Chapter Five-
Hermione kept turning to her right side and then left side. For some reason she just couldn't sleep. She decided to go over some facts she wanted to memorize for class. But all of a sudden the image of Ron popped up into her mind.
' Why can't Ron just suck it up and tell me how he feels about me. That way Harry and I won't have to go on with the plan.' Just as Hermione finished that thought the image of Harry popped into her mind. Harry is a great friend to really do this for Hermione.
Hermione finally gave up fighting to sleep. She decided to go sit in the common room and read a bit thinking that it would help her sleep. As she went downstairs she saw a figure lying on the couch. As she got closer to the figure she recognized it was Harry.
' I guess he fell asleep here.' Hermione went back up to her room to get a blanket for Harry.
' I'll wake him up when I go back to bed. Let him sleep a little more.' Hermione sat next to Harry, looking at how peaceful he looked. Hermione smiled and then opened up her book about monsters and began reading. As she kept on reading the more tired she got. Since the book was getting to the good parts Hermione decided to read a little more. But as she did she slowly fell asleep. She leaned down and lay next to Harry, and without knowing it she took his blanket and used it too.
Harry slowly opened his eyes wondering where he was. He saw lots of people staring at him and it took Harry a while to adjust to the scene. After he did he realized that someone was beside him and looked. It was Hermione who was sharing a blanket with him. Her head was on his shoulder and she was still sleeping.
" What were you two doing last night?" Lavender asked Harry not believing what she was seeing.
" What? What are you talking about?" Harry asked confused of everything.
" Hello! You two, on a couch, same blanket, sleeping on it at the same time. What do you mean what am I talking about?" Lavender said.
Other people started to come out of the dormitories. They all saw Harry and Hermione and stood shocked. Everybody just started to ask questions.
" Hermione wake up." Harry shook Hermione hard.
" What? Where am I?" Hermione sat up and look where she was. She saw all the kids gathering around them and saw Harry next to her.
" Why are you sharing a blanket with me? Why is everybody staring and why do I think this is bad?" Hermione asked Harry who just shrugged. Hermione hurried and got off the couch as fast as she could.
" What is going on here?" A familiar voice asked. Ron push his way through the crowd wondering what all the commotion was all about. When he saw Harry and Hermione he stopped and looked at them with wide eyes. Millions of thoughts were running through his head.
" Oh my god! Did you two? Why are you two in your pyjamas? And did you guys do what I think you guys did?" Ron asked all in one breathe pointing at them.
" What? No! I couldn't sleep and I saw Harry sleeping so I covered him with a blanket. I came down here to read and I guess I must have fallen asleep." Hermione said feeling herself turned red from the humiliation. She saw her book on the floor and picked it up and showed everybody and said, " See, here's the book I read."
" Sure. Uh huh. Yeah nothing happen, sure." Everybody said a lot of those sarcasticly.
" Look! Nothing happened! We just fell asleep. End of story." Harry said and then walked up to his dormitory to change, wanting to get away from the crowd. Hermione followed him and entered the girl's dormitory.
Ron was speechless still looking at the couch. Everybody was making up more rumours than ever. Some hurry out to tell the other students. Ron was just frozen, images in his head. He had this little nagging feeling deep down in him. He pushed it way down not wanting to know what that feeling is.
Ron, who finally got his mouth and brain working again, said out loud, " I know that they are going on a date. But are they that serious?"
Harry had just finished a class and was now walking to his potion class. As he walked he heard people whispering behind his back, knowing that it's was about him and Hermione.
He could just imagine Cho hearing the news and thinking awful about Harry. Was she jealous? Did she even like him at all? These questions ran through his head.
One question that stuck in his mind for a long time was why didn't Hermione just wake him up? Did she do that to make Ron jealous? If that was the reason then that was just mean. Rumours of Harry sleeping around were flying everywhere. Why would she do that? Was she that desperate?
Before he could make up more questions Ron suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
" Are you and Hermione sleeping together?" Ron asked, feeling his ears turned pink.
" First of all, I may have asked Hermione on a date, but that does not mean we are that serious. And for god sake Ron I am barely 15, do you really think I am ready for that sort of thing?" Harry asked his best friend.
" Look you all of a sudden fell in love with her. It's not like you I mean I thought you still like Cho. So I don't really know." Ron said crossing his arms.
" Okay. What about Hermione? She may have said yes to me but she can't change that much. You know how she is; she is still into her grades and all that. Do you think she want to ruin all of the work she done by sleeping around and getting pregnant?" Harry asked.
" I guess your right. It's just. It's just hard to believe you two didn't do anything because of how it looked like. I guess I just let my imagination get the best of me." Ron said uncrossing his arms. Harry just smiled and he and Ron walked to their class together.
Tonight was the big night. The date. Hermione never thought that they would ever get to this part of the plan. She thought at least Ron should crack by now.
' How long will this last?' Hermione thought as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing nothing special, just wearing her robe like she always does. The only thing that changed about her look is that she wore her hair in a ponytail.
They were going to go outside of school and have a little picnic. Thanks to Dobby, they have a great meal pack. Harry thought that having a picnic where everyone can see, including Ron and Cho, then it would be a sure way to make him or her jealous.
Hermione, looking herself over once more, was feeling nervous.
' Why am I nervous? I am just going out with Harry and that's it. Nothing more and why do I keep checking how I look? Probably because I want to make sure Ron think I'm pretty.' Hermione thought. She picked up the picnic basket and walked down the stairs. Everybody was watching but once they saw her, they all turned around and pretended to do something else.
Harry, who was already down there, was sitting on a chair talking to Ron. Hermione walked right up to him and smiled. " Harry I am all ready to go."
Harry just looked at Hermione up and down, shrugged and said, " Yeah, me too."
Ron just said nothing and was just staring at Hermione. Feelings were flowing through him and he was just confused. Not sure of what to, Ron just looked away and said, " Have Fun."
Ron smiled, a fake one, as he watched his two best friends walk out of the room. He tried to keep his mind on something but couldn't. After 10 minutes he couldn't help it, walked out of the common room to sneak on them. As he walked out he bumped into Cho.
" Ron. I was just. I saw Harry and Hermione and." Cho was turning red.
Ron smiled and said, " Me too. Would you like to join me so we can both watch them. We can pretend to study or something, and to make it easier we won't ask any questions."
Cho smiled and nodded, they both began to walk.
" Harry, this is a very nice spot you chose." Hermione said. They were both sitting on a blanket, the spot where Harry would go and let Hedwig fly.
Other people were outside talking, letting their owls fly away, and some were staring at them.
Hermione began taking the food out. After she was done she sat beside Harry who was already eating.
" Slow down Harry. You don't have to rush, " Hermione said laughing at how fast he kept on eating.
" Look I am starving! I was nervous about all of this!" Harry said.
" So were I but at least I as able to eat." Hermione said already eating her chicken.
" You know, it's already weird that we're on a date because of them. Let's not talk about them," Harry said.
Hermione nodded and said, " So heard anything from Voldemort?"
Harry, all of a sudden feel with hatred with that name, said, " Not yet. But I wouldn't be surprised if I see him sometime in the middle for the year."
" You know Harry, have you ever thought that Voldemort has some relations to you?" Hermione asked.
" What do you mean?"
" The question that has not been answered at all was why did he wanted to kill you? Could it be that he was related to or something?" Hermione said getting into her smart personality.
" Could be. But not likely. Perhaps he went into the future and knew what I would do to him, so tried to prevent that from happening." Harry said, thinking of explanations.
" If he did went to the future then he would of known that you would beat him." Hermione said.
Hermione and Harry started to talk more and more about why would Voldemort want to kill him. After that conversation was over they started to talk about everything. How Malfoy is, the teachers, they joked around and the thoughts of Ron and Cho slowly disappeared from their minds.
" Hermione. Why are you my friend? I mean being friends with me brings a lot of dangers. I know your not that shallow to want to hang out with me for fame. And your smarter then me to want my brains. So what is it?" Harry asked looking at Hermione.
Hermione looked at the sky and said, without having to think at all, " Because Harry, you are more then you think you are. You're brave yes and powerful. But you also love your friends and you are willing to do anything for us. You have this unique thing that makes you stand out. Your trying to find yourself on this journey that can teach you things and you don't even know it." Hermione turned her head and looked into Harry eyes, smiled and said, " You are you and that's enough of a reason for me to be friends with you."
Harry smiled, still looking into her eyes. All of a sudden he realized how pretty she was. He never really notice that she had a great smile. Harry then realized whom he was talking about. He mentally slapped himself and broke the gaze by looking forward. He all of a sudden saw Ron and Cho staring at them. He pretend not to have notice and whispered to Hermione, " I guess our plan work. Cho and Ron are spying."
" Oh," Hermione said disappointed for some reason. Hermione and Harry packed up and got up. After folding up the blanket, Harry picked up the basket and Hermione took the blanket.
As they walk towards the school, pretending not to have notice Ron and Cho. As they walked, Harry did something he never even thought twice about. He took Hermione hand holding it tight. Hermione was surprised, but didn't let go, not because of Ron, but because of something else. Not letting go of each other hands they kept walking.
Hermione kept turning to her right side and then left side. For some reason she just couldn't sleep. She decided to go over some facts she wanted to memorize for class. But all of a sudden the image of Ron popped up into her mind.
' Why can't Ron just suck it up and tell me how he feels about me. That way Harry and I won't have to go on with the plan.' Just as Hermione finished that thought the image of Harry popped into her mind. Harry is a great friend to really do this for Hermione.
Hermione finally gave up fighting to sleep. She decided to go sit in the common room and read a bit thinking that it would help her sleep. As she went downstairs she saw a figure lying on the couch. As she got closer to the figure she recognized it was Harry.
' I guess he fell asleep here.' Hermione went back up to her room to get a blanket for Harry.
' I'll wake him up when I go back to bed. Let him sleep a little more.' Hermione sat next to Harry, looking at how peaceful he looked. Hermione smiled and then opened up her book about monsters and began reading. As she kept on reading the more tired she got. Since the book was getting to the good parts Hermione decided to read a little more. But as she did she slowly fell asleep. She leaned down and lay next to Harry, and without knowing it she took his blanket and used it too.
Harry slowly opened his eyes wondering where he was. He saw lots of people staring at him and it took Harry a while to adjust to the scene. After he did he realized that someone was beside him and looked. It was Hermione who was sharing a blanket with him. Her head was on his shoulder and she was still sleeping.
" What were you two doing last night?" Lavender asked Harry not believing what she was seeing.
" What? What are you talking about?" Harry asked confused of everything.
" Hello! You two, on a couch, same blanket, sleeping on it at the same time. What do you mean what am I talking about?" Lavender said.
Other people started to come out of the dormitories. They all saw Harry and Hermione and stood shocked. Everybody just started to ask questions.
" Hermione wake up." Harry shook Hermione hard.
" What? Where am I?" Hermione sat up and look where she was. She saw all the kids gathering around them and saw Harry next to her.
" Why are you sharing a blanket with me? Why is everybody staring and why do I think this is bad?" Hermione asked Harry who just shrugged. Hermione hurried and got off the couch as fast as she could.
" What is going on here?" A familiar voice asked. Ron push his way through the crowd wondering what all the commotion was all about. When he saw Harry and Hermione he stopped and looked at them with wide eyes. Millions of thoughts were running through his head.
" Oh my god! Did you two? Why are you two in your pyjamas? And did you guys do what I think you guys did?" Ron asked all in one breathe pointing at them.
" What? No! I couldn't sleep and I saw Harry sleeping so I covered him with a blanket. I came down here to read and I guess I must have fallen asleep." Hermione said feeling herself turned red from the humiliation. She saw her book on the floor and picked it up and showed everybody and said, " See, here's the book I read."
" Sure. Uh huh. Yeah nothing happen, sure." Everybody said a lot of those sarcasticly.
" Look! Nothing happened! We just fell asleep. End of story." Harry said and then walked up to his dormitory to change, wanting to get away from the crowd. Hermione followed him and entered the girl's dormitory.
Ron was speechless still looking at the couch. Everybody was making up more rumours than ever. Some hurry out to tell the other students. Ron was just frozen, images in his head. He had this little nagging feeling deep down in him. He pushed it way down not wanting to know what that feeling is.
Ron, who finally got his mouth and brain working again, said out loud, " I know that they are going on a date. But are they that serious?"
Harry had just finished a class and was now walking to his potion class. As he walked he heard people whispering behind his back, knowing that it's was about him and Hermione.
He could just imagine Cho hearing the news and thinking awful about Harry. Was she jealous? Did she even like him at all? These questions ran through his head.
One question that stuck in his mind for a long time was why didn't Hermione just wake him up? Did she do that to make Ron jealous? If that was the reason then that was just mean. Rumours of Harry sleeping around were flying everywhere. Why would she do that? Was she that desperate?
Before he could make up more questions Ron suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
" Are you and Hermione sleeping together?" Ron asked, feeling his ears turned pink.
" First of all, I may have asked Hermione on a date, but that does not mean we are that serious. And for god sake Ron I am barely 15, do you really think I am ready for that sort of thing?" Harry asked his best friend.
" Look you all of a sudden fell in love with her. It's not like you I mean I thought you still like Cho. So I don't really know." Ron said crossing his arms.
" Okay. What about Hermione? She may have said yes to me but she can't change that much. You know how she is; she is still into her grades and all that. Do you think she want to ruin all of the work she done by sleeping around and getting pregnant?" Harry asked.
" I guess your right. It's just. It's just hard to believe you two didn't do anything because of how it looked like. I guess I just let my imagination get the best of me." Ron said uncrossing his arms. Harry just smiled and he and Ron walked to their class together.
Tonight was the big night. The date. Hermione never thought that they would ever get to this part of the plan. She thought at least Ron should crack by now.
' How long will this last?' Hermione thought as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing nothing special, just wearing her robe like she always does. The only thing that changed about her look is that she wore her hair in a ponytail.
They were going to go outside of school and have a little picnic. Thanks to Dobby, they have a great meal pack. Harry thought that having a picnic where everyone can see, including Ron and Cho, then it would be a sure way to make him or her jealous.
Hermione, looking herself over once more, was feeling nervous.
' Why am I nervous? I am just going out with Harry and that's it. Nothing more and why do I keep checking how I look? Probably because I want to make sure Ron think I'm pretty.' Hermione thought. She picked up the picnic basket and walked down the stairs. Everybody was watching but once they saw her, they all turned around and pretended to do something else.
Harry, who was already down there, was sitting on a chair talking to Ron. Hermione walked right up to him and smiled. " Harry I am all ready to go."
Harry just looked at Hermione up and down, shrugged and said, " Yeah, me too."
Ron just said nothing and was just staring at Hermione. Feelings were flowing through him and he was just confused. Not sure of what to, Ron just looked away and said, " Have Fun."
Ron smiled, a fake one, as he watched his two best friends walk out of the room. He tried to keep his mind on something but couldn't. After 10 minutes he couldn't help it, walked out of the common room to sneak on them. As he walked out he bumped into Cho.
" Ron. I was just. I saw Harry and Hermione and." Cho was turning red.
Ron smiled and said, " Me too. Would you like to join me so we can both watch them. We can pretend to study or something, and to make it easier we won't ask any questions."
Cho smiled and nodded, they both began to walk.
" Harry, this is a very nice spot you chose." Hermione said. They were both sitting on a blanket, the spot where Harry would go and let Hedwig fly.
Other people were outside talking, letting their owls fly away, and some were staring at them.
Hermione began taking the food out. After she was done she sat beside Harry who was already eating.
" Slow down Harry. You don't have to rush, " Hermione said laughing at how fast he kept on eating.
" Look I am starving! I was nervous about all of this!" Harry said.
" So were I but at least I as able to eat." Hermione said already eating her chicken.
" You know, it's already weird that we're on a date because of them. Let's not talk about them," Harry said.
Hermione nodded and said, " So heard anything from Voldemort?"
Harry, all of a sudden feel with hatred with that name, said, " Not yet. But I wouldn't be surprised if I see him sometime in the middle for the year."
" You know Harry, have you ever thought that Voldemort has some relations to you?" Hermione asked.
" What do you mean?"
" The question that has not been answered at all was why did he wanted to kill you? Could it be that he was related to or something?" Hermione said getting into her smart personality.
" Could be. But not likely. Perhaps he went into the future and knew what I would do to him, so tried to prevent that from happening." Harry said, thinking of explanations.
" If he did went to the future then he would of known that you would beat him." Hermione said.
Hermione and Harry started to talk more and more about why would Voldemort want to kill him. After that conversation was over they started to talk about everything. How Malfoy is, the teachers, they joked around and the thoughts of Ron and Cho slowly disappeared from their minds.
" Hermione. Why are you my friend? I mean being friends with me brings a lot of dangers. I know your not that shallow to want to hang out with me for fame. And your smarter then me to want my brains. So what is it?" Harry asked looking at Hermione.
Hermione looked at the sky and said, without having to think at all, " Because Harry, you are more then you think you are. You're brave yes and powerful. But you also love your friends and you are willing to do anything for us. You have this unique thing that makes you stand out. Your trying to find yourself on this journey that can teach you things and you don't even know it." Hermione turned her head and looked into Harry eyes, smiled and said, " You are you and that's enough of a reason for me to be friends with you."
Harry smiled, still looking into her eyes. All of a sudden he realized how pretty she was. He never really notice that she had a great smile. Harry then realized whom he was talking about. He mentally slapped himself and broke the gaze by looking forward. He all of a sudden saw Ron and Cho staring at them. He pretend not to have notice and whispered to Hermione, " I guess our plan work. Cho and Ron are spying."
" Oh," Hermione said disappointed for some reason. Hermione and Harry packed up and got up. After folding up the blanket, Harry picked up the basket and Hermione took the blanket.
As they walk towards the school, pretending not to have notice Ron and Cho. As they walked, Harry did something he never even thought twice about. He took Hermione hand holding it tight. Hermione was surprised, but didn't let go, not because of Ron, but because of something else. Not letting go of each other hands they kept walking.
