I sat on a stone bench in a frosty courtyard with my fleece hoody wrapped tightly around me. I twiddled my wand around my fingers, waiting for Hermione. Why wasn't she here? She said she wakes up early, and it's eight in the morning! I need to practice this spell.

"Sorry I'm a tad late!" Shouted a voice from behind me. I turned in response to see Hermione jogging through a corridor and into the courtyard. She pulled off her hood and flipped her head over, tying her mop of curls into a tight and messy bun.

Now that was some serious magic.

She came back up and questioned me in regards to why I looked so dumbfounded at her abilities of hairstyle and walked over to a corner of the courtyard.

"Right." She said, taking out her wand and rolling up her sleeves. "You remember the spell?"

"Yep." I reply, mirroring her actions and hunching down into a fiercer, more viscous position.

"Ready?" I ask her, smiling slyly and staring into her eyes.

"As I'll ever be." She smiled maliciously and we both pulled back our bodies and thrust our wands in each other's direction, shouting spells at each other.

Flames shot out of the tip of her wand, the flames' heat melting the snow into puddles of water and scorching the stone surface. At a fiery strike came towards me, I shot a glowing shield in front of me and in reaction to the fire that licked my counter-curse, small chips of ice fell and smashed onto the floor.

We both let out great heaves and gasps, reeling back out wands in tiredness. She slumped down against a courtyard wall and I knelt down on the snow, reaching out to touch the newly formed icicles and holding one up to the light. It melted in my finger tips and cold drops of water seeped down my hand and into my palm.

I looked towards her, both of us breathing heavily. She had her hand on her heart, attempting to return to her usual state of calmness.

A minute of heavy pants and red cheeks pasted, our thoughts leading us away from where we both knelt until I saw a glint out of the corner of my eye.

I looked to her and saw her smiling and looking at me in pure wonder.

"That was awesome." She breathed, looking down towards the ground in shock at what she had just experienced, still trying to understand the great power we had both unleashed.

I stood up and walked over to her and she looked up at me.

I sat down beside her and planted a firm kiss on her cheek, nuzzling my nose and she giggled softly.

I turned to look at the mess we had created: ash and ice, smashed together in a great form that resembled modern art.

"You were awesome." I said, placing a hand out to my side. She slapped it and said:

"We were awesome."

We laughed together, threw our wands to the side and looked at dawn breaking over the mountain tops.