A/N – Sorry it has taken so long for me to update. I have been lacking any motivation to write for the past week and I want to thank charlotteelizabeth38, your review today gave me back the motivation to write, so this chapter is dedicated to you :). I also want to thank Jasmin Jade xx for her reviews. Don't worry this chapter is going to be longer.

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As she was sitting in Charms the same morning, working on the essay that Fred had assigned them to do that lesson, Ginny noticed the looks Fred was giving Hermione. She had noticed that they were spending more and more time together lately but had put that down to the fact the George was always with Luna and, well, she had been spending most of her time in her common rooms. But these looks were telling her something more may have been going on. It wouldn't be obvious to anyone who wasn't family. Hell, everyone knows that the twins don't hide the fact that they are checking someone out and they aren't very conspicuous when they flirt, seeing how up until George started getting serious with Luna they both flirted with anyone with tits. But these looks were different. He was shyly smiling and constantly glancing in Hermione's direction but would quickly look away when Hermione looked up at him.

'I hope this isn't because of my questioning the new rules regarding dating professors' she thought to herself. She quickly grabbed a spare bit of invisible ink parchment out of her book bag and began to write. H. Why does Fred keep looking at you!? G. And passed it to the girl sitting next to her.

Hermione noticed the blank parchment slide in front of her and looked to Ginny next to her. Ginny tapped her wand just above the desk to try to express to her that she needed to tap the parchment to show what it says. The parchment was similar to that of the Maduarers Map; only Ginny had designed this on to only recognise her and Hermione's wand. Having made it only recently, she had yet to show Hermione how it worked. Hermione got the message and inconspicuously tapped the parchment and read.

After reading what was written, she glanced up at her professor to again find him looking at her. Only this time instead of quickly looking away he gave her a slight smile which she returned. Grabbing the parchment she replied, May have something to do with our date on Saturday. Or I could have something on my face. H. And slid the parchment back to Ginny before looking back up at Fred, giving him an innocent smile.

Ginny had slid the parchment back in front of Hermione with great force and a not to impressed look on her face. Head's common room for lunch. NO Excuses!

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As class ended before lunch Ginny stood and began tapping her foot impatiently as she waited for Hermione to pack up her stuff. There was no way she was going to let her try to get out of giving her some answers. As soon as Hermione put her bag over her shoulder Ginny grabbed her hand and started to drag her out of the room

"OUCH! I can walk myself!" Hermione whined as she tried to free her hand.

"I'm not taking any chances, now can you hurry up. I want this cleared up before the end of lunch!" Ginny snapped back.

Reaching the Heads entrance, Ginny muttered the password before pulling the other girl through the portrait and up the stairs to her dorm.

"What the fuck Ginny!? I don't appreciate you dragging me around the whole fucking school" Hermione snapped as Ginny cast a quick silencing charm on the room.

"Well, I don't appreciate you leading my brother on!" Ginny screeched back at Hermione. "Why the fuck are you going on a date with Fred when you have feelings for Sirius!?"

"I told you weeks ago it was time for me to move on from Sirius. I haven't even spoken to him about anything that isn't school related since I told him I wanted distance over 3 weeks ago" She snapped, not to happy that Ginny was trying to interfere when she hadn't even been around as of late. "And you probably haven't noticed but I have been spending most of my time with Fred as of late because my supposed best friend is off hiding in her dorm. Tell me Ginny, what have you been doing for the past few weeks?"

"Don't you dare try to change the subject. I am looking out only trying to look out for my brother because I happen to know he has a massive crush on you and has for some time!"

"How do you know that?"

"Do you remember when I was asking about the new rule with dating professors and he asked me why I wanted to know?" Hermione only nodding know the exact moment "Well, when I said it wasn't me who was interested he guessed it was you and because you got up and left so quickly he thought it was him you liked. The look on his face was pure bliss."

Realisation quickly crashed down on Hermione, the comment Luna had made when they all had the picnic, the constant glances in her direction and the hanging out with her all the time suddenly made sense. 'Wow, do I like him too?' She thought to herself 'He's funny, he's smart, independent, well except for with George, and well he is really attractive'

"You're not just using him as a rebound from Sirius are you?" Ginny asked, pulling Hermione out of her thoughts.

"No, I'm not. Sirius didn't even cross my mind when he asked me." Hermione answered honestly.

"Good" Ginny said, with a smile crossing her face.

"So, are you going to tell me what you have been doing the past few weeks?" Hermione asked. "Does it have anything to do with you and Blaise flirting outside the great hall the other week?"

"No, that was just friendly banter. I have been spending time with both Draco and Blaise." She answered

"So, it's Draco now? What's going on Ginny?" She queried

"Honestly, we are just hanging out. They don't have many friends anymore. There are only 5 Slytherin 7th years, as you know and a lot of the other student's still treat them as if they are Death Eaters and should be locked in Azkaban."

"You treated Draco that way too." Hermione reminded her.

"I know, but working with him has shown me he isn't as bad as I thought." She told her.

"I already told you that. Come on, I'm starving and we have class in 20 minutes" Hermione said as she stood. "And I'll be asking Draco if that's all that's going on when we have rounds together tonight." She smirked at the other girl as she walked out the door.

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The rest of the day past as normal, Fred sat next to Hermione for the remainder of lunch. Only a little closer than he had in the past although no one else would have notice but Hermione definitely noticed his arm brushing hers as he reached for his pumpkin juice.

That night Hermione met Draco outside the heads common room to begin their rounds. "We have to inform Professor Weasley that we are beginning now." He told her as they began to walk off.

"While that is helpful, it might be easier if I knew which one." She said, pointing out the obvious.

"Two ears" Draco laughed at his own little joke.

"Very funny, well if it's Fred we are walking in the wrong direction" She told him, while turning to walk in the other direction. "Fred is our Charms professor."

"Fuck, I always get them confused. They shouldn't be allowed to have twins as Professors. It is way too confusing." He whined, following Hermione.

After notifying Fred that they were starting they decided to start with checking out the Room of Requirement. Draco had discovered that since the room had become known by most 6th and 7th years, it was often used by students for snogging and once he had caught 2 Hufflepuff 7th years shagging in there.

As they walked down the 7th floor corridor Hermione decided it was time to get his explanation as to why him and Ginny were spending heaps of time together. "So Draco, what's going on with you and Ginny?" She asked, jumping right to the point. As he went to open his mouth she quickly added "And don't try lying to me. You know that I can always tell when you're lying."

"It's creepy how you can do that. Not even my own mother can tell when I'm lying" Draco said, trying to avoid the question.

"Oh, stop being a sook and just answer"

"Fine. I don't actually know. We are hanging out a lot. Started off doing schedules and then one day Blaise stopped by and they were getting along. Since then the 3 of us just sit around and talk." He explained.

"But you like her, don't you?" She asked, already knowing the answer.

Draco hesitated for a bit before answering "Yeah I guess I do, but I'm fairly certain she has a thing for Blaise."

"I'm not too sure about that" Hermione said.

They finished off their rounds with only small talk and after informing Fred that they were finishing up, Draco walked Hermione back to the Gryffindor common room, following new policy. "So, what's going on with you and Professor Two Ears?" Draco asked.

"I'm not 100% sure, but we have a date on Saturday thought." Hermione told him.

"Good luck, but you can do better." Draco told her, as she stepped through the Fat Lady's portrait

"Thanks, Drake. Good Night"

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Before Hermione knew it, it was Saturday morning. Hogsmeade day and she had a date with Fred. She didn't know why but she was freaking out. She woke up at 6 am and started sifting through her wardrobe to try to find something to wear. After going through nearly every outfit she owned she found her favourite pair of skinny jeans, which she decided to, change the colour to black and a long sleeved cream high collar blouse with spikes on the collar. Having decided on what she would wear, she had a quick shower and dried her hair. Deciding that since it was a date she would wear a little more makeup, performed one of the spells Ginny had showed her to apply some black eyeliner, mascara, blush and a pink lipstick. She then dressed and returned to her wardrobe to get her floral Doc Martian boots.

Once she was dressed, she looked around the dorm and noticed that all the girls had already left for breakfast; she decided she would follow too.

Once she began to eat, Professor McGonagall stood up to address the entire school. "As I am sure you are all well aware, next Thursday is Halloween. As a reward for all of you we will be having a dance instead of the usual feast. Friday's classes will be cancelled so that all are able to enjoy themselves. First to fifth years, the dance for you will end at 11pm for the upper class men it will continue. I request that all wear costumes however some costumes will be banned. A list of said banned costumes has been place in the Entrance halls. I look forward to seeing you all there!"

The Great hall erupted in noise and movement as soon as the Headmistress ceased talking.

After breakfast Fred came to stand beside where Hermione sat, "Are you ready, Mi lady?" He asked, presenting his hand to her.

"As ready as I'll ever be." She said in mock dread as he took her hand.

They walked hand in hand towards Hogsmeade neither speaking but enjoying the comfortable silence. While Fred was he sort of ex's brother she had known him for the entire time she had been in the Wearing World and she was comfortable around him except of course when he was up to no good.

"So where would you like to go first?" Fred asked her, breaking the silence as they reached Hogsmeade.

"How about Honeydukes?"

"That sounds good to me" He said smiling down at her. "One can never have too many sweets" To this she just smiled up. She had never noticed how much taller he now was to her. They walked into Honeydukes which was still relatively quiet seeing how most people made it their last stop in the village. After selecting what they wanted, Fred went to take Hermione's haul from her as they reached the counter. "No, I can't let you pay for this" She told him

"Yes you can, and you will" He told her. "You're my date and I'm not taking 'no' for an answer" and he snatched the bag from her hand laughing at her failed attempt at struggling with him

"Fine, but I'll buy next time" She said. Fred paid for both of their items then shrunk the bags down and put them in his top pocket.

"To Zonkos!" He proclaimed in an exadurated voice pointing in the direction of his competitions store before reaching to hold Hermione's hand again and flashing an adoring smile.

As they entered the store it was packed. It would have appeared that most students had decided to head her first. To this sight Hermione groaned. Fred leant down and whispered in her ear "Don't worry love, they won't be bothering us" before he tucked a curl behind her ear and lead her through the crowd to the back room. "Fred, it says staff only we can't be in here!"

"Yes you can" a voice said from behind her. She turned to see George and Luna standing behind them. "So what's going on here?" He asked wiggling his eyebrows and pointing to their joined hands.

"It would be a date, George" Fred said, beaming at his twin brother as he opened the door for them all to enter. "Zonk! You there mate?" He called out

"Well, if it isn't my two favourite customers and competition" An older man said as he popped his head around from behind some shelves. "Oh and two lovely ladies as well. So what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Well, I just wanted to get some things and slow to impress this one by showing off what great connections I have." Fred said nodding towards Hermione to which she laughed.

"Help yourselves lad, and on the house like always. I don't want to go find that you have stashed gallons around the place again" The old man said before turning back to the shelf he was at prior.

As Fred and Hermione walked around the storage room, Fred picking up his "few" supplied, he turned and whispered to her "See what great connections I have"

"That's all well and good, but I am best friends with 'The-Boy-Who-Lived-Twice' she laughed.

As they finished up, Fred took hold of her hand again "Come on, I have a surprise for you." He said before turning to the remaining 3 people in the room "Bye George, Luna. And Farewell my dear Zonks!" he said with exadurated hand gestures.