When Hermione made her way down to the dungeons, she could sense that Malfoy was already there. His arrogance leaked from Snape's office.
"There may be, however; a few side effects. Slight ones, but still." Snape said.
"Like?" Hermione said
"Well, for example, Miss Granger" he paused. "Instead of the intense and unexplained fear you feel whenever Mister Malfoy is near- you will feel… safe in his presence."
Hermione gawked at his extreme accuracy in how she felt when Draco was near. Either he knew this potion and its effects very well, or he practiced legimency. Probably both
"and Draco, instead of you wanting desperately to just get her out of your life." He paused again and looked at Hermione, not taking his eyes off her. "you will feel as if you simply cannot live without her." Snape said this in such a morbid tone, that it sent chills down Hermione's spine. Draco's eyes widened as he interjected.
"That sounds like a bloody love potion!"
"The effects are slight, Draco, it will barely be noticeable."
"If you think I'm gonna take some love potion to reverse this, then you're mad Snape!"
"The question you have to ask yourself is…" he paused again. "is it worth it?"
"No!"
"Yes!" Draco and Hermione said harmoniously.
"Looks like you two have some things to work out… together" he said the last word in a sort of mocking tone that set Draco's teeth on edge. With one swish of his robe, he was in his potions closet, and away from them two.
As Hermione and Draco walked out of the room, Draco turned to her and snarled
"Of course you would want me to take that bloody love potion, Granger. You'd do anything for me to-"
"Just shut up Malfoy." She said irritably; and Hermione turned the corner swiftly towards her common room.
As Draco walked to his dorms alone, he grew very nervous. This potion would make him feel as if he needed Granger in order to live. Snape was wrong about how he felt about Granger at the moment, however. Merlin no, he did not love her, he did not even like her, but he didn't mind her. And he certainly didn't 'desperately want her out of his life'. He gulped nervously and adjusted his tie, trying not to think about how this would change the effects of the antidote. Would his feelings for her be heightened, more noticeable, more intense than Snape predicted? Draco cast these thoughts out as soon as he entered the Slytherin common room however, for his mate Blaise was rather ahead in his Legilimency lessons with Snape.