The "Secret Love
Affairs" of Hogwarts…
Tangled love affairs
everywhere.
Part 2
Scene
Four: Potions class. Ironically, Professor Snape is teaching
everyone how to make love potions.
Snape: Now, love potions are intended to make the
drinker fall in love with the person who made the potion, therefore you must
"personalize" your potions with a piece of you. A hair, a toenail, whatever. Get together with and get to work. Move it! (Seriously…I don't know that for sure, it just sort of made sense to
me. And it helps with the scene.)
Ron: (Stands up with Hermione and Harry.) Harry? D'you want to work on a potion with me?
Harry: No, stupid! I'm not going to fall in love with you!! (Points to Hermione behind her back. Ron nods, just understanding.)
Ron: How 'bout you, Hermione? Do you want to work with me?
Hermione: (Shrugs) I guess so.
Malfoy: (Sulking in his desk, glaring as Ron and
Hermione walk off towards the cauldron. Pulls out his tiny moving picture of Hermione. It is now very crinkly and Hermione in the picture doesn't look
too pleased.) Curse the day I
called you a Mudblood! That one day
when I declare my true love for you will be the day…the day when nothing can go
wrong. When I -
Pansy: Yoooohooooo! Dracooooo! We have a
loooooove potion to make! (Pats the
cauldron. Malfoy rolls his eyes when she's not looking.)
Malfoy: (Whispers) Until later, my sweet
darling. (Shoves the picture into
his robes. Regains his usual swagger
and stops by Ron and Hermione, sneering.) Well, well, well… Weasley and Granger? Was she the best you could get?
Ron: Jump in the lake, Malfoy. (Turns red.)
Hermione: (Looking angry.) Get lost, Draco! Don't you have somewhere else to be? (Points to Pansy, who is sitting with her legs crossed,
fluttering her eyelashes and puckering her lips. Malfoy's sneer slides right off his face. He sulks over to Pansy, who doesn't notice a
thing.)
Pansy: So, Draco, should I drink the potion, or
should you?
Malfoy: (Annoyed.) I don't really care. (Pansy
sidles up to him and whispers into his ear.)
Pansy:
You don't need any old love potion to love me, do you, Draco? We already have the chemistry, don't we,
Draco? (Draco suddenly lurches,
grabbing the nearest cloth and rubbing his ear.)
Malfoy: Augh! Pansy! You just spit in my
ear!! (Pansy looks horrified.)
Pansy: Oh, I did not! Oh, I'm so sorry, Draco! Please forgive me!
Ron: So, Hermione…d'you think this potion's going
to affect you after you take it?
Hermione:
(Shrugs.) Maybe. I don't think it would matter that much
though. (Ooh! She landed a big one. Ron's eyes widen.)
Ron: So what are you saying? You already have…you know….feelings
for me? (Hermione looks confused.)
Hermione: I didn't say that!
Ron: (Looks slick.) Whatever you say.
Snape: Class dismissed! (Everyone leaves.)
Zoom
to Malfoy in the bathroom, still cleaning his ear.
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Scene
Five: Transition from Divination to Transfiguration
for the Gryffindors.
Ron: Man, Professor Trelawney really went off the
edge this time.
Harry: Yeah, that one was new…'You will find that a
much hated enemy will be close to you in times to come'…what a fraud. But look at this…for once she didn't predict
my death.
Ron: Yeah she did. She said that 'much hated enemy' will kill you next week.
Harry: Oh yeah. (Stops in his tracks as he sees Cho Chang walking to class.)
Ron: What? Oh…(Sees Cho, too.) Just
be yourself. (Claps Harry's shoulder
and watches from behind with much interest.)
Harry: (Squares his shoulders and walks toward
her while watching her. Doesn't watch
where he's going and bumps into a wall and everything in his bag falls out.) Oomph!
Cho: Wha-? (Turns around and gasps.) Oh my…what did you do?
Harry: (Eyes are distorted.) Say that…againnnnn…(Falls to the ground
on his ink bottles.)
Cho: Harry! Harry, wake up! (Punches his
shoulder. Harry sits up, but his eyes
are a little out of focus.)
Harry: (Looks around.) Hmm? Oh, hello, Cho…What are you doing?
Cho: What am I doing? What are you doing?
Harry: Sitting on the ground.
Cho: Well, uh, you're okay now - I think -, so
I'm going now. (Starts backing
away.)
Harry: Have a nice day! (Cho runs away.)
Ron: (Snorts.) You handled that well.
Harry: (Eyes start coming more in focus as he
starts to get back full consciousness. Starts picking up ink bottles and parchment.) Handled what well? My
ink bottles have no handles.
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Scene
Six: Honeydukes during a Hogsmeade
weekend. Ginny is pretending to look at
a jar of Cockroach Clusters while sneaking glances at Harry. Colin Creevey is nearby, checking out Ice
Mice.
Ginny: (Edges ever so slowly towards Harry.) Oh, Harry…
Colin: (From behind Ginny) Hiya, Ginny!
Ginny: (Jumps and almost drops the Cockroach
Clusters.) Oh, hi, Colin.
Colin: Do you want to see the new pictures I
developed of Harry?
Ginny: Well…I suppose so. Let's see them.
Ron: Look, Harry! I think Ginny and Colin are hitting it off!
Harry: She doesn't seem to be enjoying it though.
Ron: Who can figure out girls? I think Colin likes her.
Colin: This picture is of Harry before Quidditch
practice…(The Harry in the picture is shielding his face. Ginny sighs)…This is Harry going to
Transfiguration…(The Harry in this picture is also shielding his face. Ginny looks at Harry and Ron)…This one
is- oh my gosh! How did this one get in
there?! (The next picture is a
picture of Ginny, taken when she didn't even know it on their way to Potions.)
Ginny:
(Stops looking at Harry for a
second.) How did what get in
there?
Colin: (Trying to shove the picture at the
bottom of the pile. Turns red.) Oh, nothing, just a picture of Harry,
uh…um…forget it. Those are all my
pictures. (Ginny just walks
away. Slaps himself.) Dang it! She got away again! (Stomps
out of Honeydukes.)
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