Author Note: Quickie that came from a seed 666mewmew planted. Hermione discovers that Colin has a neat new idea.

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Hermione was walking down the corridor after Slughorn's class. She was slightly grumpy at harry still over his sudden skill with the book. She liked the idea he was getting better in class but she wasn't entirely comfortable with some of the other notes in the book. You would think he would be more careful with strange books after what happened to Ginny and the diary. She thought to herself.

Her funk was disrupted by Colin Creevey calling her name. She sighed as the cheerful boy came running up with his camera. "Hello Colin."

"Hi Hermione. I was wondering if you could help me with something." He eagerly asked.

"I suppose I can. What do you need?"
"Oh. I was working on enhancing my camera as well as some of the development of the film process so I was wondering if I could take a few pictures of you. For some reason no one wants to help me." He frowned slightly.

Hermione sighed as she pondered if she should join the list of people that refused him but she also was curious to see what enhancements he had made.

"I can take a little bit of time. But first you need to explain what you did."
"Okay well I put a charm and some runes on the various lenses that have different magical effects. Plus ever hear of something called Photoshop?"

Hermione did not embrace computers herself, although her dad was a big geek and had set his home office up with the best system available. She preferred books herself. Shaking her head she said no.

"Well I can take the image from the camera, change and enhance it using a computer at home. Here I have to use a magical equivalent but it still does the same thing." He enthusiastically explained.

"I suppose as long as you don't have a lens that can see through my clothes. AND you show me before you show anyone else. Okay?" She firmly said.

"Uh okay." He said sliding a lens into his pocket.

"You did make a lens to see through clothes didn't you?" She sighed as of course he did. He was still a teenage male.

He blushed, "Well yeah its supposed to. I haven't tried it yet."

She thought for a moment, "How far does it see through?"

He looked confused before he said, "Uh all the way. Its supposed to make the person look like their naked."

"And you were going to use it without asking people's permission." She crossed her arms in vexation.

He smiled winsomely, "Uh well. Maybe, just a bit."

She tapped her foot "That is not exactly a nice thing to do you know." She pointed out.

He pulled the lens out of his pocket and handed it to her. "Sorry."

"Alright lets go get these pictures taken." She smiled slipping the lens into her pocket.

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Colin had her stand facing him, turn sideways, and sit on a desk. She had been thinking of a Christmas gift for Harry as she stood watching Colin fiddle with his lenses when she felt the special lens in her pocket. She doubted it worked but in the interests of research and maybe giving Harry something that would get his mind off Draco she let Colin take her picture with it, before taking the lens back.

She watched over his shoulder while he developed all of the pictures. The nudes of her she immediately confiscated as well as the negatives. She was rather surprised at how well they had turned out. Unfortunately in her haste she cut her finger and some of her blood seeped into the developer fluid. She did not notice the small cut though and only a couple of drops had fallen.

Colin took one of the clothed images of her and blew it up using the contaminated fluid. Laying it flat on a desk he smiled at her.

"Okay now this is where the image manipulation comes into play. I tap the image with my wand and if I want to change anything I just use the wand like a stylus and drag or swipe or move things around." He said.

"So if you wanted to say raise the hemline of my skirt to show off my thighs you could?" She asked.

"Yeah or change any other physical assets." He said. "I can't like actually combine images yet or do too much but its in the early stages."

Looking down at her chest she gave him a knowing look causing him to blush, "Any other physical assets."

"Uh yeah well. That seems to be a really popular use of Photoshop on the internet." Colin

She made a slight growl but wondered how harry would think of a picture of her blown up a bit. "Alright. Go for it."
"Excuse me?" He said spinning at her.

"I said go for it. Its just a picture right? And you can reset everything back to normal?" She asked.

"Well yeah. So far." Colin said with a shrug.

"Okay. Sorry. Just you should know about sympathetic magic from Flitwick's class." She said.

"Well yeah. But this shouldn't have any links to you." He said reassuring her.

"Okay. Well then start your change." She said watching him.

He nodded and turned tapping the picture of her that was smiling back out of the paper. She felt a strange tingle go through her quickly then he muttered a few words under his breath and tapped the picture's breasts. The next thing Hermione knew was she fell forward as her center of gravity suddenly shifted. Her breasts were the size of large ottomans she thought. Huge.

"Dammit Colin! I thought you said this wouldn't do anything to me?" She shouted.

He stared at her in shock, "Whoa! Are those real?"

"Just put me back!" She growled struggling to stand back up. Somehow her clothes and undergarment had shifted too. Which made sense she supposed since the image was of her wearing clothes.

He tapped the image and a moment later she was back to her normal size. Grabbing herself she made sure with a glare at the confused blonde.

"How did that get linked to me?" She asked in a dangerously calm tone. Colin had heard others speak of that tone just before she exploded at someone. He looked around trying to find some reason for the picture affecting her when he saw that one of the pictures she had pulled from the fluid had a slightly red edge to the paper.

"You must have cut yourself on the developed picture and a drop or two of your blood mixed with the chemical." Colin said taking the picture and showing her.

"Great. Just great. So any changes you make to that picture will happen to me?"

"Well yeah until I lock it. Right now its unlocked." He said.

"Okay we need to safely banished the rest of this fluid. DO NOT do anything to the picture yet. GOT IT!" She was using the tone of voice that made first years tremble.

Colin nodded as she took care of the fluid. Destroying it. Turning to him she worked with him on adjusting the picture in a few minor subtle ways that she had always felt a bit self-conscious about. When she was satisfied she had him lock the image and when the tingle faded from herself she destroyed the image so that it could never be used to alter herself again.

"Okay. We do not ever speak of this again. Understand? None of this ever. Happened." she said in that flat cold tone that made Colin shiver.

Hermione did have a thought though, "Although this lens, "She said taking the nudifier lens out of her pocket, "I want you to take pictures of all of the Slytherin students. Especially their inner left arm."

"You think some of them might be Death Eaters?"

"Its possible." She said.

"Okay. Even the girls?" He asked in a slight bit of disgust.

"Yes, but you can keep the pictures of Draco." She said graciously.

He grinned widely, "No problem." He said.

She smiled as she left to let the boy do his work.

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Harry looked up with a frown when Hermione came in then looked again with a small smile.

"Hello Harry. Is there something wrong?"

"You look a little bit different." He said.

"Oh? Bad different or good different?" She asked nervously.

"Uh. Good I guess. But you always looked good." He said quickly with a blush.

"Thank you Harry." She said leaning in to give him a kiss on the cheek, "Can we agree to try and not be mad at each other over the potions book?"
"I guess. But I thought you said it was dangerous."

"I suppose some of it is but then we are students in a magical school. We do things that someone in the future might look back and think is bad too. So as long as we're careful when we go over the book and look at the notes and spells before we use them it should be possible to avoid any major harm."
Harry looked at her with a curious "we?"

"Well if you want us to be we, instead of just me and you."

"I think I like us being we." He said with a grin.

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A month later Hermione was looking over the pictures Colin had taken. She noticed there were quite a few of Draco, from multiple angles. She was not impressed as she had seen harry from similar angles and he was better.

She had to admit though that Harry was correct as Draco's arm bore the mark as did a few others in Slytherin. She also discovered a few things about some of the other Slytherins that she did not want to know, although the Butterfly tattoo on Daphne's lower back did look like it was cute.

She would have to apologize to Harry for doubting him. But at least she had that chance.

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Ten years after the war Hermione stood outside the latest business Harry had invested in. The Creevey Magical Modification Clinic where he used the latest magical image manipulation techniques to enhance the physical appearance of witches and wizards across Europe. Not that she took advantage of the technique as Harry was quite pleased with her appearance.

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N0wa5t3r: Sadly in many ways I could see that about Harry Potter. He is one of those people that bottles his feelings until they burn him alive. Hermione would be the person who while wound tight would be rational enough to realize she needed help. To be honest after the things they went through, as children, I may have underplayed what would have happened. For 7 years, every year the golden trio and those close to them fought for their lives. In places that were supposed to be safe. People that were supposed to protect them failed, or turned on them in many cases. To be honest years of therapy is the bare minimum these characters should have had to deal with. He may have fought for the other side but Robert E. Lee summed it up very well: It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.