Chapter 21: Hermione's Nightmare

We were able to have some breakfast with Tonks thanks to the generosity of the elves, and because there are a lot of leftovers from today's breakfast. When we finished we went back outside the castle, in a place away from prying eyes to start our practice, and I have to say it was intense.

We started with some simple magical sparring as a warm-up and I must say I lost horribly. The number of spells I know and can use aren't as many as hers, even though I'm in good physical condition to dodge she's also in very good condition for a mage as well as having much more experience. She stumbled a few times during the match, which I took advantage of, but she was easily able to defend herself and my opportunistic offense wasn't much help. In the end, it ended up with me defeated, although she seemed a little surprised at my reaction speed and my resistance, for which she congratulates me, and she was looking forward to training with me in the future.

After that, we started with another part of the practice, which consisted of me standing still and being hexed by Tonks. She tried several spells, some of them took a long time, they were not all very pretty, but they were tolerable.

Inside a classroom, I could be seen listening to the class, but squirming every once in a while, this earned the intrigue of Hermione and the people around me who kept advising me to ask permission to go to the bathroom if I wasn't feeling well. Hermione put aside her shame for what happened earlier and now we are back to our normal life, although she doesn't know what awaits her.

Tonks and I stopped when the sun marked the arrival of noon, she was surprised again that I was able to last until the end. She thought we would have to stop after a couple of hours, but she was quite happy to be able to give her all without holding back, considering me a 'Good practice partner' for my persistence. We ended up setting practice times for the next few weeks before Halloween.

We went back for lunch, but she made it clear to me not to go to her table for the time being to be safe, which I agreed to. Susan may have taken it well, but I can't say the same for the other badgers, it's best to let things settle down before moving on.

We also agreed to start this afternoon with my plans about Hermione, we will meet after lunch to get organized. During lunch, sitting next to Hermione, I gave Tonks knowing glances from time to time.

-Hermione's misfortune-

In one of the corridors of Hogwarts castle, a girl could be seen carrying large books on her way to the library. She was about to meet her friend to do her homework like most afternoons, but as she went through one of the arches in the wall, she stopped with a surprising look at what happened in front of her.

"Soon you'll be mine, Red," an identical Hermione walked by as she rubbed a couple of gold gallons on her fingers. She didn't sound the same as her, she seemed a bit more husky and domineering, with a certain echo in her words.

When the girl saw and heard herself, she immediately ran towards her, but after crossing the arch in the wall she didn't see anyone, the other Hermione had disappeared without a trace. She searched for a while, but she ended up giving up and walked back to the library thinking 'Maybe it's one of Red's pranks, he'll see'.

After the girl left, the figure of a boy and a girl appeared, as if there were had lifted a veil that prevented them from seeing each other before.

"What do you think? it went well?" asked the pink-haired girl.

"I think so, we start with part two" replied the red-haired boy.

"That's your part. By the way, I'll keep the gold coins as compensation for taking advantage of me with your plan, I didn't know the Weasleys had so much money with them" she said, putting the couple of gallons in her pocket.

"Okay, and it's my personal money, I'll leave it to you this time, but don't get used to stealing from me"

The two then went their separate ways, making sure no one saw them together.

Meanwhile, in the library, the same red-haired boy could be seen reading a book when a tousled-haired girl approached him annoyed.

"Red, stop bothering me with what happened, let's leave it behind and stop joking around" she told him somewhat annoyed, but in a low voice to avoid Madam Pince's anger.

"You'll have to be more specific" said the red-haired boy without stopping reading his book

"Don't tell me it's not your thing" she complained as if she knew it was his fault.

"Did you hear about the aphrodisiac I put in your breakfast?"

"What!?" she almost screamed in surprise

"Just kidding, but your face is funny, if it's not that, I don't know what you're talking about"

"The thing in the hallway" she said, also thinking that she will have to check the food that his friend prepares for her in the morning, just in case.

"I've always been here and the real me is practicing my blood magic in the courtyard" he excused himself.

"It better not be one of your pranks" the girl complained thinking that maybe she imagined it, to then sit down and take out the parchments of her homework.

She was doing her homework without knowing that her partner had used one of her skills called [message] to set her to appear on her scroll. When the girl looked at her book to see some lines to transcribe, a note appeared about her homework. When she saw it again, she almost jumped in surprise when she saw what she had written:

"I already have enough money, with this Red won't be able to resist, and he will have to agree to do what I tell him, and it will finally be mine"

When she read this, she quickly tugged on her friend's sleeve to get her attention, and he immediately turned around, casually placing his little finger on the note that had appeared, causing it to disappear.

"Red! Look" she said she ended up being surprised at the disappearance of the note.

"Look...your history homework?" Asked her friend, confused.

"It's not your doing, is it?" She asks furious.

"WHAT? If you want to know if I did something to you, which is possible, at least tell me it's, so I can take credit too, don't you think?"

"The note thing" she roared.

"What note? Where?"

"I don't know, here it was, it's not one of your 'personal magics'?"

"I still don't have the ability to make notes appear and disappear" her friend lied to her, but since she didn't know the truth, she couldn't judge the veracity of his words "Are you okay?" He asks, showing some concern.

The girl snorted annoyed, but she continued with her task, trying to understand what was happening and if her friend was telling the truth. She was so affected that she ended up smearing her parchment with ink and just crumpled it up and threw it away without remembering that there is a spell capable of fixing it.

It ended up getting late, and it was time for dinner, the girl went to lunch at the Gryffindor table, while the red-haired boy went to the Ravenclaw table, as usual. When they finished eating, they returned to the library until it closed.

"Why are you following me, it's getting late?" the boy asked with a smile.

"I want to see what you do at night, maybe that way I can get that image out of my head" she complained thinking about what happened to her today.

"Ho, you didn't suppose that if you did that, you would also be breaking the rules and might get caught and punished" he said, as he secretly used his [message] ability.

"I'm not afraid of it happening being with you, you've been doing it since we started classes from what I know and so far you've never been caught"

The boy kept talking to her, making her not realize that he was guiding her to a secluded corridor where no one was seen at this time of night, not even the paintings were in this part of the castle.

As they walked, Hermione's eyes widened as they rounded a corner, and she could once again see another Hermione standing next to another Red.

You could see a Red against the wall and a Hermione cornering him, they were in a 'Kabe-don' position. The Hermione was waving a small bag that tinkled as it moved, seemingly small pieces of metal colliding with each other inside it before the boy's eyes.

"I don't want this" Red against the wall said with a pitiful voice.

"Come on, you know you need the money, here's enough to last you a while" Hermione gloated with a dominant echo voice "Come on, I'm not asking for much, how about you at least show me something now? Just you have to let me see a little and all this gold will be yours" she said as she brought her face closer to Red's next to the bag she was carrying, moving it in front of his eyes.

The Red who was against the wall had a hesitant look, but then it changed to one of surrender. He grabbed the robe around her neck to open and lower it, revealing his bare chest, all the while staring at the ground, sobbing.

"That's what I like," the wicked Hermione licked her lips.

Already with the boy's torso naked, she put one of her hands caressing him, and with the other, she grabbed the boy's leg and lifted it from her to hold it at her waist. She began to squeeze one of his nipples with her small fingers as she kissed the boy's neck, making loud sucking sounds and moans of pleasure. It was a crude and indecent image of a girl tasting the body of a boy who was clearly devastated.

"Red, are you seeing that?" Hermione asked in shock as she couldn't believe her eyes.

"See what?" Red asked confused next to her as if he couldn't see themselves doing those things from a distance.

"A-Are we…" She couldn't accept what she saw.

"Where?" He glanced over to where the copies were, but his attitude hinted that he didn't see anything.

"But they're there," she pointed out.

At that moment the Hermione who was groping Red against the wall stopped nibbling on his neck and went straight to his nipple, licking it, biting it, and sucking it.

"Ahhhgmm" the half-naked Red was heard moaning as they attacked his nipple.

Hermione, seeing this almost jumped, she was completely red, confused, and terrified. She was about to run to her to stop what was happening, but she was caught by her arm and pulled back to be held by both arms, forced to look at the Red she had next to her.

"Hermione, what's wrong with you? You're scaring me" said the red-haired boy who was holding her back, not letting her see that the two people who were in the distance drew their wands and cast some camouflage spells and light steps before getting out of that place.

"But it is…" she said, looking at where the copies of her were, but when she saw that they were gone, her body tensed even more "Red, tell me you saw it, it was us… "

"Us? Like a reflection?" He asks confused.

"No... it's like... Aasshhg" she ran towards her bedroom, she no longer cared what his friend did at night, she just wanted to escape from here and relax so she could think about what she had just witnessed, and having him around after what she saw wouldn't help. She couldn't understand why it seemed that only she saw it, she thought that maybe she was going crazy.

When she ran away, Red was left alone and kept walking until he met a hooded figure.

"And how was it?" Asked the figure with the voice of the wicked Hermione, despite being much taller.

"Impressive really, but what about my nipple? That wasn't in the plan" he said, stroking it as the figure pulled back her hood revealing an older girl with pink hair.

"Uh sorry, I was very into the character and I got excited" she said with the normal voice of the girl apologizing.

"It wasn't bad, even I was surprised, imagine her" the boy laughed "but it seems that in the end, you are the one who is taking advantage of me"

"It's no big deal, are you a man or what? Do you want me to let you bite mine to make it up to you?" She said sarcastically as she held one of her breasts.

"Would you let me?" He asks with genuine curiosity.

"haha no... but you can tell others that a hot and shiny older girl licked your nipple and show off with it, I'll let you do it"

"Something is something" he said, ending the talk so that they both went their separate ways.

And so three days passed, where Hermione nearly lost her mind. Whenever she passed through some uninhabited place, strange things happened that made her doubt her sanity.

She saw herself reading magazines not suitable for children as she said "o Red, I want to do this to you... and this..."

When she was in the girls' bathroom, she heard the same hoarse voice from before, saying to herself. Talked about how much she appreciated her friend's poverty, so she could use it to get what she wanted or things she wanted to do to him, but all the sometimes she look inside the compartment where it was heard, there was a different girl with whom she had to apologize very embarrassed.

She saw herself licking her lips while tightly grabbing her friend Red's butt, and even putting her hands inside his clothes, pawing at his chest or caressing the front of his waist while that Red had a sad face and humiliation.

While doing homework in the library or sometimes during class, notes like the one above appeared, but each time they became more specific.

She saw herself walking with a devilish smile several times with different long and thick elements, not wanting to accept knowing what they were and what they were used for.

She even went to Madam Pomfrey to see if she was sick or cursed, but they found nothing, and she ended up seeing herself again spanking her friend when she left the infirmary.

After three full days of seeing these things, she was already completely paranoid, she had very marked dark circles under her eyes and was more unkempt than usual. She almost didn't eat, she started looking everywhere while she went through the castle, she started to get further away from Red and almost didn't leave her room. Everyone looked at her strangely because of her appearance and attitude, but no one knew what was wrong with her or why she acted like that because she didn't give any answer or avoided the question. And that was until her friend Red took her around the castle at night, even though she didn't want to.

"Please let me go Red, I want to go to my room" she said looking around as she walked down the hall nervously.

"Okay Hermione, I'm bringing you with me to talk, your behavior is worrying me, so I want some time alone with you to have a chat" Red said as he led her to a room in one of the castle towers.

There was no one in this place like many other places within Hogwarts, the castle is very big and there are parts that are used only at specific times, so they are left uninhabited like this one. Here there are only some blackboards, chairs, desks, among other things.

"Well, I want to know what's happening to you?" He asks.

She didn't know whether to answer him truthfully or not, at this point she was tired and her mind was already weak, she needed some support so she was about to tell her friend everything, but she stopped in shock when she saw the door open and see what has tormented her for days.

From the open door came Hermione with a perverse look and a rope in her hand. That rope was part of a leash, but it didn't have a dog attached to it, but Red walking on all fours. The Red who entered the door was almost naked, only with black leather underwear and several ropes that passed through his body, he was gagged with a ball in his mouth and he was blindfolded.

"NO...noo...no...go away...stay away, you're not real" she shouts towards the couple who entered through the door that was now closed again.

"What isn't real?" Red asked, looking back but without the slightest surprise at the appearance of the copies.

"It's not real, it's not real, it's not real" she whispered to herself as she held her head to the ground, preventing her from seeing how the Red dragged by the leash turned into a pool of blood and disappeared.

"Of course I'm real" said the evil Hermione with her husky and echoing voice causing more surprise in the girl, since it is the first time that she seems to interact with her 'hallucination' "I am the part of you that you deny, I am who shows your true feelings, your desire to use the money to finally take advantage of our dear Red" she said before licking the face of the Red who was in front of real Hermione looking at her confused, he didn't even flinch from the action, as if he didn't notice the tongue flashed across his face "You know we wanted him to actually sell his body, so we could have a chance of having it for us"

"NO...NO...NO...NOT TRUE! IT WAS RED'S FAULT, I'M NOT A PERVERT...I'M NOT A PERVERT, I'M NOT...BUUAHAAHHHH!!!" She screams, falling to my knees crying. She gave a heartbreaking scream as tears came pouring out, crying her heart out, saying "I'm not a pervert" repeatedly.

"I think we went too far," said wicked Hermione with a different voice than she usually appeared with, but at this point, the girl on the ground wasn't in a state to allow her to see it, she just kept crying.

"Yes, I also think it was too much" said Red before bending down to touch Hermione's shoulder "Hermione, calm down, everything is fine, everything is fake, it's my fault" he said, but she wasn't listening, so he had to shake her a bit and force her to look up.

When the girl saw Red next to the evil Hermione, who began to change her appearance to that of a girl with bubblegum pink hair, she was surprised and tried to understand what they were saying. She stopped crying for a moment and lay completely still as if her soul was being taken from her.

"AHHHGGGG...I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!" She roared the girl as she jumped like a beast at the boy in front of her giving blow after blow, without any technique or order, completely wild.

She was still crying, but her eyes were completely red and with a look of intense madness. As she jumped, she latched onto her enemy and threw punches at his face without stopping, still crying and yelling "I HATE YOU...I HATE YOU...I HATE YOU...I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!! " She then gave him a hard bite between the shoulder and the neck, that pierced her skin and some flesh, filling her mouth with blood, but she still wouldn't stop.

Red could only wrap her arms around her to prevent her insane attack from causing her to inflict damage on herself, but she struggled even harder. "LET ME GO...LET ME GO!" She screamed hysterically as she writhed.

Nymphadora Tonks was surprised and felt very guilty for having brought that girl to that state of uncontrolled madness, she got quite scared when she could see all the blood on the girl's face and quickly wanted to help subdue her, but when she approached, his partner in crime raised his hand signaling her to stop.

Red had to hold her tight and endure the pain of her punches and her bite as he sat on a chair, using all of her abilities to calm her maddened friend of hers. Calmness, Tranquility Aura, Parenting Aura, Sleep…all of them could slowly make Hermione stop and just cry with her head on Red's chest.

After a while, she was finally able to calm down. She tried to free herself from Red's arms, but he didn't let her escape from him.

"Let go of me…" she said quietly and with a cold voice.

"Not until I make sure you're okay" Red replied with a friendly and calm tone.

"You don't care if I'm okay or not" she yelled, very angry.

"Of course I care, we're friends"

"WE ARE NOT FRIENDS" she started to cry again "Friends don't do that to others"

"It was just a joke... consider that it's the cost of lying to me the other night" he told her as he stroked her head without receiving a response from her, and to which Tonks looked at him confused, so he had to explain about the night of the duel

"Is this all about that? Wasn't it even her fault?"

"Yup" nodded the boy with Hermione still in his arms "I told her I'm fragile and vindictive... and it seems to be true"

"Wou, that's too much… I wouldn't want to make you angry…ever…" she said, surprised by the lack of limits that her red-haired friend presented.

Red ended up letting go of Hermione after stroking her back for a while longer. He let her stand up and then she did.

"Here" said the boy giving her a white handkerchief taken from her inventory "wipe off the blood"

Hermione took it and wiped her mouth, leaving that white handkerchief completely dyed red.

"This is Nymphadora Tonks, a friend, she helped me make this joke, she's a metamorphmagus" He introduced herself to the girl who had been silent most of the time.

"Hello, sorry if we went a little too far" she reached out her hand to the girl.

Hermione only looked at her for a moment before starting to walk towards the door, when she reached it she opened it and turned around to say very angrily "I don't want to see you again" and then slam the door behind her.

"I think he hates you now" Tonks said

"possibly a little" sigh

"You went too far with her, it's not good to lose a friend because you don't know how to measure yourself" she said, somewhat sad about the situation of the two children, and somewhat regretful.

"I won't lose her and if so, I'll get her back, I'll just... let her be alone for a moment"

"You will know" she said "but I am sure that if that girl can survive you, there will be nothing in this world that can stop her"

"I completely agree"

"We should treat your wound" she told him, somewhat anxious when noticing a large amount of blood on the boy's clothes "That's a lot of blood"

"Just close it if you can, I don't plan on going to the infirmary to have to explain this" He said as he removed his robe revealing a very deep teeth mark.

"Are you sure?" she asked, and receiving a nod, she pulled her wand out to cast a spell that healed the wound to the point that she no longer bled "I'm not good enough at healing spells, you might have a scar"

"Okay, you've done enough" said the boy and then moved his hand causing all the blood that covered his clothes and skin to fly towards it and end up disappearing, leaving it almost like new, only with a slight reddish color "Let's get out of here, see you tomorrow"

"See you tomorrow" the girl replied before leaving the room where everything had happened.

With that, it finished the prank on Hermione, though it might have gotten out of hand. Red wants to be alone with Hermione, but he didn't feel that it was the right time to talk, he preferred that the girl get some sleep and try to fix things another day.

He thought that with that over he could focus on his stuff again and on his training with Tonks, but he didn't realize that while he spent those three days pestering Hermione, certain rumors began to spread about him throughout Hogwarts.