OK, this is my first one... I enjoyed writing it. so I hope you also njoy reading it...


watch out with lovepotions

It all started on the day Ginny fell in love with Zymurgy. The first strange thing happened during divination. Ginny was talking with Colin Creevey when they heard something scary. It was Trelawney. She was staring around the way Luna did and she whispered. Wrong love will lead to silence and to a sudden length.. Someone will mess up.. It’ll all happen when someone switches apple juice with beer on the Oktoberfest Professor Trelawney looked around. ‘what happened?’ she asked in her fake mysterious tone. Ginny giggled. She was still laughing when she walked through the corridors. She was still laughing when she was doing Snape’s pile of homework in the library. And she suddenly stopped laughing when she saw a cute boy. She accidentally dropped her book on his foot.
‘hey, watch out!’ the boy called out.
‘O, I’m sorry’ Ginny said softly. ‘my name’s ginny weasley’ She looked at the boys, with his almost evil eyes and his gentle manners.
‘my name’s zymurgy’ he said. ‘nice to meet you’
And from that moment Ginny couldn’think about anything else. But every time she saw him in the corridors he ignored her. Then she heard Snape talk about love potions during potions class. She decided that’d be a good way to get Zymurgy’s love.
Ginny looked into the library and found a book with a love potion in it. It were all basic ingredients except for one: one of the ingredients was apple juice and Ginny had no idea how to get that. She went to the kitchens but the house-elves told her they didn’t have any apple juice. But at that moment Winky appeared with a barrel full of beer,she’d just returned from the Oktoberfest. Ginny saw it and thought it was apple juice. ‘thanks winky’ she said and she walked out. The next problem was where she’d make it. The only place she could think of wass the potions classroom but if Snape discovered…
She went to a house-elve and told him Snape wanted a hair stylist. ‘you could come tomorrow after lunch to his classroom.’ She told him ‘he’s free at that time. And o, before I forget, Snape’s always moody after lunch and he might tell you he doesn’t want his hair styled. But he does, and it’d really cheer him up if you did so. And he’d be very grateful. So don’t forget, tomorrow, after lunch, OK?
She ran out the kitchen and didn’t see Hermione who’d been doing SPEW work in the kitchens. She hadn’t said a word so the house-elves hadn’t seen her and was now investigating how much work they were doing. And then she suddenly heard Ginny instruct a house-elve. Ginny’d been complaining a lot about potions lately and Hermione knew Ginny had potions tommorow after lunch. Ginny was abusing the house-elves! Hermione was so shocked she couldn’t talk all day. ‘is there something wrong, Hermione?’ Ginny asked during dinner, but how could Hermione answer? She was so angry at Ginny. And then a plan started forming in her head.
The next morning hermione was up very early and went to the kitchens. She made sure the few house-elves that were in didn’t notice her. One of the elves was humming and packing a bag with scissors and all oily things for your hair. When the house-elf looked away she grabbed the scissors and changed them with a pair she’d taken out of ginny’s bag, which clearly said ‘weasley’ on the grip. Then she left.
In transfiguration she worked with ron and she suddenly realised Snape’d think it was ron’s joke. And with ron, harry too, of course, and with harry HER! She felt bad about what she’d done. At lunch she couldn’t say a word. She couldn’t tell Ginny what she’d done, because she felt too guilty. And even if she wouldn’t feel that way it’d be impossible. Ginny didn’t turn up all lunch either, because she was too busy collecting basic ingredients. Then hermione decided there was only one thing she could do. She’d have to warn the house-elf. She’d wait in the corridor heading to the potions classroom and warn the house-elf. Unfortunately, everything went different.
Hermione waited in the corridor for hours but the house-elf didn’t turn up. Then she realised house-elves could apparate on some way even in places like hogwarts. She walked to the door of the potions classroom and listened.
‘I told you I didn’t want my hair styled, now get out!’
‘but sir…’
‘no!’ she heard snape scream. ‘get out! Look at this! There’s hardly anyone working! This is a class! Get all back to you work, immediateliy!’
‘but…’
‘I’ll give you some help.’ The next moment hermione saw the door opening and she just had time enough to jump behind it and see Snape walking past pulling a house-elf. She didn’t hesitate when she saw the bag standing at the desk and sneaked in. she got the scissors out of the bag and at the same moment Snape walked in again. Hermione jumped to the wall and pushed flat against it, happy the uniforms were black.
She got down to the back of the class and saw how Snape opened the back and looked in it. Then she saw him look up. One horrible moment he looked in her direction. Then he looked past her and snapped: ‘get back to work you all…’
Hermione sneaked past the wall and into the back of the classroom. She saw how Ginny filled a vial with some purple potion she didn’t recognise. Then Ginny weasley went to the back to empty her cauldron and at the same moment Colin Creevey turned around to put a drooble’s best blowing gum on ginny’s table. He didn’t see the vial because at that moment Ginny slipped it in her bag and put an empty vial at her desk. She opened it and wanted to pour out of her cauldron. ‘o, no’ she said. ‘I think I put my potion away without filling my vial… could you give me some of yours colin? I’ll put some extra spider eggs through it and it’ll be different. Hermione saw immediately there was one thing creevey’s potion really needed… spider’s egg. Ginny’d be able to pretend she just made a perfect potion.
‘Quickly, Snape!’ Creevey whispered about a minute later and ginny quickly started putting her vial back at her table and she quickly put a bottle with some yellow liguid away. Hermione saw the gum still lying there and for some reason she grabbed it and put it in her mouth. This was something between her and Ginny.
Unfortunately, Snape looked at the dark corner she was standing… A bit too long… ‘what are you doing here, miss granger?’ he asked.
‘no..no..nothing’ hermione wanted to stammer, but unfortunately the droobles’s had been lying in a drop of lovepotion without applejuice. On that way anything could fell in love with anything. And this time. Hermione’s voice fell in love with a piece of drooble’s and hermione found she couldn’t say anything.
‘I asked you something, miss Granger’ Snape said and if you’ve ever talked to a drooble’s, they’re very rude. So the drooble’s was saying with hermione’s voice: ‘I asked you something with miss granger?’
‘what is this?’ hermione wanted to cry out loud, but the only thing she could do was move her jaws.
‘yes, a little bit more on that place over there, yeah, lovely!’ the bubblegum called out. ‘no, not over there!’
‘what’s wrong with you?’ Snape asked angrily. He didn’t like being imitated.
‘what’s wrong with you?’ the bubblegum asked.
Ginny was laughing so hard she swung her arm around and hit hermione in the face, who fell back on the floor so that all the breath got pushed out of her lungs and that the bubblegum flew up and fell down on the floor.
‘no, that’s the wrong spot!’ it called out. Snape looked at the gum and realised what was going on. He grabbed the gum and holding it away from his face as far as possible he grabbed a bottle with some liquid from a shelve and put the gum in it.
At that moment the bell rang. ‘this whole class will write an essay about why you can’t eat in a potions classroom. 30 inches at least!’ he called out angrily. And then he turned to hermione. ‘in my office, miss granger.’
Hermione followed Snape, wondering what she could say, untill she realised she couldn’t say anything at all.
‘You may not be able to talk’ Snape said as soon as they were in his office. ‘I assume you can still nod and shake your head?’
Hermione nodded anxiously.
‘so you thought you could eat in the potions classroom, with as result a talking bubblegum?’ Snape asked.
Hermione nodded, glad for ginny that she couldn’t talk, because she’d probably have had something slip about her or creevey.
‘and had your being in the class anything to do with that house-elf?’
hermione nodded. She could always say she’d slipped in when he left with the house-elf. Or, no, she couldn’t, she couldn’t talk.
‘did you send that house-elf?’ Snape asked
Hermione shook her head.
‘but you know who did it?’
hermione waited a while before she decided to shake her head.
‘are you sure?’
hermione nodded
‘so it weren’t your little friends misters potter and weasley?’ Snape asked
Hermione shook her head
‘then could you tell me whose scissors these are?’ he slowly got out a pair of scissors. Hermione felt the scissors burning in her pocket.
‘would you please empty your pockets, miss granger?’ snape demanded
slowly hermione emptied her pockets and got out her wand, a quill, a bag of fred and george’s candy and a pair of scissors saying severuse snape….
‘ah, wouldn’t that be mine?’ Snape asked.
Hermione stared at snape.
‘so. You and your friends decided to make a little joke and you realised you’d left weasley’s scissors in the elf’s bag. And you decided you’d get them back, didn’t you?’
hermione shook her head.
‘whose idea was it?’ snape said, ignoring her shaking. ‘potter’s?’
hermione kept shaking.
‘weasley’s?’
hermione couldn’t do anything else than shaking her head. It had been a weasley, but he’d tell it’d been ron…
‘was it yours?’ hermione could tell snape was surprised.
Hermione decided to nod. It’d been her after all who’d put the scissors in the bag.
‘and you did this all by yourself?’
hermione nodded.
‘then why did you use weasley’s scissors?’
hermione was glad she couldn’t reply.
‘And then you thought: mission accomplished, I deserve some gum.’
Hermione shook her head. Snape ignored it.
At that moment hermione heard a short knock on the door and the next moment Ginny Weasley walked in. ‘professor..’ she stammered. ‘it was me.’
‘I don’t see how.’ Snape said. ‘these could be your scissors, but then they were still in miss Granger’s pocket.’
‘I don’t know either. I have no idea what she was doing in potions class, but the house-elf was my idea. Unfortunately, the only thing he had were kitchen scissors so I borrowed him mine. And then I realised my scissors said weasley. So when you were gone I grabbed them and put them on my desk. And later I realised anyone could see them lying there and I put them in my pocket. But I guess I accidentally put them in hermione’s…’
Hermione stared at Ginny.
Snape nodded slowly. Hermione was afraid he was going to say something like: ‘of course… then what was miss Granger doing over there?’ but instead he said: ‘I’ll make sure you both get expelled. And miss Granger. I’ll make sure you can speak before that and explain me what you were doing over there. You two wait here. I’m going to get professor mcGonagall!’
After a while the two of them were back. Mcgonagall looking furious. ‘I am very disappointed!’ she started. ‘miss Granger, what were you doing over there? Miss Weasley do you think those things are funny?’ After what seemed like an hour professor mcgonagall decided: ‘I’m giving you both detention. And I’m taking 50 points off for both of you!’ Then they left. They still heard Snape and mcGonagall discuss wether they should be expelled or not.
Hermione was surprised at Ginny. Especially when Ginny got in the common room and asked: ‘Harry, could I borrow your cloak?’ She looked at Ginny and wondered what she was going to do.
That night Ginny went out. She realised she had to make surethey wouldn’t be expelled. She searched his office and found a box with very dry biscuits. Then she carefully dropped some love potion on it. In the dark she couldn’t see that the love potion that should be pink had turned from purple to blue…
The next morning Flitwick and Snape both had an hour off and Snape noticed Flitwick walking through the corridor. He remembered he still needed to ask him something about a stirring spell and asked him in. They drank pumpkin juice with dry biscuits and talked about students. Snape got his chance and asked professor Flitwick something about Ginny. ‘she has the talents of the twin, really.’ Flitwick told him and Snape slowly nodded with a smile. ‘she knows perfectly well how to get herself into trouble, but if you could call that a talent…’ he said. Flitwick felt funny after three biscuits and told Snape he was going to class again. Snape studied the gum and came to the conclusion that it was definitely not a potion there was made in his class spilled on the gum. It had to be a love potion or one of the strongest poisons there was. And after a bit more of studying Snape realised it was a love potion. ‘hhm. Now which of the two made it?’ he mumbled. ‘I’m sure miss Granger wouldn’t make a love potion…’
‘erm..’ he heard from the doorway. It was Zymurgy. ‘sorry to interrupt you, professor, but I left my book over here yesterday. Did you find it?’
‘what are you talking about?’ Snape asked absent-mindedly. ‘o, yes’ he said and opened a drawer. ‘why are you always forgetting everything?’ he asked.
‘I’m sorry professor’ Zymurgy said, but he wasn’t sorry at all. He’d heard Ginny’d been in trouble and now he’d heard enough. He smiled and left, making a plan.
Flitwick didn’t feel better all day. He was so dizzy when he was walking to his office he didn’t see the slytherin opening a secret passageway heading to hogsmeade. The next morning he stepped out of bed with the wrong leg. It was way too long. He stared at his body and the few students that weren’t awake yet were woken up by a happy scream of him that could be heard in the whole castle. Nobody ever found out what’d happened to him, but unfortunately he shrank back to his old size in a week time.
Snape found a way to cure Hermione’s silence in a week time, but by then hermione was so used to not talking she wouldn’t open her mouth.
One night Ginny was kidnapped by zymrugy and was blindfolded and taken to an empty classroom. Zymurgy’d lit it with patio lights and candles and he’d put red tablecloths over a few desks. In the middle of it was a plate full of hearth-shaped cookies. They sat down at the table and looked at each other happily. ‘you first’ he whispered to Ginny.
She guggled and grabbed a cookie. She took a little bite of it and another, while Zymurgy told her how much he liked her…. And then turned into a red pigeon for a second.
Zymurgy smiled evily. ‘just kidding!’

this is the dare:
*Flitwick mysteriously wakes up tall (explain how)
* Trelawny makes another (real) prophecy. Make it up.
* Ginny risks expulsion by brewing a love potion to use for her own gain.
* Hermione can't speak for the whole fic, but must be a main character.
* Make plausible use of the following: Zymurgy, Oktoberfest, patio lanterns, talking bubblegum, Snape's hair stylist, apple juice.