366 prompt: Enchant

Ultimate Battle - Single Accessory x2

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Task: Write about someone who feels as if he or she just isn't being heard. Prompt: Hermione/Remus

Acrostic-y Challenge - H = Hermione Granger

(time-travel)

Hermione's Distraction

Hermione/Remus

"Hermione... I was wondering," Remus began, approaching the girl that always looked to enchant him and make him nervous.

"Remus, just the person I needed to talk to," Hermione interrupted. "I need your help to work out the reason why some Dragon's Blood is green and some turns red. So far, there seems to be nothing to distinguish why. Gender doesn't matter, breed doesn't seem to play a part. I can't figure out what I'm missing!"

Remus looked at the textbooks spread out on the table in front of her. It was quite the interesting study.

He shook his head, his sandy hair falling in his eyes, as he tried to focus. He was there for a reason.

"Hermione, I was thinking, since we're both free on Saturday..."

"Saturday?" Hermione asked, her eyes widening. "But I need to work this out as soon as possible. I hadn't even considered the different colours of Dragon's blood until yesterday, when I noticed the change. Professor Slughorn refuses to tell me the difference, he said to work it out, and use this as extra-credit to bump my grade up from the lousy potion last class."

"Yeah, Peter's sorry about that, he always mixes up Doxy Venom and Lobalug Venom," Remus explained, rubbing the back of his neck. This wasn't going as well as Sirius insisted it would. "Maybe on Saturday, we could look in the bookshop?"

"Oh, I have all these books - I'm sure the answer is here somewhere," Hermione muttered, glaring at the books. "Unless you have anything about dragons or blood upstairs?"

Remus just nodded, and turned to the dorms. Clearly he wasn't getting that date when Hermione was in research mode.

...oOo...

Sirius pulled Remus through the common room and down onto the sofa where Hermione had situated herself.

"Kitten, please tell me that you realised that Remus was trying to ask you out on a date Saturday?" Sirius said. "I'm not entirely sure which one of you is at fault here."

Hermione stared at him in confusion. "A date?" she murmured. She glanced at her books and sighed. "I'm really sorry, Remus -" she began.

His heart immediately fell. The witch had enchanted him from the moment he had met her, and he had gathered all his nerves to ask her out, and here was the refusal. Of course she wouldn't want him - a werewolf that wouldn't be able to offer her a future.

"- but I tend to get quite distracted when I'm working on something. I'm listening now... if you still want to ask me that is."

Her beautiful eyes met his, enchanting him once more.

"Oh," Remus whispered, realising he had been worrying for nothing. He cleared his throat and ignored Sirius' satisfied grin. "Hermione, I'd like to take you to Hogsmeade on Saturday."

Sirius nudged him hard in the side.

"On a date," Remus quickly added.

"I'd love to go on a date with you, Remus," Hermione replied, blushing.

"And my work here is done," Sirius announced.

500 Words

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