I guess getting sick is good now isn't it? I'm updating quickly, wow. Now that I am being active about updating, I believe I am going to do something simple. I don't believe it's asking too much, you see I personally love getting reviews, the fewer reviews I get the less I feel appreciated. I'm going to do this; I will type and put chapter 8 up when I have 35 reviews. Please review?
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"No, I just eat small breakfasts, and that's when Ginny gets there, I don't need to be seen sitting with the two when they seat themselves by me; even if I do talk to them." She said, yawning.
"I'll let you sleep then, see you in the morning, we can plot while we work out if you like." Draco said, standing and walking to the door.
"I like that. Sleep well." She said, getting under her covers. Draco smiled and walked into his room. He was glad that he'd been nice, she was someone to know, and had many tricks under her sleeve. Getting into his bed, he quickly fell asleep.
Chapter 7: Revenge is Plotted
Hermione stepped out of the shower and walked over to the window; glad they were charmed to not cloud over from the hot water. She threw on her sport-bra and a pair of boxer shorts to work out in. looking at her reflection; she thought she looked rather good.
At 17 she was taller than most her female friends at 5'7" she stood rather tall, her hair still liked to try and frizz up on her, but she had learned several ways of preventing that, and was happy her aunt was a hair dresser. She had started going to a gym over the summer and had slimmed out for her cousins wedding, she'd then got the bug that drove her there each day since she had started. She was learning to love her body.
She then looked at her inner arm and wrist; scars were everywhere. She didn't think she had cut deep enough to scar, however she was wrong. She was lucky though, they did go away, not as quickly as she'd hope but they did. Reaching over to her wand she picked it up and cast the charm she'd been taught the day before.
Nearly finished she now had to face the hair battle, smiling she decided to use her wand. She cast a drying spell, as well as one to make it straight, then put her hair up. It was shorter than her last six years, her aunt decided to try something new, and Hermione was happy to have less hair to work with.
Walking into her quarters she picked her school robes up and put them on over her work out ensemble. Looking herself over in her talking mirror, she decided it was good for now, she'd make herself look better after she worked out. "My dear, I hope you don't go too far dressed like that! You'll get all sorts of attention, from the male students." Her mirror warned.
"I know, I'm going to work out, I will be back and I'll change into something you find better then." Hermione replied. The mirror grunted as Hermione turned and left for her early breakfast, not forgetting to grab the new book she'd been given. Her father's brother was a bookstore owner in San Francisco, and when he visited, he'd given her a new series of books to read. Hermione had loved the books and decided to read them over. Now she held the first in the series of three in her hand. "I'm going to breakfast Draco!" she yelled up to his room.
"No need for yelling." He said, opening to portrait for her.
"Alright, sorry. I didn't hear you get up." She said.
"I got up while you were showering." He told her. They spoke a few more moments before getting into the main hallways where they pretended to hate each other to death.
Hermione sat in her normal seat for breakfast and after setting her book down she served herself a small portion of food, and picked her book up. Opening the book she started to read and eat. However to her misfortune, Harry and Ron entered earlier than normal and to Hermione's and Ron's disapproval, Ginny was with them, and all over Harry. Ron sat by her and Harry sat on her other side, to Ginny's dislike. Hermione took no notice of this and continued to read and finish her breakfast.
She heard her name and looked to where it sounded from, and saw Ron. "I'm sorry Ron, what did you say?" she asked him.
"I was asking how your book is." He said.
"oh! My book is wonderful, if your interested I'll let you read it when I've finished." She said.
"I don't know, what's it about?" he asked. Hermione handed it to him and he read the insert about the book, deciding he liked it he agreed.
"You'll like it Ron, and it's part of a threesome of books." She added.
"What's part of a threesome?" Harry asked, pulling his attention away from Ginny.
"Hermione is, she's bi, why wouldn't she?" Ginny said. Harry and Ron ignored her comment and looked at Hermione.
"Sabriel is the first book, then Lirael: daughter of the Clayer, and the last is called Abhorsen." Hermione said, taking no notice of Ginny, because she had not heard it. She explained the books to Harry and Ron before turning her attention to the announcements and then to mail. After picking the few letters she got she stood and left to go work out.
She walked slowly, to allow Draco find her and to allow him to find the room so he'd know where it was. She turned slightly and was surprised to see Harry following her. "Hermione we need to talk." He told her.
"What about?" she asked, eyes looking around for Ginny, this was not what she needed.
"You, and what Ginny did last night." He said.
"Not right now, you have class, we can talk during Potions, alright?" Hermione told him.
"Alright." He said, he turned and went back to the Great Hall to finish his meal. Hermione left to go to the Room of Requirement and work out. She stepped her pace up several bits and was about to go into the room when she crashed into something that made her fall.
"Professor Snape!" Hermione said. "I did not see you, sorry!" she said quickly, hoping he would take minimal points away.
"Clearly you did not, watch where you are going, that will be ten points." He told her, side stepping and leaving her to her business. Hermione glared at his back and proceeded to go into the room to workout, finding Draco already there.
"What took you so long?" he asked, flipping through the CDs.
"Ran into several people." She said joining him. "You know how these work?" she asked.
"Nope, I was sleeping in that class." He admitted.
"All right then, well these are CD's and we're going to listen to one of them while we workout, what kind of music do you listen to when you work out?" she asked.
"Rock, I normally listen to a muggle group my neighbor blasts over his music playing device."
"CD Player. Here, we'll listen to this, but first I would like to cast a silencing spell so it doesn't get too loud." They cast the spell and the music started. Hermione walked over to a stationary bike and started her workout. Draco started to stretch and after a few moments went to a treadmill. Their workout progressed like this for about forty-five minutes when Draco once again asked Hermione to spot him while he bench-pressed.
"Ok, so Hermione do you have any idea at all as to how to get her back?" Draco asked.
"I wish." Hermione stated, helping him put the weights back.
"Well I think I have an idea." He said, getting a small cup of water. She got one as well and they sat on the stretching mats and slowly sipped the water.
"What would that be?" she finally asked.
"As it has seemed for years, you and I have hated each other for the last six years, right? Well as it seems Ginny hatred for you has come about, why don't I slowly befriend her and find a way to get her back?" he suggested.
"I don't know, her hatred sometimes goes and comes… and besides she's not as stupid as she can seem. Besides what would Lucius do should he find his son speaking with a muggle loving family?"
"True, then I just talk to her quietly, like you and I do." He suggested.
"Or I could go into the her dormitory and copy her journal and post it around the school, or use what's in it to black mail her." Hermione suggested.
"You could, that would be easier I think."
"I don't know, hey spot me ok?"
"Sure" they spent more time in silence or counting reps as they continued to work out. As the CD ended however, they both stopped and wiped their equipment down and got ready to leave, they needed to get to classes after a quick shower.
The rest of the day was spent studying and when time was there, plotting how to get to Ginny. Hermione liked the idea of going into her room and placing "used" condoms around and other sexual things, and spreading different other things like needles and bottles of alcohol around the room but Draco pointed out that she'd need to drug Ginny and that could be traced, or have bad side effects on her. Hermione hated to agree with him, even though she knew it could happen.
Draco suggested strapping her to bed and he could take a polyjuice potion and pretend to be some other guy and they could take pictures. Hermione reminded him that the picture would eventually show his face as the polyjuice wore off. They weren't sure what they could do.
Hermione was sitting in potions when a note was passed to her from Harry. He was asking her about why she acted the way she was around Ginny, and why Ginny had offered to do some sort of a sexual favour. Hermione just said that it was a long story and she needed to pay attention before Snape could take more points away. He only grumbled and went back to brewing a memory potion.
As Draco added the last of his ingredients to his memory potion he looked down to see a note appear in front of him. Casually opening it he noticed it was from Hermione, she had an idea and wanted to see what he though. Draco agreed to talk to her when class was out, and finished his potion in silence.
The class went by slowly for Draco, but for Hermione is couldn't have gone any slower, she didn't want to tell Harry she was bi, and she cut herself, and she didn't know who Ginny knew in their 7th year class. Or who she had spying on them.
When class did end, she ran into the Great Hall to eat as quickly as possible and then went to her dorm rooms. She saw Draco sitting on the couch and sat on a nearby chair. She only waited a few moments before he noticed her. "Well what is your plot now?" he asked, looking over his book.
"That Memory potion, we could alter her memory and then put some other memory there. What do you think?"
"No, you'd have to have a memory on hand or just blank that out, and you'd need to find her journal, and the recording as well. Too much, hassle. I was thinking about your earlier idea though." He replied.
"Which idea?"
"The used condoms and such idea." He replied. "I spent a little time during Potions developing that idea."
"What did you come up with?" she asked.
"Instead of just giving her the sleeping potion and placing those items around the room we could, do something to build up to that."
"Like giving a reason to have the condoms around, and empty bottles? Alright, but who should the guy be, and how do we have evidence?"
"Easily my dear Watson. Find a male she's always found sexually attractive, and arrange it so she spends more and more time with him, or her, if she's bisexual. Then after so much time passes you throw a small party here in our common room; say around Christmas. That may be hard to pull off, but lets try for then. Once at the party, get her smashed and once she is, have her escorted back to her dorm rooms, depending on who this guy is we can pull that off, what do you think of that?" he asked.
"I like that, but how do we find out who this secret fantasy is?" Hermione asked.
"That would be up to you, I don't know how women find these things out, get her drunk or something." He suggested. At that moment Hermione jumped up.
"I got it!" she said.
"Would you care to tell me?"
"I will, alright, I know this Friday is the normal get together for the sixth and seventh year girls in my house. I've been to several, they're once a month and we just sit around and to things, drink, make-up, gossip and so on. I was asked this morning by a seventh year to bring some ideas for the whole group, and to bring some alcohol."
"Helpful." He commented. "Find some truth serum and spike Ginny's drink." He suggested.
"I was just about to get to my battle plan thank you." Hermione said. "I was asked to bring an activity, so here it is, tell me what you think. Like you suggested, I use some truth serum, however I put that in everyone's glass, except mine, and we play I never. As time goes by we will start to ask just different questions and the such, the serum will still be active, hell that should last the night. What do you think?" she asked.
"That would be a good idea, but how do you get a hold of that much truth serum?"
"Hogsmeade, or I could easily get some from Snape." Hermione told him.
"You expect Snape to just give you enough?" Draco asked, laughing.
"No, I have a little gift I discovered over the summer. A spell book my mother gave me. Ends up my grandmother was a changeling, and sometimes changed her shape at will. Therefore, I spent a small amount of time practicing. I just need a little time and be anything I want to."
"Why don't you just hit on the guy and whatnot and get a picture that way?"
"Time would erode the picture, and I would appear eventually, besides I don't want to be in her body. Who knows where its been."
"Alright. So how do you get into Snape's office?"
"That is where you come in. do you have an invisibility cloak?"
"I might yes."
"Alright then here's my idea. I change into you and you hide under your cloak, you patrol the Slytherine areas when Snape does correct?" Hermione asked.
"Yes."
"Alright, so you pass him and we walk down close to the entrance to the potions class, that you take the cloak off and I should look like Snape then, I'll go into his office and take a bottle or two of his Truth serum. And transfigure a couple of spare bottles I bring to look like them, switch the glasses and presto, we have out serum, I will walk out of the classes and appear like a lost Slytherine, there you find me and we'll find some sort of word to let you know its me. We come back here and there we go!" Hermione said.
"Are you sure that you aren't supposed to be in Slytherine?"
"Well the hat wanted to put me in Hufflepuff for a moment, but then he changed his mind and considered Gryffendore and well here we go. I know I can be naughty I just try to not show it." Draco sighed and considered her idea.
"I like that it should work. Snape doesn't have a password to get into his class, but he does for his office, so I'll find that out tomorrow and we'll pull it off then alright?"
"Alright." They shook hands and after saying their respective goodnights went to get an early nights sleep.
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