Again, we're not JKR






AN Hey! Sorry that it took forever for this to come out, but Vel-chan and I were having some serious problems. First school was starting up again, and then we had problems meeting... this chapter must be jinxed or something. Anyway, we're starting off with some of what happened last chapter. Hope you like. ^.~

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Recall from last chapter...



"I wanted to ask you something." He said looking down at the ground. "Last weekend, when I was taking you to Dumbledore's office. What was it that you were going to tell me?"




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Draco stared at Harry. Her mind went absolutely blank. What was she going to say to him? She needed to think fast, but could come up with nothing. "I-" she said nervously, before a quick little idea sprang up in her mind. "I don't remember now."

Harry snorted. "Don't give me that," he said, "I can tell the difference between a lie and the truth a mile away."

Draco paled and stared down at where their fingers interlaced. /Just tell the truth./ A little voice in the back of his mind was telling him. "I was going to say- I hope you don't think that... that I just want to be with you because you're famous." Her face turned red and she closed her eyes. /This is so difficult to say.../ "Because Hermione told me that you really hated that, and I wanted to get to know you better. Because you're a really nice person and some people just don't see past the 'Boy Who Lived' title, and I wanted to."

Harry looked at Draco carefully, tilting her chin up to look into her gray eyes. A spark of realization jumped into his own green orbs and he smiled. "Thanks," he said with a rather wicked smile. "It's nice to know that people can look past old prejudices, especially you." His smile widened.

Draco stared at him, before flushing a little more. //STUPID GIRLY HORMONES!// She shouted inwardly. //How can he do this to me?! It isn't fair!//

Harry smiled as though he could hear her thoughts. "So," he said conversationally, sitting down and leaning against a large tree, his hand still locked with Draco's. "Why didn't the sorting hat put you back in Slytherin, Draco?"

Draco sat down hard, next to him. //Holy Merlin,// she thought weakly. //He knows. Wait-how did he know?!// But before she could actually answer, the Fuzry, that had been sleeping in her arms, gave a shake and a grunt, causing a large cloud of dust to rise from its fur. Without even thinking about holding it back, Draco sneezed.

Harry raised an eyebrow. "Interesting spell," he said, taking the Fuzry and slinging it onto his shoulder where it curled up and fell back asleep.

Draco blushed. "It was Crabbe who cast it," he muttered, suddenly realizing that Harry was still holding his hand.

Harry smiled at him. "I don't mind," he said, as if reading Draco's mind. "Just the fact that you've been nice to us, and that you don't care that I'm the "Boy Who Lived" AND that you seem to hate Snape as much as we do, is enough to keep me from beating you to a pulp."

Draco gulped.

"However, that might not stop Ron from killing you, so we might have to work a way around that little problem." He sat thinking, staring off into space before he looked back up at Draco. "Hermione knows, I'm guessing," he asked.

Draco nodded.

"And you only change when you sneeze?"

Draco nodded again, and gasped when Harry suddenly threw a bit of dirt at him, without warning, he sneezed.

"I thought that it might be smarter for me to be dating Karisuta Mica, rather then Draco Malfoy," Harry explained, shooting a sly look at the girl that now sat next to him. "Besides, if you're Draco Malfoy again, you're stuck back in Slytherin- and then we can't plot against Snape anymore."

Draco flushed, before looking back up at Harry. "Dating?" She squeaked.

Harry smiled and nodded. "Dating," he repeated, "that is- if you want to."

"Of course I do!" Draco squealed, jumping into Harry's arms for a hug and a quick kiss, before she suddenly withdrew. "Augh!" She whined. "I hate these STUPID GIRLY HORMONES!!!"

Harry chuckled and carefully got to his feet, as to not disrupt the sleeping Fuzry. Then he offered his hand to Draco and together they headed back to the edge of the forest where Snape was waiting for them.
"Hey wait....How did you know it was me?"
Harry gave him another knowing smile. "You have the same eyes."
Draco smiled. "Leave it to you to figure out who I was by reading my eyes." She chuckled.
"Very pretty eyes too." Harry flirted. Draco gave him a quick light punch in the arm and kissed him before they left the Forest.*****


The moment that they returned to the Gryffindor Tower,(after getting Draco's bloodied hand cured by Madam Pomfrey of course) Ron and Hermione sprung up from where they were playing chess and stared at them. Ron was staring at Harry and 'Kari's' joined hands, and Hermione was grinning at the blonde.

"How was detention?" Ron finally managed to choke out.

"Eventful," Harry said lightly, sitting down in a chair by the fire and tugging Draco into his lap. Draco snuggled down with a wide smile and winked at Hermione.

"So it seems," Ron said, scowling at his friend.

"Hey, Kari," Hermione said suddenly, "you must be really tired- why don't we go back to the dorm and get some sleep." There was a sly smile on her face, and an unusual twinkle in her eyes. Kari nodded, and stood up. She stretched, yawning, and gave Harry a quick kiss on the lips before following Hermione up the stairs.

Hermione dragged Draco to her bed and forced her to sit down. "Okay," Hermione said, "spill. You and Harry are obviously a couple now, and I want all the details. But first, did you tell Harry?"

Draco smiled dreamily. "Yeah," she whispered. "Well, sorta-"

Hermoine frowned.

"I mean, Harry knows, he just kinda figured it out for himself." Her dreamy smile was back. "He was so cute! And he doesn't care, Mione! He likes me anyway!"

Hermione smiled widely. "That's great!" She exclaimed, giving her friend a tight hug, "I'm really happy for you, er, Kari."

Draco smiled dreamily again, her eyes going misty. "He was so sweet," she whispered, falling back onto her pillows. "He saved me from a Whinisur, and he bandaged my hand- then he held it for the rest of the time." Draco squealed into her pillow. She didn't notice when Hermione rolled her eyes, muttering something about 'girly hormones aren't wasted on guys', and leave.

Back down in the common room, Ron's face was getting redder by the second. And Harry was staring into the fire with a goofy grin on his face.

"Well?" Ron finally exploded.

Harry didn't twitch. "I don't that that Kari's quite your type, Ron," he said after a pause, before smiling in a secretive way. "Definitely not your type."

"Don't you tell me who's my type or not!" He shouted, pacing the length of the room. "Kari's perfect for me, she's pretty, and fun, and nice-" He stopped in front of Harry, who still wore that smile.

"I thought you liked Hermione," Harry said, still not looking at his best friend.

"Things change," Ron snapped, turning around and rushing up the stairs towards his dorm. He didn't notice Hermione standing right there, staring at him with tear filled eyes.

After that, Ron and Harry didn't talk too much. Ron scowled when ever Harry and Karisuta entered a room, holding hands and whispered together. Even Hermione was avoiding him. Therefore, Ron punished himself by not sitting with any of them, and sticking with Neville, Seamus and Dean. That is, until, an Owl came for Kari, asking her to go to the Headmaster's office while Harry was at Quidditch practice.

"Really, Ron," Draco tried to convince the red head. "I know where the Headmaster's office is- I can find it for my self..."

But when she left through the portrait hole, Ron followed her, and walked down the hall with her.

Draco stopped and glared at him. "I said I can find it," she snapped, snatching her hand away from Ron. "Please leave me alone."

But Ron didn't leave her alone. Instead, he pinned her against the wall and crashed his lips against hers. She cried out, but it was muffled by his intruding kiss.

A gasp from the end of the hall jolted Ron away from her, and seconds later, he was staring into Harry's hate filled green eyes.




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AN Yes, that is a very cruel place to leave you all, but the way we figure it- the more you want of the story- the more reviews you leave. Therefore, if it's a good cliff hanger, we get LOTS of reviews. *evil grins*


Draco: O.O

Harry: -.-

Ron: ^_^

Bunny: e.e

Hoshi: e.e



PS Next chapter- might there be a cure for our poor Draco? And something about PMS... hmm, this could get interesting. And, oh yeah, lots of Ron pounding