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Keep reviewing, or I'll die. chapter 6: ...potions are blue...

"Hermione Granger, hello." Said Luna as if she was checking Hermione's name.

" ... Hi!" said Hermione, still surprised to see Luna so close by, but then she narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "What are you doing here? You're not in Gryffindor!"

"How observant of you. I was just looking for Ronald Weasley." Replied Luna simply.

Hermione frowned "What do you need that git for?"

"Are you angry with him?" asked Luna surprised.

"As a matter of fact, I am. But why are you looking for him?" Hermione asked, curiously.

"I want him to go to the Christmas Ball with me." Answered Luna.

"What ball?" asked Hermione, raising her eyebrows questioning.

"You don't know about the Christmas Ball?"

"Yes I do, but it's far from Christmas! You already want to ask him?"

"Yes." Luna said simply. "So is he here?"

Hermione frowned. "No... no, he's with Cho."

Luna suddenly turned even paler as she already was. "So is he going with her...?"

Hermione shook her head quickly. "No, not going... practising."

Luna raised her eyebrows.

"For the play! That's what I meant." Hermione assured her.

"You don't seem to like Cho." Stated Luna, as she and Hermione walked down to the Great Hall for lunch.

"Actually, I don't. She's really annoying me. I don't know why actually... "

"I know why I don't like her." Said Luna, sitting down with Hermione at the end of the Gryffindor table, still not wanting to go to her own table. "She always gets all the attention."

Hermione nodded. "All the attention. Everyone seems to love her."

"Because she is pretty." Said Luna, glancing over to the Ravenclaw table.

"Is she really that pretty to boys? I can't see what they like." Replied Hermione briskly.

"She isn't pretty. Not from the inside. Her outside is like a mask. A very pretty but fake mask. I don't know why all the ugly people get to wear the pretty masks." Luna said vaguely.

"So nobody sees they are actually ugly, I guess..." frowned Hermione.

"Everyone should see how ugly she really is..." Luna suddenly widened her eyes, looking at Hermione.

"What? You mean... Luna!" Hermione tried, but Luna got up and pulled Hermione off the bench, guiding her out of the Great Hall.

"Luna! Whatever you think we're up to, we can get expelled for it!" tried Hermione again. Luna smiled and stopped in the middle of the corridor, turning to Hermione.

"But she won't have her mask anymore! Think of it! Everyone, including Ronald, will see what she's really like!" Luna seemed to be very excited about it.

Hermione bit her lip. Some part of her wanted to make a fool out of Cho very badly, but the other part didn't want to get expelled for having a laugh. She sighed and slowly nodded. "We'll do it. But I am not planning to get expelled for this."

At the same time, Professor Snape entered the office of Professor Lupin.

"Severus, what a surprise." Lupin smiled at him.

"There is no surprise to it. Your potion." Snape put down a mug on the table, filled with a blue, foggy liquid. He looked at Lupin, expecting him to drink it immediately.

"I'll drink it after I finished reading this chapter. You should read it, its pretty amusing." replied Lupin, waving at him with 'Hélas! J'ai Transfiguré mes Pieds!'.

"I only read books of which I understand the subject. I don't read nonsense."

"'Alas, I transfigured my feet!'" translated Lupin while closing the book.

"You'll be much more than transfigured if you don't drink that now." Said Snape irritably.

"Maybe even more when I DO drink it" Lupin replied, grinning taking the mug off the table.

"You know about the possible side-effects. You are the one who had to return to Hogwarts... I have warned you, Lupin. It's not my fault if you will be... ah, unable to teach." Snape said, narrowing his eyes.

"Or maybe it will be. I know how much you want this job. I don't know if I can trust you, but I don't think you would 'accidently' put in something that will bring my hairy friend alive again, now did you?" Remus grinned as he drank some of the liquid.

"We need to hurry up. You've got to go to the practise in 15 minutes!" said Luna, while dragging Hermione into an empty classroom.

"I'm not going to practise! I'm not doing the play!" said Hermione for the fifth time.

Luna raised her eyebrows, her misty eyes sparkling even more than before. "Oh, you will. Someone needs to pour in the potion in her drink..." she began.

"You're kidding, right?" asked Hermione, eyeing Luna closely. "I need to attend the play just to get a good laugh?"

"Yes." Answered Luna simply, opening her bag and revealing a book without a cover. She flipped through it and stopped somewhere in the middle.

"Okay. But let's not make it a waste. I really want her to look horrible." Said Hermione, leaning over the table to look at the page Luna was reading. "Oh my."

The page was showing an image of a witch with hair all over her face and two enormous front teeth.

"Looks like a beaver!" said Hermione and Luna nodded.

"This would be perfect." Said Luna, grinning evilly.

"You know, I never thought you could be like this..." said Hermione

"We just both hate the same girl, and maybe I'm not that loony as everyone thinks I am." Replied Luna, flicking her wand so a cauldron moved closer.

"No, you're not that loony. I'd say you're brilliant, coming up with this." Hermione said, reading the list ingredients.

Lupin drank the last bit of the antidote and Snape walked out of the room with the empty mug.

"Mmm, I feel less hairy already." Said Lupin to himself, preparing his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which would take place the next day.

"There, that's the last ingredient. We're lucky this was all in the classroom and not in Snape's private closet." Said Hermione, adding the tail of a rat.

The potion started to bubble, turning from yellow to orange, then to green and finally to a blue colour. A misty fog was hanging above it. Luna used her wand to pour some of the potion in a small mug. Hermione poured in some Pumpkin juice.

"Now, I need to go to the practice I guess... I'll replace Cho's mug with this one at the table over there." Said Hermione.

Luna wished her good luck and said she'd be watching after she had cleaned up the classroom. Hermione nodded and exited the room and went her way down the corridors.

She entered the already crowded Great Hall and quickly replaced the mug which belonged to Cho (she knew Cho always sat at the same seat) with the mug containing the potion. Just as she got rid of Cho's empty mug, Harry came walking towards her.

"Hey! We've been looking for you everywhere!" said Harry, a little concerned.

Viktor came walking over as well "Herm-my-ninny, vhere have you been?"

"I-I just remembered I had left my quill in a classroom... " she tried.

Harry raised his eyebrows. "What are you talking about? We haven't had any classes yet, how wou-"

Before Harry could finish; Professor Lovehart came walking onto the stage, followed by a bald wizard.

He immediately recognised him as Professor Lupin.