Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN HP!
AN: Oh…whoops! I didn't update for a lo-o-o-o-o-o-ong time. Alas, it is here! R/R!
Cho made a disbelieving noise that sounded like a cow and an angry cat. Marietta did the same, except hers sounded more like the cow. How did the two original Luna and Hermione get here? Who helped them out of the closet! Cho stared at the two, and she smiled a little. How are they going to convince Harry and Ron that they are real anyway?
Ron dropped his biscuit and tomato on the floor, his jaw literally dropping on it. Harry gaped at the two as he pushed his glasses up as if he was seeing things. Neville pointed at the two and looked really confused. As for Ginny, she sat down on the couch, looking back and forth between the pair of Lunas and Hermiones.
"What the bloody hell…" Ron started, but couldn't finish. He didn't know what he should say.
Hermione pointed at Marietta and Ron. She looked as if she was about to burst. Her finger was trembling. "You! Get away from Ron!" Hermione declared as she walked closer to Marietta.
Cho looked horrified. What if Marietta does something unrelated?
But luckily, Cho's voice returned to the tips of her tongue and said, "Why should she…Marietta?"
Hermione stopped. Her eyes looked at Cho, then back at Marietta. How dare they…how dare they call her Marietta! That sneak! That…that…
Ron looked at Hermione. "Marietta!" he asked.
"No-no-no-no-no! I'm not Marietta…oh honestly Ron…"
"Doesn't sound like Marietta," Ron concluded.
"But it is! I saw her drink some potion…the one that makes you turn into another person…" Marietta accused. Ron and Harry looked at Marietta. There's no way Hermione wouldn't know the name of the potion, especially since she got turned into a cat!
"What do you mean?" Ron asked, trying to play stupid, in case it wasn't Hermione.
"Well…she was in the halls, and I saw her drink the potion…the polyjuice potion! I don't think you know what that is, but she did! And she turned into me…and…and…"
"Merlin!" Ron said turning to Hermione. "You are Hermione!"
Hermione looked as if she was going to burst into tears of happiness. Her eyes have gone teary-eyed as she rushed to hug Ron tight around his neck. Ron looked shocked (his mouth was slightly opened and his eyes were wide), but recovered and stroked Hermione's hair gently. Hermione smiled, as did Ron.
Marietta looked horrorstricken. Where had she gone wrong? Cho was thinking of the same lines.
"Wait a minute…how do you know that…this isn't Hermione? I'm confused!" Cho said innocently. The original Luna blended in the background that it was now hard to tell which Luna is who.
Harry looked at Cho. She looked back, gazing into his pools of emerald. Oooh…emeralds. When she gets Harry, she will be rich and get all the jewels she could grasp.
"Because…Ron knows," he said firmly. He didn't feel like telling her, whether if she was Luna or not. He had to be sure first.
Luna looked at Harry and interrupted.
"Well…alright…but Harry, can you just hurry up and choose the Luna? My legs are getting quite tired and Neville here is looking at me as if I was a hubblydubbly…that's a type of ghoul, if you were wondering. Neville, hubblydubblies don't have legs, don't worry."
Cho groaned. She had to make something up too!
"Tch…didn't you know that fragglies are born in…er…France and they like to scare hubblydubblies because fragglies are green and scary. So Neville, you would be quite safe from…her."
Luna looked at Cho disbelievingly. "Fragglies aren't born in France, they're born in Germany! Also, fragglies are pale blue and they light up when they're happy. They don't scare hubblydubblies!"
And so the battle of superstition was on.
"Well, at least Flups are from France!" Luna said.
"No they're not! They're from Austria!"
"No! They went to Austria before, but they were born in France!"
"Well, applics are from Austria!"
"What's an applic?"
"AH-HAH! You see, Harry? She didn't know what to say when I told her about applics. She's not really Luna at all!"
Harry didn't know what to do, or to say. What is an applic anyway?
"Well, if you say so…" he said unsure. Why did it have to be he, Harry, that has to be stuck inside the world of superstition? Why couldn't they be normal so that he won't have to try and know the names of every creature?
Just then, he got an idea. He looked behind him on the table and saw a bundle of mistletoe. That was what he needed. He was glad that they were in the Room of Requirement.
He snatched it off the table and held it above Cho. Cho, who was unaware of what Luna does, batted her eyelashes and kissed Harry on the lips lightly. Harry held it above Luna now, but Luna backed away.
"They're infested with nargles, Harry…I thought you would remember by now!" Luna said.
Harry grinned. "I remember, Luna."
The room was quiet as Luna slowly smiled. Her eyes lit up in realization as she embraced Harry for a short while.
Cho looked at the two. There she was, Cho Chang, the most beautiful (and shortest) Ravenclaw in her year, beaten by a younger girl with the height of over five feet, unlike she, who was around five feet.
Slowly, she said, "There's no sense of hiding it now. Yes, I'm not Luna; and yes, I love you, Harry…and I hated Luna. I pretended to be her to break up with you."
It seemed as if the whole room had held their breath when Cho had just talked.
Her blonde hair suddenly had black streaks. Marietta's hair was also showing. The group looked at the two girls, who were looking at each other nervously. They weren't sure whether they should make a run for it in case they get identified.
Their question was answered, however. Both girls had transformed back into their original selves.
"Oh my…" Ginny gasped.
"Holy…" Ron gaped.
"What the…" Neville sputtered.
Standing in front of them were Cho and Marietta. Cho, who had hated Hermione with a passion, now disliked Luna more and more. Not only did she accidentally accuse Harry of dating Hermione, but Harry had gone to Luna! If only she didn't make wrong accusations, Harry would still be with her!
Why is it that, in the most desperate situations, you think of the things you never did before? Mentally slapping herself, she realized that Harry and Luna getting together was her doing!
"Well…er…surprise?" Cho said lamely. Nobody seemed to take it as a joke, except Marietta. She howled with fake laughter until she realized that she was the only one laughing and everyone was looking at her.
"Ah-hem…" she smiled uneasily as she slowly moved beside Cho.
They stared at the both of them. It was easier now that they were together.
"I think that we should have an explanation. A real explanation; about a closet," Hermione glared at Cho. Cho was looking quite nervous.
"Closet? What closet?" Cho asked, her voice sounding an octave higher than usual.
Beside her, Marietta had realized how interesting her leather shoes looked. Her hands were held behind her back and her fingers were twiddling.
"I think you know very well," Luna piped. "Besides, if Dobby hadn't found me, I probably wouldn't have told anybody that I was in a closet the whole time."
Cho goggled at Luna. "Dobby? That house elf? How did he manage to do that?"
"Do what?" Harry interrupted, his hand suddenly clasping Luna's. Luna looked at his hands and hers, and then back at Cho. Cho's gaze went determinedly into Luna's eyes as she spoke, croaking.
"Well…I…" she started. It seemed like ages before she started again. "Alright, well…it started…"
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Cho was going to her dormitory, where she couldn't help overhearing Marietta shout.
"I HATE THAT BLASTED HERMIONE GRANGER!" was what she said.
Now, Cho had entered the room to see Marietta furiously putting powder all over her face to cover the word 'SNEAK' that was written on it. She applied some blush, more powder, more blush…
She had looked like one of those Chinese opera ladies. Cho quickly went to Marietta and helped her with her makeup. Cho was kind of an expert with these things. She always puts the on to impress Harry anyway. Soon, Marietta's SNEAK was faint and almost unnoticeable.
"Thanks, Cho. I mean it," Marietta said gratefully as she looked at herself in the mirror side to side. Cho put the kits away.
"I've been struck by a brilliant idea, Marietta!" Cho said, almost joyfully.
"Oh yeah? What kind of idea?" Marietta asked as she stopped looking at the mirror.
Cho's eyes glinted. She had thought of this idea about a few days ago, but she didn't have the right time to say so.
"You know that potion called the Polyjuice Potion that we studied about a month ago?" Cho questioned Marietta.
Marietta looked at Cho. "You mean, the potion that turns the user into the person they want to become?"
"Yes! I've always wanted to try it…you know…"
"No…"
"I want to try it on…Loony."
Marietta burst our laughing. She was clutching her stomach. Cho waited for Marietta's laughter to subside.
"Loony? Aw, come on Cho! Think of someone else!" Marietta giggled.
Cho looked impatiently at the giggling girl. "Don't you see? Harry is going out with Loony! And if I'm Loony…"
Marietta gasped in realization. "You can tell Harry that you don't like him! Then he'll go to you for sure! Oh my gosh…I think I get it!"
Cho rolled her eyes. "How you got into Ravenclaw is really a mystery."
"Well, I have to be someone too! I don't want to just sit on my bed and wait for you to come back to tell me what happened!"
Just then, Marietta's eyes lit up. "I can go as Hermione!"
Now, between the two best friends, they know that Marietta liked Ron. She didn't really have a reason, probably because he was brave and he supports Harry a lot.
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"Now everyone, be careful with your potions, or else it would go horribly wrong!" instructed Professor Slughorn. "Next time, we will make the potion without some instructions! Remember to write the two feet long essay, due Monday!"
Groans were heard around the room as the class exited the class. Good.
Cho looked at Marietta, who was packing, and they both nodded.
"Professor, I think I need some help!" Marietta said as she went to Slughorn.
"Yes, what is it, dear?" he asked kindly.
"Well…I don't get the part…"
Cho didn't hear what Marietta said next. She had slipped through the door and looked at the contents stored inside the storage room. Holding the ingredient list in one hand and her quill in the other, she carefully read the list, crossed off the ingredients and stuffed the things inside her cloak pocket. She put the list down to get the last ingredient, which was at the very top. Seeing that it was hard for a short girl, she took her wand out and levitated it down. When she was sure she got everything, she looked out the little window at the doorway to see Slughorn's back and Marietta holding her essay.
Good.
Cho slipped out and walked to Marietta. "Hey Marietta…I'll wait for you outside, is that okay?" she asked innocently.
Marietta flashed a quick smile as Cho left the classroom.
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"Ugh…this smells!" Cho exclaimed disgusted as she stirred the potion. They were in the Room of Requirement, which provided for them a cauldron and a blazing fire. The girls were busy adding the ingredients inside the cauldron.
"So…it will be ready in…one month or so…" Marietta said calmly.
Cho snarled. "How can you act so calm?" she asked as she threw herself on the couch that the room just gave.
"I just am…that's how I got Slughorn talking so long!"
"Wonderful."
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"…And that's the story. To get their hairs and stuff, we used the petrificus totalus on them," Cho finished.
Harry and Ron looked disbelievingly at them.Neither knew what to do.
Ginny was the only one thinking clearly. "Well, I think we should bring you to see Professor Flitwick, or McGonagall."
The girls looked horrified. "What? Why?" they asked.
"I really wonder…" Hermione finally said as she and Luna petrified them. They fell on the floor with a CLUNK sound.
Harry and Ron looked at the faces of Cho and Marietta. Ginny and Neville rolled them to the door and went out of sight. They were going to Flitwick and McGonagall.
"This reminds me of something. Dobby helped unfreeze you?" Ron asked confused yet in awe.
"Heck no. It was Slughorn," Hermione said.
"Slughorn!" Harry exclaimed.
Luna answered his 'question.'
"Well, he suspected something about the potions class. Marietta was quiet and smart girl that is full of herself. Cho usually tutors Marietta potions, and when Slughorn went to his storage room, he found…this."
She held up a piece of parchment. "Slughorn gave this to us."
On the parchment, in cursive writing, was the name Cho Chang. Right beside it were the ingredients for the potion.
"It must be her instinct to write her name on every sheet of parchment she owns. Anyway, Slughorn found us in the closet, since it was slightly opened. He helped us, and he's actually reporting Cho and Marietta to Flitwick."
"I see…" Ron said understanding.
Luna and Hermione nodded.
"Well, let's start over and enjoy ourselves again, shall we?" Harry suggested as Ginny and Neville came back, sweating. Everyone agreed on this statement.
Soon, they were happily eating (again) as everybody told Neville and Ginny what they just missed about Cho and Marietta. Ginny nodded while she cut her steak. Neville made agreeing noises through his goblet of pumpkin juice.
"Harry, would you like some more juice?" Luna asked holding a pitcher full of orange liquid. "Or butterbeer?" She held a jug full of warmish yellow liquid.
"Butterbeer please," Harry answered as he gave Luna a round scoop of mashed potatoes.
"It's round! Like mistletoe…" she added. Harry laughed.
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Mwahahaha! It's not finished yet! One more chappie to go!
Cest.Steffie.