He slammed it hard to the right and the game had started.

Hermione skated after Harry and he was going all the way down and heading for the goal he did this gnarly trick and passed it to Robert who in turn passed it to her and she skated around the goal once and did a fake to Harry.

Harry had control of the puck and he slammed it into the goal post and was blocked by a burly Slytherin goalie. He hit the puck to Malfoy who in turn was half way down the rink and he hit it hard aiming for the goal yet he hit the post at a 45 degree angle and it went flying over heads until it hit one head of a girl.

Hermione Granger fell limp to the ground and sank to an unconscious state.

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" YEAAAHHHHH!"

" What happened!" Hermione asked Harry.

" We won!" everyone replied.

" We Won!" Hermione shouted as she shouted with the rest of the team.

Harry had his arm around her waist and was shouting his head off too.

Many of their classmates were rushing onto the rink.

She could see their opponents were scowling and heading out of the building.

She turned to Harry who still had his arm around her waist.

" Hermione I want to tell you something," he said giving her a meaningful look and he took her hand and they went away from the crowd.

He turned around to her and they entered a deserted room and he pulled her in.

Hermione looked curiously from Harry to the room. It was quite elegant and seemed it hadn't been used since everything looked brand new. It was quite spotless.

She looked into his eyes and felt warmth sweeping through her. She sat down on a couch after he sat down also.

There was a fire blazing and the shadows of the flames danced in the semi- darkness adding and bringing forth an uttermost beauty of Hermione, Harry had never seen.

He looked at Hermione and she was staring into his eyes when she felt his strong arms around her and Harry's soft breath on her open neck. He moved his hand from her back to her face and slanted it.

Hermione felt his hand go up to her face and the next thing she felt was his lips on her neck slowly kissing her neck with a pent-up passion lightly. She melted in his arms and he slowly moved up to her lips. She had gradually found herself lying on the couch with his chest covering her upper body as a whole.

He continued kissing her with a pent-up passion.

As her lips made contact with his she felt his hands exploring her body freely. She moaned silently as Harry kissed her harder and more passionately.

She heard a noise that felt quite annoying. She tried to move it out of the way from her mind but it rang in her ears. She continued to kiss Harry and she pushed back harder instead of pulling away. She heard the calling again and noticed Harry was no longer there. She fell. She was falling......

**************** " Hermione! HERMIONE!, HERMIONE!"

Hermione's eyes fluttered and she saw Harry's green eyes staring at her profusely filled with concern. She looked around and saw she was on the ground and there were many others around her. She tried to get up but found a tremendous pain in her head.

" Ahhhhh!" Hermione cried out and some tears began to leak out from the severe pain and she felt a bump rising.

Harry stared at her. So naive, intelligent, caring, polite, graceful, beautiful.... 'wait did I just say that?' he asked himself. He looked down at her. She had always been pretty if not in substantial values. She was always supportive of him. She always was there when he needed her for support or wanted her for advice. But she was beautiful in the inside also. Before he knew it, he was falling in love with Hermione Granger. He didn't know Why? Or When? Or more importantly How? But he knew the feeling he was experiencing was love. That was why he felt nothing for Cho. Yet, how could he tell her? Would he be able to? 'No, she would never accept me,' he thought. ' Besides she likes Ron'. Harry decided he would leave that file unexploited for a while in his thoughts. He would forget this ever came. This feeling what ever it was. He wasn't even sure if it was love. He didn't want to hurt her or hurt himself with false love. He thought Hermione would never like him in the same way and she would go after Ron.

He didn't find out how wrong he was that day or the next.

How wrong he actually was, he wouldn't find out until a couple of years.

Hermione looked at Harry who was leaning over her with one hand on her shoulder and the other supporting his weight from the other side. She could clearly see that he was turning things over in her mind as they were a glaze and if not he was staring directly at her. They seemed distant yet still intense green eyes stared down at her in the next second. They were soft and subtle. She felt his hand come down and stroke her hair gently. She saw him whisper something to Seamus's mom and she nodded.

" Hermione we're going to take you to the hospital," Mrs. Finnigan said.

Other students peered over shoulders to see the commotion.

" All right," Hermione replied weakly.

Through the crowd 3 students pushed their way around; listening to the rumors that others were whispering about.

Nadine, Jena and Aaron were moving through the crowd. They had heard what happened and checked to see if Harry and Hermione were okay. They were both fine so they rushed back to let them be.

Harry helped Hermione up when everyone or almost everyone had left.

She just fell back down not yet regaining her sense of balance.

" Sorry Harry!" Hermione said.

She started to remove her skates so she could properly stand up. Her futile efforts ceased when she felt her ankle throb in pain in her right foot.

" Here let me help you," Harry said and he carefully untied the skate and pulled it out gently. " Does it hurt?" he would ask every second making sure he wasn't hurting her as he was taking her skates off.

" A little," Hermione answered back in a bare whisper. " I don't know if I could walk though," she said more concerned about her state.

Harry had one hand in his pocket of his team shirt and it fiddled with something in there.

It was round and smooth.

He pulled it out and put it back in quickly before Hermione could see.

" Hermione put your arm around me and just stay on your good foot," Harry said pulling her up gently and positioning his arm around her waist and hers around his neck.

She leaned against Harry and he just held her as they made their successful way back to the tables where some people were sitting.

Robert rushed over to them and started to help Harry carry Hermione.

He insisted but Harry refused and Robert wasn't taken aback but he grinned and winked at Hermione when Harry wasn't looking.

Harry made his way with Hermione to an empty table and let her sit down comfortably.

He made his way for the other side when Hermione scooted over to the side by the wall and spoke. " Harry there's a spot right here," she said smiling.

Harry smiled back at her and sat down beside her.

He took her hand in his and said, " I think this belongs to you," he whispered in her ear and pulled out the bracelet that glimmered in the light. He took her arm and slid the bracelet to her wrist but let his hand go all the way to her shoulder.

She shivered involuntary on the inside and at awe at how soft his touch was.

" Harry Thanks. I thought I lost it! Thank you very much," and she did something she had done only twice; she kissed him on the cheek. It was a small kiss.

" Your welcome. Are you ready to go to the 'hospital'," Harry asked and winked at her.

" Why do I have to go? I mean like we could use magic.oh.yes I am ready," she blushed and let go of their embrace.

" Let's go get your foot fixed and healed," he said once more winking and flashing his charming smile at her. He got up, took her right arm, put it around his neck, and placed his left arm around her waist and by supporting her they made their way over to Mrs. Finnigan and Neville's Grandmother.

He sat her down in a chair and she began explaining.

They said a spell and she was healed.

They walked back to the table, which was filled with their friends anxiously waiting while still in their own converse.

" I wonder who the Gryffindor prefects will be," Parvati said and everybody murmured in agreement as Harry and Hermione reached the table.

Harry grinned and sat down and Hermione sat beside him. He leaned over and whispered in her ear. " Should we tell them?" Harry asked slyly.

" No, let them find out on their own," Hermione whispered back.

" What's with all this whispering?" Dean said frustrated.

" Hermione and I think we better go," Harry said and the others said bye.

" Harry I have noticed something," Hermione said as they were in the Muggle Street of London once more.

" What?" Harry asked curious.

" Everybody is probably going to wear dress robes to that party thing. Do you think it would be nice if we wore some muggle formals? I remember reading the letter. It said we could. Here I have it in my pocket," Hermione said while pulling the letter out.

Dear Hermione,

You are invited to the biggest Hogwarts student bash ever! It is at Grand Villa Hotel in London. You have to have a date. Also dress robes or dresses such as muggle formals are necessary.

C'ya

"Sure! Why not. Are you suggesting we go shopping at a mall or something?" Harry asked his eyes glittering mischievously.

" You bet!" Hermione said happily.

" I have a lot of muggle money in an account I have saved these years but I don't want to spend that. I'll just trade some galleons for pounds at Gringotts," he said and led Hermione in direction for the Leaky Cauldron.

They stepped inside and went to the back door.

Harry tapped the bricks and Diagon Alley opened before them.