- SEDUCTION BY THE BOOK
BY : Perselus
CHAPTER 2 : Dispute
"Ahhhh," Hermione cried in frustration. There were really nothing in the library to help her. For once her most trusted ally, didn't come through.
"What's wrong Hermione?" asked the redheaded girl sitting next to her.
"Oh nothing Ginny." Hermione slammed the book closed, witch earned her an evil look from Madam Pince.
"I heard what happened in Potions today, um are you ok?" Ginny looked at her best friend worriedly.
"No, I'm not Ok," replied Hermione. She looked at her best female friend and thought she needed help on this one. "You see, Lavender and Parvati challenged me. They said I didn't have the guts to ask a guy out."
"What possessed you to ask Snape?" she asked wide-eyed
"I didn't choose him, they did."
"Well, you did it, so they can't say anything more about you, right?" Ginny looked at her friend's distorted face. "Right?"
"Well, let's say they added on a spinner to this challenge."
"Oh no, this doesn't sound good. What was it?"
"I have to seduce him," Hermione said in a small voice.
"NO!" Ginny yelled, unfortunately this brought them to the attention of Madam Pince.
"Will you two please keep it down! This is not the place for such behavior. Now Miss Weasley, I know you're from a large family but please contain yourself! And Miss Granger, I'm highly disappointed in you. Out now! Both of you, I WILL NOT HAVE THIS DISRUPTION IN MY LIBRARY!" Madam Price didn't scream, her voice didn't even rise up over her normal whisper. But it did grew cold and demanding, and it spoke of no arguments or explanations.
The two girls gathered their things and walked quietly out of the library.
"Oh thanks a lot Ginny, first time I ever got kicked out of a Library."
"Sorry Hermione, but I can't believe they would do that to you. He's a professor after all!" Ginny got a gleam in her eye that made Hermione worried.
"What Ginny?" she asked nevousely.
"Well, I just had two ideas. Well, one I'm going to help you win this challenge, and two... well, that will be later."
"What is going to be later?" asked Hermione.
"Revenge Hermione, Revenge. But first we have to find some books for you to read. And I know just the ones, follow me." Ginny ran to the Gryffindor Common room with Hermione hot on her tail.
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"You have got to be joking!" Hermione cried when Ginny placed five paperback novels in front of her. They were in the girls' sixth year dorm room. Ginny shared those with several other girls, and luckily non-were present at the moment.
"No, I'm not joking." Ginny laughed at the horrid look on Hermione's face. "Ohh come on, they're not that bad. And you don't have to read all of it, just the highlighted parts."
Hermione looked through one of the books with the steamy cover, of a dark handsome man in a passionate embrace with a buxom blond. Sure enough there were words highlighted in red ink. Some, only a small paragraph to several pages with highlights.
"You highlight Romance novels Ginny?" She looked up at her friend accusingly.
"Yep." Ginny shrugged, and pushed the books into her friend's hands leading her to the door. "Now up to your Head girl room before anyone sees you so worried about it, and by the way Hermione, this isn't something a text book or those books can help you with. Only give you an idea." Ginny winked at her friend and said, "Good luck." Before closing the door on the poor bewildered Head girl.
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Hermione sat in her room for the rest of the day reading the novels Ginny had given her. Transfiguration was canceled for the day. Professor McGonagall was called away on some family emergency. It seemed that a young cousin of her had transformed her father into a couch potato... literally. And Dumbledore thought it best if she handled it, instead of the Ministry.
Hermione was at first frustrated at the books... like she would ever be stranded on a desert island, or on a pirate ship, with Snape, let alone having him dressed up like Lawrence of Arabia. But she decided to only concentrate on the red words that seemed to glow from the page. Hermione lost track all of time and had missed dinner, and if she didn't hurry she would be late for detention!
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A/N: Thanks for the wonderful reviews - Willy, Hana-Heart, Saonriyu and Marie Susette( thanx for the tip, i believe this is gonna be a little bit different than most 'challenge' fics and it will take some time before we get to real romance) ;-)