Harry sat in his favorite armchair in front of the common room fire while Ginny was sprawled out on the floor, studying for her O.W.L.'s while simultaneously trying to not rip her hair out. After the last fifth year left studying burst into tears and ran up the stairs to her dormitory, Harry decided to lay down beside her and try to help.

"Can I help you?" Harry asked, while planting a kiss on her cheek.

"What year was the Wizard's Council formed?" Ginny burst with a crazed look on her face that reminded Harry eerily of Hermione. "I know there's a two in the date somewhere but I just can't remember! And how did Fulbert the Fearful die? I can't remember!"

"Er-," Harry had never seen her look so stressed before, "I'm not sure about the Wizard's Council, but I have Fulbert's card upstairs, if you'd like for me to go and fetch it."

"Oh, there's no use, I have to get started on Charms anyway! I'm able to give my teacups legs easily enough, but for some reason as soon as they've become mobile they start stomping all over everything within sight! There has to be a note about avoiding unwanted aggression in here somewhere…," Ginny said shrilly while pulling The Standard Book of Spells, Grade5 closer to her and turning the pages with such force Harry was afraid she would rip them right out.

"Er, Gin," Harry said tentatively while slowly tugging the book away from her, "Ginny? You're starting to scare me a little. I mean, I'm used to this with Hermione and all, but I think you're being a little hard on yourself? You'll do fine on your exams, I know you will, you just need to loosen up a little. Just relax."

"And how am I supposed to do that when I can't remember how Fulbert the Fearful died?"

"Okay, tomorrow I will give you Fulbert's card, but right now you need to stop studying and calm down. Here, I'll help. I'm an expert at not studying, you know."

Ginny laughed shakily, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. "Okay," she said, opening her eyes, "now what?"

"Now this." Harry kissed her forehead, then each of her cheeks in turn, and was kissing her nose when Ginny, who had never been a fan of anything she deemed 'cutsy', interjected.

"Harry, you know I-"

But he interrupted her speech with a kiss, and Ginny, forgetting that she had ever meant to say anything, kissed him back.

"Oi!"

They broke apart quickly to find Ron standing over them, having just walked into the common room.

"This is the common room, you know? It's not the…the snogging room, or anything," he finished lamely.

"I was, er" Harry grabbed the nearest book and holding it up for Ron's inspection, "helping Ginny with her transfiguration-"

"Charms," she muttered through the side of her mouth.

"Charms," Harry amended, noticing that he was holding up The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5, "er, Charms. Yeah."

Ron continued to eye them suspiciously.

"And what are you doing down here anyway?" Ginny asked. "I thought you were sleeping."

"Never you mind why I'm down here. I just…I…sleepwalking." Ron looked wistfully back at the staircase. "I'll just, er, go back to bed, then. Yeah, I'll leave you to your studying."

"That was odd," Ginny said once Ron had left.

"Yeah, I wonder what it was about." Just as those words left Harry's mouth, Hermione walked downstairs. "What's up?" He asked her.

"Oh, um, nothing. No, I was just…sleepwalking. I'll just…just head back to bed now."

Once her back was turned, Harry heard Ginny giggle.

"What?" He asked.

"Nothing, it's just that Fred owes me five galleons; he didn't reckon they'd figure it out until after Hogwarts."

Harry smiled, and decided to take advantage of the fact that they were alone once again. Soon, all thoughts of Fulbert the Fearful were gone, and only their warm embrace remained.