Winning Harry's Love

'NO! HARRY LOVES ME! IM SURE OF IT!' Ginny shouted shrilly as the entrance door slammed behind her. Draco and Ginny had each just returned from a Hogsmeade weekend with their friends, Draco's last.

'I LOVE HARRY MORE THEN YOU COULD EVER!' Draco yelled back.

'How could you? You've been nothing but horrible to him ever since the first day you came here!!! I've spent more time with Harry than you, and I can actaully hold a civilized conversation with him, You, all you do is make fun of him! I never knew that making fun of someone the way you do was a way to profess you undying love!!!' Ginny screamed at Draco, her voice full of rage and hatred for the blonde-haired boy in front of her. She just couldn't believe that he was trying to make her believe that he loved Harry more than she ever did or could.

'YOU? LOVE HIM?! Hah! No! I didn't realize that stalking and obsessing over someone was considered undying love nowadays! And civilized conversation my ass! To have a conversation you have to be able to actually SAY something other then MUMBLE and BLUSH!' Draco screamed back, throwing his hands up in frustration. There was no way a poor dirty weasel would take Harry from him.

'I don't mumble and blush!!! Maybe I used to but I was young and naive then! And i can hold a decent conversation with him that involves NO yelling or insulting. He HATES you and there's nothing you ca- uhhh....!'

Draco whirled round to see that Harry Potter himself had just walked into the Entrance hall from Hogsmeade. Ron and Hermione, his best friends, accompanied him on either side. The trio looked at the yelling pair in confusion and amusement.

'H-h-harry! Mhmhmhmmm... uhhh... hi?' Ginny said quietly, a blush heating up her cheeks and neck. Draco looked at the red head and laughed, saying in gasps 'No! No blushing or mumbling! Not at all!'

Ginny looked up at Draco and lost her head. No Malfoy would laugh at her like that. She pulled her hand up and slapped him hard across the face.

Ron took this opportunity to speak 'YES! Go Ginny! Give that ferret what he deserves!'

Hermione watched as Ginny backed up away from Draco with a look of realization on her face. She had just slapped Draco Malfoy across the face!

'WHAT THE HELL?!' He bellowed, holding his hand to his face for a moment. Pulling out his wand, Draco pointed it at Ginny. 'How dare you slap me?!' Hermione, of course, chose this moment to freeze Draco and Ginny with an immobulous charm.

'What's going on? Why are the two of you suddenly out to kill one another?' Hermione questioned them from where she had taken to standing. She waited for an answer for a few seconds, growing ever more impatient, before Harry interrupted her.

'Um, Hermione? Don't you have to take the charm off them first before they can talk?'

Hermione had the grace to look embarrassed as she took the charm off. 'Oh, right.' The silence was broken the moment the charm was removed.

'HE THINKS HE CAN MAKE PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM!'

'SHE HAS DELUSIONS THAT HARRY LOVES HER!'

'HE....HE.... he..... uh.... he wants Harry to love him. It's never going to happen. Never!'

'She cant even think of a good comeback! And like its going to work with you two?! Puhleeze!!!'

Harry looked at them oddly before slowly backing away and running for his sanity up to Gryffindor Tower.

Everyone watched as Harry ran away from the argument. Ginny and Draco took on sad faces as they realized that they were the cause of Harry's abrupt departure. Although Draco was thinking more along the lines that is was all Ginny's fault....

Ron and Hermione looked at each other and smiled. They knew that they were going to help resolve this issue. They would figure out what to do.

Ron and Hermione were in the back of the library. They had just left the Entrance hall to try and make a plan. Ginny and Draco had both walked off after Harry left. Ginny in a slump, and Draco with his usual grace and arrogance.

'We could... um make them take a truth potion? Find out who really loves him?' Suggested Ron.

'No. Truth potions are illegal unless used by a ministry official.' Hermione said, putting a stop to his idea.

'Uhhh, we could make them... fight each other... to the death! And we can help Ginny so we can get rid of Malfoy forever! Oh please can we use this one?' Ron said, excitedly.

'Ronald! No! You could go to Azkaban and anyways, it has to be entirely fair. Although fighting each other would be entertaining.' Hermione smiled slightly. 'Oh! We could have our own Triwizard Tournament. Except with only 2 people... and more challenges. Harry would be the prize at the end of course.'

Ron stared at Hermione as if she had grown five heads. 'A...tournament? So... would there be judges and everything? Would people come and watch? How would will we get Harry to agree to all of this?'

Hermione laughed, 'Oh Harry is too oblivious to notice anything. We'll just make him sit in a chair and watch, and.... we could be the judges! Oh and I suppose we have to have at least one Slytherin. And maybe a couple Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws. I'm sure Justin wouldn't mind. And then we could get Padma to judge for Ravenclaw. You know her, don't you Ronald.' Hermione continued to think even after she stopped talking. She had a sudden thought. 'It won 't be fair though if BOTH of us are judges. Only one of us should be... or even a different person... Because we'll be busy making up the different tasks that they'll have to complete. Oh, should we tell the teachers? No, of course not. They would never approve of what we're going to do. Well, maybe Dumbledore.. but not the re-'

Ron fell off of his chair, causing Hermione to stop talking. Rolling his eyes, he said in his most bored voice, 'I'm gonna go now, when you stop rambling, lemme know. Or... you could stop this talk and we could go find our judges and plan the tasks.'

'Alright Ron.' Hermione sighed. 'How about we go and find the people we want as judges then? I am Head Girl so I know all the passwords to the other common rooms.' Hermione stood up and started heading for the door. Ron got up hurriedly, knocking over a chair in the process. Hermione rolled her eyes at him and continued out of the library. They were going to go to Hufflepuff first in order to talk to Justin who was Head Boy.

'Let me get this straight.' Said a very confused Justin. 'You want me to be a judge for a tournament you're going to hold in order to decide who will win Harry's love?'

'Yup.' Said Ron proudly while nodding his head.

'That has got to be the weirdest thing I've everheard. I'll do it!'

'Great! Well, we have to go and talk to people from other houses to see if they'll judge too.' Hermione said to Justin while grabbing Ron's hand and literally dragging him out of the Hufflepuff common room.

'Yes, uhh, is Padma there? Yes, I am Ron. Yes, I suppose I'm the arsehole who broke her heart. Yes. Okay can we just talk to her?!' Ron said exasperatedly. Hermione pushed past him and stepped inside, closing the door behind her and leaving him outside. You could hear muffled yelling from Ron outside.

'Padma, we need you to judge a tournament.' Hermione said getting straight to the point. 'So.. yes, we'll get in touch.'

Padma looked at her blankly before returning to her book. Hermione shrugged and left to join Ron again.

Hermione decided to go to the Gryffindor common room next, as she realized that she would like to put off going to the Slytherins for as long as possible. Once inside their own common room, Hermione and Ron set out in search of Seamus, who they hoped would agree to be the judge from Gryffindor.

After walking around for a few minutes and checking all of the dorms, they heard to portrait hole open. In walked Seamus looking more disheveled than ever.

'What have you been up to Seamus-my-boy' asked Ron slyly.

Seamus looked up at Ron and Hermione, a large grin plastered on his face. 'Just the usual.... good snog' He said while winking at Hermione causing her to blush.

Ron, being as oblivious as usual, totally missed this exchange and went right on to explain to Seamus what was going on and what they wanted him to do.

'Uh huh... So, how does Harry feel about all of this? And when will all of this be taking place?'

Ron looked at Hermione for the answer to Seamus's questions.

'Harry isn't going to know. He's too oblivious to figure it out on his own, so why bother telling him? And as to when it will be. Well, I was kind of thinking that we could start this Monday after classes are over. I'm not sure how long it will go on for though. Probably one task per day. We'll see what works out. Now, if you'll excuse us, we need to go and find a certain Slytherin to be out judge.' And with that, she once again grabbed Ron by the sleeve and pulled him out of the Gryffindor Common room.

Seamus watched them leave and mumbled to himself, "Poor guy. She really has him whipped."

Hermione and Ron walked down the long corridors to the Dungeons. Reaching an empty wall with snakes engraved into the bricks, Hermione spoke the password. Many Slytherins looked up as the two Gryffindors walked in, confused. 'Blaise!' Hermione called as the black haired boy strode towards them. Ron looked at Hermione like she was an alien as she and Blaise hugged.

'Listen, we need you to judge in this tournament we're having. Its for Harry, and between Ginny and Draco. For Harry's love. We have a judge from each of the other houses, but we need you for Slytherin.' Hermione said, smiling.

Blaise looked skeptical for a second before laughing, 'Draco always chooses the most difficult people, of course Ill do it. It'll be funny. Is the press going to be involved?'

Hermione and Blaise talked for a few minutes, as Ron looked uncomfortable. As the couple left, Ron raised his eyebrows at his girlfriend. Hermione shrugged and they went off to plan the tasks.

On the way back to Gryffindor tower, Ron questioned Hermione about what she had done back in the Slytherin common room.

'Hermione... back there.... did.... did you hug Blaise Zabini?' He looked disgusted just saying it.

Hermione gave him an odd look before answering, 'Yes I did Ron. Do have a problem with that?' She raised her eyebrow at him.

'Uhh, no. It's just. Well, HERMIONE HE'S A SLYTHERIN!' He finally exploded.

'Really Ron? I hadn't noticed! Well, obviously you haven't noticed, but some Slytherins are actually nice. They make for a very intelligent conversation and treat their friends very nicely.'

'But aren't you worried he'll try to put.. you know? The moves on you?' Ron said getting uncomfortable with the conversation.

'Ron, do you really not know?' When Ron shook his head no, that he didn't "really know", Hermione continued. 'Blaise is gay Ron. Meaning he doesn't like girls. He likes boys. Kind of like Harry, but Harry likes girls and boys.'

'Oh. Okay then.'

They had reached the portrait of the fat lady, said the password ('mugwump') and climbed in to find that most of the Gryffindors weren't in the common room. Hermione looked up at the big grandfather clock and saw that it was 10:20 pm.

'Ron! Look at the time. We have to go to bed! Good night!' She kissed him quickly on the cheek and ran up the stairs to her room.

'Goodnight!' Ron called after her. He then turned, and went up to his own room while thinking about the upcoming tournament.

Just before he climbed into bed, he remembered his second idea to decide who would get Harry. 'Should have let them just fight to the death.' He mumbled while smiling. 'Would have taken a lot less planning.' And then her turned out the lights and fell asleep amidst the many snores of his dorm mates.

Authors Note: This is a collab. fic that we hope will be at least 15 chapters long. We don't know how often we will be able to update, but we assure you we will finish it. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter, the second will be up very soon.

Thanks to Lady Rhiannon Malfoy for being our beta, and thanks to wings-of-innocence just because she's awesome! XD

-- Lilyaris and Faelyn