The Hope Spell.
By: Princess Lalaith
"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, snif; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 22.- Secret Admirer
It was Tuesday, the 10th of February. Many girls, and boys, had gotten gifts from 'secret admirers'. But they never imagined what would start that day.
"Hurry Sakura-chan, you can't stay in that bathroom forever." Tomoyo said.
"And we're gonna be late for breakfast." Hermione added.
"Ok, let's go." Sakura said getting out, already dressed.
With that the three friends headed out the bedroom they shared(the other three girls of their age had another room).
"What do you think about those Secret Admirers?" Hermione asked Tomoyo.
"I think Eriol-kun had a very good idea." Tomoyo said. "It's not easy to tell one person you love him/her. It seems easier when you're sure they don't know it's you."
"And it is sooooooooo romantic." Sakura sighed.
"And maybe it could have saved us quite a time with you and Shaoran-kun back in fifth grade, ne?" Tomoyo said grinning.
"But then everything would be different now." Shaoran interfered arriving. "And I'm happy with everything as it is now. My Ying Fa," he hugged her. "my friends, I don't need anything to change."
"Neither do I." Sakura said smiling sweetly.
They both kissed.
"Don't eat bread in front of the hungry ones." Hermione said.
"Nani?" Sakura looked puzzled.
"She means: not do that in front of us, you'll make us jealous." Tomoyo said.
"Oh. But I have the perfect solution hime(princess)." Eriol said, literally appearing from nowhere.
He smiled and kissed her shortly.
"Eriol. Not here!" Tomoyo hissed. "They'll see us."
"There's no one here." Eriol said grinning. "And I really don't care."
Tomoyo shook her head in resignation, but at the same time she smiled.
The friends got to breakfast where each of them got to their own table. The girls had just sat down when a pink rose popped out from nowhere, right in front of Hermione.
She looked puzzled.
"Maybe it is from one of your boyfriends guys." Hermione suggested.
"Don't think so." Tomoyo said shaking her head. "It would have appeared in front of us."
"Besides." Sakura added. "Neither of our boyfriends have need to do this."
Just then Hermione noticed a note attached to the rose. She took it and unfolded it. It read:
Pink rose, Friendship, but from you, I want more than that.
"Ah...this is really romantic." Sakura murmured.
"Kawaii!!" Tomoyo yelled with starry eyes.
Hermione was still holding the note, not quite believing what she was reading.
"Oh Hermy-chan, this is so romantic, cute, perfect." Tomoyo said really happy.
"I...I can't believe it." Hermione hadn't quite realized this was happening to her.
"Hermy-chan, you have a secret admirer!" Sakura said with a big smile.
"I...I have...A secret admirer." Hermione repeated.
She couldn't believe it. But it was real. Someone really had sent her that flower...and those beautiful words.
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But the surprises didn't end there.
"Where did you left the rose you received yesterday?" Ginny asked.
By then most of the Gryffindor girls knew that Hermione had received a rose and a message from that secret admirer. Most of them couldn't believe it, but well they couldn't believe either when Víktor Krum asked her for the dance two years ago.
The girls had just arrived to the Great Hall, when another flower appeared in front of Hermione. This time it was a light-orange rose.
Pretty flower this one is, but not as pretty as you.
All the girls sighed.
Tomoyo was filming all the reactions Hermione had: surprise, astonishment, shock, everything.
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The third day the girls arrived early. But when they sat down nothing appeared.
"Well." Tomoyo said. "We must deduce whoever is doing this didn't woke up early today, ne?"
"Or we came here too early." Sakura added.
The girls had breakfast quietly.
"I think I'll go back to our bedroom, I forgot a book I need for Transformations class." Hermione said standing up.
"You sad, Hermy-chan?" Sakura asked, she was concerned.
"No Sakura, don't worry." Hermione said putting on a fake smile.
I can identify a fake smile when I see it, and that's one. Tomoyo mentally said.
She's really sad she didn't receive any rose today. Sakura replied.
Hai. Tomoyo agreed. She'll never admit it out loud, but she really liked receiving those flowers.
"Could you please not talk about me in your minds?" Hermione asked.
"You heard us?" Sakura asked, ashamed.
"No, but there's no need to." Hermione said. "I know you well enough."
"And we know you too Hermy-chan." Tomoyo replied. "No need to hide from us."
"No need to hide from you." Hermione said. "But from the rest of the world."
She was about to leave when a flower appeared in her hand. It was a white rose.
Hermione was astonished, but at the same time happy. It wasn't a bad joke, she had received another flower!
"Well, better late than never." Tomoyo murmured smiling.
Sakura nodded, she agreed with her.
Hermione read the note attached to the rose.
Innocent, pure, sublime, that's how my feelings for you are.
Hermione hugged the note to her chest, sighing happily.
While the rest of the girls on the table sighed dreamily.
"I wish Colin would do something like that." Ginny sighed.
"Or Seamus." Lavender added.
And just then a few boys arrived to the Great Hall. Between them where Harry and Ron.
"Hermione looks so happy." Harry murmured.
"Looks that she really likes the idea of having a secret admirer." Ron added.
"Wonder what would she do if she knew who that admirer was." Harry murmured.
"What I wonder is who the admirer is." Ron said. "Don't you think likewise?"
Harry nodded, but he seemed to be thinking something else.
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The fourth day Hermione woke up humming a song.
"You look happy." Tomoyo commented as she braided her hair.
"I am." Hermione said smiling brightly. "You guys were right, I like having this secret admirer, it makes me feel really special."
"Do you imagine who could do something like this?" Sakura asked getting out of the bathroom, with her hair still wet.
"I don't know who is, but I know who I wish was." Hermione said dreamily.
"Who?" Both girls asked at once.
"Harry..." Hermione whispered dreamily.
Sakura and Tomoyo smiled, they wished Hermione could get her wish, she really deserved it.
"We better hurry, or we'll be late." Tomoyo said standing up from the vanity.
"That's right." Sakura said.
She had gotten her hair dry with a little magic.
"No need to hurry so much." Hermione said as she buttoned her robe calmly. "After all, we know that my secret admirer doesn't wake up early."
The other girls nodded but anyway they hurried Hermione to the Great Hall.
"Looks like you three overslept the alarms." Ron made fun of their lateness.
"Well, we always wake up early." Tomoyo said. "I think we deserve to be late one day, don't we shoujos(girls)?"
"Hai." Sakura said.
Hermione just nodded, absent minded.
In her hands was another rose, a blue one.
"That rose is really beautiful Hermione." Ginny murmured.
Tomoyo was, again, filming everything.
"What does the note says this time?" Lavender asked intrigued.
Hermione took hold of the blue rose with one hand, and of the note with the other. As she read:
As immense as the sky, and as deep as the sea, that's how I describe my feelings toward you.
"Ah..."All Gryffindor's girls sighed dreamily.
Hermione hugged the note and the rose to her chest. Imagining she had received them from the person she loved.
"This is really cute..." Parvati murmured.
"I really wanna know who's doing this for you Hermione." Ginny added.
"I wanna know too." Hermione added without taking her eyes from the rose.
"But you'll know tomorrow." Lavender said.
"Tomorrow?" The rest of the girls asked.
"Yes." Lavender said. "Because tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Whoever is Hermione's Secret Admirer, will reveal himself tomorrow."
'Will that be true?' Hermione thought. 'Am I really gonna find out tomorrow who my admirer is?'
She wished the answer was yes.
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Finally it was Saturday, 14th of February. The girls woke up and dressed, in silence. When they got out of the Gryffindor tower bouquets of flowers appeared in their hands.
Sakura's were Cherry Blossoms; Tomoyo's were Plum Blossoms.
"Hanas(Flowers) for another Hana(Flower)." Eriol said hugging Tomoyo by her waist.
Tomoyo was about to tell him: Not here. When Eriol caught her lips with his in a deep kiss.
"How's my beautiful Ying Fa this morning?" Shaoran asked hugging Sakura too.
"Perfectly fine because her koibito(lover) is here." Sakura replied.
They too kissed passionately.
"And where's our dear Hermione-san's Admirer?" Eriol asked still with a hand on Tomoyo's waist.
"That we wish to know." Sakura said.
"Then we better go to the Great Hall." Shaoran said.
The two couples went to the Great Hall hand in hand. But when they arrived there Eriol had to give one last kiss to Tomoyo and pretend to be just her professor.
When they got in they received another surprise. Sonomi had in her hands a beautiful bouquet of Red Carnations.
"Nadeshikos." Tomoyo murmured.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"That's how those flowers are called in Japan." Sakura explained.
And they symbolize Eternal Love. Eriol added in their minds.
"I wonder who would give my mother such a gift." Tomoyo murmured thoughtfully.
If she just knew...
When they got to their places a bouquet appeared in front of Hermione. They were four roses, one pink, one white, one light-orange, and one blue. And the note said:
Wish to know who I am? Meet me next to the lake.
"You're gonna meet him!" Lavender, Parvati and Ginny yelled.
"Next to the lake." Hermione added dreamily.
"I wanna see who that guy is." Colin murmured.
"Oh no!" Tomoyo and Sakura yelled at once.
"Why not?" The boys there asked.
"This is Hermy-chan's Secret Admirer, not yours." Tomoyo said.
"You go Hermy-chan." Sakura told her friend. "We won't let them leave this place until you're back."
Hermione nodded as she stood up.
The boys were about to do the same when Sakura raised her wand and looked at them seriously. They sat down again.
"Anyway that must be really boring." Ron said.
Most of the boys nodded.
I thought you wanted to film that declaration of love. Eriol spoke in his girlfriend's mind.
Hai, I wanted. Tomoyo answered. But I believe this is a private moment, so better leave it for them.
I'm sure they'll like that. Eriol mind-said. He worked really hard to get all this done.
He... Tomoyo repeated. So you know who Hermione's Secret Admirer is?
There was no answer.
Tomoyo turned to look at him, he just smiled at her, innocently.
Tomoyo shook her head in resignation, she knew Eriol wouldn't tell her. She turned back to her breakfast; And just then she noticed someone was missing in the table.
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Hermione ran as fast as she could to the lake, the bouquet still in her hands.
'Please.' She pleaded. 'Let it be him, my Secret Admirer.'
Just then she got to the lake, there where a lot of Rose petals in the ground, and between all of them was a single red rose. Hermione took it in her hands and pulled it to her face to breath it's fragrance. It was really perfect. And then she noticed a note attached to it; it was short, just two words, it said:
Turn around.
Hermione did as she was told, her body full of anxiety. As she did so she felt two arms embracing her, and her light-brown eyes met with a pair emerald-greens she knew too well.
"I love you Hermione."
And after those words she felt him kissing her. All her body filled with new sensations, with that kiss, everything was perfect. After a couple of seconds of shock she answered to the kiss, it didn't matter if she had never kissed, if she didn't know how to kiss, it only mattered that her dream had come true.
After a couple of minutes he pulled back, breathing heavily.
"Would you be my girlfriend?" he asked her.
Hermione was blushing madly, but never the less she was smiling.
"Yes." She answered. "I would love to be your girlfriend...Harry."
This chapter is a little longer than last one. Mmm... I'm really inspired(Could it be that I heard Acuarius are romantic?). Well, I just love romance, and it'll still go on. We still need to know what will happen when everyone finds out who Hermione's Secret Admirer was, and what about the flowers Sonomi received? Much more romance is coming.
See ya in the next chapter.Special note: To yamiyumetenshi, I read your review. First of all, about the names, I think that in the age they are, and if they are together almost 24-hours-per-day, it's normal they have the trust to call each other -chan, or -kun. About the name Shaoran, that's how it sounds and they write it here in Mexico, I know it is Syaoran, but when I started writting this I didn't and no one has gotten mad at me because of this so far. About Tomoyo, with all the time it has passed, and considering how much Sakura trained, I think it's normal that Tomoyo would learn something. And about the Create Card, Sakura is such a powerful Sorceress that she can do almost any spell without being next to the card, or with staff in hand. Those are the explanations I'm giving for now.
Arigato.