silence I finished the hbp about 2 hours after I posted last night…I have to say, I am disappointed. I really did not like the ending, nor do I agree with whom the half blood prince is, though, But I was glad to know I wasn't the only one who cried. Wont mention anything to spoil it for any late-comers but still stamps foot it was a very sad way to end a what? 2-3- year wait? But still, most of it was very good I must say, well written.
Well, anyway, on with my story which is far from the distressing world of jk's Harry. (poor thing)
Hermione, Harry and Ron watched eagerly the next morning as Malfoy looked at pansy when she poured him his drink. Hermione, personally thought Malfoy was very thick because he hadn't seen pansy slip in the three drops. To her, and Harry and Ron, it was very plain and clear, but then again, they where expecting it to happen, were as Malfoy wasn't.
Staring at the Slytherin table was very distracting as Gryffindors pasted on the other side, talking and stopping, obscuring the trio's view, but when it got interesting, they had very good seats.
Just like Hermione said, Malfoy was going to be confused at first. Though what she hadn't mentioned was that it all depending on the person would depend how long it took for the confusion to wear off. And their strength would help- allowing them to deny the potions loving effect longer. Hermione was surprised to see that Malfoy took a much longer time than she would have expected- in fact, it took him till their next potions lesson (which was after their first class) for the potion to kick in.
When it did, Hermione was very happy to be in the room, even if it meant she had double potions.
While in potions, everyone was bustling around, making noise and talking as they concocted their potion, and then suddenly, Malfoy jumped to his feet and started screaming "I love Pansy! I love Pansy!"
Everyone was silent for three whole minutes before Harry and Ron began howling with laughter. Even Snape was so shocked that he didn't and couldn't shut Harry and Ron up. Following their lead, the class erupted with laughter.
Malfoy, though a little pink didn't look embarrassed- on the contrary, he looked as though he had no idea what he had just done.
Hermione was clutching her sides in laugher. Then Malfoy moved over to pansy, who was among the Slytherins of which didn't start laughing.
Malfoy looked around, then bent down and pashed pansy. It was so unexpected that the whole class again became silent. Snape was trying to gain control while they where laughing, but along with everyone else, when Malfoy pashed pansy, he was very shocked.
'Mr…Mr…Mr. Malfoy, control yourself and Miss. Parkinson- BUTTON UP THAT TOP!' Snape seamed to have found his voice after all.
Pansy who was assisting Malfoy in unbuttoning her blouse stopped and looked around. Every eye in the stunned class was on them, mouths open, some looking angry, shocked and even scared.
Malfoy also stopped pursing pansy when he noticed she wasn't paying him attention, which, in general annoyed Malfoy, under a potion or not. It was just him.
Thankfully, the bell rang after five minutes and everyone raced to the dungeon door, keen to start whispering about Malfoy and pansy.
The trios were laughing still as they walked happily and into the great hall which was buzzing.
Lavender brown walked up to Hermione and said very sincerely.
'I thought you and the prince had it made…then he goes and snoggs a …well, someone like pansy. I'm here Hermione if you need someone to talk to.' And with that, she walked away.
Hermione stopped laughing and looked confused. 'Er…?'
'I think she was talking about the great hall thing.' Harry said, looking at the back of lavender's head before smiling at Hermione. 'Nothing to worry about. Your…your not angry about what he did are you?'
Hermione laughed. 'No Harry, I'm…not.'
Harry looked at her as though he might pursue her answer, though Ron, having just finished a conversation with Dean laughed loudly attracting their attention.
'You're joking!' he cackled. 'Hey, hey Harry, Hermione, you'll never guess what Malfoy's just done!' he laughed, looking over at them.
'Why Ron?' Hermione said, a little bit of concern in her voice.
'He…he's…he wrote' but Ron couldn't finished his sentence- he kept laughing.
Hermione rolled her eyes impatiently. 'Dean, could you please explain?'
Ginning merrily, dean explained. 'He just walked, from potions out into the grounds, calling for anyone who would watch to follow. Me and Seamus followed and he cast a spell over the lake. When the mist had cleared, in huge' he emphasized this, 'letters, "DRACO MALFOY FOR PANSY PARKINSON FOREVER! WE WILL HAVE MANY CHILDREN. COME AND SEE."'
Hermione's mouth dropped and Harry only stared. Then both, as if on cue, started laughing like Ron.
After ten minutes, they had to explain themselves to the rest of Gryffindor table who had watched them thinking they might need to call someone from the hospital for mental cases running around Hogwarts.
Though once they had told practically the rest of the school (the part that had not yet known of Malfoy and pansy, or cared or hadn't heard Malfoy calling for everyone to follow, or who weren't out there either collapsed from laughing or only staring.) they had to calm themselves again as they wanted to run out, with the majority of the hall, to see it for themselves.
Outside in the sunshine, something they hadn't seen for a few days, Hermione could spot the mass of black robed students by the lake, some, as she thought, on the ground. Though, she doubted weather half of them had collapsed. And standing, facing his crowd, was Malfoy, smiling broadly.
They could only just make out the words from the Great doors, so moving as a huge group, they rumbled they way down to the rest of the onlookers.
After ten more minutes of laughing and jeering, (or, indeed, crying from some girls) Malfoy turned to pansy, who was smiling happily she had got her wish. He bent on one knee.
He's going to pop the question! Hermione panicked.
'Pansy.' Malfoy said. He hadn't yelled- everyone had gone into a deadly silence after seeing him get down on one knee. 'I will make the unbreakable vow to you.'
Hermione's heart raced.
'The what?' Harry said perplexed.
'Harry! He is going to use an ancient bit of magic and vow to forever be in pansy's company or something! Don't you realize what this means? If he breaks it, he WILL DIE!'
'Hermione! Hermione do something!' Harry said. He hated Malfoy- sure, but he didn't want this…well, not at the moment anyway.
Many girls were upset about this too. He was going to give himself to pansy, and unknowingly too, more to the point, unwillingly.
Hermione ran forward as one of pansy's friends stepped forward to perform the piece of magic.
Thinking quickly, Hermione waved her wand three times. Three things happened very quickly.
Firstly, Malfoy and pansy where blasted off their feet, about 150 feet from each other.
Pansy's friend was frozen. And the rest of the crowd too.
Hermione ran up to Malfoy, who was very confused.
'Where is pansy? My lovely buttercup?'
Close to puking, Hermione hit Malfoy hard over the head and knocked him out cold. It felt good. Though maybe a little harder than necessary- but who cares.
Hosting him up, Hermione struggled up the hill. At the top, Hermione slapped her forehead. Of course! And again, waving her wand, Hermione conjured up a stretcher and slummed Malfoy on. She guided him up the rest of the way to the doors. Here, she stopped, turned around and waved her wand. At once, all whom where frozen where moving again, looking around for Malfoy.
Hermione moved herself quickly around the castle to their common room. She waved Malfoy in and upstairs to his bed room.
Here, she tilted her wand, and Malfoy's stretcher tilted and he sled off and landed on his bed in what Hermione thought under normal circumstances, would have been very uncomfortable.
Racing through the bathroom, Hermione grabbed the antidote she had for her potion and walked a little more carefully back to Malfoy's room.
Here, she uncorked it and moved onto the bed into a position she was cursing herself for. Slowly and carefully, she eased Malfoy's mouth open and tipped the contents of the bottle out.
AS soon as it was done, Hermione leapt off his bed and walked quickly down into the common room, wanting to save him, but allowing her hard work to pay off- which, it had done nicely so far.
Now all she wanted was that Malfoy would walk around school, having everyone else remember what he had said and tried to do the previous day.
Hermione busied herself with a book while she waited for Malfoy to come round. Looking every hour at her watch, Hermione counted.
'One hour.'
'Two hours.' Tapped a finger.
'Three hours'
'Four hours…'tapped all five fingers.
'Five hours… oh for gods sake!' and Hermione leapt angrily from her warm chair and stormed out of the common room to go and find Harry and Ron.
She found them sitting in the Gryffindor common room, talking and playing exploding snap.
Hermione smiled when they saw her, and sat herself down.
'What happened?' Ron asked.
Hermione swallowed and explained what she had done. 'What happened after everyone was unfrozen?' Hermione asked, keen for someone else to talk…
'Well, they panicked a little, then thought backed out like a chicken and went back up the castle.' Harry said, as three cards exploded loudly.
'Did you see the professors whose classes you missed?' Ron asked, raising an eyebrow.
'No.' Hermione answered, surprisingly calm. 'Do that tomorrow…'
Harry and Ron looked at each other. This wasn't like the Hermione they knew.
'Hermione?'
'Hmm?' she was very close to sleeping.
'come on, back to your common room. Here we go.' Harry said, helping her to her feet.
Ron came quickly as Hermione swayed.
'No, no , let me sleep.' Hermione mumbled, clearly no aware of what she was saying.
'No, sleeping beauty, come on, off we go.' And, supporting her between them, they stumbled out, off to Hermione's common room.
'Hermione, whats the password?'
Hermione muttered it, and Harry only just managed to understand what she said. When he approached the portrait, he repeated what Hermione said, hoping she was right. She was- of course.
Ginny came running up the corridor just as Ron was about to walk through.
'Ron!'
he stopped and looked over his shoulder.
'Yeah?'
'Need help?'
'Yeah.'
After Ron and gone through, Ginny climbed in as well and helped. 'Here, I'll take her to her room.' Ginny said, and took Hermione of her brothers shoulder and Harry's.
She led her very tired friend up the stairs to her room and placed her carefully on her bed.
'Harry?' Ron said, back in the common room after he, Harry and Ginny returned from Hermione.
'Yeah?' Harry answered, pouring over some cruel Snape essay.
'Before we took Hermione to her room, you called her "sleeping beauty"…Harry, have you a thing for her?'
Harry was concentrating so hard on his essay that he wasn't really listening to Ron. Though, when Ginny started laughing, he looked up.
'No, Ron, I don't.' Harry said, smiling and then laughed.
But Ron, who was sure he did have a thing for Hermione, only shrugged and went off to bed.
The next morning, Malfoy woke up, a searing pain in his head. He raised his pale hand to feel his blond hair and pointed face.
He felt crusted blood. Frowning, Malfoy got up, still fully dressed, and went to find granger- the only one he though who could give any answers.
He found the Gryffindor Princess sitting in the common room, looking very angry and upset.
'Granger, do you know why I have blood near my temple?' he asked, coming in.
Hermione looked up. 'No.' she answered, though he didn't believe her.
Almost growling in frustration, Hermione through her bag over her shoulder, muttered something like "I'm going to kill them" and walked over to the portrait hole.
Before she walked through it, however, Malfoy called out 'Ok, we'll finish this later!' then she was gone.
Hermione entered the great hall, very flustered and angry. She sat herself between Harry and Ron and for five seconds, they didn't notice she was sending them death stares.
'Hermione?' Harry said, watching her.
'What?' she snapped.
Harry looked over her head to Ron and exchanged looks.
'What's up?' Ron said, shoveling eggs into his mouth.
'You two!' she spat in response.
'What? What did we do?' Ron said, apparently appalled he had done something before 9 that he wasn't aware of.
But Harry, who was better at reading Hermione, know almost then why. So she was just tired. He said to himself.
'I came to you two yesterday, and you didn't tell me I had missed out on work!' Hermione said fiercely.
'Actually Hermione, we did.' And before she could burst, Harry continued. 'Ron asked you, and you said you would do it today. I swear Hermione, we asked you, but you must have been too tired.'
Somehow, this made sense to Hermione.
'I…I'm sorry guys.' She said, hanging her head in shame.
'Its ok.' Harry said, patting her back sympathetically.
Throughout the day, Hermione caught up with the teachers she had missed lessons out on the previous day. And to add, she walked into her comforting common room, happily knowing that Malfoy had a bad day.
Apparently, everyone remembered what happened. And all day, out of the corners of their mouth, they where repeating something he didn't remember saying.
This confused Malfoy, though Hermione was sure she would tell him…she is just that kind of person.
And sure enough, that night, Hermione, though without knowingly, told him when he came back from dinner, angry, tired and confused.
Ok, now, thankyou for reviewing, even if some where a bit flamey. I apologize again to those who commented on my spelling and grammar. I try, but if you cant read it, or keep on telling me and making me feel bad- though most are ok- I guess I might request for anyone who I think I can trust to email me and they can become my editor.
Also, one reviewer. I don't know why you reviewed the way you did, but you did spoil the Hbp. For anyone who hasn't read it, or finished, I suggest, unless you want it spoiled, DO NOT READ THE REVIEW! I don't want people spoiling it. Though thanks to all who have commented though have not spoiled anything.
Good oh!
Aj.