Disclaimer: No, this is not my own. JK Rowling owns Harry Potter. And HBP shows it.
A/N: I saw this movie, "Mean Girls" and I immediately got this plot bunny in my head. So, here I am, hope you will enjoy it. Please, if you read, leave me a review, ok? Thanks!
Spying and Heartbreak
Next day, at lunch, I met again with the Barbie, wearing a pink shirt that Ernie had given me. Now, you could see it wasn't mine, as it was twice my size, and I am ready to bet Fleur and the others didn't like it very much. But they said nothing, so we just sat at the same table, picking up what we wanted to eat.
At a certain point, Fleur started lamenting that the food was going to make her fat, and excused herself from the table.
Parvati then approached me.
"So, we're introducing you in the basic rules of teenage girls. One thing you need to know is that maybe you could think you like something or someone, but in reality you don't" she said underlining the last part of the sentence. "Now, have you laid your eyes on someone already?"
I thought a bit, and the Arithmancy lesson of that morning came back to my mind.
I was there sitting at my desk, while Professor Vector lectured, and suddenly the boy seated in front of me turned to ask me a quill, since his own had broken. I gave him my spare one, mesmerized by his green eyes.
"So handsome" I muttered under my breath. Or, I thought I did, but clearly I said it out loud, because everyone turned toward me. I covered my slip resolving the equation the Professor ahd been explaining, but I felt his gaze lingering on me. Later I learned his name.
"Harry Potter" I answered. Both Parvati and Lavender gasped, looking at me horrified.
"Oh, no! You can't like Harry Potter! He is Fleur's ex, and the ex boyfriends are off-limits for friends! They were together one year, then he dumped her…" Parvati explained, just to be interrupted by Lavender.
"Wasn't she who dumped him?"
"Whatever. Fact is, you can't like him. But be sure, I won't say a thing to Fleur, your secret is safe with me" Parvati concluded just before the part Veela came back.
So that afternoon I found myself looking at the Quidditch team practicing, Harry being one of them, and my eyes were trained on him. I waved at him, when he flied near the stands, and he stopped to wave back. Just at that moment…
"Hey, sweetie, we're going shopping! Come with us!" Fleur called to me.
I looked back and forth between him and them then moved to go with my new "friends".
We walked to the village, and started window-shopping.
"First, you must know that one doesn't buy a thing without her friends approving it" Fleur instructed me. I nodded, and looking around I noticed Susan working in one shop. I winked at her, and she smiled at me.
You may wonder where the studious nerd was, and I honestly dunno. The few days in Hogwarts were already changing me, maybe it was finally my being a teenage witch catching up with me and pushing me to act like most witches my age, or it was my need to have friends…fact is, I studied the minimum I had to for not failing, and the rest of the time I hanged around with the Barbie. Or Susan and Ernie.
So, roaming in the village, suddenly Parvati gasped. "Seamus! He's with another girl!"
Fleur glared at the boy, and extracted a tiny owl and a piece of parchment from her purse. She quickly scribbled a note, and the owl fled to deliver it.
"Soon she won't date anyone" the girl smirked.
"What was that?" I asked.
"Well, few people have it. It's a little owl for quick messaging, in case you don't have a normal owl ready"
"And you keep it in your purse?" I asked.
"Yes, of course. It's been charmed to not suffer from that" Lavender explained. So we continued our tour, then Fleur took a piece of paper and charmed it as a Portkey. We all grabbed on it, and in few moments, after feeling the usual tug at our navels, we landed in the Delacour estate.
It was a big manor, and Fleur's mother came to receive us.
"Hi, sweeties. Can I prepare something for you?"
"Mum, please leave us alone" Fleur said, walking away. Parvati presented me.
"Mrs. Delacour, she's Hermione Granger"
"Welcome in our house, dear. Whatever you need, ask me. I'm not a normal mother, I'm the coolest mother around!" she squealed, and then left while we walked to Fleur's room.
"Hi Gab" she said to a young blonde girl swaying in front of the wireless.
"Hi Fle" the girl replied without even looking at us.
"She's Fleur's little sister, Gabrielle" Parvati whispered to me.
Then we reached Fleur's room, and I remained open-mouthed at the greatness of it. It was pure luxury, and I kept looking around.
"Is this your room?" I finally asked.
"Yes. It was my parents' but I convinced them to switch" she said, putting the wireless on. "You know who plays this song?"
I thought, but I knew nothing about music. "I dunno" I said, shaking my head.
"It's of the Weird Sisters. Merlin, I love her. She's so innocent" Fleur said, smiling at me. Then they started comparing their bodies in front of the mirror.
"I really need to lose a stone" the blonde said.
"I've got acne" Lav commented looking at her face.
"I really need to do something for my hair" Parvati ended. I wondered how could so many things be wrong in a body, but to not feel different I said, "this morning I had bad breath". They all looked at me like I was an alien.
"Oh, look at this. It's been ages since we used it" Lavender said, taking a pink book from the shelves.
"This, Hermione, is the Pink Diary" Parvati explained me. "Here we write the rumours on anyone in the school. Well, on the girls, anyhow"
We looked at it, and I spotted a page on Susan, and the rumour on her being a lesbian. So that was what she had stopped Ernie from saying that day.
Finally the afternoon at Fleur's home ended and we went back to the school. There I met with Susan and Ernie, the two of them were really inseparable, and I told them about what we did.
"What's written on the diary about me?" she asked.
"Nothing. You're not there" I lied.
"That cow" Susan muttered. It was clear it had been Fleur who had started the rumour.
"However, I can't do it anymore. I can't spy on them, nor I can steal the diary" I said.
"Listen, Hermione, there is people who does bad things, and people who doesn't stop the others who do bad things" Susan said, snatching a bottle from Ernie's hands. It was a potion for sore feet, that she had taken from the shop she worked in.
I were still doubtful.
"Come on, she will never know it. This will be our little secret"
So in the end I agreed to continue spying on the Barbie, and Fleur more than the others. My heart missed a beat though when next day at breakfast I got an owl from Fleur telling me she knew my secret. Luckily it was just Parvati who had told her about Harry. Now, she had promised not to, but I managed to not be angry at her. Fleur even offered to talk to him about me top help me hook up with him, and I, ingenuous as I was, accepted. Later I would discover what that really meant.
So even if I was theoretically not allowed to like him, I kept looking at Harry every moment I could, and that was lots of time since he was in front of me in the Arithmancy class, and I invented reasons to talk to him. Unluckily, the captain of the Arithmancy team and Professor Vector often interrupted every possible contact with him, proposing me to join the team in the next tournament against Salem.
On one side I wanted to, I adored Arithmancy, on the other side everyone kept telling me it was a social suicide. So, for the moment I couldn't. I had to hang around with the Barbie to spy on them…
At Halloween, however, Harry turned to speak to me in class. "You know, tonight there's a party at the village, in the Three Broomsticks. I would like for you to come" he said, smiling.
I almost fainted seeing him smile at me. However I managed to find my voice, and answered.
"I'll be there"
He nodded and still smiling left. Then I ran to prepare a mask for the party. In the whole world at Halloween one dresses with strange costumes, and usually frightening ones. Well, for girls it wasn't that way.
Halloween parties are for them the chance to dress like whores and no one can say a thing. Problem was, no one told me about this rule, so I showed up dressed as scary as I could.
I reached Parvati and Lavender, and was immediately made aware than my costume was a bit wrong. However, we chatted, and Lavender kept drooling over some boy.
"Come on, Lav, you can't. He's your cousin!"
"First grade cousin. There are cousins, first grade cousins, and so on…"
"No my dear, it isn't that way" Parvati said. However in the end she walked to him to make her move all the same. At that point Harry showed up.
"I see you came. And you are…a vampire bride"
"No, a dead wife" I said.
"Oh, ok. I'll go take something to drink for you, ok?"
"Thanks" I said smiling as much as the costume allowed me. I followed him with my eyes, and noticed him being stopped by Fleur. They started chatting, and I was glad she remembered to talk with him about me. I assumed she was doing that because now and then they would turn my way.
However I was mistaken. Maybe she was really talking about me, but not in good way. And she ended it kissing him.
I couldn't be there anymore, and so I left. Crying, I reached the castle, where I scared to death Susan and Ernie, along with many other students too.
Once they regained their breath, I explained the situation.
"The bitch" Susan commented. "Listen, we need a plan. This is what we will do. We will bring her down, she's nothing but a tyrant. And how can you bring down a tyrant? We need to cancel her "popular consent". She now has an hot body, an army of silly girls idolizing her, and a stupid hot guy, sorry, but he is that, Hermione"
I nodded.
In the end, we agreed to work on this plan to bring her down. I could now see why Susan hated her so much, and I would do my best to see her in the dirt.
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