Author Note: This was inspired by a conversation with 666mewmew. It might not be exactly everyone's cuppa tea but its still fun.
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Hermione was working with Neville in the advanced experimental greenhouse. Hermione and Neville had come back for their eighth year along with Harry, after the war. Hermione was happy that Harry had chosen to not go with Ron's idea of using their fame to just coast through life.
She was oddly happier now than she had ever been during her school career. She was learning just to learn, not to try and survive during a war. So she was trying out several other disciplines which is why she was in the greenhouse with Neville.
Hermione entered the greenhouse to find Neville filling several sprayers with a thick greenish syrup. His creation that was supposed to enhance the growth and production of fruits and vegetables. The magical world was going to try to secretly help out the muggle world now that the blood supremacy movement was destroyed. This process was hopefully one of the first steps in reducing world hunger.
"Hi Neville. So are we ready to begin?" she asked picking up her gloves.
"Yeah, just grab that sprayer and start on table one." He said with a grin. "So how did your date with Harry go?"
"It went okay. Ginny still hasn't quite accepted that Harry isn't going to be the big celebrity she was hoping he would be."
"Oh. Too bad. She still mad at you?"
Hermione sighed as she adjusted her protective gear. "Yeah. She still says I somehow brainwashed him or stole him from her during the Horcrux hunt."
Neville shook his head at their former friend then began to take care of his plants. He understood them a lot better than people. Aside from Luna, she at least always made sense.
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Ginny stayed hidden outside of the greenhouse. She knew that brazen hussy Hermione was working with Neville on some kind of experimental growth project so she had snuck down earlier and sabotaged one of the sprayers so it would shatter and coat the one using it with the potion. She knew it was just as likely she would hit Neville, but that was acceptable since he was not helping Ginny get her Harry back.
She heard a small crump as the charge detonated the first time the trigger of the sprayer was pulled. She laughed and returned to the castle.
Inside the greenhouse Hermione had just stepped over to the long table of seedlings growing in the rich soil. Raising the sprayer she pulled the trigger which caused a bright flash of light and a loud crump to happen as a small explosion went off. She felt pieces of glass go through the potion proof clothing into her flesh, what worried her more though was that the glass carried pieces of the potion with it into her. The fine mist that the potion had been turned into coated her. She felt it on her skin running and stinging into the cuts.
Neville had been shielded by a large heavy wooden cabinet so did not get coated by the spray or injured by the glass. He stepped around and saw the front of Hermione's outfit had been peppered with shrapnel. He set his sprayer down and started washing Hermione off with a spray of water from his wand.
"Hermione? Are you okay?" He called out.
"I think so. It got on my skin though. I've got a bunch of cuts and I can feel it in me." She said.
"Oh shit! Oh shit. I have no idea what this will do to a person." He said as she began to pull her clothes off.
"Just keep rinsing." She ordered him as she pulled her clothes off quickly.
"I should send for help." he countered.
"When you've got as much of it rinsed off of me first." She ordered. "If there's any on me it could contaminate everyone else."
Neville nodded, "Right sorry. Are you sure you're okay?"
"I feel a little bit tingly but I'm not sure if that's because of the cold water or the shrapnel." she said stripping to her skin. Neville tried not to notice the effects the gushing cold water was having on her body.
Hermione was working to pull the small pieces of plastic out of her skin, most of it has only stuck in her outer layers of skin or been blocked by her clothes. Enough though had made it through though to give her a dozen or more small cuts.
After several minutes she raised her hands, "Okay I think I'm rinsed enough Neville."
He stopped the water and cast a quick drying charm on her. "I've got a spare robe."
She smiled, "Good. While I don't mind giving you a free show I don't think I want to parade through the castle naked."
Neville just tried to maintain eye contact and nod.
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"Harry I'm alright." Hermione repeated for the hundredth time. She had been given a purgative and cleaning charms by Madam Pomfrey after an examination that Hermione felt was more thorough than anything she had ever experienced before or hoped to again. Finding nothing wrong with Hermione she released her.
Harry sighed, "Okay I know. But Professor McGonnegal thinks this wasn't an accident. Someone tried to kill you."
"I don't think it was meant to kill me. It was more meant to explode the sprayer and disperse the potion."
"Which is an experimental plant growth one. Who knows what it will do to you." Harry said worriedly.
"Well its a good thing I'm not a plant then." She sarcastically declared.
"Right I know. But still." Harry said squeezing his girlfriend's hand.
"Now who's the one overthinking things?" She teased.
"After all we've been through to lose you like this would be really crappy." He said.
"Well I am tired after that purgative so I'm going to go to sleep. I'll see you in the morning."
"Love you." Harry said giving her a kiss.
"Love you too." Hermione replied.
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Hermione woke up in the dorm the next morning starving. She pulled her clothes on quickly and ran downstairs. Giving Harry a quick kiss she practically dragged him to the great hall where she slid into her seat and began eating. There was a solid beam of sunlight striking her from the morning sun coming in through the windows.
Ginny came in watching Hermione shove food in her face. She was eating sausages one after the other as quickly as she could. Strips of bacon and eggs followed them. Neville and Harry both watched her with worried expressions. More students around her began to stop what they were doing as she took a boat of syrup and drank it straight. Chugging an entire gallon of milk.
The professors had just begun to notice the whispers and pointing at Hermione when there was a loud belching glurp coming from the brown haired girl. She rubbed her mouth and looked around. "What?"
"Hermione you just ate half the food on the table." Harry replied.
"I was hungry." She said in confusion as her hands flew to her stomach. "Oh I feel weird."
She staggered to her feet as a rumbling noise came from her. Everyone stepped back as a creaking, groaning, noise seemed to issue from her entire body. Hermione moaned as she wavered and suddenly grew taller. Her blouse came untucked then stretched as her breasts and belly began to inflate. Her thighs became thicker and rounder as did her buttocks. Her hair grew longer as it was soon down to her waist.
The stretching, creaking noise increased in volume as her height reached six feet. Her hair had taken a decidedly green color as it continued to grow. Her blouse shot buttons across the room causing students to duck as it split from the stress of trying to constrain her growing breasts and belly. Huge full teardrop shaped melons with dark stripes down their sides radiated out from thick erect stems at their tips.
Her skirt had torn itself off and her knickers ripped as her back side and thighs were large ham hocks. Hanging out at least a foot. The nether hairs Harry noticed from his position on the floor had turned the same dark green and was a thick tangled bush covering her swollen mons.
By the time Hermione had reached eight feet tall she was gasping and panting. Her entire body had swollen and ballooned. Her skin had a slightly greenish brown tone to it with her hair all being a deep forest green. Her nipples were dark green caps on her humongous melons. Her belly was a round ripe ball with her belly button popped outwards from the pressure inside.
"What just happened?" She cried out.
"I have no idea." Harry gasped as he crawled out from under the table.
Neville gaped at her open mouthed, "Oh shit. The growth potion. It must have activated your hormones when you ate."
"But I got purged last night. It should have driven any magical effects out of my body." She exclaimed.
"It must have gotten into your cells and remain dormant until you sat in the sunlight. That must have activated it." Neville said.
Trying to cover herself she grabbed Harry and Neville's robes. Holding one over her front and one over her backside she turned and ran out of the great hall. Harry and Neville followed her as did the professors.
Ginny started laughing so hard she almost threw up. Across the room a petite blonde stared at Ginny with a very irate expression on her face.
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Madam Pomfrey, Professor Sprout, Professor Slughorn and the Headmistress McGonnegal were gathered around Hermione who was sitting on a bed rocking back and forth. Harry and Neville stood nearby.
"Its like you thought Mr Longbottom. The potion has attached itself to her cells. We cannot purge it without purging her own cells." The potions master said after analyzing her blood.
"That would kill her." Harry declared.
"I know. But we can do nothing until we get the potion out of her cells. And its still highly energized." He said.
"What if we put her in a completely darkroom would that cause the potion to stop working?" Minerva asked.
Neville shrugged, "Maybe. Cold and dark would cause most plants to go dormant."
"Yeah that might work. I'd probably pass out or go into a coma but you could get the potion out of me and then get me back to normal." Hermione said hopefully.
"We could try that. The potion is activated by sunlight. Its supposed to trigger a slow steady growth of the plant." Neville said, "Enhancing it too.
"What I'm concerned about is the skin coloration changes. Why is she turning green?" The matron asked.
"The potion was supposed to enhance the ability of the chlorophyll to increase its energy consumption and conversion. Make it where as long as a plant got water and sunlight it could grow."
"Then why did she eat so much food?"
"Humans require more calories of energy than plants do to grow. Her cells needed the extra energy." Neville said.
"Have you sprayed any of the plants with it yet?" Professor Sprout asked.
"When the sprayer blew it got all over the tomatoes." Hermione said.
"I want the two of you to go check on the plants in the greenhouse." The headmistress ordered. Make certain they are not having anything unusual happen."
"We'll get this sorted out." Harry said patting Hermione on one of her huge thighs.
"I know." Hermione agreed nervously.
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Harry and Neville approached Greenhouse 7 when they saw that one wall was exploded outwards, with the roof being lifted upwards as well. Jogging to that side of the building they saw huge tomato vines twisting and growing upwards. The vines were as thick as sewer pipes and had tomatoes the size of beanbag chairs hanging off of them. They could watch the vines rustle and move while the fruit on the vine swelled visibly.
"Wow you could have a helluva vegetable salad with that." Harry said in awe.
"Fruit. Technically tomatoes are a fruit." Neville corrected distractedly.
Harry glared at his friend briefly before saying, "Okay so does this fit the definition of unusual or not?"
Neville looked at Harry in worry, "Uh yeah. This kind of growth is not supposed to happen. Definitely not in the three hours since sunrise."
"So what will happen to Hermione?"
"I don't know." Neville said watching as a tomato began to show splits along its side, "But we need to keep her out of the sunlight or she'll do that."
Harry glared at the plant, "So how are you going to get her cured?"
"I dunno. The potion is part of her cells. So we would have to do something that would make it not be part of her cells." Neville said waving his hands around in frustration.
Harry took his wand and cast a shrinking charm on one of the tomatoes. Instead of slowing its growth or becoming smaller it exploded in a shower of red gloop. "Well fuck. That didn't work."
Neville stared in horror at the plants.
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Luna had followed Ginny into the bathroom. When Ginny came out of the stall she found herself flung upwards and stuck to the ceiling spread eagled. Her wand torn out of her pocket flinging itself towards Luna's outstretched hand.
"Alright. Why did you find Hermione's suffering so funny?" Luna demanded. The soft, fluffy clouds of her voice replaced by cold, bitter, stormy ones.
"Oh, bother Luna. It was just funny seeing her blow up like that." Ginny said trying to push herself off of the ceiling and failing. "It was just a prank. No big deal."
"YOU ARE THE ONE THAT RIGGED THE SPRAYER TO EXPLODE?" Luna exclaimed in angry realization.
Ginny snickered, "Yeah I did. It was just plant fertilizer. It wouldn't hurt her."
Luna raised her eyebrow. "That is still open for debate. The looks of horror and fear on Neville and Harry's face was not very funny."
"Aww c'mon. The matron is able to fix just about anything. If not they can call in someone from Saint Mungo's. She'll be fine. Remember when she got turned into a catgirl?"
"Yes I have been told about that. Past results do not always indicated what future results will be. This could be something quite detrimental to her health and safety." Luna explained.
Ginny said nothing, glaring down at Luna.
"You do not actually care if she is harmed do you?" Luna realized in horror.
"Fuck that bitch. She fucking stole my fucking boyfriend!" Ginny yelled down at Luna. "And fuck you too for helping her. Fuck all of you. I hope she fucking explodes!"
Luna looked at the rage and hate on Ginny's face. She did not like to hurt people but Ginny had earned it with her anger. However a thought crossed her mind which would not entirely be harmful to the redhead but might teach her a bit of a lesson. Pointing her wand at the red head then the sink Luna cast a pair of spells.
Ginny gasped as she felt her clothes melt and slide off of her body. "You are a very naughty girl Ginny." Luna explained as jets of water burst from the sink to hit Ginny on the nipples and vagina. "You need to calm down with a bit of a cold shower. I will now have to report your statements."
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Luna arrived in the hospital wing to see Hermione had moved away from all of the windows and was in a dark shadowy part of the room. Her belly was even larger and rounder with dark striations radiating away from her belly button. She was laying across six different beds that had been joined together.
"Is Hermione alright?" Luna asked joining the cluster of professors and students.
"She has been continuing to grow. We can't figure out a way to stop it." Neville explained.
"Well, for what it is worth I have discovered who rigged the sprayer to explode. It was Ginny Weasley." Luna stated
"Where is she? I'll wring her pretty little neck." Harry growled.
"Stand down Mr Potter." Minerva commanded quickly turning. "Miss Lovegood where is Miss Weasley?"
"She is taking a shower in the ground floor bathroom in the main hall." Luna said with a smile.
Minerva raised her eyebrow, "I was not aware that loo had shower facilities attached to it."
Luna just smiled her vacant innocent smile.
"Poppy, Horace keep trying to figure it out." Minerva said heading for the doors, "I will attend to Miss Weasley."
Over the next several hours they had to move Hermione to a cold dark room in the dungeons to slow the growth. Harry stayed with her while Neville and Luna worked with the professors.
"Harry I'm sorry." Hermione slowly drawled. She was sluggish and slow but not growing as fast.
Harry rubbed her cheek softly, "Its okay Hermione. You've got nothing to be sorry about."
"I wanted to grow old with you, have babies with you." She said lethargically.
"You will. I promise you Hermione. We've not found a problem we couldn't beat yet."
There was a knock at the door before Neville came into the room with Luna. "Hey Harry, Hermione. How are you?"
"Okay. She's really lethargic."
"Well we have a plan. So c'mon lets get her out of here. We've got to get her outside before we loose the daylight."
"I thought daylight was bad Neville?" Hermione asked slowly.
"Daylight will cause you to grow, but we can keep you from exploding we think."
"You think?" Harry asked quickly, "I would rather not have the woman I love explode."
"There is only a 1% probability of her exploding with this plan. If we do nothing there is a 98.675% probability of her exploding." Luna stated.
"98.675%" Harry confirmed as Hermione struggled to her feet. "What is the plan." She asked.
"We put you in the sunlight and let the potion burn itself out from your cells. The reason the tomatoes exploded was because their outer skin wasn't growing as fast as the internal cellular structure. If we keep coating your skin with an expansion potion we can prevent anything bad happening until the potion burns itself out."
"Okay. What's the problem?"
"Well she'll be naked, in front of everyone and we'll have to make sure every bit of her is covered. And I do mean every bit of her. So she'll have to be floating."
"Like a giant parade balloon." Luna said with honest expression.
Hermione frowned, "And that's the only solution?"
"No. But it is the best one. We could let you continue to grow slowly in one of the warmer rooms and coat you frequently. It would take longer though, it would take several days." Neville explained.
"Might as well get it all over at once." Hermione said waddling down the corridor. Her thighs had grown so large she could not close her legs, her head was just barely brushing the high corridor ceilings. A large blanket hanging over her front and backsides barely preserved her modesty.
"Are you sure Hermione? We could take care of you over those days."
"There is a 13.249% probability of her exploding and a 27.322% of her starving to death from lack of caloric intake with that route." Luna explained.
"See Harry this is the best way we can do this." Hermione agreed.
"Okay and once we get this potion burned out of her then what?"
"Well we should be able to administer a shrinking potion and get her back to her normal self." Neville said.
Harry sighed but said nothing else. He just kept his hand on Hermione's giant finger as they walked.
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When Hermione got outside she moaned in deep pleasure as the sunlight hit her, "Oh that feels so good. I feel good." She ripped the blankets off to stand in the middle of the grassy field bare to the world. The creaking groaning sound started coming from her again.
"Start spraying her" madam Pomfrey commanded as they lifted her off of the ground. Floating her horizontally they began spraying her. Harry was assigned the position between her legs to coat her nethers and inner thighs.
"You should be used to that Harry." Luna said with a wink as she took position to help coat her upper body. Harry just frowned at her in a friendly exasperated way and took the hose to begin spraying.
Neville was working on her legs and feet. A few others from the school had been drafted to work on the rest of her. Mostly females Harry noticed.
As they began to spray her with the slick clear oily potion she began to laugh and make noises. Rotating slowly as she continued to grow. At one point due to the lag between when she rotated and when her breasts moved one slapped down onto an unfortunate 6th year who was knocked unconscious, but survived. She later described it like being hit by a jelly filled house.
Hermione's skin was able to remain supple and stretchy as she grew rounder and fuller. They had to start levitating her higher as she became incredibly huge before with a few last twitches and creaks she seemed to come to a stop. Setting her back into the huge puddles of potion on the ground the professors carefully checked her blood and tissues.
"The potion is out of her cells!" Slughorn cheerfully announced, "It worked!"
Everyone jumped and danced excitedly with Harry, Neville and Luna being picked up by Hermione to be placed between her mammoth mounds that were each the size of train cars. Hugging them happily.
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Neville woke up in a sweat wedged between the pillows of his bed. Looking around the dorm he shook his head at the most incredible realistic dream he had been having.
He did get up and take the rest of the mushrooms Luna and he had picked earlier in the forbidden forest out of his trunk. Padding across the dorm he dumped them out of the window saying good riddance and never again.
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Karistasogarie: (Chapter 24) True I kept her a Little Bit Beastly instead of full on fur people on purpose. Plot reasons that when I get back to expanding the story will make sense. I know my daughter used to have a pair of those that made it look like her eyes were solid black. Freaked me the full on hell out first time I saw her with those.
(chapter 2) I flipped a coin to decide if she could or couldn't get pregnant. Sometimes an executive decision tool leads to fun ideas.
Guest: Chapter 22: True.
Cateagle: Chapter 11: Thank you.
Cateagle: Chapter 2: Thank you. I am proud to be a PUNdantic person.
Kimjo2: Chapter 22: Yes indeed. I love a nice big soft girl, one reason I am very happy with my wife! 25 years together this year!
Kimjo2: Chapter 28. Hope they were happy tears.
Guest: Yes. I know. And on average those tags are accurate. In the end Harry and Hermione will be the bare minimum.
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