Author's Note: I feel slightly unhappy. JK Rowling finished her 5th book! Woohoo! She is still correcting it. Once it is done, all my fanfics will be out of date and I'll have to delete them though. Probably the rules apply for everyone.

UPDATE: As you can tell, I redid this chapter because it stunk after I read it and it did not make me laugh.

****Chapter 7****

"How are we ever going to steal from Snape's office again?" Ron asked, worried. "We don't have the Marauder's Map anymore. After Dumbledore took it from Crouch jr. he gave it to Filch!"

"Exactly." Hermione said. "Listen, there are two parts of my plan. First, we will get Nearly Headless Nick to make Peeves cause a diversion. As we know, the only thing Filch hates more than his own job is Peeves. Then, when Filch is off, we go in and swipe back the map."

"But we don't know where it is!"

"If I remember correctly, Harry told us that George noticed a box that said 'Confiscated and Highly Dangerous.' All we have to do is go there and swipe the map. Then, we can read that map and when Filch is starting to come back, we can hide by borrowing Harry's invisibility cloak." Hermione said.

Ron looked at Hermione. "Sometimes you really scare me." He said, shaking his head. "There has to be another way of getting the ingredients."

Hermione thought for a moment. "Well, you could go to Dumbledore and tell him your problem, and he'd tell Snape and ask him to brew the potion-"

"I'd rather steal it!" Ron said quickly. He shuddered, imagining Snape looking at him menacingly with his eyes and brewing a potion, forcing it down Ron's throat.

"Well, then all we have to do is grab the map, distract Snape in Potions, grab the ingredients, brew the potion, and make you drink it." Hermione said simply.

Ron sighed. "I guess you are right, though stealing from Snape a second time isn't that great of an idea."

"Look at it this way," Hermione said, "We aren't stealing the potion, we are- um, borrowing it permanently without asking him."

Ron laughed. Hermione was so fun to be with sometimes. Usually she was a bit on the bossy side, though most of the time she is very caring. In fact, who else would have tried to start SPEW and cry when Buckbeak lost his case? Ron felt his stomach start to churn. Oh no. He was falling for Hermione again. [ I thought I got over my crush on her] he thought.

"Ron? You haven't said anything for a full minute. Are you all right?"

"Oh, I am quite fine." Ron said quickly, standing up. "I have to go now." He hurried back up to the tower.

Hermione sighed and sat down on the bench. She watched Ron's red hair bounce as he ran up the stairs. He seemed to have turned a slight shade of red. Seeing there was no point of sitting alone, she headed back up the castle and sat on the staircase between the fourth year girl's dormitory and the third. As she had sat down, Ginny came out rubbing her wet hair on a towel. Apparently she had just taken a bath.

"Why are you sitting here, Hermione?" Ginny asked, sitting down next to her.

Hermione sighed. "I just feel so sad. I had a great day, and I should be happy. Ron and I are friends again. He and I just had a talk and he didn't do anything, but my heart seems to, well, hurt"

Ginny gave a small laugh. "You like Ron, don't you?"

"What?" Hermione asked, quite taken surprised. "Of course not. He's my best friend. I think of him as a brother!"

"First of all, I know what he is like as a brother, and it isn't so fun. Besides, can't you see he is your perfect match?"

Hermione gave Ginny a glare. "He's exactly opposite of me. We have almost nothing in common."

"Opposites attract. It makes things balance out." Ginny said simply with a shrug. "Your a girl, he's a boy. You are smart, he is, well, not so smart. You hate your hair, he loves his hair. You like school, he hates school. You hate chicken, he loves chicken. You don't like the thought of house elves, he loves the thought of house elves-"

"All right, I get it." Hermione tried to laugh, though it felt like her heart hurt.

Ginny stood up. "Now I'm going to dry my hair, and you think about what I said." She said, sounding determined.

Hermione didn't know whether or not Ginny was right. She never felt love before, she only thought of Ron as a fun, adventurous friend. He had almost sacrificed his life to get Harry to the Sorceror's Stone in the first year. Hermione remembered the fun times they had together. She remembered how Ron had been furious at Krum and glared at them when they danced at the Yule Ball. She remembered how in the third year when she was crying over Buckbeak, Ron told her he'd help and how she threw her arms around him. She smiled at the memory and felt her eyes hurt a little as if she were about to cry. Her heart felt like a stone that was about to drop into her stomach. She sighed and glanced at her watch, then stood up and went to her dormitory. She and Ron would probably never be together.



***End of Chapter 7**** Sorry it took so long, my mean Honors Geometry teacher, Mr. Shulman gives WAY too much homework and expects us to finish it really quickly. I had to stay up late to 11 pm doing math homework for the last month and I am so tired most of the time. Plus the fact that I got hooked on online Pictionary. I had to redo this because it was so stupid the last time I read it about a week after it was written.

FAQ: Q: Will there be Ron and Hermione romance? A: Yes. Even though I usually like Harry and Hermione pairings and keep sticking the fact Hermione kissed Harry on the cheek at the end of book 4, I read from a JK Rowling interview she'd make it Ron and Hermione. Since I worship the ground JK Rowling walks on, I made my story Ron and Hermione. Also because Harry being changed into a girl by Hermione seems too weird. We know too much about Harry to make him say that.

Q: Will there be Ginny and Harry romance? A: Definitely not. I only put them in as secondary characters because Hermione and Ginny hang out together all the time and Ron and Harry are best friends. I totally oppose Ginny and Harry being together, even though Ginny has a huge crush on him. Now Ginny and Colin seem better together, but I won't make it that type of story. shudders They would start the Harry Potter fan club.

Q: Where did you come up with this crazy story? A: Like I said before, my best friend and I were sitting at school, talking about how boys can sometimes be so perverted they actually talk about what they look for in a girl (The guy said long legs that he liked to lick, so that's why) and then I asked her what she thought it was easier to be, a boy or a girl and we started making a list. Being the Harry Potter fan that I am (who thinks about Harry Potter every 10 seconds) I started thinking what if one of the Harry Potter characters were turned into a girl and I landed on my favorite victim, Ron. Everything about Hermione's spell being cast and puberty all popped into my head right away because I had drank too much Gatorade while talking to my friend and went to the bathroom and some girl left the sanitary disposal open with their bloody tampon in (ew)even though it should have been flushed down the toilet and it went straight into my story.