Chasing Cars

We'll do it all

Everything

On our own

We don't need

Anything

Or anyone

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know

How to say

How I feel

Those three words

Are said too much

They're not enough

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Chasing Cars-Snow Patrol


After the Halloween party Ginny and Seamus started dating in secret, well only a secret to Ron, whom she begged the others not to tell. Harry and Hermione were now the golden couple and people would often ask how he managed to hold onto the most beautiful girl it the school. Ron and Luna did reveal a few things at the party in their drunkenness but were too embarrassed to talk about them now.

Harry was walking down the corridor to the Quidditch field to meet Ron, Seamus and a few others for a pick up game when Cho came walking towards him. She wasn't with her usual followers as he noticed and made a straight beeline for him. She stopped in front of him and he looked at her curiously, they were silent for a few moments before she decided to speak.

"Hello Harry" she said so quietly that he almost didn't hear her. She shifted nervously from left to right and Harry thought she might run away.

"Hi Cho, how's it going" he asked politely looking at her.

"Fine, how are you?" she asked

"Good, good, but I'm afraid I must be on my way" he said urgently. Cho's face fell a bit, they hadn't spoken to each other since the break up and she'd rarely see him outside of the company of Hermione or the others.

"Oh, on your way to meet, your 'girl friend' she asked sarcastically. Harry didn't like her tone but was smiling on the inside.

"No if you must know, I'm going down to the Quidditch pitch for a game," he said casually.

"Fine well if you must be on your way" she said a little harsher than she meant to. Harry just nodded and started walking away. "Harry wait." She yelled. He stopped and turned around, she ran over to him.

"Why her" she asked. Harry seemed taken aback by the question

"Excuse Me," he asked

"Why her, I mean you know I hate her, how do you two even know each other, she barely even talks" she asked referring to Hermione.

"Why is that any of your business Cho, you made it perfectly clear that you didn't give a fuck about me or my feelings when you shagged Malfoy" he said glaring at her. She gasped the old Harry would never have taken that type of tone with her, must be Hermione's influence.

"I've apologized for that already"

"Yes I know you're bloody sorry," he said. Cho looked at him with pleading eyes. Harry sighed.

"What do you want Cho" he asked getting impatient.

"Just tell me how, why and when did the two of you get together" Harry rolled his eyes, and was tempted to just walk away, but he knew that Cho was relentless and would just pester him until he told her something.

"Fine, it was a week after I found out about you and Malfoy…"

"A week" she said in disbelief.

"Yes, now let me finish" he said pausing to think. "I was up in the Astronomy tower looking for something to smash, because I was so damn upset about you and that prick," he said pausing to look at her. She had a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"Hermione came in on her patrol and found me, we sat down and started talking, she basically told me that it wasn't the end of the world and I like an idiot took advantage of her kindness and I kissed her"

"She didn't slap you?" said Cho hanging on to his every word.

"No instead she kissed me back, it was amazing I mean I'd never been kissed like that in my life," he said adding that last part to piss Cho off, which it did. He smirked to himself as he continued. "Well anyway, we snogged for a bit and then walked back to the heads common room and went our separate ways. I thought it would be awkward between us, but it wasn't. We hung out more and the more I hung out with Hermione, the less I thought about you. So finally I plucked up the courage to ask her to Hogsmeade and well the rest is history" he said silently patting himself on the back for thinking up that story so quickly.

"Oh" said Cho looking a bit disheartened. It really seemed like he was over her. He saw her features change a little bit and then felt a little bad if only she knew the truth. She stepped back. "Well I guess I'll see you around Harry" Harry nodded. They both went their separate ways. Hermione and Ginny stepped out from behind a corner and looked at each other.

"Who knew Harry was such a good liar?" said Ginny after she was sure they were out of sight.

"Yeah" said Hermione in a daze. Ginny noticed the look on her friends face and was a little concerned.

"Hermione what's wrong"

"Nothing, nothing at all, his story was just a little sweet is all"?

"Yeah it was, kind of wish he'd get over that slag now"

Hermione sighed "Yeah me too.


After studying in the library for a while Hermione lost track of time, it was almost time for dinner, and she was starving. Placing her books in her bag, she murmured a quick goodbye to Madam Prince the librarian and headed out of the library. When she was half way to the Great Hall some one said

"Looking good Granger" she froze as she heard this voice for it was one she recognized. She turned around slowly and Draco Malfoy walked up to her with his signature smirk on his face.

"Malfoy, wish I could say the same." Draco chuckled a bit.

"Oh come on Granger no need for the hostility, I'm just trying to be friendly" he said eying her up and down. She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.

"You mean friendly like you were to Cho," she asked. Draco smirked a bit more and took a step closer to her invading her personal space.

"Only if you want me too"

"Keep your friendship Malfoy, I don't date Slytherin's besides I'm with Harry anyway" she said as an after thought. Draco rolled his eyes.

"You don't date Slytherin's what is this one of your new rules, but you'll date Harry bloody Potter, Dumbledore's golden boy" he asked sarcastically.

"It's none of your fucking business who I date Malfoy."

"Again with the formalities" he asked stepping closer to her until they were chest to chest, she backed away and he took another step forward. "I remember when we were a little closer," he said whispering in her ear" she rolled her eyes shaking the thoughts he was giving her.

"Fuck off" she said pushing him away.

"Fine, you win for now, but don't forget who stole Potter's last girlfriend" he said starting to walk away.

"I'm not like that stupid Bint Malfoy, don't you forget that," she said yelling after him. She spun on her heals and went to the great hall.


After dinner Hermione really needed to clear her head, that run in with Malfoy still had her reeling. He really knew how to get to her. She snuck away to Hogsmeade and bought some Fire Whiskey. When she was coming in the heads common room she saw Harry sitting by the fire doing some homework. She went over to the couch and sat down beside him.

"Hello Harry" she said with a gorgeous smile on her face. Harry looked over at her and smiled as well.

"Hi Hermione, what has you so happy" he asked.

"You mean besides my perfect boyfriend" he rolled his eyes playfully. "Well if you must know, I just had a very successful trip to Hogsmeade and back." She said pulling out the bottle of Fire Whiskey, "Care for a drink love" she asked him as she summoned two glasses.

"But Hermione it's a school night"

"Your point" she asked as she poured two glasses. Harry rolled his eyes and put away his school things.

"Fine I suppose one drink won't hurt" an hour later Harry was telling Hermione stories of how he used to be before Cho.

"You know Cho and I dated practically all of last year?" he said slurring his words, she nodded laughing suddenly everything was funny. "Yeah well before that in my fifth year I was a bit of a man whore" Hermione choked on her glass with laughter.

"Seriously" she asked she'd heard rumors but she never thought they were true, not about the golden boy of Hogwarts.

"Yes, I slept around a lot, my mum never liked it, then I met Cho and she told me that she didn't do that sort of thing, so I asked her to be my girlfriend with that one goal in mind of course, but something changed in me and I found myself only wanting to be with her, even after we shagged.

"Wow" said Hermione finding it hard to believe that Cho could change someone.

"Yeah, so my mum suggested a vow of celibacy until marriage, which was to be to Cho, at first Cho loved the idea, I don't know what happened though."

"She's a bitch Harry," said Hermione seriously. Harry laughed at the way she said it so bluntly.

"Well enough about me, tell me about you" he asked. Sitting up on the couch they were slouching on to face her.

"What do you wanna know?" she asked.

"I don't know anything, what about your father?" he asked, a sad expression planted itself on Hermione's face. "Unless you don't want to," he said.

"No it's fine, um…my mum and I were never really close, but my father and I were inseparable and when we found out that I was a witch, he was ecstatic, mum never liked it though. We even stopped talking to this day." Harry nodded feeling sad for her.

"Well my dad always had vision problems as I had told you earlier, he was excited when I told him I was inventing this spell, it drove me to work harder you know" she said, he nodded again. "One day while I was in my fifth year I got an owl from my mum, saying that he'd been in a car accident, I flooed home right away but it was too late, when I got there he was pronounced dead. Turns out he was going to buy a book for me for Christmas and slammed head on with this drunk driver. He never had a chance." She finished sadly.

"Hermione I'm so sorry" he said wrapping an arm around her as she began to cry.

"And all I could bloody think about was that it was my fault, all semester long I had gone on and on about this stupid fucking book to him" she said as angry tears started to fall.

"It wasn't your fault," he said clarifying it for her.

"Thank you" she said sniffling a bit "It took me a long time to realize that too, it's sort of the reason I became the way I am, you know, withdrawn not very into social commitments, and my mum didn't help one bit".

"Really that's horrible"

"Yeah, last time I saw her was at my fathers funeral, I don't go home for Christmas or summer holidays" she said.

"Where do you stay?"

"Christmas, I'll stay here, during the summers I stay with Luna"

"Luna?" he asked

"Yeah, she and I are kindred spirits, even though she was only nine when she lost her mum, she was the only person that could understand what I was going through. She even helped me through the situation. If I were to call anyone my best friend it would definitely be her" Harry nodded.

"Anyway, she introduced me to Ginny and I used to hang out with them from time to time, or use boys to forget my problems" she said laughing a little.

"Hermione I know this is a personal question, and you don't have to answer it, but you're not a virgin are you"

"Hate to disappoint you Harry but no" she said laughing again at his shyness

"I'm not disappointed in you, but um…how many boys have you been with, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Three" she said without hesitation.

"Only three" he asked shocked.

"Don't sound so surprised"

"But you're always with different blokes"

"Yes Harry but I don't shag all of them and before you ask I was with Terry Boot and Viktor Krum"

"That's only two people," he said.

"Yes well the third person will remain nameless," she said and he didn't bother asking her who that third person was.

"Ok but Terry Boot, and Viktor Krum, I mean I knew you dated Viktor but Terry."

"Yes, well that was a huge mistake, he's so self-centered that's why I was hoping that Luna and Ron would get together sooner"

"Well that explains why you don't like the Ravenclaw Quidditch team" he joked, they laughed.

"Luna was also the only person I told just about everything to, she never liked my lifestyle, but she never judged me either, she knew that everyone had their own way of getting over personal tragedies and that this was my way." She said. Harry nodded.

"I understand" he supplied "And I'll never judge you either" he said sincerely looking in her eyes, she felt that he was honestly telling the truth.

"Thank you" she whispered when he started moving closer to her, she could feel his breath on her nose and started to get nervous.

"Well I should be off to bed, got Snape first thing in the morning" she said getting up and moving away from his as fast as she could. Harry snapped back to reality and said.

"Yes well good night Hermione" he didn't know what almost happened there but it scared him as well.

"Good night Harry" she said and slipped into her bed, she found it very hard to sleep that night without thoughts of a green eyed someone often interrupting her dreams.