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Chapter Two

"No Hermione! No, absolutely not." Harry said subbornly.

"But Harry..." Hermione started.

But Harry cut her off before she could finish her sentence. "Hermione, I'm not gonna spend our first date socializing with a bunch of students."

"Harry, they are not just a bunch of students. They are our friends and they need your help." Hermione said face calm and controlled.

"Friends!" Harry snorted. "Friends, who call me liar and cheater. Who don't waste a moment to start completely hating me from worshiping me. Yeah, let's call them friends."

Hermione looked guilty but she still refused to let it go. Actually they'd been going on about it for a long time. It started when they're returning from their detention with Umbridge. Today was the last day of their week long detention. Surprisingly this time Umbridge hadn't used a blood quill.

Hermione thought that it made sense. She couldn't made them write 'I must not tell lies' because they didn't tell any lies they're just late to her class. Twenty minutes late. Twenty glorious minutes which they spent in a broom closet. She smiled as she remembered that day. She couldn't help but smiling whenever she thought about it.

She understood Harry's emotion. She was also waiting eagerly for their date. But this was important too. The idea of Harry teaching the students didn't come to her suddenly. She'd been thinking about it ever since Umbridge started teaching DADA. But she'd been hesitant to bring that up because Harry really hated attention and this year he'd been really moody.

But ever since he'd asked her on a date he'd been in a good mood. That's why tonight she'd brought up the topic that he should teach their fellow students defense as Umbridge couldn't even teach a dog how to bark. Plus Voldemort came back and everyone's life is in danger. They really needed to know how to defend themselves.

So she told him that they should start defense study group where he would teach. And they would meet with people who're interested on the next hogsmade weekend.

As expected he refused to meet with anyone on their date. She could feel that he wasn't that much against the idea of teaching or meeting them. It's the timing that kept him from agreeing. And this led them to their current situation.

They're sitting in an empty Gryffindor common room. By the time they'd came back from detention everyone had gone to bed.

"Harry, we'll only have to talk to them for half or one hour. We'll spend rest of the time together." Hermione said pleadingly. "Please, Harry think about it."

Hearing the pleading in her tone he had to cave. But he still wasn't sure about it. So he tried a different technic. "How're you even sure they'd want to learn anything from me? I'm a liar to them remember."

"Oh, Harry!" She beamed, " You don't have to worry about it a bit. I've talked with few of them and they all think it's an excellent idea."

Then she paused and she had a scowl. "Not all of them still believe that Voldemort's back and you're telling the truth. But none of them can deny that you're the best in DADA."

Harry ducked his head, embarrassed at her praise and murmured, "I'm not the best, you are." Then he looked up like he suddenly realized something. "And I think you should be the one teaching them."

But Hermione only smiled as if she knew he'd suggest this and had her answer prepared. "I'm only good at the theories Harry. But you know how to truly defend yourself. I want all of us to be able to do that not just pass the exams. So, what do you think, Harry?"

Then she she waited patiently for his answer. She could see that his resolve was crumbling.

"You sure it won't interrupt our date?" He asked finally after a long moment of silence.

"Absolutely not." Was her quick response.

Harry closed his eyes and sighed. "There's no way of stopping you when you've set your mind up, is there?" Harry finished opening his eye.

"You know there isn't." Hermione said grinning.

Harry couldn't keep up his sad face either. "Then I'll do as my lady wishes." He said with a grand bow.

Hermione laughed at his antics. He could be such an idiot and so adorable at the same time. "And for that you'd be rewarded, kind sir." She said leaning in.

"Oh, really! And what might this reward be?" He asked acting surprised. But the way he was also leaning in she'd say he had a very good idea.

They'd kissed quite a lot after the first time. But it still took her breath way every time they kissed. Harry was a very good kisser. 'How'd he learned to to kiss like that?' She sometimes thought. And she'd also asked him that one time after her mind was foggy from their latest kiss.

He'd just chuckled and answered that maybe he learned it from her as she was his first kiss.

She didn't like to think that much in a time like this. When his lips're on her own. When his one hand was on her cheek and the other on her neck keeping her close.

There's a lot of things going on their life at this time. Voldemort, Umbridge, ministry were determined to make their life hell. But when they're like this they were safe.

Their moment of piece was soon broken. They hurriedly let go of each other and moved away as they heard someone coming form the boys' dorms. They tried to fix their hair and control their breathing so they didn't look like two people who were kissing.

They were keeping this new development of their relationship a secret. They agreed that life would be far mare easier if nobody knew. Harry thought Hermione would be a larger target of Voldemort if he knew she was more than his friend. Plus their classmates would gossip if they learned this news.

Hermione wholeheartedly agreed with him. Harry was already suffering a lot this year. She didn't want to add some more to his suffering. And also they're anxious about how Ron would react.

"You guys are back." It was Ron who'd came. "What're you doing in the common room, eh? Harry why haven't you still went to bed?" He asked suspiciously.

This was the reason they'd decided not to tell Ron. He would always get suspicious if they spent any time together and ask them what they're doing. And if the answer didn't satisfy him he would start to bicker with Hermione or accuse Harry of choosing her over him.

Harry thought it's because Ron liked her. But Hermione knew it wasn't the case. Nobody would bicker so much with somebody they liked. Ron actually took pleasure in fighting with her.

The actual reason why he acted that way because he couldn't stand the idea of Harry having something that he didn't have. So they decided to keep their relationship a secret even from him.

Harry was still a dazed from the kiss so he thought that Ron had seen them kissing and he panicked. "What! We are doing nothing. We're absolutely doing nothing. Just sitting here and doing nothing. Right, Hermione?"

Hermione mentally sighed. Harry was such an idiot. 'But he is my idiot.' She thought. So she decided to rescue him.

"Ron, I was just trying to convince Harry to start the defense study group." She replied with ease.

"What study group." Ron asked confusedly.

"Ron! You gotta be kidding me." Hermione iirritably said. "I told you about it this morning. I want to start a study group where Harry will teach us."

"Oh, that stupid idea of yours. Harry will never agree to that, right mate?"

Hermione was hurt and angry. Ron always liked to say these hurtful things. This is the reason they would never work as a couple. Sometimes she thought that if Harry wasn't there they wouldn't be friends at all.

Harry had seen her hurt expression. He angrily looked at Ron and said, "No! I think this is an excellent idea like all the other ideas of her." He said the last part looking at her smiling softly.

Ron huffed. "If you think so mate. I think it'll be a waste of time. But we won't let it ruin our day." Ron continued not noticing the glares Hermione was sending him.

"We'll have lots of fun at 'The Jonkos', we'll go to 'The Broomsticks' and have lunch and drinks like we do every time." Ron finished still ignorant of Hermione's death glare.

'Uh, oh!' That's what went through both Harry and Hermione's mind after hearing him. How're they going to have their date if Ron's stuck with them. They couldn't tell him to leave them alone that'd make him more suspicious.

"Okay, enough chitchat. We've classes tomorrow. Harry, come on mate." Ron mumbled yawning loudly.

Harry and Hermione exchanged a look that conveyed the message that they'd talk about it in the morning.

Watching him going up the steps behind Ron, Hermione hoped that he would come up with a good plan. Because there was no way that she would spend her date hanging with Ron Weasley.