Author's Note: Hey everyone

Author's Note: Hey everyone! I am back once again with the next part. I would like to thank everyone that reviewed the last part and every other part. I am going to paragraph the dialogue to make it easier to understand and read as suggested by one reader. Ummm…the addition of the character, Jason, seemed to move the story along a bit better. In this part I will have Malfoy and his cronies. Oh yes as I was reading through part Four I trying to figure out where I wanted to take the story next, I came across a few spelling and grammar errors, I would like to apologize for that…sorry I am by no means perfect. I will try to do better. Oh yes and before I forget, Marla Black, I would be glad to read some of your stories for you. Just e-mail me at IrshDanser@aol.com and I will gladly give you any advice. I think that covers everything I wanted to say. On with the story!

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Hermione's Problem (part Five)

Harry dragged Hermione down the long corridors of the castle. Unfortunately, they ran into some unwanted people (a.n.: can you classify them as people?) along the way.

"Well well. If it isn't Potter and his Mudblood girlfriend," Malfoy sneered.

"Shut up Malfoy. We didn't ask for you to talk to us now did we?" Hermione glowered. She hated being called a Mudblood, especially by Malfoy and his goons.

"What's wrong Mudblood? Harry not treating you right? How can you let him hang all over that girl, what's her name? Oh yes, Caroline."

"Shut up Malfoy. Quite calling Hermione Mudblood!" Harry said trying to hold back his anger.

"Oh so you found your voice to stick up for your Mudblood girlfriend?"

Hermione slapped Malfoy across his face. "First of all I am not Harry's girlfriend. And second if you ever call me Mudblood ever again, I promise you that you will wish you had never met me!"

With that Hermione continued walking. Harry stood there, not believing that Hermione had slapped Malfoy once again. He realized that Hermione had started walking again. Harry ran to catch up with her.

"Look Hermione, I am sorry. I totally overreacted. I guess seeing you with that guy…"

Hermione cut him off, "He has a name Harry."

"Sorry. When I saw you with Jason, I guess I just wish it were me you had gone to Hogsmeade with. I shouldn't act the way I do with Caroline. I really do know that, and I hope you can forgive me for putting you through that because if it was the other way around I would hate it too."

"Look Harry. Apparently you don't like me the way you like Caroline, so…"

Hermione was unable to finish her sentence because right at that moment Harry had leaned over and kissed her. Hermione pushed Harry away.

"Damn it Harry! Why did you have to kiss me? I realized last night when you got so angry with me for telling you the truth that I didn't want to be anything more than friends with you. If you couldn't accept the truth from me as your friend then you definitely wouldn't be able to handle it if I was your girlfriend!" With that Hermione stormed off to the Great Hall. (a.n.: I make Hermione storm out of situations a lot don't I?)

When she got to the Great Hall, she saw Jason sitting at the end of Gryffindor table by himself so she decided to join him.

"So? How did your little talk with the husband go?"

"Oh so now Harry is my husband?!?" Hermione spat angrily.

"Oh dear sorry. It seems that things didn't go as well as we had hoped. So what did he do this time? Proclaim his love for Caroline or ask you to marry him?"

"Jason, your sarcasm is getting old real quick!"

"Sorry Angel. Thought it would lighten up the mood. But if it will make you happy, I will stop."

"Yes please do so."

"Alright. I will lay off the sarcasm, just until you are in better spirits. So anyways, what did happen with hero boy?"

"Well, we were walking down the corridor when who else showed up? The oh so wonderful Malfoy and his two goons. He was calling me Mudblood and saying how Harry couldn't stand up for his 'Mudblood girlfriend.' I snapped. I slapped Malfoy across the face and told him never call me Mudblood again and that Harry is not my boyfriend."

"Wow. You actually slapped that rat? I'm impressed. Ok, but what happened between you and Harry?"

"Well he said how he was so sorry that he got angry with me. Oh and how he is sorry about the whole Caroline thing. I started to say how I don't want to be anything more to him than a friend, but I didn't get to finish, let alone barely start because he kissed me," Hermione finished in almost a whisper.

"So did you enjoy this kiss, or did it do absolutely nothing for you?"

"It did absolutely nothing. Why did he have to go and kiss me though? That just made everything that seemed to be pretty much back to normal, go right back to where they were! Ugh! Why are guys so annoying?!?" Hermione threw her hands up in frustration.

Jason pulled Hermione into a big hug, "Angel, if I knew I would tell you. Isn't that pretty ironic? I am a guy and I can't even give you an answer? Well I will tell you this. Just let things die down for a while and see what happens."

"Yeah I guess you are right. Thanks for listening to me complain."

"Of course I am right. I am them all knowing Jason of Hogwarts! And you're welcome. Anything I can do for my friend in need."

Hermione and Jason finished their breakfast in silence. When they finished they went back to the common room.

"So what do you want to do today?" Hermione asked as they plopped down into two chairs near the fire.

"Hmm. I don't know. What do you normally do here for fun?"

"Well I normally read."

"Oh so I see my friend is a bookworm. Well I know what I can get you for Christmas," Jason laughed.

"So I like books! What's the big deal?"

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Hey you want to go fly around the Quidditch felid?"

"Umm. Well you see…" Hermione searched for an answer that would get her out of having to fly, "I really wanted to finish my book. Yeah that's it! I want to finish my book."

"Yeah and I really couldn't see through that one. That was a lousy excuse. You don't have to make up excuses. I can see that you really don't want to spend time with me right now, so I will just leave you to your little book."

"No Jason. I didn't say I didn't want to hang out with you, it's just that, well it's just that I don't really know how to fly."

"Hermione Granger doesn't know how to fly??? How can that be??? She knows how to do everything!!" Jason replied in false shock.

"Don't make fun of me. I just never really had an interest. I mean yeah I learned how to fly in our first year, but I haven't actually flown by myself since then," Hermione said.

"Well then I am going to teach you to be an excellent flyer. Come on you can use my broom and I will use one of those horrible school brooms."

"But Jason I really don't need to know how to fly. Its not like I am ever going to play Quidditch," Hermione said trying to get out of flying.

"Don't be silly. Every wizard and witch needs to know how to properly fly on a broom. Now come on. I promise I won't let you fall," Jason stated while pulling Hermione out of her chair.

Hermione unwillingly followed Jason out to the Quidditch field. Jason went to the broom shed and grabbed the best school broom he could find, which was still pretty awful, and gave his brand new Starfire 590 to Hermione.

"Now I assume you know how to mount the broom right?" Jason inquired.

"Yes I know how to mount the broom. Like I said, I learned how to fly in our first year. I am just not good at it, that's all," Hermione said with annoyance.

"Geez sorry! Just chill. You don't have to jump down my throat. Now then, why don't you mount your broom and fly around a bit so I can see where you stand."

"Fine."

With that Hermione mounted the broom and flew up into the air. At first she was holding onto the broom with a death grip, but she loosened up as she flew around a bit. After flying around the Quidditch field for a bit, she game down next to Jason who was watching her with great interest.

"Not bad Angel. Your take off and landing could use some work, but other than that you did great! Maybe once you loosen up a bit, I can teach you some tricks!"

"Yeah, when wizards cease to exist," Hermione replied, "There is no way you are going to get me to do tricks on this stupid…thing!"

"Oh it looks like our little bookworm here is at a loss of words. Oh and don't worry, I will definitely be teaching you tricks. No chance of you getting out of this one. Now watch me and just copy what I do. Don't worry, I won't do anything dangerous."

"Fine. Let's just get this over with."

Jason flew through the air with great ease, with Hermione following close behind him. After working on some sharp turns and somersaults, Hermione seemed to be enjoying herself. Jason now said he was going to teach her how to dive. This scared Hermione. She had seen Harry do all those dives in games and it always looked like he was going to hit the ground.

"Jason I don't think that is a good idea. I mean I have seen Harry do these dives in games, but he always looks like he is going to hit the ground. And knowing me, I probably will."

"Don't worry. We are going to start from real high up and won't go down far enough to even come close to hitting the ground. And besides, like I said earlier, I won't let anything happen to you. Jus watch me."

Jason flew up about 200 feet and steadied himself there for a split second and then immediately went into a dive. He stopped about 50 feet from where he had started. Hermione flew up to meet him.

"Jason I don't think I can do that. I'm too scared."

"Don't worry. I will go with you. And I will catch you if you fall."

Hermione and Jason went back up to where Jason had first started.

"Now on the count of three we will dive together. I will dive a bit faster so if you do happen to fall, I can catch you in time. Ok one…two…" Jason started to dive.

"Three." Hermione started go dive.

The wind was rushing past her. Everything was a blur of color. Mostly green because all she could see was the grass below. Then she saw a blur of bleach blonde. She knew it was Jason. She started feeling a bit woozy, so she pulled up from her dive. She realized she had only gone about 30 feet. When she looked down for Jason, she saw him getting closer and closer to ground below. She wondered if he was going to stop. She slowly started going closer to the field, and that's when she realized something was wrong. Jason's broom was vibrating dangerously. She could see him trying to pull out of the dive, but with no success. That's when she realized he was about to hit the ground. Oh great wizards! He is going to hit the ground!!!! I have to try and help him. No, that won't work; I won't be able to reach him! Oh what can I do?!?! Hermione frantically thought. Suddenly she heard a loud thumb and a crunch both at the same time. She covered her eyes. She couldn't look down at Jason, but she had to. When she finally did look down, she saw Jason lying unconscious on the ground in a heap. The broom he had been riding was broken in numerous places. Hermione flew down to him as fast as she could. She threw the Starfire 590 aside and rolled Jason onto his back. His left arm was at an odd inhumanly angle, and he had cuts and bruises all over his body.

"Oh no! This is all my fault. He was doing this so he could keep me from falling. And he gave me his broom to use too! Oh I can't just leave him here while I go to get Madam Pomfrey. Oh why did this have to happen to Jason? I will never be able to forgive myself!" Hermione cried. "Think Hermione think. Oh of course I can conjure a stretcher. Ugh I don't know the spell. Great now what?" Hermione sat there holding Jason, trying to think of something. "Oh that's it! I will make him weightless and then carry him back to the castle!"

Hermione performed the spell on Jason, picked up the shattered broom that he was flying, grabbed the Starfire 590 and hurried back to the castle as quickly as she could, with tears running down her face the entire way. When she finally reached the infirmary, she was having a hard time breathing from all of the crying.

"Oh my what happened here?" Madam Pomfrey cried when she saw Jason floating behind Hermione.

"He, he was teaching me how to fly and we were practicing dives and this broom he was flying was vibrating and I could see him trying to pull out of the dive, but he couldn't and he ended up hitting the ground!" Hermione said through her tears.

Madam Pomfrey took Jason over to an empty bed and pulled the curtains around him.

"You can come back later, but right now you need to go tell Dumbledore what happened while I fix him up," Madam Pomfrey said to Hermione while making potions to heal Jason.

Hermione nodded and turned to leave the room.

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Author's Note: Ok there you have it! Part Five completed! Umm…remember please R/R. No flames than you very much. If you don't have anything nice to say, just don't say it. Or if you must, use CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM! Umm I guess that is all. Oh yes if you have any ideas of what you might want to happen just e-mail them to me or state them in your review. Thank you! Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends out there. Merry Christmas to the rest of you. And Happy New Year to everyone!

Disclaimer: I own nothing that appears in JKR's books!