A/N Okay yes, I am going to completely plagiarize here but only for a moment and before you guys freak it's just to set the time in the books where this is going to happen. I give J.K. Rowling full credit and I hope you enjoy!
Harry could not see Hermione at the Gryffindor celebration party, which was in full swing when he arrived. Renewed cheers and clapping greeted his appearance, and he was soon surrounded my a mob of people congratulating him. What with trying to shake off the Creevey brothers, who wanted a blow by blow match analysis, and the large group of girls that encircled him, laughing at his least amusing comments and batting their eyelids, it was some time before he could try and find Ron. At last, he extricated himself from Romilda Vane, who was hinting heavily that she would like to go to Slughorn's Christmas party with him. As he was ducking toward the drinks table, he walked straight into Ginny, Arnold the Pygmy Puff riding on her shoulder and Crookshanks mewing hopefully at her heels.
"Looking for Ron?" she asked, smirking. "He's over there, the filthy hypocrite."
Harry looked into the corner she was indicating. There, in full view of the whole room, stood Ron wrapped so closely around Lavender Brown it was hard to tell whose hands were whose.
"It looks like he's eating her face, doesn't it?" said Ginny dispassionately. "But I suppose he's got to refine his technique somehow. Good game Harry"
She patted him on the arm; Harry felt a swooping sensation in his stomach, but then she walked off to help herself to more butterbeer. Crookshanks trotted after her, his yellow eyes fixed upon Arnold.
Harry turned away from Ron, who did not look like he would be surfacing soon, just as the portrait hole was closing. With a sinking feeling, he thought he saw a mane of bushy brown hair whipping out of sight.
He darted forward, sidestepped Romilda Vane again, and pushed open the portrait of the Fat Lady. The corridor outside seemed to be deserted.
"Hermione?"
He found her in the first unlocked classroom he tried. She was sitting on the teacher's desk, alone except for a small ring of twittering yellow birds circling her head, which she had clearly just conjured out of midair. Harry could not help admiring her spellwork at a time like this.
"Oh, hello, Harry," she said in a brittle voice. "I was just practicing."
"Yeah...they're -er- really good..." said Harry.
He had no idea what to say to her. He was just wondering whether there was any chance that she had not noticed Ron, that she had merely left the room because the party was a little too rowdy, when she said, in a unnaturally high-pitched voice, "Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations."
"Er...does he?" said Harry.
"Don't pretend you didn't see him," said Hermione. "He wasn't exactly hiding it, was-?"
The door behind them burst open. To Harry's horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand.
"Oh," he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione.
"Oops!" said Lavender, and she backed out of the room, giggling. The door swung shut behind her.
There was a horrible, swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her, but said with an odd mixture of bravado and awkwardness, "Hi, Harry! Wondered where you'd got off to!"
Hermione slid off the desk. The little flock of golden birds continued to twitter in circles around her head so that she looked like a strange, feathery model of the solar system.
"You shouldn't leave Lavender waiting outside," She said quietly. "She'll wonder where you've gone."
She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had happened.
"Oppugno!" came a shriek from the doorway.
Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.
"Gerremoffme!" he yelled. He quickly ran to the door and ducked out slamming the door behind him, causing the birds to start slamming against the door.
With a wave of her wand Hermione dismissed the birds and the room was left in silence.
Hermione collapsed in a chair, hands covering her face, sobbing. Not really thinking, Harry walked over and brought her into an embrace rubbing her back and reassuring her it was going to be okay. She looked up at him finally with tear-streaked eyes.
"The worst part is, is that I'm not heartbroken because I'm in love with him, because I'm not. I'm just heartbroken that not even Ron is interested." Hermione said staring straight ahead at the opposite wall "I liked him for a while but it was just merely a schoolgirl's crush, I realize now." She looked up at Harry now, who was staring down at her listening contently. "Harry I've loved you for a really long time now but haven't had the courage to say it. You've never showed any interest in me and recently I've noticed how you've been looking at Ginny. I didn't know what to do so I just tried to make the feelings go away. Obviously that's not working so I'm done faking. I love you Harry Potter"
Harry's eyes widened in surprise. Hermione had feelings for him? Had he really been that obvious about the feelings he had started to grow towards Ginny lately? But, staring down into Hermione's melty brown eyes it hit him and before he realized what he was doing he kissed her.
All thoughts of everything flew out of his head. No Ginny, no Ron and Lavender. The only thing he could think about was Hermione and how he realized at that moment that he, without a doubt, loved her more than anything in the entire world.
A/N Soooooo, I was having trouble where to start with this one and I kind of needed to preoccupy Harry since him and Ginny get together in the original books. So, I decided to start out quoting the book to set a setting and then twist it to fit the story. I promise some Draco, Ginny romance in the next chapter. REVIEW and possibly after this book I'll go into a sequel with more Harry, Hermione stuff? Let me know!