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'What?' I couldn't believe my ears. Is Malfoy bullshitting me?
'Didn't you hear me, Mudblood? I said, I believed you when you said it was a "fellow Gryffindor" who sent the message' Malfoy continued.
'Shut up, Malfoy. I heard what you said. It's just an expression!' I argued. 'Wait. Why would you go on MY side when the whole school's against me?'
'I'm not on your side! And I don't want anyone to catch me talking to YOU.' He looked down at me. 'Meet me in a week at this same place, only at midnight. Don't let anyone catch you, or I would've gone into trouble for nothing.' Then he ran off, strange. Malfoy is actually about to help… ME?
I was dying for today to end already. I sat through Umbridge's lesson impatiently, and then continuing my day as usual, only I can't wait until it's midnight.
It was almost midnight. I took Harry's invisible cloak with me, just in case Filch or anyone like his dumb cat around.
'What is it, Malfoy?' I demanded. 'What do you want to tell me?'
'Uh… I'm just annoyed by the way Zabini marches around saying "Granger has the hots for me" and then his… "fellow" Slytherins spread rumours, how you have been stalking Zabini for, like, 2 years now, and how you've been in love with him since the third year, but your little Ronnykins won't let you confess your feelings because HE has the hots for you.'
'WHAT! I've never heard of these!' I yelled. Malfoy looked bored for a moment.
'Well, duh! This kind of thing goes in the Slytherin, and apparently, Gryffindor but god knows who spread the rumours there.'
'Oh, I don't know, there's not much choice there. Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown, and just a few, like ten more plus the possibility of Ron and Harry.' I said sarcastically.
'Weasel I can understand, but why would Pothead want to spread rumours about you?'
'Just shut up, Malfoy. I know you want to know something.'
'Yes, that was the reason I even bothered talking to you anyway. Who is the "fellow Gryffindor girl"?'
I looked around. The coast is clear. Wait, what am I thinking, it's midnight, of course the coast is clear! I leaned forward towards Malfoy and said 'It's Lavender Brown. She thinks he's the "right one" or something like that, and I owe her a big fat favour. Now is that all?'
Malfoy shook his head. 'One more thing. You don't really fancy Zabini do you?'
'No. Why did you ask?' I questioned him. This is getting weird.
'Uh… It's just that… I can't imagine the thought of Mudblood Zabini. Yuck.' Malfoy replied.
'Shut up Malfoy! Being a Muggle-born doesn't stop me from getting better grades than you!' Then I walked off, leaving him there by himself.
'Wait! Granger, one thing…' Malfoy trailed off. I turned around.
'The Gryffindors and Slytherins are acting weird. Have you even noticed? Just look at them in the Great Hall tomorrow. If you just make it clear that you hate Zabini everything will go back to normal.' Oh great, ANOTHER reason for me to pair Lavender up with Zabini. Everyone seems to want me to do this task. Oh Merlin, why? Then I remembered something.
'Malfoy, don't you dare tell Zabini it was Lavender.' I warned. He just smirked, good enough. I walked away.
Malfoy was right. The Slytherins and Gryffindors are being more friendly, and enemy-like towards each other. I meant both, with two different groups. One is the "Slytherins & Gryffindors Unite" (they took a long time deciding whose name was going first, but surprisingly, they solved it quickly because Zabini is the guy and guys go first. And I heard them say it sounds more catchy). The people in it are mostly girls who supports ME and Zabini together… but there are quite a lot of guys. They are singing songs like this one:
Get together, get together,
Hermione and Blaise
When they meet just face to face,
Hermione goes red, hey!
Get together, get together,
Hermione and Blaise
We like the name Hermione Zabini
Don't spoil it away!
Then the song goes on, to the tune of Jingle Bells. Apparently they don't have great songwriters there, and the music is sickening already, but that's not the only thing. I hate it when they give me "supporting comments", like "Don't worry about liking a Slytherins, bad boys are nice", or "Hey Granger, you make Gryffindors don't sound as bad, keep it up" or "I'll set up Blaise for a date with you!".
The other group was the one with Ron who started it. Well, it's more like two groups, Slytherin and Gryffindor. They're fighting even more than before, saying how I'm dirtying the pureblood line of the Slytherins, and how Zabini is ruining my future. It seems that Ron was the one who spread the rumours, only about Zabini. I heard some "Zabini is always demanding his way to Hermione" and "Granger is seducing Blaise from work" and all these annoying rumours. Malfoy was right. And then there's the neutral group, for either the people who don't know what's going on, or don't care. Harry doesn't get the whole thing. Malfoy can't be bothered to pick a group. Neville's fainted from too much thinking and the "Get Together" song. Many first years tried to pick their team first, to increase their status, but found themselves confused, except for a couple who already knew which group they're going to. Even the teachers are joining, only they're joining "Slytherins and Gryffindors Unite, since they always wanted to see the house get together (except Umbridge and Snape, stubborn two, they joined team quarrel. Surprisingly, Snape is trying to break them apart) and the teachers even sang the "Get Together" song.
I looked towards Zabini. He seemed to be enjoying all the attention, but I hate it. I hate this whole thing. I hate Blaise Zabini. And I decided to tell him that.
'BLAISE ZABINI!' I yelled, surprisingly, over the quarrels and "get togethers". 'YOU COME HERE!' I yelled, then I walked towards him, with everyone quiet and making way for me, even the teachers! I pulled him by the ear, with him saying "Ouch!" every few steps. Everyone just gasped, and then as I close the door of the Great Hall, so they can't hear anything.
(Malfoy's POV)
That Mudblood just made an even bigger quarrel. Now the two groups are reacting as if they're going to snog or something. Wait, are they? I started to worry. I don't know why, but I feel a sharp stab on the stomach whenever I think about them snogging. That's just gross. Then I saw as Group One say their "oohs" and "aahs", thinking Zabini and Granger are going through some sort of holy mating ritual… then Group Two are quarrelling how Zabini's slipped a love potion into Granger's drink, or vice versa. Potter was confused about the whole thing even more, but unfortunately for Longbottom he missed out on the whole thing, bravo. But I can't help but wonder, what's taking Granger so long?
(Blaise's POV)
'What did you do that for!' I yelled. She glared at me, that Granger.
Then it happened. She slapped me.
'I hate you Blaise Zabini! I don't even fancy you, to start with! That letter was from a fellow Gryffindor, and you know it! Now, because you made it sound like I sent you a love letter, the whole population of Gryffindor and Slytherin are going crazy! You hear me, C-R-A-Z-Y! I HATE YOU!' she continued, then ran into the Great Hall again, with a straight face.
I walked back towards my mates. Theodore approached me. 'Hey Blaise, what happened there? Everyone else thought you were snogging!'
'It was nothing, she just said some stuff to me, that's all.' I lied. Then I rubbed my cheek, it hurts like hell. Merlin, what did I do? Does that mean… Granger doesn't fancy me?
(Back to Hermione!)
I. Hate. Zabini. But now, I just feel all guilty for slapping him. I mean, it's not his fault he's so clueless he thinks I was the one who sent him that letter. It's not his fault he's an arrogant jerk, almost at the level of Ferret Malfoy. Oh great, first I want to kill him, and now, I want to plead him for forgiveness. This sucks. I looked for Lavender amongst the neutral group, and found her, all scared of both the happiness and the fighting.
'It's OK Lavender. I told Zabini clearly that I don't fancy him at all. He should be assured of it after what I've done…' I assured. Yeah, after you slapped him, of course he'll go back to his senses. Who doesn't anway?
'You told him it was me?' Lavender asked. I shook my head. Maybe I should just tell him that, who cares about Lavender. Then the angelic side of me would go "Don't be so cruel, Hermione. Not after you slapped him!" Hmm, true. I still hope tomorrow will just finally be a normal day…
'HERMIONE! HERMIONE!' I heard Ginny yell, holding a paper in her hand called "Zabini-Granger News". Never heard of that.
'Someone made a newspaper, god knows who, spreading more rumours! Like how you kissed Zabini here!' Then she pointed at a big fat picture of me approaching Zabini to slap him. From someone behind me, it looks like I was kissing him.
'Merlin!' I yelled in vain. 'Who did this?'
'Fat chance it's a Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff who doesn't fancy you. The whole population of Gryffindor and Slytherin were arguing about whose fault it was when you were "snogging" outside the hall, or going "How sweet!" or something of the sort.' Ginny continued. She's in "Slytherins & Gryffindors Unite"(SGU) by the way.
I looked at the title. "FORBIDDEN LOVE- WILL H. GRANGER PULL THROUGH?".
What kind of crappy title is that. I scrunched the paper, but it was too late. Almost the whole Hogwarts population read it. Oh dear, I'm in Hell…
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