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Nope, still not mine the last time I checked, although it could be like finding $20 in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn in six months.........
"I don't know what the big problem is! Its not like we wouldn't be doing them a favour setting them up anyway!" Lavender huffed indignantly as she stabbed at a potato with her fork. The four girls were sitting at the end of Gryffindor house table staring up to where Ron, Hermione, Harry and the rest of the Seventh year boys sat chatting merrily.
"Just look at the way he leans in so close to talk to her" Parvati sighed dreamily.
Sarah giggled. "And how he always just casually touches her hair or her shoulders" she said, following Parvati's suit, and then Lavender 'awed'. While the other three sat romantically looking up the, Ginny rolled her eyes in disgust.
"Puh-lease! That's my brother! Don't make me gag!" she pleaded. But then again they had a point. Mind you it would require some.....planning.
"Come on Ginny! You know as well as everyone else does that they would make the absolute cutest couple! Shame we promised Hermione...." Sarah trailed off as Ginny's eyes lit up.
"Maybe there is a way then....." she said airily, and the others put all their attention on her.
"Wow Gin, three ideas in one day! You're on fire!" Lavender giggled.
"Spill Gin!" Parvati squealed before Ginny hushed her and beckoned the other three to bend their heads close over the table as she whispered, "We promised her we wouldn't write some fake love letters.... nothing else. Now what I have in mind........."
Down the table Dean, sitting on the other side of Hermione, elbowed her softly and motioned his head towards the four 'scheming' girls.
"What they up to now?" he asked suspiciously.
"Think we should make a run for it? They're looking this way!" Seamus joked and Harry and Ron laughed. Sure enough, when Hermione looked down the table, the four Gryffindors quickly averted their gaze and tried to act casual. Hermione thought she heard a 'quit looking at her!' snapped but ignored it.
"Nah" Hermione stated placidly, "They're probably thinking of some 'girlie' stuff to do" she finished, taking a drink of water as she tried to mask her nervous eyes. The fact was that she had clearly been on edge since the 'blackmail' in the dormitory.
"Yeah probably. Glad to have you back though Hermione!" Neville bantered, popping some casserole in his mouth and winking.
"Thanks.... Always good to know that my place in Hogwarts is amongst the testosterone of Gryffindor" she needled, with a roll of her eyes.
The five boys just laughed.
"Sure is! Neville grinned, "makes you look better being around such devilishly handsome men"
"More like it makes US look better" Dean murmured and Hermione gave him an abashed look, her face threatening to shift scarlet any moment. The rest just grinned cheekily at eachother.
It was no surprise (although Ron chose surreptitiously to ignore it) that both Dean and Seamus, along with about 20 other guys from all the house 26 and up, had been trying to land a date with Hermione since school started a month ago. Yet, politely she had turned each one down modestly. 'That's awfully sweet of you,' she would say modestly, 'but I'm just too busy! I would still like to be friends though'. She still blushed whenever Ron or Harry would tease her about it. The best attempt by far had been that of Ernie McMillan, Prefect for Hufflepuff. Dean knew (as he had it on good authority from Ernie's sister Maddie in fifth year) that Ernie had been smitten with Hermione for some time and had written Hermione a rather absurd amount of letters over this past summer and had subsequently turned to mush when she had greeted him platonically the first day back. For the facade Ernie put on for all his 'buddies' and female admirers, Dean knew full well of his jellying affect when a girl HE fancied so much as looked his way. Since school started he had also asked Hermione numerous times to go to Hogsmeade before she finally gave in and said yes, much to Ron's hidden chagrin.
On the other hand, all the other boys weren't as daring as the magnanimous McMillan and had taken extra effort to approach Hermione when she was out of Ron's sight. Even confronting her in front of Harry was nerve wracking, for if it got back to Ron who knows? Which was why Dean and Seamus had been extra careful about what they said about her in front of Ron. They knew one wrong word and Ron would wallop them to a pulp for even remotely insinuating anything that could possibly wrong Hermione's name. 'Wake up and smell the posies Ron! She's not your little sister!' Dean often pleaded silently.
"Oh no!" Ron groaned, "Where they gone off to now?" They looked around and saw that all four of them had indeed left the Hall.
"Harry you had better finish soon" Hermione said, attempting to act nonplussed by the girls disappearance. "We have a meeting with Professor Dumbledore after dinner, before the Prefects meeting" she added, stressing prefect, and turning to make sure that Ron had heard her.
Ron sighed. "Yes mum... I mean Hermione" Harry snorted and she rolled her eyes and clucked, "You know, I was only late last time because a certain Head Boy knocked me flat off my broomstick during practice."
Before she could open her mouth to say something testy, Harry stood up, saying "We better go then" and him and Hermione left the Hall. Ron watched them go grinning .
"Just cant help putting her on can you mate?" Dean laughed his mouth full of apple crisp.
"Nope! Not when I can get such a rise from her" Ron grinned cheekily and turned his attention to finishing off his dinner.
Ginny and Parvati found Ernie in the courtyard with Hannah Abbot, getting - well- close.
"Oh that's right! Ernie asked Hannah out last weekend" Ginny sighed dejectedly as she saw Hannah giggle fleetingly at something funny Ernie had apparently said.
"Well is IS just going to be fake. We could still try and see what they say" Parvati offered with an unsure shrug of her shoulders.
"What have we got to lose?" Ginny said more in a determining tone then in a question, and her and Parvati walked up to the couple where Ernie was looking very pleased with himself. Both him and Hannah looked up, a little dismayed at being interrupted, but greeted them warmly anyway.
"Hey" Ginny said taking a seat beside Ernie, Parvati sitting herself the other side of Hannah succeeding in boxing them in. The couple eyed them suspiciously.
"Whats up?" Hannah asked in her cheery little voice.
"Well we have a little favour to ask of you Ernie" Ginny began, her eyes twinkling mischievously.
Meanwhile, in a very private spot of the library, Orla Quirke (A/N shes in Seventh Year in this story okay?) sat doing her Arithmancy homework before her and Padma set off to the prefects meeting. Orla could be called the 'Siren of Ravenclaw' due to her 'sultry' style - or in other words, she looked like a very modern model. Short, styled blonde hair, high cheekbones, skinny to boot, but extremely shy. Orla was also not one to wear the clothes to 'accentuate' her particular attributes.
Beside her, Padma stirred and she looked up to see Padma greet Lavender and Sarah. Orla had never really met Sarah, but her and Lavender had become pretty good friends as they sat together in Muggle Studies.
Orla smiled fondly and set down her quill. Lavender looked at her detrimentally and, wasting no time with small talk, launched into what she had come to say.
"Look, Orla; Sarah, Ginny, Parvati and I have come up with this....scheme...." Lavender began, a seat beside her best friends sister.
"Arrangement" Sarah offered, looking at her exasperated, as she perched herself on the table.
"Right! Arrangement" Lavnder smiled and halted.
"And what's that got to do with me?" Orla asked, confused as she exchanged a glance with Padma.
"Well...... we're going to attempt to get Ron and Hermione - together" Lavender explained, clasping her hands to emphasize 'together'.
"And?....." Orla forced out, trying to pretend she really didn't care, but Padma tried in vain to suppress a giggle and Orla turned beat red simultaneously.
It was also no secret to Lavender that Orla had been absolutely infatuated with Ron from third year up until this last summer, when she had to deal with the fact that Ron only had eyes for one certain brown-eyed Head Girl and would never really have a chance.
Orla sighed, and ran a hand through her short blonde hair. Deciding not to provoke the teasing from Padma or prolong the inevitable with Lavender, who was impossible to shake off when she was determined at doing something (and, the way she was looking at Orla proved she was bound and determined to use her in this scheme).
Letting out a defeated sigh, she leaned back in her chair and asked the dreaded question. "What does this 'arrangement' entail exactly?"
"Well...", Lavender began grinning, "its simple really", but Orla just snorted. Nothing was that simple with Lavender Brown.
"Make Hermione stark raving mad with jealousy! Turn on the old charm, throw yourself at Ron, etc., etc., but there are a few conditions....." Lavender said and Orla raised her eyebrows."Only in front of Hermione and be EXCEPTIONALLY needy -Ron really gets beside himself with that and doesn't know how to deal with it- you know, cutesy names, tears, the works. Once Hermione sees it, she's bound to be jealous enough to do something and 'voila'"
"You hope!" Padma spoke up, "Hermione's pretty smart you know....she did break the record for OWL's you DO realize dont you?"
"Well for someone so smart she's really stupid not to take what she could have had all along" Sarah countered, and winning the argument with that sentence. Orla and Padma reciprocated another look before Orla sighed again and nodded smiling.
"Merlin! Its about time then isn't it!" Orla grinned cheekily and Lavender bustled with the accomplishment of roping her in.
"Alright! Start tonight. The Prefects meeting" Lavender said simply and Orla nodded. "Right" Orla winked as she and Padma packed away their things. "Time to turn on the old Quirke magic" Orla purred in a sexy voice and Padma laughed as they walked from the library talking excitedly.
Sarah swapped a grin with Lavender who was trying very hard not to look too pleased with herself.
"So...." Ernie said, piecing it all together, "Hannah and I pretend to be broken up and I put the moves on Hermione in front of RON? I don't know...." Ernie said a little apprehensively, and they all knew why.
"I solemnly swear to protect you from the Weasley wrath!" Ginny swore, raising her right hand for effect.
"Its brilliant! Ill watch your back too" Justin Fitch-Fletchley said excitedly(who had joined the conversation in the early stages and was bound and determined to get the two together).
Ernie seemed to think on it a second, on the one side it would be nice to see the two together, but he was having too much fun with Hannah to even pretend to be broken up with her. He turned to Hannah to make sure it would be alright with her, but she was already smirking.
"Go for it! Just don't have TOO much fun" she teased, giving her permission, "Whatever it takes put those two out of their misery!" And Hannah laughed. "But, I know Ron Hermione would not even talk to you if she saw me upset......."
"Well you could pretend to go for Justin?" Parvati offered and they all nodded. All the pieces were fitting together.
"Fine, Its a deal" Ernie grinned and shook Ginny's hand, sealing the deal one could say.
"Excellent!" Justin exclaimed rubbing his hands together greedily, then pointed out that (because they were all prefects) had better hustle it up to the meeting before they were late.
Well????? Next: The Prefects meeting......... Coming up on Saturday - practice!
Nope, still not mine the last time I checked, although it could be like finding $20 in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn in six months.........
"I don't know what the big problem is! Its not like we wouldn't be doing them a favour setting them up anyway!" Lavender huffed indignantly as she stabbed at a potato with her fork. The four girls were sitting at the end of Gryffindor house table staring up to where Ron, Hermione, Harry and the rest of the Seventh year boys sat chatting merrily.
"Just look at the way he leans in so close to talk to her" Parvati sighed dreamily.
Sarah giggled. "And how he always just casually touches her hair or her shoulders" she said, following Parvati's suit, and then Lavender 'awed'. While the other three sat romantically looking up the, Ginny rolled her eyes in disgust.
"Puh-lease! That's my brother! Don't make me gag!" she pleaded. But then again they had a point. Mind you it would require some.....planning.
"Come on Ginny! You know as well as everyone else does that they would make the absolute cutest couple! Shame we promised Hermione...." Sarah trailed off as Ginny's eyes lit up.
"Maybe there is a way then....." she said airily, and the others put all their attention on her.
"Wow Gin, three ideas in one day! You're on fire!" Lavender giggled.
"Spill Gin!" Parvati squealed before Ginny hushed her and beckoned the other three to bend their heads close over the table as she whispered, "We promised her we wouldn't write some fake love letters.... nothing else. Now what I have in mind........."
Down the table Dean, sitting on the other side of Hermione, elbowed her softly and motioned his head towards the four 'scheming' girls.
"What they up to now?" he asked suspiciously.
"Think we should make a run for it? They're looking this way!" Seamus joked and Harry and Ron laughed. Sure enough, when Hermione looked down the table, the four Gryffindors quickly averted their gaze and tried to act casual. Hermione thought she heard a 'quit looking at her!' snapped but ignored it.
"Nah" Hermione stated placidly, "They're probably thinking of some 'girlie' stuff to do" she finished, taking a drink of water as she tried to mask her nervous eyes. The fact was that she had clearly been on edge since the 'blackmail' in the dormitory.
"Yeah probably. Glad to have you back though Hermione!" Neville bantered, popping some casserole in his mouth and winking.
"Thanks.... Always good to know that my place in Hogwarts is amongst the testosterone of Gryffindor" she needled, with a roll of her eyes.
The five boys just laughed.
"Sure is! Neville grinned, "makes you look better being around such devilishly handsome men"
"More like it makes US look better" Dean murmured and Hermione gave him an abashed look, her face threatening to shift scarlet any moment. The rest just grinned cheekily at eachother.
It was no surprise (although Ron chose surreptitiously to ignore it) that both Dean and Seamus, along with about 20 other guys from all the house 26 and up, had been trying to land a date with Hermione since school started a month ago. Yet, politely she had turned each one down modestly. 'That's awfully sweet of you,' she would say modestly, 'but I'm just too busy! I would still like to be friends though'. She still blushed whenever Ron or Harry would tease her about it. The best attempt by far had been that of Ernie McMillan, Prefect for Hufflepuff. Dean knew (as he had it on good authority from Ernie's sister Maddie in fifth year) that Ernie had been smitten with Hermione for some time and had written Hermione a rather absurd amount of letters over this past summer and had subsequently turned to mush when she had greeted him platonically the first day back. For the facade Ernie put on for all his 'buddies' and female admirers, Dean knew full well of his jellying affect when a girl HE fancied so much as looked his way. Since school started he had also asked Hermione numerous times to go to Hogsmeade before she finally gave in and said yes, much to Ron's hidden chagrin.
On the other hand, all the other boys weren't as daring as the magnanimous McMillan and had taken extra effort to approach Hermione when she was out of Ron's sight. Even confronting her in front of Harry was nerve wracking, for if it got back to Ron who knows? Which was why Dean and Seamus had been extra careful about what they said about her in front of Ron. They knew one wrong word and Ron would wallop them to a pulp for even remotely insinuating anything that could possibly wrong Hermione's name. 'Wake up and smell the posies Ron! She's not your little sister!' Dean often pleaded silently.
"Oh no!" Ron groaned, "Where they gone off to now?" They looked around and saw that all four of them had indeed left the Hall.
"Harry you had better finish soon" Hermione said, attempting to act nonplussed by the girls disappearance. "We have a meeting with Professor Dumbledore after dinner, before the Prefects meeting" she added, stressing prefect, and turning to make sure that Ron had heard her.
Ron sighed. "Yes mum... I mean Hermione" Harry snorted and she rolled her eyes and clucked, "You know, I was only late last time because a certain Head Boy knocked me flat off my broomstick during practice."
Before she could open her mouth to say something testy, Harry stood up, saying "We better go then" and him and Hermione left the Hall. Ron watched them go grinning .
"Just cant help putting her on can you mate?" Dean laughed his mouth full of apple crisp.
"Nope! Not when I can get such a rise from her" Ron grinned cheekily and turned his attention to finishing off his dinner.
Ginny and Parvati found Ernie in the courtyard with Hannah Abbot, getting - well- close.
"Oh that's right! Ernie asked Hannah out last weekend" Ginny sighed dejectedly as she saw Hannah giggle fleetingly at something funny Ernie had apparently said.
"Well is IS just going to be fake. We could still try and see what they say" Parvati offered with an unsure shrug of her shoulders.
"What have we got to lose?" Ginny said more in a determining tone then in a question, and her and Parvati walked up to the couple where Ernie was looking very pleased with himself. Both him and Hannah looked up, a little dismayed at being interrupted, but greeted them warmly anyway.
"Hey" Ginny said taking a seat beside Ernie, Parvati sitting herself the other side of Hannah succeeding in boxing them in. The couple eyed them suspiciously.
"Whats up?" Hannah asked in her cheery little voice.
"Well we have a little favour to ask of you Ernie" Ginny began, her eyes twinkling mischievously.
Meanwhile, in a very private spot of the library, Orla Quirke (A/N shes in Seventh Year in this story okay?) sat doing her Arithmancy homework before her and Padma set off to the prefects meeting. Orla could be called the 'Siren of Ravenclaw' due to her 'sultry' style - or in other words, she looked like a very modern model. Short, styled blonde hair, high cheekbones, skinny to boot, but extremely shy. Orla was also not one to wear the clothes to 'accentuate' her particular attributes.
Beside her, Padma stirred and she looked up to see Padma greet Lavender and Sarah. Orla had never really met Sarah, but her and Lavender had become pretty good friends as they sat together in Muggle Studies.
Orla smiled fondly and set down her quill. Lavender looked at her detrimentally and, wasting no time with small talk, launched into what she had come to say.
"Look, Orla; Sarah, Ginny, Parvati and I have come up with this....scheme...." Lavender began, a seat beside her best friends sister.
"Arrangement" Sarah offered, looking at her exasperated, as she perched herself on the table.
"Right! Arrangement" Lavnder smiled and halted.
"And what's that got to do with me?" Orla asked, confused as she exchanged a glance with Padma.
"Well...... we're going to attempt to get Ron and Hermione - together" Lavender explained, clasping her hands to emphasize 'together'.
"And?....." Orla forced out, trying to pretend she really didn't care, but Padma tried in vain to suppress a giggle and Orla turned beat red simultaneously.
It was also no secret to Lavender that Orla had been absolutely infatuated with Ron from third year up until this last summer, when she had to deal with the fact that Ron only had eyes for one certain brown-eyed Head Girl and would never really have a chance.
Orla sighed, and ran a hand through her short blonde hair. Deciding not to provoke the teasing from Padma or prolong the inevitable with Lavender, who was impossible to shake off when she was determined at doing something (and, the way she was looking at Orla proved she was bound and determined to use her in this scheme).
Letting out a defeated sigh, she leaned back in her chair and asked the dreaded question. "What does this 'arrangement' entail exactly?"
"Well...", Lavender began grinning, "its simple really", but Orla just snorted. Nothing was that simple with Lavender Brown.
"Make Hermione stark raving mad with jealousy! Turn on the old charm, throw yourself at Ron, etc., etc., but there are a few conditions....." Lavender said and Orla raised her eyebrows."Only in front of Hermione and be EXCEPTIONALLY needy -Ron really gets beside himself with that and doesn't know how to deal with it- you know, cutesy names, tears, the works. Once Hermione sees it, she's bound to be jealous enough to do something and 'voila'"
"You hope!" Padma spoke up, "Hermione's pretty smart you know....she did break the record for OWL's you DO realize dont you?"
"Well for someone so smart she's really stupid not to take what she could have had all along" Sarah countered, and winning the argument with that sentence. Orla and Padma reciprocated another look before Orla sighed again and nodded smiling.
"Merlin! Its about time then isn't it!" Orla grinned cheekily and Lavender bustled with the accomplishment of roping her in.
"Alright! Start tonight. The Prefects meeting" Lavender said simply and Orla nodded. "Right" Orla winked as she and Padma packed away their things. "Time to turn on the old Quirke magic" Orla purred in a sexy voice and Padma laughed as they walked from the library talking excitedly.
Sarah swapped a grin with Lavender who was trying very hard not to look too pleased with herself.
"So...." Ernie said, piecing it all together, "Hannah and I pretend to be broken up and I put the moves on Hermione in front of RON? I don't know...." Ernie said a little apprehensively, and they all knew why.
"I solemnly swear to protect you from the Weasley wrath!" Ginny swore, raising her right hand for effect.
"Its brilliant! Ill watch your back too" Justin Fitch-Fletchley said excitedly(who had joined the conversation in the early stages and was bound and determined to get the two together).
Ernie seemed to think on it a second, on the one side it would be nice to see the two together, but he was having too much fun with Hannah to even pretend to be broken up with her. He turned to Hannah to make sure it would be alright with her, but she was already smirking.
"Go for it! Just don't have TOO much fun" she teased, giving her permission, "Whatever it takes put those two out of their misery!" And Hannah laughed. "But, I know Ron Hermione would not even talk to you if she saw me upset......."
"Well you could pretend to go for Justin?" Parvati offered and they all nodded. All the pieces were fitting together.
"Fine, Its a deal" Ernie grinned and shook Ginny's hand, sealing the deal one could say.
"Excellent!" Justin exclaimed rubbing his hands together greedily, then pointed out that (because they were all prefects) had better hustle it up to the meeting before they were late.
Well????? Next: The Prefects meeting......... Coming up on Saturday - practice!