I Love You, Hermione

Chapter 3: Exploring, but Not Being Caught

By: EvilEmmaEvans

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After they had all finished their lunch, each one of them thinking of ways that they could explore the castle, they headed up to the tower to get the map and both Invisibility Cloaks.

"Okay, Lavender how does this work?" Hermione asked after they had completely opened the map.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," Lavender said, pointing her wand at the parchment.

"Okay, now what?" Harry asked as he watched the ink outline of Hogwarts started to appear.

"We wait for it to be done 'turning on' and then we 'double click' or tap two times on the section we want to see and a 3-d picture will show up," Lavender explained as she demonstrated what she said.

"Let's see Gryffindor Tower," Dean said looking for it on the map.

"Okay, Hermione, you're the closest, so why don't you do the honors," Lavender said as she bowed the control over to Hermione, who tapped the map twice.

"Do you have someone in particular that you would like to see, Dean?" Lavender asked her ex-boyfriend as he stared in awe at the now 3 dimensional version of Gryffindor Tower.

"Um, Creepy Creevey," Dean said smirking as Lavender found him and 'clicked' on him (tapped him) with her wand.

"Now that I'm in sixth year, I have enough knowledge of magic to be able to manipulate my pictures of Harry and his friends into something that Rita will be able to use as a story," Colin said evilly to himself, or so he thought.

"I thought he idolized you Harry?" Lavender asked as she 'un-clicked' Colin.

"So did I, but enough will Gryffindor, let's see Hufflepuff," Harry agreed while tapping the section of the map that contained the Hufflepuff Common Room.

"Let's find Chris and then Kristen," Hermione said, with approval from Lavender.

"Found them both," Dean said tapping the two mini versions of Lavender's two Hufflepuff siblings.

"They're… together, and they're making-out, I can't believe this, no wonder he's been getting distant with Hannah, he's cheating on her with his own sister!" Lavender cried out, clearly upset.

As Hermione un-tapped Chris and Kristen, Dean went to Lavender's side to comfort her.

"It'll be okay Lav, just go talk to them," Dean said, while Lavender cried some into his shirt.

"Then they'll think she was spying on them, so we'll just have to wait until they decide to tell her," Hermione said, logically.

"Wait, there are speech bubbles above them," Harry said while tapping the two mini people again.

"Chris, how and when are we going to tell our siblings and Hannah about us?" Kristen asked while leaning her head on Chris' chest.

"At the end of break, but knowing Lavender, she probably already knows. Isn't that right Lav?" Chris asked looking straight to where Lavender was sitting.

"How did he do that?" Dean asked while Hermione quickly tapped them again.

"It's Chris, he has a tendency to know where exactly I am in the castle; and Lilac knows when something huge is about to happen between me and Chris and is there before it stops; and I have inherited the mysteriousness and the knack for breaking the rules from our uncle," Lavender said drying her eyes and looking down at the floor.

"Lavender, who's your uncle, because if you say my dad, then us going out was a REALLY bad idea," Harry said.

"Harry, calm down, your dad isn't my uncle…" Lavender started to say, but was cut off by Harry, "that's good to know," and Lavender continued, "But your god-father is," she finished.

"WHAT?" Harry yelled, jumping to his feet, Lavender doing the same, and both of them drew their wands.

"Will you two calm down?" Hermione asked, as she and Dean jumped up and pulled Lavender and Harry's arms down to their sides.

"Sorry," Harry and Lavender said in unison.

"It's okay," they said in unison again.

"Quit it, both of you!" Hermione and Dean yelled… in unison.

"Don't you two start!" Lavender and Harry exclaimed… in unison.

"Hey, stop saying what I say!" they yelled at each other… in unison.

"Don't yell at him/her!" Hermione and Dean yelled… in unison… just kidding… simultaneously.

"NOT AGAIN!" all four of them yelled… in unison.

"Okay, let's look at Ravenclaw Tower now," Lavender said, double-tapping on it.

"Let's see, Lilac isn't there, but… Carla is!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Let's see them tell me I can't do magic at home until I'm of age after this. All I have to do is add a few more ingredients and then the potion will be ready for Lavender, Chris and Lilac's drinks. I'll be in complete control of my siblings and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me!" Carla exclaimed evilly.

"Wow, no wonder you and the rest of your family calls her a brat, Lav," Harry, Hermione and Dean said.

"That's just minor stuff, you know, stuff she does at school, but at home, it's usually 10 times worse," Lavender said, laughing a little, "at home, if my parents tell her to stop using magic and then try and take her wand away, she will go ballistic; once, she actually stunned my dad so hard he had to go to St. Mongo's," Lavender said frowning and smiling a little at the memory.

"How old was she when that happened?" Harry asked, completely interested.

"Oh, it happened over Thanksgiving break this year," Lavender said, "so she was only 15," she finished.

"Okay, what about Slytherin Dungeons?" Dean asked while double-tapping the map.

"I can't wait to come across her again, Lavender Brown is the most beautiful pure-blood at school, and when I do cross her path again, I'm going to ask her to go out with me!" Blaise Zambini said looking at himself in a full length mirror.

"Gross, does Zamboni actually think that I'll go out with him?" Lavender asked her friends.

"Apparently Lav," Harry said patting her on the shoulder.

"Why don't you say that you have a boyfriend, you know when he asks you out?" Hermione suggested to Lavender.

"That is a great idea, 'Mione; Dean, will you pretend to be my boyfriend when Zamboni asks me out?" Lavender said, brightening up.

"Sure," Dean said, sadness in his voice.

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After about an hour more or so of 'exploring' and deciding to explore some more the following day, Dean and Lavender left, leaving Harry and Hermione in the Room of Requirement.

"So, you tired 'Mione?" Harry asked while walking over to her and starting to rain kisses down her neck, making her knees buckle.

"Harry, do you have to do that? My knees just buckled," Hermione said while trying not to moan in joy.

"Sorry, darlin', but how else am I supposed to get you to enjoy what we're about to do?" Harry asked.

"I don't know, but can't you at least wait until we're on the bed, so that way I don't fall on the floor?" Hermione asked as Harry walked around behind her and picked her up.

"I could, but what the fun be in that?" Harry asked as he tossed her down on the bed, gently.

"It would be a little easier on me," Hermione said as she un-buttoned Harry's shirt and un-did his belt.

"But that would take some of the fun out of it for me," Harry responded while un-tying Hermione's tie and un-buttoning her shirt as well.

"Harry, are we sure that we both want to do this? I mean if Ron was to find out…" Hermione started to say but was cut off by Harry pressing his lips to hers.

"No talk about ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends here, it's just the two of us, the way it should be," Harry said while taking off his pants and Hermione took off her skirt.

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After leaving the Room of Requirement, Dean asked Lavender to freeze time.

"Why do we need to freeze time? Barely anyone is here at school, none-the-less wandering around at this hour," Lavender asked, but froze time anyway.

"Lavender, I know we didn't do so well together the first time, but I would really like to try it again," Dean said as he pinned Lavender to the wall behind her and kissed her passionately.

The kiss was filled with more passion then one could think possible, and to see if it could get any more passionate, Lavender kissed back.

'So, this is why he wanted me to freeze time, so that he could tell me how he felt without anyone hearing him, or without anyone coming around the corner and seeing us making-out.' Lavender thought as she put her arms around Dean's neck.

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End Chapter 3

(A/N: Sorry for the little cliff-hanger there, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I promise the next chapter will be full of excitement, or at least as much as I can put in. Oh, and as a little heads up, Lavender and Dean start dating again in the next chapter. – Emma)