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Hey!! Just a warning about this chappy...it's a bit long but is only towards one point. Not much is discussed here, hope you still like it!! Oh, and please you HAVE to read my note at the end of this chapter. VERY IMPORTANT!! Read on! Hope you'll enjoy this...
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-Chapter 12:Jealousy Starts-
"Err...well," Ron started "w-we were talking about..."
He looked over at Harry for help. Receiving none, he looked back at Snape and bit his lower lip awkwardly.
"Dumbledore" Ron said suddenly.
Harry looked at him and gave him a questioning look. Ron merely shrugged and gave an unsure expression.
Snape raised an eyebrow.
"The headmaster, you mean?" Snape said in an emotionless tone.
Ron nodded vigorously as Harry covered his forehead with his right hand.
"Well then," Snape said as he straightened his cloak "I'll make sure he gets your message"
Ron went a little pale as their Potion's master smirked and walked past them, down the stairs leading towards the dungeons.
"Nice move" Harry said shaking his head at him and started down the stairs yet again.
"What? What was I supposed to say?" Ron said daftly as he followed him.
Harry rolled his eyes.
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"Today, you will be conjuring a simple but prohibited potion," Snape started as the class listened to him tentively "can anyone guess what that is?"
A few hands shot up.
"Yes miss Parkinson?"
"Is it a beautifying potion?" Pansy asked hopefully "Not that I need it of course"
"Unfortunately, it isn't" Snape said with a smirk "Anyone else?" he asked again. He scanned the room. "Ahh, Mr. Crabbe"
Crabbe raised his head he didn't raise his hand. He looked around, seeing the class was looking at him, waiting for his answer.
"Uhh...smartening potion?" he asked unsurely.
"Although it may be of use for you Mr. Crabbe," Snape said again with a smirk plastered on his face "that is not the potion we will be making"
He looked around again.
"Mr. Malfoy?"
"A love potion" Draco said in a finishing tone.
Snape smirked yet again.
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"He's going to strain himself smirking like that for the rest of the class," Ron whispered to Harry from the back of the class.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Harry whispered back.
"Oh yeah, it is" he replied, voice of realization.
Harry rolled his eyes.
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"Well done Mr. Malfoy, ten points to Slytherin." Snape said as he took out his wand and turned to face the board "As what Mr. Malfoy said, we shall be conjuring a love potion"
Most of the girls were giggling now.
"But," Snape started, making them stop "it is a different kind. It will not make another person fall in love with you, it is a mere potion that will give you a clue as to who is your true love, and for you to know, I wouldn't have agreed to doing this, but the headmaster insisted on showing you the good and bad side of prohibited potions"
The girls started giggling again. Snape waved his wand and the ingredients and the procedure appeared on the board in front of him. He turned around and faced the class.
"You shall be working in groups of three, and because I feel so pitiful today, you shall be choosing your groups. Choose now and be quick about it, or else I will loose my patience and do the choosing instead" he said as he walked to his desk.
The students stood up and scattered around the room, approaching their friends for their group.
Neville walked over to Seamus and Dean. Pansy walked over Millicent and another 6th year Slytherin girl. Parvati walked over to lavender who was still scouting for their other group mate. Harry and Ron started going towards Hermione, and so did Draco and Blaise.
Hermione looked at her ex-best friends then at Draco and Blaise. She sighed and started towards Draco. Ron's jaw dropped, as Draco smirked.
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"What the bloody hell did she do that for?" Ron told Harry, sounding appalled.
"Well, we're not exactly friends anymore aren't we?" Harry said rolling his eyes.
'My eyes are gonna pop out if I keep rolling them because of Ron's lame comments' Harry thought as he sighed and looked for other students that could possibly pair up with them.
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"Good choice Granger" Blaise said with a smirk similar to Draco's.
Hermione smiled awkwardly. She never really knew Blaise by much, she never even heard him speak as much as a word to her before.
"It's okay Hermione, Blaise thinks okay of you. I managed to convince a certain few of the Slytherins that you're not as bad as before. They wouldn't have agreed to think the same as I but since you changed and – as most of them put it – you're unbearably hot, they agreed"
Hermione nodded and grinned at Blaise. He smiled just the same back at her.
Draco raised an eyebrow and looked suspiciously at Blaise. He didn't trust him by much. The guy whom Draco knew who was very good with the ladies was Blaise...next to himself of course. Like he, he also had the looks and the charm to make girls fall on their knees.
"Okay," Draco started, cutting in with their stare-grinning session "let's get started now, shall we?"
Hermione shook her head and looked over at Draco and followed him as he walked to his original seat. He stole a glance over at Blaise who was half grinning, half smiling at her. She bit her lip and turned back to her front.
"What was that?" she thought to herself.
Hermione felt this urge to keep looking over at Blaise, but thought better, especially when Draco was with her, she might blow up her plan completely. She already had Harry and Ron to worry about, another guy in the picture would just destroy everything.
'But then again, the point was seducing Draco, maybe a bit of jealousy could spice it up a bit?'
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"Okay, next is...add 3 unicorn hairs – since there are three of us – and stir it counterclockwise until it changes into a crimson color" Draco said, reading from his piece of parchment where he copied the procedure.
Hermione shook her head yet again and looked over at him and nodded, looking at the cauldron. Once again, she was having a staring session with Blaise.
'There really is something not normal about him,' Hermione thought 'either that or he's just plain handsome and he has a different approach on making girls love him'
Blaise ran his hand through his loose shiny black hair and leaned on the table dully.
"What next?" he asked boringly.
"Obviously," Draco started irritably "we wait"
Blaise rolled his eyes. Hermione smiled weakly at him. Blaise saw this and winked at her. Draco glared secretly at his housemate.
'Is he for real?' he thought to himself, looking at Blaise. He then looked at Hermione 'Why the hell is Hermione looking at him like that?'
"It's turning red now" Draco said as he slammed his piece of parchment on the table, making Blaise and Hermione jump a little.
Both looked over at Draco questioningly then looked over at their potion, which was indeed now a color pink and slowly turning red.
"Okay, now we add our own hairs into it" he said as he slowly plucked out one strand of his own sleek blonde hair.
He rested it on top of his piece of parchment while waiting for Hermione and Blaise to take out one of their own.
Blaise gently pulled one of his black hairs and placed it beside Draco's hair.
Hermione took a handful of her hair and began separating one strand from the rest. She then carefully pulled one out, and made a face.
Draco rolled his eyes and Blaise silently snickered as Hermione sheepishly handed about four strands of her hair over to Draco. She slapped Blaise on the arm playfully.
"By now, you should be separating your potions into your separate goblets" Snape interrupted from his desk at the front of the class.
Draco, Blaise and Hermione all took one goblet each of the ones gathered at the end of their working area.
Draco took a cup full of the red potion using Hermione's goblet, then Blaise's then his own.
Blaise took his hair and dropped it into the goblet and waited.
Boom.The whole class looked over at him as there was a loud sound and something shot up from Blaise's goblet, which was covered with red glitter. It soon fell down and landed on his open palm, the glitter slowly fading. It was a white...quill?
"Err...professor?"
"Yes Mr. Zabini?"
"Is it supposed to give me this?" he asked as he held up the quill.
"Yes, as I've said the potion will give you a clue as to who is your true love. The object the potion will give you will do something, like move or give off a sound once you do something to it or maybe contain something in it, which will be the clue"
Blaise didn't quite understand this. He shrugged and started and played around with it. The class was about to resume with their work, now getting enthusiastic as they saw Blaise's result of the potion. But as soon as they started to go back to work there was another sound...a shrill voice humming a tune but sounded more like screaming.
The class covered their ears with their hands, even Snape. Then the sound stopped.
"What was that?" Millicent asked aloud as the sound abruptly stopped.
"S-sorry, my bad. I tapped it on the table and-and it shrieked!" Blaise said, voice of total shock.
"Hey Zabini, maybe your true love is one of the mermaids in the lake" called out Seamus teasingly from behind the back of the class.
Draco smirked at this.
"Ha, ha!" Blaise said sarcastically in return.
Draco then dropped his own hair inside his goblet.
Boom.
A thin black tube, the size half of his wand, fell on his palm as the red glitter slowly disappeared.
Everyone was now looking at him. He started experimenting it, tapping it on table and rolling it between his hands several times, but it didn't to anything. Rather irritated, he tried breaking it by pulling down each side. Instead of breaking, it split into half and small glittering stars shot out of it and swirled up the ceiling. Everyone was looking up at the hearts in awe. Then it slowly dropped like rain forming a line going back in the tube, which closed once again.
Draco smirked.
Then the same shrill sound filled the room once more.
"Blaise!" Pansy shouted, "Will you stop tapping that thing?"
Everyone looked over at her, wide eyed.
"What?"
The sound of the shrill sound from the quill was rather similar to Pansy's voice.
Millicent whispered into her ear. Pansy became wide eyed, face turning pink and slowly slid down on her chair, looking down.
A few people snickered.
Boom.
A white orb landed on Harry's hands. He threw it on the ground, thinking it may contain something inside...but it bounced back to him. He caught it and tried twisting it. It opened, revealing a black hair, similar to his...then it burst into flames. Everyone looked over at him. The flame then died down, but the hair was still their, but was now a glowing fire-red color.
"bet I know who it is" Ron said knowingly to him, giving him a look.
"Oh shut up," Harry said as he twisted back the orb together.
Boom.
Boom.
Things have now landed on the students open palms.
Parvati got an inkbottle. It gave off green smoke when she opened it.
Dean took hold of a thin blue coin. He flipped it and it turns into a violet color once it hits his palm.
Boom.
Millicent got a black rock. She slammed it on the floor and it broke into pieces, which later retook its form.
Boom.
A large silver egg landed on both of Hermione's palm. It was the size of the Triwizard Tournament egg clue.
Hermione gave off a low, short shout from the weight that now rested on her hands. Because of this, everyone looked at her. She opened the silver egg, expecting it to give off a sharp sound like that of Harry's egg from before, but it didn't. When she opened it, it revealed four ribbons. Yellow, black, and red ribbons were tied together with a light blue one. She studied it for a while if anything will happen. When nothing did, she pulled out the red one. Nothing. She pulled the black one. Nothing. She pulled the yellow. It gave a small explosion, giving off pink smoke. When the smoke was gone, a red rose now lay on the spot where the ribbons were. When Hermione reached out to get it, the rose disappeared with a poof and now a yellow smoke was there in the middle of it was a silver ring. There were designs on it, but Hermione can't take a clear view of it. She withdrew her hand and the rose appeared again.
Everyone was still looking at her. Who wouldn't? She had the most unusual object amongst them.
"Class dismissed" Snape interrupted the class once again.
Everyone took their objects and started out the classroom in conversations.
"I never thought I'd say this, but for once, Potions was wicked!" Seamus said as he studied Dean's coin.
Everyone else nodded at this, even Harry and Ron.
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It was time for their break, Hermione went out to the grounds alone towards a tree by the lake. She dropped her book back and her egg beside her as she sat down. She kneeled her legs and buried her head on her crossed arms, which rested on her knees.
"This day has been unbelievable!" she said in a low shout to herself.
"I know what you mean," someone said from behind her.
She turned around expressionless, she felt really tired to give off any look. She turned back and looked out onto the lake and the mountains beyond it.
"How are you feeling?" he asked as he dropped his things and sat beside her.
"Tired."
-End of Chapter-
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This fic. is getting complicated...am I right?! Well, of course I'm right, I did write this.lol. Anywayz, I added a lot of stuff to this as you've noticed, so this fic. won't be anymore focusing on Hermione's new image but to her relationship with the Hogwart's guys. You also have noticed that there are plays, love potions and hinthint balls, fieldtrips and all that later.
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