A/N: I am sorry to say that my friend pigglywiggly has given up on her fanfic and am onto writing original stories…her originality on fanfic will forever be remembered.

For my story, I have been having writers block constantly so bare with me

Also, I always want to thank all my reviews but there are over 100 of them -- so yeah…I don't think I can type that much. Bear with me on that one too! .

Chapter 22 – Overreaction

For the rest of the day, Draco and Hermione had to run up and down Hogwarts convincing them that they were all under a spell.

"Why aren't people so gullible these days?" Draco asked after a 6th year wasn't convinced that he wasn't Merlin.

"Maybe because their smart?" Hermione said.

"Psh…our jobs would be so much easier if they would just do everything we told them to do," he said, grinning at the thought.

"We don't have jobs just so life could be easy," Hermione said.

They had reached the fourth floor where a group of 1st years were playing with chocolate frogs.

"Let's go," Hermione said with a sigh.

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"Waaaaa!" the little boy cried out.

"Shh…it's okay," Hermione tried to soothe the little boy."

"You are a mean old lady!" he said and stepped on her foot.

Draco watched Hermione limp and went up the boy. "You are going to get detention for that! What house are you in?" he demanded.

"Look at this!" he said, pointing to the crest on his robe. It said Slytherin. "You aren't going to take points away from your own house are you?" he asked earnestly

"I'm not a smug little boy like you. Ten points from Slytherin," he said and picked up the little boy.

"Get off a me! Where in the bloody hell are you taking me!" the boy cried out.

"Where did you get that language from? The streets?" Hermione said in shock.

"Where in the world are you taking me?" he asked instead, ignoring Hermione.

"To dunk your head in a tub full of water, how's that?" Malfoy asked.

"Malfoy, put the boy down and just give him detention," Hermione replied.

"No! This boy is being rude and I won't put up for it!" Malfoy argued.

"Listen to the lad woncha?" the little boy said.

Malfoy put him down and asked, "What's your name?"

"Jacob the third sir," he said rudely.

"Well…Jacob, I'll just report this to the headmaster and see what detention he'd like to give you, alright? Now run along," Hermione said.

Jacob stuck his tongue out at the two of them and left.

"Easy job eh?" Draco replied and they continued on.

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"It was horrible!" Hermione exclaimed. She was sitting at the Gryffindor common with Harry and Ron. "He just wouldn't stop!" she giggled.

"Must've been a rough time today," Harry commented.

"You wouldn't believe it," Hermione said.

There was a slight silence when Ron laughed. "You should've told us you had a thing for Malfoy,"

Hermione was sipping hot chocolate and stopped mid-way.

Harry grew wide-eyed. "Ron!"

"You told him? Harry!" Hermione proclaimed, shocked.

"It couldn't be held in forever!" Ron cried out.

"I don't even think he likes me! We haven't … done anything yet…not much anyways," Hermione turned scarlet. "I feel very uncomfortable talking about this with you two,"

"Well I think you could do better," Ron said, folding his arms.

"You're just jealous!" Hermione cried in outrage.

"That's preposterous! When have I ever been jealous?"

"Harry, why don't you go gets the list?" Hermione suggested.

Harry had stood up and started walking when all of a sudden Ron cried out, "You made a list!" he cried out, turning to him. "When did this happen? Did you put poison in my food too?"

"We were bored Ron, nothing more," Harry said, tired.

"You were bored!" he exclaimed, "You were bored…so you wrote things about me,"

Ron steeped over to where Harry was holding a piece of parchment. He snatched it and his eyes wandered over to the words written on it.

He pointed to a section of the paper said, "How was this being jealous?" He looked onward more and mumbled, "Now I was suppose to jealous there," and later on said, "When did this happen again?" He looked downward more and his face reddened up and he ripped up the pieces of paper.

"Ronald!" Hermione exclaimed. "What was that for?"

"This is just –" he paused, tearing the piece in his hand, "- a stupid list –" he threw the pieces into the fire, "-it's preposterous,"

"Ron, calm down," Harry tried to say, "We won't do it again," but Ron shook him off.

"I'm glad you both had a good old time laughing at me. I'm sure you'll look back on this and have some real good laughs pointing out my flaws," he started walking out and said to Hermione, "Send your regards to that ferret for me would you Hermione?" and walked out.

The fire had blazed on while Harry was left standing and Hermione kneeling on the red carpet floor.

"I don't know what he was overreacting about, it was only a joke," Harry said.

"We'd better find him before he does something stupid," Hermione said.

A/N: I know this is a very … VERY short chapter but I had to get it out quickly so I can write #23 which is like the climax of the plot. Review please and thank you!