"Ginny! What am I supposed to pack?!" Hermione complained to her redheaded friend in the Great Hall. Hermione had decided to eat breakfast with the Gryffindors after not being able to find Ginny the night before.
"Just pack something warm, whatever is fine." Ginny said reassuringly.
"Warm? Like scarves, long sleeves, turtlenecks?" Hermione asked worriedly. Ginny just nodded having taken her first bite of breakfast.
"Ok. Thanks Gin." Hermione said taking a deep breath and then sipping her pumpkin juice.
"Granger, what are you packing for?" Weasel asked looking over at her from his spot next to Harry.
"Going to your house for the holidays." Hermione said giving him a sickly sweet smile.
"What!?" He practically yelled. Hermione shot him a innocent look.
"What's the matter Weasel? Upset that your sister invited me for the holidays?"
"You can't come to our house, our mum wouldn't let you."
"Well Ron, mum's already said yes." Ginny said smirking, a trait she had picked up from Hermione.
"But she couldn't! There's not enough room for everyone! Harry, Lav, and Lee, and on top of that Granger." He said exasperated.
"Hermione and Lavender will be staying with me, Lee with Fred and George, and Harry with you." Ginny said patiently.
"Your room isn't big enough to hold all three of you!"
"It's a lost cause Weasel, just give in." Hermione said. Ron glared at her.
"I won't give up. I'm not some slimy Slytherin."
"Slimy am I? Ha, that's the best you can do." Hermione scoffed. He just looked away.
"Well I think that I'm going to go pack. Gin will you please, please come and help me?" Hermione pleaded, Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Fine, but there is no way I'm going into your common room."
"Why not, that is where all of my stuff is." Hermione said giving Ginny a confused look.
"Uhg fine." Ginny said and stood up. Hermione quickly followed suit.
"This way." Hermione said and took the lead on the way down to the dungeons. She quickly looked around before uttering the password, metropolitana.
"Underground?" Ginny translated, Hermione looked at her quickly.
"Sh! The others can't know that you know the password!" Hermione whisper-yelled.
"Sorry." Ginny said quickly.
"Ok come on." Hermione said running into the common room and up to the girls dorms. She stuck her head in to see if there was anyone in there, no one.
"All clear." Hermione said walking in and motioning Ginny to follow.
"This is all of my stuff." Hermione said showing Ginny her bed that was overfilled with clothes.
"Do you have enough clothes or what?" Ginny said shaking her head.
"It's not my fault, it's my parents." Hermione laughed.
"Well as I said, pack warm, you'll be staying for the entire holidays?"
"Yep." Hermione said smiling and grabbing her trunk and putting it next to the bed.
"So how about this, and…this. Oh this is pretty, you should pack this." Ginny said picking up clothes and throwing them at Hermione. She folded the clothes and put them in the trunk.
Half a hour later Ginny and Hermione were done with Hermione's clothes.
"Ok, finally we're done! Meet me in the Great Hall tomorrow in the morning, then we're going to the Burrow!" Ginny said smiling and hopping off of Hermione's bed.
"Bye." Hermione said to the retreating Ginny.
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At the Burrow:
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"Gin, are we playing Quidditch or what?" Harry asked Ginny and Hermione as they stood outside wrapped up in their cloaks.
"Harry it's freezing out! At least with you guys doing your sport you're warm, but what about the commentator here?" Hermione said referring to herself.
"You're on." Ginny said giving Harry a challenging look. Hermione groaned.
"Did either of you hear a word I said?" She asked.
"Sorry?" Ginny said innocently, Hermione pushed her into Harry who caught her before she fell.
"Hey!" Ginny said while Hermione and Harry laughed. Hermione bent down and picked up a handful of snow, packing it into a tight snowball.
"What are you planning on doing with that?" Harry said eyeing the snowball with distrust.
"Oh nothing." Hermione said smiling and throwing it at Weasel who had just come out of the Burrow's door.
"Ow!" He yelled as it made contact with the side of his face.
Harry, Hermione, and Ginny all laughed while Weasel's face turned red. He bent down on the steps grabbing a handful of snow and made it into a sloppy snowball and threw it back at Hermione but missed and hit Ginny.
"Ronald!" Ginny laughed and threw her own snowball at him. Soon it became a big fight between the four, Hermione and Ginny on one team with Harry and Weasel on the other.
"I give, I give!" Hermione finally said breathlessly.
"Oh no you don't, you're not getting off that easy." Weasel said and pounced onto her with a armful of snow. He dumped it all over her head.
"Weasley, I'll get you for that!" Hermione said laughing.
"I'd like to see the day Hermione." Weasel said laughing. Hermione stopped what she was doing and gave him a puzzled look to which he just shrugged.
"It's hard to call you anything else when all you hear is Hermione." Hermione smirked at his confession.
"Well I see that I win, Ron." Hermione said. Then she stuffed the handful of snow that she had hid in her hand, down the back of his jumper.
"AH!" Ron yelled and danced around trying to get the snow out of his clothes. The other 3 fell to the ground laughing so hard. Soon tears started sprouting from Hermione's eyes at the expression on Ron's face.
"Oh-you should-see your- face!" Hermione laughed breathlessly.
"I say we all go in and have some warm butterbeer." Ginny announced while the rest nodded.
"Well actually I think that I may go and change into some dry clothes, I'll meet you guys downstairs in a few." Hermione said and turned to go.
"I think I'll do that to." Ron said and walked behind Hermione. Silently he bent down and gathered another armful of snow. Then he stealthily go closer to Hermione and dumped the whole thing down the back of her shirt.
"Ronald Weasley!" Hermione screeched turning around and smacking him with her green and silver scarf.
"Ow." He complained as he rubbed his cheek. Hermione glared at him then whipped around, smacking Ron again, and marched into the house with all the dignity she could muster.
"What happened to you Granger?" Fred asked from his landing outside of his door, Hermione just glared at him deciding not to answer him. She then marched into Ginny's room where she was keeping her things. Lavender wasn't coming for another week so that she could spend Christmas Day with her family.
She quickly threw her soak garments on the floor and put on a tight knit green turtleneck sweatshirt her mom had gotten her for Christmas and a pair of black sweats. She decided that she could be comfy and warm instead of worrying about her looks for the moment. She then slipped into her blood red fuzzy socks and silver slippers, and then she walked downstairs to meet the others who all had warm butterbeers in their hands.
"Mm. Can you get me one of those?" Hermione asked holding on to the hem of her sleeves to keep the warm in her.
"Here you go Hermione." Ron said beside Harry. Hermione gave him a curt nod and took the butterbeer.
"How do I know this isn't poisoned?" Hermione asked cautiously. Ron rolled his eyes.
"I'd have much better ways of poisoning you than to poison your butterbeer." Ron said.
"Hm. Fine." Hermione said and took a tentative sip, it warmed her right up and she took another sip.
"So tomorrow we were able to get Jordan, Fred, George, Harry, and Ron to join in our scrimmage." Ginny said excitedly to Hermione as they sat down next to each other on the couch. Harry sat in the armchair next to the couch on Ginny's side while Ron sat next to an uncomfortable Hermione.
"I can't wait. This'll be so cool. I never go to the real games because it's far to loud and the violence is horrid." Hermione said back and sent a quick glance at Ron's leg that was flush with hers.
"I know, Jordan's still miffed that he can't be the commentator and has to fly, while you get to sit on the ground and do his job." Ginny and Hermione laughed.
"Why won't you fly?" Ron asked Hermione.
"Because I don't rather like flying. I'd much rather keep my feet on the ground and not my head in the sky."
At that moment an owl came and hit the window in the kitchen making Hermione nearly jump into Ron's lap. Ron shook his head and opened the window.
"Poor Pig, never can tell if the window's open or shut." Ginny said.
"Here Hermione, this one's for you." Ron said and handed her an evelope with elegant script on the front. Hermione was baffled. Why is Draco writing me while I'm here? Hermione thought as she excused herself.
She ran into the hallway and opened the letter.
Dear Hermione,
I wanted to let you know that Easter holidays would be perfect, mum and dad said that they'd love to meet you. How are your holidays with the Weasel and Ginny? Hope you're keeping warm and I'll see you at school.
From,
DracoHermione sighed as she read the letter. At least he's not angry. Hermione thought as she ran up to Ginny's room to write a reply.
Dear Draco,
That's great! Poor mum and dad won't be seeing much of me this year will they? It's been great here with Ginny and Weasel, who has now started calling me Hermione! Can you believe it? I was so shocked when he said it today that I ended up calling him Ron. I don't think that that'll be happening much more. How are your holidays going? I'm so sorry that I wasn't able to come, I'm happy that I came to the Burrow but I wish that there was a way that I didn't have to choose between you and Ginny. Stay warm yourself and I'll see you at school also.
Sincerely,
Hermione
Hermione smiled down at her work and ran back downstairs.
"Hey Ron, could I use your owl?" Hermione asked going back into the living room.
"Sure. He's in his cage right now." He said standing up.
"It's in my room, I'll be right back." Ron said and went upstairs to grab his owl.
"Who wrote?" Ginny asked nosily.
"Just Draco seeing how I was and to tell me that Easter holidays would be perfect for me to visit." Hermione said.
"Ok." Ginny said and went back to talking with Harry. A few seconds later Ron came down with his small owl.
"Here you go." He said and handed the owl to Hermione.
"Thanks." Hermione said and tied the letter to the owl's leg.
"I'm so tired, I think I'm going to bed." Ron said and went up to bed.
"Night." They all said. Harry excused himself to and went up after Ron.
"You ready for bed Hermione?" Ginny asked and Hermione and Ginny went to bed.