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Harry, Ron and Ginny were sitting near the fire in the common room. Ron and Harry were playing chess while Ginny watched them both cheering for Harry to win.
"Are you blind? He can check you if you move there! I would place that as far away from-" Ginny Screamed at Harry. But Harry cut her off.
"Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression I was the one playing" he said calmly without looking at her.
Just then the portrait swung open and Hermione entered.
"If she asked us about that again I swear I'll go to the library" said Harry
Hermione is an independent girl who doesn't need the approval of anybody but lately she was getting keen on asking Harry, Ron and Ginny on how she looked. She was getting self conscious because of the constant teasing that the Slytherin girls gave here. It was getting somewhat annoying to Harry and Ron but being her best friends they were more than eager to comfort her. Only Ginny knew the reason of her friends' frantic enlightenment. She knows that her friend fancies her elder brother and the teasing made her think if she is good enough for him.
They all watch Hermione enter and sit at the vacant seat in front of them. They looked at her. Waiting if would ask them anything about her looks.
"Why are you all staring at me like that?" Said Hermione "Did someone put something on my hair again?" She frantically searched her hair for any object that was wedge in her hair.
"Nothing is in your hair Hermione" Harry assured her.
"Pansy Parkinson teased me again" said Hermione, her eyes watering. Ron rolled his eyes at Harry "She said I'm ugly everyone thinks I'm ugly…and a stupid know-it-all" she added.
"We don't, shh don't crying" Ginny was now comforting her, to try calming her down.
"Don't worry we'll get back at her during potions tomorrow" harry said with a grin on his face, still Trying to save the losing chess game at hand.
"Thanks" she sobbed in a tissue that Ginny offered her "If only I wasn't so Ugly…"
"Will you just drop it Hermione?" Ron exclaimed while standing to his feet from his tremendously comfortable seat.
Harry and Ginny looked at him and Hermione raised her head to stare at him. Ginny gave him a surprised look while Harry has his mouth half open unsure what was going to happen.
"Ok so maybe you're ugly, who care?" Ron continued. Ginny was now giving him a murderous look.
"I think you pretty even beautiful so what does it matter what anybody else think?" Regretting the sentence he just spoke, he looked at his friends shocked expression. Ginny has her hand over her mouth while harry has a wide smirk on his then he turned to Hermione, whose reaction was most important to him. For a minute he feared that all hell would let loose and they would have another row again.
"I…you…" are the only words she could muster under the sudden shock
Hermione was deeply stunned by that simple statement. She looked at him. She kept mouthing words but no sound came out. In one fell swoop she stood up, kissed Ron on the cheek whispered "Thank you" to his ear than ran off to the girl's dormitory with a bright scarlet face. Ginny followed her but not before giving her brother an approval look.
Ron touched the skin where Hermione's soft lips touched. He couldn't help but smile.
"Well you sure handled that well" Harry said, breaking the silence.
"Yeah well we won't be hearing that issue for a while" Ron replied. Still smiling as wide as his face would allow.
AN: I have been reading fan fictions for a while now and I thought I would give back to the community. This is my first fan fiction so I think I made mistake. Upon writing this, my respects for writers grew ten folds. It's so hard to think of plots and stuff and after all that there's the spelling, paragraph, grammar (hopefully I made as little as possible) and etc.. so thanks for Gods gift to read and write
