Hermoine and Ronald Weasley. It always sounded good to her. Not to Ron though...at least she looked at it that way. Ron saw her as nothing more than a good friend. Ron, Harry, and Hermonie were the best of friends, they had known each other for 6 years now. They all met on the train to Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry.
They were all best friends from the start, and Hermoine liked him from the start as well. But she had to keep it inside her for 5 years. 5 years! Ron liked a stuck up girl named Lavender Brown. Lavender always has hated Hermonie. She never did anything wrong to Lavender, but Lavender had a feeling that Hermonie liked Ron. That ticked Lavender off, because Ron and her were just...meant...to be.
They had all had a great start of the year, considering they were only about a half an hour into it...but Hermonie was going to make this year count. She knew that 6 years was long enough to wait for someone she loved...at least, she thought she loved. Hermonie never liked a person for this long, and never knew what love actually felt like. Sometimes she hated Ron, because of his stupidity and ignorance. But those little things seemed to slip from her mind after they would apologize. This year, was going to be different. Hermonie was absolutely determined.
Ron was just as happy to see Harry and Hermonie as he would any other beginning of the year.
"Harry! 'Monie!" Ron noticed them already sitting in the Great Hall.
"Ronald!" Hermonie ran to hug him. Harry stood behind them both, waiting for his turn to say hello to Ron.
"Ahem." Harry waved his arms so Ron would see him.
"Harry! Don't think I didn't see you there! This one is just madly in love with me!" Ron playfully pushed Hermonie's arm. Hermonie just stood there, watching Harry and Ron reunite after the "long" summer, as they were saying. They went back to the Gryffindoor table and sat down for Dumbledore's yearly announcement.
Something caught Hermonie's eye. Draco. Draco Malfoy. Hermonie never noticed Draco before. He was always so mean to Hermonie, Ron, and Harry, even Ginny-Ron's little sister-when she was with us. As Dumbledore began to talk, Malfoy saw Hermonie starting at him. He usually didnt mind, he loved the attention. But the fact that she was a mud-blood, caught him off guard, they both knew very well that Draco's father despised mud-bloods, and forbid Draco from ever talking to one...if he ever had any relations with her or any mud-blood for that matter, his parents would disown him.
"What's she looking at?" A familiar boys voice came from Draco's side. It was Blaise Zabini. Draco's best friend.
"Beats me. But she better stop." Draco whispered back, still watching Dumbledore.
After Dumbledore finished, the feast began, and everyone dug in. Everyone except Draco. He sat there, straight up, and watched-disgustingly-as Crabbe and Goyle filled their mouths with food.
"You two are pigs, you are." Draco hissed, with a disgusted look on his face. Crabbe and Goyle were Draco's little followers, they did everything that Draco did.
"Really! You two DISGUST me." Blaise said scarcastily. His mouth was filled also, and he was yelling with chewed up food flying everywhere.
"Lost my appetite...I'm heading back to Slytherin..." Draco pushed his plate away and walked out of the Great Hall.
Back at the Gryffindoor table, Ron was being just as disgusting with the food as Crabbe and Goyle.
"You disgust me Ron." Ginny pointed out.
"Thanks. Get in line with the rest of the people who are waiting for me to care." Ron shot her a smirk. She grunted and kept eating. Then, Fred and George, who were Ron and Ginny's older twin brothers, sat down and began to eat with them.
"Hey Hermonie. We saw you sneeking a peek at over there." George whispered. "Yeah, he was looking back at you..." Fred continued.
"What's going on with that?" George finished.
"Don't you two think it's just a tad early in the year to start getting it to trouble?" Hermonie half smiled, a little evil was in her eye.
"Not a chance." They said at the same time. Hermonie chuckled at them and continued to eat.
After dinner, everyone was led upstairs back to their common rooms. The place was filled with first years running around getting a feel to the place.
"Was I that annoying during first year?" Ginny asked, a little worried. Hermonie laughed.
"Not even a little!" Hermione wrapped her arms around her best friend. Ginny let her breath out in relief.
"Who's up for a game of wizards chess?" Harry shouted.
"I'll get my set!" Ron yelled, already running up the stairs to get his wizards chess set. He came back down 5 minutes later saying he couldn't find it. Fred and George chuckled as they pointed to the ceiling.
"Bloody worst brothers you two are!" Ron shoved them. They had used a spell to glue Ron's set to the ceiling.
Ron turned to Hermonie for help. She groaned and pulled out her wand. With swish, flick, and a couple weird words Ron had heard during Charms with Professor Flitwick, the box dropped on the couch.
"Ronald. Your lucky that you've got Hermonie," Fred said, staring at the chess set still.
"Or else, half your stuff would be stuck to the ceiling from two years ago." George finished Fred's sentence. Everyone laughed but Ron, who was still staring at his brothers in rage. Hermonie and Ginny went over and sat down in front of the fire to relax after Fred and George's first prank of the year. They then began to bet on if the next one was also going to be pulled on Ron. Hermonie had her money on one of the teachers being the next target.
Hermonie spent that night thinking about Ron and how she was gonna change what he thought about her.