A/N: Although I usually give the kudos at the end of each chapter, Ariel deserves a cookie (or at least some puppy chow) for predicting the Hermione's revenge, which as luck would have it, is in this chapter. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. That would violate anti-slavery laws.
Lee Jordan was relaxing in the Great Hall between his Potions and Muggle Studies class, when he saw McGonagall come up to him.
She asked "What is this I hear about a stink bomb attack in the Gryffindor dormitories? Who's responsible?"
Lee screwed his face into an innocent expression and said, "I don't know, but I think it was probably Hermione."
"Hermione?" asked McGonagall, clearly not believing her ears.
"I know!" empathized Lee, "But lately she's been acting oddly. I've had to address her rule-breaking and her unbecoming behavior. I almost had to take points off from Gryffindor because of her."
McGonagall's jaw was hanging as she listened to Lee. "Fred, George!" she called at the twins, who happened to be walking by.
"Yes, Professor?" they asked.
"Has Hermione been breaking rules?" McGonagall asked. Lee made an effort to look hurt that she questioned his prefect ability.
With a perfectly straight face, George answered, "Yes, Professor. She broke a rule just the other night."
Fred chimed in, "Lee had to give her a talking down, and she seemed pretty angry at him."
McGonagall was pondering that her star pupil suddenly had a disruptive streak to her. "Perhaps," she said, "I should have a talk with Hermione."
Lee Jordan, struggling to keep a straight face, said, "That would be a good idea."
Harry was tired after another day in his Ward duties, and slumped his way down to Dinner. Hermione, Ron, and Ginny were already there, because there was supposed to be another Triwizard announcement.
Sure enough, Dumbledore stood up and said, "Before we eat, I have an announcement to make. Due to our uninvited guest at the castle, I will be further restricting the Triwizard Tournament entrants to those which were declared immune."
Harry saw Ernie Macmillan and Terry Boot grow angry, and Fred shouted, "Why?" before he could restrain himself.
Dumbledore looked at the twins, who were looking mutinous. "I am sorry," he spoke, "But we will not be able to spare any of the Ward Wizards to escort you to Durmstrang. So by necessity, the entrants, as well as anyone wishing to accompany them, will have to be immune to the possessive spirit."
"Ron!" Harry said, "You were right in divination again! Remember what you said? 'Only the chosen ones may be immune'. It was supposed to be 'Only the immune ones may be chosen!'" At Harry's words, Ron grew a giant smile.
Ginny asked, "Harry, are you going to put your name in?" When Harry shook his head no, Ginny asked, "Well, you're at least going to be part of the delegation, right?"
Harry shook his head again, and said, "I can't. I'm needed here. Otherwise the school won't be safe." Ginny gave him a look he didn't understand, and she seemed to be looking between Harry, Ron, and Hermione somewhat sadly.
Harry was about to ask her why when McGonagall came from behind his back and said loudly, "Hermione Granger, I need to talk with you." Ginny, Ron, and Harry all grimaced, and at the professor's insistence left the table meekly.
"Miss Granger, I had an interesting talk with Lee Jordan. Can you guess what it was about?"
Hermione knew it had to be about the dungbomb attack. Hoping she could finally get Lee back for that by telling the professor exactly what happened, she said coyly, "I've got a good idea…"
McGonagall half shouted, "You've broken a rule set by a prefect? Is this true?!"
Hermione gasped, and stammered, "Yes… but…"
McGonagall interrupted her and said, "It is true! I would have never… You have detention! And I don't want to hear of this EVER happening again, Miss Granger!"
Hermione's mouth moved wordlessly, and McGonagall stormed out of the Great Hall.
"She did what?!" cried Ron, clearly giddy.
Hermione picked up on his tone, and smacked him on the shoulder. "She gave me a detention!"
Harry asked "You realize what this means, don't you?"
"Yeah, it means the Goddess of Proper Behavior has detention!" replied Ron. Hermione hit him again.
"No, it means that Firenze won. I'm not entering the Triwizard Tournament, so I can't very well be the Hogwarts champion, and Hermione got a detention, fulfilling Firenze's prediction!"
Before Ron or Hermione could respond, Delacour started the class. "Last class we learned the exorcism spell. Now we're going to work on resisting the Imperius curse." Most of the class groaned, remembering the weird acts they had done under its influence two years before.
Fleur laughed and said, "No, it's even worse. You see, I'm not going to tell you when I'm putting the curse on you. If you feel the curse, and are able to resist, I want you to raise your hand."
Dean Thomas asked "How will we know when someone's under the curse? What will you have us do?" Professor Delacour didn't answer, but smiled widely. The students all noticed and groaned again.
Fleur began instructing about the origins of the Imperius curse when the class was interrupted by a strange spectacle. Seamus Finnegan loudly sang "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide…" Suddenly, he came to and realized where he was at. Seamus sank down in his chair, blushing, while the rest of the class burst out in laughter. Fleur smiled, and resumed talking about the Imperius curse. However, she didn't make it too far along in the lecture, because every minute or so another student would break out singing, followed by peals of laughter from the rest of the class.
Finally, Hermione hesitantly raised her hand. "Congratulations! 5 points for Gryffindor, Granger successively resisted the curse!"
Eventually, Fleur got around to cursing Ron. Ron didn't start singing, but he didn't raise his hand either. Ron seemed to be on the cusp of breaking it – he was softly humming to himself. Fleur stopped talking, and focused on Ron. Ron's humming grew louder and he broke out, "You don't have to say you love me, just because I'm mad…" The class burst into laughter yet again, and Fleur called, "Close, Weasley, close!"
A couple of minutes later, Harry felt his head to go blank and heard Fleur's voice singing in his head. Harry didn't have any problem throwing the curse off, and loudly thought, 'You know, Fleur, I haven't been in the infirmary for four months now. One more and you won't be able to tell your lame joke about my hospital visits!'
The rest of the class stared as Professor Delacour broke out in laughter in the middle of her sentence. Fleur continued putting the curses on the class, until she had hit everyone but Harry and Hermione twice. Ron was able to throw it off the second time, but not before humming three bars of 'God Save the Queen'.
The next day, Harry was treated to a spectacle in the Gryffindor commons. Hermione was sitting in the corner of the commons, fuming that she wasn't allowed to study. Suddenly, Lee stood up and addressed everyone, "If I may have your attention. Earlier, we had to make a bit of a prat out of Hermione, what with her excessive studying and all. But I'm pleased to announce that Hermione is now back to being an official Gryffindor: SHE GOT DETENTION!"
Everyone cheered; Fred and George began chanting, "Speech! Speech!"
Hermione stood up and loudly said, "I must admit that I wasn't in the fun-loving, prank-pulling mood before. But Lee Jordan, along with Fred and George, has taught me the error of my ways. In fact, just to show there are not hard feelings, I've left something… special for them in their dorm room." Hermione grinned nastily and Lee looked a little afraid.
Fred bravely said, "Oh, budge up, Lee. Whatever it is, we can handle it. Hermione can't come close to some of the things we've done." Lee nodded, and walked with Fred and George up the stairs. As soon as they were through the door, it slammed shut and Harry heard a giant splooshing sound.
"EEEUURRRGGGHHH!" Harry heard the three shout, and made out several muffled attempts to unlock the door.
Ginny was a little worried and asked, "Er, they're not in any danger, right?"
Hermione, looking extremely satisfied, said, "They'll be fine… once the bogies disappear."
"What?" cried the rest of the students.
"Well, right now their dorm room is filled 4 feet high with bogies. And the place is coated with Nunquam Communatatis spells, so they can't remove them, or even unlock the door," Hermione said grinning.
Apparently one of them had figured out what had happened and called, "Harry! You've got to help us!"
Harry looked at the rest of the students. All of them were guiltily shaking their heads no. Hermione saw this and grinned even wider.
Harry called out loudly, "Sorry guys. I'm, er, really worn out from all those protective wards. You'll have to get Hermione to help you." Harry winked at Hermione
Hermione slowly made her way up the steps, chuckling along the way. She innocently called out, "I thought I heard you guys screaming. Do you need any help?"
The rest of the commons shook with laughter as Lee's voice screamed out "HERMIONE, GET US OUT OF THIS!"
"I don't know. I'm a little rusty at this. How about this? Elicio Bogie!"
Several of the people cried with mirth as either Fred or George hollered, "NO! We're almost buried now! STOP IT!"
Hermione pretended to be confused, and said, "Whoops! I'm sorry. You know, it's been so long since I've been able to study in the commons area that I'm getting a little rusty in my counter curses. Wait! How about… Mobili-Bogie!"
Harry rolled on the floor, laughing. He could just imagine the 5 feet of bogies rolling and tossing around now, with Fred, George, and Lee floating along. "PLEASE HERMIONE, STOP! PLEASE!" Lee shouted.
Hermione stopped the bogie waves, and was rewarded by Lee's voice hollering, "You win. You can study in the commons. We're sorry!"
Hermione grinned triumphantly, and said to the rest of the group, "Follow me." She led them all out of the commons up a few steps along another stairwell. Harry wondered what she was doing, and figured it out as Hermione yelled, "Permissi Communatatis! Aloha Mora!"
It was as if a dam broke. Suddenly, a torrent of liquid bogies came pouring out, flowing down the other stairwell. Fred, George, and Lee were carried along, and suddenly found themselves in the commons, in full view of the rest of the house.
Everyone laughed hysterically at the three. They were fully coated with the thick substance – even their hair looked full of the stuff. Ron, in between laughs, wheezed, "Colin, what are you doing! Get your camera out!" After Colin had taken several photos of the three extremely disgusted, bogie-coated 7th years, Hermione cast Abeo and the pool disappeared. Even though Hermione had removed every trace of bogies in the house, Fred, George and Lee all went and took long showers.
"Hermione," Harry asked after the laughter had finally died down, "I need to ask you about something. Have you ever heard of the song 'Hey Jude'?" Harry was glad he remembered to ask her; after all, she was leaving for Durmstrang the next day.
Hermione turned to him and asked, "You've never heard of Hey Jude? It's one of the most famous songs from the Beatles!"
Harry was confused and asked, "The Beatles?" It was clearly the wrong thing to say. Hermione gushed for about 15 minutes about some band, and how they changed music, and a whole bunch of other stuff Harry really wasn't interested in.
When he could get in a word edgewise, he said, "Hermione, I'm not looking for their history. I was just wondering what the song was, because I wanted to get it to listen to."
Hermione bit her lip, and said, "That will be difficult. The Beatles are muggle music. And no muggle music players will play within Hogwarts grounds." She must have seen Harry's disappointment because she said, "Don't worry, Harry. I'll try to think of something!"
Ron came up to the two of them and said, "Hermione, we should probably say our goodbyes now. We don't want to have to wake everyone up tomorrow morning."
Harry noticed Ginny over in the corner, and she had the same sad look on her face as she had earlier in the Great Hall. Harry finally figured it out and whispered to her, "You want to go, don't you?" Ginny didn't say anything. Harry whispered, "It's ok. You can go."
Ginny was silent for a few more seconds and then said, "But I want to stay as well! And I don't want to leave you alone."
Harry smiled at her, and said, "Ginny, it will be alright. I'll see you when you get back. Besides, it'll probably be really boring over here." Ginny gave him a smile and a quick kiss. After she left back for her room to go to bed, Harry realized he wouldn't see her for several months.
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Ariel – Hehe, the end of chapter 6 wasn't even supposed to be a cliffhanger. Although I've been trying to avoid cliffhangers, I have to warn everyone now that I will be putting one real nasty one at the end, but it will be so you can all guess who the villain is (besides Voldie) So keep track of the clues…
Chris – Don't worry! I'm trying to get a chapter done a day, and it should be done by the end of next week (12/13)
Hermione – Sorry I didn't mention you by name last chapter (only the good point you made) Sorry again, but I think Lee's going to stay. Hey, look at it this way – you got your revenge!
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