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! I've fixed the mistake with Ernie being the one Fleur cheats on Harry with, as he is obviously Susan's friend. My mistake, and I'm sorry. So now I'm reposting this!
Wheels in motion
Since next day, we started putting the plan in motion. First thing, I had to feign to not be angry at Fleur, and it came easier than I thought.
That day, at lunch, I met with Parvati, and she spoke to me.
"Hey, Hermione. Fleur asked me to tell you that she tried speaking to him about you, but Harry wanted so much to go back with her, and so they now are together again. You're not angry at her, are you?"
Angry? No, Parvati, I'm just furious at her, and I might Avada Kedavra her, but no, I'm not angry.
"Of course not. I'm happy for them, really" I lied. Seems I was more convincing than I thought, since Parvati smiled, and hugged me.
"Good, because this is from Fleur. She asked me to do this"
Then we walked to our usual table, where Fleur was, with Harry. As soon as she saw us, she started mussing his hair.
"Why don't you keep your hair spiky? You're far sexier this way" she purred. "Hermione, tell him he's sexier this way"
In that precise moment I think I would have liked to have Voldemort's hate to be able to use the Killing Curse. But no, I smiled.
"You're sexier this way" I said, seating in front of him. All lunch she kept flirting with him openly in front of me, and at one moment I got sick of that, so claiming to have an headache I left. Feigning to be ok was a thing, but having to endure that show was another.
That afternoon we met, and she kept complaining about how she was getting acne, so I offered to bring her a potion to eliminate it. She agreed, so I went to see Susan and she gave me that potion for feet that she took from the shop in Hogsmeade.
I brought that to Fleur, and she used it. Can you believe her luck? It worked, and Harry admired the fresh scent coming from her face, that night at dinner.
But that was just the start. Next day Susan snuck in her room, and messed with her clothes, trying to embarrass her. She placed a charm that every five minutes would show her undergarments.
You won't believe it, the day after that all the girls in school were wearing that charm on their clothes.
I was dumbfounded, and discouraged. Seemed like the plan was going to take more than we thought to work. And sincerely I started doubting it would work at all.
However, we kept it going. I discreetly tried to sabotage her, but it was not working. Everything she did or bought became the new trend, so that part of the plan was failing. We decided we needed Parvati's help, although unwilling. She knew the secrets of everyone, and surely Fleur had something to hide too. We just needed to make her spill the beans.
Christmas was nearing, and the Barbie as usual would take part in the talent show held in the Great Hall. They included me, with my great surprise, and we started working on their exhibition every afternoon at Fleur's home, and that brought me to see Susan and Ernie less and less. But we would meet at night, and plan the moves of the next day.
First, it was a tradition that Hogwarts students would send their friends wishes cards for Christmas, before everyone left for their houses for the holidays.
"So, we just need to use these to make Parvati feel less wanted by Fleur, this will bring her to crack" Susan said, but I spotted Fleur coming our way so I told her to go away.
"Why were you talking with Susan Bones?" Fleur asked me disdainfully.
"I dunno, I mean, she came near me, talking about cracking something…she's so strange" I lied.
"Yes, she is. I tell you, once we were even the best of friends, before Hogwarts"
"Really?" I said, feigning shock. Well, it was a shock after all.
"Oh, I know it's unbelievable. However, I started seeing a guy in our first year here, and she started lamenting how I was neglecting her. That was the clue I needed. It was clear she was a lesbian, so I distanced myself from her, and never invited her to my home anymore, especially at parties"
So this is how the rumour about Susan started. Well, no surprise she hates Fleur, I would too if someone said that about me. Probably she just needed her friend, and felt abandoned.
Just at that moment a girl passed by us, and Fleur spoke to her. "Lovely necklace, where have you taken it?"
"Oh, it was my mother's" the other girl said, blushing a little.
"I see. Adorable" Fleur commented, but as soon as the girl left, she whispered to me, "It's the most hideous thing I've ever seen"
So she badmouths people behind their back too. Wonder if she does that with the other Barbie too. It would be interesting to let them know what she really thinks about them…
"So, do you send wish cards at Christmas?" I asked.
"No, but I receive them, so be sure you send one, sweetie" she said leaving.
"Oh, I will, be sure of that. With three of them I will bring Parvati down, and then I'll know what I need to know on you" I thought
And so I did. I sent one to Fleur, and two I feigned coming from Fleur to me and Lavender. You should have seen Parvati's face when the owl brought her nothing that day in class, and me and Lav had our cards from Fleur.
Really, copying her writing was easy. A simple Copying Charm on the Pink Diary did the trick. At times it comes handy to be a nerd, don't you think?
And things got even more interesting when Fleur kept scolding her during our rehearsals of our little show, a ballet on the notes of the Muggle song "Jingle Bell Rock".
But the top of it all was at the talent show.
Fleur, just before we entered the stage, exchanged mine and Parvati's positions, putting me near her and Parvati on the outside of our quartet.
"But I've always been near you!" Parvati whined.
"But since now Hermione here is taller than you, and even more skilled, the tallest and more skilled ones need to be in the centre"
"This will mess up the whole dance! We've tried the movements with me in the middle!"
"You're going to get on my nerves! Now get on your bloody new position!" Fleur snapped.
Finally we entered the stage, and Parvati flicked her wand to let the music start. But it seems the girl was a bit distressed, because her charm vanished at half song, and we stopped in our tracks. Luckily we had tried it so many times, I had learned the words by memory, so I started singing, and we resumed our dancing.
"What a bright time
It's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell, time
Is a swell time
To go glidin' in a
one horse sleigh
Giddy-up, jingle horse
Pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and mingle
In a jinglin' beat
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle bell,
That's the jingle bell rock!"
The crowd in the hall started singing with us, as the song was well known, after all the Barbie had done the same thing since first year, and many were Muggle-Borns too, so our show was saved somehow.
I don't need to tell you that Parvati was almost in tears when it finished, and that Fleur was simply furious with her.
Our scheme to make Parvati reveal Fleur's secrets was going well, if only the captain of the Arithmancy team hadn't come to compliment me on my singing abilities.
Parvati immediately brightened up, and started teasing me, hoping to make me forget Harry. Problem is, she also revealed that I was considering entering the team, and Harry, who had witnessed my not so brilliant results lately in Arithmancy, looked at me raising his eyebrows.
"The team? You hate Arithmancy! You're not even so good at it!" he whispered to me while we all left the Hall.
I said nothing, because telling him the truth would have created only troubles and embarrassment.
However, apart for that little moment, I could be satisfied of how things were going. In the next few days before the Christmas break, Fleur almost put me on a pedestal, over Lavender and Parvati, who, out of the two of them, was the one who suffered the most for that.
She kept whining with me about Fleur's tyranny.
"It's not right what she does. She's just a tyrant. Can you believe that I love silk robes, but I can't wear them because in second year she told me they were something hers, and only she could wear them? And last year my parents got me a really expensive pair of blue silk robes, and I had to tell them I didn't like them, while I would have killed to be able to wear them!" she confided me one day, while we were alone, tears flowing on her cheeks.
I felt bad for her, but it was for the greater good that we were using her in our plan. And it worked, because she started spilling the beans on Fleur.
At first it was nothing useful, like the fact her parents were divorced, and that she had had her nose magically fixed to make it look better. I must admit I did something like that to my teeth in my fourth year at Beauxbatons, so it was nothing so bad or embarrassing.
In the meantime Parvati worked as hard as possible to regain her place in Fleur's graces, although she had complained with me about her tyranny. And I found myself trying to please her too, although keeping my spying and sabotaging plan working.
Because being a Barbie was like being a celebrity. Everyone knew you, everyone admired you, everyone looked at you.
However, with time the secrets Parvati let out became more juicy. And it was bloody time too!
The one we could use came a couple weeks after her outburst about the robes, and it was a real bomb.
"And she cheats on him every Thursday with Roger Davies" she told me while we were chatting about Harry and Fleur.
I smirked, not seen.
That was the chance we were waiting for, now we just needed to make Harry see her cheat on him.
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