1I thought I would update as soon as possible. I really didn't have any idea what to write going into this chapter but I think it has some interesting stuff and will lead to some important events in the future. Thanks for all the amazing reviews as usual :-)
Oh I guess I should start putting that I in fact do not own Harry Potter, that's all JK
A Series of Fortunate Events
Chapter 10: What Goes Around the (Rumor) Mill
It was the night before classes were to begin and Ginny and Hermione were seated in Hermione's room discussing America. Ginny wanted every detail, from what the streets looked like to how the food tasted. Hermione told her all about George's amazing loft and how Angelina had decided to move in with him ("Oo, mum will have another wedding to plan." Ginny mused). She also told Ginny about the new shop and how different American wizards were. Their shops were huge and very modern looking. Her and Fred had seen an amazing Broadway show that reminded her of Fred and George.
"Oh my god, I really wanna go to New York." Ginny sighed.
"A honeymoon possibly?" Hermione's eyes twinkled.
Ginny blushed, "Maybe."
"Oh come on, you guys are definitely getting married this summer." Hermione teased.
"I hope." Ginny looked off dreamily, "Well, come on what else happened?"
Hermione bit her lip, she still hadn't told Ginny about what happened between her and Fred, "Well, something else did happen."
Ginny's eyes widened, "What?"
"Well, the first night we were there Fred and I got a little...well a lot of...drunk and kind of you know did it."
Ginny almost screamed, "Hermione!"
Hermione blushed, "Oh c'mon it's not that big of a deal."
"Ok, you've only had sex with two guys in your life, this is a big deal." Ginny's face fell a little, "And both of them happen to be my brothers."
Hermione buried her face in her hands, "Oh geez I'm like some Weasley whore."
Ginny burst out laughing, "Nah, I just think you have a thing for red heads."
Hermione looked up and chuckled, "But yeah we did it."
"What was like?" Ginny asked, "I mean I don't need hard core details, but you know..."
Hermione sighed, "It was amazing."
Ginny squealed and hugged her. For the rest of the night Hermione told Ginny about New York and all the places there are to see, like the Statue of Liberty and Broadway and Times Square. Hermione had picked up some gifts for everyone: she got Ginny some hip New York clothes, she picked Harry up a book about American Quidditch teams, for Ron it was some cd's and a DVD player. She picked up Mrs. Weasley a tea set and Mr. Weasley a variety of muggle artifacts.
A little while later Ginny headed off to her dorm and Hermione finished unpacking her stuff. Hermione decided to do some light reading before calling it a night, she settled on a book about the Jersey Devil she picked up while in America. However, her relaxing reading was cut off by a tapping at her window. She turned to find a small owl carrying a lovely envelope. She let the tiny bird in and examined the envelope with curiosity. The small envelope housed a beautiful card that had the word "Wedding" scrolled nicely across the middle. Hermione's eyes widened, she couldn't think of anyone she knew who was getting married, besides Ron but surely they weren't this far into the planning. She opened the card and saw a picture of Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood staring back at her waving happily. Hermione grinned happily, of course why didn't she think of them.
Neville and Luna had actually decided to elope during the middle of last year, with the war going they figured it was now or never. Hermione and Harry had actually been their witnesses since they all happened to be on a mission at the time. Hermione thought back to that day and how utterly odd it was to be part of something so heart warming during the middle of something so horrifying. Hermione was thrilled to see that the two of them made it through the war and were now going to have a proper wedding. Actually they were going to have their wedding in two weeks on the dot. Thankfully it fell on a Sunday. Hermione quickly scanned over the invite, it was going to be at their house in the early afternoon. Hermione scribbled a quick response saying that she would definitely be there, suddenly she stopped. 'What about Fred? Was she just supposed to assume that he would accompany her or should she ask. What if he had plans already, what if he didn't want to go to a wedding with her?' Hermione put down her quill, grabbed a robe and headed out.
The hallways were quiet like expected as Hermione rushed through them towards the dungeons. She never realized how eerie the hallways were at night when you were completely alone. She didn't like it. She wrapped her robe tightly around as she descended into the dungeons. She came upon Fred's door and knocked. There was some shuffling around and a rather tired looking Fred appeared.
"Hey, is everything ok?" Fred said scratching his head.
"Oh, um yes I um just had a question for you." Hermione said biting her lip, 'why was she making such a big deal out of this?'
"Here, come on in." Fred put an arm around her and lead her in. It was obvious that he had been sleeping and Hermione felt horrible for waking him, "So, what's your question?"
"Will you...um...go to a...uh wedding with me?"
Fred grinned the ever so mischievous Weasley grin, "Our wedding? Of course I'll go with you to our wedding."
Hermione glared at him but smiled, "Neville and Luna's wedding. It's two weeks from now."
Fred laughed, "Of course I'll go with you. Were you nervous about asking me?"
Hermione bit her bottom lip once more, "Kind of, I didn't know whether to RSVP for two or just one, and I didn't even know if you'd want to go..."
Fred kissed Hermione passionately on the lips, "I will gladly go anywhere with you."
Hermione immediately relaxed and hugged Fred, "Ok, well um I guess I'll just go and RSVP then."
"Are you sure you don't want to stay over?"
"That's probably not a good idea, you know if anyone saw me leaving your place in the morning it would be bad."
Fred made a puppy dog face, "But I'm so lonely without you."
Hermione smiled, "We can have sleep overs on the weekend, but during school hours we should maintain a professional relationship."
Fred knew he wasn't going to win this one, "Alrighty, I see your point. Would you like me to walk you back?"
"That would be nice."
Hermione rolled over and found herself face to face with a gorgeous red head. 'Shit.' she thought to herself, 'How did this happen?' Fred had walked her back to her room and came in for a few minutes to see the invite and then they both relaxed on her bed. She was reading her book while wrote a letter to George about the wedding. The next thing she remembered was waking up just now. She looked down and found the book open lying on top of her. She peeked under the covers and was thankfully fully clothed, as was Fred. She looked back at the sleeping red head next to her, he looked so peaceful and comfortable. She could definitely get used to waking up to this everyday. 'No, I can't. We cannot carry on like this during school, it would be very unprofessional.' Still she couldn't shake how comfortable she felt with him and how warm his body was. She reached over and cupped his face whispering in his ear, "Hey sleepyhead, we have class." Fred groaned a bit and rolled over. Hermione sighed, this was going to be harder than she thought. She climbed out of bed and walked over to the side Fred was facing. Without really thinking she jumped on top of him.
"Argh!" Fred moaned. Hermione smiled at him. "How did I end up here?" Fred asked sitting up.
Hermione shrugged, "I was going to ask you the same thing but I guess it doesn't really matter. We just cannot let this happen again."
Fred smiled, "Alright, I'm going to go back to my room and I'll meet you at the Great Hall for breakfast." Hermione leaned over and kissed him. He ran his hands through her hair and she wrapped her arms around his body tightly. They parted after a few minutes and Fred exited. Hermione hopped in the shower, decided to straighten her hair, and put on a nice pair of black pants and a cute red sweater that Ginny had gotten for Christmas. She threw on her robe and made her way to the Great Hall.
Hermione took her seat in between McGonagall and Harry, Fred was seated on the side opposite Harry.
"Morning Hermione." Harry said brightly.
"Good morning Harry, Minerva." Hermione greeted them. Fred was stuffing his face, similar to how Ron usually eats, Hermione just rolled her eyes, "Hi Fred."
"Morning princess." Fred smiled.
Hermione took her seat and ignored the inquisitive looks of McGonagall, "So, Harry did you get invited to Luna and Neville's wedding?"
"Got the invite last night, you?"
"Yes, are you taking Ginny with you?"
"Of course, are you taking anyone?" Hermione glared at harry, he did this on purpose he wanted to hear her say that she was bringing Fred. McGonagall turned to face the trio with a look of interest, "Yes, Hermione are you bringing anyone?"
Hermione sighed, "Of course."
"Who?" McGonagall asked.
Fred joined in, "Well, me of course." he winked at Hermione who blushed furiously. 'Why am I blushing, I have nothing to be embarrassed about, he is my boyfriend afterall'.
McGonagall smiled, "Oh finally you two are together."
"It happened on Christmas." Harry told her, diving into the whole story about how Hermione broke up with Daniel on Christmas day and everything, "Harry, don't say it like that you make me sound like some fluzy." Fred nearly spat his coffee all over the place.
Hermione was in the middle of her fourth period of the day, third years who were working on Transfiguring mice into tea cups. There was quite a bit of commotion with girls screaming and boys dropping mice onto the girls heads. Hermione was getting quite the headache and was about ready to scream. Instead she raised her voice, "Do not make me go and get your heads of house." she threatened the Gryffindors and Slytherins. This seemed to have gotten the point across, the boys stopped taunting the girls and thus the girls stopped screaming. Hermione surveyed the classroom, there were a small handful of students who seemed to have mastered turning mice into tea cups. She instructed those students to attempt turning the tea cup back to a mouse while helping out the students who were having problems. She happened to notice two girls (Slytherins) passing a not back. Hermione sighed and accioed the parchment, "Please see me after class Miss Wright and Miss Hannigan." the girls nodded.
Hermione took the parchment and sat at her desk. She opened the parchment and began to read:
So have you heard?
Heard what?
Professor Granger and Professor Weasley are dating!!!
Oh my god, really??
Yes, Tonya saw him leaving her room this morning and he was in his pajamas.
Ugh, I'm so jealous, he is gorgeous
Yeah I know, I would love to date him.
At this point Hermione wanted to just die, they knew, they knew all about her and Fred. She continued to read:
We should ask Ginny she would totally know, Fred is her brother after all
Yeah and Professor Granger and her are best friends
Seriously Professor Granger is the luckiest woman in the world. I mean Fred Weasley is a legend and he's sooo hott!!
Yeah, and I'm sure all the guys will be jealous, just about all of them are in love with her.
At this point Hermione felt herself blush and smiled, 'If they had only known me during school.'
Omg remember when Bobby wrote that poem for her and then Dean started telling everyone that Professor Granger had a crush on him.
That's where the note ended, Hermione folded the parchment up and shook her head, part of her was incredibly amused by the contents of the note and part of her was worried. She didn't like the idea of the students discussing her private life as well as that of those whom she was close with. At the same time however, they were going to find out eventually, maybe her and Fred should come clean about the relationship-it was already all around the rumor mill. Hermione glanced at the parchment on her desk, she could not wait to tell Harry and Ron about how all the boys thought she was hot (hehehe, I had to include that).
Class ended and the two girls came over to Hermione's desk.
"I'm sure this incident will not happen again." Hermione looked at both girls who solemnly nodded, "When in class you should be paying attention and doing your work, not writing notes."
"Yes, Professor Granger." the girls replied.
"Furthermore, it is wrong to spread rumors." Hermione held the note up, "I do not appreciate reading things like this and I am sure Professor Weasley would agree with me."
"What would I agree with you on?" Fred said poking his head in. Both of the girls swooned a little and Hermione couldn't help but smile. Fred walked in and saw the parchment in Hermione's hand, "Have you two been writing notes?" he addressed to the young girls who merely nodded once more. "Today has been a big day of note writing. Just today I found two of the fourth years writing a very interesting note. What's this one about?"
Hermione sighed she was going to tell him she just didn't want to do it in front of the girls, "Well, apparently the students think we're an item."
"Ah, well Miss Hannigan and Miss Wright you will lose ten points each for disrupting class and another ten for lying." Hermione felt her face fall a little, she didn't want the students to know about them but at the same time it really hurt to hear Fred reprimand the girls for lying when in fact her and Fred are an item.
"Oh, well I don't think we really need to punish them about the contents of the note. I've already talked to them about it." Hermione said. Fred looked at her with intrigue, 'Does she want people to know?' he searched her for an answer. The two students stood their awkwardly while their professors looked at each other. Before anyone knew what was happening Fred cupped Hermione's cheek and kissed her.
"I suppose we can't punish them since they aren't lying." Fred said when they finally parted. The two girls stood there with a look of surprise, jealousy, and excitement.
"Oh my god!" they squealed jumping up and down. Hermione didn't even notice she was too busy thinking about how much she just wanted to be kissing Fred.
"Alright, you girls may go now, but remember passing notes will not be tolerated." Hermione said firmly. The girls nodded eagerly and ran off.
Fred and Hermione stood there, Hermione was leaning against her desk and Fred was in front of her with his back to the door, "Well, now what should we do?" Fred asked.
Hermione smiled mischievously, "This." she reached over and pulled him toward her kissing him feverishly.
Alright this seems like an appropriate place to end for now. Til next time :-)