Chapter Six: A Ritual and Some Stupid Magical Herb

Draco sat down at his usual spot in the Potion's classroom while Professor Snape sat at his desk. The greasy haired professor picked up a few books and began to flip through them page by page. Draco had thought about going after the woman but decided not to. If she changed back into his father, good. And if she didn't, who cared?

"I think this is it," Snape muttered to himself. Draco noticed that his hair was shorter and that Snape actually looked pretty handsome. This made him shiver with disgust.

"What is?" Draco asked, standing to see what he was talking about.

Professor Snape pointed to an unpronouncable Latin spell.

"What does it do?"

"If a person somehow mirrors the personality of a character in a book, they can call on the ethereal spirits of American Bestsellers and become the main character of a book," Snape shook his head, looking in pity towards Draco.

Draco willed himself not to break down. He would fix this... he would! "How do we know that my father has turned into a character from a book?"

He shrugged, "That seems to be the only explanation..."

"What's the counter curse?"

Snape flipped the page, "Here. But it's not a simple curse. One must find the book that this character is from."

"Is that all? I'm sure I could just ask a Mudblood who she is..." Draco shrugged, "Because I sure don't know who she is. Well, her name is Scarlett O'hara and it sounds Irish. But other than that..."

"I'm afraid that's not all," his professor kept reading, "You must also take this book into a forest, of which the school conveniently has, and perform a ritual. You need a drop of blood from the character and a lock of your idol's hair. Then you need your true love to kiss you passionately and then you, your true love, and the character need to see the movie that was derived from said book. Plus, you must find some stupid magical herb and the character needs to eat it before midnight... the midnight after you have received a drop of blood from the character."

Draco rolled his eyes, "Obviously she's from a Muggle book if there's a movie on it."

Snape sighed heavily, "But what if there isn't? Not all Muggle books have movies based on them."

"Shit."

A few minutes later and Draco had found his "Father" who had been peering around the Library doors.

"What in Hell are you doing?" he asked loudly.

"Shh! I'm spying on a really handsome man..." Scarlett giggled.

Draco sneered in disgust and walked into the Library, setting his gaze in the general direction of where Scarlett's eyes were trained on. All he saw was Weasley, Mudblood and Potter sitting at a table doing homework. Oh, and that Loony girl who was hovering over Weasel and even when he batted her away, she would just keep peering over his shoulder and say mystical things. Then he caught sight of the other Weasley. The girl. She appeared from behind a bookshelf and was trying to pull Loony away.

"I don't see a really handsome man," Draco said then smirked, "Well, if you gave me a mirror..."

Scarlett drew a hand up to her forehead and swooned, "His name is Harry and I think I'm in..."

"POTTER!?" Draco yelled then lowered his voice to a hoarse whisper, "You like Harry Bloody Potter?" Scarlett, not being British, didn't get why his middle name would be "Bloody".

Scarlett shrugged in return.

"This is just great. My father is in love with Potter..." Draco turned to bang his head against the wall. Scarlett went back to spying.

"Luna, pleeeeeaaaase come with me?" Ginny asked. Luna shook her head and went back over to Ron to peer over his shoulder again. Hermione glared at Luna in disgust and Harry didn't seem to notice.

Ginny sighed and gave up. Luna's heart was set on 'Ronald'.

"You know Ronald," Luna said, "Your Keeper skills are equal to that of a Beezalbusaur's eating habits." She nodded to prove her point. Ron stared up at her with a weird look on his face.

"Is that a good thing?" he asked. Luna nodded again and Ginny could see she was trying not to blurt out that it was a lie.

Ron smiled in thanks for the 'compliment' and sighed, "Listen Luna, we're trying to study so if you could go play with Ginny or something."

Luna smiled, "Sure Ronald!" Ginny rolled her eyes. Of course she would listen to 'Ronald'. But when Luna walked off, she went in the opposite direction of Ginny and out the Library doors. Ginny followed closely behind.

Luna's destination was the Girls' loo where she pulled out a comb from her pocket and began to comb out her many tangles. Because the comb was, of course, magical it instantly pulled through them. Ginny's jaw dropped.

"LUNA!" she cried, "You said that combs were the work of satan!" Ginny ran up and tried to pull the comb out of Luna's hand but Luna kicked her in the shin and went back to combing her hair with a rather sadistic smile on her face.

"I loooooove Ronald, Ginny. I'm going to make him MINE!" Then she cackled and Ginny knew... she had lost her forever. Ginny tried not to cry at the pain in her shin and hobbled out of the bathroom to lean against the wall.

"Ashley," Scarlett was doing some sort of dance as she bounced up and down slightly, "Is there an outhouse around here?"

Draco raised his eyes to heaven, finally! An excuse to stop 'spying' on Potter. "Sure, down here." He lead her to the Girls' loo but stopped when he saw a certain Weasley Girl standing against the wall looking ready to cry. He had seen her exit the Library before but she had been in such a hurry that he hadn't been able to insult her at least once.

"Well, look who it is!" Draco called out, "None other but a sobbing Weasley."

"Go away Malfoy..." Ginny grumbled.

Scarlett went into the loo and Draco caught sight of a maniacal-looking Luna Lovegood who was combing her hair. Slightly disturbed, he nodded and obliged to Ginny's request.

In Herbology class the next day, Draco was growling at Crabbe and Goyle about Ginny Weasley and how stupid she was. They nodded and half listened to him.

"Okay class!" Professor Sprout said, "Today we are going to look at some stupid magical herbs! Get your gloves on!"

Draco instantly perked up. Some stupid magical herbs? This was part of the ritual! He saw that there were many weird looking herbs on the table in front of him, he grabbed one and placed it in his robe pocket. Yes! Something to check off his list.

The rest of the class was rather boring and Draco blocked it out.