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Hermione scurried off to lunch with Ron and Harry, leaving Draco behind in the dungeons. During lunch, they talked and chatted for a while. Chapter 2: Lunch, Confessions, and Giggles Hermione scurried off to lunch with Ron and Harry, leaving Draco behind in the dungeons. During lunch, they talked and chatted for a while.
"So, what did you think about potions today?" Hermione asked her friends. "It was horrible!" Ron exclaimed.
Hermione grinned evilly. "How is Pansy these days, anyways? Still her cheerful, beautiful self?" Ron gagged, making Harry snort into his Yorkshire pudding.
"Really? I had quite a nice time with the invisible ink potions." Harry smiled. "Just think! We can write horrible notes about Malfoy and no one would be able to read them." Harry and Ron grinned devilishly. "Actually," Hermione flipped back a lock of the frizz that tried to pass as hair, "There is a way that one can find out what it says. It's called a reversing potion. You can see what the person did in the past, anywhere from a minute ago, to a decade ago. It takes at least five wizards and witches to perform, though." She added hastily, seeing the distraught look on the boys' face. They still stared at her. "If you're going to look at me like that, I might as well leave!" She got up to leave, and she was just nearing the stairs towards the Gryffindor Tower, when Ron caught up with her.
"Hey, Hermione! Wait up!" he jogged up to her. "I need to talk to you." He muttered in her ear. They ducked into an unused classroom (Hermione was beginning to wonder if everything happened in an unused classroom). "What?" Hermione asked, annoyed to be delayed from the task at hand.
Ron rubbed the back of his neck. "Look, Hermione. Remember that time back in our fifth year when I asked you on a date, and we were dating for about a month."
Hermione smiled and blushed. In the end, they had decided that it was better to be friends after Ron had said that it felt like he was kissing his sister.
"How could I forget, Ron?"
"Well…" Ron's ears turned red. "I was…um…wondering if I…I mean…you would like to go out with…me…again…" He smiled meekly. Hermione's jaw dropped open in surprise.
"Ron…I still think of you as a friend." Hermione knew of no other way to turn him down. "In fact…I have feelings for…Harry." She admitted. "I mean…I'm sure you'll be able to find another girl…I thought you liked Parivati?" she asked.
"Well, I was just telling you that, because I was scared you'd go ballistic on me if I told you I still loved you."
"Yeah, well…I might take you up on that offer, seeing as Harry's…occupied…"
"Hey! Don't talk like that about my sister! She's not a slut!"
"Yeah, well, try telling my heart that…" And Hermione departed the room.
Hermione reached the Gryffindor Common Room without realizing where she was going. She climbed through the portrait hole and climbed the stairs to the dorm. She still had a little while before Herbology. She looked in the mirror and tried to tame her frizzy hair. It would never do as it was told. She remembered a shampoo that some muggles used that was supposed to "tame unnatural frizz that can eventually damage beautiful hair." Like it would ever work for her. Even if it did work, what boy in his right mind would even like Hermione, besides Ron? Maybe it was worth a try. She could ask her parents for a bottle of it for Christmas. That might work. She checked her watch. It was nearly 1:00, and she still needed to get her books. She started scurrying around her room, collecting things and shoving them in her bag. When she reached it, she reached over to grab her Herbology book from the top of her trunk, but it wasn't there. She panicked. She looked under her bed and in her wardrobe. She pushed all of her books off of the trunk and dug through there. It wasn't to be found. She yanked back the curtains on her bed. There it was. She breathed a sigh of relief. As she picked it up, she noticed a piece of paper lying underneath it. It was blank. Hermione, puzzled, pulled out her wand. She pointed it at the paper and muttered "Aparecium!" just to see what would happen. Slowly, words formed on the paper. Hermione gasped and dropped it as if it had stung her. On it were five words:
The sun shone brightly on the emerald grass. The wind seemed to whistle merrily as it rushed through the trees of the Forbidden Forest. Professor Sprout declared that it was such a nice day that they should study the outdoors plants today instead of staying in the steamy greenhouses. They all filed outdoors into the large garden paddock. They studied the Gershroot plants and how their unnatural habits proved deadly to many other species of plants. Professor Sprout had tied them all of in one of the corners of the large garden with sharp-looking razor wire. She had explained that the plants were dangerous to humans as well as plants, as she pulled one off of Neville's finger. Later, Hermione Harry and Ron were walking back to the castle when Hermione's bag split open. The piece of paper that Hermione had discovered earlier was carried away towards the greenhouse by the wind. Unfortunately Lavender Brown and Parivati Patil were just emerging from the nearest greenhouse. Lavender spotted the paper and squealed when she snatched it up and read it. Hermione walked down towards them.
"Can I have that back?" she asked slightly annoyed.
"Ooh! Hermione! Do you have a boyfriend?" Parivati asked.
"Look. I don't even know who it's from. I-"
"Ah! A secret admirer!" Lavender and Parivati squealed. They started giggling. That must have set Hermione's nerves off because she snatched the paper away and stalked off without apologizing.
When she reached Harry and Ron, they both looked puzzled. "What was that all about, Herm?"
"Don't call me that, and I'll tell you later." At least Ron and Harry both had enough sense not to pursue the subject. They had the rest of the afternoon off. Hermione headed off to the library, as usual, and Ron and Harry went to play exploding snaps with Dean, Seamus, and Neville.
When the boys reached the Gryffindor common room, they noticed that Lavender and Parivati were both more "giggly" (as Hermione would often put it) than usual. Parivati walked up to Ron looking very smug.
"I know something you don't know!" she chanted like a little schoolgirl.
"Really?" Ron asked with sarcasm. "Since when did you even know anything?"
She tried hard not to look indignant. "Well, if you insist on knowing, Hermione's got a Secret Admirer!" she giggled and ran off.
"What?" Seamus asked, looking up from the cards that had just exploded, singeing the tip of Dean's nose.
"Since when did anyone like Hermione?" Ron asked.
"You know, I think if she were here, she wouldn't appreciate that." Dean pointed out. "Sorry...but still...I mean...Hermione?" Ron turned to Harry, who had suddenly gone silent. "Harry? Harry?" he waved a hand in front of Harry's face.
"Oh..." he blushed. "Sorry Ron. I was thinking."
"Hopefully not about my sister naked."
"OH MY GOD, RON!" Seamus yelled. "I JUST GOT A VISUAL!" It was Ron's turn to turn bright red.
"Hey! My sister's got a great body...I mean...um..." Ginny was staring at him from across the room, looking rather apoplectic. Instead of searching for an excuse, Ron jumped on Seamus, and the two boys began to wrestle across the Gryffindor common room. It only ended when Ron pinned Seamus with his face pushed into the rug on the other side of the room. Both boys were smiling. "Take those words back!" he hissed into Seamus' ear.
"Never, Ron, and that tickled!" Ron looked slightly annoyed.
"Hey, Harry! Come over and help me torture this booger!" there was silence. "Harry?"
Harry was gone.
"Ginny?" Ron turned to where his sister had been sitting.
She was gone as well.
"Crap!" Ron yelled. "They better not be doing what I think they're doing!" and he raced up the stairs to the dorms.
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