Disclaimer: As I have said, I don't own anything in this fic. Except for the plot.
Hey!! Hope you won't kill me for this chapter...Your gonna get more curious on who the 'mystery girl' was. Anyway, this chapter isn't that exciting either, but I hope you'll like it anyway. The more exciting chapters would come someday now. Promise!!
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-Chapter 5: The Bet-
As Harry walked in the common room, nobody was there except for three oh-so-familiar Gryffindors who were huddled together in a circle.
"What are you guys up to?" Harry said, surprising them of his sudden converse.
One of them looked back to see who it was, and then grinned.
"H-Harry!" Lavender said in surprise.
Harry raised an eyebrow.
"I-I mean, hello Harry!" she said hastily.
"What are you doing there? It's beyond curfew" he gave the three a suspicious look.
"Umm...we- we were just, talking about the dance!" Parvati said, as a she glared at Lavender for acting so obvious.
"Yeah!" a familiar blonde boy said from beside Parvati. "You know Harry, I took a lot of good pictures of you with that Bones girl from Hufflepuff" Colin said raising and lowering his eyebrows while pointing at his new camera on his hand.
Harry shut his eyes and shook his head. Colin never did give up when it comes to taking pictures of him and other unsuspecting people. His old camera was destroyed during his 4th year when he 'accidentally' took a picture of Seamus Finnigan picking his nose by the lake. Seamus directly cast a disarming spell at him, causing his camera to fly from his hand and smack right down to the bottom of the lake.
Harry shook his head one last time and continued looking at the three, 'What are they up to? Better yet, why is Colin with those two?' he thought to himself as he looked pointedly at Lavender and Parvati. Both girls returned this by smiling girlishly at him.
Harry made a face, although they were friends, he never really enjoyed their company by much. They were the biggest gossipers in the school and they unfortunately - as Harry thinks it – enjoy Divination, all in all, he thinks they're just too...gigglish – he knows that's not even a real word, but he and Ron described them as such because, all they do most of the time is giggle...for no reason at all. He eyed them distrustfully once more and then slowly made his way up the spiral staircases to his dormitory.
The three turned back to each other and sighed in relief.
"That was close!" Lavender said.
"Way close," Parvati agreed and nodded.
"Do you think he heard anything?" Colin wondered, "I mean, maybe he was there all this time"
"Let's hope not Creevy," Lavender said as he patted Colin by the shoulder "or else we'll – well, I don't really like thinking about it, so let's leave it to that"
Colin nodded in understanding.
"Anyway," Parvati started "as I've said, someone wants to help us, it seems that somebody else was there when we were talking to him even before Colin came in, so she heard everything. That is why, she will be our spy in our little plan, but she said she wanted to keep herself anonymous"
"If she doesn't want anyone else to know who she is, how did you talk to her?" Lavender asked wonderingly.
"Well, when we were walking back here, I found this note in my coat side pocket," she said as she took a tiny piece of paper containing scribbles in it, and handed it to Lavender. "And she says that we will just be writing to each other if we want to say anything important. We will be leaving the messages in a loose brick behind the torch just beside the portrait of the Fat Lady."
"And how will we know if any of us will be leaving a message?" Colin asked wonderingly as he moved closer to Lavender trying to read the note.
"I was also wondering the same thing," Lavender asked as she handed back the note to Parvati, she didn't bother to read the entire note, the handwriting wasn't readable in the dark.
"Well, she suggested in the note that we take turns. She will be putting and taking messages during the late morning and at dinnertime, while we will be during breakfast and in early afternoon." Lavender nodded to this while Colin yawned.
"We should turn in, I'm getting sleepy" Colin said as his eyes were threatening to close.
"Y-Yeahhhh..." Parvati said as she too yawned. She never felt a bit sleepy until Colin mentioned it.
"Wait," Lavender started not sounding a bit less tired "if this girl wants to remain anonymous, what should we call her? And how did you ever know she's a girl?" she said throwing a confused look to Parvati.
Parvati raised her hand, which held the note and waved it in front of Lavender. "She mentioned it here that she is a girl and that she could be trusted. She also mentioned in here that we call her 'Garnet'."
Lavender nodded and slowly stood up and stretched, finally yawning herself as Parvati and Colin followed.
"Remember Colin, you can only take pictures if we tell you so, don't take any if we don't or else they might suspect something" Lavender said, recalling the scene in her thoughts of how this all even started...
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A few hours ago...Lavender and Parvati were walking down the corridor towards the Great Hall. They knew they were late, but they didn't really care. It was worth it, they had been spending much time in their dormitory to find a new look for them.
After seeing Hermione, they didn't want to be beaten by a bookworm. Hermione had been known for her mind, and both of them were known for their looks and as fashion trendsetters. They didn't like the idea Hermione taking their title and still be smart at the same time, that would bring her to the top, which was – for both their thoughts – reserved for them.
As they stepped on the landing to the 2nd floor, they saw a silhouette of a student coming their way from the right corridor. They stopped to see who it was.
"Damn Potter, why does he always have to ruin everything just when it becomes g-" Draco stopped as he saw the two Gryffindors "Patil? Brown?"
"Malfoy" both said in unison and also nodded together at his direction.
"What are you doing here?" he asked suspiciously.
"How about you? What are you doing here?" Parvati said in the same tone.
"None of your business" he sneered.
"And so is ours" Lavender said cruelly.
Draco glared at the two girls then looked them over.
'What the hell are they wearing?' he thought to himself as his gaze landed on their clothes then on their make-up.
"You girls plan to become clowns or something?" he asked casually.
Lavender was looked ready to jump on him and hit him until he passes out, but Parvati held her by the shoulders.
"If you must know, Malfoy," Parvati started as she spat his name "you will never know a good sense in style even if it hits you right smack onto your face"
He snorted.
"She's right, all you wear is black and it means that you don't have a sense of style in you" Lavender said. Draco still looked about to laugh at their remarks, so, she then added. "Either that or your just bankrupt and you just can't afford any more clothes"
That hit a nerve. Draco looked like he could kill. He glared at Lavender so hard without blinking, you'd think he was trying to kill her through glaring, and he looked like he didn't want to stop. So, Lavender just stared at him with a smug look on her heavily make-upped face.
"At least," Draco started as he walked closer to the duo "Granger has more sense in fashion than both of you do, you two look like house elves wearing rags if you stand too close to her"
Lavender wanted to punch him right on the face. 'How dare he!' she thought to herself. She looked over at her best friend to see she also looked as angry as she did. She was about to yell back a remark, but Parvati started before she had the chance.
"So, you do have a thing for Hermione. Just looking at your face when she approached you at the Slytherin table clearly showed it" she said.
"What do you care who I like or don't?" Draco asked viciously.
"Nothing, just to tell you that you have no chance with her" Parvati replied just as vicious. "Don't forget Malfoy, your pureblood, and she's muggleborn. You also have a past to go along with that too...she did and still despise you"
"Want to make a bet on that Patil?" he said sounding confident.
'Parvati, what are you planning on doing?' Lavender thought to himself as she watched her beast friend and the proud pureblood shoot daggers at each other.
"Sure, Lavender and I are always up for a little challenge, beats not doing anything, what did you have in mind?" Parvati said as she pulled Lavender by the arm to her side.
"If I can get Granger to fall for me by the last day of December, I win, and you two have to wear nothing more than a red string bikini to the graduation ceremony by the end of the school year" Draco said coolly, as if he had already planned this out for days.
Lavender's eyes grew twice than its usual size. 'What?' she thought to herself feeling outraged just by the thought of her doing such a thing. She glanced over to Parvati, whose face was doing nothing more than smirking.
"Agreed, that is, if you win" she replied.
"Oh, you can make sure of that Patil, I-" he stopped as Parvati cut him off.
"But, if w- no, when we win, you will have to wear a skirt to the graduation ceremony" she paused to look at his reaction, he still looked unscathed by the idea
"And," Lavender started as Draco glanced at her "still on the same day, you have to sit on Snape's lap and put a Santa hat on his head at the Head table and tell him that you love him and that he's the best professor you ever met"
Draco's jaw dropped. Lavender looked smug and Parvati grinned at her. Draco shook his head, trying to regain his composure.
"Fine, but just so you know, I will win this, Malfoy's never loose. Especially to half-bloods" he looked at Parvati "and mud- muggleborns" his gaze fell on Lavender.
"We'll see about that Malfoy" Lavender said "There's no chance Hermione would go for you, you're too much of a Slytherin, your ego is as high as the stars are from earth, and," she paused as she glanced at Parvati then at Draco again "your just a worthless piece of scum"
Draco was fuming. 'This girl was totally full of herself' he thought to himself as he looked at Lavender straight in the eye. 'And this one's no better' he added to his thought now looking at Parvati. Draco glared at both of them.
"We'll see alright," he said in a low but more menacing voice "we'll see" as he continued on glaring at them.
"Smile!" a voice suddenly said from behind Draco. Draco turned to see who it was but was greeted by a flash of whit light.
He shut his eyes and rubbed them all the while uttering a few swear words. He opened his eyes now free from the flash of white, seeing another Gryffindor in front of him, holding a camera, and was also trembling. Obviously he hadn't realized it was he who had his back at him.
"Colin!" Lavender shouted "Will you please watch where you flash that thing?" she was still rubbing her eyes, the other girl beside her on the other hand, wasn't.
"Good one Creevy," Parvati said to the skinny and short blonde boy "but wasn't good enough. I was hoping you could've blind him," she pointed over to Draco who was blinking every two seconds.
"Sorry...I think" Colin said unsurely then shrugged.
"Stupid kid, how long have you been wherever you were?" Draco asked still blinking a couple of times "What did you hear?"
"A f-few stuff" he mumbled out. "When you s-started talking about the bet on Hermione" Draco glared at him and he trembled like young kid about to be punished.
'Who would've thought I could scare a 15 year old by just glaring?' Draco thought 'And they say Gryffindors are brave'
"Sorry, I have to leave, unfortunately, I can't stand amongst Gryffindors for this long, it's bad for me" he said as walked pass the two girls and up the stairs.
"Yeah, how unfortunate" Lavender muttered sarcastically to the two Gryffindors.
"Patil, Brown." Draco's voice came once again. Both turned to look at him "We had a deal, and these sort of things aren't meant to be told to others, but since that kid knows, it's your job not to make him squeal" with that, he turned to the corridor to his left, and out of sight.
The two girls turned to look at Colin.
"Colin," Lavender said to him "you heard him and – unfortunately – I agree with him. You can't tell anyone else. Since you're in on our little secret, all you have to do is take some pictures of..."
Their voices trailed off as they came to hushed whispers.
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Draco was lying on his bed, doing...absolutely nothing. He had been lying around on his bed since his talk with the Gryffindors. He was still confused why he ever made the bet, if he can't pull this off, he will be in so much trouble...
"There's no way I would ever sit on Snape's lap and say I love him. There's just no way." he had been repeating this to himself ever since he arrived in his still empty bedroom.
"There's just no way..." he muttered to himself again, not realizing he was falling into a deep sleep.
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Hermione was tired. She had been going on strolls through the corridors, half looking for her two best friends and half just thinking. Now, she finally arrived in the prefects' quarters since it really was getting dark outside, and she figured the party had ended for a while now, she hasn't heard any beats of music after her fight with Ron. She looked around the common, which was completely dark, she could barely see her own hand in front of her. She was so tired from her walk, she decided on a rest on one of the white couches for a while, thinking of what to say to Draco in case he was in the bedroom, which she didn't doubt one bit and she wouldn't be surprised if he was still awake, waiting for her.
She was continuing on her thinking, her eyes slowly closing. She was sure she would fall asleep on that couch, until a hand touched her shoulder.
-End of Chapter-
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What did you guys think?!!
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Reviewers! Thanks again!!
Lothliana: Maybe it was Hermione, and yet maybe it wasn't. And about Draco being fishy...you're right! He is actually up to something (as mentioned in this chapter). But about him and Harry being friends, you'll find out as the story goes.
shexy-cleva-yollop: Thankies!! munches on cookie gimme another!!.lol. anyway, this chapter gave off a lot about the 'mystery girl' so, it scratches 2 names from your list (Hermione, Pansy, Ginny, Lavender or Parvati). But I'm not saying that her name is there or not there, it just leaves out Lavender and Parvati from the guesses.
lil-lindy: Good guess...but a little line from this chapter gave away that it wasn't Pansy at all and thanks!
funny love: Thank you! At first, I thought about not pushing through with the team up, but it serves a great deal to what's about to happen.
XxPaDfOoTiExX: hmm...once you've read this chapter, you can't actually think it to be Pansy.lol. But good guess though!!
Dumdumditz23: Thanks again!!
lilpsycho14: You'll get it some time.lol. The others did, maybe so will you!! :)
Pranks Are So Siriusly Padfoot: I'm sorta getting better from it...getting more ideas now.lol. Anyway, I'm currently working on the 6th chapter, so I'll try to make it more interesting.
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Just a little note. The 'mystery girl' or rather 'Garnet' will not be revealed until later I'm afraid. But I will be dropping hints about her in the chapters so you guys can try to figure out who she really is on your own. A lot had been given away about her in this chapter, there was a line that said "She mentioned it here that she is a girl and that she could be trusted." Just to let you know, the 'mystery girl' could come from any of the houses.
Thank you for the reviews!! But still keep reviewing please...and I'm glad you guys still enjoyed the chapters, which I considered as boring.lol. The exciting chapter was supposed to be in this one and the next one, but because of my gratitude for your reviews, there has been a change of plan. Eheheheh!! I decided to spice it up a bit and make it more interesting before the good parts. Anyway, again...as I've said loads of times before...read and review!! Bye guys!!
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