"Admit it Hermione, we all know you like Ron" Ginny nagged Hermione one day in the Gryffindor Common Room.
"Shh….here comes Ron and Harry" Hermione said happy that she didn't have to admit anything to Ginny.
"Hey!" Hermione and Ginny said to Harry and Ron. "How was Quidditch practice?" Ginny said noticing how wet Harry and Ron were.
"Oh it was raining really hard and-.." Harry started.
"Wait a minute" Hermione interrupted. "If you were at Quidditch practice why weren't you there Ginny?"(Ginny was now a chaser since Harry was allowed to re-join the Quidditch team)
"It was just Ron and I practicing" Harry said.
"And I think I am getting better, too!" Ron exclaimed. Ginny and Hermione both looked at Harry to see if this was true.
"Yea, I think we have a really good chance of beating Ravenclaw on Sunday" he said with confidence.
"Ron, don't you have detention with Snape tonight?" Ginny asked.
"Unfortunately yes, after dinner. He said that he wants me to re-make the potion that we made in class today."
"Honestly Ron, you got detention already? And in are first week of this year. When are you going to start paying attention to what Professor Snape says to put in the potions? It is like now that Harry is doing better (because of his career advice in 5th year he tried a little harder) he needs someone else to point out every single mistake and he just happened to pick you" Hermione said. "Let's go to dinner now, if we finish early you might even get to start your homework, Ron."
"Hermione don't worry I'll get it done over the weekend it is Friday" Ron said getting up and starting to walk over to the door. "Are you all coming?" He said looking back at everyone. "Yea" they all said getting up from the chairs and following Ron out of the Common Room.
Down in the Great Hall Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all sat down at the Gryffindor table near Neville. "Hi Neville" the four Gryffindor's said.
"Hi" he replied gloomily.
"What's wrong?" Ginny asked him.
"I had a really bad summer" he replied. "My dad was showing progress of getting better…" he started.
"But what is so bad about that? Wouldn't you be happy that he is getting better?" Harry asked.
"I was happy, but around two days after my Gran and I found out that he was getting better, he started to just go back to the way he was." Neville said taking a bite of chicken.
"Were sorry to hear that Neville" Hermione said.
"Yea, do they know why he went back to they way he was?" Ron asked.
"No, not that I know of."
After talking to Neville Harry, Ron, and Ginny started talking about Quidditch. Hermione was talking to Lindsay, a new girl in 7th year just like Harry, Ron, and Hermione, (she was transferred from an American school and stayed with the Weasley's during the summer so Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny knew her pretty well) about their classes. "How was your first week of classes in Hogwarts?" Hermione asked Lindsay.
"Very good, but I got tons of homework for the first week."
"Well, all the teachers are trying to get us ready for our N.E.W.T.'s this year" Hermione said. Dinner was almost over and Ginny, Ron, and Harry just finished talking about different Quidditch moves they could use in the game on Sunday.
"Ron look, Snape is leaving the teachers table, probably to get ready for your detention. You should probably go to his class now so you are not late" Hermione told Ron.
"Ok, I guess I will see you all in the Common Room after my detention" Ron told them all leaving the table to go to the Dungeons.
After dinner was over and everyone in the Great Hall started to leave Lindsay, Ginny, Hermione, and Harry walked up seven flights of stairs till they got to the picture of the Fat Lady. "Patrificus Totalus" Lindsay said. When they all got into the Common Room Harry plopped himself into his favorite chair next to the fire. Hermione, Ginny, and Lindsay took seats on the couch next to the chair he was sitting in.
"Now Hermione you got lucky before and got out of admitting that you like Ron, but now there will be no interruptions. If you can honestly say that you don't like my brother then we will drop the subject" Ginny said looking at Lindsay to see if she was agreeing with her. Harry not really paying any attention to what was going on now started listening to what they were saying.
"Ginny…" Hermione said in a hushed voice so people around her wouldn't hear her.
"Come on Hermione. You know Ginny will not drop the subject until you tell us something" Lindsay said laughing. Hermione looked at Harry to see if he was listening and since he was pretending to read a book she thought he wasn't then she turned to Ginny and Lindsay and said...
A/N: This is my first Fan Fiction tell me if you like it ill try to update as soon as I can plez REVIEW!
