A/N: I was going to post this sooo much sooner, but this site wouldn't let me on. Sorry everybody. I really don't understand why it messed up, I don't think that I have AOL...oh well. Stuff happens. I hope that you like this chapter. It's my favorite so far. If you can't handle a little bit of Ginny bashing then stay away! It just fits this story so well. You have been warned! Haha.
Hermione was sitting as calmly as she could in her living room on the day the Weasleys were to come for her. She couldn't help but be excited. She always had so much fun with the Weasley family.
She checked the clock for the millionth time that day. 12:10 in the afternoon. Ron was ten minutes late. She told herself that she shouldn't be worried. It was typical Ron to be late. He would probably come through her fireplace any minute now. Unless something was wrong with her fireplace. What if he ended up in the middle of the Sahara Desert? Oh geez, Hermione thought, they don't have fireplaces in the middle of the desert! She checked the clock again. 12:15. She glared at the fireplace before turning on the television, not really intending to watch it. Around 12:25 she gave up hope of him coming to get her. Maybe he just didn't want her there, she thought. Hermione lie down on the couch and squeezed her eyes shut to keep from crying. Right then she heard a thud behind her. She got up and looked to see Ron Weasley dusting himself off. He looked up and grinned.
"Hello Hermione." She walked over and slapped his arm. "Ouch! What was that for?"
"You are half an hour late Ron Weasley!"
"Oh. I know but-"
"I thought you weren't even going to come! For all I knew somebody could be hurt and you couldn't make it because you were in a hospital somewhere!"
"Hermione, calm down. I'm sorry. Fred and George thought that it would be funny to lock me in the closet. It took almost 40 minutes before anybody found me."
"Oh. All right then. I guess it wasn't your fault."
"Umm…ok, I guess we can go now. Do you have your stuff?"
"Yeah, right here. She held up one end of her trunk without any effort.
"Whoa, been working out Hermione?"
"I put a spell on it while we were at school to make it feather light."
"I guess that makes sense."
The first thing Hermione saw when she came through the Weasley fireplace were two identical, mischievous grins.
"Hello Hermione."
"You two are really more of a pain than you are funny. Perhaps you should work on that."
"Awww. We love you too."
"Hermione!"
"Hey Harry! How are you?"
"I'm good. Glad to be here."
"Not hard to believe. I'm going to go put my stuff in Ginny's room."
"Good luck!" The twins burst out.
Upon reaching Ginny's room Hermione heard very loud, off-key singing. She had to stifle a laugh as she began to realize what the words were.
You're sweet and you're kind,
I wish you were mine!
Your memory's not great,
Sometimes you run a bit late,
But I love you just the same!
No, this isn't a game--
Hermione, not able to take it any more, knocked on the door as loud as she could. There was a gasp on the other side of the door, and soon there was a very flushed face peeking out from the room.
"Oh Hermione! I thought you were one of my brothers. They've been bothering me all day. Come on in."
"Hello Ginny. I just wanted to put my stuff away."
"I'm so glad you're here. It's lonely being the only girl in the house. Besides Mum, that is. I finally have someone to talk to."
"Umm…well, I, uhh…" Hermione really didn't know what to say. She was almost afraid of exactly what they would be talking about.
"Here, you can go ahead and put your stuff in this drawer while we talk."
"Ok, thanks."
"You're welcome. Anyways, did I tell you I don't like Harry anymore?"
"I don't think so." Since when have we talked about anything? Hermione thought.
"Well I don't. I've found somebody else." Hermione stayed silent. "Don't you want to know who it is?"
"Sure." Hermione's mind screamed NO.
"Neville." Ginny let out a dreamy sigh.
"Oh."
"He's so sweet! He's thoughtful and kind, and I don't even care that he's clumsy. I think he might even like me too, you know he asked me to the Yule Ball?"
"I know, I was there."
"I wonder if he will ask me out again when we get back to Hogwarts. We had such a good time at the Yule Ball together. I even have pictures that Colin took, see?" Ginny pulled a double picture frame out of the top drawer in her nightstand and handed it to Hermione. The first picture was of them dancing, with Ginny wincing as Neville stepped on her feet. The adjacent photo was of the two of them sitting at a table with Ginny smiling at Neville with dove eyes as he sent back a very nervous smile. Hermione thought he looked a bit scared. He just might have been, Hermione figured Ginny may have been talking wedding plans.
"That's very, err, nice Ginny."
"It's too bad you wouldn't understand."
"Understand what?"
"Well, I know you said you and Krum were just friends, so that means you must not have anybody. You know, you don't get that giddy feeling whenever a guy you know loves you smiles at you."
"Sure…well I'm going to find Harry and Ron now." Hermione had a strong, evil little urge to remind Ginny that Neville had asked her to the ball first but she already had a date. She got out of the room as fast as she could before she said anything that she would regret.
After shutting the door, Hermione leaned against the wall and closed her eyes. "Poor Neville." she spoke to the air. Suddenly the hall erupted into laughter. She jumped in surprise and opened her eyes to see Fred, George, Ron, and Harry holding their stomachs laughing. When they had finally calmed down Harry spoke.
"We were coming to save you."
"Yeah, we figured she had you in a fetal position clawing at your ears by now." put in Ron.
"Nope, the ears are still there. Surprisingly."
"George and I were just coming to laugh at Ginny." Said Fred.
"I think you put what we've been saying since summer began perfectly." George looked around at them. They all looked at each other and laughed out "Poor Neville" at the same time.
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