'Deliver me from these feverish eyes
That threaten to unbalance my state of mind
For I must confess to the smallest of my crimes
A sense of guilt'

A/N: this is a short chapter, but when I did my story outline, it fitter perfectly. With this rate, the way I planned it, story should have nine chapters, and the next one would be kind of short, too.

Advocating: Harry Potter and characters related to him do not belong to me. And I am not making money of this, though I wouldn't mind...

________________________________________________________________

-"Why do you want to kill him?" - Parvati said, jumping on Hermione's bed. Hermione knew they won't leave her alone until she told them everything.
-"He is just being a prat, that's it" - sighed Hermione. Of course that wasn't it. Lavender pointed that, jumping on Hermione's bed, beside Lavender, faster than thunder.
-"Never were you so serious about harming Draco before... you wanted to make Buckbeak harm him some more, than there was a time you were planning to beat him up yourself... and just after the Gryffindor lost the match you were planning to stick his superb broomstick up his arse" - Parvati was saying, carelessly.
Hermione stared absently outside the window into the thick rain.
-"Either you tell us, or we make you drink the truth potion" - Lavender threatened in her girly voice.
-"Where are you going to get the truth potion? Professor Snape?" - Hermione said a bit scornfully.
-"We could lure him into giving it to us" - said Parvati sweetly, batting her long eyelashes.
-"Even though we think he swings on the other side" - Lavender added. -"So, if you don't tell us, we'll get Seamus to lure Snape into giving truth potion."
And Hermione then told them everything. From her fight with Harry and Ron just because she wasn't nice enough to Quidditch. Parvati and Lavender agreed with her that guys are really exaggerating when it comes to the importance of Quidditch. Then they came the part of the little Draco encounter only for Lavender's comment to emerge - "Draco held you close to him, that's so sexy."
-"I think you are REALLY missing the point" - sighed Hermione, hugging the pillow under her body. Parvati and Lavender weren't the brightest starts in the sky, but they were benign and weren't as nearly as malicious as Pansy. They would be annoying most of the time as they shared the dormitory, but the other time, they would provide Hermione with all the girls talks she really needed. How ever hard Hermione tried, Harry and Ron just couldn't grasp that once a month girl gets cranky due to her bio-hormonal state.
-"And you want to kill him, don't you?" - Parvati said, thinking deeply. Her eyes glittered like two jewels under the cucumber cover.
-"Yes, I shall kill him" - replied Hermione flatly.
-"No, no, no, darling, that's not the way to go" - sighed Lavender rolling her eyes.
-"What's wrong with killing him?"
-"Honey, you have no style. There are other ways to hurt a male... and I am not talking about cutting off his genitals. No, no, I have a better plan to get back at Draco..." - Parvati said sneakily.
-"Does it include killing the Malfoy?" - Hermione beamed.
-"Of course not. Now listen... what is the most important thing to Draco?"
-"His father? Hey, she should kill Lucius Malfoy, shouldn't she?" - Lavender looked like Christmas came early.
-"No, honey, something about him that is only important to him. He is the most important thing to himself... now if we hurt his ego... I have the best plan in the decade!"
-"Then tell us!" - snapped Lavender.
-"Fine. Hermione, you'll make Draco fall in love with you, making sure you don't fall in love with him. And when he gets all happy, you'll dump him like he was that convict, Sirius Black..." - Parvati said, delighted with herself.
-"That would be wonderful" - jumped Lavender, screaming shrilly. Parvati joined her.
-"That is genius, but it has one little tiny flaw" - Hermione rolled her eyes.
-"Yes, we know, you don't want to kiss him, right?" - Parvati said, giggling.
-"Well no... and yes...
'But how do we make him fall in love with me. He has the lowest opinion of me... he calls me all those names.... and I don't think that he would like his father being mad at him because he is dating a girl of Muggle heritage" - Hermione whined.
Parvati blinked her large eyes once, staring blankly at Hermione - "Honey, that way it's even better. Daddy Lucius shan't be happy that his little brat-prat-rat is going out with a Muggle-heritage girl, and he'll be mad at Draco... please, please, we'll help you get him to fall in love with you... we know everything about guys..."
-"So, I would be like your little guinea pig so you can test what works best on guys."
-"No, no, no, darling, all the methods are already checked. Like one where you wear a short skirt, and then accidentally drop something, and when you're picking it up, you let... well the chosen guy sees something when you are down" - Lavender said innocently.
-"I am not going to go around showing my underwear" - Hermione snapped at them.
-"No, but there are other tricks... like wearing something with big cut, and than lowering and exposing your bosom" - suggested Parvati.
-"No, thanks. If you can think of a smart way to make Draco fall in love with me, then I accept. But, I will not go around exposing my panties and boobs."
-"She is going to do it" - screamed Parvati and Lavender joined her. Hermione put her hands over her ears as the other two girls made loud shrill tones.
-"Uhm, could you please stop" - Katie Bell opened their door, looking annoyed, and peering into the dormitory.
-"Sorry" - Lavender said, going back to the vanity table.
-"Why are you screaming anyway?" - she asked, curious.
-"Oh, Hermione just said that she wants to make Draco fall in love with her just to get back at him" - Lavender said casually.
-"Lavender!" - Hermione and Parvati snarled at her.
-"Oh I'm sorry for asking, but don't worry, I won't tell anyone" - chuckled Katie.
-"See, now she's going to tell Draco" - Parvati frowned, going towards the bathroom to take her mask off.
-"She doesn't like Draco, either" - retorted Lavender.
Parvati slammed the door of the bathroom. Every dormitory had it's own bathroom, and Hermione's one was covered in black marble. And when Parvati and Lavender came, they put large mirrors everywhere around. There was not a single square in the bathroom that wasn't covered in mirror, accept the sink, bathtub, and of course... well, toilet, what else.

-"Hermione, I suggest you to sleep now, instead of studying... you have to sleep to be prettier" - yawned Lavender hour after, staring at Hermione sitting at the bed and reading a Transfiguration book.
-"Don't worry about me..."
-"You know, on Saturday... when we go to Hogsmeade... we'll take you to the salons and spas... you'll be the prettiest and most charming girl in Hogwarts" - Parvati's slurred words came.
-"Hmm..." - Hermione yawned, deciding to finish the chapter next morning.

________________________________________________________________

'you wanna be an angel, wanna be a star
wanna play some magic on my guitar'