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Walking back into the Charms classroom Hermione saw Professor Flitwick standing on top of a stack of thick charms tomes- you shouldn't treat books like that, Hermione thought with a frown- and was glad to see that he didn't look as if he was about to punish her for attending his class late.
"Nice to see you Ms. Granger," he said with a smile, "Mr. Malfoy just told me about the heads meeting. Take out your textbook and turn to page Three Hundred & Forty Nine, and as for everyone else who came in late I'm afraid that I'll be seeing you all in detention tomorrow night at eight pm. Surprised that Malfoy covered for her, Hermione looked around the room at the rest of the latecomers groaned.
Taking her seat and deciding that she no longer cared about what she had said to Malfoy or how it might have made him feel, turning to the designated page in her textbook and read the title of the spell that they would be learning in todays lesson.
The Epoximise Charm, Hermione read, is a spell that sticks one object to another as if with glue. Unlike the Permanant sticking Charm that is often used to hang pictures, the effects of this charm will eventually wear off.
"Right class. Look at the person that is sitting beside you because that person will be your partner for todays lesson," Proffesor Flitwick said as she turned towards Luna and had the most brilliant idea.
"Now class," Flitwick was saying at the rooms head, "repeat after me. Ee-POX-i-mise," he said carefully. If there was one thing that everyone knew about charms it was that saying the incantation the slightest bit wrong could have disastrous results. Hermione still remembered Flitwick's warning from their very first class about Wizard Baruffio who had said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor with a buffalo on his chest- she'd always just assumed that that hadn't been his actual intention.
Professor Flitwick repeated the charm over and over until he was certain that everyone was saying it correctly, before making them all stand and face their respective partners. Walking down the stack of books Professor Flitwick made his way to Ernie Macmillan and his partner Cho Chang. "Now class, for this charm to work you have to point your wand at the first object- in this case person- and say the charm, before pointing at the object that you desire for it to be affixed to. Ms. Chang," the Professor said looking up at the girl with long black hair, deep brown eyes and several freckles, who was clearly of Chinese decent and asking her if she would like to demonstrate for the class.
With a nod Cho looked straight at the stout-looking Ernie and his blonde hair and lifted her wand. With a point at Macmillan Cho said in a clear voice, "epoximise," before pointing it at the desk, causing the boy's body and the wood to stick together.
"Oh excellent, well done Ms. Chang," their half goblin Professor congratulated happily as he watched Ernie trying to pull his body off of the desk. Hermione, also enjoying Ernie's trouble, thought that she was going to have a lot of fun playing with this particular charm.
Professor Flitwick removed the charm cast upon Ermie and turned to the whole class. "Everyone please practice this charm two or three times with your partner, but please make sure that you don't glue your partner to anything dangerous," he warned. "Now begin!"
Before Luna or Hermione had a chance to begin the practice Flitwick made his way over to Hermione to ask where Harry and the four Weasley's were. "They're in the Hospital Wing Professor," she told him, "they got into a fight."
"Oh, very well then. Please continue," he said, walking over to Michael Corner who was trying to pull his hands free of his own head but was failing miserably, as his partner Padma Patil found herself overcome with giggles at the spectacle.
Hermione turned back to Luna to let her practice the charm first. "Okay then Luna," she said, "hit me with your best shot."
Nodding, Luna pointed her wand at her before at the chair that she was standing beside and Hermione found herself connected to the wood as if she and the chair were the opposite ends of a magnet.
"It seems like you're stuck Granger," Malfoy said as Blaise hit him with the charm so that his hands and ankles stuck together as if with superglue.
Luna muttered the counter curse upon Hermione and she walked over to Malfoy.
"No you mean that you're stuck Malfoy. How about a little advice for you, because Harry won't be helping you avoid ending up in Azkaban next time you fuck up. So when your their I'd advise you not to stay in that position for too long unless you want to find yourself losing you virginity from behind," Hermione said with a decidedly smug Slytherin smirk on her face and it grew as Blasie snickered while removing the charm off of Malfoy.
"Oh you think that that's funny do you?" Malfoy snarled, walking over to her, circling around behind her and only stopping once he was so close to her body that his chest and her back were touching. "But I think that what you mean is that you wish that you could lose your virginity from behind," Malfoy whispered in her ear and giving a pelvic thrust as he grabbed her hips.
Turning around to face Malfoy who still had his hold on her . Hermione put a great big smirk on her face as she stood on her tippy toes and whispered for Malfoy's ears only. "Correction. You wish that you could hit this from behind. And who says that I'm a virgin from behind anyways?" She bit his earlobe before turning away from him, hips swinging as she went back towards Luna.
Merlin, this girl going to be the death of me, was Malfoys only coherent thought as she left.
Hermione left the astonished Malfoy behind and plopped back down next to Luna, who was spacing out- no surprises there then- and asked, "So... Where were we."
"Well I think that it was your turn to practice the charm," Luna replied looking at her partly, but mostly at Blaise who she knew was still in Luna's misty line of sight.
"Okay, but practice one more time Luna just to make sure that you have it," Hermione said, adding in her head that she wouldn't be able to say the incantation after Hermione's turn anyway so she had better get the practice in now. She did so, sticking Hermione's fingers together quickly and reversing it with a bored wave of her wand.
"Okay then, I think that it's my turn." Hermione smirked evilly, grabbing Luna's pale arm, making her and Luna jump off of the table. "You stand right here okay," she said smiling behind the blonde girl as she positioned her so that she was facing the chatting Slytherin pair.
"Luna please just close your eyes and consider this a birthday present from me," Hermione whispered into the Ravenclaw's ear.
"But my birthday isn't for another two days," Luna told her even as she let her eyes flutter closed.
"I know," she replied with a small smile as she let a muttered, "epoximise," leave her lips.
The second that the charm came out of Hermione's mouth Luna went flying away from her and over their table, knocking down anything in her path to the Slytherin's.
"ZABINI!" Hermione warned loudly as Luna flew at him full force and saw him look up just in time for them to connect.
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Luna shut her eyes tightly as she saw Blaise look up to see who had called his name, only to find her flying straight at him. She tried not to scream as her body collided with his in an impact so strong that Blaise fell backwards with her on top of him and their lips stuck together. They both winced slightly from the impact and Luna opened her eyes wide as she realised the position that they were in.
Merlin's beard, she thought fractically, I'm kissing BLAISE ZABINI!
Luna heard Draco asking Blaise if he was alright and Hermione's amused comments of, "I don't think that he can answer you Malfoy, he looks... busy."
Draco didn't even snort so he obviously didn't think that it was funny. Nor did Luna for that matter. She was terrified and elated all at the same time. The horror was winning out though at the moment. Especially as now Blaise was trying to sit up which left Luna straddling him in a manner not polite for public and hearing Seamus was shouting loud enough to gain the attention of the whole class.
"LOOK EVERYONE," he said loudly, "LUNA AND ZABINI ARE SNOGGING!"
"Shut up Finnegan," said Draco and Luna would have smiled if her mouth hadn't been otherwise occupied at that moment at his attempt to protect his friend's reputation a little.
Blaise had now managed to get her into a slightly- only slightly- less provocative position and Luna was very pleased about this as she could see Professor Flitwick coming towards them. Even her teacher's approach though couldn't stop Luna from noticing just how soft Blaise's lips were, and had she known it, Blaise was thinking the same of hers... And more... Hot, sexy, gorgeous, horny, beautiful, sex. Merlin help me... Was Blaise's current convoluted stream of consciousness as Luna shifted again and he held back a moan.
"Now Mr. Zabini, Ms. Lovegood, try to pull apart," Luna's head of house told them after performing the counter curse.
Doing as the Professor said Luna put her hands on Blaises shoulders and pulled as hard as she could, but nothing happened, they were still stuck.
If I ever get out of this mess , I'm going to kill you Hermione Granger. Luna thought with a uncommon frown on her face. And then hug you to death, she added as an after thought.
"Okay then, let me try a few more spells," Flitwick said and muttered spell after spell... To no affect.
Huh Well, Luna thought with a sigh, I suppose being stuck to Blaise's lips isn't really anything to complain about.
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If only they knew that I'd done it wandlessly so that only I was the only one who could undo it and that they were just going to have to wait until it wore off... Was Hermione's amused thought as she watched Professor flitwick trying to unstick her friend from her crush.
"Why are you smiling," Malfoy asked looking towards her.
"Because of you pretty face Draco," Hermione replied sarcastically, not noticing that she had called him Draco, smiling innocently.
"Pretty? Malfoy's are not pretty Granger, handsome, good-looking, sexy, yes, but pretty, no," he said now towering over her.
"Whatever you say Princess," Hermione said rolling her caramel eyes towards the ceiling.
While Hermione and Malfoy argued Professor Flitwick told the lip locking couple that they should go to the Hospital Wing. At this rate half the charms class was going to be there. "Maybe Madame Pomfrey can help, if not you're just going to have to wait until it wears off."
Hermione didn't see Blaise rolling his baby blue eyes partly at the fact that their Professor couldn't fix their problem and partly at the fact that she was now fighting with Malfoy like they were an old married couple. He thought that they needed to shag, and soon, just to relieve the tension, as he carefully stood with Luna in his arms and placed her back on the floor before leaving to join Potter and the Weasley's.
Hermione and Malfoy were still having a ridiculous fight.
"Whatever, you seriously need to back the fuck off, because your fucking breath stinks!" Hermione said loudly in response to an insult from Malfoy and shoved him hard.
"Don't fucking touch me, and my breath doesn't stink," Malfoy said a little louder and Hermione shoved him again.
Malfoy grabbed her right wrist tightly and said in a low voice and a gesture to Luna and Blaise who were just leaving- Luna walking backwards in Blaise's embrace as Flitwick opened the door for them- , "I know that you got them stuck like that on purpose!"
They fought and the currently unobservant Hermione also didn't see a Hufflepuff named , Zacharias Smith, watching them with true annoyance etched deeply into his face. He was tired of seeing the pair constantly fight. Why can't stupid Gryffindor's and Slytherin's just get along, Zacharias though as Hermione's trick also flickered through the Hufflepuff's mind, just ready to be used. Thanking Merlin that no one was looking his way as he said the enchantment at the Head Boy and Girl , that would leave Granger's right hand entwine with Malfoy's left.
The members of the class still watching them fight saw as a blue light shot at them from somewhere at the front of the class.
Still not paying attention to her surroundings Hermione didn't notice that Malfoy's hand had moved from her wrist to become interweaved with her hand .
"Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy, please take your seats, or do I have to give you two a detention as well?" Flitwick asked in annoyance at the Heads.
Glaring at Malfoy, Hermione tried to snatch her hand back from the blonde , only to find that she took him with her.
"What the hell Granger," Malfoy snarled, "let go of me."
"No," Hermione responded with her own snarl, "you let go of me."
"I'm not touching you, now let go," Malfoy shouted, pulling his hand away from her so hard that Hermione slammed straight into his chest.
"Is there a problem?" Professor Fllitwick asked as he watched Hermione and Malfoy try once again, to no avail, to pull their hands apart.
"WE'RE STUCK!" They shouted in an annoyed unison.
The guilty party sighed slightly as he listened to Hermione blame Malfoy- telling him that he did this and that he had to fix it.
"I didn't do anything Granger!" Malfoy yelled.
Hermione snorted and muttered under her breath, "right... As if it's not just another stupid reason to get close to me."
Merlin, I am going to kill whoever did this and make sure that they die a slow and painful death Hermione thought.
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Granger muttered something indistinguishable, and likely rude, under her breath and he snarled in annoyance again. "What did you say Granger... Speak up!"
She sneered- Slytheriny, creepy on Granger, he thought- "I said that it's my fault because I'm a stupid little Mudblood and because I just want you sooo bad," she finished with a sigh and a roll of her eyes.
Draco watched as Granger gave up on their current little fight. Only if she knew how badly I want her to want me.
"Well," Flitwick said beside them, "let's see if I can fix it. If not then your going to have to join your friends in the Hospital Wing."
Naturally, because the universe hated him, Flitwick couldn't fix it.
They picked up their belongings as Blaise and the Lovegood girl had and shrinking them down to size, left the Charms Classroom- hand in hand.
On the way up to the Hospital Wing everyone who was not in class saw notorious enemies Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger holding hands. Aristocratic Pureblood Prince- and the 'Mudblood'. Head Boy and Head Girl. Gryffindor and Slytherin.
Apparently this wasn't that much of a shock to everybody.
"Oh Merlin, it finally happened," whispered a third year Hufflepuff girl to her group of friends.
"Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger are dating," a sixth year Ravenclaw said loudly.
So this is what it would be like if Granger and I were dating and were holding hands in the halls, Draco thought with a wistful inner smile as Granger picked up her pace and tried to ignore the staring.
"I can't believe that we're stuck together," Granger said, and Draco could practically hear her gritting her teeth.
"What," he retorted, lifting up their conjoined hands and knowing that he felt exactly opposite of what he was about to say, "you think that I'm happy about this."
Granger just snorted and burst through the doors of the Hospital Wing, glaring and daring people to comment.
Some people couldn't take a hint.
"Aw, look at those lovebirds," one Fat Twin joked while the other suggested that they were the cutest couple that he had ever seen in a girly voice.
"We knew one day you guys would end up together" -
"Yeah you know how the saying goes that there's always a thin line between Love and Hate"-
"Come on lets see you guys kiss" -
"Look even Luna and Zabini are participating" -
"Shut up," Granger snapped harshly, pulling Draco along behind her as she strode towards the Matron and left the fat twins laughing.
"Oh Dear, what's happened now?" Madame Pomfrey asked as she looked between him and Granger with true concern.
"We're stuck," Granger replied, gesturing at the intwined hands with her free one.
Looking around as Granger and Madame Pomfrey spoke, Draco saw that Weasley was back in his human form in the bed closest to him and still unconscious. Aww... Draco thought sadly, Still, he was a Weasel for longer than I was a Ferret. And at least Ferret's are cute. Potter was on the bed beside Weaselbee, looking pale and holding onto a bucket as sardines poured out of his nose- must be a Golden Trio thing, having slimy creatures pouring out of you orifices. Look at Weasley and the slugs- while Weaslette tried to comfort him and the Fat Twins jokes about it. On the bed opposite Potter's, Lovegood was sitting on Blaise's lap- lips still locked to his. I guess that that means that Madame Pomfrey can't help us then.
"What do you mean you can't fix it?!" Granger exclaimed as Draco started to pay attention to the conversation that was going on before him.
"Ms. Granger the only way to remove the Epoximise Charm is for the witch or wizard who cast it to perform the counter curse or wait until it wears off on it's own. I'm sorry but there's nothing that I can do for you," Madame Pomfreys said before walking off to get a new bucket for Potter and ordering the Twins out of the infirmary when they began to take blackmail pictures of the poor bloke. Did I just feel sorry for Potter? Draco thought annoyed, then sighed, well it's hard not to feel a little sorry for a guy who's had at least two buckets of sardines pour out of his nose.
"Well, this is just fucking great," Granger exclaimed, walking over to the bed beside Lovegood and Blaise as Draco followed behind, a frown marring his usually indifferent face.
Why couldn't she just see how much I have changed since the war? Draco sighed ,looking at the girl of his dreams.
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