Fic title: All For The Love Of A Lady
Fic pairing(s): Ron/Hermione, Ginny/Draco, Snape/Hooch
Fic rating: PG
Fic summary: 3 guys, 3 girls, death, revenge, and most importantly, love.
Archive: Yes please, just tell me where!
Disclaimer(s): Not mine, JK's…

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All For The Love Of A Lady

Chapter 1

Ron checked for the last time that he had packed everything in his trunk for his fifth year at Hogwarts. Today was the last day of the summer holidays, and tomorrow he would be going back to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft And Wizardry. When he got back, it would straight into hard work, as at the end of this year he and everyone else in his year would be sitting their OWLs, the wizarding equivalent of GCSEs.

'Ron?' He heard Hermione's voice calling him. Ron had spent most of his holidays at Hermione Granger's house. They had been friends ever since half-way through their first year at Hogwarts together, and in their last term in fourth year a romance had started to blossom. Of course, Hermione had invited Ron to stay for the summer holidays, and he had immediately accepted. He had spent the first fortnight at his house, as his elder brothers Bill and Charlie were home, and he didn't often get to see them. He had then been picked up by Hermione and her father, Liam, who had been absolutely amazed by the Weasley's obviously magical house – if The Burrow had been built using muggle equipment only it would have collapsed a long, long time ago. Ron had spent the rest of the holiday with Hermione, and he could now say that he most definitely loved her. She had been so kind to him over the holidays, as well as her muggle parents.

'Yeah?' Ron called, snapping out of his silent reverie and answering Hermione's call.

'Errol's just come flying in the kitchen window. I think you're mum's sent you something.'

'Oh, right. Hang on a sec, I'm coming.' Ron called, locking his trunk, and running out of the Granger's guest room and down the staircase into the kitchen.

Errol was sitting on the kitchen table, ruffling his feathers as Hermione's mother, Catherine Granger, stroked him. Next to the owl was a small parcel, which Ron picked up and unwrapped, finding inside a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and several pairs of socks. 'Well, that's thoughtful.' Ron muttered, putting the contents of the parcel back down on the table, tearing off a bit of brown paper that the parcel had been wrapped in, taking a pen from his pocket and hastily writing a reply to his mother on the paper. He tied the note to Errol's leg, and sent him off out of the window.

'Amazing.' Mrs Granger laughed as she watched Errol fly off into the distance. 'You lot never fail to amaze me. I don't think I would be able to cope in your world, I still can't get to grips with e-mail, never mind owls!'

''E-what?' Ron asked, looking confused.

'It's a muggle thing Ron, I'll show you.' Hermione said. Ron picked up the socks and sweets from his mother, and followed Hermione back up the stairs and into Hermione's room. On Hermione's desk, among all the spell books and pieces of parchment, was a strange "thing" Ron didn't recognise. He had never thought to ask Hermione what it was before, but she now sat down in front of it and pressed a button on it.

'What is that, Herm?' Rom asked, using his pet name for her.

'It's a computer; almost all muggles have them… in Britain anyway. The screen on the computer had now turned blue, and a picture of an odd flag came up, with words underneath saying "Microsoft Windows 98".

'What have windows got to do with anything?'

'Don't worry.' Hermione said, not wanting to go into the history of computer software and Bill Gates.

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Harry and the rest of the Weasleys were all ready aboard the Hogwarts Express by the time Hermione and Ron reached Kings Cross. After saying goodbye to saying goodbye to Catherine and Liam Granger, Hermione and Ron walked through the wall between platforms 9 and 10, and arrived on platform 9¾.

They dragged their trunks onto the train, and soon found Harry, Fred and George sitting in an empty compartment. They put their trunks in the overhead luggage holders, and sat down.

'Have a good summer?' Harry asked as his two best friends sat down.

'Great! You?'

'All right, actually.' Harry replied. 'The Dursleys are so scared I'll get Sirius to come and murder them if they upset me, I can make them do anything I want. Hedwig's been flying free every night, and I've got a computer and a CD player in my room.

'A what?' Ron asked.

'Oh, they're muggle things. A computer is…'

'No, I've been shown a compuluter…'

'Computer.'

'Same difference. I've been shown a computer, but what's a… what did you call it? A DC player?'

'A CD player. You can play music on it.'

'Oh… where's Ginny, by the way?' Ron asked.

Fred and George both tried to stop themselves laughing, making them look even more suspicious than usual.

'What? What's so funny?'

'Oh… nothing.' George said, his voice unusually high.

'Tell me!'

'Fine… our darling sister's got a boyfriend!'

'So? What's so funny about that?'

'You don't know who he is!'

'Do I want to?'

'Probably not…'

'You have to tell me now.'

'Fine, but don't say we didn't warn you… Draco Malfoy!'