A/N Unfortunately during the writing of The Waiting Game this scene became irrelevant. I tried to find a way to work it in and it may yet appear but it will be changed significantly.
setting: Gryffindor common room, a few days after the Yule Ball. Hermione is sitting by the fire in her favorite chair idly reading "Hogwarts: A History ". Interrupted from her thoughts when she noticed the twins practically run into the room and seem to be looking for a place to hide. Ginny enters seconds later, spots the twins and stomps up to them.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" she growled. Hermione didn't catch George's answer but she was once again reminded that size definitely was not any indication of true power. She watched as Ginny seemed to vibrate as she listened to the twins hushed voices. Apparently Ginny wasn't liking was she hearing because she whipped out her wand and pointed at one of the boy's faces. She'd hit with him her already famous bat bogey hex before he'd even realized she'd moved. The other twin took off to avoid the next hex as Ginny chased after him. Hermione grinned widely when she remembered and another example of size not being a factor.
Before she'd left to go to Ron's that past summer she'd gone for an afternoon picnic with her parents. The three of them had fallen into a comfortable silence and Hermione was lost in thought wondering how Ginny was coping. Suddenly there was a commotion from the direction of the pond and the reason became quickly apparent when two large, somewhat ruffled and annoyed looking swans landed on the grass about ten feet away from she and her parents sat. Suddenly from out of the bushes a small black blur went running full speed at the two swans. At first Hermione had thought it was a cat but as the blur grew closer she realised with a shock that it was a little black chihuahua. The swans had their back to it as it approached and didn't notice until the little dog was almost on top of them. The two swans took to the air circled then landed on the nearby pond. Obviously the birds thought the were safe in the water. The dog however had stopped so suddenly when the birds took flight that it's two back legs came off the ground and it almost did a somersault into the Grangers. It righted itself and searched for the birds a moment..."they're over there Lucy..."The dog looked to it's master and then looked to where she was pointing as if she understood her owner's direction. Without another moment's hesitation the dog hit full speed once again and hit the water at a run. The splash alone was enough to scare the two birds off for good and the dog swam back to the grass. As the laughter from all the onlookers died off, none louder than the little dog's owner herself, the little one did one last search of the skies, shook herself off and headed back to it's owner.
As she came back to the scene in front of her she realized that she now had the other twin corned and hit him with same hex he'd hit his brother with. Ginny yelled at him a few more times and the stormed off towards the dorm rooms. Ginny seemed to sense to Hermione's gaze and looked over at her smiling and shaking her head. Ginny smiled back and went upstairs.
"If what they said about Hermione ever gets back to her, I'll kill them both," She thought angrily. She expected that sort of thing out of the snakes and, let's face it even Ron, but not the twins. She and Luna had been trailing about ten feet behind the twins as they left the castle and decided to follow when she heard Hermione's name mentioned. She was still unsettled about the anger she felt when Hermione had told her about Victor asking her to the ball and she was curious as to what they were saying.
Ginny entered her room feeling somewhat deflated after working off her some her anger chasing the twins and was pleased to see she had the room to herself. She went to sit on the bed and put her face in her hands.
Ginny slowly lifted her face and was startled to realise what she had finally figured out, albeit thanks to the twins, had originally bothered her about Victor asking Hermione to the Yule Ball. She knew now, she had no reason to be jealous, but it still bugged her.
A/N 2 - the story about the Chihuahua actually happened only it was a pair of geese and she was chasing a seagull when she took off into the ocean. Her name is Lucy and her best friend is my two year old Bengal cat, Luna. Yes, named in honour of our Miss Luna Lovegood. Hope you enjoyed!