Tricks of Love, Ch. 2
By Piggylette
Hermione woke the next morning with a hellacious headache. She couldn't remember the events of the night before. She assumed that she'd eaten dinner, hung out in the common room, and then gone to bed, but she could hardly remember it. {I guess I'll retrace my thoughts. Hmm, after Transfiguration I remember going to the common room and then going down to breakfast with Harry and Ron. Wait - no, we were late because Harry accidentally broke Ron's Chess set and they had had to convince the pieces to let them fix them. Um, after dinner we - oh wait! We missed the beginning of the meal so the food was already set out, and I must have drunk too much pumpkin juice because I wasn't feeling well and had to excuse myself to go lie down. And then.. well. I guess that's it.} After toying with the idea of someone putting a spell in her food or on her to make her sick or forgetful, Hermione concluded that she must have eaten too much or gotten mild food poisoning from the casserole. That would also explain the headache - sort of a 'sick' headache or a 'too much sleep' headache. Determined that nothing serious had happened, she shrugged it off and went down to the common room to meet Harry and Ron.
Hermione slid between Harry and Ron on the couch.
"Hey guys! What's up?"
"Um, h-hey Hermione. Er, nothing's up. Nope. Just, uh, waiting for you."
"Yeah. Just like, uh, Harry said. Talking. Waiting. Mmm-hmm."
Hermione regarded them skeptically. "Are you sure?? Nothing's wrong?? You two are acting quite strangely."
"No!" Harry jumped up from the couch quickly and oddly. "Nothing's wrong."
"Yeah. Right. I'll believe that when I fail my ABCs. Anything you want to talk about?"
This time it was Ron who closed the conversation. "There's nothing to talk about. Let's go to breakfast."
Somehow, Hermione managed not to notice all the stares and googly-eyes she received on the way to the Great Hall.
~~*~~ A/N - This is my first fic to post on FFN. I've been experimenting with formatting, and had to update this chapter because the paragraph breaks weren't coming our right. I also apologize for all the Ó, Ò, É, Õ, and other symbols in my first chapter. I uploaded it in HTML format, and it turned all the quotes and hyphens into those characters. I didn't want to change it to Word format because it wouldn't do bold or italic. Please email me or review if you know how to make it stay bold or italic or how to avoid the funky quotes in HTML. Thanks for your input and I hope you're enjoying my story.
Third chapter on its way. I'm sorry the chapters are so short, but I was so anxious to post them. The third one's longer, which is why it's taking a bit longer to post. No, I haven't finished the story yet. This was a spur- of-the-moment thing, I'm not that organized. Yes, I'm posting each chapter right after I finish it, which means that they might not be updated as frequently as other stories, but it also means that your input and review could affect the story, so PLEASE review if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. Flame me and I'll just smoke it, so don't bother, but constructive criticism is welcome.
Thanks for reading! Review! Come back! Read next chapters in near future! Have a nice life! ~Evey
By Piggylette
Hermione woke the next morning with a hellacious headache. She couldn't remember the events of the night before. She assumed that she'd eaten dinner, hung out in the common room, and then gone to bed, but she could hardly remember it. {I guess I'll retrace my thoughts. Hmm, after Transfiguration I remember going to the common room and then going down to breakfast with Harry and Ron. Wait - no, we were late because Harry accidentally broke Ron's Chess set and they had had to convince the pieces to let them fix them. Um, after dinner we - oh wait! We missed the beginning of the meal so the food was already set out, and I must have drunk too much pumpkin juice because I wasn't feeling well and had to excuse myself to go lie down. And then.. well. I guess that's it.} After toying with the idea of someone putting a spell in her food or on her to make her sick or forgetful, Hermione concluded that she must have eaten too much or gotten mild food poisoning from the casserole. That would also explain the headache - sort of a 'sick' headache or a 'too much sleep' headache. Determined that nothing serious had happened, she shrugged it off and went down to the common room to meet Harry and Ron.
Hermione slid between Harry and Ron on the couch.
"Hey guys! What's up?"
"Um, h-hey Hermione. Er, nothing's up. Nope. Just, uh, waiting for you."
"Yeah. Just like, uh, Harry said. Talking. Waiting. Mmm-hmm."
Hermione regarded them skeptically. "Are you sure?? Nothing's wrong?? You two are acting quite strangely."
"No!" Harry jumped up from the couch quickly and oddly. "Nothing's wrong."
"Yeah. Right. I'll believe that when I fail my ABCs. Anything you want to talk about?"
This time it was Ron who closed the conversation. "There's nothing to talk about. Let's go to breakfast."
Somehow, Hermione managed not to notice all the stares and googly-eyes she received on the way to the Great Hall.
~~*~~ A/N - This is my first fic to post on FFN. I've been experimenting with formatting, and had to update this chapter because the paragraph breaks weren't coming our right. I also apologize for all the Ó, Ò, É, Õ, and other symbols in my first chapter. I uploaded it in HTML format, and it turned all the quotes and hyphens into those characters. I didn't want to change it to Word format because it wouldn't do bold or italic. Please email me or review if you know how to make it stay bold or italic or how to avoid the funky quotes in HTML. Thanks for your input and I hope you're enjoying my story.
Third chapter on its way. I'm sorry the chapters are so short, but I was so anxious to post them. The third one's longer, which is why it's taking a bit longer to post. No, I haven't finished the story yet. This was a spur- of-the-moment thing, I'm not that organized. Yes, I'm posting each chapter right after I finish it, which means that they might not be updated as frequently as other stories, but it also means that your input and review could affect the story, so PLEASE review if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. Flame me and I'll just smoke it, so don't bother, but constructive criticism is welcome.
Thanks for reading! Review! Come back! Read next chapters in near future! Have a nice life! ~Evey