CHAPTER FOUR

THE SEED

DAN
Having no idea where to look or what to even look for Tracie headed to her best thinking place. The Quidditch stadium was her favorite place to think. She didn't come here when Quidditch matches were going on. Instead she preferred to come on the off days. On the days when there weren't any matches and nobody was practices the court was used for something much more exciting: Broom racing.
A track of magical lights created the oval in the sky around the court. Tracie just loved watching the racers fly around this track at speeds in excess of a hundred and fifty miles an hour. She didn't come to watch the drivers themselves, though some of them weren't bad looking. She came to watch the brooms. Most of them modified Firebolts, or the rare and classical Nimbus. These brooms were modified by magic to improve speed and maneuvering. Some drivers would even shave layers of wood off their brooms to make them lighter.
All of them were repainted in red's, blue's and yellows. The only color that was rare to see was black. Most racers thought it was bad luck to race with the color of the dark lord. Tracie knew her broom would be black as soon as she could afford one. For the last four years she had been working summer jobs in order to save up for a good racing broom. Not having a racing broom wasn't her only problem. In order to race a student had to have a teacher sponsor them. She only wanted one sponsor and that was Snape.
Snape had never sponsored a racer the entire time he had been at Hogwarts. The rumor around the school was that he had been in a tragic racing accident when he was a student. He would never speak of it and neither would anyone that knew him. Tracie knew she could never get him to sponsor her. Dan had offered to get a Ravenclaw teacher to sponsor her but she said no. It would be Snape or no one she thought.
She sat watching the races and trying to imagine what this device could possible be. Looking around the stadium someone caught her eye and gave her an idea. A few benches down and over to her right was Hermione Granger. She rarely if ever talked to or acknowledged the smart girl aside from teasing Dan. Today she decided to talk to Hermione and see how smart she really was. Tracie got up walked over and sat down right next to the brilliant witch.
"Tracie right?" Hermione said with a dumbfounded look on her face.
"Wow, you remember my name." Tracie said slightly surprised since she did her best to be as unknown as possible.
"Of course, your one of Dan's best friends. Did he send you for some reason?" Hermione looked embarrassed.
"Why are you turning red? I thought he was lying when he said you two were dating?" Tracie said.
Turning bright red Hermione burst out "He said what! No of course we aren't dating. And I am red because the humidity and wind chill factor affect the pores on my skin causing..." Tracie just waited for the witch to finish her excuses not really caring anyways. Though she didn't really want Dan to date Hermione. She own that dragon boy and didn't really want someone else to take that away from her.
"I didn't come here to talk to you about Dan, I came here because I need someone smart to help me. I know that someone is going to place something dangerous in the dungeon. Something so dangerous that it might destroy the school. I learned that the item might already be on school grounds but I don't know what it is. I need your help figuring out what it could be. Can you do that?" Tracie asked.
"Oh dear, we should tell Harry!" Hermione went to stand up.
"We can't go to him without more proof, besides you know he's really busy. Besides I bet you could handle this one by yourself." Tracie said trying to think of a way to trick the girl into doing this for herself.
"Your right he is busy, and it wouldn't hurt to do some research first. Come on let's go to my room." Hermione put the book she had been reading in her bag and stood up. Tracie couldn't help but noticed that the book was called Magical Merrymaking. What an odd book title she thought but chose to silently follow Hermione rather than bother asking. She had more important things to do.

Dan and Deidra races up the stair to Gryffindor common room. As they were approaching they saw Hermione entering the door. She wasn't alone. Tracie was with her. Dan and Deidra both looked confused and stopped in their tracks. By the time they had regained their thoughts their target was already through the door. Quickly they followed and entered the common room.
Neither Hermione or Tracie could be seen anywhere. There were a few other students loitering about including Neville.
"Where is Hermione?" Deidra asked a frightened looking Neville.
"She.. I believe she just went up to her room." Neville replied. Deidra didn't want to leave Neville behind but she just knew this was more important. In fact it may have been the most important thing she would ever do. She was determined to stay focused no matter what. Her and Dan turned and made for the stairs to the female Gryffindor dorms. Before they reached the stairs Someone blocked the path.
"Bloody Hell, You really though you could just waltz right up to the girls dorm?" Ron said with a smirk and his wand in hand.
"Graog ratgar." Dan growled angrily.
"Well I can still go up there right." Deidra said thinking of a new option.
"Actually I don't want you up there either, Guilty by asso...associating. Anyways your dorm is elsewhere." Ron said feeling proud of his response.
"Well you can't stop both of us." Deidra said. Dan growled again.
"But I can! And I agree with Ron on this one." Harry said and for the first time ever Dan felt a bit of hatred for the boy. Deidra not wanting to fight harry grabbed Dan by the arm and walked away.
"Sorry we will just wait for her elsewhere. Please tell her we stopped by." Deidra said and winked at Dan. He knew she had a something crazy planned that he couldn't even imagine. She led Dan back over to Neville.
"Gug." Dan sighed.
"Neville you want to be helpful to my education right?" Deidra asked ash she pulled out her wand.
"Not again." Was all he managed before she finished casting her spell. Neville started to violently shake and then he exploded. Not into a bloody mess but rather into a thousand little one inch Neville's. They flew everywhere and were biting and chewing on everything but Deidra and Dan.
"Don't let go of my hand Dan, I am protected from the spell and you will be to as long as you hold on." Deidra said as they ran past the now distracted Ron and Harry and then up the stairs. Halfway up the spiral stair Deidra turned around and cast a second spell. The stair well below filled with a substance that looked oddly like Jell-O. Dan really wanted to lick it but was yanked away before he could try. Moments later they burst into Hermione's room and scaring her halfway to death. Tracie's expression remained as usual.
"We need the book Hermione!" Deidra screamed.
"What book!" Hermione said jumping on her bed.
"The book you found with Dan! Don't let Tracie have the book. She will use it to destroy Hogwarts." Deidra said.
"Garrrrr..." Down growled and looked at Tracie to see if it was true.
"I didn't know it was a book. And don't worry I would have probably evacuated the school first." Tracie said with a smirk.
"I knew it!" Deidra said.
"Gggggrrr." Dan growled in a sad fashion.
"This is ridiculous! She wouldn't destroy the school." Hermione said.
"She just admitted it." Deidra said in protest.
"Deij is right I would." Tracie added.
"No, she couldn't because the book doesn't work that way." Hermione said sitting down and opening the book to show them a few pages that didn't have drawings on it. Everyone crowded around her.
"What does it do then?" Tracie asked.
"Well it teaches you very powerful love spells, however they require two wizards and... Well they also require lot's of... Oh do I really have to say it?" Hermione, very embarrassed looked at then realizing that none of them would figure out what word she was about to say. "... inter... intercourse." she fumbled even more embarrassed.
"So with these spells I can have sex with someone..." Deidra said.
"I could casts spells to get Snape to love me!" Tracie almost seizured.
"GRRRRRRR." Dan said smiling to Hermione. And all three of them grabbed the book and were tugging at it. Hermione just let go not wanting anything to do with this. They all wanted the book for similar but different reasons. Dan However knew how to get the book all to himself. Realizing that he would have to go all out. He looked at the door and shouted.
"Neville is in trouble!" Dan yelled. Deidra didn't even think about the fact that Dan had just spoke human. She didn't even realize that she had let go of the book. All she knew was that her love was in trouble and she flew towards the door. Dan knew he didn't have much time before Deidra realized she had been tricked. He looked at Tracie fighting him for the book.
Dan pulled tight and then let go of the book. Tracie flew back onto Hermione's bed landing flat on her back. The book clutched tightly to her chest. Wasting no time Dan immediately leapt on top of her and lightly pinned her down. She didn't know what he was planning. He leaned in as if he was gonna whisper something to her. He didn't whisper. Instead he kissed her. Right on the lips she was saving for Snape. But in that moment she didn't think of that. All she could think was that her best friend had kissed her. As her emotion took over and she started to shake sinking into one of her seizure she did three things. First she felt really happy, then she realized she would have to kill Dan and then she let go of the book.
Dan grabbed the book and flew off the bed just as Deidra was turning away from the door. He only had one option and that was the window. He spread his wings and leaped right through the glass and out into the open air. As he plummeted to the ground realizing a flaw in his planning he looked back to see Deidra falling right behind him.
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" She yelled as she plummeted behind him.

TRACIE

Tracie stared up at the bunk above her after she recovered from her seizuring, her eyes narrowing as she realized Dan just stole the kiss she was supposed to get from Snape. Normally, any emotion would make her seizure, but something was different about this. It felt like anger, felt like almost joy, but at the same time it felt nothing like that. And then she realized the boy had escaped through the window and quickly looked out of it. "You're not going to get away forever, dragon breath! Remember, I know where you sleep!" she shouted.
She quickly turned away from the window and darted toward the doorway; she had to beat the others back to their room before Deij and Dan returned, then she could hide out and wait for the boy.
Dan managed to land gracefully, beginning to feel rather nervous about what he'd done, but Deidra landed less gracefully. She let out a yelp of pain as she fell onto her rear end before looking to Dan, her eyes narrowing slightly as they caught sight of the book. Oh she needed the book didn't she? Dan gulped nervously before running off, book still clutched to his chest as Deidra followed closely after, pulling out her wand just as Dan followed behind a tree.
She waved her wand, the tree turning into fuzzy toothpicks rather than blowing up as she'd wanted. But either way it did something at least, didn't it? Dan darted off toward the black lake, sliding to a stop just before he'd have run into the water, but Deidra wasn't so lucky as she slid into the water, falling face first with a splash as Dan ran off, deciding to head back to the room, having completely forgotten about Tracie's threat from earlier.
Deidra, on the other hand, fished herself out of the water and trudged toward the castle, pouting a little as she kicked a rock, pausing as she noticed the worm squiggling in the dirt. She squatted down and poked at it before a shadow covered her; she looked up to see Neville. "NEVILLE!" she shouted, jumping to her feet and startling the boy so he fell over. "Sorry…" she muttered. He shook his head, standing up.
"Y-You're wet…" he stuttered, a flush on his face as he awkwardly dug at the ground with his foot. Deidra studied herself a moment, grinning slightly.
"Dan and I were playing chase and… the book!" she shouted, suddenly running passed him. "Sorry Neville! I need to get something!" Neville just stared after her, not sure what to think now.
Dan finally arrived at their room, pausing when he saw a very pissed off looking Tracie with her wand out. She shot him a sinister smirk before waving her wand, muttering something that sounded eerily like 'sectumcrucio'. He felt a horrible pain shoot through his body as he fell to the ground, twitching and bleeding out of every pore of his body.
Trace bent down and grabbed the book, grinning as she watched the boy seizuring in his own blood before frowning. Watching someone else seizure really wasn't as satisfactory as she thought it'd be. "Oh hell…" she muttered, casting the counter curse to heal him before she looked to the book, grinning a little.
And then it was out of her hands and Deidra was jumping out the window shouting 'whee'… again.

DEIDRA

Dan gasped and opened his eyes; now it was his turn to wake up staring at the ceiling. But… he was alive! HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN? He felt himself over to see if he was indeed unscathed… He remembered blood… SO much blood….

He sat up scratching his head and looking around wearily for Tracie but the girl had vanished and, while that was relieving, he still managed to feel some tinges of sentimental emotions towards her. She hadn't killed him! She'd healed him! She must like him more than he thought.

BUT! He had to get that book. His getting laid by a sexy, brunette, teacher's pet that had probably learned much from it depended on it. Though he wasn't sure why… In any case, he leapt to his feet and, seeing the hole in the window, dove out of it.

It was immediately afterwards that he realized that the decision made no sense and he was probably going to die.

Tracie walked purposefully down towards the first floor courtyard, intending fully to hunt Deidra down if the girl was still outside. She would take that book from her if it had to be by force. Well… It had already PROVEN to be by force but now she was going to get serious. Something had occurred to her while up in their tower. As Dan writhed of the floor, it made her wonder what it would feel like to writhe that way sexually. Yes, she'd already made it clear to herself that she would take Snape. She would have to take him if he was never going to take her but it had occurred to her just then that she'd never truly considered how amazing it could be. How powerful merry making could be. Especially if it was Magical Merry Making. Oh yes. She was going to get that book.

But Deidra also had plans for the book.

With it in her hands, she had felt such a surge of ideas! Powerful, powerful ideas…. Ideas more interesting than any she'd had before –well, maybe-. Regardless, Deidra had formed a plan both simple and intricate. A plan that, should it work, would solve the problems of all three of them.

Most importantly though, she would get laid.

So laid would she get.

Well, probably not, Neville wouldn't know the first thing about…. UNLESS…

Deidra took off sprinting from the base of their tower. Tracie would be coming after her by now and she could not allow the girl to get a hold of the book. Especially not now that its purpose was so clear.

She stopped immediately however when she looked up and saw Dan plummeting towards her. "YOU CAN'T FLY? DAN, THAT'S SO NOT COOL!" She whipped out her wand and cast a levitation spell just before the almost-dragon hit the earth. She looked at him in the eye and patted his face. "Dan, I'm keeping this book but you have to trust me. Your genitals will be satisfied when this is over."

She started to take off once more but, seeming to think of something else, she stopped and turned back to Dan who was still suspended in the air, a look of confusion on his face. "I'll leave this here so you have something pleasurable to land on."

She waved her wand and took off running again. When Dan looked down, there was an inflatable bed in the shape of a penis. It had a little smiley face on it.

He raised an eyebrow.

Neville, on the other hand, was not really sure where to be and had stayed by the lake. It had been quite strange to run into Deidra first in the common room and then immediately afterwards by the water. Though she often bombarded him with surprises, usually unpleasant, he was still a bit shocked. More shocking still, however, were the thoughts that held him there. He didn't feel like going anywhere now… Something very shocking had happened to him.

As much as it had caught him off guard, seeing Deidra wet and crawling out of the water, particularly because she was wearing the white shirt and black skirt of their school uniform, had turned him on very much. Her bra was black and lacy… He hadn't expected that. He had been highly relieved when she took off running towards the castle however because… well, had she stayed, she would have been able to see a little more of him as well.

And so he sat by the lake, his legs still crossed subconsciously. He was thinking about her quite a bit now. He'd thought about her sexually before. He could not deny that he wasn't exactly the most masculine boy in the Gryffindor house but he was still a boy and… Though Layne scared the hell out of him sometimes, she was the only girl who seemed to be interested in him. He wasn't always sure how she was interested in him but he'd had these strange dreams recently about her stroking his hair while he slept and occasionally straddling him…

But of course those were just dreams.

…

He crossed his legs again.

Meanwhile, Snape had also remained where he was last left. He sat slumped forward at the desk in his classroom brooding about what his idiotic housling had said to him and how most effectively to punish her for it without arousing her. How dare she tell him such things! She had practically shoved the fact that he needed to get laid down his throat and –Wait, no! He didn't need to get laid. He was above such petty urges- it had truly enraged him this time. What did a pubescent, emotionally-challenged, special-train riding, quiet girl know of such things anyhow? She certainly didn't know him… If she did, she'd know that she wasn't his type at all.

Oh yes, he had once wanted to bone someone.

Her name was Lily… She had been so beautiful… Her long, red hair and curvaceous body…. Her slender legs and plump arse cheeks… Her… curvaceous body…. Her….. Body…. Slender legs… Arse cheeks….. Body…. Legs…. Arse….. Body…..

…

….

Snape snapped upright. "Bloody hell…" He whispered breathlessly. HE ONLY LIKED HER BODY!

It was so shocking to suddenly realize it but it made complete sense! He and she had nothing in common! She was a bloody GRYFFINDOR for Christ's sake. She was NICE to people. That was so ANNOYING! If she hadn't had such a rocking physical appearance, he probably wouldn't have even cared!

He stood up in a flash, knocking his chair over.

All that time he had wanted so badly to plow her that, once she had been lost from him, he had blocked it out completely and replaced his lust with thoughts more romantic and pleasant to remember.

Sweet Merlin, he had been a stiff all these years for nothing!

Well no more!

And with that, Snape strode out of the room.

Hermione, for her part, had, like Neville and Professor Snape, stayed where she had last been seen by the trio. Now that the book on "Magical Merry Making" was gone, she kind of wanted it back… She had only gotten like… one fourth of the way through. She hadn't been able to resist looking through all the pictures but she had only read the beginning bit of the book in detail. There was so much left unlearned… Not that she needed to learn about such things! She was a model student for Merlin's sake! She was far beyond the need for any knowledge so crude and primitive…. But she had gotten so tingly…

She looked around herself consciously and listened hard in case anyone was coming. Just in case, she cast a sound blocking barrier around herself and pulled her covers up over her legs.

Exhaling triumphantly, she held her wand up in front of her and whispered a spell she had learned from the Magical book the night prior. "Vibraticus!"

Had anyone entered the room during the next half hour or so, they would have, if not for the sound barrier, heard a low but powerful buzzing noise and the pathetic moans of someone who had finally found a life.

Still, it also proved that books were good.

The week ahead was going to be an interesting one.

And as Neville headed back to his dorm room, looking about him warily to avoid attention towards the bulge in his pants, he thought about Deidra and how she suddenly appeared different to him despite her spontaneous nature and spastic personality much like how Snape had suddenly started thinking differently about Tracie who, despite not being a red head, did indeed have a very real body and even nice legs and a nice arse and, like other girls, perhaps even like Hermione who was at that moment discovering the ravenous hormones of most normal schoolgirls, was probably quite willing to work with him and his apparently long-laid-dormant needs which, for everyone, needed to taken care of with swift action such as the action Dan was taking to avoid landing on an inflatable penis.

A seed had been planted in Hogwarts and in the morning when the first student entered the dungeon for Potions class and found a highly powerful book lying very obviously open in the middle of the floor there, it was going to bud and flourish into one house and then another.

Hogwarts was going to fall in chaos but whether this chaos would actually destroy the castle was unknown even to Deidra who, at that moment, was leaving Snape's classroom empty handed.

She grinned broadly.