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Recap - Harry looked at her and at her fear stricken eyes.

Poor 'Mione.

She had signed herself a fate even worse than death.


Bring Me to Life

Chapter 5 - Spirit

... my spirit, sleeping somewhere cold... - Evanesense, Bring Me to Life

Ronald Weasley wasn't exactly the smartest cookie in the tin, but he knew that Hermione being paired with Draco Malfoy was a BAD thing.

Being as it was that Ron was paired with Lavender Brown already, and he was in Snape's classroom, he couldn't do anything.

Harry was a different story though. He was smart, not as academically smart as Hermione, granted he was smarter than Ron, but Harry was smart at reading people. That was the result of having taken Occlumens and Leglimens classes with Snape for two years.

At that moment he could tell that neither Hermione, nor Malfoy wanted to be partnered with each other, especially since they were doing love potions that day.


Hermione was walking back towards the front of the classroom with the ingredients for the love potion.

She knew about this potion, and it's properties as well.

As she thought back to page 357 of Magical Potions and Their Functions, Amor Semper was a powerful potion that HAD to be brewed by two people.

It was a very complicated potion in which the two people, specifically a male and a female, would have to add certain things at exact times.

An example would be that Hermione, the female, would have to add a handful of lacewings at the same time that Malfoy, the male, would have to add a sliver of boomslang.

The last ingredient of the potion was human hair.

Three ounces would be poured into two glasses each, the female would take one of her hairs and drop it in the flask; the male would do the same. They would then have to switch glasses and drink with their arms linked.

It was immensely complicated, and therefore, highly effective. According to Magical Potions and Their Functions, Amor Semper was a potion that would cast two people in love for an hour.

It was also a potion that would tell if the person's hair that is added to the glass drunken was the person most suitable for you.

If you continued to think, dream, or anything of the sort about the person with whom you took the potion, then that person is the person that is best suited for you.

Hermione doubted that Malfoy would be best suited for her, and vice versa, but she hated the thought of being in love with him for an hour.

She had no time to complain about this, even in her thoughts. She had now made it back to the desk and was preparing the potion.


The potion was nearly done.

She, and Malfoy, read each line carefully. They avoided any excess communication.

No words went past, "pass the essence of Belladonna."

The time then came when the second to last ingredients were to be added.

Snape had made rounds around the classroom to see if there were any mistakes, and surprisingly, there weren't.

He found no faults with any of the potions and therefore sat back down.

This was a sign that it was now okay to add the ingredients.

At almost the exact same times, every female in the class held a handful of lacewings in of their hands while the males held a sliver of boomslang.

Hermione and Malfoy held the ingredients over their cauldron, as did every other pair in the class.

They counted at the same time," one, two, three."

They dropped the ingredients in, all the while accidentally brushing hands.

Hermione gasped.

His hand is so cold.

Malfoy seemed disgusted and indifferent at the same time, but he had thoughts running through his mind like Hermione did.

What... what was that feeling.

In all of his live, Draco Andrew Malfoy had never felt such warmth.

He suspected it was because he always lived somewhere cold. The Manor, the dungeons, and even his room at Hogwarts was cold.

And yet, here he was in a dungeon nonetheless, and he had never felt such warmth in his entire life.

It was as if a surge of energy passed from her hand to his.

It was, in short, incredible, but the feeling didn't last long.

The warmth left as quickly as it came and he was as cold as ever, if not, possibly colder than before.

He was now left with a feeling of longing, but he quickly shooed the thoughts away as he re-read the instructions.

According to the directions, they were to add the hairs within a minute of adding the lacewings and boomslang, so everyone in the class, minus Snape, plucked a hair and added it to a glass.

The room filled with smoke when the hairs were added, so they had to wait until it cleared to link arms and drink.

After a few minutes, and a few very mysterious noises later, the smoke had cleared, and Hermione could swear that the glasses were in a different place on the table, but she made no mind of it.

Malfoy had noticed the same, but made no move to mention it.

There was no use of delaying drinking the potions any further. Everyone in the class linked arms and drank.

What happened next was not expected by anyone.

Nearly everyone in the entire class, with the exception of Snape, had this dreamy look on his/her face.

Dean was staring intently at the back of Parvati's head...

That wasn't right... he was paired with Pansy…

and Pansy was staring at... GOYLE?

Someone must have switched the glasses around before they drank, because now people were looking at other people from opposite ends of the dungeon when they were supposed to look into each other's eyes.

The only two people who didn't have their potions switched were Ron and Lavender, and they were holding hands and gazing into each other's eyes, all the while professing their love to one another.

People all around the dungeon began to move and Snape immediately realized what had happened.

"PEEVES!"

Yep, the poltergeist had switched the potions around, in hope that a huge fight would result in students "significant others" loving other people.

He had succeeded.

The ENTIRE class was in a frenzy.

Ginny was "in love" with Seamus, but Harry was "in love" with Ginny.

Harry's partner, Parvati, was "in love" with Malfoy.

Malfoy… Malfoy was "in love" with Hermione…

…while Hermione was "in love" with… Harry.

Draco Andrew Malfoy had never truly hated Harry James Potter as much as he did now.


Harry had never thought of Ginny that way, but he couldn't help thinking…

She's bloody beautiful.

His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the sound of Malfoy muttering a spell.

The last thing he remembered seeing was a flash of green light and a very angry Malfoy.


A/N – I'm not liking how this chapter ended, hopefully I can still do what I'm planning to do with the entire fic… and NO what you think happened to Harry did NOT happen.