Disclaimer: I do not own anything except plots and OCs. Sooo this wasn't as fast as I hoped...but...here it is :p I hope you enjoy it...this was just kind of a filler scene while I figure out how to salvage the damage that is Draco Malfoy's character XD I kinda screwed him over...lol

Chapter 11

Ron throws himself onto the soft cushioned couch in the Gryffindor common room. Hermione's mouth twitches with annoyance as the rush of air disturbed by his landing causes her notes to float off the table. She flicks her wand and the papers zoom into her out stretched hand.

"McGonagall had me wash the Great Hall with no magic." Ron complains.

"Aww poor baby." Hermione murmurs in a mocking tone. She straddles his lap, and cups his face. "I could cheer you up." She grins playfully.

Harry coughs. "Cut it out guys, I'm right here." Harry throws a scrunched up parchment at them, bouncing off Hermione's back.

"You could...erm...not be here." Ron says, his voice slightly muffled but playful.

"Yes, well I am." Harry counters. "I don't snog my girlfriend – your sister – in front of you, now do I?"

"Actually you do, Harry." Hermione interjects.

Ignoring her comment, Harry picks up his quill. "We have to finish the essay on the magical qualities of Moonseed and it's applications."

Sighing, Hermione slips off of Ron's lap and drops to the floor. Picking up her quill she looks over at Harry, "That's not exactly how I'd state that...but you're right."

Harry sticks out his tongue, shifts his weight to get comfortable, and bends over his parchment.

"Hermione," Ron slides over to sit behind her, "love." He lets his fingers drop to her head and he plays with her hair. "How about..."

"No."

"Hmm?" Ron drops her hair in surprise. "You don't even know what I was going to say!"

"You want me to write your essay." Hermione states, not looking up from her work. "I said no."

Grumbling, Ron steals one of Harry's parchments and quills and sits down beside Hermione. There's a slight pause, only the slight scratching of quill on parchment is heard.

"What is Moonseed anyways?"

Harry and Hermione sigh, letting their foreheads hit the table.

"There!" Ron exclaims triumphantly. "I'm done!"

"That's nice." Hermione says from her arm chair, her nose in a book.

"It was really hard."

"Ok."

"My brain almost exploded."

"Hmm."

"I cheated on you with Lavender."

"Mmmhmmm."

"You're not even listening are you?" Ron states flatly.

Hermione's head snaps up. "Were you talking to me?"

"Don't you know she goes on auto-pilot while reading?" Harry laughs, lounging on the couch.

Hermione glances down at her book then up at Ron, and back.

"Continue reading, love." Ron waves her away.

Hermione blushes, and smiles as she settles down to read once more. Ron gazes at her; his eyes wandering over her face, her hair, her nose. Harry pokes him in the side. When Ron squeaks in protest and whips around to glare at him, Harry holds up his hands in defense.

"I didn't want to mop up the drool."

Laughing, Ron whips a couch pillow at Harry's head, who in turn ducks. Harry leaps off the couch with the pillow and runs to the safety of the other side of the room. Ron grabs another pillow and follows in pursuit, his pillow raised high above his head.

Hermione shakes her head, smiling fondly, watching them over the edge of her book. "Boys."

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