Daily prophet shenanigans
Hermione:
Ever since that stupid Rita Skeeter, there have been numerous rumors surrounding her and Harry. The rumors were quite lustful if Hermione did say so herself(and she did multiple times with Susan Bones and Hannah Abbott)The only thing that happened to make Hermione Smile was when she was with Ron and Harry or when she made eye contact with Pansy Parkinson. It was oddly entertaining to see Parkinson smile and gaze at her at her in the hallways she didn’t notice Parkinson took that path to get to class. Hermione noticed that Parkinson became a lot less intimidating to her and a lot of people noticed that Hermione and Parkinson had some sort of weird atmosphere anytime they were close together.
One example is when Hermione was helping Ron with his charms homework in the library and Parkinson happened to visit the library to help Blaise with his transfiguration homework. Parkinson made eye contact with Hermione and the only thing that could get them away from each other was to-
“Hermione!” Ron said.
He was snapping his fingers in her ears and Blaise was doing that exact thing to Parkinson.
“What?oh, I’m sorry Ron.”Hermione finally said after 3 minutes of just staring at Parkinson.
“You better!”Ron snapped rolling his eyes but smiled when he saw Zabini glance at him.
Pansy:
Jeez. She thought. She had been enjoying her time staring at Hermione until Blaise the Gay had to snap his fingers in her ears.
“hey!” Pansy exclaimed glaring at Blaise.
“What!You were supposed to be helping me with my transfiguration homework, instead you find some bushy haired girl and stare at her!” Blaise practically shouted,but was shushed by the librarian.
“I didn’t even do anything you prat.” Pansy said sternly.
“We haven’t even found a seat yet, Pansy!” Blaise continued complaining.
However, he finally stopped when he heard Ron Weasley saying something irrelevant and he stopped to stare at him, backing away once Weasley caught him in his trance.
“Oh Salazar, you’re hopeless.” Pansy said matter-of-factly and left Blaise behind to find a seat in the corner.
Once they found a spot Pansy helped Blaise with transfiguration.
Granger and Weasley left which made both Pansy’s and Blaise’s hearts sad. But they persevered into finishing their work.
After about 4 hours of work the duo of slytherins left to conspire with Draco.
“Salazar’s beard!” Draco whined.
“Where have you guys been!” He complained.
“We happened to cross paths with Granger and weaselbee at the library Draconian.” Pansy said obviously annoyed.
Blaise rolled his eyes. Draco was evidently annoyed but let it slide.
“Anywho, we need to figure out a plan to ask out Potter!” Draco gasped.
“Merlin,Draco. We’ve been over this!” Pansy exclaimed.
“You just TALK to him!”,”It’s really not that hard.”Pansy explained over and over again apparently.
Blaise groaned in frustration. Draco was pacing back and forth—Pansy and Blaise watching stupidly.
“You slimey git!” Blaise uttered.
“9.9/10, Potter fancies you as well.” Pansy dismissed while walking to girls dorm. Draco didn’t bother stopping her as Blaise was making an annoyed impression towards her.
While in the dorm, Pansy thought an awful lot bout Granger. Would her and Granger become friends? She would hope so after all her efforts.
Astoria and Millicent were painting each other’s nails while Daphne was already asleep.
“Care to join Pansy?” Astoria asked lightheartedly.
“Nope, not today I’m afraid. Big day tomorrow.” Pansy finalized getting tucked into bed.
“I bet, the potions test and Charms test is tomorrow.” Astoria reminded.
“Yes,yes, of course.” Pansy voiced with ease.
She was in deep trouble. She had no prior knowledge to there being a test! Not the fact that there were gonna be two tests!? In the subjects she hated most?! She hadn’t even studied! Tomorrow was going to be a tiring day for sure.
What time was it?Pansy could’ve sworn she just fell asleep. But she heard a knock on her window, so she went to see what it was. Pecking the glass wildly was a fat owl with an envelope attached to it. Pansy opened the window letting the poor owl through also feeding the owl some crackers she hid in her drawers. Carefully she grabbed the letter and read it through.
Dear Pansy, we had been educated recently about your little lads, Malfoy’s son and Zabini’s son. We encourage you to stop full contact with them and disassociate with them. It’ll be easier as the Parkinson family is already neutral in conflicts and having our daughter be involved with such children would be appalling. Especially stay away from Malfoy boy, Juniper Zabini is very unpredictable and u assume her son would be too.
—Sincerely,Mother;Edwina Parkinson
“Pansy?”Draco said worriedly.
“Yes?”Pansy replied.
“You look unsettled.” He noted. Pansy look at him in offense. But he was right. Pansy did look horrible, her hair was frizzy with random strands covering her eyes, not to mention her eye bags were heavy, and her face was dreary.
“I expect so!Not everyone can-can get up in the morning and do their whole routine with a naught of worry!Perfect little wonderbug!” Pansy snapped uncontrollably.
“Well,Pansy. I didn’t expect you to get all worked up like that.” Draco said softly avoiding eye contact.
She soon became overwhelmed with guilt.
why had she acted out?
She observed Draco’s face making sure she didn’t say anything to actually hurt him. She knew he was under loads of pressure from his parents to be the greatest, yet she still said that.
Whatever she does, she cannot tell Blaise nor Draco about the letter.
“I-I know. It’s just I’m having a hard time keeping control of things.” Pansy rustled her hair making it much more messier.
“We should head to breakfast,Blaise is probably waiting for us.” Draco concluded pointing towards the entrance to the dungeons.
“Just go on without me, I need to get fixed up.”Pansy ignored Draco’s complaints and shooed him off.
Looking in the bathroom mirror,all she could see was her. But it wasn’t her. It was someone else,someone else who had frizzy hair,heavy eye bags, and a droopy face.
She was angry.
She ignored it and continued to redo her hair. She put her hair in a messy bun and washed her faces out looked less dead.
Hermione:
Ron and Harry were arguing about some stupid quidditch strategy and stuff like that.i never did see Quidditch as something people were passionate about. Yes, the Weasley’s, Oliver Wood, Ron, Harry, the whole Gryffindor house was obsessed with Quidditch and stress I was surrounded by all.
“Hermione!”Ron pleaded.
“Please handle this mad bloke!” Ron pleaded again but this time leaning closer towards her(She was sitting opposite ways of them)
“Don’t listen to him,Hermione!”Harry added.
“What!?”Hermione exclaimed in surprise.
“Goodness why can’t you two take anything seriously?”Ginny exclaimed with a load of chicken in her mouth.
“Oh piss off Ginerva!”Ron snapped.
“Hey!Don’t call me that!I am not a grandma!” Ginny replied annoyed.
“I have to study.The potions and Charms test is today.” Hermione rushed quickly leaving before things escalated.
As she walked to the library she saw a certain Black haired girl—Parkinson look distressed, her hair was in a messy bun and her eyes were heavily bagged.
“Oh,Parkinson?”Hermione asked cautiously.
“Granger?what’re you doing here?it’s breakfast is it not?” Parkinson questioned rather protectively.
“Oh—I was heading to the library to get some extra studying in before the two tests.”Hermione muttered in a way only Parkinson could hear.
“Oh great!I hadn’t gotten much time to study.would you mind if u studied with you for the time being?”Parkinson uttered.
“Why,yes!of course.”Hermione beamed.
at the library
“I’ve picked out some books I think would help,and I’ve got parchment to take notes in.” Hermione finished in a rush,there was only 30 minutes of breakfast left before 1st class.
“Fantastic.”Pansy replied grabbing one of the books.
Hermione sat next to Pansy and read the book closest to her.
The silence was big and strong,however it wasn’t anything unusual. The silence was peaceful and they enjoyed each other’s time.
“Psst.”Pansy—Parkinson signaled to Hermione.
“Hmm?”Hermione hummed taking her eyes off her book staring directly into Parkinson’s face.
“Look there.”Parkinson muttered pointing toward the bookshelf near the restricted area.
And there stood Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter.Shagging?
It looked like it. Harry had Malfoy up against the wall and they were in such close proximity their lips almost touched—of course Parkinson and Hermione assumed the latter.
“Well, can’t believe saint Potter is shagging with my best mate!” Parkinson almost exclaimed if it weren’t for Hermione giving her a glare to not shout.
“Wow, next time you see Malfoy i expect to hear a lot of teasing.”Hermione snickered with Parkinson.
The bell for 1st class had rung and Parkinson and Hermione had went their separate ways.
—a couple weeks after that encounter —
“What that behind you Hermione?” Ginny asked with pudding in her hands.(It was breakfast)She was sitting next to Hermione who was across from Ron and Harry.
“What?”said Hermione before a fat owl pecked a her head.
“Ow!what the-“ Hermione exclaimed as the owl dropped the daily prophet newspaper and flew away.
“Blimey,Hermione!”Dean called pointing to the newspaper.
“What?” Hermione questioned
“IS THAT HARRY AND MALFOY SNOGGING!?” Seamus cried out gobsmacked.
The whole Gryffindor table turned towards the trio with faces full of shock and excitement.
“Pardon?”Harry says confused while Ron was giggling.
Hermione handed Harry the newspaper after quickly skimming it.
There it read…
DRACO MALFOY AND HARRY POTTER CAUGHT DOING THE UNHOLY IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY!!!
Written by RitaSkeeter
Just 2 weeks ago Harry Potter and
Draco Malfoywas caught in the library at hogwarts being in an oddly close proximity! Specters say that Draco Malfoy has been getting lovingly close with Harry Potter! The anonymous source states,
”We were just having a laugh then I turn and see Draco Malfoy shagging Harry Potter!”
It’s a turn of events! The so-called enemies for eternity are actually more than enemies!
Could this interesting pair be an actuality or another chinwag?