Chapter 12: Diets and Homework Dates
Next morning before breakfast, Harry escorted Ron to the Hospital Wing, much to the exasperated groans from Madame Pomfrey. She slapped a piece of meat over Ron's black eye and then searched for a potion to reduce the swelling. The nurse left the two after giving Ron a nasty smelling dung like potion, muttering to herself, "...first enchanted chess set, then a broken leg, and then an attack in the Department of Mysteries! What's the worst that can happen!?"
"Girls?" Ron muttered as he sighed satisfyingly.
"What class do we have this morning?" Harry said, hoping to get Ron off the subject about crazy girls who had problems going to the loo.
"Herbology and Advanced DADA." Ron cheered up as he said the latter subject. Advanced DADA was the trio's favorite class. But his grin turned to a heavy look of disgust as he eyed the potion he was about to take. "You're serious?" he asked Madame Pomfrey with his eyebrows raised. The school nurse nodded firmly and retreated to her office. Pinching his nose, Ron gulped it down and made quite a face that can scare small children and people with weak hearts.
"I told you shoudn't have done that!" Harry said in annoying singsong voice, just to irk Ron. Grabbing his best friend's arm, he said, "C'mon, let's look for 'mione and get some breakfast," causing Ron to groan loudly. His idea of a peaceful breakfast usually doesn't involve a freshly pissed off Hermione and a slightly healed right eye.
They found her eating already at the Great Hall. She was talking nervously to Parvati (Lavender's still looking for a certain red headed boy) who had that dreamy look again. But as she spotted the real Harry, she pouted and moved away from Hermione.
"Mornin' 'Harry'!" Harry greeted cheerfully. He and Ron, who by the way sat at least two feet away from Hermione, began pulling all the plates of food towards them and stuffed their faces, much to the disgust of Hermione.
"Honestly guys! Pigs can eat cleaner than you!" Hermione snapped irritably. She pulled out her schedule diary from her bag and reviewed it as she mumbled out incoherent time tables. "Let's see...9:00, Arithmancy...I'll kill Harry if he fails another test..." she continued mumbling. "12 to 12:30, meeting with prefects...note to self, wring Ron's neck if he doesn't show up again...3:30, study session with--OH NO!" Harry and Ron looked up from their plates and faced her quizzically.
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"I have a-a...study session on Transfiguration with Draco at 3:30! Hope you're good at Human Tranfiguration, Harry because you're going to need it, or else!" Hermione stated as a matter of factly. Harry spat out the eggs he just inserted in his mouth and looked at her angrily.
"ANOTHER--DATE--WITH--MALFOY!?!?" he screeched. He was about to round up on Hermione when a familiar cool voice touched their ears.
"Did someone mention me?" Draco Malfoy swaggered up to their table and smirked at Harry who now instinctively paled at the very note. "Why Mya! Honey bear! Good morning to you too!" Draco said uncharacteristically cheerful. He kissed Harry at the cheek and sat down next to him. The Gryffindors chose to ignore his presence ever since he and Hermione paired up shortly after September. Draco still has the marks when the whole house heard about their unlikely relationship.
"I hope you're doing well, Mya. Everything ok? No one disgracing you with his or her presence?" Draco said snootily as he bit on to a piece of toast he got from Harry's plate.
"You are," Harry muttered irritably, but it seems Draco did not hear. Then, just for kicks, Harry put on a very sarcastic sweet voice and batted his eyelashes. "I mean, who could be more...handsome than you?" Next to Harry, Ron drank, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and answered Harry's question in a carrying tone.
"Snape?"
With that, he recieved a whack on the head from a sensitive-at-the-moment Hermione.
"OW! What was that for?" He asked indignantly.
"For being an idiot!" Hermione snapped.
"Ok!" (A/N: Amanda show anyone?;p)
Luckily for Harry, Draco had to go back to his table saying something aout unfinished homework. Draco leaned sideways, telling Harry that he wants a kissy from his girlfriend (A/N: I think I'm gonna hurl. I just ate a doughnut!). Harry hesitated but sensing the knowing glare from Hermione, he reluctantly made to give a very short peck and be done with it. Being the suave git he is, Draco turned his head at the last second and instead of the cheek, Harry aimed at the lips.
"See you at 3:30!" Draco smoothly said. He winked rouguishly and sauntered back to the Slytherin table, leaving Harry to puke silently.
"That went well," Hermione said, watching Draco's back. "It could've been worst."
"Yeah," Ron said vaguely. Pulling out a a large paper bag from inside his robes and holding it up, he announced sunnily, "Hey, who wants a frog?"
The bag Ron dropped on to the table was filled with nothing but chocolate frogs. Ron grabbed a pack and began to stuff it in his mouth. Harry reached over for one and was about to eat it when Hermione snatched it away from him.
"Hey Hermione! I was going to eat that!" Harry indignantly said. Hermione just waved the frog on front of his nose.
"You can't eat this!" she said snappishly. Harry raised his eyebrows.
"And why not, may I ask?"
"Because it is sweet and has many calories!" Hermione said in her know-it-all voice. "I am acustomed to eat sweets twice a week!"
"And why is that?" Harry asked, making futile attempts to get back the chocolate frog. Hermione drew herself up.
"Firstly, I want to stay healthy and fit. Second, you do know that my parents are denstists and they say that it is better if I lessen on the sweets if I don't want any cavities without disrupting the rules on the food pyramid..." She went on babbling about healthy eating habits and the causes of too much sweets while Harry banged his head on the table for making her rant endlessly again. Somebody has been reading muggle health books lately...
"In a much simpler sentence than that," Ron cutted in. "She doesn't want to become fat or else Malfoy," he said the name as though it murdered his sense of taste. "Will not like her!" Upon hearing that statement, Hermione stopped talking and stared at Ron incredulously.
"Excuse me?" she huffed angrily. "You think that Malfoy likes me just because I'm not fat!?" How much more of an idiot he can become?
Outside the Great Hall, Hannah Abbot was talking to Draco Malfoy.
"How come you don't like me?" Hannah whined.
"Well," Draco scorned. "It's because one, I already have a girlfriend and two, it's because you're fat!"
Ron shrugged. "Well, I'm just trying to see it from his point of view." Hermione's eyes flashed fire.
"Well, you are so wrong Ron! Draco likes me for what I really am! Whether I am a mug--Harry!" Her tone became a warning to Harry who had tried to sneak away from the heated discussion. She held out her hand and said knowingly, "Cough it up."
Sighing defeatingly, Harry dropped his hand into his pocket and what came out with it was a handful of chocolate frogs. Apparently he tried to sneak some into his pocket. He was about to continue leaving when Hermione "ahemed" loudly. Knowing it was no use pretending any longer he got the other handful of frogs from his other pockets, inside his robes and even his socks and hopefully got away with the others.
"Harry!" Hermione said warningly, already holding up her wand. "I can 'accio' them out for you if you like!" Sitting back down on the bench frustratedly, Harry reached inside his shirt and extracted out a few packs of the familiar chocolate (a/n: use your imaginations whether it was from the top or bottom of the shirt! ;p). He decided not to face her though not before looking at her and her twitching eye. She was about to say something but Harry was spared from answering when the distant bell tolled the signal of classes. Feeling a bit red in the face, he quickly gathered Hermione's heavy bag and made his way out of the hall. With Ron grinning mischievously, the red head said loud enough for only Harry and Hermione to hear him,
"Hey Harry! Got a bit more in there?"
Hermione had enough. Just as Ron was ahead, she aimed her wand and muttered a well said spell. Now thanks to her, Ron's butt grew and swelled thrice its size. The moment it stopped "growing", the students behind them stopped and became dead silent. Using this silence to her advantage, Hermione shook her head and said loudly and clearly for everyone to hear, "Oh Ron, you were always a fat ass!"
Face camouflaging with his hair, Ron did the counter spell for the Engorgio charm and for once, shutted up while the rest of the school laughed and sniggered behind him. He too recieved a nice whack on the head from Harry. The trio fell in line for their History of Magic class and waited to enter. When they did, Hermione slipped her hand inside her robes and produced a chocolate frog as they took their usual seats at the back.
"Hermione, what are you doing?" Harry asked suspiciously as she began to unwrap it.
"Well, it has been a long time since I haven't had one of these," she said, smiling fondly at the piece of confectionery before her. She tauntingly took a bite and closed her eyes, savoring the taste.
"Hey! No fair! I want--no, need one!" Harry said angrily and reached out his hand to grabbed it but to be swatted away.
"I can't have my body to become unfit! But in your body...I can eat anything I want! Then again, chocolate craving does come with mens..." She looked thoughtful for a second then took another bite, teasing poor Harry who couldn't help but become miffed at the actions. He made a quick grab but came to the ground along with Hermione who still clutched the piece of chocolate in the midst of Professor Binns' lecture.
"Is everything alright back there?" Binns' asked wheezily. The whole class turned to the back the moment Harry and Hermione's head popped up from behind the table with nothing-is-wrong-and-we-weren't-fighting-over-a-stupid-chocolate grins and said in unison,
"Yes! Nothing is wrong, professor!"
Then without another word, Binns' raised his notes and droned on, leaving Hermione and Harry to glare at each other.
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3:30 came like a blur, too fast to notice. Harry tried to make all sort of excuses such as "why can't he learn that by himself? Or is it because he can't read?" but to earn more glares from Hermione. In truth, Harry knew quite an amount about Human Tranfsfiguration having to learn them if he ever wanted to become an auror. He subconciously planned that he just teach Malfoy the spell five feet away from him and be done with it. And if he's lucky, Malfoy just might turn into a ferret again if he tries to get any closer.
Harry came back to the common room around eight o' clock, not taking notice of Ron and Hermione who were nestled on the scarlet couches against the fire. He took fast strides to the dorms with his jaws locked tightly. The moment he reached the dorm's bathroom, he brushed his teeth hard, gurgled mouthwash, flossed and spat on the lavatory. Only Hermione can assume what happened.
"Stubborn pig, isn't he?" she said, raising an eyebrow. Harry nodded, trying to force out the flashbacks he was having. Unfortunately for Harry, The Dementress will take you to a flashback!
***FLASHBACK*** (A/N: Yay! First time to do this!)
"Mya!" Draco called out on the school grounds. He was sitting with his head resting on his arms under an oak tree. That was the exact spot where Harry had spotted the unusual couple, um, "dating" without his knowledge and went on a rampage. He hesitantly sat on a spot of grass around five feet away from the blonde boy. But that action only made Malfoy inch closer to Harry who had no choice but to comply.
"Ok, Draco," Harry said hurriedly, hoping to finish in time and get over with it. He was starting to get nervous "Eh...um, Human Transfiguration...yeah...uh, Oh God..." Malfoy sneakily snaked his arm around his rival's waist and made attempts to kiss him.
"Draco, do you mind!?" Harry sounded exasperatingly, slamming his palm on the pages of the textbook. Malfoy is now trying to kiss him on the neck, which only made Harry grind his teeth harder.
"Hm? You do that, I'm busy," Malfoy muttered, still playing with the idea of giving who he thought was his girlfriend a hickey. Harry used up all of his strength and patience in trying to control his temper but too late it finally reached to the surface of his skin. He slammed the textbook on Malfoy's puckers with crosses on his head.
"Listen Draco, we are here to study! And if you try anything else, I might as well give you a demonstration on Human Transfiguration!" Harry tried to say as calmly as possible but his voice kept on rising up whether he liked it or not. This only made Malfoy chuckle lightly.
"Ok, ok! Ever the so serious when it comes to studying Mya!" Malfoy said fondly, trying to give one last kiss but found his nose being poked at with a wand.
"I mean it," Harry couldn't help but growl. Malfoy finally gave up and learned everything Harry had taught him but of course not as detailed like Hermione's usual lectures. Dusk came and Harry slipped the textbook back in his bag, stretching his body as far as possible. But as soon he stood up, he came face to face with Malfoy who wasted no time to kiss his boo (a/n: erm, I-I meant girlfriend!) "see you soon" which only lasted three seconds because Harry slowly pulled out his wand, pointed it at the back of Malfoy's platinum head and when he pushed away, Harry clearly said a spell that no one witnessed.
***END FLASHBACK***(a/n: Yay!)
Harry groaned, not only did he groan beause The Dementress just gave a flashback but because of the lasting image in his head of that "study session". Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he followed Hermione back to the common room. Sighing deeply on front of the fire, he closed his eyes in satisfaction. Until out of nowhere, Hermione spoke up.
"Where's Draco?"
Harry's eyes opened as he struggled for an answer to explain what he had done to him. He landed on the gray area with "um"s and "er"s. Hermione immediately became suspicious and glared deathly at Harry. "What did you do?" she hissed. Harry shifted his eyes gultily which Hermione caught.
"Where is Draco?" Hermione said a bit more steadily. Harry gulped, admitting that he can't hide his crime from Hermione, especially when it's her boyfriend that's involved. Sighing, Harry got up and motioned for Hermione to follow him. She did and Ron dropped his quill and too followed out of curiousity. They were lead to the breezy grounds of the school. Hermione's anger somewhat faded as she treaded behind Harry's heels. Stopping under a tree, Harry pointed dully to a huge lump of earth next to the tree. Hermione couldn't make out the shape until Ron shouted, "Hey! A moose!"
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A/N: IT IZ DOOOOONNEE!!!!!!! So first in all, a advanced very Merry Christmas to you all if I can't make my next chapter before Christmas! God help me that I'll get throught the next one!
*giggle*, a moose is another inside joke between me and my sister! I think I'll make a fic about it one day!
Review! I'll be awaiting them!
small update: D'oh! I forgot to change 'Enchantresses' to Dementress again! Silly me...
another "small" update: Fine, here's my "moose" story!
My sister and I were talking about a fanfic I was planning. It is in the Marauders time and then Lily goes out to the Hogwarts grounds at night and then meets James...in his stag form. So she pets it and notices that the stag is really friendly! Y'know, he nuzzles into her neck, licks her...and then Sirius comes in to the scene. So he rolls his eyes at how "friendly" the stag is. Then (here's the part we laughed!) he says,
"Nice moose you've got there!"
"It's a stag, Sirius. A very friendly moo--stag! Oh great, now you got me doing it!"
The whole story was that he purposely mistakens a stag for a moose and Lily automatically corrects him.
And then we insert that James go "hoooonk!" Well, think Princess Diaries 2 when the hairdresser guy goes, "but a very cute moose! Makes all the boy moose go 'hooonk'!" (I love that movie! ROFLMAO!)
So then when Lily is about to go back inside the castle (James whines) and then Sirius pats the stag on the rear end on what he thinks was comforting.
"Don't worry Evans! I'll take care of your moose here!"
"A stag, Sirius! A stag!"
I guess that's it. Our sense of humor can get very weird sometimes! Watch out for that future fic! I got the plans in my head! This was just a teaser.
Fine! It'll take some time till I update! I'm sorta banned from using my computer (it's really late at night that I'm typing this) because of some...things. I'm so sorry! But good thing I know how to talk my way out of things. I'll find a way! Don't worry!