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Chapter 3
The Valentine's Day Party

"Everybody, its time!" said Fred and George, "Everyone can come down!"

Hermione, Lavender, Parvati, and Ginny all heard a mad rush for the stairs. Hermione and Ginny started to go but Lavender put a hand on Hermione's shoulder.

"Don't go out there now!" said Lavender!

"Why not? I want to go to the party if you all went through this much trouble to get me ready for it!" said Hermione.

"There are four good reasons why you should stay up here for about five more minutes," said Parvati, "One if you go out there everyone will trample on your dress. Two it is very stylish to be fashionably late. Three if you go now you will not stand out as much in your gorgeous gown, if Ron can even find you in that mess. And four you want to make him wonder where you are, it's all about presence."

"Fine!" said Hermione and she sat on her bed.

"Hermione," said Ginny and she sat down next to her as Lavender and Parvati went up to the talking mirror to put on their make-up. Hermione could hear the mirror say, "You two look beautiful tonight, I am sure those boys will be all over you!"

"Yes, Ginny," said Hermione now looking at her.

"I wanted you to have this, I wanted to give it to you during Christmas, but it didn't feel like the right time, it does now," said Ginny and she reached for a bag.

When she pulled back up in her hand she held a beautiful necklace. It was on a thin gold chain and in the middle was a diamond butterfly.

"Ohhh!" said Hermione, "it's so beautiful."

Ginny motioned for her to turn around. Ginny clasped the necklace and Hermione turned around once more to see her friend.

"Ginny this is wonderful!" said Hermione and she hugged Ginny.

"Come on!" said Parvati, "Lets go!"

They walked slowly down the stairs. Hermione's dress dragged behind her. As she walked by the balcony she took a quick peak over and saw Ron sitting next to Harry, he had saved a seat next to him.

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Ron was getting nervous. Where was Hermione? Fred and George were going to start the party any minute now! They had gotten all the decorations and food up, where could she be? He kept looking at Harry who was nodding his head reassuringly. He heard a creak from the stairs and he turned to look.there was Hermione.

"Oh my god," said Ron, only Harry heard.

There stood Hermione. Her hair was wavy and was down to her back. Her face looked like that of an angel. Her dress made her look even more beautiful than ever. It was perfect, just like everything about her. Behind her were Ginny, Parvati, and Lavender.

"Sorry we're late," said Parvati.

"That's okay!" said Dean who pulled up a seat for her next to him.

"Here Lavender," said Seamus and he gave her his seat and he stood next to her.

"Ginny," said Harry, eyeing Ron. He still had a very large bruise from the bra incident on his left shoulder and his right shin. "Here."

He gave Ginny his seat and sat next to her. Hermione then looked at Ron.

"Here, Hermione," said Ron and she sat down in the place next to him.

"Ron!" said Hermione, eyeing him, "you look really nice tonight!"

Ron's heart jumped!

"Yes," thought Ron, "I will forever pray to the Herbal Essence God!"

"Thanks," said Ron, much more calm and collected than his thoughts, "you look really beautiful, I mean pretty."

"Thanks," said Hermione smiling.

"I hope I'm not blushing," thought Hermione.

"Everyone," said George standing up on a chair. "Thank you all for attending!"

"We are so honored that you all have decided to join us!" said Fred standing up of the chair next to him.

"Now everyone!" said George, "The first game we are going to play is called, "Musical Boys!"

Most of the boys looked really happy.

"This is played a lot like the muggle game musical chairs. But instead of sitting on chairs, when the music stops you sit on the boys lap closest to you." Explained Fred smiling.

"Now one person will have to sit this out, there is an even number of boys and girls and we can't have that, we need more girls, so a boy will have to sit out and do the music," said George.

"I will," said a small first year boy that looked like if anyone sat on his lap he would be squashed!

"Alright!" said Fred, "all you have to do is point your wand at that box and say, 'songus pausio' and to start the music up again you have to say 'songus playus'."

"Okay," said the first year.

"Alright everyone up," said George.

Everyone stood up.

"Cleario" said George in a loud voice and all the couches and tables were pushed to one side of the room.

"Now place the chairs in a circle gentlemen," said Fred.

When this was done Fred said, "Alright all men find a seat."

They all did, including Fred and George.

"Now ladies," said George loudly so he could be heard over the giggles. "Make a circle on the inside of our circle."

They did so.

"Start the music and pause it whenever you feel like it, but don't wait too long!" said George.

The music started. Hermione started walking around inside the circle of boys. Her heart thumped. Who would she have to sit on? She was in front of Ginny and in back of Lavender who a giggling constantly, Hermione looked back at Ginny who rolled her eyes. Then Hermione's heart stopped because the music had stopped, she quickly took the first seat, and she didn't even know whom it was.

"Well hello Hermione," said Fred smiling, and Hermione blushed furiously.

"Hello," she said and she looked around.

She saw a first year girl with nowhere to go.

"Sorry, love, you're out!" said George who had Ginny sitting on his lap, which wasn't so bad considering they were family, when Ginny was little she probably sat on every one of the Weasley boy's laps.

"Start the music," said Fred and the music began again. Hermione got off Fred and started walking around again. She looked for Ron and when she found him he was blushing.

The music stopped again and she found herself sitting on Neville's lap.

"Hello Neville," she said pleasantly.

"Hello," said Neville.

The music started and stopped once more and she found herself blushing frantically and hoping the music would stop right now! She was sitting on Harry's lap! She put her head in her hands. When she looked up she saw Ron right next to her blushing, looking at her, when their eyes met he quickly looked away. Hermione was shocked to see that it was Lavender sitting on Ron's lap. She looked at Hermione and mouthed, "I'm sorry," to her. Hermione mouthed back it was okay and the music started up again. This time it was longer than usual, Hermione had made almost a full circle. She walked a little ways more and the music stopped and she plopped in the seat right in front of her. She was smiling at Ginny who was sitting on Harry's lap and then she remembered who sat next to Harry. She turned around and looked Ron right in the face.

"Hello," she said.

"Hello, Hermione," said Ron with a wannabe calm grin on his face.

"This is fantastic," thought Ron, "she's sitting on me!"

"On my gosh!" thought Hermione, "I'm sitting on Ron!"

The game lasted another twenty minutes and she got off Ron, whose lap she had been sitting on last. Hermione had counted the number of times she ended up with Ron. 6, if not 7.

"Well everyone," said Fred standing up, "I think it's been enough of that game."

"Now the next game!" said George standing up. "This game is called 'Kissing at the finish line!'"

Again the boys looked very pleased.

"Yet this time it's the boys in control," said Fred, "the boys will race to the finish line and there will be their partner waiting for them and the first one to give their girl a kiss wins the race!"

"How will we decided partners?" asked a sixth year girl.

"Ah! The last person that you sat with in our previous game," said Fred, eyeing Angelina who he had last sat with.

"What about the people who were out?" asked the first year boy that had done the music.

"Then you may choose among yourselves," said George casually.

Hermione looked over at Ron. She couldn't tell whether he was smiling or was disgusted, his face was unreadable.

"Boys line up over here," said George, showing them a line he and put down.

"And Girls over here," said Fred, making a line on the other side of the room, a good hundred feet away.

When everyone was lined up even with their partners Fred said, "Alright! Who can we trust not to cheat and say 'on your marks get set go."

"You can trust me!" said a voice coming through the portrait hole.

It was Charlie Weasley. He had been the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this year.

"Okay Charlie ol' pal!" said Fred, "sit right there."

Charlie took a seat that faced looked down the center of the racing field.

"Ready," said Charlie, "Set.GO!"

Ron speed out, but with really nothing to worry, he was the fastest boy in Gryffindor, but his brothers were catching up, he put on a last burst of speed and reached Hermione and gave her a peak on the cheek.

"And Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger win!" Charlie announced, Ron beamed and Hermione smiled at the floor. Both Ron and Hermione looked over when the heard a noise.

Fred and Angelina were snogging and Angelina had moved backward into a table.

"Fred!" said Charlie, Fred looked up.

"Sorry!" he said and gave Angelina one last smooch before announcing the next game.

"The next game is," Fred started and then paused for dramatic effect, "the old fashion game of Truth or Dare!"

There was applause and many giggles and Charlie stood up, "well I'm off, I just came to see everything was okay, good-bye now!"

"Good-bye!" all the Gryffindors said in unison.

"Now everyone sit in a circle, come on now!" said George.

When everyone was in a circle Fred said, "Alright, I'll start. Angelina truth or dare?"

"Dare!" said Angelina.

"I dare you to hop on one foot around the entire circle saying 'I love Fredrick Weasley!"

Angelina smiled got up and started.

"I love Fredrick Weasley! I love Fredrick Weasley! I love Fredrick Weasley!" she was saying as she hopped around the circle. When she finally sat down she was red in the face.

"Now," she said, "who next ah! Ginny truth or dare?"

"Truth," said Ginny.

"Hummm.Oh! What is your deepest secret?" asked Angelina.

Ginny blushed and said, "I like Harry!"

There was a burst of giggles and Harry, who was sitting across from her, looked down at the floor.

"Okay, Parvati, Truth or Dare," said Ginny.

"Dare!" said Parvati and she and Lavender giggled.

"Okay, I dare you to kiss Dean on the lips!" said Ginny and she started laughing.

Parvati got up, walked over to Dean and planted a large kiss right on his lips! Dean looked absolutely delighted and Parvati smiled ear to ear.

"Okay, Lavender," said Parvati, "Truth or Dare?"

"Dare!" said Lavender.

"I dare you to go and sit on Seamus's lap until the next person's turn is over," said Parvati.

Lavender got up and walked over to a beaming Seamus and sat on his lap and said, "Okay.um.Harry. Truth or Dare?"

"Truth," said Harry.

"Okay," said Lavender, "do you like Ginny back?"

Ginny held her breath, she wasn't sure whether Ron was joking or not about what he said in the hallway earlier, about him telling Ron that he liked her.

"Yes," said Harry quickly and there were lots of kissy noises coming from all around the room.

"Oh! Stop it!" said Hermione, getting very irritated.

"Okay then Hermione," said Harry, "Truth or Dare."

Hermione cursed herself for bringing attention to herself.

"Truth," said Hermione, she had heard rumors about Harry's dares and she did not want to be victim to any of them.

"What were you thinking about when you were petrified?" asked Harry, "or could you think at all?"

"I could to think," said Hermione, "and I was very worried that you and Ron would not solve the mystery, even with the hints I gave you. I was also worried that you two might get hurt."

This was true, but she wasn't telling all of it. She was worried that they might get hurt. But she had also been thinking of how her life could not go on if Ron got hurt or worse, died! How she would have never survived without him. She was thinking of him.

"Okay," said Hermione, "Ron, Truth or Dare?"

Ron went red.

"I love the way she says my name," he thought.

"Truth," he said.

Hermione asked the question that had been bothering her since second year.

"Why did you go after the spiders for me?" she asked.

"Because I wanted to get whoever petrified you," said Ron, "I wanted to get them back for hurting you, you are my best friend!"

Hermione blushed.

Ron wasn't being entirely accurate. Everything he had said up to you are my best friend was true. What he wanted to say was, 'I love you.'

The game went on for a while until the clock-ticked eleven o'clock.

"Alright," said Fred, "now it is time for the ultimate Valentine's Day game!"

Everyone cheered.

"This game has to do with this," said George and it was just then that everyone noticed a large shape under a maroon piece of cloth.

George removed the cloth and there was a very, very large pitcher of Love Potion. There were lots of gasps.

"Now this is how the game will be played," said Fred, "everyone knows the effects of the love potion. It makes you kiss the person you truly deep down you love."

Many people were nodding their heads in agreement.

"Now what will happen, when your name is picked out of this hat," said George picking up a large dirty hat, "you will come up to me and Fred, and you will be blind folded and we will give you a small amount of the potion and then we will turn you around and have you look at everyone in the common room, then you will probably know what happens next."

There were many giggles and people nodding ready to start.

"And don't worry, if someone kisses you that doesn't mean you've lost your turn," said Fred, "and if you like somebody in another house tell us so."

"Alright, lets see here," said George reaching his hand inside the hat he pulled out a slip of parchment, "Lavender Brown!"

Lavender went pink and went up to the twins. They blindfolded her and they gave her the drink. She coughed a little and then said, "Ready."

They removed the blindfold and then turned her around. Lavender's eyes immediately went big and she ran toward.Dean!

Dean's eyes went huge with excitement as Lavender threw herself into his arms and planted a large kiss on the lips. Parvati's mouth dropped.

"Lavender!" she cried and Lavender finally looked up from her embrace. "Sorry Parvati!"

"Dean, now you have a choice," said Fred, "you can either come up for your turn now or you can say, 'I want who I have.'"

"I want who I have!" said Dean and Lavender laughed and they shared the large armchair.

"Parvati would you like to go up?" asked George.

"Yes!" said Parvati, "but there's no point, she took him!"

She pointed at Lavender who looked down at the ground.

The twins blindfolded Parvati and gave her the potion. They took off the blindfold and turned her around. Parvati's eyes too went big as she ran as fast as she could toward.Seamus! She gave him a big kiss on the lips!

"It seems the friends have traded," said Fred.

"Seamus, what do you say?" asked George.

"I want who I have!" said Seamus! And he put his arm around Lavender.

"Next name," said Fred, he stuck his hand in the hat and pulled out the next name, "Harry Potter!"

Harry walked up. They did the same thing and Harry went over to Ginny and gave her a long kiss. And they two shared a close seat on the couch after Ginny had replied, "I want who I have!"

A number of people went all finding someone in the room. Even Fred had his name drawn and he dipped Angelina in a long romantic kiss. The pairings were now this: Lavender/Dean, Parvati/Seamus, Fred/Angelina, Harry/Ginny, George/Alicia and a number of others. One of Ginny's friends, Laura Greenwald liked Neville and he liked her!

Then. Then came the moment of truth. The moment both Ron and Hermione had both desperately dreaded and secretly wanted.

George stuck his hand in the hand and fished around for a little bit before pulling out another crinkled piece of parchment and read the name aloud.

"My dear brother Ronald Weasley!" said George and he and Fred started clapping acting like prissy girls, which actually very much scared Ron as he walked to his two idiotic twin brothers.

"Here we go, dear brother of mine," said Fred and he and George tied the blindfold around his eyes. Then Ron felt a vial bring pressed up to his lips. He opened and took a long slug of the love potion. It tasted like cinnamon and apples.

"Ready?" he heard George's voice ask.

"Yeah," he replied untruthfully, "I'm ready."

He knew right whom he would go to. This was either going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life or the sweetest. He wasn't sure. It all depended on her, what she thought. It all came down to one question. Does she like me or not?

"I have to do this," Ron thought to himself, "this is no different than one of Snape's tests. I can do this. I am NOT going to choke up now."

Ron could feel Fred and George undoing the blindfold.

"This is it," Ron thought as he felt the blindfold being taken away.

"Here we go," said George, forcing Ron to turn around.

Ron all of a sudden got an overwhelming sense of comfort. He looked around the room. He probably would have been very happy if he knew what was going through Hermione's mind.

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(Going back a little bit to right after Ron's name is called)

Hermione looked over at Ron who gulped and stood up.

"Oh no," thought Hermione to herself, she wanted to cry, "it will be someone else."

She smoothed out her beautiful dress.

"Oh what's the use?" Hermione asked herself as she watched Ron have the bandana being tied over his eyes. "Oh, God, please let it be me he loves. That's all I ask. I want this Weasley!"

She watched as Ron took the sip of the Love Potion and she gulped with every passing second it was getting closer to the moment she was to nervous to even think about. This would either be her first kiss, or.her first heartbreak. She sat there to nervous to breathe as Fred and George turned Ron around.

~*~*~*~*~

(Back to where we left of)

Ron looked around the room. For some reason all the faces seemed to be blurred except for one, Hermione's. Her angel-like face stood out among all the others. He felt the sudden urge to run up to her and kiss her. Then he took a deep breath and ran. Toward Hermione.

Hermione saw Ron running in her direction. She looked around and saw a sixth year girl named, Gloria Beatriz. She was very pretty with long raven hair and tan skin. Ron had asked about her once before and she figured that it was because he liked her. Then it happened. One minute she was trying to figure out how to put on her happiest fake smile for Ron and the next a bolt of electricity ran through her as Ron's lips touched hers. They both melted into the kiss.

"It's me!" she thought frantically, "It's me! It's me! It's me! This is what I've been dreaming about since first year when he saved me from that awful cave troll!"

"I'm kissing her," thought Ron to himself and he worked up the bravery to put his arms around her waist. Then he felt the delightful feeling of her putting her arms around his neck, "AND SHE'S KISSING BACK!"

The kiss seemed to last forever.

"His lips are so soft!" she thought, and she ran her fingers though his hair, "and so is his hair!"

"She is such a good kisser," he thought, but that was all for Ron had completely lost the ability to form thoughts.

"This is wonderful," Hermione thought and she thought no more. It was only she and Ron, together at last.

Hermione was having the time of her life when she felt Ron's lips part from hers abruptly. Hermione kept hers eyes closed for a second and then opened them. Ron was looking at Fred with evil eyes.

"What did you go pull me away for?" Ron asked angrily.

"Okay, Ickle Ronnikins," said Fred and she pushed Ron into a sit beside Hermione, "you've proven your point, now can we get on with someone else?"

"What do you say Hermione?" asked George, raising his eyebrow.

"I want who I have!" said Hermione, too quickly and she embraced Ron in a tight hug that he returned.

"Okay, you guys go get a closet and we will get going with the next contestant!" said Fred sarcastically.

Ron scowled at him.

The game continued but Ron and Hermione didn't notice. They spent the rest of the evening looking into each other's eyes, lost in thoughts about each other. The clock struck 11:59.

"Only one more minute of Valentine's Day," said Hermione, smiling at Ron with all the love and compassion she had for him, "Do you have anything to say?"

Paying no heed to anything that was happening in the game around them Ron reached over put his hand behind Hermione's head and pulled her in for a kiss. After one minute they heard the clock strike midnight and Ron pulled away, slowly.

"Happy Valentine's Day, love," said Ron and at that they kissed again and that kiss was just one of many to follow in their love that lasted forever.