Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any characters mentioned in this story. (This disclaimer applies for the WHOLE story. It will not be in other chapters.)

I have been reading a few RxH after I read the Deathly Hallows and although I usually write CCS fanfictions I have decided to write one of my own. I have tried a Harry Potter fanfiction before and I thought it would go better with CCS so I changed it.

EDIT; snowyowl7 pointed out that I put 'Ron nodded' so I changed it to 'I nodded'.


1992, Year 1at Hogwarts. February 7th

We'd only been friends for 4 months and I still have no idea what led to the tradition that we started this year. It may have been my stupidity or, I don't know, something else. I mean… she was bound to like me after the troll incident, wasn't she.

She, of course, is Hermione Granger. The first time I really noticed her was in the charms lesson on Halloween. I noticed her regularly afterwards, we were friends, weren't we.

I had been staring at her in one Transfiguration lesson – I think Harry and McGonagall noticed but Harry was kind enough to stay quiet. McGonagall told me to quit copying, but we hadn't written anything yet.

I don't know why I was staring at her – maybe it was because her hair seemed less frizzy than normal and she wasn't insulting my work or asking us to find out about things (the Nicolas Flamel thing had been very annoying, I had to read way too many books) or possibly that her eyes sparkled when she enjoyed the lesson.

I made a stupid mistake that day and I only realised the week after, when I had finished putting my idea into action.

Harry was walking back with me to Gryffindor when I felt a small hand grab my wrist.

"Can I borrow Ron please?" asked Hermione and subconsciously brushed some of her hair out of her face. I felt nervous when I saw laughter in her eyes. Harry nodded and left us – probably going to the Common Room.

She pulled me into a broom cupboard and I panicked. "Ron?" she asked.

"I'm fine." I squeaked.

"Was it you who sent me the chocolates?" she asked, holding out a small box and a card. I nodded sheepishly. She opened it and began to read the poem inside. "Roses are red, violets are blue. Dumbledore's clever and so are you." She laughed sweetly.

"What?I spent ages on that poem"

"Valentine's day is next week, Ron." She told me and giggled again.

"N-Next week? So I need to give you another one?" I asked, startled. The wrong week. I thought she was going to hate me.

"No, you don't need to. You went to enough trouble to get me this present." She blushed. "Thanks. I've never got a Valentines day before." She went to open the door. "It was really thoughtful of you." She rushed at me and wrapped her arms round me in a hug. I felt her lips graze my cheek (I felt my ears turn red) but before I could say anything, she prized herself from me and left the cupboard. "Don't tell Harry."

Then she was gone.


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