Ok so here you have a longer chapter, but who knows when the next will be up as our internet is going screwy as we speak. In this chapter we begin to get into the main plot.



Hermione was sitting in the library, just like she had been for the past week in her every free period. Trying to get away from Draco. And also, she was searching for anything on love spells or charms. A particular charm had interested her, one that involved three people.

The Romancica Charm

One or more persons may put a love spell on two people of different sexes or the same. When the caster(s) of the spell look at one of the pair, the other is within a 50-meter radius and concentrates, the one being looked at will feel a burning desire for the other. Shortly afterwards the other will feel it too. Once the caster takes his/her eyes off the person the effect can last a varying amount of time, no longer than an hour.

Hermione tore the page out, hoping to be able to magic it back together before old Mme Pince found out, and ran off in the direction of the great hall where the other students were currently eating dinner.

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She stood outside the great hall for a while, waiting for dinner to finish and everyone to come out. Snape stalked past her, knocking her as he went, turned round and scowled then just as Hermione prepared herself for a sneer and snide comment his face straightened and he carried on inside.

A few minutes later the students hadn't left but the noise upped suddenly and who else should stomp out in a huff but Draco Malfoy. He looked a little flustered and was that a hint of a blush on his face? Hermione's heart suddenly leapt and beat a thousand times a minute. Her and Draco locked gazes for a second then Draco recovered himself and took up that oh- so-familiar confident stance. "Hello, 'Mione. Found something?" "As a matter of fact," Hermione said slowly, "I did."

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"So what you're suggesting," Draco said over his cup of coco they had smuggled out of the kitchen, courtesy of Dobby, "is that someone, somewhere, has put this charm on us." "Yes." "Hmm, who?" "I don't know, really. Has anyone been keeping an unusually close eye on you recently?" Draco contemplated for a moment, but answered, "No, can't say they have." Hermione's brow furrowed. "The only person I can think of keeping a close eye on me is Snape." "Snape?" "Yeh, he's been acting differently towards me recently. I bumped into him just now and he didn't say a word. He hasn't been as nasty and he actually complimented my potions work last Tuesday." Draco's eyes widened. "Snape? Compliment you? In his opinion, scum of the school?" "Gee thanks." "Sorry, I did say in his opinion." "So even now, now we know we are not completely in love, do you still like me?" "No one said for definite we aren't totally in love." He said, avoiding her eyes. "Well, uh, there's a, er, very strong chance we ain't." "Yeh I know. So, erm, yeh I think I do like you." "Good." Hermione smiled.

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Hermione lay in bed that night, wondering what Snape was up to, charming her and Draco to fall in love. What would it achive? "Look at it objectively" she thought. "You and Draco. What uses could you have together? Common factors? Both smart, both talented in areas of magic." She caught her breath as something fell in to place. "Both talented wizards and advanced for our ages! What if he's plotting to help 'Him' again? Using us, together in love our powers would be much stronger against the wizarding world! Given time we could learn everything about the dark arts, use our powers against our own will, if we were bewitched. Oh no, what will we do?"

She sent an owl to Draco telling him she was on to something and wanted to speak to him in private at 2 in the morning. In the old charms classroom, which no one went in to after they had found the body of Fred Weasley. That was why Snape had gone to Azkaban in the previous year. Even though his name had been cleared, he was still angry with all the wizards and witches who put him there. That gave him a reason to want to join 'Him'.



What will they do?? Only I know, and I ain't telling!