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"What? No! That was...I didn't mean..."
I give my best evil laugh and make my voice gravelly. "Yes...yes! Embrace your feminine wiles, temptress. Soon every male in this school shall be as putty in your delicate hands!" My evil laugh grows eviler.
"What have you done to me?" Hermione laments, face dropping into her hands.
"Hermione, you couldn't be evil if you tried," Harry says with a smile, shaking his head at my antics.
She tilts her head, peering out at Harry with a single eye. "Trying reverse psychology on me now, Harry?"
"Maybe," he says with a smile. "No, I'm being honest, there isn't an evil bone in your body."
She lifts her head and smiles thankfully at him, giving him a shy little nudge.
"Despite Harry ruining my fun by being serious, I have to agree. Anybody who's really close to you couldn't possibly go Dark," I say, "you wouldn't let them."
"How do we explain this to you, then?" she asks, eyes twinkling.
"Oh ho ho!" I say, and the three of us have a good laugh. "So you admit that I'm close to you, then?"
She blushes a bit. "You know you are, William. I can't imagine why you would think otherwise. You've done so much for us this year."
"I don't know how we got along without you, mate," Harry says.
"Oh I'm sure you would have bumbled your way through somehow," I say with a knowing smirk. That morphs into a big grin. "I knew you guys would finally admit your love for me. You just couldn't help it, could you?"
"Ugh, you just had to ruin the moment," Hermione says, making a face.
"Hey, that's what I do. I'm the Moment Ruiner."
"An apt moniker if I've ever heard one...that describes you perfectly," Hermione says with a laugh. "What's my nickname?"
"Wily Seductress," I say without hesitation.
Hermione smacks her forehead. "I walked right into that one."
"You know," Harry says, "you're going to have a hand-shaped indent on your forehead before too long."
"I wonder who's fault that is," she says with a mock glare.
"All in a day's work for...the Moment Ruiner!" I announce in my best superhero voice.
"I think our moments are well and truly ruined, sir," Harry says.
"Excellent! My work here is done."
"Yes, aren't you supposed to see about ruining someone else's moments right about now?" Hermione asks.
"Oh yeah!" I scan the Slytherin table and find Daphne sitting within my line of sight over Harry's outside shoulder.
Sure enough, a moment later her eyes flicker over to me and she does a double take at finally getting my attention. I feel a little bad for not looking earlier. She holds up the sheet of parchment, and I bring out mine along with a quill.
I don't see her wand perform the switching spell, but sure enough, I'm left holding a blank parchment. I see her bend over the parchment and scratch out a message in a matter of seconds, and the papers switch again.
Under her last message, the same neat script forms another message.
After dinner? - D
My smile widens, and I write back.
Stairs outside Great Hall, seventh floor landing. Alone? - Lerner
A pair of switching spells later I have an answer.
Alone. Ten minutes. - D
"I don't like this," Hermione says uncertainly. "What if it's a trap?"
"I agree," Harry says.
"What would they want to trap me for? It's you they don't like, Harry," I argue.
"Maybe that was true before you essentially insulted the entire group of Fourth Year Slytherins, William," Hermione says.
"Oh."
"Yes, oh," Hermione scolds, crossing her arms. "I don't think you should go."
"How about you guys grab the Map, and watch out for me that way. They won't kill me, so just run to a Professor if a bunch of them show up. I can probably handle them if it's just Malfoy and his trolls. I wouldn't be worried if she had a couple of her friends hovering nearby just to make sure she's safe. In fact, I would be surprised if she didn't take that precaution."
"I think she's friends with Tracey Davis and Blaise Zabini," Hermione says.
"Well there you go, if it's just them, I'm sure I'll be fine." I give her a mischievous grin. "If not I've always got incendios grata..."
"William Arthur Lerner don't make me bludgeon you from across this table," Hermione warns.
"Arthur?"
"I didn't know your middle name except for the initial so I guessed," she says with a shrug.
"Well keep trying, I look forward to hearing what you come up with."
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"Don't try anything funny," a cold and surprisingly deep feminine voice orders.
I turn my head toward the top of the last flight of stairs to find ice-blue eyes narrowed and trained on me.
"Good evening Ms. Greengrass. Do you mind if I come up to the corridor first? I don't fancy getting cursed and falling down the stairs."
"A wizard would not die from such a fall, and I saw how fast you put up that Shield Charm."
"All the same, I'd rather not chance it." I don't mention that I'm not holding any magic, so she could definitely hit me with whatever she wants.
She glides out of sight and I make my way up. In my peripheral vision I see her still pointing her wand at me, but I stand a good half foot taller than her, so she's not quite as imposing. Instead of turning to her, I go to Luna's window. "It's a beautiful view, is it not?"
She ignores my question. "Why did you want to speak with me?"
I sigh. I should have guessed Luna's trick wouldn't work. "I saw you watching outside the Potions lab. I saw that you either weren't wearing the badge or you took it off before your classmates did. So I wanted to meet you."
"You're a Gryffindor."
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