Pheromones, Please by S&S — Chapters 9 to 16

A rom-com Dramione mysteryA stolen Ministry prototype potion—Amora Resonare—hits Hogwarts and the castle promptly turns into a love-fest. You can smell the scent of the one you're most attracted to. Everyone can. It's a perfect time for Dolores Umbridge to install “discipline” and legislate everyone’s breathing space into contraband.Draco Malfoy would like the record to reflect that he is a victim of propaganda. Specifically: Hogwarts’ propaganda, in which his very loud statement about preferring flobberworm Transfiguration to Hermione Granger has become a recurring headline. Pansy quotes it whenever he enters a room. Ravenclaw maintains a spreadsheet of “evidence,” and Draco cannot prove a negative against a student body that has discovered data entry. Decree 24 turns “three friends talking” into a crime, so Umbridge forces a loophole that keeps Draco and Hermione together as the only legal pair allowed to investigate the outbreak. He is supposed to monitor her. Hermione Granger would like the record to reflect that she has no time for hormones, gossip, or Malfoy’s irritating competence. She’s navigating O.W.L. panic, Umbridge patrols, and the DA’s fragile logistics while mapping incident patterns that scream “not student-made.” And of course, the question everyone's asking: "who made the potion?!"