Chapter Three:

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A/N: All right! More reviews! Thanks so much! You guys keep me going (honest). So, Keep up the reviewing! This chapter hopefully will get more of the story going. The last few chappy's were just setting up the story. Without further "a doo" (as my sister says) here's chapter three!

The next morning when Hermione woke up she wondered for a split second where she was and then remembered. She was on the Weasley's old, moth eaten, and yet comfortable sofa. She wondered where she had gotten the blanket but didn't have time to think about it because just then Mrs. Weasley came in and wished her a "good morning". Hermione slowly sat up and went upstairs to Ginny's room to change her clothes.

She walked up the stairs and turned the knob of Ginny's room. Just as she did so she heard a sort of scuffling coming from inside. When Hermione opened the door she saw Harry sitting on her bed and Ginny sitting on her own. Ginny's hair was a little mussed and Harry's glasses were askew on his face. Hermione only laughed and told Harry he could come back after she was done changing. Her friend grinned his friendly grin and walked out, winking at Ginny on the way. "Oh please 'mione! Don't tell Ron!" the girl shrieked. Just then Ron stuck his head in the door and said, "Don't tell me what?" Ginny froze and looked pleadingly at Hermione. She knew that her friend would cover for her, and she did. "Oh, Ginny told me what she was getting you for Christmas and she told me not to tell you." Hermione managed to stammer. She wasn't used to lying but she knew it would just make it worse to tell Ron what she had, uh.walked in on. "Oh, ok. Thanks in advance Gin!" smiled Ron and he walked away. "Maybe NOW I can change in peace!" cried Hermione sarcastically. Ginny grinned at her and said she'd need to change too for the day. They both changed into jean shorts and tank tops because it was still summer weather and really hot.

They walked downstairs and found the boys (all four of them including the twins) had gone outside to play around. The girls decided to eat their breakfast and go outside to join them. They finished and walked outside to Fred and George putting on a demonstration of their new tricks for their joke shop. They preformed them on each other, but the only thing was, they had invented the anti-dotes for all of their pranks. "Are you going to sell those too?" Harry had asked. The twins replied, "What would be the fun in that?" Fred was now putting some sort of color changing spell on George that when anytime he'd say the word "Quidditch" he'd change colors. Right now he was a lovely shade of purple-blue. As the girls sat down George chugged the anti-dote, which made everything but his tongue turn back to normal. They all laughed. "Don't laugh!" cried George in despair, "What is Katie going to think?" At this they all laughed harder. Katie Bell and George were the longest running couple in their Hogwarts graduating class, and the friends all knew that Katie would marry George even if his tongue was an odd shade of purple-blue.

"We don't have anymore tricks.unless you all want to be guinea pigs?" said Fred. The four friends shook their heads violently. All of them thinking of what horrid pranks these two tricksters had up their sleeves. "All right, all right. We get the picture." George said enticingly trying to get them to ask what it was. When they didn't ask the troublesome two went inside to try to fix George's tongue color. And the four were left alone. "So, what do your guys want to do?" asked Ginny. The boys shrugged and Hermione thought. They sat there in silence listening to the shrieks of laughter coming from the house. (Mrs. Weasley thought purple-blue tongues were hilarious obviously.) "OH!" cried Hermione all of a sudden, "guess who wrote me a letter asking me to come visit him!" she couldn't contain herself and burst out laughing. Ron's heart sank as he thought of Viktor Krum. "Vikky?" he asked sarcastically. Hermione just kept laughing and shook her head. "Who then?" asked Harry. "D-D-" she couldn't get out the name because she was laughing to hard. "DRACO!" she finally managed. The four laughed very hard at this. There was a story behind it of course. Last year for the potions final Snape made all of the students prepare a love potion. Draco had made the mistake of tasting it and falling in love with the first person he saw.which unfortunately was Hermione. Ever since then he had written her poems and enchanted a violin to play romantic music under her window every night until she smashed it. Everyone knew that Draco would never be the same after the death eaters were caught and his father was thrown into Azkaban. He had gone a little soft. He wasn't afraid to be caught doing his father thought was wrong. He had loosened up a bit and wasn't such a prat. But it was still Malfoy. The friends had a great laugh at this and decided to practice some magic. (Ginny couldn't of course but Harry, Ron, and Hermione could) Harry made a daisy in the field grow to the size of a small bear, Hermione made Ron float in the air and transfigured his shoes into pink fuzzy bunny slippers (A/N: nice touch huh? He he he) Ron sat there for a moment before rolling back his sleeves and saying an incantation none of the three had heard before. "Bonne wintarum, vinite vochhi!" What happened next was amazing.

A/N: Cliffhanger! :) (Sorry) Well I didn't get where I wanted to with this chapter but it'll do. The romance is coming I PROMISE. Oh and please no flames about Draco! Thanks! And keep reviewing!





( /Moira