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Discoveries-29-Snow Day

People were back from Christmas vacation, and classes had started again, much to Hermione's delight. Everyone else groaned when they had to go back. Hermione was now her happy self again, just like she always was when she was doing schoolwork. Not that the holidays had stopped her from visiting the library during the days, and even once late at night with Harry's invisibility cloak. She'd almost been caught that time, but ended up safe, afterall.

"It should be a rule that we don't get homework on the first day back from break!" Ron complained, as they walked down the hall to their next class. "I mean, we've just gotten over two full weeks without school, now they have to go and shove this all in our faces. It's just not fair!"

"Well, you know they have to do that. It's to help us learn," Hermione said.

"Well, you know they have to do that. It's to help us learn," Ron mimicked. She whacked him on the shoulder with a heavy book. "Ow!" he said, rubbing his shoulder.

"You deserved it!" Hermione said. "Oh, I have to go now... I have arithmancy, remember?"

"Oh, yeah. See you later, Hermi!" Harry said.

"'Bye, Mione!"

She waved, and then dashed across the hall to Draco. "Hey, Draco," she said.

"There you are... I was wondering when you'd show." He smiled. "Time to get to class."

They began walking, turning the corner, Malgarcon and his friends approached them. "Why hello, Granger!" He said.

"What do you want?!" she snapped.

"I'm sorry... I know it must've been hard with only ONE boyfriend for Christmas... considering Malfoy couldn't have had all the time in the world to spend with you... you couldn't go back and forth like you did before the 'incident.'" He said this all, in a tone that was supposed to be sincere, but coming from him it wasn't.

Draco stepped forward and punched Malgarcon in the jaw. "What's your problem, dude?! Where do you get off calling my girl a slut?! Huh?!" He punched him again. Malgarcon held a hand to his face where he'd been punched, then let go, to give Draco a blow to the chest. Draco stumbled backwards, then ran forwards and tackled Malgarcon. They both were on the floor kicking and beating the crap out of each other.

Hermione rushed forward to pull Draco away, but couldn't. She watched for about two minutes, then finally was able to pull him back, him giving in somewhat. Malgarcon's buddies helped him up, and both Draco and Malgarcon glared at each other. "I don't ever want to see your face again!" Draco spat.

"Fine... you won't," Malgarcon said, walking away with his friends behind him.

"Oh my god, are you okay?" Hermione asked, gently touching the bruises on his face.

"Yeah... I'm fine," he said, then brought his head up to face her. "Come on. Let's go."

"Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger... both of you are late."

~*~*~*~

On Saturday, after lunch, Hermione decided to go for a walk. She went to her room first, to get a scarf, her black Hogwarts robe, and some mittens. Then she slipped on some boots, and went out the door. Outside it was cold, but it wasn't that bad. The snow was still falling peacefully from the sky... just little snowflakes. The ground was piled with it. As soon a she took a step off the covered steps, her foot sunk in so deep, that the snow went up to her knee. She took another step, and her other foot went right in just as deep. Then another step. And another. It was taking her forever. She'd been walking a while, when she felt something hard his her back. She twisted her body around and saw Draco standing a few yards away with a snowball in hand. He was grinning from ear to ear.

"So that's how you want to play." Then he threw that snowball, too, and hit her in the stomach. She went backwards a bit, but regained her balance, just in time to be hit again. Now he was coming near her. She reached down, picked up a handful of snow, made it into a mound, and tossed it at him. She hit her target, and smiled, victoriously. She quickly made another one, backing up a little, as he got closer and threw another. This time when she threw one, he did, too, and they both hit, broke apart, and fell to the ground. Both Hermione and Draco began laughing. Hermione then took the opportunity, as he still stood there laughing, to make a snowball and hit him in the chest.

"Oh, I'm going to get you!" he said, running forwards, as fast as he could, anyway, through the snow. He reached her, being much faster and catching up to her running away. He crushed a snowball on her head, and some of the snow got caught in her eyelashes. He pushed her back and they fell in the snow, together. It was cold, but neither one noticed this much as they just lay there kissing.

Their kissing was interrupted by something hitting them both in the head. They looked up, and saw Harry and Ron standing there, looking innocent... sort of, and stood up. They made snowballs and threw them at Harry and Ron. "SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Ron yelled.

~*~*~*~

After playing around in the snow, Hermione, Draco, Ron and Harry went to their rooms to change into some clean clothes, then all met in the Gryffindor common room for some hot cocoa with marshmellows in it.

"Where have you been?" Neville asked.

"Snowball fight," Hermione said, taking a sip of hot chocolate. She closed her eyes, enjoying the rich taste, then opened them again, to eat a marshmellow off the top.

"Oh. I had homework to do."

"Do you need any help?" Hermione asked, right away.

"No, thanks. I'm finished with it now. I got Ginny to help me with it. It was just some potions homework," Neville answered.

"Ah... I see," Hermione said, smiling.

"What are you smiling about?" Ron asked.

"Nothing." She had just been thinking about the book she'd given her. She wasn't sure yet if Ginny had decided to use the love potion on Harry or not. But she, personally, didn't think she'd need a potion. She'd seen the way Harry looked at her. It was like he liked her, as much as she liked him. Hermione thought it'd be really sweet if they got together. Just then, Ginny entered the room...

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