"Quid agis?" he asked tentatively to the Fat Lady, wondering what he would find inside.

Her expression was unreadable as she replied, "You'll see."

And she swung forward.

A roar of celebration erupted from the hole behind her. Harry Gaped as people began to scream at the sight of him; several hands pulled him into the room.

"We won!" yelled Ron, bounding into sight and brandishing the silver Cup at Harry. "We won! Four Hundred and fifty to a hundred and forty! We won!"

Harry looked around amazed; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. As Harry hugged her congratulating her on the win. He saw Hermione look away quickly from him and look at Lavender who had gone back to Snogging with Ron. She looked like she was holding back tears as she quickly grabbed her things and went to go upstairs. Harry slipped past Ginny and caught up to Hermione at the bottom of the girl's staircase.

"What's wrong Hermione" Harry asked her with concern

"I.. I... I can't tell you here!" she said and led him up to his room.

She quickly shut the door and cast Muffilato with a whisper.

"I thought you didn't approve of the Princes spells." Harry said as she cast it.

"No their not bad but I didn't want to admit that to you and especially not to Ron." Hermione said as tears started to build up in her eyes.

"What's wrong Hermione?" Harry asked.

"No! You would never look t me the same if I told you!" Hermione told him as the tears began to run down her cheeks.

"Nothing you say could ever make me think badly of you Hermione" He told her Honestly.

"Harry I.. I don't know for sure when it started but for a while now I have liked you. The past couple weeks have been hard are me and I have wanted to kiss you more and more every day. Watching you fall for Ginny has hurt me more than I had even realized until a couple minutes ago when I saw you hug Ginny and then seeing Ron snogging Lavender senseless sent me over the edge. I'm sorry Harry"

Hearing this Harry laughed quite loudly at the absurdity of the situation and Hermione burst into tears! Harry quickly realizes he had messed up and done that twice now he quickly leaned in and captured Hermione's lips with his own. It wasn't a particularly long kiss and while it was wet like Harry's first kiss with Cho it felt fundamentally different. He was the reason that this Beautiful young woman he had fallen for was crying and rather than just wondering over the wetness of the kiss Harry instead tried to convey all of what he felt for her through that One kiss. When they broke apart a few seconds later Hermione had shock on her face.

"But what about Ginny?" she managed to stammer out.

"I care for Ginny as a close friend but it's you I want Hermione" Harry said with such sincerity that Hermione burst into tears again!

"No No No Hermione don't cry whats wrong?" The concern in Harry's voice made Hermione start to laugh and it too her several minutes to stop laughing again and the confused look every time she looked at him didn't help her, instead it set her off again

"So you really mean it" She asked him still trying to catch her breath from laughing so much.

"Yes!" He nearly shouted. Then he asked " Hermione, would you be my girlfriend"

Hermione cried "Yes! Of course" and hugged him fiercely. All the sudden the aches and pains he felt in his muscles from sitting still and writing so long during Snape's detentions were forgotten about as they got up and walked down the stairs holding hands to join back in with the party the happiest they had been in weeks.