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A/N: This chapter won't really be very interesting it's more of a link between the previous chapter and the one I'm now working on. Because the story is starting to drift away from whatever it was I originally had in mind so I'm going to try and steer it back in the right direction. Any thoughts then please tell me



'Way to go Fred' shouted a group of sixth year Hufflepuff's as they passed Fred and George on the stairs. Fred nodded and smiled at them, before turning to glare at George who was whistling innocently next to him

'Did you announce it at breakfast or something' Fred hissed at George as yet another student congratulated him

'No of course not, I just told Hermione to tell Parvati, and this is the result' George replied. Further down the corridor a similar scene was taking place between Angelina and Alicia

'Angelina, you and Fred Weasley, it's just so sweet' a giggling Ravenlaw said as she hurried past

'Alicia, you said you didn't tell anybody' Angelina glared at her best friend

'I didn't tell, but George might have done' Alicia said smirking. Just then the two pairs past each other, Fred and Angelina made eye contact and smiled before hurrying on to their lessons.

Finally after a particularly hard Charms lesson, Fred entered the Gryffindor common room and plopped himself down next to an exhausted looking Angelina

'How are you?' Angelina asked without looking up

'Fine, except half the boys in this school now want to kill me and the girls keep telling me how sweet we are' Fred said with a hint of annoyance in his voice

'People keep annoying me too, I don't know what to do' Angelina said

'Oh no, don't look now but I think we're about to be ambushed' Fred said as he look up to see a large crowd approaching them

'Congratulations you two' one of them shrieked and was followed by several giggles

'Anybody would think we were getting married' Angelina whispered to Fred, but out loud to the group she asked 'So why have you all come over here?'

'George told us that you wanted to see everyone before you eloped to Jamaica' someone in the group said as though it was obvious

'And you believed George?' Angelina asked incredulously

'Well no, but then Lee said the same thing so it must be true' the same person said as the group nodded it's agreement

'This is stupid' Fred muttered as he grabbed Angelina's hands and quickly pulled her out of the common room and headed towards the quidditch pitch.

'Right, well now we're out here on the freezing cold quidditch pitch would you mind telling me why?' Angelina asked as Fred continued to mutter under his breath

'I'm going to kill George' Fred announced very calmly as though it was nothing out the ordinary

'For what? All this hassle, it'll die down soon enough' Angelina said soothingly

'I suppose you're right, but when? I can't take much more of this' Fred said as he sat down in the stands

'We can always split up if it's causing you this much trouble' Angelina suggested in a very neutral voice

'No, we can't do that. I want special Quidditch favours for dating the captain' Fred said grinning as he calmed down

'Then quidditch favours you shall have' Angelina announced 'Firstly you can wash the kit, keep the brooms in good condition, iron the kit, polish every goalpost…' Angelina went through a very long list of ridiculous tasks for Fred to do before she was cut off by Fred kissing her

'Sorry, you were starting to get slightly repetitive and boring, so I thought I'd make things a bit more fun' Fred said as he drew back from her

'Fine, but no quidditch favours for you now' Angelina said laughing as Fred put on a really disappointed face. 'I've just had an idea, if there was a new couple then everyone would forget about us'

'Well that's great, the only problem is there isn't a new couple' Fred said

'I know that you idiot, I'm suggesting we set somebody up' Angelina said rolling her eyes

'Oh right, great idea. I just can't believe I didn't think of it, so we shall we set up?' Fred asked finally catching on

'Err I hadn't thought that far ahead, what about George?' Angelina asked

'Embarrassing though it is to admit this, I have no idea who George fancies' Fred admitted

'Well what about Alicia and…..' Angelina hesitated not sure who to suggest

'LEE' Fred shouted loudly startling Angelina

'Lee and Alicia? Are you sure they even like each other' Angelina asked doubtfully

'Actually no, but we can at least try it, you never know what might happen' Fred said

'Alright then, we've decided, we're going to set up Lee and Alicia all we need to do now is work out how' Angelina said sitting down next to Fred. They spent nearly all night sat together planning their matchmaking, after they finally came up with what sounded to them like a very good plan they left to go to bed.



George was grumbling under his breath as he left the Gryffindor boy's dorm heading towards the common room. Fred and Angelina had thrown him out of his own room, with some crackpot explanation about a dinner party that was for couples only. George had pointed out that Lee and Alicia weren't a couple, but it had made no difference, so he was preparing to spend an evening in the common room planning some more pranks. Upon entering the common room George spotted a familiar head of frizzy chestnut coloured hair staring at the fire, but for once not accompanied by Harry or Ron.

'Did your books burn in the fire, or is there another reason for you not working?' George asked in an only half joking voice

'Shut up George, I'm not in the mood' Hermione said in a tired voice without bothering to look up

'Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you' George said startled, he just seemed to be getting in everyone's way today

'No I'm sorry I'm just slightly annoyed' Hermione said with a sigh

'Why? Where's my favourite little brother and my favourite Quidditch seeker' George asked attempting to cheer Hermione up

'Parvati and Lavender threw me out of the dorm because they wanted to gossip and apparently me studying distracts them, and Ron and Harry have gone off somewhere' Hermione replied still not smiling

'Hey cheer up, I've been thrown out of my dorm too by the perfect couple otherwise known as my twin and Angelina, so we'll keep each other company' George said deciding to go for the direct approach in his last ditch attempt to make her smile

'Yeah alright, that sounds fun' Hermione said at last giving a half-smile

'Alright so when was the last time we actually talked?' George inquired frowning as he tried to remember

'That would be when you practically blew up a greenhouse and I told you off for losing us 20 points' Hermione replied smirking

'Ah, now I remember, such fond memories. We have so much to talk about' George said grinning as he settled himself down next to Hermione on the sofa.

George and Hermione talked for hours and stayed up long after the common room had emptied, neither of them had had such a fun conversation for such a long time. They laughed together at everything and slowly realised that they had a lot more in common than they had even thought possible. Yawning as they left to go to bed, George smiled mostly to himself as he realised that Fred and Angelina might have left him out of their latest plan but in Hermione he had found a really good friend.

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A/N: So there it is yet another chapter in my sometimes amusing, sometimes sweet, and sometimes downright worrying story. As usual please review, after this chapter I think I'm going to get Lee/Alicia and George/Hermione together, but I'm open to other suggestions.

By the way if this chapter didn't make much sense, the next chapter will explain it