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A/N: Well I'm back again, over 6000 words this time, bloody hell these chapters just get longer and longer. Only a couple of weeks wait this time, not too bad is it? Anyway I don't want to make you read even more than you have to, so please start the special Christmas present from me to all my lovely reviewers chapter

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'Potter I hear you're handing out apologies, do I not get one?' Snape's oily tones cut into the trio's conversation, as they were about to leave the Potions room after yet another horrible afternoon spent in the Dungeons

'Would you like one?' Harry asked looking very uncertain and with the suspicious feeling that he was going to lose points whatever he said

'I most certainly would not, I've never heard anything so insulting, ten points from Gryffindor' Snape said looking as though he had been mortally stung by Harry's words, an apology from a Potter was obviously too much for him to bear

'Yes professor' Harry said neutrally trying not to antagonise the Potions master further

'I don't like your tone of voice, you should show me more respect, five points from Gryffindor' Snape said with narrowed eyes as he glared at Harry

'Yes professor' Harry replied meekly

'Answering me back hey, another five points off' Snape shouted. By now Malfoy who had stayed to see Harry told off was practically on the floor from how hard he was laughing, Harry tried remaining silent and ignoring Malfoy but only succeeded in infuriating Snape further as he snapped 'Not answering me at all, ten points from Gryffindor'

'But professor' Hermione finally tried to cut in, deciding that enough was really quite enough

'Miss Granger five points off Gryffindor for interrupting. Mr Weasley perhaps you'd like to add something?' Snape spun round to Harry's best friends viciously as they looked at him horrified, Ron shook his head firmly in alarm 'No? Very well then you may go'

And with that Harry, Ron and Hermione fled from Snape who was clearly in a very anti-Gryffindor mood, with thirty points less for Gryffindor (which Hermione would later make up in Herbology) and leaving behind them a very cocky Draco Malfoy who was spreading the story around the school. But this was one Malfoy who Harry intended to show up as the largest cheating lying scumbag Hogwarts had ever seen, and who better to teach such a lesson than Harry himself

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For an entire week Harry had been busy trying to please his teachers, ok Snape hadn't really appreciated it and McGonagall still glared at him whenever anything went wrong but things were slowly started to settle down to as normal as they had ever been before. However he'd been so busy trying to be good that he hadn't seen Draco once outside of lessons, this was partly because Harry wasn't completely sure he'd be able to restrain himself from punching Malfoy as soon as he opened his mouth and he didn't want to upset Hermione so he'd avoided the ferret. But now Harry was confident that he could deal with Malfoy in a responsible and mature manner so when he saw Malfoy headed straight for him after one Quidditch practice he stopped to have a little chat with his favourite piece of slime

'Malfoy' Harry greeted with a forced smile that didn't reach his eyes

'Ah Potter, I'd been under the impression you were avoiding me' Draco opened his side of the conversation with his customary smirk

'And why would I want to do that? I can always close my eyes so that I don't have to see your ugly mug' Harry shot back

'I think you're scared, I heard all about your late night raid with the aurors, that went a bit wrong didn't it? Shame the mudblood wasn't there, with any luck they might have got rid of her, done us all a favour' Draco practically licked his lips with relish at the thought of Hermione been killed and like any sane person would, Harry saw red

'You bloody deatheater, you don't deserve to be a wizard, you're a disgrace to the name' he spat looking absolutely furious and struggling to stop himself from committing the violent murder of Draco Malfoy, his head was already telling him what to plead 'I did it for the sake of humanity I tell you, for humanity'

'Go cry to mummy' Draco clearly hadn't finished his latest round of insulting Harry and as Harry's scowl grew to a full on glare he added, 'Oops I forgot, you can't', and after more glaring came his way he taunted 'What's the matter? Nothing to say?'

'Don't talk about my mother like that' Harry demanded angrily

'Why not? You never knew her, neither did I, so we have something in common' Draco drawled with obvious amusement in his voice

'Shut your mouth now Malfoy' Harry growled

'Make me. Or are you too scared of breaking rules in front of your precious Dumbledore?'

'I'm not scared of anything' Harry finally pulled out his wand, his hand shaking with suppressed rage     

'No need to be so aggressive, I'm just talking' Draco took a step back smirking again, although if you had looked closely it could be seen that he was slightly nervous of Harry now that he was armed

'Well I don't like the topic of conversation'

'Don't you like talking about mudbloods?' Draco asked pretending to be surprised

'What are you going on about?' Harry asked suspiciously wondering just what Draco was playing at

'Filthy disgusting mudbloods. There's your mudblood mother and that mudblood girlfriend Granger and–'

'That's it. Does the offer of a duel still stand' Harry cut in and shouted loudly at the Slytherin

'Huh?' it was now Draco's turn to look confused, either not remembering his challenge at the start of the year or wishing that Harry had forgotten

'I accept your offer of a Wizard's duel' Harry said slowly to make sure that Draco heard every word

'Excellent, where and when?' Draco's lips curved in a cruel smile as he was probably thinking abut all the tricks he could use to try and defeat Harry

'Great Hall as soon as possible' Harry said decisively after a few seconds pondering the question

'You can't honestly expect us to duel in the great hall' Draco exclaimed thinking that Harry clearly had gone mad

'I do. Now let's see Dumbledore' Harry said

'Why would I want to do that, I've seen enough fools for one day' Draco sneered, making it very clear who he thought the other fool was but Harry was now completely calm again

'Because we will have a proper duel' Harry explained

'Proper?' Draco asked cautiously, worried that Harry might intend a duel to the death, because while Draco wanted nothing more than to see Harry in pieces in the infirmary he didn't want to risk his own life at all

'Yes, unless you want to back out?' Harry offered with a slight smirk, as he knew Draco was far too proud to do such a thing

'Let's go' Draco growled meeting Harry's challenge and striding off in front of him. Anyone who had seen them in the corridors would have been rather surprised, for Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter were walking side by side and there were no curses been exchanged, there was no pleasant conversation either, but it was still a strange sight.

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'Good afternoon Professor Dumbledore' Harry greeted the head teacher politely after Draco had convinced Snape to take them into Dumbledore's office, Draco merely nodded slightly, which from a Malfoy was almost a sign of respect

'Mr Potter, Mr Malfoy, what can I do for you?' Dumbledore looked up from his desk rather surprised, looking as though he hoped the two weren't there for fighting. He had been suitably impressed with Harry's efforts to make amends so far and hoped he hadn't spoilt it

'Have you noticed that the students seem a bit restless recently, a bit depressed and rather bored?' Harry asked looking very innocent

'I can't say that I have' Dumbledore raised his eyebrow sounding rather amused

'Malfoy isn't that right?' Harry turned to the young man next to him his tone rather threatening but Malfoy didn't flinch at all

'Absolutely Potter, especially those Gryffindors, very boring' Malfoy drawled a small smirk on his lips

'I could have sworn I said bored' Harry sounded distinctly unimpressed

'Oops my mistake, how can that have happened?' Malfoy now gave his full smirk, his tone full of mock surprise

'Boys was there a reason for you two coming here?' Dumbledore had been watching two of the potentially most powerful wizards Hogwarts would ever produce with some interest not completely sure why they were there, but finding that each possessed a very sharp tongue which while of little use when fighting for a cause, either good or bad, was still amusing for the old man to watch

'Of course, me and Malfoy have had a splendid idea to cheer up everybody' Harry's grin now fell under the category of wicked

'Have you really?' Dumbledore asked with mild interest as he stroked his phoenix, which had fluttered onto his shoulder, watched with great intrigue by Draco

'Yes a duel would get everyone excited and give them something to look forward to' Harry finally stated his point

'A wizard's duel between the two of you?' Dumbledore asked leaning forwards and fixing each boy with a very steely glare as he studied them intently

'Yes and I only mention this because some students are such disobedient little things that they might ignore rules and hold the duel late at night if they were told not to' Draco's drawl was kept to a minimum as he tried to sound off-hand and helpful, Harry almost looked impressed with his enemy but quickly thought better of it. Dumbledore remained silent watching the Slytherin and the Gryffindor closely weighing up the different options. He had little doubt that they would duel regardless of what he said and maybe it would be safer to allow them to duel under supervision, although it might cause house rivalries to grow further.

'Well we can't have that can we, I see no harm in a proper duel so long as it is arranged properly and of course no unforgivable curses would be allowed' Dumbledore finally announced his decision

'Of course' Harry replied with a shocked look on his face that Dumbledore could even suspect him of wanting to curse Draco to hell and back

'See Professor McGonagall about been a referee for the duel, just to make sure nothing goes wrong. And without any unforeseen hitches you will be allowed the great hall two weeks on Saturday afternoon, I will make an announcement later this week' Dumbledore said as he stood up to lead the two youths to the door which sprang open at his approach. Draco didn't even look back as he swept from the room in a wonderful impression of Snape

'Thank you' Harry said gratefully to Dumbledore relishing the opportunity he was now given to defeat Draco once and for all in front of the entire school

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'Want to back out now?' Malfoy asked smirking as Harry walked silently past him down the stairs

'You wish, I'll try not to blast you into too many pieces' Harry laughed over his shoulder as he continued to walk

'Just you worry about yourself, I'll worry about how exactly to finish you off.' Harry knew that Malfoy would be sneering while saying this even though he couldn't see his face.

When he reached the bottom of the staircase and stopped, turning back to Draco

'Malfoy, you poor delusional sod, if you mess with me you will come off much the worse' Harry was incredulous that after every encounter this year Draco still thought he had more than a chance of merely surviving a duel with the legendary boy-who-lived

'I doubt that Potter, I doubt that' Malfoy said haughtily as went off towards to Slytherin common room

'Well he can't say I didn't warn him' Harry shook his head and shrugged to himself as he watched the far-too-cocky Slytherin walk off and a rather appropriate phrase sprang into his head – 'Pride comes before a fall', and Harry intended to prove how true that statement was. But now all he had to do was to tell Ron and Hermione the wonderful news, after all just how mad would Hermione be?

In fact after careful consideration Harry decided to leave it a few days before telling Hermione the news, but Ron would be delighted to know now

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Harry was still desperately trying to make everybody see that he was extremely sorry for any trouble he had caused them and he had decided that he was going to make them all happy. He'd tidied up the whole Boy's dormitory scaring Dean and Seamus immensely in the process, he'd given Trevor the Toad a bath despite Neville's protestations that toads didn't need baths and now he was going to do something to help Hermione and Ron, (he had ignored Ron's protests that kicking Malfoy's sorry ass would be enough of an apology) the only problem was he couldn't think of anything.

Harry lay on his bed stretched out thinking hard while Ron read about the Cannon's latest defeat in the Daily Prophet, he knew he couldn't help Hermione with her studies and he couldn't buy Ron anything because they would be offended. But they were both single, and that was when it struck Harry what he could do for his best friends

'Ron, I've just realised you would be perfect for Hermione' he gasped as the proverbial light bulb flashed brightly over his head

'As what, a verbal punch bag?' Ron asked looking up in confusion

'No, as her boyfriend' Harry said and Ron's face changed from confusion to shear horror in the blink of an eye

'I can't even begin to tell you what's wrong with that' Ron croaked looking rather ill at the prospect

'Don't be so silly, you were made for each other, I'll make you see sense' Harry grinned at the pale faced Ron as he left the room, he was sure that he was right about this, in fact he was sure he was right about everything

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A few hours later Harry and Ron met Hermione in the common room, she'd just returned from an evening studying alone in the library

'Hermione great news, Ron's your soul mate' Harry greeted brightly, as Ron groaned in horror

'Who's what?' Hermione spluttered looking for the entire world as though she was praying she had misheard. Then noticing Ron cowering behind Harry she turned to him with narrowed eyes

'Believe me I didn't put him up to this. Is there anything in those potion's side effects about going crazy?' Ron said very quickly looking scared of Hermione's wrath and worried that his best friend had completely flipped

'Look it all makes sense, the arguments, the, erm, arguments and did I mention the arguments?' Harry sighed patiently, he hadn't realised that Ron and Hermione would be this stubborn so he just needed to convince them

'We argue, so what?' Ron asked with a shrug

'It signifies a deep emotional attachment for each other' Harry explained

'No, it signifies a difference of opinion' Hermione snapped back

'You only think that because you don't know any better, just wait till you're married then you'll thank me'

'Married? You better be joking Harry' Hermione gasped in shock

'You think this is bad, you weren't there when he was planning names for our children' Ron said slumping down from exhaustion at Harry's relentless matchmaking

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Three days later Harry was till attempting to convince his best friends to date and it was proving to be very unrewarding work but he persevered anyway, driving Ron and Hermione crazy in the process

'Harry please stop all this Hermione and me stuff, you're making a big mistake' Ron begged as they got ready to go to bed, in only the last three hours Harry had charmed him to recite love poetry to Hermione whenever he spoke and the entire common room had heard

'Come off it you know she fancies somebody, she keeps going red and muttering like she did with Lockhart' Harry merely smiled at his best friend, he had by now grown used to the firm denials

'So she fancies somebody, doesn't have to be me' Ron argued

'Who else could it be?' Harry asked

'Neville?' Ron said realising as he said it just how lame a guess that had been

'Those rows you have signify some deep emotional feelings' Harry explained for a billionth time exactly why Ron and Hermione were perfect for each other

'No they signify a personality clash. She argues with Malfoy as well and she's not likely to be jumping on him anytime soon'

'Ewww' Harry pulled a disgusted face as Ron achieved his desired aim of making Harry shut up and grossing him out in the process

'What's with the interest in Hermione's love life anyway?' Ron asked, suddenly wondering why Harry had decided to do all this

'Just curious'

'Anyone would think you fancied her' Ron said with a hidden smirk as a thought he'd never had before popped into his head, that maybe Harry like Hermione

'What a completely preposterous idea, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard' Harry said just that bit too quickly for Ron to think Harry was been entirely straight with him

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Walking past the charms classroom on their way to visit Hagrid early one morning, Harry, Hermione and Ron suddenly heard a large bang and clatter behind them causing them all to turn in alarm and pull out their wands instinctively

'How did you get in?' Ron looked very surprised as his twin brothers stepped out from behind a statue brushing off a layer of dust that seemed to have settled over them

'Shame on you, that's no way to greet your elder brothers' Fred scolded Ron rather half-heartedly as he was shaking his head where he had managed to get the mysterious dust into his ears somehow, Harry suspected it was the result of a experiment gone wrong

'It is when they suddenly appear in a corridor of a school they left a year ago' Ron replied rather dryly

'We're just here on some business' George said proudly, trying to create a mysterious and important air around him

'Well you can go and carry on somewhere else'

'Fine with us, isn't it George?' Fred said with a shrug and a slight smirk which Ron missed as he turned to his other brother

'Yep, we were going to tell you about our new invention but I guess we'll just be on our way' George was also holding back a smile as the two boys began to walk away from the trio. Only they had succeeded with their aim of capturing their brother's interest

'WAIT' Ron called rather desperately looking as though he was fighting an internal battle

'Yes?' Fred spun round looking very puzzled as though he hadn't got a clue why Ron would have stopped him, Harry was rather amused by this as Ron was clearly frustrated at having to be nice to his brothers

'What is it?' Ron blurted out and the twins' grins grew so large that even Harry and Hermione became interested

'After months of research, we have finally invented a lie detector' the twins said in a tone of a discovery of great significance and Ron was indeed regarding them with awe. But Harry and Hermione spoilt the atmosphere by bursting into laughter, drawing highly indignant looks from Fred and George

'What's their problem?' Fred asked Ron, looking extremely puzzled; Ron shrugged his shoulder been as clueless as his brother on the matter

'Harry?' George asked the man himself

'Why don't you just use veritaserum?' Harry asked, remembering the incident in his fourth year when Dumbledore had used it

'Because it's really hard to get hold of, it takes years of potion training to even learn how to make it and some of the ingredients involved are almost impossible to find' George rolled his eyes and Harry's laughter immediately stopped to be replaced with one of intrigue, he'd never known that

'Right well Harry's just ignorant, Hermione how about you?' Fred turned to the only female in the group who was still laughing

'It's just that a lie detector was a new invention in the muggle world, about 50 years ago' Hermione managed to choke out in between bursts of laughter

'Well ours is much better, easy to make if you know how. But if you'll excuse us, we need to pay our favourite Charms teacher a little visit' George gave Hermione one last look of annoyance before heading towards Flitwick's room leaving Ron to ask all about muggle lie detectors

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Later that day toward the end of dinner Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat loudly and then went through the usual ordeal of having to wait about five minutes for everyone to shut up

'I'm delighted to announce that two of our sixth years are going to be entertaining us next Saturday evening as they seem to think we need a boost to our morale. So after dinner that day Mr Draco Malfoy and Mr Harry Potter will be treating us to a specially sanctioned duel' Dumbledore smiled as the hall turned to look at Harry and then at Draco before turning to each other and chattering loudly completely missing the rest of what Dumbledore had to say about this been a one off and that nobody else was allowed to duel

At the Gryffindor table Harry was about to receive initial reaction from students, but he only cared about one of them

'He'll be doing what?' Hermione asked deeply suspicious as she looked up from her plate

'I do believe the man said duel' Dean said helpfully from further down the table and Hermione glared at him as Ron snorted, unwisely drawing attention to himself

'Ron why don't you seem surprised?' Hermione asked her eyes narrowing at the redhead

'Because I'm not' Ron said simply apparently unconcerned at facing Hermione's wrath, or maybe just distracted by the pumpkin pie that had appeared on the table

'You told Ron and not me' Hermione turned to Harry still looking furious but now slightly upset as well

'I thought you might be just a little bit annoyed with me' Harry smiled weakly

'A little bit annoyed? I'm furious' Hermione snapped

'Ah then I guess this isn't the best time to ask if you want to go on a date with Ron next week' Harry sighed as he tore up plan 27 in his quest to get Ron and Hermione on a date together

'Give it up Harry, she doesn't fancy me and I don't fancy her' Ron paused long enough to speak before returning to his dessert

'Of course you do, but as Hermione's now just turned a rather nice purple colour I think I'll be going back to the common room' Harry said quickly sprinting from the hall as he noticed Hermione getting ready to lecture him on the dangers of duelling. Hermione growled in annoyance, and Ron looking round quickly, swapped his now empty plate for Harry's full one and happily tucked into another slice of pie

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By the next day Hermione had given up trying to lecture Harry as he simply ran away every time she opened her mouth, so she'd decided to leave the subject alone and keep her friendship with Harry instead. But at the moment she was engaging in a rather heated argument with Ron over the merits of house elf holidays, and it was during this debate that Harry came across them

'Are you sure there's nothing going on between you two?' Harry asked suspiciously, but not surprised to find his two best friends disagreeing again

'Absolutely positive' Hermione snapped looking up at him and completely forgetting her argument with Ron

'So you don't like Ron even a teensy weensy little bit' Harry asked sounding very sceptical

'Of course I do, but I don't fancy him' Hermione said sounding very frustrated and snatching up her quill again and attempting to add even more to her already twice as long as Ron and Harry's put together essay for Potions

'And you don't fancy Hermione?' Harry turned to Ron having had no luck with Hermione

'I'll admit she's pretty but I don't fancy her'

'I don't believe you' Harry said stubbornly

'For goodness sake Harry what will it take to convince you?' Hermione slammed her quill back down with some force as she glared at him in annoyance

'Use Fred and George's lie detector' Harry said after a few minutes consideration on the matter, he'd had one of his very rare, but very useful strokes of genius

'I only have to answer questions about whether or not I fancy Ron?' Hermione asked cautiously, not really wanting to be a guinea pig for Fred and George

'Yes' Harry promised looking sincere enough

'And you won't mention this any more?'

'No' Harry said

'Deal, now leave me alone' Hermione said decisively as she started writing again and proceeded to ignore Harry and Ron

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'So what are you going to do when she finally admits it?' Harry asked Ron the next day after tea, completely forgetting his promise not to talk about it or possibly just ignoring the fact he had made one

'I think the question should be, what will you do when she doesn't' Ron smiled rather enigmatically

'You're both wrong, the question should be what curse will she use when she finds out that you're talking about this again' a female voice came from behind them and both boys spun round on the couch in alarm

'Gin, don't scare us like that' Ron said breathing a large sigh of relief when he saw only his sister in front of him

'Yeah, we thought you were Hermione' Harry looked equally relieved as Ginny came round to sit down opposite them, he had no desire to fall out with Hermione ever again

'I mean she's great to look at and everything, but the lectures do wear a little thin'

'Say did you see what she was wearing yesterday?' Harry said his eyes glazing over as his mind wondering back to the muggle dress that somebody had convinced her to wear that was rather tight, to put it mildly

'Course I did, talk about curves in the right places, bloody scorching' Ron said with a low whistle of appreciative remembrance, it was then that Harry noticed that Ginny was staring at a spot just over their heads and realised what was going on

'She's stood right behind us isn't she?' he asked with a groan

'Please do go on, I'm sure you can find some way of been even more crude' Hermione said in a very sarcastic voice as she came round to join Ginny on the chair opposite the boys who were both looking rather sheepish

'If you insist' Harry said with a wicked grin and was about to start talking about how Ron had once seen Parvati in just a towel, only he quickly stopped himself remembering that girls tended to act funny about that sort of thing and as he had noticed much earlier, Hermione was most definitely a girl

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Harry had quickly done a deal with Fred and George Weasley, he'd sneak them into the Gryffindor common room so they could try and sell their goods and they'd let him use the lie detector. And now was the evening when it was going to happen, the Gryffindor common room was packed with the entire Gryffindor house who all wanted to see the lie detector

'Are you ready?' Harry asked Hermione as he finally emerged through the massive crowd with Ron at his side

'Yes, but don't be too disappointed when you realise you're wrong' Hermione replied as she drank the potion which Fred had placed in front of her and pulled a face of disgust

'Nonsense, you're still in denial' Harry said brightly

'Oh brother' Ron said rolling his eyes

'Did you call?' George asked as he popped up seemingly out of nowhere

'No, I was exclaiming at Harry's stubbornness' Ron explained

'When you're both happily married with kids, you'll thank me for this. I'm just trying to make sure my two best friends are happy' Harry said rather sad that they didn't see he was trying to help them, but positive that they'd soon be together

'Hermione we're ready if you are' Fred came over next to George and placed a mat with a hand print on it down next to two lights, one of which was red and the other green

'Let's do this' Hermione said determinedly as she put her hand in the designated place on the mat

'Ok, this is the tester question. You need to lie for the answer. Are you male?' George asked and the room fell deadly silent in anticipation

'Yes' Hermione answered raising a few giggles. And after five seconds the red light flashed repeatedly drawing gasps of amazement and a very smug smirk from Fred and George

'Alright, it's all yours now. Just remember, you only have 6 questions left' Fred said to Harry as he moved out of the way

'More than enough. Here we go, Hermione do you fancy anybody?' Harry decided to draw out the situation for as long as possible to excite the assembled crowd

'Yes' Hermione answered after a brief pause. The light went green

'Excellent, is he in this room?' Harry's smile grew to a grin as he winked at Ron who simply shook his head in return

'Yes'. The light went green

'This was way too easy. Is it Ron?' Harry's grin was now Cheshire cat size as he relaxed in his chair, content that his job was done.

But:

'No'. And the light flashed green

'What the…how the hell? Damn it, I don't believe this' Harry leapt up yelling furiously and the nervous students near him took a large step backwards

'Erm Harry, there's still 3 questions left' George interrupted Harry's rant rather bravely in many people's opinion considering this was the Harry Potter who was going to duel a Malfoy for fun

'I only agreed to prove that I didn't fancy Ron, I've done that so I'm finished' Hermione smiled smugly as she made to stand up

'No way, you spoilt my fun. You're not going anywhere. Does the person you fancy have blue eyes?' Harry asked standing in front of Hermione preventing her from standing up, he was determined to make her suffer for ruining his perfect plan and he could think of no better way than finding out who she fancied and teasing her mercilessly about it

'No' Hermione answered rather reluctantly as she realised that Fred and George were guarding the portrait hole, blocking her escape. The light flashed green

'Brown eyes?' Harry tried again rather desperately now as he was on his penultimate question

'No'. The light again flashed green and Hermione was now flushing slightly

'This stupid thing must be broken or not working' Harry said in frustration looking carefully round the room wondering why they were all staring back at him, he had looked at every male and even every pair of female eyes and found no-one with eyes any colour other than blue and brown

'All Weasley's wizard wheezes products work to perfection' Fred said very indignantly, looking rather curiously at Harry

'Well I can't see a single person in this room without blue or brown eyes' Harry pointed out; thinking that maybe the guy in question had slipped out unnoticed

'Oh? Well we can' George said smirking slightly as he looked straight at Harry

'Huh? What? Oh' Harry finally realised why everyone was staring at him and flushed slightly himself. 'Is he a completely dense idiot?' he asked leaning back in his chair in amazement

'Yes' Hermione said in a whisper her cheeks now a blazing red. And for the last time the light flashed green

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A/N: So that was more fun again right. Harry wasn't too bad, but still rather cheeky so nothing's changed too much. And this story will probably get a bit more serious at some point again, but not for a while

Cho's appearance has been put off for a chapter, but don't worry she isn't some kind of slut or anything when she appears, also appearing in the next two chapters is the visit to the Dursleys, and the long awaited duel with Draco

And maybe H/H will finally get together, well wait and see

Now to my reviewers, I hope this chapter amused you,

All Mighty Terrestrial – I did try to write Harry without Ron and Hermione, but you're right it just wasn't as much fun, I couldn't write about one of them without mentioning the other two

Hermione Rae – Honestly it's H/H

Adolph (Hitler) – Rather worried by the name but thanks for calling me awesome

PotterFan66 – I agree that you can't go wrong with H/H as a couple, that is why I solemnly swear that this story will be a H/H story

Stoneheart – Everyone should read this review as an example of how to make someone feel great, seriously Stoneheart you have been a real constant force in writing this story, always extremely nice while been extremely helpful. I couldn't ask for more from a reviewer, cheers very much

Aubs22 – Thanks, I plan to review your story very soon

Meg – I am keeping going

Chibi – Cheers for the review

goddess of insanity and pauru – Thanks

Madelein – I think I can make this work as a PG, I don't really want to go into graphic detail, I'm happy with just implying things, but thanks for the suggestion

hermione&harry4ever – I think it's now clear who's going to get to date Hermione (cough*Harry*cough)

Draco Scye – Draco bashing is imminent and as for Lucius Malfoy (evil cackle) just wait and see

NightBlossom – You got it, Harry isn't suddenly going to become some goody goody two shoes

A rose by any other name – Ah real life, it can always be relied upon to kick you when you're down

justin 1 hp fan – Writing as fast as I can, honestly

Plissken – Thanks

Sbys – Cheers very much

Vampires-kiss – Thank you

The Dragon Guardian of the Sea – I saw a picture of Tom Felton the other day and I was suddenly all Draco is god, until I remembered he's actually an actor

Linz – Only one answer, lots more to come

Mogliecat –

Individulists – I noticed that, you would think they could have got coloured contacts or something but I guess it doesn't matter too much

Caroline – This was better right?

Harry and Hermione's Daughter – Just give Cho a chance, you might end up liking her after all

A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to review and Merry Christmas to you all