She has her first 'boyfriend' when she's eleven years old. He kisses her on her birthday behind the bike sheds and she blushes red. Half the school's watching and it's hardly romantic, but she can't help but think that maybe boys aren't so bad after all.

She has her second boyfriend when she is thirteen. He is in the year above and she has never felt as cool as she does walking hand in hand with him on their way to Hogsmeade. Sadly they don't last long; they've broken up by the time they leave Honeyduke's. Something about moral differences. He doesn't like sugar quills for heaven's sake. They are obviously not meant to be.

She has her third boyfriend at the start of fifth year and they are together for six happy weeks of staring into each other's eyes, sharing their hopes and dreams and studying together. He gives her her first proper kiss and laughs at her jokes even when they aren't funny. They have a fight though and they don't know what to do so they don't do anything at all. Instead spending the rest of the year avoiding each other's gaze and darting around each other in the corridors.

Her fourth boyfriend doesn't treat her right. She's sixteen and doesn't know she deserves any better. He's always arguing with her, telling her what she should think or what she should like. Making snide comments about her friends or her family. Until one day she's had enough. There's no point spending time with people that don't make you feel good about yourself.

She makes a pact after that. No more boys. She's going to focus on her studies. All outstandings, that sounds manageable doesn't it?

Her fifth boyfriend is funny, sweet, smart. They can talk for hours about anything and everything. They swap books and music, laughing at each other's taste, but loving it in spite of themselves. They can dream together, sitting on top of the astronomy tower gazing at the stars; strolling through the grounds or Hogsmeade. All her friends love him and he loves all her friends, maybe a little bit too much. They break up when she catches him and Mary snogging in the restricted section of the library. She's the one who breaks up with him, but it doesn't stop her feeling heartbroken, wishing she's stuck to the long forgotten pact she made with herself.

Her sixth boyfriend is something else. Someone entirely else. He's an idiot, a jerk, an arrogant toe rag and he's been trying to get her attention since he was eleven years old.

Then she gets to know him. They are head boy and girl after all, they have to at least try and be civil towards each other.

Then they become friends and she realises that maybe she's been just a tiny bit judgemental towards him. That in actual fact he is hilarious and kind and brave and would do anything for the people he loves. He gives her butterflies in the pit of her stomach and sends shivers up her spine.

Then she realises that seven years of turning him down might have scared him off so she summons up some of her own Gryffindor courage and asks him out.

There is no seventh boyfriend, there's nobody else ever again because she marries James Potter when she's nineteen years old in a field on Halloween wearing a white dress and wellies, which her best friend protests to. Who wears wellies to a wedding?

Her last kiss is exactly one year later. She's twenty years old in their house in Godric's hollow. She doesn't know it's her last kiss, but she's definitely come a heel of a long way since that first kiss behind the bike sheds when she was eleven years old.