Title: Veritaserum
Prompt: 020 - Colourless
Word Count: 127
Rating: G
Veritaserum is colorless; it has no taste or smell, and even the most skilled wizards have difficulty detecting it. It is best to simply be careful and not present an opportunity for it to be slipped into one's drink.
Draco is neither the most skilled nor the most careful of Hermione's peers, and so it is easy to slip a drop or two into his water while the Slytherins are having Quidditch practice.
She waits beneath the bleachers until he comes to collect his things, and holds her breath while tilts his head back and takes a long drink.
"Why do you hate me?" she asks in a whisper.
For a moment, she is worried that it didn't work, for he looks directly at her.
"I don't."
