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A/N: I wrote this for a couple challenges. This takes place during the Half-Blood Prince when Romilda Vane gives Harry the box of chocolates laced with a love potion. It happens a good while after Harry gets the chocolates and forgets what they were.
Raise a Witch/Wizard Challenge: Write a het pairing with characters of your choice. I chose Harry Potter/Romilda Vane.
If You Dare Challenge Challenge: 560: Poisoned Love
Are You Crazy Enough? Challenge: 739: (lyric prompt) "It's really good to hear your voice saying my name. It sounds so sweet. Coming from the lips of an angel, hearing those words it makes me weak." – Lips of An Angel - Hinder
Disney Character Challenge: Ray: a firefly who falls in love with a star. Write about someone who admires a person higher in social status/class. Alt, write about Romilda Vane.
Harry Potter Chapter Challenge: Horace Slughorn - Write about Horace Slughorn. Alternatively, write about exploiting someone's weakness.
The instant he ate the chocolate, Harry could feel something rising in his chest. He thought about for a moment while eating another chocolate. He swallowed and realized right away what it was. Love. A wild thought came into his mind and he knew he had to talk to Romilda Vane. He saw her in his mind's eye, her beautiful hair, her gorgeous brown eyes, her perfect body.
He dropped the box of chocolates he had been holding and ran into the Gryffindor common room. He could hear Ron shouting after him as he leaped down the stairs. He spotted her right away in the corner of the room, giggling - her laughter was like a melody - with her friends. He approached her confidently and said, "Oh, Romilda, the sound of your voice is honey for my soul. When I gaze into your eyes, I see the love I know you hold for me." He grabbed her hand. "You skin is soft like a rabbit's fur. Romilda, I just know you're the one for me. Will you please-"
He was yanked around by someone pulling on his shoulder. He was surprised to see Ron's face directly in front of his own. Ron looked at him for a minute then said, "Yup, definitely a love potion."
Harry pulled away. "What are you talking about? I am under no spell! I am perfectly in control of myself." He turned back to Romilda and grabbed her and, kissing it this time.
Then Ron spun him around again, this time his expression apologetic, and said, "I'm sorry, mate. Langlock!"
Harry opened his mouth to say something, but found that his tongue was stuck to the roof of his mouth. He glared at Ron defiantly and pointed to his mouth as if to say "fix it."
Ron shook his head and turned to Romilda and her friends. "Twenty points from Gryffindor for using a love potion. I'm also going to talk to McGonagall about detention for each of you."
Romilda looked furious. "That's not fair! You can't take twenty points from your own house. And it's not like I did anything wrong. It was just a joke." She allowed a small giggle after the last part.
"Yeah, well, try explaining your so called 'joke' to Professor McGonagall," Ron retorted. Then he grabbed Harry's arm and said, "Come on, Harry let's go find Hermione."
Harry tried to resist by grunting and struggling against Ron, but his friend's grip on his arm was too strong for him to pull away from. He resorted to silence and plotted of ways to get back to Romilda once he got free of his friend.
They found Hermione in the library studying some random book that only she could find interesting. She looked up as she saw her friends approaching, both with an equally unhappy look on their faces. She took in how Ron was basically forcing Harry to come and scowled, saying, "If this is some sort of trick, I swear..." she left the threat hanging.
"It's not a trick," Ron replied, "Harry is under a love potion that makes him obsessed with Romilda Vane. He was in the middle of professing his love when I hexed him so he couldn't speak. Do you know of any spells or potions that can help him." Ron was very matter-of-fact, obviously not over the fact that he and Hermione were not getting along.
Hermione answered just as indifferently, "I don't know of any spells, but there is a potion that can counter the effects. I don't have what is needed to make it, but if you talk to Professor Slughorn, I'm sure he can give you the proper ingredients. If you get them, I'll brew it in about three hours." She looked back down at her book to signal the discussion was over.
Ron nodded, then turned Harry around and started marching him to Slughorn's office. Harry was now getting very distracted by his thoughts of how he could prove to Romilda how much he loved her and of their future together. When they reached the door to Slughorn's office, Ron knocked three times. Harry turned to Ron and pointed at his lips again. Ron sighed and performed the counter-hex.
"Thank you. I just don't understand why you would think I'm under a love potion when I'm telling you it's not," Harry explained, "I have always loved Romilda, I just finally decided to do something about."
At that moment, the door swung open to reveal a worn out Slughorn already in his night-time clothes and a very confused look on his face. "What's going on?" he asked.
"That's an excellent question, professor. Ron seems to think there is something wrong with me because I have finally seen the light. You see, I am in love with Romilda Vane and Ron can't see to accept that. I am sorry we bothered you, but we were just heading out.
Ron, not letting go of Harry, gave his professor an exasperated look and said, "Love potion."
Slughorn nodded, saying, "Ah. Come in."
Ron dragged Harry forward as Slughorn closed the door behind them. Then, their professor went straight to a large cabinet where there were hundreds of bottles of potions. Slughorn looked for a moment then pulled out a bottle and said, "This is it! This one will set Harry right."
Ron and Slughorn spent the next few hours trying to convince Harry in every way possible to drink it, from threats to bribes to lies, but nothing would make him drink it. They even tried forcing it down him, but Harry just spat it back out. Finally, out of desperation, Ron pointed his wand at Harry and yelled, "Obliviate!"
As the spell hit, Harry staggered back and put and hand to his forehead. "Where am I? Where's Romilda? Is she okay?" he asked confused.
Slughorn answered first. "You're in my office. What do you remember?"
"I was going to ask Romilda out when Ron stopped me," Harry said, with an angry sneer at his friend.
Thinking fast, Ron blurted out, "We think one of Romilda's friends poisoned you to try to make you forget you love her. You need to drink this potion so you can live happily ever after with Romilda."
Harry grabbed the potion and downed it quickly. He shivered as he felt the potion run through him. Then his mind cleared, and he groaned, "Oh, no. You guys can't tell anyone."
Ron and Slughorn laughed in relief and said, "It's just between us, mate. I'll tell Romilda and her friends that if they try to spread anything, I'll curse them so that no one will believe any word they ever say."
Slughorn laughed again and said, "I'll pretend I didn't hear a prefect say that."
Ron blushed and said, "Sorry, professor."
They thanked their teacher again and headed back to the Gryffindor tower, Ron joking to Harry about how every generation of Potter would know about this story.
A/N: Okay, this one was kind of rushed and thrown together. Tell me what you think! Do you love it? Hate it? Ambivalent about it? Please review and let me know! Thank you so much for reading and have a great day!