Chapter One: The Chase
Author's Note: This story takes place in Hermione, Ron, and Harry's fifth year, making it Fred and George's 7th year, and Ginny's 4th. It's a Fred/Hermione fan fiction and there may be a subplot between a few other characters but I'm not sure yet. This is my first fan fiction so I'm not sure if people will or will not like it. I'd love constructive criticism on my story or any type of review at all on my story, as long as there are no unnecessary mean comments. I hope you guys enjoy this first chapter and if not, I'll just not continue the story and try to write another one that is better. I've changed a few things around in the story and I'll try to give you a heads up on them as I write but if I forget my apologies. Please let me at least know what you think by reviewing and thanks for reading it in the first place.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine and it never will be. It is owned by the wonderful J.K. Rowling.
Hermione rushed forward until she reached the staircase. Climbing two at a time, she made her way up to the seventh floor corridor within thirty seconds. She gasped for breath but continued on as it was very important that she get to Ron and Harry. Onward she went and Hermione spat "Wish bones" at the fat lady while waiting impatiently to get in. It had been a very long day and of course, the fat lady was taking her time getting up. The fat lady had been sleeping and slowly took her time; she lazily stretched her arms and yawned before even looking at Hermione.
"Will you hurry up already? It's not even dark outside yet." Hermione angrily asked.
"Well isn't someone in a bit of a huff this evening?" the fat lady responded. "What happened to you anyway? You look as if you've been attacked or something!"
Hermione was not in a mood to converse and ignored her.
"Wish bones!" She pushed.
"I asked what happened!" The picture shouted back at her. Other pictures were stirring all around the two and Hermione knew for a fact that the fat lady was the head leader of gossip around Hogwarts. There was no way she was going to tell the fat lady what had happened when she needed to find Harry and Ron immediately.
"Never you mind," she said, trying to act as if nothing had happened. "Now PLEASE let me in. Wish bones!"
"Oh come on please darling? Tell me what happened!"
"Wish bones, now open the damn door!" Hermione shouted and the entranceway swung open as the fat lady grumbled to herself about never knowing anything. Hermione climbed through the passageway and hurried on until she reached the common room. She was quite a sight, with her bushy hair all over the place, only one arm in her coat, and her eyeliner smeared all over her face. She also had a mini peeves over her head singing repetitively "Ding dong the bells will fall when it's wedding time. Ding dong the house will burn when it's wedding time! Ding dong the kids will come an' destroy when it's wedding time!" She did an overview of the room while ignoring all Gryffindors looking at her curiously; she made her way up to where she knew she would probably find Harry and Ron playing wizard chess. Hermione threw open the door to where the fifth years slept and started yelling.
"How in the world could you two do this to me? I suppose you find it-"She was cut off my Neville. "Um… Hermione?" Hermione whipped around spitting a "what?" at him and realized it was only herself and Neville in the room.
This made her even angrier. "Where are they?" she demanded.
Harry and Ron had told Neville not to say where they were heading off to. He had passed them on the steps and had seen them going to hide in the library as that would be the least place Hermione would suspect them to be in.
Neville looked at his hands. "Erm...well…" he knew that he was not much one for secrets and Hermione certainly was scary when she got mad. "They went…they went-"
Hermione cut him off. "Yes! Neville! Where did Harry and Ron go off to? I know that this little joke was probably all their idea. It's like they picked it up from him and Fred!"
Then Hermione stopped. It had just dawned on her. "FRED!" she shouted out. "Fred has to be in on this too." She rambled on. "They must have had a fight and...Or no maybe this was all planned out or...No maybe something completely different! I don't know what goes on in their scrawny insufficient little brains but it's definitely not good."
Neville was looking at her funnily but Hermione ignored him. She knew exactly where to find Fred; she just had to find get the place out of Neville where the other two were hiding. "Neville I am going to ask you this once nicely. Where did Harry and Ron go?" Hermione glared.
Neville did not want to find out what would happen if he didn't tell her. Hermione was a good friend too and she deserved to know. Though, Potter and Weasley had been great too so he had a choice to make: lie or tell the truth. "It'd be safer telling the truth to Hermione than lying and having to face her wrath later," he decided.
"The library," he mumbled and hung his head not making eye contact with Hermione anymore. But Hermione had already turned and ran out the room, off to find Fred and her two "loving" best friends. She had some killing to do.
She had seen Fred talking with his friend Lee in the common room. Hermione had found it a bit odd that he had gave her a peculiar look when she passed but being mad at Harry and Ron, she had disregarded it earlier. Now she knew why he had looked between a mixture of fearful and troubled when she had passed.
"Boy," she thought. "All three of them did this. And George might have been in it too, I'm not sure if he's under some sort of spell, or is just flat out acting but whoever did this is definitely going down." She tried to sort out the whole situation in her mind as she went down the steps hoping to still find Fred in the common room with Lee.
Harry and Ron were definitely in on this. They had been acting out of the ordinary for the last week or so and Hermione had figured it was because of her birthday. Her birthday was now currently two weeks and four days away. She had been excited at first, thinking there might be a birthday bash plan going on but no, this is what was being planned. "Some birthday present." She griped to herself.
At last she made it back into the common room and she scanned the room for the bright red hair. Seeing no Fred anywhere, she kicked herself mentally for not having realized it sooner. "Well at least I know where Harry and Ron are. I'll get Fred for this later."
And so, again, off she went. As she walked she wondered why they had done this. "Probably just have spent too much time around the twins and picked it up. All the joking and silliness probably rubbed off on them." She kept walking. "Well, I'll make sure after this whole fiasco is over they won't find it quite so 'funny' anymore." This motivated her to get her energy back and she broke into a run.
At last, she reached the library and threw open the doors. Harry and Ron were in the back trying to conceal themselves by hiding behind newspapers. Hermione laughed at their measly attempt to put themselves out of sight and started storming heatedly towards the pair. Harry and Ron saw Hermione storming towards them and grew anxious.
"Wha-what should we do Harry?" Ron asked fretfully.
"I dunno mate, obviously she knows we were in on the joke. And it did take her a bit to find us so either George did a very good job and kept her for awhile or she thinks were the only ones in this."
"Yes but that's not what I meant," Ron rushed. "I meant do we stay, and get our asses kicked, or do we get the hell out of here!"
"Oh!" Harry gasped, putting down his newspaper. Hermione was about halfway across the room looking at them haughtily, knowing she had caught her prey.
"Run!" Harry hollered and they both scooted backwards from the table and scampered through the isles of books.
"Oh no, you don't!" Hermione bellowed after them now attracting the attention of Madam Pince. "Shh! Hermione Granger you keep your voice down in this library or I'll throw you right out!"
"Sorry." Hermione quickly said glancing at her and began hastily walking towards an isle of books. Once she was safely out of view she flew. She knew that if she wasn't quick enough Harry and Ron might make it out in time and then it would take even longer to track them down all over again and hurt them. She looked for a couple minutes and saw or heard nothing.
Just as she was turning around to leave the isles and exit the library to look for them elsewhere she heard "Ouch! Ron that was my foot!" She whirled around and saw the ends of their robes exiting the isle next to the isle she was last in. She knew if she cut through a few isles and ran just the right way she would catch up to them.
"I've got you now!" she screamed and started the path that would lead her right to them.
"Hermione Granger, I know you are the one back there causing this entire ruckus! Come out now and leave the library or it's detention for a week!" But Hermione did not care nor even fully hear her. She was going to catch Harry and Ron no matter what happened. She continued running.
The following couple of minutes consisted of Hermione running, Harry and Ron screaming and cutting corners, and a book case falling, thus causing a domino pattern of bookcases falling. At last, when it was over, Hermione was on top of Ron screaming and punching whilst Harry attempted to pull Hermione off.
Ron was at this point willing to try anything to get Hermione off. "Hermione I swear, me and Harry were involved in it but" "-But what? You took part in it? You did? I KNEW it." With that, Hermione turned and struggled to try and hit Harry a few times.
"No but Hermione. It just wasn't us, it was others too." Ron didn't care if he had to give up his brothers. He did not want Hermione after him for the next ten years. His brothers were smart enough to get away and he cared about his own skin more than theirs anyhow.
"Who? Ron who was it then?" Hermione turned away from Harry again and was back at Ron. She had stopped trying to punch in his face but still had a tight grip on him. Ron hesitated. She shook him. "Ron I asked who! Who Ron who!"
Ron couldn't take it anymore. He hated having her mad at him and mostly wanted her off of him immediately. "Fred. Hermione it was Fred and George too! They knew about it too. Yes me and Harry did think of it," Hermione punched each of them as hard as she could in the arm, "but they loved the plan. They wanted to join in and help carry it out." He pleaded while rubbing his arm.
Hermione instantly believed him, not surprised at all that the twins were in the whole fiasco one bit. But Hermione needed to take out her anger and continued to try to pound Ron as she thought about how horrible they had been.
The room was full of cluttered papers, books, and in the corner was Madam Pince, staring in shock at her library. Looking at the golden trio, they didn't seem to care at all about her precious library. She gained back her sense of control after a minute and realized her library had been ruined.
"Hermione Granger! How dare you! I cannot believe that the famous Potter, an excellent student like you, Ms. Granger, and the one Weasley who I thought might not cause quite so much chaos as his siblings have managed not only to earn themselves a week of detention but ruin my library in the process! Could this get any worse?"
Yes it could.
There had been two bookcases that had collided with each other near her and had both managed to get themselves stuck in the wall. Inside that wall was the water pipe system and suddenly, water started spraying all over, getting books, desks, the floor, the wall, the librarian, you name it wet. Meanwhile, Hermione was still trying to beat in Ron's face while Harry struggled to pull her off.
Madam Pince stayed there for a few minutes trying to rescue a few of her books from the water even as she was crying when who else but Fred Weasley should walk through the doors of the library holding the one library book he had ever checked out in his life. Not to mention the fact that it was two months overdue and was called 1001 Ways to Pull Off the Best Pranks. He stared in shock at what was going on for a moment and then started laughing nonstop. He even bent over because his sides were hurting so much from laughter. Every single event going on stopped and everyone looked up. Hermione immediately spotted Fred.
"YOU!" she yelled and Fred fell silent instantly and stood up straight.
Hermione leapt up and charged him like a bull, sopping wet with her fist pulled back ready for action. Fred turned around and ran out of the library with Hermione on his heels. Harry got up, deciding to try and save Fred from the rage of Hermione and darted out of the library. Ron turned and looked at the room, full of water, ruined books, and a very upset Madam Pince. It was either go catch up with Harry or stay here in this mess. He left leaving Madam Pince all alone with the water starting to flood everywhere submerging everything in its path.