"Let's read another story for fun," Hermione suggested, sitting across the table in the library from Ron.

Ron gulped. "Fun? If your idea of fun is sexing Snape or watching everyone hate me, then no offense, but I'm calling this a quits." He gestured between the two of them.

Hermione let out a laugh. "Oh, please. And anyway, let's not read about us. Let's read about…Harry!"

"Alright," Ron said, grabbing the book from where McGonagall had left it. He opened it up and found a story right away. "I'll read," he said. "If it's nasty, you're going to stop. So I'll read it.

"Once their was a boy named Harry Potter. He was the boy who lived. He went to Hogwarts and was in his seventh year when he realized that his girlfriend, Ginny Weasley, was not the 1 for him.

"In fact, girls in general weren't the 1 for Harry."

Ron snorted. "You said you would keep reading," Hermione complained. "So what if he's gay? Go on."

Rolling his eyes, Ron continued.

"The male he had his eyes on was Draco Malfoy.

"He was quite obsessed with him sixth year," Ron conceded.

Hermione snatched the book away from him and began reading herself.

"Draco was in Slitherin, though, and Harry was in Gryfinder. Harry used a polyjuice potion to sneak into the Slitherin common room and then he turned back and Harry told Draco he loved him. Draco said, 'I love you too!'

"The two boys slept in the same bed that night. Harry left early in the morning. After that they met in the room of requirement every night—"

"You too?"

Hermione and Ron looked up to see a grinning Pansy Parkinson and a giggling Daphne Greengrass, who quipped, "Brilliant stuff, isn't it?"

"Just wait until you get to the paragraph where Harry gets pregnant."

The two Slytherins sat down with the Gryffindors. As they did so, Ron stood up and shouted, "WHAT?!"

"Shhh," Hermione scolded him. "We're in a library, Ronald." She turned her attention to Pansy. "So what were you saying? Harry…pregnant? How's that possible?"

Pansy shrugged. "We're magical. Apparently anything's possible."

Ron sat back down, placing his head in his hands. "I can't believe this…"

"It gets quite graphic around Chapter 15," Pansy continued.

Daphne nodded. "Draco, you know…" She made a strange motion with her hands and mouth. "Sucks it."

"Oh, Merlin," Hermione put a hand to her mouth, completely shocked.

Ron grumbled something into his hands that sounded oddly like "spit or swallow?"

"There are even better stories, though," Daphne said. "Or more farfetched, I mean. Did you see the one about you and Draco?"

Hermione shook her head. "No, thank Merlin."

Pansy sneered. "You're thanking Merlin? Pah, you should have heard what he said. 'I would never run away with that Mudblood!' Or something like…"

In a second, Ron was standing beside her seat. "If you say that word one more time, I will not hesitate to hit you just because you're a girl," he growled.

Pansy stood up, a laugh on her face. "Oh, really?" she challenged, one eyebrow raised. "That's like you. You're too stupid to know how to hex me, right?"

Trying to keep the peace, Hermione thrust the book into Pansy's arms. "Here, how about you take this with you. Ron and I are just about to leave. There's a lovely piece about hating Ron in there. I'm sure you'll enjoy it." With that, she grabbed Ron and pulled him out of the library.

"Hermione!" Ron exclaimed, once they were outside. "What was that for?"

"It was for you," Hermione said, and then she stood on her tiptoes and kissed him.

A/N: I know some people reading this are Harry/Hermione shippers and you guy shave been kind of complaining about the Ron/Hermione in this. This isn't going to turn into a Ron/Hermione fic—don't worry. I'll have hints of other canon couples in here (I've already mentioned a few) just because I'm trying to keep the story canon while the fics aren't necessarily.

I'm going to try to work the Marauders into this. I finally have an idea to go about doing that, so to everyone who has been asking for fics concerning MWPP, you'll have it soon, quite hopefully!

Thanks for reading and putting up with my randomly-timed-updates, pairings you may or may not like, etc. I love all the reviews I get for this fic and seeing a new one in my Inbox always makes me happy. 2008 is around the corner, so Happy New Year to everyone. Unless I go on a writing frenzy, see you in 2008!