This wasn’t her! She couldn’t look like this! Hermione’s suddenly chocolate brown eyes, rather than the old dull colour, filled with tears. Her waist was tinier, her legs longer and thinner, perfectly shaped. She pulled off her blouse to find full, perfectly rounded breasts that no longer fit into her small bra.
Her eyes were bigger, her nose smaller, her cheekbones higher, her lips fuller and her hair fell down her shoulders in perfect, shiny locks. She staggered back at the sight that wasn’t her – the person staring back at her was.
Staring back at her in the mirror above the sink wasn’t her usual reflection. She walked to the bathroom and went to the sink. She opened the door to the hallway and listened for a moment to make sure that her parents hadn’t come home while she was out. She signed it off to the blow she’d taken to her head she was just a bit dizzy. She walked over to the door, finding that her balance was off. After all, she wasn’t really allowed to do magic outside of school. There were stains from the potion on the carpet as well she’d have to scrub it away best she could. She grabbed hold of the desk and pulled herself up. It was lucky her parents weren’t home – they would have been scared to death from the loud bang that had erupted from her room when the potion exploded. She wasn’t one to swear, but this situation seemed to warrant it. She was soaked and mumbled obscenities under her breath. Her clothes were drenched in the failed potion and she felt the icky substance on her face and arms as well. The odd thought of, ‘ I’ve never seen my room from this angle before’ ran through her head. Hermione sat up, rubbing her head gingerly. Hermione Granger had never failed a potion before – but it seemed like everything that could possibly have gone wrong with this one had. She didn’t know what had gone wrong, but something definitely had. I’m not certain which category it’s supposed to go in it’s part humor, part parody and perhaps part serious. I chose the horrible, awful and for me un-readable ‘Hermione Turned Beautiful Over The Summer’ cliché. The challenge was to take one of the big clichés and twist it around. But was it by choice?Īuthor's notes: This is a challenge answer to the ‘twist a cliché’ challenge on FictionAlley. Summary: Hermione comes back to school in sixth year looking absolutely gorgeous. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Just as most of my fics are, this was a challenge response.ĭisclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. This is a Hermione-centric, PG-13-rated (to be safe) oneshot that I wrote a while ago. Please leave a review, I'm not in the happiest of places at the moment and I would love the pick-me-up a review gives me.