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Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot and some of the potions and spells are made up by me (also in this chapter I use lyrics of songs, but I include the artist's names alongside it. If you don't know the songs, google them – you'll know them if you hear them :-) )

The Irresistibility Potion

Chapter 29

Students were all over the place; singing their favourite songs, dancing in odd ways (one Hufflepuff almost tripping over Professor Flitwick) and just talking excitedly about what they were planning on doing.

"Too bad Pansy isn't here; she would've loved this assignment." Blaise said in a little bit of a guilty voice, but Draco didn't hear him, he had already done his well-practiced skill of disappearing when nobody noticed and miraculously made his way to Hermione Granger who he had quickly gripped and cornered next to a Gargoyle where they could not be seen.

"Malfoy!" she said, giggling a little in shock.

"Do you honestly still get surprised when I corner you, woman?"

Hermione grinned; "No, not really."

Draco laughed; "You know the story of Hansel and Gretel?"

"Uhm...yes..." she said with a frown.

"I'll be leaving magical bread crumbs from here to a secret hiding spot in the forbidden forest that only you will be able to see... I'll have a surprise waiting for you..."

"Magical bread crumbs? But we can't use any mag..."

"I know. I did my research. Magical bread crumbs can't be detected, the magic is too weak." He winked at her. "Don't let me down." He pecked her on the cheek and almost like a snake, he slithered out of the hiding spot and away he went, undetected.

Not long afterwards, Hermione made her way out from behind the Gargoyle and spotted little pieces of bread glowing green on the ground. She walked casually past a few giggling girls and kept on walking, the breadcrumbs heading towards the forbidden forest. She looked behind her to make sure that she had not been seen and when she looked back, the breadcrumbs in front of her glowed a deep shade of green, still as if glow-in-the-dark, but magnified.

She walked a little longer until she found a spot she had never seen before.

Deep in the forest, from what Hermione could gather was a round piece of open land filled with only melting snow and lots of brown leaves, but it was glowing green all over that spot and she could tell that that was her destination.

She moved closer and closer and when she got there, she was once again speechless.

Lanterns with green candles inside them were floating above the air, easily millions of them just hanging from the sky shining like stars. Underneath the lanterns was a big blanket with a tartan print on it and Draco Malfoy was lying on it, staring at her like she had been the most beautiful creature he had ever seen in his life.

Hermione smiled. It seemed like such a simple little thing, it was just him lying on a blanket with flying lanterns around him, but to her it felt like the most special thing in the world, especially because it came from the most unexpected person in the world.

"Can I tell you something about magic lanterns...?" he asked as she gazed at him from a distance.

She didn't answer him, but by the way she cocked her head, he knew he should tell her.

"If you answer each of my questions truthfully, they each have a present for you..."

Hermione looked down at the ground and smiled to herself. Of course! They were Willing Lanterns, the types only the elite could afford, ones that were very expensive, but you could will them to give you anything your heart desired, material things only, of course.

She still stayed where she was and looked back at Draco.

"Do you regret giving me your virginity that night?" he asked.

Hermione's face froze before she spoke; "Under the circumstances...yes..." Draco said nothing and just looked at the ground, listening; "but because it was with you... no."

As Hermione said that a lantern made its way above her and cracked open. Next thing she knew, she was holding a bright red rose in her hand as she watched the lantern turn to dust and fall across the grass.

She smiled and walked closer to Draco who was now grinning back at her.

Hermione sat next to him on the blanket, but as she did so, they heard a cracking noise in the distance. Draco gasped and suddenly checked behind him.

"What is it?" asked Hermione, alarmed.

Draco shook his head, like he was telling himself he was being ridiculous and turned back to Hermione. "You know you mean the world to me, right?" he said, smiling again.

She nodded happily and another lantern cracked open above her, leaving a box of Turkish-delight chocolates on her lap.

"If I...?" another crack and Draco jumped again at the noise.

"Draco, are you alright?"

"Yes...yes I'm fine." He said quickly, the asked in a whisper; "If I told you there was a way for us to be together without anyone finding out about us, would you go along with it?"

Hermione stalled and as she did this, Draco jumped at another crack that was coming closer.

"Draco, are you scared someone's going to find us here?" she asked, suddenly cross with his paranoia.

He sighed.

"I knew it...and the answer is no Draco, I can't hide my love for you." She said a little more abruptly.

"But Hermione..."

"Save it Malfoy!" she said and started to charge back out of the woods, but before she was out of sight she saw something behind a rock and shook her head. "It was a squirrel, a bloody squirrel!" she snapped and pointed at the said squirrel behind the rock and marched back out of the woods.

Draco felt like a fool.

He had never loved anyone before, why did he have to love such an arrogant girl?

Why was he so paranoid anyway?

He got up and walked to the rock, indeed there was a little squirrel nibbling on an acorn looking at him as if it was mocking him before it ran back into the woods again.

Draco let out an agitated growl and kicked the leaves underneath him. He had to do something to fix everything, he couldn't mess up again!

"What's the mat-"

"Nothing!" Hermione yelled at a taken-aback Ron who was sitting at a table listening to music on his own before storming into the girls' dormitories.

She slammed the door behind her as she made her way to her bed.

"What the bloody hell got into your knickers?" asked Ginny who was innocently having a chat to Lavender Brown about an article in a magazine before Hermione's appearance.

"Men! Boys! The male species got into my knickers!" she said angrily but stopped when she realised what she was saying; "I mean...well you know what I mean!"

Ginny and Lavender giggled and Hermione looked a little embarrassed.

"Do a song about it with me." Ginny suggested as she grabbed Lavender's magazine from under her nose to show Hermione.

Hermione took the magazine from Ginny's hands slowly while giving Ginny a curious look. She then looked at the article that was all about legendary songs and who made them.

The one that was highlighted was a song called I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.

"You have got to be joking..." she said with a slight giggle in her tone.

"Oh no...I'm planning on dragging the boys into this too."

Hermione couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah... good luck with that." She winked at Ginny who looked quite sure of herself.

It was as if the new theme had brought some sort of happiness to Hogwarts and you could hear singing wherever you walked in the school. For the first time in a while, Hogwarts seemed like it was at peace and that everyone had chosen to either ignore their enemies or just to deal with them.

"You're joking?" asked George, arms folded as he gazed shockingly at his little sister.

"Not at all!" said Ginny, smiling widely.

"You don't expect us to sing this, do you?" asked Fred.

"Yes Fred, and yes George. I do and you will."

Hermione giggled. "Ginny and I were talking and we think you would look good in a pair of tutu's doing it too. Wouldn't that be a brilliant idea?"

The boys gasped!

"Kidding!" the girls said in unison and laughed at their shocked expressions.

"Sorry to burst your bubble girls..." said a nervous Harry who was standing close to a tree as they were all standing in the Transfiguration Courtyard "...but Ron and I already planned something else."

Ginny raised her shoulders. "No matter, we only need twins for this particular show." She said and smiled slyly at her twin brothers.

"Oh no..." the Weasly twins said in unison in a soft whisper.

Hermione smiled at them and put an arm over each one's shoulder. "It'll be great fun, I promise!"

They looked at each other behind Hermione's head and pulled faces that implied that they were only expecting a disaster.

Draco loathed her arms around them. He was sure she saw him in the distance. He could have been paranoid and he was sure he was – but it just felt like she was trying to do everything in spite. Sort of to show him what he was missing by not wanting to brag about being together. Draco couldn't bare to look at Hermione anymore and just listened to Blaise's useless ideas.

"What's that song called again...?" Blaise asked, trying hard to get to the tune of a song, then without warning it was like a false canary just burst out of his mouth as he began to sing; "I don't wanna work today, maybe I just wanna stay... just take it easy 'coz there's no stress..."

Some girls stopped and turned to face him. When he realised they were looking he stopped and looked a little embarrassed.

"Nice one, Blaise." said Draco, seeing the girls giggling.

"Bloody brilliant!" Goyle said in awe. Crabbe was still not speaking to Draco and avoided conversation at all costs.

Draco rolled his eyes. "Come on, Malfoy! Be a sport for once." Blaise said, seeing how Draco eyeballed the situation.

"No thanks, I'd rather bath in lava..." he said and got up.

"Or make out with a mudblood?" Blaise rubbed salt in the wound again, but Draco ignored him for once as he walked away. He knew there would be no point in arguing.

He walked back to the common room and on the couch he saw an old acoustic guitar just lying there. He examined it. It was really old and it looked like it hadn't been looked after much as it had little chips all over it. Draco was about to get closer to it when a blonde girl walked up to it with a pen in her mouth and notes in her hand. She clutched the guitar and put her notes down –not noticing Draco – and started playing something fast and upbeat, the pen still hanging from her mouth.

Draco grabbed a chair from behind him, swung his legs around it and sat with the headrest in front of him. He listened as she played a song that could easily be an old Beatles song with a faster, more modern beat. Then it hit him.

He could always get a house elf to bring his acoustic guitar.

Draco knew he had some thinking to do before he could use his guitar on Saturday though... he knew that if he was to play it, it would have to involve Hermione being his muse...