A/N: *dances around the room* I finally finished it J go on read it and then tell me what you think…
Chapter five
Love Spells and Feasts
Harry went down to the library; he and Ron had told the girls that they would meet them there, and from there they would all go to the feast. He walked in and noticed that no one was there yet.
Harry stumbled upon Malfoy. He was pouring over a lager book and muttering to himself. Harry moved closer and hid behind a bookshelf, trying to here what Malfoy was saying. " Stupid book! Every spell in the world except for the one I want" he angrily muttered while flipping through the books pages. suddenly he said "there it is!" while a sly smile crept across his face. He took out a bit of parchment, his quill, and scribbled down the spell before hastily leaving the library. " what are you looking at?" said Ron. Harry jumped when Ron spoke, he hadn't seen him come in. " look at what Malfoy was reading" Harry said as he showed Ron the spell which Malfoy had copied, it was a love spell. " why the hell would Malfoy want a love spell?" Ron asked. Harry just shrugged, he was about as clueless as Ron. A little voice inside Harry's head hissed " he wants Hermione you fool!". Harry chose to ignore the voice.
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Hermione and Elizabeth where walking down to the library to meet the guys when Malfoy came running down the hall. He had accidentally bumped into Hermione. " hey, watch is!" said an annoyed Hermione. " Sorry" Malfoy muttered. " What?' Hermione asked not believing her ears, could it be that Draco Malfoy had actually apologized? "Sorry" he said again this time looking strait into Hermione's eyes. She saw it in his eyes, they weren't their usually cold steel gray they didn't show hatred they showed……. something else , she couldn't quite put her finger on it. They where softer and not menacing at all, of that she was sure. Malfoy blushed and let his eyes drop from hers.
Elizabeth grabbed her arm and dragged her away from Malfoy and towards the library entrance. " what was that all about?" Liz asked. "No Idea" Hermione said. They walked into the library. " Hey guys" said Elizabeth. "come see what Malfoy was looking at" Ron said, motioning them over to where Harry was. " why would Malfoy want a love spell?" asked Elizabeth. "that's what I said" Ron replied. " I don't know. Something just doesn't add up, I mean who I the world could Malfoy love other than himself?" Harry said.
Hermione was still thing about what she saw in Malfoy's eyes. What was it? She kept asking herself. Then it hit her, love, love was what she saw in his eyes. He was in love with her. " aww how sweet" she thought at first then a second later she mentally smacked herself. " that's not sweet that's disgusting" she screamed at herself inside her head. " Hermione are you feeling ok?" Harry asked her. He was a bit worried about her, she hadn't said anything since she'd come in. " wha… oh I'm fine Harry" Hermione said absent-mindedly. She was still trying to process the thought that Malfoy loved her…. and would Malfoy really use the love spell on her. was he that desperate?
" I wonder where Malfoy is now" Hermione said to no one in particular. " well, lets find out" said Harry as he took a bit of old parchment out from his pocket. " what's that?" Elizabeth asked. " Oh that's just the Marauders map" Ron said this as if every one in the world knew what the Marauders map was. Harry said " I solemnly swear I am up to no good", and taped the parchment with his wand. Ink likes ran across the page and formed a map.
Hermione searched the map for a dot labeled " Draco Malfoy". " there he is" Ron said and pointed to where the dot was on the map. " hey, I've never seen that place before" Harry said, he was confused he could have sworn that he had memorized the whole map over the summer. " shall we fallow him?" Liz asked. " sounds like a good idea to me " said Ron as Harry picked up the map and traced the rout with his finger to where Malfoy had gone.
Harry led them down a few corridors, up two flights of stairs, behind 5 tapestries, up to more fights of stairs, turned left walked down that corridor, made a sharp left and then they stopped in front of a wall. " Harry why'd you stop?" asked a confused Ron. " well" Harry started " first of all Malfoy has gone back to his common room and secondly this is where the entrance to the corridor is supposed to be". Harry looked down at the map in his hands and saw that the dot labeled "Harry Potter" was taping two bricks opposite each other, three feet apart and 5 feet from the ground. "oh my God" Harry said under his breath. " what?" asked Hermione who was standing right next to him. " oh . um nothing, nothing at all" said Harry. He felt a shiver go up his spine, this was exactly how the passage in his dream opened. " just a coincidence" he said to himself, not really believing it. " it's time for lunch, we should go eat" Ron announced. " yeah I guess we should" said Harry as he pushed the dream back into the reassesses of his mind.
At lunch Dumbeldor made an announcement, " students I am very pleased to inform you that this year after the feast we will have a masquerade ball for the 4th , 5th , 6th , and 7th year students. Costumes will be provided and attendance is mandatory." Dumbeldor had only just sat down when a wave of voiced spread through the hall. Ron was thinking about how great it was going to be to dance with Elizabeth,. After all they had bin a couple for the last to months so it was only natural that they dance together. Ron's thoughts where broken by Harry saying " do you think Malfoy plans to use the spell at the dance?" " oh I hope not, he'll ruin the whole dance if he does" Elizabeth said with a small frown.
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After lunch Elizabeth and Hermione raced up to their dormitories to see what costumes they had gotten. They walked into their bedroom to find that their costumes were already laid out on their beds. Hermione picked hers up and looked at it.
It was a beautiful Elizabethan dress. It was white with lots of gold embroidery, and a little crimson embroidered with the gold along the neckline, hem, and cuffs. Next to it on her bed was a little tiara made with faux precious stones, next to it laid a little gold mask that went over the eyes of the wearer. She looked at the tag on the dress, it read " Queen Elizabeth the first"
"wow " was all either of the two girls could say. " let me see your costume" Hermione said. Liz held up her costume. It had a gauzy lilac colored cat suit and a skirt made out of pastel strips of fabric that weren't attached to each other. On her bed there was a pair of wings that where white with silver glitter scattered all over them.. her mask looked almost exactly like Hermione's, except it was sliver. The tag said " Tatiana The Fairy Queen" " hey
Shakespeare, that's cool" Hermione said.
At six in the evening all the girls in Hermione's dormitory where busy getting dresses, fixing their hair, and doing their make up. "Wow Hermione! You look great" Lavender Brown said in awe. Hermione had curled her hair and then pulled it back on the top of her head, directly in front of her curls she set her tiara. The mask looked as if it had been made especially for her. " only one thing missing" Elizabeth said as she put some lipstick on Hermione. " there, now it's perfect" she said as she drew back and examined her work.
Hermione thought that Elizabeth's costume looked great on her. Elizabeth had put streaks of dark blond in her hair and dusted her entire body with multicolored glitter. " Ron is going to drop dead when he sees you" she told Elizabeth.
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once everyone had finished getting dressed they walked down to the common room. It was empty. " everyone must have already left" Lavender stated. " gee you think?" Elizabeth said sarcastically, lavender just glared back at Elizabeth in response. Elizabeth and Lavender had been at odds since Ron and Elizabeth had started going out. It was common knowledge that Lavender had a crush on Ron. Hermione decided that it was time to break up their little glaring contest and go to the feast so she grabbed Elizabeth's wrist and pulled her toward the portrait hole. " don't pay attention to her, she's just jealous" Hermione said to Elizabeth as they walked down the corridor.
The great hall was decorated with the usual 12 great big jack o' lanterns , live bats, and tons of streamers. Hermione was admiring how clear the sky was when she heard someone call "Liz, Hermi over here!" " since when does Harry call me Hermi?" she wondered to herself. Hermione and Elizabeth sat down on either side of Harry, who was dressed as Zorro. Ron sat down across from them, he was dressed as Count Dracula. You couldn't tell it was Ron just by looking at him, his hair was colored black ( only temporarily ) and he was wearing white makeup so his freckles weren't visible.
" I wonder which one's Malfoy" Elizabeth said while looking over at the Slytherin table. " I haven't got a clue as to which one he is, there costumes make it almost impossible for me to tell. But I'll bet you 50 gellons that those two trolls there are Crabe and Goyle" Ron responded. Everyone at Gryffindor table laughed.
Then suddenly everyone went very quiet and looked over at the Head table. They where waiting for Dumbeldor to make his speech. Dumbeldor stood up, his blue eyes clearly visible behind his half moon spectacles. " I would like to wish everyone a happy Halloween" he began " the dance will begin at nine thirty. I hope that everyone enjoys the feast." As soon as Dumbeldor had sat down the food appeared. Even though everyone was very nervous and excited about the dance they managed second helpings of everything.
At nine thirty the prefects led the 1st through 3rd years back up to their common rooms and Dumbeldor magically stacked all the tables against the back wall. McGonagall led in a disk jockey that was fallowed by two elves, one was carrying a turntable and the other a crate full of albums. With another wave of his wand Dumbeldor made a refreshments table appear near the end of the hall. The first song that the D.J played was a muggle song, which Harry couldn't remember the name of.
At the opposite end of the hall stood Malfoy. He was dressed as the Phantom of The Opera. Malfoy was trying to figure out which girl was Hermione. " Is it the Queen or is it the Fairy?" he murmured to himself. He looked to his right and saw that Pansy Parkinson was making her way over to where he stood. He decided that it was either now or never and walked over to where the Fairy was standing.
Elizabeth spotted a hooded figure walking up to her. " may I have this dance?" he asked. He held out his hand for her to take. " sure" Elizabeth replied as she took his hand and he led her out onto the dance floor. All through their dance Elizabeth was trying to figure out who this masked stranger was. She was just about to ask him who he was when he blurted out " you're looking lovely tonight, Hermione" Elizabeth blushed and replied, " thanks but I'm not Hermione". "oh" Malfoy said slightly frowning. The song ended and Elizabeth hurriedly excused herself and went over to Hermione's side.
Elizabeth felt that she knew who the masked stranger was. It had to be Phillip Crown. It had been rumored for the past three weeks that the good looking, Quidditch playing, Ravenclaw had his eye on Hermione.
"Hermione!" Elizabeth exclaimed in a very giddy voice. " what ?" Hermione asked as she put another chip in her mouth. " you know that guy I was just dancing with?" Elizabeth asked
"yeah, what about him?"
"It's Phillip Crown, he though that I was you. The rumors are true, he really does like you" said Elizabeth . before Hermione could say anything back she was tapped on the shoulder. She turned around only to find herself face to face with the masked stranger. He held out his hand, just as he had for Elizabeth, and asked " may I have this dance?" " you may" Hermione replied with a smile.
After about two minutes of dancing Malfoy leaned down and whispered the love spell into Hermione's ear, " Amare Moderoi Iam."
It was a Latin spell which when translated into English meant love me now. All of a sudden Hermione felt like she was dancing on air, she loved this masked stranger and was willing to do anything for him. Malfoy took Hermione's arm and together they started off towards the exit.
Harry saw all this happen from where he was standing, next to the punch bowl. Harry was racking his brain trying to figure out who this masked stranger was but he was having some difficulty concentrating because Cho was standing next to him going, " Harry! Harry are you even listening to me?" finally Harry got tired of listening to her and said, " listen Cho I can't talk right now. There's something I have to do." Cho let out an exasperated " humph" tuned on her heal, and walked away. Harry decided that he should ask Elizabeth about the identity of the masked stranger. " Liz?" Harry said "yes Harry?" she replied as she turned to face him. " do you know the name of that bloke you danced with?"
" yeah, it's Phillip Crown"
" No it's not" said Harry
" what do you mean it's not?" Elizabeth retorted.
" well yesterday I was going up to the common room when I ran into Neville, his wand had some how backfired on him and turned the skin on his right arm into snake scales. I took him down to the infirmary so that he could get it treated. Phillip Crown was down there also, he has a broken arm and Madame Pomfery said that he would have to stay there today. So you see it couldn't possibly be him" Harry stated. " then who's that with Hermione?" asked Ron. " I don't know" said Harry " but I'm going to go find out" and with that he walked off after Hermione and the Masked stranger.
As Harry stealthily fallowed them down different corridors, making sure to keep his distance, he heard the Stranger say " this way Hermione". Harry instantly recognized the cold drawling voice, the masked stranger was non other than Draco Malfoy. " Malfoy" Harry thought through gritted teeth. Harry now recognized where Malfoy was leading them, it was the secret corridor he had been to earlier.
Harry stopped at the corner and cautiously peered around it so as to see what Malfoy was doing. Malfoy opened the entrance to the corridor just as he had done before. Hermione went into the corridor first. Just before the archway closed a cruel high pitched laugh rang out from the corridor. Harry just stood there horror struck, his legs weighted down, wide eyed, and opened mouthed. Harry had heard that laugh before….
A/N: I know I know I'm very cruel to leave you hanging like this……… but don't worry I've already started working on chapter 6.
Read and Review please…. Flames are welcome although I would rather have constructive criticism.
Disclaimer: no one belongs to me except Elizabeth Hallowell, Phillip Crown, the love spell is mine, and so is the D.J (Wiz)… everyone else is J.K Rowling's
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