For Cass, as a pre-round challenge to the fourth year of the Houses Competition. Hermione Granger. In a magical, mildly AU where Hermione, Luna, and Ginny are all in the same year. And Hogwarts has a prom.
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Hermione Granger. Hi, yeah, that's me. Bookworm. Bushy-haired. Ballsy, or so I have been told.
Usually the one to hang around with guys more than girls, and mostly because other girls and I just don't get along. And yet, here I am. Trying on prom dresses with Ginny and Luna, feeling slightly ridiculous but very pretty. Like a princess. And I hate that I love it. Floating chiffon, streaming silk, shuffling across the floor in heels provided by the annoyingly annoyed shop assistant (though I doubt she can help it, retail is hard work).
The other two are jabbering on about their dates, but all I can think about is my parents. Should I have taken the spell off them for this? Because, while they may not be able to understand Transfiguration homework, or Wand Law, or even something like Potions (which is the nearest to their professions, having been trained medically), they understand a prom. A prom where muggle dresses are allowed, and the gowns don't have to be wizardly, like at the Yule Ball.
Molly is great. Arthur is lovely. But I miss them. Can't help it.
I'm afraid that if I take the memory charm off, it will ruin things, and I will have done something completely irreversible. Though it is known that I'm pretty good with spells, what if I've done something wrong? What if something was ever so slightly off when I first tried the incantation? And I made a teeny mistake that means that removal of the spell results in something totally terrible happening.
Anyway. I'm spiralling. Shouldn't let that happen.
For now, I'm just gonna shhhh and wear the pretty dresses. I'll think about my parents tomorrow.
Seems healthy.
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Thanks for reading!
