"So... how do we prove it? That it's Malfoy?" Harry asked darkly.
"There is a way..." Hermione said.
"We'd be breaking roughly fifty school rules," Lucifer said even quieter than usual, and she noticed him glancing over at Emperor Palpatine.
That's who Percy reminded Hermione
of at least, from the movies she'd seen.
"And it's difficult and dangerous... very dangerous..." Hermione continued off his words.
"If, in a month or so, you both feel like explaining, you will let us know, won't you?" Ron asked irritably.
Hermione glared at him, "All right," she said coldly, glaring at him, "What we'd need to do is get inside the Slytherin Common room and ask Malfoy a few questions without him realizing it's us."
"But that's impossible," Harry said as Ron laughed.
"Honestly... Do you both even pay attention to Snape?" Lucifer asked them.
They didn't get to answer, as Hermione spoke up, "It's not impossible. All we'd need would be some Polyjuice Potion."
"What's that," the other two asked at the same time.
Hermione pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head, "Professor Snape said it a few weeks ago in class..."
"D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Potions than listen to Snape?" Ron muttered.
"I swear, how did you even pass...."
"You too Harry, if it wasn't for Lucifer and I, you would still be in First Year!" Hermione was getting fed up with them, very agitated.
Lucifer placed a hand on her shoulder, and her breathing became lighter because of it.
Hermione smiled at him, while thinking the opposite could also be great.
Then, she looked back, "It transforms you into somebody else. Think about it! We could change into four of the Slytherins. No one would know it was us. Malfoy would probably tell us anything. He's probably boasting about it in the Slytherin Common as we speak, if only we could hear him."
"This Polyjuice stuff sounds a bit dodgy to me," Ron said, frowning and looking concerned, "What if we were stuck looking like four of the Slytherins forever?"
"It wears off after a while," Hermione said, waving her hand impatiently, "But getting hold of the recipe will be very difficult. Snape said it was in a book called Moste Potente Potions and it's bound to be in the Restricted Section of the Library."
"It won't be a problem th-"
"No, you won't take the risk of stealing a book again!"
"Look, Hermione I promise, about not getting caug-"
"....I won't budge on this matter. Did you not remember what happened last year, when I was caught by Filch?!" Hermione had several nightmares for days.
Of course, she won't allow Lucifer to risk his place at Hogwarts because of this.
"...Fine, but you know... I actually saw that book back in Diagon Alley, in the far corner of Flourish and Blotts... had I known we'd need it, I'd have bought it," Lucifer said with a heavy sigh.
"It's alright, you didn't know," Hermione smiled at him, not because he didn't have the book.
Actually listening to her advice for once.
There was now only one way to get a book from the Restricted Section for non-Prefect students: You needed a signed note of permission from a teacher.
"Hard to see why we'd want the book, really," Ron said, "if we weren't going to try and make one of the potions."
"I think..." Hermione said slowly, "I think that if we made it sound like we were just interested in the theory... we might stand a chance..."
"Oh, come on, no teacher's going to fall for that," Ron said, not entirely wrong, "They'd have to be really thick..."
After their talk about the Polyjuice Potion, Harry and Ron retired to bed for the night.
Hermione and Lucifer were still awake in the Common Room, "You know... I skimmed through the book back in Flourish and Blotts, and I remember looking at the Polyjuice Potion, but I can't remember what the ingredients were..." he sighed, leaning back into the armchair he was occupying.
Hermione had joined him in it after asking if she could sit next to him, "I can see them in my mind, but I can't make out any words..."
"It's alright, like I said, you didn't know..." Hermione tilted her head and looked at him, noticing how much longer his bangs had gotten since school started.
"Still... it would save us a lot of trouble," he looked at her with a knowing gaze.
"How about you tell me, what were you doing near the wall?' Hermione directly changed Lucifer's topic, she knew very well at this point.
"I missed you, just didn't want to interrupt...."
"You looked like you were in the groove."
"I was only gone for 3 minutes, you can't have missed me that much, right?"
"I can and I did. Now are you going to tell me, or do I have to storm off?!"
"The writing was enchanted to preserve it. I knew it must have been when Filch couldn't clean it off, but it's because there isn't only one enchantment. There's multiple...."
"Go on"
"Right, whoever was casting the spell didn't know how. They had to do it several times...."
"But, why did you trace it?"
"???" Lucifer now stared at Hermione's face, with a question mark, slightly confused.
'Weren't you busy looking at spiders?....How many eyes does she have?'
"...It was also at the same sort of height and about the width of a finger."
"Okay, then someone wrote it on the wall using their hand? Enchanted it afterwards but messed up the spell?'
"A person who's about as tall as us? But it would definitely have to be someone older to control the monster....."
Hermione is now undergone in doing her monologue, just talking to herself out loud.
After completing her research, she suggested to Lucifer, "Maybe it's two people?"
"One controlling the beast, and other writing the messages just to throw people off...."
"Could be....." Lucifer yawned a bit, while using his right palm over his mouth.
"How about you go to bed? You look tired and could probably use some extra sleep," Hermione noticed that Lucifer's eyes have now started to droop.
"Fine, I will, but only if you go up to your room and sleep as well. Just because I'm going to bed now, doesn't mean you get to stay awake," he offered.
"Alright, but only because it's you who asked," she said and he smiled.
They stood up, and Hermione almost hugged him before stopping and pulling back.
But, she suddenly found herself engulfed in his own embrace.
"Goodnight, Hermione," Lucifer whispered.
"Goodnight, Daddy," she whispered back and he let go, going up to his dorm room.
"I will visit you at night...." Hermione said, looking at his disappeared back, then went up to hers, but didn't go to sleep right away.
She pulled out something from underneath her pillow and looked at it on her lap.
It was a Diary she'd gotten over the summer and had immediately filled it up with all of the adventures of First Year.
She flipped through what she'd already written and saw that every time she had mentioned Lucifer, she put a heart or two somewhere near his name.
She flipped to a new page, pulled out the Muggle Pen her Mum had given to her over the summer, and got to writing about the past few days, smiling softly every time she mentioned Lucifer.
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