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Written for the February Event (My Love) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Prompt: "Why's the tele unplugged with a note on the front saying 'turn me on instead'?" (dialogue)

Pairing: Hermione/Cormac

Gringotts: Pairing: Same Gen Het – Hermione/Cormac; Noun – Remote Control, Button, Episode, Socket, Note, Bottle, Dresser, Corridor; Adjectives – Fresh, Sticky, Arrogant, Smug, Small, Blue, Naked, Narrow; Verbs – Turn, Skip, Wink; Homophones – Know; Homographs – Read; Compound Words – Bedroom

Word Count: 362

Turn Me On

She closed the door behind her and picked up the remote control, and pressed the on button.

When the television wouldn't turn on she pressed it again and again and again.

"Why won't you turn on?" she fumed, nearly throwing it across the room.

Instead, she reined in her misplaced anger, and unclipped the back of the remote to find that someone had removed the batteries. Hermione stood up and made her way into the kitchen and opened a fresh packet of AA batteries. She placed two new ones in the remote, and settled back down on the couch, looking forward to catching up on the latest episode of The Tudors and silently critiquing some of the choices the writers and producers had made.

She aimed the remote at the television and once again pressed the on button, and was more than annoyed when it didn't turn on.

It was then that her eyes fell on the plug lying neatly next to the socket and then sticky note attached to the top of the television that read:

Turn me on instead

C x

Why that arrogant little so and so, Hermione thought to herself as she walked down the narrow corridor that led to their bedroom. He knew how long she had been waiting to finally have a few hours to catch up on the tv series.

"Why's the tele unplugged with a note on the front saying 'turn me on instead'?" Hermione quizzed as she stepped through the bedroom door to find Cormac McLaggen lying on the bed, naked as the day he was born, with his arms resting behind his head and a smug grin on his face.

"I think you know why," he smirked. "So why don't we skip the arguing so you can come and join me like we both know you will eventually."

Hermione smiled at her sometimes lover, walked over to the dresser, and pulled out a small blue bottle and tossed it to him

"Use this, and maybe I'll join you later," she said with a wink.

"Oh Hermione, come on, don't make me take care of this on my own," Cormac called after her.

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