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REVIEW! Chapter 9: Hermione's song

At the same moment, Cho came walking over to them, with all her hair back. She smiled at Ron and then gave a high-pitched scream. "FROG!!" While pointing at Ron's head.

Ron immediately shook his head and a frog fell off it, joining all the other frogs.

"Wha-what are these... these THINGS doing here!?" shrieked Cho, grabbing Ron's arm tightly.

Hermione rolled with her eyes and Viktor narrowed his. Before anyone could reply to Cho, Lovehart came running down one of the stairways.

"No, no, no don't let them escape! Don't let the toads escape! TOADS ON THE STAIRS!" he shouted at them.

"Professor, these aren't toads... they're frogs." Replied Hermione, crossing her arms.

"Right... that's the problem. I need to transfigure them into toads! For the play!" Lovehart said, diving down to one of the frogs, but landing on his stomach and not catching it.

Cho's eyes widened and she began shaking "WHAT have toads got to do with the play?" she asked.

"Oh, the princess gets turned into a giant toad and everyone has toads as their feet, but that doesn't matter now, help me catch those things!" said Lovehart, getting up from the ground and quickly combing his hair with his hands. "You aren't expecting ME to catch all of those slimy beasts with my own two hands, now are you?" he said, looking at them.

"The princess gets turned into a- what?" Cho asked, but didn't get her answer.

"I vish I had never left Durmstrang," said Viktor sighing, while grabbing one of the frogs from the ground.

"I wish I was a student at Durmstrang," said Hermione, levitating a few frogs in the air. "Where to put these?"

"Somewhere far away please!" said Cho, still holding onto Ron's arm.

"There's a big jar in my office, bring them there," said Lovehart, while walking away.

"HEY!! Wait a minute!" Ron yelled at Lovehart's back, but he didn't turn around.

"So, now WE'VE go to catch them?" cried Cho hopelessly.

"How are we goi-," started Harry.

"Colligo," said Luna bored, and all frogs formed a huge levitating frog- ball.

Everyone dropped their jaws.

"...er, great job Luna" said Ron, trying to free his arm from Cho's grip.

Luna and Hermione walked up to Lovehart's office, levitating the frog-ball in front of them, Viktor and Harry continued to the Gryffindor common room and Ron and Cho walked down the stairs.

"I vill use my teeth to rip you apart and vin that Legendary Quidditch cap... I mean cup!" Said Viktor with a very wrong and strange sounding British accent.

Harry frowned, "No... try it more like you actually ARE the evil monster... don't say it like you are a puppy instead of a werewolf."

"Puppy, good one. I am Oven the Vervolf!" tried Viktor again "And I vill use my teeth to rip you apart and vin that Legendary Quidditch-" He frowned "I giv up!"

Meanwhile, Cho was still holding onto Ron's arm tightly and was looking around to make sure there weren't any frogs around.

"Cho... I don't think Luna missed one with that spell of hers..." Ron tried

"You TRUST Loony? I'm sure she hid one to make it attack me while I'm off guard!" Cho almost cried out.

Ron quickly shook his head, "Sorry, ta-take it easy!"

"No, you need to think before you say something. I hate toads." Cho muttered.

"They were frogs" corrected Ron

"Alright already! FROGS! Have it YOUR way!" yelled Cho angrily in his ear.

"Recolligo" yawned Luna and the big ball of frogs exploded in the huge jar on Lovehart's table.

"Wonderful!" smiled Hermione.

"We still need to get you ready for tonight's practice... " Reminded Luna, while sitting down on Lovehart's desk. "Let's practice here!"

Hermione shook her head "No... we can't do it here! What if someone walks in?"

"So?"

"Well, I wouldn't really like to sing in front of someone-" started Hermione.

"But you must sing in front of all the people anyway," reminded Luna.

"I forgot!" Hermione panicked, sitting down in one of the chairs in front of Lovehart's desk. "And now? Now what to do?"

"Hermione... calm down." Said Luna simply, pressing her face to the jar of frogs. "You must be really in love..."

"What do you mean?" asked Hermione, quite unsure of what Luna was stating.

Luna was watching one of the frogs that was trying to get out of the jar, but couldn't, because of a charm. "Well, you seem to be forgetful these days. You seem more confused."

Hermione kept her mouth shut.

"And you're much more quiet."

"I am?" asked Hermione surprised.

"You are," Luna stated "Now, come ON!"

Hermione waved with her wand and a piece of parchment appeared, her lines written down on it. "This is really-"

"HERMIONE YOU ARE WEARING DOWN MY NERVES!" Shouted Luna at her, almost pushing over the jar of frogs.

Hermione raised her eyebrows in shock "O-okay... I'll do it! Let me just find the right melody..."

"You need to sing a song when Harry and Ronald walk through the forest and at the ending. Try the ending first."

Hermione got hold of the parchment with a steadier hand and coughed a bit before singing:

The old wound left on me begins to ache; I hide my trembling heart again and pretend to smile

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before. As timid as before, I only learn how to pretend to be strong

Little by little, I've come to realize that my past never heals, and that it's no use fearing the future I can't refuse

How much more courage do I need to say with my head held high "This is the only important thing to me"?

Luna nodded slightly, "You know, that was good."

Hermione flushed. "It was?"

"Sure thing. Try the other song."

Freedom in the right hand, Love in the left! We'll walk on, embracing both, and stumbling from time to time.

The coming of another, same morning is depressing. Suddenly, the square sky seems very empty.

There have been days when suddenly I shed tears at daybreak. I told you while crying: people are short-lived, but they are strong. And I still have you, who will protect me.

Freedom in the right hand, Love in the left! We'll walk on, embracing both, and stumbling from time to time...

"Vervolf! Verevolf! Vervolf! Vervolv!" tried Viktor, while Harry read through his own lines. "Oh, I vorget it! Nobody vill understand me!" sighed Viktor hopelessly.

"Want to trade? You worship Ron, I'll attack him." Harry asked, not looking up from his parchment.

"Vell, I'm not that desperate." Decided Viktor, focusing on his lines again. "Verewolv!"

"...and I'm sure Hermione made me loose my hair!" said Cho suddenly, as Ron and she sat down at the Ravenclaw table, (in a deserted Great Hall) "I mean, she's just jealous about me playing the princess!"

Ron sighed and shrugged. "Maybe, but you shouldn-"

"I should go to Dumbledore about this!" interrupted Cho.

"You real-"

"Maybe he can expel her or something!"

"Cho, listen, I thi-"

"But maybe I should wait for Professor Snape's reaction to this."

"You rea-" Ron suddenly stopped. "You went to SNAPE about this?"

"Yes."

"And you told HIM that HERMIONE did this to you?"

"Well, yes, of course I did."

Ron stood up and slammed his fist on the table. "THAT does it! You can't accuse Hermione from such a thing when you don't even know if it's true!"

Hermione looked at Luna, hopefully, but before Luna could answer, someone else answered;

"Miss Granger, very well indeed, but I do need to have a word with you... AND Miss Lovegood."

It was Snape.

A/N: lyrics taken from 'No way to Say' and 'Unite!' both from singer Ayumi Hamasaki.