Chapter 5
"Fred! George!", Ron called to his older brothers to catch up with both of them in the hallway, Harry right behind him. "You need to tell us who Hermione's crush is!" They turned around, identically annoyed expressions on identical faces. "No, we don't. You are going to find out when the potion kicks in and not a minute sooner, not from us." "Yeah, about that", Ron said, "why isn't it doing anything?"
"The thing with love potions", George explained, "is that once taken, they all only last for a few hours, so that many of them expire before the consumer and the mark ever even meet each other." "We thought it would be a good idea to include a trigger, so that the potion is only activated when consumer and mark are actually together, to create a maximum effect with a single product, you see", Fred finished.
"Great, so what's the trigger?", Harry asked, watching the twins having an entire silent conversation with each other before turning back to him and Ron. "A look", they said eventually, "a look is all it takes."
"So Hermione hasn't looked at her crush yet?", Ron asked, baffled. "Your intelligence outshines even the most brightly polished of tea spoons", Fred commented sardonically, while George amended "it does take a few seconds, a locking of the eyes on both parts. Just looking at the person is not enough." "So when will Hermione lock eyes with her crush?", Harry asked pragmatically. "That depends...", the twins said, "on what your classes for the rest of the day are." Harry and Ron showed them their time tables.
"Congratulations, the dormant dose of Dreamshade we measured for a tall boy is going to wake up alive and kicking in a small girl in ten minutes."