Summer

Hermione Granger was a very studious girl. She went to Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry. She had two best friends, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. The entire wizarding world was counting on Harry to save them from the most evil wizard ever. Ron Weasley had a wonderful family that had become like a family to both Harry and Hermione. Ron's younger sister, Ginny, was her closest girlfriend. Hermione didn't have any siblings of her own and her parents didn't have any magical abilities so she enjoyed being with the Weasley's. She was currently spending her summer helping to get the house of Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, in livable shape. The Weasley's, Sirius Black and Harry were all there with her. It was during this summer that Hermione started to have unbrotherly feelings for George Weasley. Which she thought was strange because she had been around George for the last four years and she never thought of him as anything other than Ron and Ginny's older brother. He was a twin to Fred Weasley. The twins could always be found doing something to get a laugh out of people. She couldn't understand why she felt this way. He treated her the same way as he always did. She decided to act like everything was the same and the feelings should pass. Maybe it was because they were in such close proximity of each other. She knew when they returned to school everything would go back to normal. She would go on learning everything she could and he would go on being a prankster.

Unbeknownst to Hermione- George did notice her and she was the subject of plenty of conversations between him and Fred.

"Why don't you sit next to her at breakfast and see how long it will take her to push her food away and leave?" Fred asked George with a grin.

"No, I don't want to do that." George answered. "If she thinks I'm trying to mess with her she'll pull further away from me. Let me handle this. I've got it covered."

"No offense brother, but you've been trying to get her attention all summer and she's only now started to notice. Why don't I give you a little helping hand?"

"No. I don't need any help. I've been playing it cool. I don't want to scare her away. I just want to spend some time with her."

"Well we should be able to arrange that." Fred said with a grin. And they put their heads together to plan.

That evening when Ginny told Hermione as they were cleaning one of the extra bedrooms Ginny said to Hermione, "I think Fred and George are up to something. I've lived with them all my life and I've never seen them so quiet. I wonder what they are planning."

"Hmmm. I didn't notice." Hermione said to Ginny in a quiet way trying not to show interest in the conversation. But her disinterest only made Ginny suspicious.

"Ok, spill. What are you hiding? I know you, Hermione, you should tell me. I think it has to do with either Fred or George, but I don't know which one."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes, you do. You have guilt written all over you."

"What are you guilty of, Hermione?" Said Ron as he and Harry walked into the room.

"Nothing. Ginny is imagining it. What're you guys doing?"

"We're going to see if Dad will let us get out of this house. Mum will say no, but Dad will probably let us."

"Let us what?" George said as he and Fred joined them.

Ginny noticed Hermione went tense, but didn't say anything.

"We want to get out of this house for a while."

"Why don't we see if everyone wants to go to the Burrow tomorrow and have a quidditch game?" George said while putting an arm on Hermione's shoulder. "Hermione, you can be on my team."

She shrugged his arm off of her and said, "I don't want to play, but I'll watch. It will be nice to get outside for a change."

"Well you can cheer for my team."

"Maybe." Was all she said but when she looked into his eyes and they both felt like they were the only ones in the room.

No one thought the conversation was odd, or noticed anything out of the ordinary, but both Hermione and George were anxious over it.

Sirius had offered his house as Headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix. It was a group of people dedicated to bringing down the Dark Wizard and his followers. After the meeting that night Arthur Weasley brought up the subject of doing something for the kids. "They asked me if I could arrange for them to go home so they can play a game of quidditch."

"Too dangerous." Said Mad Eye Moody. He was an Auror, and worked for the Ministry of Magic. He was suspicious of everyone.

"I agree with Mad Eye, however why don't we think of something else for them to do." Remus Lupin said to the group. Remus was a friendly person and was well liked by everyone who knew him. His only problem was that he was a werewolf. There were lots of people who had a dislike of werewolves and didn't even give themselves a chance to get to know him. If they did they would see he was a good person.

"Why don't we set up a swimming pool in the backyard here?" Sirius said with a grin on his face. "Moony, remember that time we did that at your house then James made you invite Lily to our pool party because if he invited her she wouldn't have come?"

Remus laughed then said, "Yes, and remember how crazy he went when he saw her in her bathing suit? That's all he talked about for days. We got so tired of hearing how she looked that we started hexing him whenever he brought it up."

"But he didn't care. The hexes didn't bother him at all, and it didn't stop him from telling us all about it."

"Ok, ok. Enough reminiscing. We can probably do this for the kids tomorrow." Mad Eye said. "The wards are already in place here so it should be safe enough. They'll be plenty of adults here to watch them. I'll have Kingsley and Nymphodora come by and do guard duty too."

"I don't think you need to bother Kingsley and Tonks, with all of us here and the wards that are in place we should be fine." Remus told Mad Eye.

The sun was shining the next morning and it looked like a perfect day for a pool party. The backyard was transfigured into a swimming pool and not only the kids enjoyed themselves, the adults had a great time too.

Tonks did come over and she helped Mrs. Weasley prepare a picnic lunch for everyone.

Sirius and Remus were sitting and watching the kids in the water when Sirius said, "Moony, remember how Prongs would act around Lily? All show-offy and stuff. Making a fool of himself."

"How could I forget. Remember how he used to pull at his hair and make it stand up worse than it was already?" Remus replied to Sirius.

"Well look over at the twins. One of them looks the same way Prongs did. If I was a betting man I'd say one of them has a thing for Hermione. And from the looks of it, she isn't opposed to the idea like Lily was. Want to make a bet on it?" Sirius asked Remus with a laugh in his voice.

"You know, you may be on to something. I think its George. Should we investigate?"

"Not yet, let's watch. It may be good for a laugh. If nothing else, we could ride him about it later."