetracked her and said, "How is your mother doing with her campaign?" Karen looked at Snape oddly, campaign she thought. Quickly she got her wits back and said "um the campaign, yes, mum thinks she will fare alright in it." Snape nodded curtly and motioned Karen toward Draco who was standing at the door.

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"Hows your head?" Karen asked. "Fine." Draco answered. "Fine? If its fine, what are we doing?" Karen asked "Bludging." He replied looking at her as if she was stupid. Karen wasn't against bludging but she would prefer writing notes to Lan rather than walking with this guy. "So.Draco.where exactly are we going?" Karen asked after a few silent moments of following him. "Fourth floor, the second corridor on the left, if you must know." Draco told her smiling "why?" she replied but Draco didn't answer he just shook his head. And so she followed him up the flights of stairs until they arrived at a very dusty and lonely corridor. It was here they stopped, presently they heard footsteps coming along. Karen looked up sharply, worried about it being a teacher. Bludging was one thing, getting caught was a different matter.

A pretty girl came into view, she had cropped brown hair with blonde streaks. She rushed up to Draco and started to kiss him in the corridor. Inwardly Karen cursed, she'd followed him, god she was a tool. Draco was very involved so she quickly slid out of their view and left. She didn't want to go back down to Potions, so she went into the library and settled herself in a corner with her favourite book.

Still where Karen had left him Draco stood by the entrance to the corridor, he was getting bored, his current girlfriend Pamela was getting too clingy. He liked to keep it short and sweet. "Pam, we're through." He said simply, sure he could have sugar-coated it but why bother? You had to be cruel to be kind. Pam turned to face him, "What?" she asked incredulously "You heard me, in plainer English I'm dumping you." Draco flashed her a grin and started to walk away. Pam was furious but most of all she was upset, she rushed past him trying to hold back her tears. That only made Draco grin more.