Well there's been a mistake, the ball's date isn't going to change, and I thought I would change it but I'm not so forget about what I wrote at the ending of the former chapter.
The so-called person Harry wanted help from were actually persons. Two red-haired persons, to be exact. Yes Harry had no one else in mind except for the prank-pulling twins. Harry would have to contact them soon because there wasn't much time left.
"So we're going to ask help from the Weasley twins?" Malfoy asked.
"Yes…it'll be perfect. They're masterminds of mischief and monkeyshines!" Harry said, an evil grin appearing on his face.
"…. Monkeyshines…?" Draco asked.
"Look it up…we should head up to the common room, they're bound to be in there." Harry said, beckoning them to follow as he set off for the Gryffindor common room.
But Malfoy was heading towards the other way.
"And where are you going?" Ron asked.
"To the library…I have to find what "monkeyshines" means, Potter told me to look it up." Malfoy said.
"Malfoy must you always be so daft? Well I suppose it's hard to be intelligent with that thick head of yours. Just come on you can look it up later." Ron said, clearly annoyed by Malfoy's decreasing intelligence.
Malfoy looked insulted and sulked as the three boys walked up to the common room. And luckily enough, Fred, George, and Lee were all huddled in a corner, whispering and laughing.
Lee looked up as the three headed towards their section of the common room.
"Ughh Malfoy why are you here." Lee sneered, putting emphasis on the word you as though it was something the cat coughed up; something that was particularly nasty.
"What? Did "hellos" go out of style now and that look reminds me of Mother's. She always had that look on her face whenever I was in her company" Malfoy replied back.
"And I really wonder why…" Ron said, snickering.
"Look Fred, Hermione is going to go out with that foreign git, Dimitri, and we don't want her too. This is a serious matter and we really need your help, so what so you say?" Harry asked, looking as though he would kill if he received anything besides a "yes".
"Err yes sure why not." George said, grinning.
"Oh George we can use that new potion, but it might yield different results or unpleasant situations." Fred said.
"Ahh yes that potion. Yes that might work, and we are looking for people to try it, ok Harry, will you take a potion?" George asked.
"What does this potion do anyways?" Ron asked.
"Well let's just say, it's a love potion, kind of, but its bit more different than the others." Lee replied.
"What do you mean by "different"?" Malfoy asked, obviously interested.
"Well with most love potions, the intended drinker drinks it and falls immensely in love with the first person he/she will look and there are others that make the drinker fall pathetically in love with the potion-maker." Fred explained.
"But what about this potion?"
"Ahh yes well with this potion, once you've given the potion to the person, you immediately say the person you want the drinker to love. This will have a magic effect. But you have to say the name before you say anything else and the drinker shouldn't hear anything else or its ruined." George explained.
"Well that's easy enough, we give the potion to Hermione and oh right whose name shall we say?" Ron asked.
"Well it must be me, I'm the prettiest." Malfoy shot back.
"Yea…no...I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that one Malfoy. How about we give Dimitri the potion and say a random girls name and then Hermione will get annoyed and leave him!" Harry said in a shrilly, evil voice.
"That's prefect. So how much Fred?" Ron asked.
"Well since you're out first users of this product, we'll give it you for free." Fred replied.
"Your results may vary, and we are not responsible for the stupid things that may happen." Lee replied quickly.
"Right…well ok lets get everything set up then." Harry said, taking the flask, which had a lurid pink colored liquid in it.
The three boys went into the dormitory and made sure they weren't in earshot.
"Ok we'll give it to him before the ball, like maybe 6 or 5 hours before because with that time limit, Hermione will be bound to choose one of us." Ron said.
"Good idea Ron, we'll do exactly that then." Harry said.
"Ok then, but we have to mix it with something that he's bound to drink." Malfoy spoke.
"Ok we'll mix it with his pumpkin juice or something." Ron said.
"Okay so it's done then. Tomorrow we'll give that bloke the potion and say someone else's name. Then Hermione can come in and see him running after another girl and she'll hate him!" Harry spoke gleefully.
With everything being accounted for and the potion being secretly hidden away from Dimitri, the three boys had a peaceful sleep. Somewhat.
The next morning, everything went smoothly. The day passed until there were only 6 more hours to the ball. Already, people were murmuring excitedly, waiting for the Ball to start.
"Should we give him the potion now?" Malfoy whispered as they all went down to the Great Hall for lunch.
"No it'll be too suspicious, we'll do it little after lunch, I suppose." Harry replied back.
They saw Dimitri sitting next to Hermione, talking and laughing jollily.
"Ew look at the pair of them, it's so…icky. " Malfoy said, giving them a nasty look.
"What are you? A five-year old?" Ron asked in disbelief.
"Oh that reminds me of a story when I was five, yea—" But Malfoy was cut short from Harry.
"Yea that's just spectacular and all but no one give a bloody goose about it, and look they're getting up" Harry said and pointed out Hermione and Dimitri, who got up and were heading out of the Great Hall.
Harry, Ron and Malfoy followed the pair into the Gryffindor common room. Hermione and Dimitri sat and began chatting again. Harry made sure he and the other two sat close by so they could catch snatches of the conversation.
"Oh Dimitri I am so glad that you asked me to the ball. I am so excited! Why! I need to go and get everything ready!" With that, Hermione raced up into the girls' dormitory.
"She needs 5 hours to get ready?" Ron asked, apparently in shock.
"Ehh it's a girl thing." Malfoy added as though it were a simple fact.
"And how would you know? Wait, on second thought I'd rather not know." Ron said hastily.
"Hush! Let's go talk to Dimitri. And then we'll then after a few minutes of mingling, we'll slip him the potion!" Harry said manically.
They moved and say by Dimitri, who was reading a book.
"So you're taking Hermione to the ball, yes?" Harry asked, trying to create talk.
"Yes, she has nicely accepted too. I cannot wait, I'm sure it will be ever so pleasant." Dimitri replied with a stunning smile.
"Yea I'm sure it'll be "pleasant" all right." Ron said, trying not to look like he was laughing.
"So whom are you going with?" Dimitri asked, directing the question towards the boys.
"Erm well…a girl" Malfoy replied stupidly.
"Yes I would hope so." Dimitri said, giving Malfoy a strange look.
"Hehe yes, well you'll get to know soon enough whom we are going with." Harry said.
There was a period of silence as the boys twiddled their thumbs and waited for someone to speak.
"I'll go get us some drinks if you would like, I'm getting a bit thirsty myself." Harry said, finally breaking the silence.
"All right, that will be nice." Dimitri said.
Meanwhile, Harry whispered "Don't let him leave, and manage to keep him busy until I give him the potion. Please don't do anything stupid while I'm gone. I'm talking especially to you Malfoy, please resist your impulse to act like an idiot."
With that being said, Harry left for the potion.
"So…want to hear a joke?" Ron asked, hoping this will keep Dimitri from leaving.
"Sure why not?" Dimitri replied.
"Ok so there's two kids…umm..Bob..and..er..Billy. So one day, Bob goes "Hey Billy do you know that the speed of light travels then the speed of sound? So the Billy goes "Yea that's why people seem bright until you hear them speak!" Ron said, laughing loudly.
"Yes I see how that works, you've just demonstrated that to me." Dimitri said.
But Ron was laughing to hard to notice he had been insulted.
"So Dimitri…. so how's life in Turkey?" Malfoy asked.
"Erm I am from Russia." Dimitri replied, looking at Malfoy in an annoying fashion.
"Right Right like it really matters, they're both in Australia anyways." Malfoy said.
"And now I know why Hermione says you have the brainpower of a dingbat." Dimitri replied.
"Oh I like bats, they're pretty cool, you know." Malfoy kept on going until Harry arrived with four glasses on a tray.
"Oh finally! I am so glad you are here! I think I have dropped at least 5 IQ points by talking with this imbecile for a couple of minutes." Dimitri motioned his hand to Malfoy.
Ron was still laughing, his face a bright red.
"Ok Ron it wasn't that funny" Malfoy shot at him.
"Right anyone fancy a glass of pumpkin juice?" Harry asked.
"Oh have this one!" Harry shrieked suddenly, giving the glass with the potion to Dimitri.
"Umm thanks." Dimitri took the glass and looked at Harry, Hermione was right, he spazzed a lot.
Harry, Ron, and Malfoy all took a glass too and sat down.
Dimitri was about to sip it, but he didn't. The three boys waited for him to take a swig.
Finally, Harry took a sip. With that, he was followed by Ron, and then Malfoy, and Dimitri also took a sip.
Harry was about to say a name until…
"HERMIONE!"
Mwahaha. Cliffhanger. Sorry for the delay on the update, but things have been a bit busy. I kind of rushed this chapter a bit. More soon, hopefully. :
