Disclaimer: I still don't see why I have to do this, but I'll be a good little girl and say it anyway: J.K. Rowling owns everything… I own the plot and Syrena… There… you happy now?

Chapter 10: Guy Problems-Day 2

Hermione woke up early the next morning, a smile on her face. For some reason, she felt relaxed and ready to start the day. She sat bye the window of her private dorm, looking out to the grounds to see students out. It was a sunny Saturday, surprisingly warm for the middle of October, and the students were starting the day off with a stroll in the sun. She wasn't the only one to get up early.

Hermione walked over to her dresser and pulled out some clothes; a pair of jeans and a fleece sweater. She got dressed and stared at herself in the mirror. She had to do something with her hair. Maybe if she poured out that potion an added whatever it was that she forgot she could look nice that day. She reached to the top of her dresser for the half empty potion, but all she found was a full bottle. She began to search around the floor, wondering if it fell or something.

It's gone! She stared at the remaining bottle before she realized what had happened. "Syrena!" she shouted. "That potion she gave me. I must've taken it yesterday instead of the hair potion." She took the remaining bottle and took a quick drink. She stared in the mirror, watching her hair twist and pin itself into a French twist, making her look incredibly nice. "But now I need to know what happened to the other bottle."

Hermione heard knocking on her door. She went over to answer it, to see Harry standing before her, a smile on his face. "Wow, your hair looks great."

"Thanks, Harry."

"But to more important matters. Remember how all the guys were all over you yesterday? Well, um, follow me." Harry grabbed her by the hand and pulled her along, bringing her down the doors of the Great Hall. "Now what you are going to see is either going to surprise you or make you laugh like crazy." Harry pushed the doors open, revealing chaos beyond Hermione's experience from the day before. Not only were guys crowding around a girl, there were boys crowding around at least thirteen girls, scattered across the Great Hall.

Hermione couldn't believe it. Someone had stolen the potion. She observed further to see that all of the girls were from Gryffindor. She just had to figure out which person stole it. She noticed Ginny among the girls being bombarded. It could be her, but Hermione never told her about the potion. The only person she told was Parvati, and being a gossip she might have told Ginny.

But then it hit her. Parvati did it. She had the perfect opportunity. She realized what has happening to Hermione yesterday, remembering the potion and wanted to get some. She pestered Crookshanks into attacking Trevor and sent Hermione down to go stop them, her door still opened. She could easily tell which one was the love potion considering that it would have some missing. It was all very clear.

Hermione became furious. She needed to find Parvati, but she wasn't in the Great Hall. "Harry, have you seen Parvati?" she asked as calmly as humanly possible.

"Nope. I haven't seen her since last night. Must've had something amazing because there were a bunch of girls around her listening to her about something. Must've been gossiping again." Hermione became even more infuriated. Suddenly, she could she a group of boys pointing at her and running at her.

"Hermione, I love you!"

"Go to the Ball with me!"

"I'll give you chocolates and flowers if you go out with me!"

"Do you like candy? I'll buy you all of Honeydukes!"

"I'll carry your books to class everyday!" Hermione's head began to spin again. Why hasn't the potion worn off? Potions don't last this long, do they? Out of nowhere, Colin Creevy appeared and reached over to kiss Hermione. Harry pushed him out of the way and the two of them raced back to the empty Gryffindor common room. Hermione took a seat by the fire. Harry sat across from her.

"Hermione, do you know what's going on?" asked Harry.

"Well, yeah. I might as well come clean with you. Okay, well it all started earlier this summer. My mother took me over to Diagon Alley so I could pick up some anti-flea potion for Crookshanks. Well, I was walking along when I bumped into this girl. Her name was Syrena.

"She wasn't from England, she's Greek actually and she was on vacation visiting some relatives. Well, we spoke for a while. She explained to me that she was part siren. You see, sirens are these extremely attractive women who lured men to their deaths, though in nowadays they just use their abilities to attract men for love.

"Well, I have always liked you. I mean, ever since I met you I had a crush on you. After a couple of weeks of keeping in touch through letters I told her that I liked you and she said that she could make me a special potion to try to attract you to me. Well I said yes, but between the time that I was going to use the potion and when I said that I wanted it we got together. The only thing was that I forgot to tell Syrena that we got together.

"Then the other morning I got the package from her and put it in my room. I figured I'd keep to potion, you know just in case. Not that I don't love you, Harry, it's just that I don't know what the future brings. Anyway, I got the potion mixed up with another potion yesterday that was supposed to make my hair look nice. And well you see what happened to me.

"Then, Parvati must've stolen the potion, because I told her about it at the beginning of the year and she distributed it to all of the Gryffindor girls and now its happening to all of them and there's one major problem and I don't know what to do!"

"What's the major problem?"

"Harry! The potion isn't wearing off! The guys are still going after me! And the same thing is going to happen to the other girls if I don't find a counter spell or potion or something. I don't want to be followed and harassed by boys for the rest of my life! I want to have control of my love life thank-you-very-much!"

"Calm down, Herm. Just relax. It can't be that difficult. Write a letter to this Syrena person and ask for the antidote. She must have it if she could make the potion in the first place."

"Right. Yes, you're right, Harry. I'll just write her a letter and everything will be fine. Right. But what about the other girls? There are about a dozen of us going through the same thing."

"Well, you have to tell that to Parvati. She's the one who stole the potion from you."

"Oh yeah," said Hermione, beginning to clench her fists. "I'll deal with her later. I have to write that letter." A low grumble suddenly echoed from Hermione's stomach. "I didn't have breakfast, did I? The whole fiasco made me forget about eating."

"Don't worry. I'll go to the kitchens to see if there's anything to eat. Dobby will be glad to see me anyway. I'll be back soon. Get to that letter." Harry left the common room and Hermione went up to her room. Sitting at her desk, she began to write the letter to Syrena, staring every now and then out the window to see several guys fawning over many girls. Many more girls than Hermione had seen before. She ignored it, scribbling several lines, crushing a parchment once in a while and starting from scratch again.

Thirty minutes had passed and Hermione was on her tenth draft when she heard frantic knocking on her door and Harry shouting, "Hermione! Hermione, open up this is an emergency!" Hermione dropped her quill; some ink blotching on her nearly perfect and almost complete letter, and rushed over to the door, opening it quickly. Harry rushed in, a few pieces of toast in his hand for Hermione.

"What is it, Harry? Is someone hurt?"

"No, its just… well the Gryffindor girls aren't the only ones to have talked to Parvati today. Just about every girl in the school has a couple of guys around them. It's gotten to practically every girl in the school! I just don't understand how. That bottle wasn't that big, was it?"

"I understand how. A simple multiplying or even an engorgement charm could increase the amount of potion. This is just great. All of the girls in the school are under the spell and it's my entire fault. How could I have messed everything up so quickly?"

"It's not your fault. Just make sure that you tell this Syrena how urgent it is that she sends us an antidote. You can use Hedwig to mail it."

"How is it that you're not angry with me? I mean, your being so supportive of me right now. After what I did to the school, I'm surprised that you haven't dumped me."

"Why should I be angry? You didn't mean any of this. And I would never dump you for something like this. I'm being supportive because I love you and I don't like sharing you with all of the other guys."

"Speaking of that, why haven't you gone wild?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, all of the other guys are chasing after the girls. Why haven't you done that? Why isn't the spell affecting you? With us this close to each other in this room, if the spell did to you what is has done to the other guys you'd have me pinned on my bed right about now." Hermione blushed at the last statement she made, surprised at what she said.

Harry, blushing as well, replied, "I don't know. I guess it is pretty weird. Mention that in the letter too." Hermione got to work again, writing two pages of parchment. Eating the toast while she worked, she managed to finish and have Harry look it over. Harry left Hermione to go to the owlry and Hermione headed down to the common room to relax by the fire while she still could.

Then she heard someone climb through the portrait hole. Hermione knew it couldn't have been Harry, he had left only two minutes ago. She began to get slightly worried. What if it's a guy. I'm all alone up here. What if he does the same thing that Malfoy tried to do to me? She sat, waiting to see the identity of the person, hand on her wand just in case.

Out of the shadows, Ron appeared, slouched over and looking miserable. Hermione got up and walked over to him. "Ron, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

"Hey 'Mione. It's Lavender. All the guys are trying to win her over and when I asked her to the ball all she said, 'I have to think about it. I have too many offers to decide from'. I think she'd still mad at me for the whole break up thing, but it's not my fault! It's Malfoy's! I hate the stupid git. I don't know what to do. She's going to dump me and leave me for the wolves. I really like her too. Merlin! Why does everything have to go wrong?"

"I don't know what to say, Ron. Just hope that Lavender forgives you, I guess." Hermione suddenly felt incredibly guilty. If she hadn't had that stupid potion, Ron might be happier. She hated to disappoint anyone, but especially her friends. And then she thought of something else. Ron wasn't begging for Hermione like the other guys either. She had to find out more about the spell.

If only Syrena didn't live so far away. I might have an answer by tomorrow if she did. And I don't know how much more harassing I can take and it's only been a day and a half!

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Sorry, once again I don't have enough time to do proper thanks to everyone so I'll just list the names (this is for chapters 8 and 9 cuz I couldn't remember if I thanked the ch. 8 peoples):

Andy

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Also thanks to everyone who's even read my story but never reviewed… it would be helpful if u did review though (you know who you are)

And I'd like to close on this note… I was just thinking out into space (like I often do) and I thought of something. We all know that Harry went to a regular school before he came to Hogwarts. The same goes to all of the muggle born/raised kids. But where do the kids from magical families go to school before they go to Hogwarts? Is there a special school that they go to too or are they home schooled? I don't think they could go to a muggle school because then the muggle world wouldn't seem as odd to them as it is portrayed in the book. Has anyone considered this before besides me? If you have email me at jjmc@bestweb.net and put Pre-Hogwarts Education as the subject line so I don't get it mixed up with the junk mail I get or just comment in your reviews. See ya and thanks for reading.