"The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth" comes from a quote by William Shakespeare. These short, little one-shots follow some of our favorite characters as they think about someone else. The timeline jumps around from anywhere before the series to after The Deathly Hallows. I thought that these might be fun little ramblings to write and hopefully you'll enjoy them!


Who does she think she is? When I came to Hogwarts, I thought I'd be getting away from my bossy controlling mother, not finding a smaller, younger, even more bossy one.

You've got dirt on your nose, by the way. Did you know?

Yes I bloody well did! My mother lectured me on it enough without you having to do it, too! I knew then that I should just keep away from her. Who needs someone like that around anyway? She's got no right to talk to me the way she does. I've never given her any reason to actually believe we're friends.

She's probably never even had a real friend. I bet when she got her Hogwarts letter that she thought everything would change for her. She probably thought she'd make lots of friends. Well, guess what, Hermione? No one wants to be friends with a bossy know-it-all!

And she just has to be good at magic, doesn't she? I've had five brothers who are all better than me at everything. Even Ginny gets away with anything she does wrong. I thought I'd be able to get away from that for once. But no! She has to waltz in and correct me just like they all do. It's probably a good thing she's an only child. If she had a sibling, they'd feel just like I do, getting shown up all the time by her. Sure, Bill and Percy are the smart ones, Charlie's the athletic one, and Fred and George are really funny, but she thinks she can do anything! At least my brothers don't try to be everything. They can't help it. She acts like that on purpose!

And I know it's not just a girl thing. I've lived with Ginny for years and even though she's annoying, too, she's not like that. It's like Hermione's trying to boss us into being friends with her! How can anyone think that would work?

It's leviooosa, not leviosaaa.

Who does she think she is? Flitwick? He's a real professor and if I need correcting, he can correct me, not some witch who is younger than me and never knew a thing about magic for her entire life. Just because she's read some books, she thinks she knows everything.

And she keeps trying to butt into our group like she belongs or something. It's me and Harry and that's it. Three is a crowd and I found him first. He's my best friend and we don't need some girl hanging around and telling us off all the time.

I'll never tell anyone this, but I thought when I first saw her that she was kind of cute. Not anymore. She ruined that when she opened her mouth and never shut it again. Who actually reads textbooks before class even starts? I'll bet she drives her parents mad with how smart she thinks she is.

Yesterday was the first day I'd ever been happy to have her around. Seeing her in flying lessons, frustrated for probably the first time in her life because of a class…it was like Christmas came early. Sure, Harry was great at it, but he doesn't correct me like he knows everything or rubs it in my face that he's good.

If she corrects me one more time, just one more time, I'll tell her the truth. I'll tell her who she really is. She's got no friends, no one likes her, and it's all her fault. If she's so smart, she can go off and annoy the Ravenclaws and leave all of us in Gryffindor alone. We're sick of her. All of us. Especially me.

She's not my mother, she's not my professor, and she's definitely not my friend.