Tale of a Female Werewolf
Part 11
Hermione's Secret
By: Lavander Blues
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter. I own Amanda Ookami.
A/N: Can I have some people's honest opinion… is Amanda any bit Mary Sueish? Please, give me your honest opinions. R/R please, oh and as always, enjoy.
Another full moon came and went, as the school year started into December. Amanda was working on looking up things on the wolfsbane potion during one night, totally bored out of her mind. Harry and Ron had gotten a detention for a potion they blew up in the dungeon a few days before and were probably stuck cleaning it up at the very moment. Hermione had insisted upon coming the library and working on their potions that were due in a week's time. So there Amanda and Hermione were, working on their Potions project, which probably would be worth a few O.W.L's.
"Amanda… why on earth did you pick he Wolfsbane potion?" Hermione asked, looking at Amanda's notes.
"I dunno… something different I guess." Amanda lied. "Why did you pick the Animagus potion?" she asked, trying to change the subject. "Because it was just there in a book, screaming up at me use me and it wasn't in the restricted section and I could get away with it." She said, smirking. "Hermione, that's not like you!" Amanda said, in mock surprise. "What happened to the nice, innocent girl I met at the beginning of the year?" "The boys have slowly corrupting me over the years, and they finally got to me." She answered, grinning. "You're funny Hermione." Amanda said, also grinning. "I know." Hermione replied, turning back to her book. "Well, I'm finished." Amanda said, closing the books she had. "Really?" Hermione asked. "Can you help me with this?" "Sure." Amanda said, turning to her friend. She looked at her notes for a minute then said. "Where are you gonna get all these ingredients, Hermione?" "Oh, I have them all." Hermione replied absent-mindedly. "And this has to settle for a few months…. Hermione, is there something you're not telling me?" Amanda asked, looking at the notes with raised eyebrows. "Oh, that… yeah, I've been trying this since the end of third year." She said, now also looking at her notes. "So, you were gonna become an animagus even without this potions project?" Amanda asked, amused by her friend's intelligence. "I guess you could say that…" Hermione replied. "I asked Professor McGonnagall about it a few years ago and, well, she said that she would help me with it." "Are you serious?" Amanda asked, amazed. "Yeah… I always thought it would be neat." Hermione replied, sheepishly. "Wow…" Amanda said, amazed. "That would be so cool." "You could become an animagus too, if you wanted to." Hermione said. "I should have enough for two or three." "No, that's alright," Amanda said. "I… err… can't because… err… I can't." "Amanda," Hermione asked. "Why exactly are you making the Wolfsbane potion?" "Umm…. Because I wanted to." Amanda said. "But I already told you that." "Amanda, you can tell me, I won't hate you." Hermione said. "Okay, okay, fine…" Amanda sighed. "I'm a werewolf." "I know." Hermione replied. "But… then, why did you ask me to…?" Amanda asked, confused, and slightly mad. "So I could hear it from you yourself and not have to confront you about it and make you upset." Hermione answered. "Oh… okay. I guess that is pretty good logic." Amanda replied. "So, the reason your doing the wolfsbane potion is…" Hermione started. "For myself." Amanda interrupted. "I hate not remembering what I did on the full moon." "Okay, I see. That is a pretty good reason." Hermione said. "Hey, if I have enough of this Potion, we can get Ron and Harry in on this and start our own little Marauding group." "That would be cool." Amanda replied. "Anything for a friend." Hermione said, smiling. "Well, I'm finished my notes. Maybe we should go back up to the common room then." "I guess we should." Amanda said. They put the books back and gathered their stuff to leave for the common room. They were about half way up when they bumped into Ron and Harry coming back fromt eh dungeons. "Have fun, boys?" Hermione asked. "Yeah, sure Hermione." Ron said sarcastically. "If you think scrubbing the dungeon with a toothbrush if fun." "Oooh…"Amanda said. "That would take a really long time." "Yeah, I know." Harry said. "But luckily for us, Snap left for a few minutes and we cleaned the dungeon with magic, making it look like the toothbrushes did it." "Yeah, you should have seen the look on Snape's face when he came back to see the dungeon toothbrush-clean." Ron said, laughing. "You two are never gonna learn, are you?" Hermione asked, kissing Ron on the cheek. "Probably not." Harry replied. The four walked back to the common room, laughing at Harry and Ron retell the tale of Snape's suspicions, but not able to prove it. "And the look on his face when he had to let us leave!" Ron cried. "Man, where's Colin Creevey when you need him." "Rodniffyrg," Amanda said to the fat lady. The fat lady opened up and led them into a quiet and empty common room. "You guys are worse than Fred and George." Hermione said, heading towards the stairs to the girls' dorm. "Good night." "Good night Hermi." Ron said. "Good night Amanda." "Night Ron." Amanda said, following Hermione up the stairs. "Night Harry." "Night girls." Harry said. The two girls walked up to the dorm in quietness. "So, are we gonna inform the boys of our plan." Hermione asked. "Well, Harry already knows I'm a werewolf, and we'll tell them both tomorrow if you want." Amanda said. "Okay, sure." Hermione said. They entered the dorm, got into their pj's and got into bed. "Night Amanda," Hermione said, as she pulled the hangings around her bed. "Night Hermione," Amanda replied, also draping the hangings around her bed and dropping her head on her pillow. She fell asleep almost instantly. ***** The next morning in Transfiguration, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Amanda were sitting at the back like they usually do, trying to turn a rock into an animal of their choice. Hermione had already successfully turned hers into a cat, which resemble Crookshanks remarkably, and was now helping Ron with his half rock-half rat. Harry was trying to turn his rock into his snowy owl, Hedwig, which after his third try he got. Amanda was not as successful at this and her animal turned out to be a baby dragon, even though she meant to make it a snake. "Ahh!" Amanda cried, ducking out of the way of the dragon's fire- breath. "Wow, Amanda." Professor McGonnagall said, walking up to her and her rock- dragon. "I haven't seen anything like this since two of the boys from my class in the seventies thought it would be funny to set a dragon loose upon the class. Of course that was when I had taught a double class of Slytherins and Gryffindors, and these boys thought it would be amusing to see if their arch-enemy's hair was flammable." Harry snorted and got a look from Professor McGonnagall. "That wouldn't have happened to be my father, would it?" Harry asked, trying to conceal his mirth. "And poor Professor Snape." "No, actually, it was Sirius and Professor Lupin who transfigured the dragon." McGonnagall replied. "Why the lying cheat." Harry said, amused. "Sirius told me that my dad did it." "Yeah, well that was Sirius for you." McGonnagall said, turning to walk back to her desk. "Professor." Amanda said. "Yes, Amanda?" McGonnagall asked, turning back around. "I didn't mean to make a dragon, I was trying to make it turn into a snake." Amanda replied, truthfully. "Well, I guess that means you'll have few points taken off for it then." McGonnagall replied. "Okay." Amanda said. "Thank you for being honest though." She said, smiling. "But ten pints to Gryffindor for the well done transfiguring." "Thank you Professor." Amanda said. Professor McGonnagall turned and walked back to her desk. "Why on earth did you tell her you didn't mean to transfigure the rock into a dragon?" Ron asked. "Because I didn't." Amanda said. "And I don't want the marks for something I didn't mean to do." "Whatever." Ron said, turning back to his own transfigured rat. "Well, it looks pretty real." "Except for the fact that it won't move around, has no whiskers and pebbles for paws." Hermione said. "Oh, I really don't care!" Ron said, throwing his hands up in the air. "I really don't!" "Ron, you realize this is worth two O.W.L's, don't you?" Harry asked. "I overheard Professor McGonnagall and Snape talking about it yesterday." "Maybe I do care…" Ron said, starting to work on his rat again. "Hey guys…" Amanda said. "Yeah?" Harry asked. "How would you like to become animagi?" she asked. "Where did that come from?" Ron asked. "That has nothing to do with this." "Yeah, well…" Hermione started. "You see, I'm doing my potion on the animagus potion and well, there is enough for three…" "So, you want Harry and I to become animagi with you, Hermione." Ron asked, bewildered. "Yes." She said. "But what about Amanda?" Ron asked. "Well…" Hermione said. "Ohhh…" Harry said. "I see where you're going." "Is there something you guys aren't telling me?" Ron asked. "Yeah," Amanda sighed. "I'm a…" she looked around to make sure no one was in hearing range, then said quietly. "werewolf." "Oh, that, yeah, I already knew." Ron said, offhandedly. "What!?!?" Amanda cried, confused and outraged. "My god, where you guys all gonna act like you didn't know a thing until I said something." "Well…" Ron said. "Oh my god!" Amanda cried, even more loudly. "You people are… are… so… so… nice!" "Okay.." Ron said. "It didn't sound like that a few seconds ago." "Yeah, well I get over stuff fast." Amanda said. "Unlike all my other friends. When they found out, they went blurting it around the school. I guess it's just lucky that I finally came to a good school." "Yeah, you can also insult people in… 5 different languages." Harry added. "No, actually, it's three." Amanda said. "I know French and Japanese. Most schools I went to were for Japanese exchange students, but I had to learn French in Canada and France and English in the States, Canada and here." "Okay." Hermione said. "Anyways, do you want to become animagi or not?" "Um, sure." Harry said. "That would be really cool." "Yeah." Ron agreed. "Imagine, becoming a really big animal, like a hippogriff or something." "That would be quite odd." Amanda said. "I wouldn't want to be a hippogriff. Course, I don't wanna be what I am right now, either." "Yeah…" Harry said. "Well, the bell is gonna ring soon, so I guess we should get ready to go down to lunch." "But I haven't finished transfiguring my rock yet!" Ron said. "The hurry up and do it, Ron!" Hermione replied. "Okay, okay, fine." He said, turning to is rock-rat. It took him about ten minutes before the thing worked. He took in up and put it in a cage with the rest of the rock-animals, hoping that the others wouldn't eat him. The bell rang, just as he put the rest of his books in his bag. Then the four left the room together walking down to the Great Hall. "I wonder what's for lunch?" Ron asked. "I hope it's something good." Amanda said. "I'm sick of soup and sandwiches." "I hope it's something plain, cause I just ate a big breakfast this morning." Harry said. "I hope it's quick because I have to finish writing my Potions paper before class starts." Hermione added. The other three turned and gave her a weird look. "Hermione, that paper isn't due till next week." Harry said. "Oh, yeah. Okay." Hermione said. "Well, actually, I wanted to sneak into Hogsmeade to grab some sweets and an ingredient I needed for my potion." "There is a Hogsmeade trip on Saturday." Amanda said. "Okay, so maybe I have something to do that I can't tell you about." Hermione said, indignantly. "Okay." Harry said. "Hermione sneaking into Hogsmeade. I don't see that happening anytime soon." "Oh, whatever." Hermione said. "Look, I got to go do something. I'll be back before Potions class starts." With that Hermione left to go back up to the common room. "You know, Hermione has been acting quite odd lately." Amanda said. "Yeah, that's what happens when you have us for friends." Ron said. "No, I mean, like more… I don't know… but odd." Amanda said. "Like… she's not really herself… You don't think…" "…That Hermione is a deatheater on Polyjuice potion?" Harry interrupted. "I don't think so… I hope not." "Maybe I'll talk to her later." Ron said, as they made their way to the great hall. "Hey, guys, when you did the experiment in DADA last year with the imperious curse, how well did Hermione fight it?" Amanda asked, curiously. "Not that well, why?" Harry said. "Just wondering." Amanda said. ****** A/N: Okay, so I have finished another part in all of…. 1 day!!! Actually, to be quite honest it only took me about 4 hours to write, not that anyone cares…. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews people, and please be kind and review this part! Thanks!
