The Axe Affect
By: VoldemortsIllegitimateChild
Summary: Ginny wants to play an April Fool's Day Joke on her brothers, Harry, and her least favorite Slytherin. So, she tries to may the Axis Potion to make them repulsive to the opposite sex, but forgets a critical ingredient and creates…the Axe Affect! Featuring a love triangle and some unlikely pairings!
Disclaimer: For the first and last time, Harry Potter, and all related characters, settings, and situations aren't mine. Okay?
A/N's: Major thanks go to two people. First, the company responsible for Axe cologne and its hysterical commercials were my inspiration for this fic. And second, much love to PhoenixRae and her fic I'd Do Anything, which made me consider Blaise as a main character. Oh, and I picked axis cause it sounded like Axe.
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Ginny Weasley pulled the heavy potions book off of its shelf in the back of the library. It was the sixth book she tried, and she still couldn't find the right prank to play on her brother. She was probably going to play it on Harry, too, because she was rather mad at him for spilling ink all over her the night before. So he, too, would face her wrath.
"This is it!" she whispered excitedly, "I found it!" She read aloud from the page: "'The Axis Potion is used often by jokesters and women scorned. Its effects make men completely undesirable to the opposite sex. This will be great!"
She decided to use the forgotten broom closet by the Quidditch Pitch to make the potion. It would take a few weeks for the potion to be made, but that didn't matter, as it was still only the beginning of March.
Most of the stuff would be easy. She would have to steal some Squid Solution from the Hospital Wing, but everything else she had. She would have to start boiling the beetle eyes that night.
She used a copying spell on the page, grabbed the clone and raced to her dorms. She grabbed her potions supplies and raced towards the pitch. She, of course, wasn't looking where she was going, and ran straight into Draco Malfoy.
He slowly dusted of the front of his (immaculate) robes. "Weasley, these robes cost more than your entire house, and now they have to be burned. In the future, you should watch where you're going, so you don't cover the robes of your betters with Muggle-loving filth."
"Go to hell, Malfoy," Ginny said angrily before continuing down to the closet. And Malfoy makes three people to suffer the effects of the Axis Potion.
A short while later, she was stirring the beetle eyes when she spilled a little water onto the page. "Shoot," she whispered, hurrying to wipe it, not noticing that she inadvertently erased the line she was drying as she did so. A very important line it was, too.
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Almost one month later, Ginny was done. "Finally," she muttered. It was such a pain in the neck to have to miss out on hanging out with her friends to check the Potion. But it was worth it. Tomorrow morning, Harry, Ron, and Malfoy would get theirs.
The next morning, Ginny woke early to spike the goblets in the Great Hall. Draco always sat at the head of the Slytherin table. Harry and Ron liked the comfort of the middle of the Gryffindor table. She sat next to the spiked Gryffindor goblets to lure Harry and Ron if they looked like they weren't going to sit in the right spot.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, Draco came in with his bodyguards, Crabbe and Goyle. God, does he go anywhere without them? Ginny thought to herself. She speculated on this, and decided with all the smartarse remarks Malfoy made, he would need the protection.
She rolled her eyes and watched him sit down in his usual seat. Moments later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione came in as well. "Oi! Over here!" Ginny called. As they approached she said, "Hermione, sit next to me, okay?" This left the tainted seats across from her for Harry and Ron.
She watched Harry's face closely as he drank. "Does this taste a bit funny to you guys?" he asked.
Hermione took a sip of hers. "Mine's fine," she said.
"Mine too," Ginny announced.
"Mine's not," Ron said.
"I think it's just you guys," Hermione said.
"Maybe it's your toothpaste," Ginny suggested, mentally laughing at her brother and his friend.
Meanwhile, over at the Slytherin table, Draco took a sip of his juice.
On his other side, Pansy and Blaise Zabini were arguing over bacon. "I can't believe you don't like bacon," she said. "Did you ever even have it?"
"When I was seven," Blaise said, "and it was disgusting!"
"I heard once that taste buds taste every seven years. Maybe you like it now," Pansy suggested.
Blaise glared at her. "If I have a piece, will you shut up?"
Pansy nodded, albeit angrily. "Great prat," she hissed. Blaise ate the bacon.
"God, it's awful!" he said. He grabbed Draco's juice, as it was the closest, and downed it.
"Blaise, that was my drink, not yours," Malfoy muttered sullenly.
"Sorry, but that bacon was disgusting! It even made the pumpkin juice taste bad," Blaise replied.
Draco finished eating and stood up. "I'll be leaving now." Crabbe and Goyle got up to them and they walked down the Great Hall. As he did, female heads turned to follow him. Hermione, however, was staring after the dark-haired boy that had been next to him. Shockingly, Ginny felt herself drawn to him. Ron and Harry didn't notice, but Ginny did. What the hell is going on?, she thought to herself.
By this time, Ron and Harry were also done and went to get started at Quidditch. The same thing happened to them, everyone staring after. Luckily, Ginny felt nothing more than sisterly affection for her youngest older brother. Ginny was beginning to get worried. She looked back over at the Slytherin table where girls were fighting over Draco's empty seat…the one next to Blaise. What on Earth is happening? "I'm going to the library," she said.
Hermione stopped staring at Blaise long enough to say "See you at lunch."
Ginny practically flew to the library. Thankfully, the book was still there. She frantically flipped through it, trying to find the pages. She realized then that the potion had warnings on the following page.
If the person is allergic to beetle eyes, the Potion will have no effect on him or her. That was irrelevant. Forgetting to stir the lacewings (she did that) or add the Tropssap Root will result in a reverse effect, know as the Axe Affect. Ginny struggled. She was certain she hadn't even read about any Tropssap Roots. She dug through her bag and found her copy. She looked at the potion recipe in the book, and then at hers. "It's on there…why isn't it on the copy?" She thought back to anything that might have messed up her copy. It hit her- she must have erased the line when she spilled water that first day. "Great," she muttered, "fan-bloody-tastic!" But why was Blaise having the same effect? Just another thing for her to figure out…and fast!
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That's all for now. I urge you all to review. I'm not above begging! PLEASE REVIEW! And I know my writing is FAR from perfect. Like perfect is a Caribbean island, I'm a tiny floating iceberg in the North Artic. So any constructive critiscm would be appreciated.
*Thanks to Miss Purrsalot and Siora, who pointed out I hadn't mentioned Ginny wanting to prank Draco. Also, in case you were wondering, Blaise is a guy. I didn't mention that specifically, just said he.*