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Chapter 10: Petrified & Pobolorgs

Snape crossed his arms and eyed them suspiciously. "I heard, from certain people, that you two..." he narrowed his eyes, "have something to do with the... accident earlier today."

Hermione widened her eyes and Luna pointed her wand at Snape. "Petrificus Totalus!" she said.

Hermione widened her eyes even more as Snape looked like an imitation of a stone statue and fell over. "LUNA!!"

"Yes?" asked Luna, putting her wand away and looking quite bemused.

"WHAT DID YOU DO!? You CAN'T attack TEACHERS!!" Hermione gasped, completely in shock.

"Why not?" Luna asked as she yawned.

"LUNA!! What if he gets out!? What if some teacher finds him here!? What if- "

The door opened and Professor Lovehart came walking in. Hermione kept her mouth tightly shut.

Lovehart's eyes darted from Luna to Hermione and finally to Snape. "What... you two!" he said seriously, pointing at them.

Hermione swallowed. "W-we can explain!!" she started desperately.

"Really? Well, I was trying to say, that is the most authentic statue I've ever seen!" Lovehart looked at the petrified Snape again. If looks could kill, Snape's glare would have buried Lovehart 6 feet under. "Really, could you make one of me? You know I'd look marvelous... Oh, wait, I already look marvelous. Never mind, so, care to make-" he didn't finish, because Professor Lupin (restored to his usual old self) came walking in.

"Some people are expecting you in the Great Hall... " Lupin began.

"They are? Well, then it's time to make those people happy!" said Lovehart, smiling widely. "I'll see you, Hermione, at tonight's practice! And do think about it!" Lovehart walked out of the office.

Lupin nodded at Snape's statue "Full Body Bind?" he asked while Snape continued to glare at Luna.

"Er... " started Hermione, but Luna nodded proudly.

"Look, we can explain, it all started wi-" tried Hermione, but Lupin had obviously not heard her, as he was cutting her off.

"Just what he deserves, that slimy, greasy, old git."

Hermione stared at him in disbelief, he mouth slightly opened while Snape's eyes turned to glare at Lupin.

"Er... sorry, got carried away I suppose... " Lupin muttered quickly.

"So... now what? Do we need to perform the counter curse? I mean... we are in kind of a hurry... " Said Hermione.

"Just... leave him here," grinned Lupin, still very amused about the petrified Snape whose glare would have turned Lupin into a bloody mess if looks could kill.

Luna and Hermione made their way out of Lovehart's office quickly.

~*~

"Now what? What if Snape's gonna get Hermione expelled!?" shouted Ron at Cho.

"I'd love to see the look on her face when that happens! The little, evi-"

"STOP it, okay? Just, stop it! I'm sick of you complaining and suspecting other people, especially my friends!"

"Oh, so now she's your friend again? After all she did to me!?" shouted Cho.

"Forget it." said Ron and he walked away.

~*~

"I'm going to check if there are any Pobolorgs in the girl's bathroom, I'll watch you at the rehearsal!" said Luna. Hermione knew better than to say Pobolorgs didn't exist and just smiled.

Luna walked down a corridor, her eyes casted downward, searching for Pobolorg trails, when she bumped up against someone and fell back to the floor.

That someone had been Ron. "Luna! I'm sorry!" he said, while helping her back to her feet.

"You look... pretty angry... " said Luna, eyeing him suspiciously.

"... I am" he sighed. "Because of Cho."

"What did she do to you!?" demanded Luna immediately.

"Well... she thinks Hermione's responsible for that hair-accident and she told Snape... " he explained.

"Hermione's not responsible..." began Luna.

"That's what I told her! But she wouldn't listen!" replied Ron.

"No... Hermione's not the only one responsible... I'm involved too. And Snape's is in the full body bind, Lupin's up in Lovehart's office, laughing his head off, Lovehart thinks Snape's a statue of Snape and I was just looking for Pobolorgs..."

Ron blinked.

"Not that I found any yet!" Luna added quickly.

Ron blinked again and shook his head "Sorry, but did you just say that you and Hermione ARE responsible for that accident?"

Luna nodded absently, "Yeah... I think there's one in the girl's bathroom"

Ron frowned, "Excuse me?"

Luna looked at him as if he was insane, "a Po-bol-org!"

"Right... "

"I'd love to talk another time," Luna said, while passing him, "Really love to..." she entered another corridor.

~*~

Hermione entered the Gryffindor common room, to find a sleeping Viktor (snoring loudly in the chair next to the fireplace) and a studying Harry.

"Hermione! Got rid of the toads? I mean, frogs?"

"Yeah, Luna's a genius in levitating things... and she jinxed Snape." she added as a-matter-of-factly.

"She did... WHAT?" Harry asked bemused, closing his textbook (Sense and See like a Centaur, by Cassandra Vablatsky).

"It's bad, isn't it?" sighed Hermione depressed as she sat down in the chair opposite of him.

"But... why?" he asked.

Hermione gave him a hopeless look. "You want to know for sure?" she paused and Harry folded his hands. "Luna and I did the hair-thing..."

Harry dropped his jaw and gazed at her. "No WAY!"

Hermione nodded. "And the worst thing is... I don't feel guilty at all."

Before Harry could reply, someone jumped from behind a chair, rolling up a piece of parchment and grabbing his camera: Colin.

"This'll make the FRONT page!" he said, as he made a picture.

"Oh no it won't!" said Ron from behind him, "Not until you've also written down that she is the most unreliable, sneaky, filthy and worst friend I ever had!"

"Ron...?" asked Hermione.

"You! You are evil! I defended you! I stood up against Cho and told her she was wrong, that you hadn't done it!" shouted Ron at her.

Viktor woke up and frowned, "Vhat is going on?"

"I-" Hermione stood up, "-was just leaving!" and she made her way out of the common room.