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Chapter 8- Remedies are my Secret.

"Dean, hit Seamus on the head"

"Awww, can't he hit me on the arse"

"No it has to be on the head"

"Sorry honey, I'll make up for it later, I promise"

WHACK!

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OW!

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"Hermione what the hell are you trying to do" Ron rubbed his head.

"Prove my theory" she replied smartly.

"Why does your theory involve so much pain" Harry said.

"Haven't you all been just a little curious as to why every time a loud noise is made we all seem to feel it? Including Malfoy" she pointed to the Slytherin table where Malfoy and Joanne were moaning. AN: not that moaning! Lol

"Honestly don't you six read. Here it is" She pulled out a Hogwarts, a history from her bag. "A Hogwarts Hangover. If anyone drinks inside Hogwarts they may be subject to a 'Hogwarts Hangover', an unusually long hangover that lasts 24 hrs after the drinking has occurred. If however the drinkee or drinkers have consumed enough alcohol and consumed within 5 metres of each other at the same time, it may occur in a joint hangover, making each drinker feel what the other feels no matter where they are in the school grounds. It also doubles the pain inflicted, so each drinker may hear a noise or feel something louder or harder than it actually is. Joint Hogwarts hangovers have been known to include 20 people at the one time." She finished looking back at everyone.

"So that means we've got. One, two " Seamus counted on his fingers.

"we've got roughly 4 hours left"

"Four hours!" Ron exclaimed. " I don't think I can take much more of this"

"Isn't there a remedy for it?" Elisabeth asked.

"I dunno" Hermione traced her finger down the page. "Here. It looks pretty simple I can have it done in fifteen minutes. But we've all got to take it together."

"So we all take it and it works right?" Harry said waving his hand around the table.

"Yes. But you forgot Malfoy and Joanne. It will only be successful if everyone who was drinking, takes it."

Elisabeth got up and walked over to Malfoy and Joanne. She whispered in their ears and they both nodded.

Hermione moved next and went to get the potion ready.

"This is perfect!" Joanne said to Malfoy.

"What no more hangover?"

"Yes, but I've got a little potion of my own." she pulled a small vile from her robes.

"What is that a potion to spice up our love life" He said moving closer to her eyebrows raised evil grin.

"No. It's a potion to stop you having those nightmares." Malfoy looked somewhat disappointed.

"Well how am I ever gonna get you in the sack if your thinking about goats" She poked him playfully. "You need to take it while your enemy drinks another potion, so you overcome your fear, and of course Harry is as good as enemy as anyone else. Don't ask me why that's just what the book said" She shrugged her shoulders. AN: don't ask me either, I don't know what book she was reading. Lo

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"I work hard for the money! So hard for the money! I work hard for the money so you better treat me right!".

"What's that music coming from Snape's office" Elisabeth asked.

"Probably Peeves or someone playin a joke" Ron answered.

"So hard for the money so you better treat me right!" Snape sang into his wand, like a microphone.

They found Hermione in an empty classroom with a cauldron set in front of her.

She ladled a small amount of the concoction into 8 small glasses.

"Seamus, you grabbed my arse!" Dean turned around.

"I'm sorry I thought it was my arse"

Everyone looked at them funny.

"It's very dark in here" he defended.

"So what am I supposed to do with this" Malfoy whispered.

"Just slip it into the hangover remedy, it can't make any difference" Joanne whispered back.

Everyone took a glass and shot it down their throats. The potion worked almost immediately because Ron hit Harry on the head and no one else complained. Except of course harry who beat him back.

"Do you feel better?" Joanne asked Malfoy as they walked back to their common room.

"Yeah. But my throat feels a bit weird" He said rubbing it.

"It'll pass" she said.

"Hey it's your birthday in a few days, is there anything I can do for you?" He asked seductively.

"Maybe" She smiled back.

"I see what I desire. I see myself holding Draco. But how do I get him?!" Snape spoke to his cardboard cut out of Malfoy. "The girl! Use the girl! Of course! I shall use Ms Higgins to be with my beloved. Soon we will be together" he stroked Draco's face. "Soon"

"Hey we can go to Hogsmede this weekend", Ron said pointing at the sign pinned up in the common room.

"Yeah, you gonna go?"

"Yeah. What about u Mione?"

"Ummm. I don't know. I think I might need to stay back and finish my Arithmancy essay"

"It's just one little essay Hermione. Come and have some fun with us", Elisabeth said.

"No .. I think I'll just stay back this time"

"O.k but all work and no play makes Mione a dull little girl"

Hermione scowled at Ron.

"Oi! Harry , come here" Ron whispered. "I just found out about this new place in Hogsmede. It's called 'The Shack'. It's right next door to the Shrieking shack."

"Why would I want to go there for?" Harry asked confused.

"Because you're male! Because you have throbbing biological urges that you need to fufill"

"Ron, why the hell do I want to go to an old shack?"

"It's not the shack that's important, it's what's on the inside"

"And what exactly would be on the inside?"
"Harry, it's a strip club"

"What? A strip club. Here in Hogsmede? How did you find out about it"

"Well you can thank your good old Mauraders map for that one. I saw an invisible passage that only appears when you say 'coyote'. It leads right from the school to the underground club"

Ron stood back looking very pleased with himself.

"Have you been there before?" Harry asked.

"Nar. I only found it a few days ago. Hermione had it out. And I took it from her and said I was giving it back to you. So , what d'you say we go there while we're in Hogsmede. Senior students discount" He tempted Harry.

"Ron I don't need to go to a bar to see naked chicks. Ive got everything I need right here" He pointed to Elisabeth.

"Oh go on Harry. It's not like we aren't old enough."
"Why don't you take Malfoy"

"And on that note I'd prefer to go alone"

"Cya Mione" The gang called out from the carriages that would take them to the train station.

Hermione waved and did her best to look sad even though she really wasn't.

"Bye!" she yelled as the carriages sped off.

'time to get dressed' she said to herself.

Hermione entered the empty common room. She opened her trunk and then pulled out a smaller locked box. She opened it using the key and emptied the contents.

Pulling her robes around herself to keep warm she made her way out of the Tower and into the castle.