Sorry these chapters are so short, but I'm trying to post them before I forget to (plus there is a certain person badgering me for them, and I guess it is Easter) , so, I hope you enjoy!

Chapter Five

Her feet pounded the corridor once again as she ran away from the class. She had just up and left before Malfoy could register what she had said. What had she said? She LIKED him kissing her? She wanted him to be in LOVE with her? That isn't possible, he had just talked around to get her to say that so he could torment her more. Revenge will be sweet.

How dare he be doing this? Doesn't he understand the problems not just she had, but the whole school as well? If charms was anything to go by, classes would be disrupted, and friendships would be shaken. It seemed that the spell was getting more and more intense now, it started with giggles in the corridor, and now they were fighting and rioting in the classrooms. Hermione needed to do some research now, but it kept coming back to the same thing. Where was she safe? She knew from that horrifying experience with Snape that the teachers weren't safe, so perhaps going to Dumbledore was not a good idea.

That brought her back to the idiotic prat that was Draco Malfoy. Maybe there were others like him, who weren't affected by whatever it was that was happening to her. How would she find them? Certainly none of her friends were unaffected. Perhaps Hagrid?

No, she couldn't risk it. Some of the nicest people were turning nasty on her, and Hagrid wasn't someone you wanted to upset. Perhaps she'll run into them at some other point, and perhaps they would be a lot more willing to help her, instead of making her life worse.

"Hermione!" A voice called out to her and she turned, seeing Remus Lupin striding toward her. She turned again, biting her lip. Oh god, she thought, she couldn't bear it. She continued to walk, but he ran to catch up with her.

"Hermione, what's wrong? Why are you out of lessons?"

"Nothing, Remus." She said, her voice quavering. "I just needed to go to the bathroom."

"I see." He said and she studied him for strange behaviour, and saw only concern in his eyes.

"How long are you around for?" She asked, hope blossoming in her chest.

"Not long." He told her. "I arrived this morning for an emergency meeting with Dumbledore and then I'm off again back to my…family." He said the last word with a certain degree of discomfort and Hermione knew he wasn't talking about his mum and dad. She nodded, knowing that there were certain other things happening that were a lot more important than this silly business. She couldn't ask Lupin for his help.

"Okay." She said. "How is the outside world?" She asked suddenly. "These walls seem to consume the entire world."

"I know, wonderful, isn't it?" Lupin said, grinning. "Everything is normal out there, I guess. Nothing new, anyway."

"Good." Hermione said, comforted that at least somewhere, there was normality. "Well, I'd better get back to class."

"See you later Hermione." Lupin waved his hand and headed off in the direction of Dumbledore's office.

So people who weren't in the castle grounds weren't affected. That was useful to know. It could also explain why Malfoy wasn't affected. Where had he gone? Hermione shook her head and heard footsteps coming up the corridor behind her. She dived behind a statue just in time to see Dean Thomas slink by. She got a certain satisfaction from his utterly miserable expression, but knew that his presence meant that classes were coming to an end and she better get back to her rooms to prepare her revenge against the Slytherin slime.

That night, the great hall was in uproar, everyone was discussing who Hermione loved more. As she walked in, Dumbledore stood, and the hall went silent.

"As you may have guessed, there has been some commotion over Miss Hermione Granger of late."

"Who is it? I'll kill them!" Ron jumped up from his seat and glared around the room. Hurried whispers catapulted around the room.

"Sit down Mr Weasley." Dumbledore glared at him. Harry and George stood, picking Ron up and forcing him into his seat amidst his threats against the entire school. Once he had stopped yelling, Dumbledore continued. "It would seem that she has been attracting unwanted attention to herself." At this, he gave the smallest glance to Snape, who went bright red and glared at anyone who tried to look at him. "Therefore, I am asking you all to back down. Harassing our best student in fifty years will result in immediate detention and possible suspension. Let her choose whom she would like to date when she is ready to choose."

"Come on, Hermione, you should just let these creeps all know that you're my girl!" A Ravenclaw seventh year stood up and stretched out his arms. He tried to move towards her, but was stopped by the rest of his house, who pummelled him to the ground. Angry voices were heard everywhere. Hermione rested her head on her arms and squeezed her eyes shut. A voice sounded above the rabble, it was Malfoy's.

"Hermione is totally in love with Ronald Weasley!" At this the entirety of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw moved as a wave onto Ron. Who yelped, but refused to deny it.

That was it, there was a riot, everyone student was kicking, biting and struggling with each other to prove who Hermione loved more. Hermione hid under a table and crawled along the length of it, stopping as she reached the end, and saw Malfoy. He was rolling about in laughter, watching Ron and Harry getting their faces pummelled in by their fellow Gryfindors. Smiling to herself, she stood up, this was the perfect time for revenge.

Before she could make a move, Snape jumped on the teacher's table and shouted, "Fools! You think you can give her want she needs? She needs careful tutoring, she needs her mind to be shaped, and made even more magnificent! She needs me!" The whole room stopped and stared at him. Malfoy, who started laughing hysterically again, broke the silence. As if on cue, the room lit up with argument.

Something in the corner of her eye made her glance at the Slytherin table. Pansy was sitting down, rocking back and forth and staring at the empty plate in front of her. As she looked up and saw Hermione, she immediately shrank under the table and hid.

Hermione shouted at the top of her lungs "Hey!" The argument's stopped immediately and every pair of eyes was staring at her.

"I'm really flattered that you would all feel this way over me." A smile backed this up. "But there really is only one guy for me." She walked up to Malfoy and took his hand. A look of shock and confusion on his face. "Me and Draco have been going steady for a while now, and I love him so much." Just to add to the effect, and to make this more of an ordeal for Malfoy, she leaned over and kissed him on the lips. For a few seconds he kissed back, shocked. Then he pulled away and stared at her.

She smiled at him coyly. His face was classic, shock turned to confusion, confusion to realisation, realisation to horror. He turned to the shocked students and saw them all burning with rage. Fred shouted out, "Hermione, with the slime of Slytherin?" Ron looked as if he was about to explode. "GET HIM" A wave of over a hundred students fell upon Malfoy, and he turned back to Hermione, but she had gone.