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RAITING: PG-13 ((for now maybe…I'll let you know if it changes))

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The student lounge would have been quiet if it wasn't for the conversation Draco and Pansy had going on. Pansy had been betrothed to Draco and she didn't really wish for it. Yet, her parents along with Draco's were pretty controlling, therefore making it near impossible to get out of.

"Draco, sweetie, I said I love you. But…I don't love you to the point of marriage." Pansy stared at Draco. His cold, gray eyes streaming back into hers. He opened his mouth to remark when they were interrupted by an added ice cold voice.

"Mr. Malfoy, Miss Parkinson…it is great you two plan on using those brains of yours to carry on a civil conversation, yet, there is a volume control I do believe you must follow. You'll have the whole castle in here if you keep speaking at the intensity you are already."

Draco and Pansy both turned their heads to the voice. Professor Snape stood in the doorway, his arms crossed over his chest. His eyes showed warning and surprise at the display of his students. Pansy bowed her head and looked down at her feet, Draco stood.

"Sorry sir. Maybe you could help us, you see…Pansy and I were just going over our…" Draco looked at Pansy before continuing. "…our marriage standings."

Professor Snape rolled his eyes. He let out a hefty sigh, signaling he wasn't in the mood at that point to discuss or help anyone with anything. He turned his head immediately as he heard two more voices passing by the door.

"So it's a date? This Saturday then?" Harry's voice was highly recognizable, so was the girl that was with them.

"You know the rule, if I can get my Divination, Muggle Studies and my Transfiguration homework done, along with studying chapters thirteen through twenty of my potions book done by then--"

"Hermione, can't you just forget about your studies for one night? We can't even have a date without you and your--" Hermione cut Harry off. Snape and Draco rolled their eyes in unison as Pansy stretched her neck to see out the door.

"Harry?"

"Hmm?"

"Shut up and kiss me."

Snape groaned as Hermione and Harry's footsteps grew quiet. Students and their lovey-dovey nonsense. Draco made a gagging noise and Pansy hit his arm. Draco's face filled with pain and glared at Pansy as he rubbed his arm.

"Oh don't be such a baby, I didn't hit you that hard."

Draco kept his glare and stopped rubbing his arm, he stood tall and gave a small nod as he spoke.

"I got hit there this morning, and thanks to you I'll probably have a bruise there as big as New Zealand."

"Sure you will."

Draco stopped his glare, slowly and looked at Snape. Motioning out the door in the direction Harry and Hermione walked off to.

"You're just going to stand there and let them do that?"

Snape looked at Draco, his face filled with disgust.

"I beg your pardon? I would usually jump on the spot to take points away, but you've got to admit. He has become less of a pain as he started dating the know-it-all. Who knows, if they stay together we may become so lucky that he learns to an amount his head will explode."

Draco laughed, but was cut off by Snape once more.

"And if you ask me, if that girl knew what was best for her, she'd have chosen that trouble-maker Weasley over that stuck-up Potter."

Snape raised an eyebrow and took in a breath before stepping off of the doorframe and turning.

"Have a good day Mr. Malfoy, Miss Parkinson."

Draco sat back down, followed by Pansy after Snape left. Pansy was looking at Draco, he caught her look and simply shrugged.

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Harry and Hermione sat in the Gryffindor Common Room. Hermione leaned against Harry's shoulder, his arm around her.

"We should go somewhere over Winter vacation. Just us two, no Ron, no one." Harry stated. He looked into the fireplace as he spoke and at Hermione when they finished. Neither of them noticed the girl that just entered and stood in the shadows. She would have made a great Rita Skeeter at how well she stayed hidden and quiet. Hermione looked up at Harry.

"You can't be serious, can you? Can you imagine all the studying we can get done?"

Harry rolled his eyes. Studying, always studying, never a moment of 'relax.'

"Hermione, honestly, can't you forget about your books just for once. It's a vacation, relaxing and letting your brains go to rot is what vacations are for."

Hermione pursed her lips before looking back into the fire. Her features softened after a while and a small smile formed on her face.

"Oh alright. Where would we go, though?"

"Snuffles said that he'd be at his flat. It's a ways a way, but if we took the train, we could make it in a day and a half."

Hermione smiled larger and nodded.

"Alright, will you owl him soon, then?"

"Yeah. Maybe we should mail it from the forest, you know they got that new tracking device set up in the owlery…we wouldn't want to have an owl tracked."

Hermione nodded, understanding perfectly.

"Right, we could meet in the forest around ten then? After breakfast." Hermione turned to look at Harry and waited for his nod before she leaned over and gave him a lingering kiss before going to the stairs that led to the dormitories.

"Goodnight Harry."

Harry watched, he smiled as he watched her go up the stairs and disappear. He sat in the sofa a few minuets longer before turning in, himself, looking forward to tomorrow morning. The girl who had hidden in the shadows, smiling. She had a friend…a 'friend,' she thought, who would want to hear about this.

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A/N: Hope you like it…I'll have more chapters coming as soon as I get them written and checked! Please R&R!!!