Envious

Chapter 2: Evil Thoughts and Evil Plots

"Tell me what?" Ron said, after a long and awkward pause.

"It's just that I have been having these feelings ever since last year," she replied, leaning in closer to Ron "

"Really," said Ron, not really catching on to what Margie saying.

"I've realized a few things since then. I think that maybe I've been avoiding them for some time now."

When Margie noticed she leaned in even closer and put her hand on his thigh hoping that he would catch on without her having to tell him because then he might go up to the real Hermione in the morning and tell her about it. Looking at her clock she saw that her time was running out and could feel the affects wearing off.

"What kind of things?" Ron asked nervously. He was fidgeting around in his seat and glanced down at where Margie's hand was. At least he was getting the picture now.

"I...oh wow, it's just so hard to say. I mean I know what I feel but I just can't describe it."

"Can you give me a hint?" Margie looked down at her fingers and noticed that they were no longer petite and tiny, they were her long, strong ones. She had to hurry.

" I think you know what I'm talking about. Let's just say that I've opened up my eyes to what you've been trying to tell me," Margie said hurriedly.

"Are you talking about my feelings for-"

"Um...I have to go," she said, removing her hand and running out of the room. That was it she couldn't wait any longer. If she so much as glanced back, he would have seen her changed form. Surely he'd have a very shocked and surprised look on his face though.

Feeling pretty confident about herself she made her way to go meet Ginny.

* * *

"So how did it go?" Ginny asked, as soon as Margie came into the room.

"Well, I spent most of the time trying to wake him up but we did get to talk a little I just hope it worked."

"Aren't you sure?'

"If your asking if I made him hopeful enough to go after Hermione while leaving room for doubt. Then yes it did work."

"Okay," Ginny said sighing. She was relived. Things were going good so far. "Let's go to sleep then, it is almost one in the morning, but at least tomorrow is Saturday and we can sleep in."

Ginny got a good sleep that night knowing that her plan was in action. As for Margie she felt terrible about tricking Ron but then decided that there was nothing she could do now and with that, she went to bed.

* * *

The next morning Ginny awoke earlier and refreshed despite being up half the night. Then she proceeded to wake up Margie, which proved to be quite the challenge considering that Margie had stayed up half the night.

"Come on Margie, we have to go to the Great Hall now."

"Get away you freak it's too early to get up," groaned Margie, as she threw one of her pillows at Ginny's face.

"Come on you know you don't want to miss the scene we're going to make downstairs do you," Ginny said waiting. Margie put the pillow on top of her head and groaned. It's true she did want to see how everything was going to turn out, but she also wanted to sleep.

"Ginny wait, can't you give me five more minutes," Margie said, from under the pillow.

"Yeah, sure. I'll give you five minutes," she said smiling. She wasn't Fred and George's sister for nothing. They taught her well. Margie was relived when she heard the door close and gladly let her eyes close peacefully again.

Ginny came back in exactly five minutes just like Margie had asked, and just as she had predicted the girl was sound asleep. She called out for her a few times and rather loudly too.

Behind Ginny's back she hid a tall glass of cold water. She walked up to her sleeping friend and poured it over her head.

"Ah!" Margie screamed at the shock of being woken up so abruptly. "What the fuck did you do that for!"

"Well you should have woken up when I told you to," Ginny replied righteously.

"You...uhrg!" She screamed at Ginny.

"Come we have to go down to the Great Hall I had just saw Hermione and Harry go down that's why I tried to wake you up earlier and when I was coming back up hear a saw Ron. So hurry up and do what ever you have to do and lets go downstairs."

* * *

Ron had just woken up in his room and he had the weirdest dream about Hermione the night before.

Or did it really happen I don't know maybe I should talk to Hermione about it, but what if she thinks I'm crazy or something if it really was a dream. Maybe I should go eat breakfast with Hermione and Harry, she might bring it up again.

So Ron got up in the hopes that it wasn't just a dream and that the feelings that Hermione was talking about were towards him. Just as he was leaving he bumped into Ginny and she almost spilt her freezing cold glass of water on him but he didn't give it a second thought as he saw an evil grin on her face as if she was about to do something mean.

Ron practically ran into the Great Hall and sat down right in between Harry and Hermione not even noticing that he was interrupting a seemingly very private conversation. He was so wrapped up in seeing Hermione that he didn't even notice that when he sat down Harry and Hermione got very quiet.

"So, Ron, you're up earlier than usual. You're still in bed snoring at this time, especially on a Saturday morning," Harry teased.

"Yeah I decided to get an early start today. Umm Hermione...I was wondering if you could help me do some last minute studying for the test on Monday. That's if you weren't busy later?" Ron asked hopefully.

"You want to study? Since when did you care about your grades?" laughed Harry.

Why is he always butting into our conversation? I was talking to Hermione, not him,

Ron thought.

"Since I have decided to start focusing on schoolwork but it's hard studying by myself and since Hermione likes to study I couldn't think of a better person," lied Ron. He just wanted a chance to spend time with Hermione and thought this would be the best way to do it. "I figured that she would like a change in study partner too, because she's always yours."

Was it just him, or did Ron notice how bothered Harry was by his proposal and statement.

"Oh...well...I guess we can study this afternoon. Meet me in the library at 12:30." Hermione replied.

"I slept so good last night, how was your night?" Ron asked, changing the subject to the real reason he got up at seven in the morning.

"It was great I guess," replied Harry, Hermione just gave a slight nod agreeing with Harry.

There he goes again answering for Hermione. He was fishing for an answer from her. Anything that hinted about last night would last him until he got to talk to her in private.

"What did you do last night?" Ron asked, but Hermione seemed unfazed by the question.

"Nothing," they replied simultaneously.

"So neither of you stayed up late or went anywhere last night?"

"No, why would you ask, did you hear something?" Harry asked, confused about why Ron was asking about the previous night.

"No, just asking," Ron replied, he wanted Hermione to say something but he didn't want to bring it up.

Just then Margie and Ginny came into the Great Hall. Ginny took a seat between Harry and Hermione, wrapping her arms around him and gave him a good morning kiss. Margie noticed that when Hermione saw Ginny she backed away from Harry a few inches so that Ginny was able to sit between them. Margie took a seat across Ginny and Ginny introduced her.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione, this is Margie, she just transferred this week to Hogwarts."

"Yeah, I know you, Hermione and I helped you out when you were lost earlier this week. How have you been?" Harry asked.

"Good," Margie replied.

"Hopefully you haven't got lost again," joked Harry.

"Nope," she chuckled. He was cute, no wonder Ginny is fighting for him so much.

"Harry do you want to do something this afternoon?" asked Ginny.

"Oh...um...what do you want to do?"

"Since we haven't had much time to spend together in a long time I thought that we could go flying for a while and then we might have a picnic by the lake for lunch. I think I can sneak in the kitchen and convince the house elves to prepare us a nice lunch. How does that sound?"

"As long as you be kind to the elves and don't make them do much work," Hermione interjected. "Elves get tired too you know, and you don't want to overwork them."

"Okay Hermione," replied Ginny, trying not to laugh. It brought back old memories of when Hermione developed S.P.E.W and she made all of them join, but now she hadn't much time for it because of the N.E.W.T.'s.

"Flying sounds good and it is such a nice day outside I'm so glad we won't have to be stuck inside the library studying like Ron and Hermione," Harry said bitterly. He was picking on them because he'd rather be the one studying with Hermione.

Wait, are you draft. Is there something wrong with you. You would rather spend time with Hermione studying than flying with Ginny. I really need to get my head straight,

Harry thought.

"There is nothing wrong with studying!" exclaimed Hermione.

"Of course there isn't," Ron said, lying through his teeth. He knew the only reason he even suggested studying, was so that he and Hermione could have some time together alone.

"Thank you, Ron."

"So Margie what are you going to do today?" Ron asked. She seemed to be the only one at the table who hadn't had any plans for the day.

"I thought I would go exploring through the castle. It is so big and it seems as though it has many secrets to unveil, every time I go somewhere everything seems different from the last time I had been there. Like this one time I had gotten lost on my way to the library and then this door just appeared out of nowhere and it was full of books but when I went back the next day there was not even a door."

"That's probably the Room of Requirement. When you need something you just need to walk by the door three times thinking about what you want and the room will appear and in it is what you wanted," Harry replied.

"That's so interesting, is there anything else like that in the castle."

"There are a lot of hidden passageways and trapdoors throughout the school. Some of them can take you to the insides of classrooms or even outside the school to Hogsmeade."

"Really, how do you know about all of these passageways? This school is so big, there has bound to be hundreds?"

"Yes, well there actually is quite a few but I have a map of the castle it even can give you the location of anybody on the school grounds."

"Really, can I borrow it after breakfast so that I can see all the passageways and stuff. It would be easier and then there would be less of a chance of me getting lost. Or you guys can find me in a week all alone, wandering around school trying to find my way back."

Harry wasn't sure if he should do than. In fact he was cursing himself for mentioning it. He didn't really know her that well, and he rarely lent it out, to the people he did now, unless it was dire need.

Ginny nodded her head for him to trust her, and pinched him from under the table. Margie seemed trustworthy enough but something still didn't feel right.

"Sure I'll give it to you after breakfast and show you how to use it, just make sure you don't let a teacher see it because you can get into trouble for having it and I don't want it to get it taken away," Harry said reluctantly.

"Anything you say."

"Aren't you the least bit worried about your grades?" Hermione said interrupting. "You've only been at this school a short while and I imagine it would be quite hard to keep being caught up when all your study habits are disturbed."

"Not really. Other than the stuff I missed I haven't really studied and I've been doing quite well in all my classes so far. Plus I'm not that good at studying anyways. I find it kind of boring and never have time," replied Margie.

"It's true Hermione; Margie is one of the smartest people in my class," said Ginny.

"Do you want to go out and fly now, I finished eating?" Harry asked Ginny.

"Yeah," Ginny said, jumping up excitedly.

"Come on Margie, I'll give you the map and you can go exploring," Harry said, hoping the sooner he gave it to her, the sooner it would be returned.

"Okay."

Harry, Ginny, and Margie left the Great Hall, leaving Ron and Hermione at the table alone together.

"Well Hermione after we finish eating, do you want to go hang out by the lake. We still have a couple hours 'till 12:30."

"Yeah, why not," she said sighing. "It's such a nice day; it would be a shame to let it go to waste."

* * *

"I found it!" Harry exclaimed.

"Took long enough, where was it?" asked Ginny.

"It was at the bottom of my trunk," replied Harry. "Here Margie, now when you want to see the map you say 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good' and then you tap on it with your wand like this. Then when you are done say mischief managed. Have fun and try not to get in any trouble. Okay."

"Okay. Thanks. See you guys later."

"Yeah, bye Margie" replied Ginny.

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this map today,

Margie thought as she left Harry's room. She had thought of the many places that she wanted to go but first she wanted to go to the Room of Requirement to see if what they had told her about it was true.

She tried to find a shortcut using the map but ended up in a weird pathway. She looked at the map to see where she was but it only placed her in between the walls and did not show where they led. After hours of wandering around she decided to go to the Room of Requirements.

Okay lets see if this really works now what do I want...I want a room that has all the supplies and instructions on how to make a map like this one and show the hidden pathways.

She walked by the wall three times and then the door appeared. When she walked in the room she found a big open spell book and a brewing cauldron open to a page that had all the instructions to making a map.

To make a Magical Map is quite difficult. First you must prepare a revealing potions to show what you want.

Revealing Potion

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons of mandrake oil

3 grams of lacewing flies

5 ounces of witch hazel

5 grams of Wiggen tree bark

Step one: Add two teaspoons of mandrake oil and 3 grams of lacewing flies to cauldron and stir three times.

Step two: Five minutes after stirring add 5 ounces of witch hazel. Stir two times clockwise and five times counter clockwise.

Step three: Let brew for twenty minutes and stir in 5 grams of wiggen tree bark and turn off heat.

Step four: After ten minutes stir three times and bottle potion.

When done with potion pour one ounce over parchment and say what it is that you wish to reveal and tap on parchment two times. Use a tracking spell to track the whereabouts of people on map. Afterwards recite a hiding spell and recite password to activate map. For extra protection write on map and use a weaker hiding spell to show when someone else without the password tries to use it.

Tracking Spell

Tracimous Difficulty: 7th year Effectiveness:*****

Hiding Spells

Concealiarmos Difficulty: 7th year Effectiveness:*****

Evenenti Difficulty: 1st year Effectiveness:*

Margie looked at her watch to see how much time she would have to practice the spells and make the potion. When she looked at it, it was already 5:00 and she had missed lunch and by now everyone was going to be in the common room. She decided on just taking the book and coming back the next day to work on it. She took the passageway to the kitchen and got some food and then found another passageway that lead to a hallway near the Gryffindor common room.

* * *

Hermione was walking along the castle walls following Ron. They were going for their walk.

"We haven't done this in a long time," Ron said, steering her towards the Lake.

"It's been a while," Hermione said, catching a glimpse of raven-black hair.

Great, Harry is here already, and with my luck Ron is going to take me near him.

She really wasn't in the mood to see Ginny and him having lovely moments, which was incredibly mean of her.

I should be supporting my friends, not wishing they weren't happy together,

she thought.

She made sure that they walked on and out of the way from them, even if seeing them was inevitable. Ron was talking mindlessly to her and she was responding a few words to him in reflex.

"I wanted to talk about last night. You said a few things that weren't clear to me."

"Oh, yeah," replied Hermione, not even hearing what he was saying. She couldn't get Harry and Ginny out of her mind. How she wished she could be Ginny and be with Harry.

No, what am I talking about. Harry is my best friend, I can't like him and Ginny is like the sister I never had.

"Um...I think you were saying something about feelings. I just...uh...I was wondering if you were talking about me?"

"Uh huh," she replied. She opened her eyes really wide and then turned away blushing from Harry. Ron saw it but mistook it as a reaction to what he had said. Harry had just taken off his shirt and jumped into the Lake. She had seen Harry without a shirt before and it never bothered her, but now it did.

He was more toned from playing Quidditch all those years. What the hell was wrong with her, she had to get control over her hormones.

"You know that I always had feelings for you, and it's so weird now that...well that you're getting them for me too. At first when Ginny got with Harry, and she said that she had just given up, because you told her to, it made me realize that that is what I might have to do too."

"Oh really," she replied, without the slightest idea of what he was talking about.

I have to get away from Harry to stop all of these thoughts that are going through my mind. He doesn't like you he likes Ginny that's why he is with her, but she not right for him, Quidditch is about the only thing they have in common. Other than that, they are like complete opposites. Oh no, I'm doing it again.

"Yeah, and I really did give up, because it seemed like I annoyed you and there was no hope. It's strange how things work out-"

"GET OUT OF THERE!" Ginny screamed in the background. Ron turned to see what was going on but Hermione had already been watching.

Harry was happily splashing around in the shallow water of the Lake and a very furious Ginny was standing at the end, fuming.

"Come on get in," Harry said, splashing water to her.

"I'm going to wet my hair and it will get ruined."

"I thought you were athletic and didn't care about that stuff," Harry said, floating on his back. Ginny stayed quiet for a while and didn't speak. Hermione knew it was because she was sporty, of course she had to be living with so many boys, and she loved playing Quidditch. But the truth was she did care about those things, and she had grown to watch her appearance a lot, she just didn't want Harry to know or find out because she thought it would ruin her appearance in his eyes. She had disclosed this information to Hermione, but in truth Hermione didn't really see a reason why hiding something like that would matter, because Harry liked Cho and she was just like her.

She's fake, and she hides her true self from him, what kind of a relationship is that. Great, now I'm picking at every little thing that she does so I can feel better about not wanting her to be with Harry

, Hermione thought.

"I...I did my hair for us today and it took a really long time so no, I don't want to ruin it," Ginny said, refusing to enter. "Get out you're ruining our date!"

Hermione didn't know if Ginny had noticed but that hurt Harry's feelings. It was clearly written on his face and the expression that he made after he heard her. He walked out the water and dried himself quickly; sadly sitting back down to the quiet picnic they had before.

"Ron, I think that we should go to the library and get an early start." Hermione thought it would be the only way to get Harry off of her mind. She could read a good book, that would make everything better. The scene she had just seen had made it worse.

"Sure, okay."

They headed towards the castle and as they got up to the library she caught a glimpse of Harry as he flew by the window. God, it's like he is everywhere.

"Well, Ron I think you should start by reading chapter six, sections two and three. Don't forget to take notes. Then try transfiguring some teacups into turtles." Hermione conjured some teacups. "I'll be back I just want to find a book."

This isn't what I had in mind

, thought Ron, as he watched Hermione walk away. Ron started to read but quickly lost interest so he proceeded to turn the teacups into turtles. His first teacup sprouted a head and his second sprouted all four legs. He kept trying but nothing new happened after that and was getting more frustrated by the second.

"This is hopeless!" exclaimed Ron, as he threw one of his half turtles at a book.

"It's not that hard Ron," said Luna, as she came and sat down beside him. She had been watching him with amusement for the past five minutes. "This is how you do it."

Luna turned the teacup into a perfect little turtle.

"Yeah well, you're in Ravenclaw. I've been trying and mine always come out all messed up."

"You need to annunciate more and when you are saying the spell don't lift up your arm as much."

"If I were in first year I would hate you right now. Hermione tried to show me how to levitate but I thought she was just showing off-not-not that I think you're showing off or anything." Luna laughed and Ron tried the spell again. His teacup turned into a turtle with a porcelain shell.

"That's very good"

"Yeah thanks."

Ron and Luna spent a good half-hour talking and turning the teacups into turtles. Ron had completely forgotten about Hermione, especially since she had just left him by himself to study even though he had no idea what he was doing. Hermione came back to check on Ron because she had no success in finding a book she wanted to read and was in a very foul mood.

This is all Harry's fault. If I didn't have all this confusion in my head, I'd read any book in this library.

She was very surprised when she saw Ron wasn't alone. He was flirting with Luna. She felt her blood boiling, and it wasn't from jealousy. She was enraged because it seemed that everyone was with someone they liked except her. He was the one who wanted to study and pulled her out of her time with Harry.

"Ron!" she yelled. "Why-"

"Miss Granger please keep your voice down!"

"Sorry," whispered Hermione. "Ron, why are you flirting instead of studying like I told you to?"

"I am studying. You left and I needed help, so Luna helped me."

"When I saw you, you weren't studying. If you were, you would have notes. Where are your notes? I told you to take notes. You never listen, Ron!"

"Why are you so mad, Hermione? I was studying, look at all my turtles, they are practically perfect and no thanks to you. You just left me and Luna actually showed me how to do it. You are overreacting here. I'm sorry if I'm not like you and I have to write fifty million notes before I can practice a spell, I actually just have to practice."

"Fine, if I am so bad at helping you then I'm leaving. You can have Luna help you with your studies for now on."

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

And with that Hermione stormed out of the library leaving Ron and Luna in a very shocked state of mind. I can't believe Hermione. Maybe she is jealous of Luna because she saw us studying and thought we were doing something else. I should have reassured her about it.

"Are you ok?" Luna asked.

"Oh, yes...I..." He looked at Luna and started staring at her features. She was really pretty.

Hey there, just because you had a good time right now with Luna doesn't mean that you have feeling for her,

he thought.

But she was fun to hang around with, and it didn't really look too bright right now for him and Hermione.

Good thing that I didn't make anything official with Hermione. Maybe I should tell her that I just want to be friends, and get to know Luna more so that I can see where that goes before I completely tie myself off. Bedside's I know I don't want problems like this again, especially because of how jealous Hermione gets,

Ron thought.

"Luna I have to go and explain things to Hermione. Sorry if she embarrassed you."

"Okay, that's fine," said Luna, looking very sad at the thought of Ron leaving.

Just as Ron reached the library door he turned back to Luna.

"Um... Luna I was wondering if you would like to hang out with me during the Hogsmeade trip next week?"

"Yes, I'd love to," she responded quickly, trying to hide her blush. She had always been very fond of Ron but never had the courage to tell him. She was so very happy that he was now returning those feelings. Of course she didn't know that he thought that way of Hermione too. Things were starting to get really crazy.

* * *

As Ron walked into the common room, Hermione was nowhere in sight. He walked over to Harry and Ginny to ask them if they had seen where she went.

"Harry, I think you should tell Dumbledore," said Ginny

"Tell Dumbledore what?" Ron asked, interrupting their conversation.

"Harry's scar burned when we were flying. He almost fell off his broom because of it, and we had just started flying too."

"Ok Ginny, can you please drop it. I'm sorry I ruined our date, and I'm sorry my scar hurt, next time I'll tell it to bug off until after our date is over!"

"You don't have to be so mean, Harry," Ron said, getting a mad stare from Harry.

"You haven't been here, she's been saying that for over an hour now," Harry said angrily. He was human, and he just couldn't take it anymore. Ginny's mouth was open and she obviously thought that Harry was wrong here, but no one said anything after Harry's comment.

"Does that mean that Voldemort is back?" asked Ron, trying to change the subject.

"We don't know that it means anything at all?" said Harry.

"Well, just talk to Dumbledore he might know something," Ginny said lightly.

"Okay I'll talk to him about it later," Harry said, so that she would leave him alone. There were two types of bugging, the one Hermione did for your own good, which were also annoying at times, and Ginny's bugging, where she does it to make you feel bad and because she wants to be right.

Hermione was upstairs watching their fight, hating herself for secretly wishing that they would break up. Harry certainly was getting frustrated.

* * *

Margie was on her way to the common room. She was about to go in when she suddenly heard Harry's voice in her head. I'll let you borrow it but don't get caught, it said.

"Shit, I forgot to clear it when I was done," she said out loud.

She pulled out the map and was ready to say mischief managed, but apparently her mischief wasn't over today. She wouldn't have noticed anything, but a spell that was being cast on the map, brought her attention to the caster.

Professor Snape was going into the Prefect's bathroom and cast a spell that opened another trapdoor that didn't show up the map until it was activated. She watched Snape, curious of where he was going. The trapdoor had lead to a room that had no other entrance.

What is he doing in there?

The map then showed a spell on the other side of the room. Next door was a portrait, and a tiny wand was pointing at it reading the words, "Mirafold."

The map wasn't telling her what Snape was doing because he was just standing there near the entrance, it was telling her to do the spell.

She was curious. She wondered if Harry did anything like this with the map before, and decided to go check it out.

She was careful all the way there, so that she didn't get caught. The room that was next door to the Prefect's bathroom was an empty classroom. You couldn't even tell that between them was a hidden room.

She walked over to the only portrait in the room, and said the spell like the map had said. She prayed that it didn't get her in trouble and watched as the eyes disappeared from the portrait and light shone out from behind it.

Cool, I can see what Professor Snape is doing and he won't know I'm there,

she thought.

She climbed on a chair, careful not to make any noise and looked inside. There he was, standing there and staring at a fireplace.

He must be talking to someone,

she thought.

Unfortunately, the angle she was at didn't let her see who it was. Snape whispered something that she couldn't hear, but the voice that Margie heard next sent shiver down her back.

"We will get Harry Potter by getting the One he Loves!" he said. She heard a laughter that she had never heard before in her life but understood its meaning. It was evil, and they weren't planning something nice either.

AN: The plot and part of the story was help to be created by my sister-in-law. I just wanted to give her credit. She actually helped me write most of it. Her name is Neiva and she is the author of Always and Forever, and also Dreams and Realities. i hope that u liked my story and I hope that you leave me lots of reviews...Please.