A/N Happy Monday! I have decided to dedicate this chapter to RangerManaInSnuggieWar Sorry, this chapter is another boring one. But next week, you guys just wait! It's gonna get good soon! :) I just want to make a note that most of the patronus's in this chapter are made up, not because I didn't know what their real ones were but because I needed them to have a patronus that fit their personality well. So I'll respond to some reviews now!

RangerManaInSnuggieWar- Thanks for the reviews! I appreciate it a ton! And I tried to make this story as realistic as I could so I'm glad that you found it realistic. :)

RonnieX5- I knew there wouldn't be many people on board with the whole Draco and Hermione thing but Hermione never chose Draco over Harry because she didn't necessarily know that he fancied her.

KaizerDragoon- I know I thought it would be nice if Harry got to know the family he never had. That's why I wrote this. I hope you enjoy this next chapter!

Chapter 20: Expecto Patronum

"So how was your snog with Malfoy?" Harry said as Hermione walked through the portrait hole a few minutes later.

"Harry," Hermione said annoyed, "We didn't snog. We didn't even kiss."

"Yeah right!" Harry said wryly.

Hermione scowled at Harry, "I'm telling the truth."

"You do realize he wanted to snog you."

Hermione rolled her eyes, "Draco has better things to think about than snogging me."

"Have you ever snogged him?" Harry asked. This question in itself was a great achievement for Harry. He had realized that Hermione was happy with her 'beloved' Draco and that alone was enough to make his jealously go away. Sure he still had a little envy hidden deep within him but he wasn't going to let that drag Hermione down.

"Harry!" Hermione said hitting him with the back of her hand.

Harry grinned, "What? Have you or not?"

"I've kissed him a couple of times but I haven't ever snogged him!" Hermione blushed.

"A couple?" Harry said raising an eyebrow.

Hermione was blushing even more, "Harry! I would rather not discuss this with you!"

"Why not?" Harry smiled sheepishly, "I thought we were best friends."

"Well-" Hermione stuttered. "I don't even have to tell you anything."

"Okay." Harry said in defeat. "How many times have you-"

"Stop it Harry!" She said with a small smile.

"Fine." He said staring at her beautiful smile.

"Harry are you sure you are okay teaching us all how to conjure a patronus?" Hermione asked patiently. "I mean you don't have to."

Harry nodded, "You never know when you'll need it 'Mione."

"Yes but-" Harry cut her off.

"I invited Neville to come as well. He was ecstatic. I also tried finding Luna this morning to tell her of my idea but I don't think she exists." Harry said humming to himself.

"Luna?"

"Yeah." Harry said. "She was a blonde Ravenclaw in the year below us. She was extremely nice and friendly. Sometimes Katie reminds me of her."

"Oh. She sounds nice." Hermione said yawning. She sat down right next to Harry and rubbed her eyes. "Harry?"

"Hmmm." He said as she slowly rested her head on Harry's shoulder.

"Why do you sometimes call me 'Mione?"

Harry smiled softly, "I don't know. I just do sometimes. Do you not like it?"

"No." She said as her eyes closed. "I actually really love it." She said dreamily. "My daddy is the only one who calls me that. I was just wondering if you came up with that on your own."

"I did." Harry said softly.

Hermione yawned once more and nuzzled her head more into Harry's chest. "Harry? I'm tired."

"I can tell." Harry said as he slowly brought his arm around Hermione's waist. He looked warily around the common room but realized everyone was doing their own thing.

"Tell me a story." Hermione demanded.

Harry smiled as her voice croaked out the last part. "About what?"

"About something." Hermione said.

Harry sat there unable to think of anything to share when he finally got an idea. "Well once there was a family. A mom, dad and son. They were just your average every day family. One day their nephew showed up on their doorstep. He wasn't normal. He was a wizard." Harry said as he stroked Hermione's back. "They didn't like this little boy too much. They would often abuse him. He was a scrawny little thing, for they didn't always feed him. One day he got an opportunity to leave and go to a magical school." Harry paused to think of what happened next. "On his first day he ran into a family. It just so happened that this family had a boy who was just his age. They eventually became best friends. He also met this cute little girl." Harry said looking down at Hermione. Her eyes were closed and she was breathing heavy. "Hermione?" He asked. There was no answer.

Harry took a second to enjoy this moment. Hermione was sleeping on him. Her head rested softly on his chest and her hand resided there as well to prop up her head. Harry smiled. In the morning she would go back to Malfoy's arms, but for the meantime Harry got her. He got to wrap his arm around her waist. Harry looked around the common room. Many people were still up and about as it was only eight o'clock. Ron and Katie were participating in a chess game that Ron was obviously winning, Neville chatted with Seamus and Dean, and Ginny sat by herself reading a book. "Accio blanket." Harry whispered as a blanket zoomed down the stairwell and ended up on Hermione's petite body. Then Harry kissed the top of Hermione's head and whispered, "Good night 'Mione."

Harry awoke to an elbow poking him in the rib. Harry opened his eyes to find that he was still in the common room and Hermione was still lying on him. Harry had almost supposed he had been dreaming but he wasn't, Hermione's elbow was a good indicator of that.

Hermione did a routine of stretches and the said in a groggy voice, "Good morning Harry."

"Morning." Harry croaked. Hermione darted up and turned around to see the tired Harry before her.

She gasped, "Have we been like this all night?"

"I think so." Harry said.

"Oh no!" She said. "Did people see us?"

Harry nodded, "Lots of people were just hanging out in the common room. I'm sure some people caught a glimpse of us." Hermione gasped again so Harry added, "Don't worry, I'll tell everyone, even Malfoy that it was just a friendly gesture."

Hermione nodded slightly, "Thank you Harry."

"Anytime." Harry smiled.

Draco waited by the suit of armors. Any second Hermione would come walking by and stop to see him. It had become their ritual for the mornings. It was a Wednesday. Two days since the library incident. Draco scoffed as he pictured the other Slytherins finding him hanging out with a big group of Gryffindors.

His thoughts were interrupted by the quick footsteps coming his direction. Hermione came into focus and as she saw him she smiled, "Good morning Draco." She said giving him a quick peck on the lips.

"Good morning." He said grabbing her hand. She blushed a little. "I had an interesting conversation last night with Harry." He said.

"Oh really?" Hermione asked.

Draco smiled at her, "Don't play stupid Granger. You know what this is about. He said that you had innocently fallen asleep on him two nights ago."

"Draco I-"

"Hush." He said putting a finger to her mouth as they continued walking. "Harry already told me that it was a friendly gesture and not to be mad at you and blah blah blah. You're pretty lucky he did that for you."

"How so?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Well he didn't have to. He could have left it all up to you to tell your boyfriend that you slept on another man."

"Draco you make it sound a lot more horrible than it was." Hermione said.

"That's what I'm good at my dear." Draco smiled. "I was much more forgiving to Harry though because if he said it was just a friendly gesture than it was."

Hermione rolled her eyes, "So if I had told you, you wouldn't believe me?"

Draco chuckled, "No I would. But I wouldn't get the amusement of Harry fumbling around like an idiot."

Hermione elbowed him in the side, "Harry's a nice guy!"

"Extremely nice." Draco said. "Maybe even too nice."

"There's no such thing as too nice." Hermione said matter-of-factly.

"You would be surprised." Draco insinuated. "You would be surprised."

Friday evening came along quickly for Harry. He gave each one of his friends special directions to get into the Room of Requirement so they could all be gathered there when Ron, Ginny and Harry came back from Quidditch practice. Harry walked in and smiled at the faces of all of his friends. "Hey guys!"

"Hey!" Hermione said brightly. She walked closer to Harry and whispered in his ear, "I did some research on patronus' and found a little background information. Do you want me to read it to everyone or no?"

Harry smiled at her dedication, "Read it Hermione. That would be wonderful." He said to her before turning towards the other five. "Okay listen up everyone!" Harry commanded. "Hermione is going to read us some information on a patronus and then we'll start practicing."

Hermione stood up and recited some information, "The Patronus Charm is an immensely complicated, very difficult spell that evokes a partially-tangible positive energy force known as a Patronus or spirit guardian. The charm was primarily designed for defence against Dementors and Lethifolds. There are two forms, corporeal and incorporeal. Incorporeal is just a mist of light while corporeal forms take shape of an animal unique to each person." Hermione recited. "I think that's all that's important."

"You said it better than I ever could." Harry smiled. "Thank you."

"Now we can learn how to conjure one." Hermione smiled back.

"Oh, right." Harry said standing in the front. "First everyone needs to think of a happy moment. The happier the better."

Everyone closed their eyes and thought of a moment in their lives that made them smile. Harry saw as each one began to grin at the memory. Harry, too thought of a joyous occasion. He thought of Hermione resting her head on him and the excitement that came with it.

"I'm thinking of you." Ron said reaching for Katie's hand. "The first time we kissed."

"Me too." Katie said softly. Ginny made a gagging motion to which Malfoy laughed.

"Then you draw circles with your wand to increase the power of it and then say the magic words." Harry said demonstrating the spell. "Expecto Patronum." He said firmly causing an elegant stag to prance out of the tip of his wand. "It takes awhile for it to take form though. But lets start practicing."

Everyone stood in line lightly reciting the incantation, "Expecto Patronum." Harry went around correcting all the careless mistakes. "Ginny, your circles don't need to be that big." He said watching Ginny wave her wand in giant circles.

"Excetro Patronus." Ron said flicking his wand.

"Ron," Harry stated. "It's Ex-pec-to Pa-tro-num. If you don't say it right you'll never be able to do it." Harry glanced around the room once more and stopped at Hermione. "You're doing pretty good Hermione."

"Really?" Hermione said distressed. "I can't even get the incorporeal down. Nothing has come out of my wand!"

Harry laughed to himself. "Hey, don't beat yourself up about it no one has yet. We're just practicing. But here I'll give you a few pointers." Harry said standing right behind her. He grabbed her wrist. "Start making your circles like this." He said waving her hand for her.

"Hey Potter!" Malfoy retorted. "When you're done holding hands with my girl I'd like to find out why my patronus isn't working."

Harry blushed. "Ummm...okay. I'll be right there." He turned to Hermione once more and whispered. "It also will help if you stay positive about the whole thing. You want to be as happy as possible."

Harry walked over to where Draco was and watched him perform the spell. "See? What am I doing wrong?" He said after he was finished.

"Your hand movement and incantation were perfect Malfoy. You know what that means?" Malfoy shook his head. "It means you're not thinking of something happy enough. If that's the best you can do make up a scenario in your head that makes you very happy and then try it out again."

Malfoy nodded and repeated the words, "Expecto Patronum." Along with those words a silvery mist flew out of his wand. "I did it!" Malfoy said with excitement.

"Good job Malfoy." Harry said actually giving a sincere compliment to his enemy.

Within the next hour everyone had managed to conjure a 'misty' patronus and all of them were working on creating a patronus that took shape of an animal. Malfoy was once again the first to accomplish this task. "Expecto Patronum!" He called out. A silver fox leaped out of his wand and ran along the walls of the room. "A fox huh?" Malfoy said to himself. A proud look was worn on his face as he watched the fox vanish into thin air.

"You know your patronus reflects your personality." Hermione said to Malfoy.

"Really?" Malfoy said. "So what does this fox say about me?"

Hermione smiled, "You're an intellectual creature with a very agile mind. You are sly and hold the ones you love close, even if it means you push others away."

"You know quite a bit about foxes." Malfoy stated.

Hermione laughed, "Oh yes. I know quite a bit about animals. My mother bought me many books on animals. So yeah...I suppose I do."

Harry smirked, "You can tell us a little about each of our personalities then."

Hermione giggled, "Okay. I know a little about stags too you know. They're modest, active and know exactly what they want in life."

Harry nodded. "Not bad." Hermione smiled faintly and returned to her task and with a wave of her wand and two silly words a beautiful otter came flying through the air.

"An otter." Harry said dreamily remembering it was the same in his other world. "Rather clever,"

"Likeable." Malfoy chimed in.

"And heroic." Katie added.

Hermione blushed. "How's it going?" Harry asked Katie.

"I think I got it." Katie said and rabbit hopped out of her wand. The group of students turned this into a game as they spouted off characteristics each patronus had.

"Cute." Ron said as he saw the little rabbit hop it's way around the room.

"Innocent." Harry added.

"And exceptionally sweet." Hermione had said. Soon after Katie, Ron produced a spirited St. Bernard.

"Kind." Katie beamed.

"Loyal." Harry added.

"And often lazy." Ginny said with a smirk. Ron glared at her.

And when Neville had a badger run out of his wand...

"Brave on the inside!" Hermione shouted.

"Sweet and modest on the outside!" Katie added.

Ginny paused with a moment of thought, "And sometimes very shy."

And when Ginny had conjured a horse...

"Elegant!" Katie shouted.

"Nobel." Hermione pointed out.

"And spirited." Malfoy added in a teasing sort of way.

"I guess that wraps things up here." Harry said to the group. "Next time we'll review this and we'll learn another spell against the dark arts." Harry insisted.

"That sounds wonderful!" Katie said in a cheery mood.

As everyone walked out of the Room of Requirement, Harry thought to himself, "My life is almost perfect right now. No drama, or fights, and most importantly everyone is alive and healthy."

"Are you coming Harry?" Ron asked.

"Yep, lets go." Harry said closing the Room of Requirement.

A/N So sorry for the terrible ending to that chapter. I had such a hard time writing this though. You just don't even know. So don't forget to review, you can ask questions or give me more ideas or something I'm open to just about anything. You guys have been great! See you next Monday!