The Plan - R/Hr - PG
Title: The Plan
Rating: PG
Words: 225
Author's Note (if any): Set Christmas Fourth Year.


The Plan
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My parents always said that chocolate would be bad for me, and Ron Weasley is practically a chocolate based life form.

I should have listened to them.

I did.

I was a good girl, so I brushed and flossed and didn't ask for braces on my hated front teeth. Because, really, as Mummy said, if a boy doesn't like you because your teeth are too big, well, do you really want a boy who is that shallow, Hermione?

Actually, yes.

Yes, I do.

Because a boy can be fourteen and shallow like that, can't he?

When a boy is awkward and stubborn and infuriating.

And oblivious.

And tall and freckled and brave.

And gorgeous.

And a girl can be fifteen and shallow enough to accidentally shrink them, with magic.

When a girl is inexperienced and nervous.

And seemingly invisible.

And, when the boy is too stupid to even notice, well, then a girl as to take steps.

To plan: how to get Ron Weasley to notice you.

Don't dress in your best dress and put up your hair, and walk into the hall on another boy's arm, with your heart in your throat, because he will look right through you.

You could try walking into the hall, naked and dipped in molten chocolate.

I bet that would work.

He'd certainly be interested in the chocolate.