Hermione rushed into the common room to find it empty. Frowning, she glanced at her watch and was surprised to see it reading 2.23am. She ran up the boys corridor to the room Harry and Ron shared with Longbottom and Seamus to find all 4 boys asleep. Defeated, she walked slowly to the girls dormitory. *They'll be doing it at breakfast* Hermione thought to herself. *Whatever IT is.*
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As soon as Hermione woke up, her mind landed on Pansy Parkinsons sneering face. She glanced at her watch, feeling her stomach lurch to the floor. 10.30!
"OH NO!"
She dressed in a flurry and ran as fast as she could to the Great Hall. Harry and Ron were sitting eating scrambled eggs, deep in conversation with Seamus. She rushed over and sat down, trying to look inconspicuous and failing.
"Er....whats wrong, Hermione?" asked a puzzled Harry.
"Oh nothing....um....have you seen Pansy Parkinson?" she panted as she attempted to pour orange juice into her water goblet, but managing to splash it all over her hands.
"Pansy Parkinson? Why do you care?" asked Seamus.
"Oh no reason." She didn't want to engage in the story with the whole Gryffindor table sitting near them. She cast a 'I need to talk to you too now' look at Harry and Ron. It was completely wasted on them, however, as Hermione could tell from the way they stared blankly at her and then proceeded to converse with Seamus once more. Hermione sighed and glanced around at the Slytherin table, only to see Miliscent and Pansy disappear through the door of the Great Hall. Pansy turned around in the doorway and Hermione was horrified to notice that Pansy had her wand out. She cast it over the room, her lips moving silently. Then she walked away, and Hermione ran after them.
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"I've changed my mind." Pansy muttered to Miliscent as they stood on the stairs. Unknown to them, Hermione stood beneath them, listening intently.
"I'm just going to give the Rose Bud potion to Draco, and watch him fall in love with me. I don't want the other snots in this school....I only want him..." she sighed.
"But wouldn't that mean that all the boys would fall in love with....with Draco?" a shocked Miliscent asked.
Pansy looked blankly at Miliscent. "No....it would mean he falls in love with me."
"But the book said that you give equal shares of the potion to all the boys, then as soon as you drink it yourself they fall in love with you!"
Pansy blinked at Miliscent. "Don't be so stupid, Miliscent I know what I'm doing." She sulked away.
Hermione gasped and headed to the common room. If Miliscent was right, then every boy Pansy had given the potion to would fall in love with Draco Malfoy!
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Hermione scrambled around the floor looking for the book, and desperately turned the pages until she found the Rose Bud spell.
~*~Guaranteed to make every drinker of the Rose Bud elixir fall in love with the conjorur. Mix the petals of four dead roses together with angel hair and Niamh blood on a full moon. Plant some in a glass pot and give the rest to your chosen person. Before drinking it yourself, add a teaspoon of unicorn tears and jasmine. Love will bloom when the cerise rose is full.~*~
She began to read, and half way through her jaw dropped. Miliscent was right! All that had to be done to make the concoction arrive in the glasses of the drinker was to write the names of the chosen person or people on a piece of pink parchment and plant them with some of the Niamh blood, angel hair and petals, get them in a room together, wave the wand over the room and whisper:
~*~The hearts I seek are in this room
So let the cerise rosebud bloom~*~
Just as Miliscent said, if Draco drinks the concotion made for Pansy, all the boys will fall in love with him!
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Hermione's heart was thudding as fast as he feet were moving. All she could think of as she thundered to the Great Hall was Harry and Ron.
*Please don't let them have drank the potion yet! Not them! Not Ron.....*
Hermione skidded to a halt as she reached the Great Hall. A smirking Pansy was pressed against the door, peering in, a little glass bowl full of burgundy earth in her hands.
*God no! Not Ron!*
Hermione couldn't stand to see Ron in love with anyone, let alone Draco Malfoy! But as her tear filled eyes scanned the room and fell on Draco Malfoy - who was taking a huge gulp from his water goblet and frowning in disgust - she knew she was too late. She heard Pansy's ecstatic giggle as a tiny rose grew from the earth in the glass bowl and bloomed into a very beautiful, cerise rose. An estranged cry escaped Hermione's mouth as she walked towards the Gryffindor table. As she passed, she noticed all the boys heads turning to look at the Slytherin table, sneaking looks at Malfoy. Numbly, she sat opposite Harry and Ron. Harry was still shoveling down bacon. A tear rolled down her flushed cheek as she saw Ron, eyes fixed on Malfoy.
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As soon as Hermione woke up, her mind landed on Pansy Parkinsons sneering face. She glanced at her watch, feeling her stomach lurch to the floor. 10.30!
"OH NO!"
She dressed in a flurry and ran as fast as she could to the Great Hall. Harry and Ron were sitting eating scrambled eggs, deep in conversation with Seamus. She rushed over and sat down, trying to look inconspicuous and failing.
"Er....whats wrong, Hermione?" asked a puzzled Harry.
"Oh nothing....um....have you seen Pansy Parkinson?" she panted as she attempted to pour orange juice into her water goblet, but managing to splash it all over her hands.
"Pansy Parkinson? Why do you care?" asked Seamus.
"Oh no reason." She didn't want to engage in the story with the whole Gryffindor table sitting near them. She cast a 'I need to talk to you too now' look at Harry and Ron. It was completely wasted on them, however, as Hermione could tell from the way they stared blankly at her and then proceeded to converse with Seamus once more. Hermione sighed and glanced around at the Slytherin table, only to see Miliscent and Pansy disappear through the door of the Great Hall. Pansy turned around in the doorway and Hermione was horrified to notice that Pansy had her wand out. She cast it over the room, her lips moving silently. Then she walked away, and Hermione ran after them.
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"I've changed my mind." Pansy muttered to Miliscent as they stood on the stairs. Unknown to them, Hermione stood beneath them, listening intently.
"I'm just going to give the Rose Bud potion to Draco, and watch him fall in love with me. I don't want the other snots in this school....I only want him..." she sighed.
"But wouldn't that mean that all the boys would fall in love with....with Draco?" a shocked Miliscent asked.
Pansy looked blankly at Miliscent. "No....it would mean he falls in love with me."
"But the book said that you give equal shares of the potion to all the boys, then as soon as you drink it yourself they fall in love with you!"
Pansy blinked at Miliscent. "Don't be so stupid, Miliscent I know what I'm doing." She sulked away.
Hermione gasped and headed to the common room. If Miliscent was right, then every boy Pansy had given the potion to would fall in love with Draco Malfoy!
* * * * * * * * * *
Hermione scrambled around the floor looking for the book, and desperately turned the pages until she found the Rose Bud spell.
~*~Guaranteed to make every drinker of the Rose Bud elixir fall in love with the conjorur. Mix the petals of four dead roses together with angel hair and Niamh blood on a full moon. Plant some in a glass pot and give the rest to your chosen person. Before drinking it yourself, add a teaspoon of unicorn tears and jasmine. Love will bloom when the cerise rose is full.~*~
She began to read, and half way through her jaw dropped. Miliscent was right! All that had to be done to make the concoction arrive in the glasses of the drinker was to write the names of the chosen person or people on a piece of pink parchment and plant them with some of the Niamh blood, angel hair and petals, get them in a room together, wave the wand over the room and whisper:
~*~The hearts I seek are in this room
So let the cerise rosebud bloom~*~
Just as Miliscent said, if Draco drinks the concotion made for Pansy, all the boys will fall in love with him!
* * * * * * * * * *
Hermione's heart was thudding as fast as he feet were moving. All she could think of as she thundered to the Great Hall was Harry and Ron.
*Please don't let them have drank the potion yet! Not them! Not Ron.....*
Hermione skidded to a halt as she reached the Great Hall. A smirking Pansy was pressed against the door, peering in, a little glass bowl full of burgundy earth in her hands.
*God no! Not Ron!*
Hermione couldn't stand to see Ron in love with anyone, let alone Draco Malfoy! But as her tear filled eyes scanned the room and fell on Draco Malfoy - who was taking a huge gulp from his water goblet and frowning in disgust - she knew she was too late. She heard Pansy's ecstatic giggle as a tiny rose grew from the earth in the glass bowl and bloomed into a very beautiful, cerise rose. An estranged cry escaped Hermione's mouth as she walked towards the Gryffindor table. As she passed, she noticed all the boys heads turning to look at the Slytherin table, sneaking looks at Malfoy. Numbly, she sat opposite Harry and Ron. Harry was still shoveling down bacon. A tear rolled down her flushed cheek as she saw Ron, eyes fixed on Malfoy.
