Chapter Two

Harry and Ginny were in the confines of an empty and abandoned classroom near the Gryffindor tower. Why there were so many abandoned classrooms remained a mystery to even Dumbledore himself, but they were of great use to the students at Hogwarts, Harry and Ginny being the particular lucky students that night.

Tonight, however, Ginny knew there was something different in the air. This secret she had was eating her up inside and she knew she could not continue with this relationship unless she confessed this secret to Harry. She saw girls eyeing Harry and soon they'd discover her secret and try to break them apart. So it was better that she tell him herself.

Ginny cleared her throat just as Harry was about to dive in for another kiss. "Harry, there's something I need to tell you."

Harry smiled with that lopsided and lovesick smile he always had etched upon his face when he was with his girlfriend. "Tell me then, Gin."

Suddenly Ginny looked apprehensive and a little bit scared. "Well, I…"

"Come on, Gin, it can't be that bad."

Ginny wished to Merlin it wasn't, but it was pretty bad. "Well, no, it's pretty bad."

"I'm sure it's nothing we can't handle," Harry assured.

"Now, Harry, you do love me, right?" Ginny said. Because after this I'm not sure you will.

Harry lopsided grin left his face as he sobered up. "Of course. Now just tell me already before I have a bloody heart attack."

"See, Harry, it's never that simple… and I'm telling you because I want to be honest with you," Ginny said. Because it's better you hear it from me than anyone else…

"What? Just come out with it. I'm sure I can handle whatever it is." You just better not be pregnant.

"Just promise you won't hate me," Ginny said. Because I'm certain you will…

"Whatever, Gin. Just tell me," Harry said. Or I'll hate you for not telling me and mentioning it.

"I kind of hooked up with Dean when me and you started going out," she let out without a breath. There, it's out there at least. I hope he doesn't hex me to hell.

Harry blinked. Though this news was far less alarming than her being pregnant, Harry could not help the fury that was coming.

"What do you mean by 'hook up'?" he asked.

"Now, Harry, you said you wouldn't get mad," Ginny said tentatively.

"What do you mean by 'hook up'?" he asked again impatiently.

"Well… we…"

Harry didn't need to hear more. He was torn between throwing up on the spot or throttling his girlfriend. He opted to just leave the room, as the former wouldn't be manly and the latter would most likely send him to Azkaban, or worse, get a beating from Ron.

He stormed out of the room without another word, slamming the door furiously on his way out.

"Harry! Does this mean you're breaking up with me?" Ginny called out desperately. I pictured this completely differently in my head…

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Hermione immediately fumbled off the couch and reached for her wand. She wasn't sure which one of the boys to point it at first, but she opted for Theodore, as he was closer.

"Obli-" she started but Draco was also up in an instant and he blocked the spell from hitting his friend.

Hermione shrieked then realized she was naked. "Accio towel!" And a blue towel came flying down the staircase from her room. She covered herself.

"You are not obliviating anyone, Granger," Draco said, though he had a pounding headache and looked very ill.

Theodore was dressing himself. "Yeah, there's really no need to. It's not like I remember much anyway."

"You're right," Hermione said, nodding her head slowly as if discovering something for the first time. "Obliviate me!"

"What?" Theodore was alarmed and gave Hermione a strange look. "Nobody's obliviating anybody."

Draco suddenly looked extremely ill and dashed to the bathroom. Intense vomiting could now be heard.

"Fine," Hermione said, red in the face. "But if you or Malfoy tell anyone about what happened tonight I'll – I'll… do something very bad in retaliation!"

Theodore rolled his eyes. "Whatever, Granger."

Hermione felt suddenly very stupid as she realized how calm Theodore was about the whole thing. She thought he and Malfoy must wake up together with a naked girl in either of their beds more than often, and she'd now be on that list.

"I take it you two wake up with naked girls a lot, then?" she asked.

"No," Theodore answered. "Besides, Malfoy had nothing to do with last night."

"Yes, but he saw us naked," Hermione said, suddenly feeling ill herself. "You know what, just please don't mention this to anyone-"

Draco came back looking slightly better. "Tell anyone that you and Nott shagged? Why not? I think it's funny! Imagine the faces on Potter and Weasley! And we'd totally be liberating you by letting everyone know you're not such a square."

"Unlike you two, I have a reputation to uphold that doesn't involve flaunting my sex life for appraisal!" Hermione said.

"Who cares?" Draco said. "Everyone's done it. You're not a saint."

"I CARE!" Hermione yelled and then remembered a very useful piece of information. "And I'm sure you care about your reputation involving Pansy. I don't think she'd be too happy if she found out you slept with her best friend's younger sister."

Draco's eyes went wide. "You wouldn't."

"Don't test me," Hermione threatened.

"Alright. We'll all keep our mouths shut then," Theodore said.

"Okay, now both of you, out!" Hermione shrieked.

"Hey, this is my common room too!" Draco countered.

Hermione glared at the two before huffing and puffing her way upstairs.

Draco looked at his best friend. "What was that about?"

"What? She was a good shag."

Draco rolled his eyes. "You've been asking me to bug her with you for weeks. Clearly she's more than just a good shag."

Theodore shrugged. "I donno. Too early to tell."

"Generally people sleep with the girl after they figure they like her," Draco commented. "Anyway, how are you gonna tell the rest of the school you managed to shag Granger?"

"Not scared she'll tell Pans?"

Draco grinned. "It's your ass, not mine."

"How annoyed do you think she'll be?" Theodore asked, noticing that she'd left all her clothes from the night before in the common room.

"Very. Extremely. She'll probably attempt to hex your balls off."

Theodore smirked, picking up her pink knickers. "Perfect."

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Ron and Lavender were so very excited about their news. They were currently giving each other lovesick puppy eyes over breakfast. It was amazing that Ron actually wasn't eating… that is, eating as much as he used to. He took one single bite out of his toast, though it was a rather large bite and he was chewing vigorously.

Harry took a very rough seat next to Ron. Ron and Lavender didn't notice that Harry seemed to be very down and annoyed.

"Guess what, Harry?" Ron said in between mouthfuls of toast.

Harry merely grunted.

"No, Won-Won! We have to wait until Ginny and Hermione and Parvati get here, then we can tell them all!" Lavender said.

"Ginny is the last person I want to see right now," Harry said hotly.

"Hey, what's gotten into you, mate?" Ron asked, though it was a half-hearted question as his eyes were still glued to Lavender.

"Ask your sister… or better yet, ask Dean." Harry glared daggers at Dean, who was confused as to why.

Ron could not respond because Hermione came just then and took a seat next to Harry. She looked equally annoyed and sat down with a slight cringe.

"What was that about?" Ron asked her.

"I slept in a very uncomfortable position last night," Hermione said through clenched teeth.

Ron and Lavender, though asking questions, were oblivious to the dispositions of their current company. After several long moments of waiting, Parvati finally arrived and took a seat next to Lavender.

Lavender squealed, "We'll just have to let Ginny find out eventually then, because I really can't hold it in longer!"

Parvati, though less annoyed than Harry and Hermione, rolled her eyes at the current love bubble her best friend and the red-head were stuck in. "What's the news now?"

"You tell em, love," said Ron with a grin that covered nearly the entire lower region of his face.

"Ron and I are engaged!" Lavender exclaimed, flashing a bright ring off of her left hand.

There was a rather embarrassing and unenthusiastic silence. Harry finally broke it. "Don't you think it's a bit… soon?"

"No. We love each other and we want to make it official. In fact," Ron stood right on the table, bringing Lavender up along with him.

"Ron, get down here!" Hermione said. "You're happy! We get it! But for Merlin's sake!"

Ron cleared his throat loudly enough for everyone in the Great Hall to hear. "Everyone! Lavender and I are engaged!"

There were several uncertain cheers, but eventually people gave wolf-whistles and approving claps. Everyone's attention was on the Gryffindor table where Ron and Lavender stood. They embraced and kissed deeply, again leaving little to the imagination.

This is when Hermione felt something being thrown at her and the attention was now averted to her, as many people were getting a bit disturbed by Ron and Lavender's display.

She picked up her pink knockers from the night before and looked as if she were going to die on the spot. Instinctively, her eyes flew to the Slytherin table where she glared at Draco and he just lifted his hands up as if to say he had nothing to do with it. She turned her eyes to Theodore, who was sitting right next to Draco, and he was grinning.

"You forgot those on your way out, love!" he called out.

There was a silence that would make the most remote spot of the Forbidden Forest seem loud and then a roar of laughter from all four houses.

Harry was caught between hexing Ron and Lavender, who were paying no attention to what just happened and still tangled in each other, and hexing Theodore, who was causing his best friend a great anxiety. But, his attention was on Ginny, who was now walking into the Great Hall and towards him with an anxious look on her face, and this annoyed him immensely.

Hermione was close to running from the hall in tears, but she didn't. Instead, she decided that she was not going to let those Slytherins embarrass her. She was not going to be that innocent girl that everyone thought she was. She was going to retaliate and she was going to play by their rules and that meant she had to play dirty and think quick.

Once the laughing died down, she called out, "Your performance was so disappointing, there was really nothing I wanted to remember about it." Hermione stood up, smiled at Theodore sweetly, and threw her underwear back at him. "So, you can keep them, and that night, to yourself." And now all the tables stared at Theodore and laughed at him as Hermione walked out of the hall with a smug smile on her face.

Harry was about to dash after her to figure out what that whole ordeal was all about, but Ginny stopped him.

"Harry, can we please talk?"

Sadly, Ron and Lavender were still going at it when McGonagall finally entered the hall and forced the two lovebirds apart by wand, which meant that all the attention was back at the Gryffindor table.

"There's nothing to talk about!" Harry roared. "Cheating is still cheating, Gin, no matter how early in the relationship it was."

Even Ron and Lavender finally paid attention, thinking that cheating was the most absurd thing any person could do, as they would not do it to each other under any circumstances. Ginny seemed shocked for a moment as the silence engulfed the hall once again. Then, she glared at Harry, "Yes, Harry, just throw our business out there!"

Harry gave her an equally testing stare. "It's not 'our' anymore, Gin." Then he stalked off out of the hall.

Ginny turned her head on the rest of the room, "Mind your business!" And instantly the hall was filled with talk again – of the recent gossip, no doubt.

Theodore was finally broken out of his reverie and after many questioning looks from his house, he dashed out the hall himself to find Hermione. She had just finished talking to Harry, who was going up the stairs shaking his head disapprovingly. He grabbed Hermione's arm just in time and spun her around to face him.

"What the hell are you playing at, Granger?"

She brushed his hand off of her. "You didn't keep your word."

"You could've just said I stole your knickers from your room or something! You insulted my… manhood!"

Hermione grunted. "You Slytherins play dirty, I play dirty back."

Theodore looked at her darkly. "I will get you back."

"And I will retaliate, just like I told you I would."

The two parted their ways roughly. Theodore had a plan. This was war.

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A/N: I'm honestly having a blast writing this! So hopefully people will like it too! If not, that's okay at least I had fun writing! Next chapter is called: Knicker Twisters! Review and tell me what you think!