"Hermione." Ginny called to the lump that laid in the cot next to her bed. "Come on Mione wake up."
"No" came the muffled response from the lump known as Hermione Granger.
"Yes" Ginny replied as she moved over to the end of the cot and then ragged the duvet off of Hermione's prone form.
At the contact of the cold air on her bare skin she curled up into ball to keep what little body heat she had left to keep herself warm.
"Come one get up. My mom wants to see everyone down in the kitchen now for some daft reason or another. So get your lazy arse downstairs, we are only waiting on you." Ginny said as she made her way towards the door and inot the hallway.
Grumbling all the while Hermione dragged herswlf off the cot, walked over to her trunk to pull out some fresh clothes.
After pulling those on she slowly made her way down the two flights of stairs and into the sea of red also known as the Weasley kitchen.
Walking into the kitchen she was greeted with the site of, 6 of the 7 Weasley men, half asleep sat around the kitchen table in the middle of the room. Also sat at the table was a rather annoyed Harry Potter and on his left was Remus Lupin, who had just the night before had is his monthly transformation, in the basement of Grimmauld Place. Then to his left was a bubblegum pink haired, viberant metamorphagus, otheriwse known as Tonks.
Taking the only available seat which was next to Harry , Hermione turned her attention to the Weasley matriach, who's face was now sporting a crimson red not unlike the Gryffindor red which covered most of the common room back at Hogwarts.
Leaning over ever so slightly as to not look suspicious Hermione whispered to Harry.
"What's all the fuss about?"
"I have no idea,1 minute I was asleep peacefully having pleasent dreams about a certain Witch, then the next thing I know is I have Mrs Weasley screaming her head of at me to get downstairs and into the kitchen. She didn't even give me time to put on a t-shirt." At his admission, for the first time since she had entered the room did she take stock of exactly what he was wearing. His lack of clothing on the top half of his body, made Hermione flush as she remembered the events of the night before when his chest was pushed up against hers so erotically.
Flushing slightly at her thoughts Hermione turned her attention towards Molly in an effort to get rid of her gutterbrain thoughts. Looking out the corner of her eye she noticed the smug smirk now located on Harry's face.
As Mrs Weasley began to speak Hermione was pulled out of her thoughts when she was given a calculated look from the woman onfront of her.
"This morning when I was cleaning the diningt room to get it ready for the Order meeting, I found this." She pointed to the used condom in the middle of the table, which no one had taken any notice until now when it was mentioned.
Once everyone had had a good look and the used condom Mrs Weasley was treated to 7 out of 10 confused stares.
"Can anyone explain to me what exactly that thing is?" She wailed as she jabbed her hands towards the offending item.
Now whilst this was going on the other 3 people in the room who knew exactly whta the itme was, were having a rather difficult time disgusing their laughter, but at the helpless look Mrs Weasley gave them, Tonks,Harry and Hermione burst out in gails of laughter which left them with tears in their eyes and jaw ache from the grins that graced their faces.
At the sound of their laughter all the other occupants of the room turned to them and agve them an open mouth shocked stare which resembled a gormless fish.
Once the laughter had died down to the occasional chuckle, and Mrs Weasley had regained the power fo speech she rounded on Harr, Hermione and Tonks.
"What's the meaning of this? It isn't remotely funny. Now tell me what this thing is. For Merlin's sake." She sputtered out in rapid fire as her anger became once again pronounced in her voice.
Hearing the anger in her worda Harry and Hermione shut up immediatley, whereas Tonks continued to laugh at the ignorance fo Purebloods when it came to muggle contraceptives.
"Nymphdora Tonks what do you find so amusing." Molly all but screamed as the very little control she had left on her temper, snapped and the brunt of it was directed at the young woman who had continued to ignore her questioning.
Now whenever Tonks' first name is used it usually snaps the young woman back to reality, and in this case it is no different, as she sat there muttering darkly under her breath.
Deciding that now would be a good time to enter the conversationto try and lessen his wife's anger and pull her attention away from the young woman in the corner of the room.
"Molly sweetheart, just take a deep breath and just take a seat i'm sure that Harry and Hermione will explain for you." Arthur stated and to everyones surprise she compied without so much as a fight.
"Harry, Hermione." Arthur prompted.
"Err... well you see the thing is... that erm... well." Harry tried to explain.
"What Harry id trying to say is thta is a condom." Hermione said with a calm and impassive face, when all she wanted to do was once again was laugh at the outragious looks and all the Weasley's present faces.
"Okay" Mrs Weasley started slowly. "Then what exactly is a codnoom? Dear."
Now it was Hermione's turn to look uncomfortable. Even though she knew exactly what one did and how they worked.
"Well you see the thing is that they are what muggles use as a contraceptive." She said trying to put on her best know-it-all voice."They go on a blokes tackel and most of the time they prevent pregnancy."
Explaination over and done with, once again Mrs Weasley had steam propelling itself out of her ears. Standing up so abrutley, the chair she had been seated on not 10 seconds ago was now laying on the floor.
"What!" She bellowed, making all the occupants of the kitchen, shrink back into the chairs at the scream.
"Psst Mione." Harry whispered never taking his eyes of the raging woman infront of him.
"Yeah." She answered .
"Please tell me that you didn't leave anything in the dining room last night.?"
After a pause he heard. "Oh shit, my bra is still in there somewhere."
Just as the words left Hermione's mouth did Mrs Weasley produce, from her apron pocket, a red lacy bra.
Together they turned to each other and whispered. "Fuck!"
"Excuse me. What was that?" Mrs Weasley rounded on them.
"Nothing Mrs Weasley." They chorused.
"No please do tell the rest of us, what all your little hushed conversations are about."
Just as they were about to answer, the kitchen door swung open and in walked the 'Greasey Git' as dubed by the teenagers of the house, carrying Remus' healing potions from Madam Pomfrey.
"Did I interupt something." He drawled as he walked into the room whilst giving all the teenagers a cold galre, which was returned full force by each teen.
"I've brought Lupin's potions."
Noticing they had a small window of opportunity Harry and Hermione made a break for the kitchen door and up the stairs and into the safety fo their bedroom, to wait until the eye of the strom had passed.
Seizing the opportunity to make that break, when Mrs Weasley turned her attention to the 'Greasy Git' as they talked about the up and coming Order meeting. Snagging the bra off the table, they bolted to the door before anyone could realise what they were doing and by the time they had legged it up stairs, Mrs Weasley had only managed to clear the kitchen door.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER, HERMIONE JANE GRANGER. GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW." Molly bellowed from the bottom of the stairs.
Back in the kitchen gradually everyone went back to the breakfast that had been put infront of them before this little episode.
"Well I guess that means Harry and Hermione are together now then." Ginny says to no one in particular.
Silence penetrated the room until moaning, groaning ad bedsprings could be heard in the otherwise calm but creepy Grimmauld Place.
"Yep definitley together."