The Lasting Year- Part Three: The Monkeys

A/n- hehe, ok the first part is humor. The last part is VERY romancy, and I wrote it at 9 pm, yeah not too late, but with my current state of sleep, it was late for me. I have to thank Rachel again, who gave me the idea for the first part, and helped me come up with ideas for the next parts. And to avoid disclaimers, I don't own it, wish I did but I don't. Also thanks to my physics teacher who had a test the day when I decided to write this, because of my writer's block on the second part. That's where I got the idea for the spell, now onto the story.

The Lasting Year- Part Three: The Monkeys

The Gryffindors all pushed their way into Transfiguration class, glad that it was the last one on such a perfect Friday afternoon.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione all sat down at a table with Hermione in the middle and the others on either side of her. As she got out her wand from her robes, her elbow bumped Harry's and electricity shot up and down her spine. This time she knew what it meant, but she tried to forget it and focus on class.

Professor McGonagall walked to the front of the class and started to direct class.

"Now today, we will be turning simple Muggle dolls into their live forms. Dean, if you will do me a favor, and give everyone one of the *ahem* specimens in that box, we can begin class."

Dean got up from his table, where he was sitting with Seamus and Neville, and gave everyone one of the items in the box.

"Now everyone if you will kindly notice that you all have monkey dolls in front of you, I will begin. Now does anyone have a clue of what to say to liven these stuffed toys?"

Hermione's hand shot up into the air, and McGonagall pointed at her, signifying that she should answer.

"I'm pretty positive, that you say" Transmution and then the animal's name."

"That is right Hermione, now does anyone know how to change it back?"

Hermione didn't say anything, so as to give a chance to someone else to answer, but when no one did, she sighed and raised her hand.

"Yes?"

"You say the same exact thing."

"That is correct, twenty points to Gryffindor. Now we will have you try this, table by table, so it does not get to noisy. Miss Granger, since you seem to know this spell well, why doesn't your table start?"

Hermione, Harry, and Ron all raised their wands at the same time and said:

Transmution Monkey!

In a small flash of brown light, there were three live, noisy, cute as all heck monkeys in front of them.

"I did it!" Ron cheered, "First try too! It's amazing!"

"I did it too!" shouted Harry.

"Good job guys," said Hermione, with less enthusiasm, because she was used to success on the first try.

"Now please show us how to change them back."

All three unwillingly raised their wands and said: Transmution Monkeys! Once again, and with another brown flash, there were the toys in front of them again.

"Good job. Now Seamus" she said, turning towards his table, "How about you guys?"

Seamus and Dean both raised their wands, but Neville in his nervous state, had beaten them and cried out:

T-Transmution M-M-Monkeys!

In a bright brown flash the entire class was turned into hyper monkeys.

Professor Mcgonagall was so stunned by Neville's mess-up that she was jumping around like a true monkey.

Neville look down at his wand, and it suddenly turned into a ripe banana. The monkey that used to be Ron looked over and let out a large squeal that sounded like a laugh. Then Dean leaned over and picked up the banana, peeled it open, and ate it.

There was one monkey across the room, though, who wasn't acting hyper, who picked up their wand, squeaked out something, and in one was of the wand, and I bright flash, the entire class turned back into their human selves again.

The monkey that had waved the wand turned out to be Hermione, of course, who put the wand down and beamed.

"Ok, class, well I guess class is over. If you didn't get to try the transformation, take your doll with you, and that will be your only homework. Thanks," Professor McGonagall said, clearly embarrassed by her behavior.

The students filed out into the hall and Harry confronted Ron.

"C'mon Ron. Tell us, you obviously thought something was funny in there."

"Ok. Ok. Look, Fred and George said that they had all these fake wands that they needed to use. They gave them to me it place in appropriate spots at appropriate time. That was just the first one, I got about nine more where it came from. "

"I see," Harry said, "You just wanted to see what kind of damage Neville could do."

"Yep."

"That's cruel Ron," Hermione put in.

"To you it is," he replied.

"Funny," she said sarcastically back at him.

"Ok you two stop. Hermione, can I speak to you privately for a moment?" Harry asked, and without waiting for an answer, he grabbed her wrists and pulled her into an empty classroom and shut the door.

"Her…Hermione?" he stuttered.

"Yes?" she curiously replied.

"I don't know how to say this but--"

"I like you!" Hermione burst out, breaking through a wall of courage that had just built up inside of her. Harry was amazed.

"You…you do?" he asked.

"Yes," she replied shyly, not sure if that was the right thing to say.

"Hermione! That's great!" Harry replied, and in one quick stride he has crossed the room to where she was standing, and had wrapped his arms her waist.

In surprise, Hermione almost reached down to release his hands, but thought better of it and slowly put her arms around his neck. They stood there like that for a good five minutes, just wrapped up in each other's arms staring into the other's radiant eyes. Hermione finally leaned over and put her head on his shoulder, and they could both feel how it felt perfect there.

Harry shifted his weight onto one foot, and Hermione looked up at him, while she softly fell further into his support. Harry shifted his hand placement further up her back to support her, and leaned down to whisper in her ear.

"Sorry, are you all right?"

Hermioine moved her head so she could look at Harry, into his eyes. When doing this, they both noticed that heir noses were centimeters apart, and their lips shared barely an inch between them.

"Just fine now," she breathed.

"Can I…?" Harry barely asked before Hermione was nodding her head. He closed the gap between their lips, but even though they both anticipated the result of this, neither could possibly anticipate the power of the kiss.

Electricity surged through both of their bodies, as the kiss became deeper and more passionate, but both pulled back as soon as no breath was left in their lungs.

They continued to stand there, holding each other, but not saying anything, mostly due to the lack of breath. Then Hermione pulled her body slightly away from Harry's and began to speak.

"We should get back to the common room."

"Yeah," Harry said, unconvincingly.

They both released their arms from around one another, sorry that this moment had to end. Walking towards the door in silence, Harry reached for Hermione's hand and she didn't refuse, but instead intertwined her fingers with his, and they walked into the hallway.