A/N:: Mwhahaha! I found a way to get passed my mother's evil schemes to end
my fan fiction days. I'm just starting earlier. I know I should have
thought about that ages ago, but it just clicked. Ok, Reviewers::
Toxiclove1:: Flatter than a pancake!!! **Puts on drill Sargent voice** Are you ready? Can you handle it? ( just a little sugar high without sugar, that's all.
**gasps** lilaznpinky525 didn't review! Just kidding!!! S'ok. I'll live. Ok, on with the chapter, because I'm really excited. You might want to read the end of the last chapter before you try this, though because I pick up exactly where I left off.
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The second Fred sat down, he jumped back up again.
"TELL ME WHAT?" Ron's voice rang out, making the half of the common room that wasn't staring at them to start staring.
"Fred is it that thing about your ..." George repressed a giggle as he finished, "...secret crush?" Harry couldn't help laughing either.
Fred smiled, as though confused, but then said, "No it's about something Harry and I found out on the way to the kitchens." He looked as though on the verge of telling him, but Harry stepped forward.
"I'll tell Ron." Harry said. He leaned closer so that only Fred could hear him, "I'll tell him about your...**giggle**...secret crush, ok?" Fred blushed and nodded. Harry beckoned Ron to the door. When they were out in the corridor, Harry's anger ran high again, but he couldn't tell Ron what it really was, because even if he wasn't friends with Ron, he was still friends with Cho. Harry led the way, just walking aimlessly and Ron followed.
"Tell me what?" Ron said loudly, his face burning.
"Er...Fred has a little...crush on someone." Giggled Harry.
"Who?" Ron prompted immediately.
Harry snorted loudly, then giggled, "Her...my...owe...ne!"
Ron stared at him, disbelieving, then let out a low whistle, then laughed. "How did you find out?" he said lightly, his hand straying to his pocket.
"He told me. Well actually he didn't want to tell me, but it is so obvious." Harry said, cracking up again.
Suddenly, Ron pulled his wand out of his pocket and held it at Harry's throat. "Not about that." He whispered through gritted teeth. He was actually shaking with rage. "About Cho." Harry took out his own wand, then ran back to the common room. Harry was pale and scared. George stood up, looking at him. Harry pointed out the common room door, breathlessly.
"Trying...kill...me." Harry panted. George looked at his twin, who was reading an essay Hermione wrote and left on the common room table.
"Fred, Ron's trying to kill Harry." George said seriously, which broke Fred out of a trance-like state.
"Oh. Ok." Fred said wearily, getting up and pulling out his wand. They exited the common room, leaving Harry to be bombarded with questions about...well, everything. His fight with Hermione, his fight with Ron, Fred's crush on Hermione. ... Harry felt like they were reporters or something. He sat down, ignoring them all. Ginny came and sat down next to Harry.
"Ron's just jealous because everyone seems like they're hiding something from him. I know you're keeping some things to save his relationship with Cho, but other things you should tell him." Ginny said, propping her feet up on another chair. Harry was about to respond, but at that precise moment, Fred and George came into the common room, each holding one arm of Ron, who couldn't walk due to the Jelly-legs curse put on him.
"Lunch's starting, people, get to the Great Hall." George said, as hungry people queued up to get outside, leaving the common room empty except Fred, George, Harry, Ron, and Ginny. Fred noticed something, let go of Ron, and ran across the room to Katie Bell. Ginny jumped up and took Ron's arm.
"Oy! Katie! What about Hermione?" Fred asked, blushing slightly.
"Oh, hang on." Replied Katie as she ran up the girls' dormitory stairs. They all stared at the door Katie just went through until it opened again. "She'll be right down. She's just got to pull herself together." Katie left the common room. George sensed something and ran up to his bed. He came back, Harry swore, in less than a second, carrying all the Cauldron Cakes someone could possibly hold. He dumped them all out onto the table.
"I have a feeling we'll be eating lunch here." He muttered as everyone nodded. The girls' dormitory door swung open and Hermione emerged. She didn't look like she pulled herself together at all. Her hair was a complete mess, she looked tired, her eyes were all puffy and her cheeks and robes were wet. Fred ran up the stairs when she was half way down and he took her hand. Harry felt like this was something he shouldn't be watching, shouldn't be intruding on, so he opened a Cauldron Cake and nibbled on it. Ron looked slightly amazed at Fred, but also sadly curious at why Hermione had been crying her eyes out this whole time.
"Hermione...what?" He said, voicing expression on his face. George and Ginny were biting on their knuckles to keep from laughing. Fred and Hermione reached the bottom of the stairs, Hermione glaring at Harry.
"Sorry." He mumbled. He couldn't take the site of Hermione like that. She sniffed in a reluctant approval tone and sat down on a couch next to the fire. Fred, as expected, sat down next to her. He summoned a Cauldron Cake and gave it to her. She smiled weakly.
"Thank you." She whispered. Fred blushed. The whole scene was sweet until George coughed loudly.
"I think I'm going to lunch. Harry, Ron, Ginny, you need to build up strength for the Quidditch match next weekend." He said.
"But I'm not even playing!" Ginny whined.
"If you don't come, I'll make sure you're injured so bad you'll never play Quidditch again." George said in a sarcastic, but dangerous voice. Ginny raised no more disagreements and soon they were walking to the Great Hall.
"Hermione and Fred. Lovely sounding, isn't it?" Ron said brightly. Harry laughed in spite of himself.
"Hermione Weasley. How's that?" Ginny chirped. Everyone laughed. As they rounded a corner, Harry found himself facing Malfoy again.
"Hmm, three Weasleys and a celebrity. What are you laughing at?" Malfoy said. Everyone glanced at each other.
"Your beloved Hermione has found love in better places, Malfoy." Ginny said coldly. A strange shade of pink appeared on Malfoy's face.
"What?" He spat.
"Nothing." Everyone chirped.
"Where're you going?" Harry asked.
"None of your--"
Harry whipped out his wand and pointed it at Malfoy. "Where are you going." Harry said slowly and clearly this time.
"I'm on my way back to lunch, thank you." Malfoy sneered.
"If I'm not mistaken," George chimed. "Your common room is in the Dungeons, downstairs."
Malfoy looked nervous. "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll tell Snape you know where our common room is." Malfoy turned and ran.
"Why do you guys want to know where Malfoy is going?" Ron asked.
"We were just curious." George said immediately as they entered the Great Hall. Ron looked around for Cho, but she wasn't there. George and Harry exchanged worried looks and took seats at their table, explaining to everyone they didn't know what Fred and Hermione were up to, but had a pretty vague idea.
"George, they aren't..." Giggled Katie, which started the whole table giggling.
"They might be, for all we know." George laughed. "But for Heaven's sake don't go in there." Everyone laughed and this is how they spent their lunch. Soon, though it was over and they had to go back to the common room. George decided that it should only be people who are involved first and took Ron, Harry, and Ginny into the common room with him. "Give us two minutes" he said. Immediately, though, Those four wished they'd let other people go first. Hermione's head was resting on Fred's chest, and he was holding her tightly, blushing darker than his hair. He jumped when the four came in and the couple darted to opposite sides of the couch.
"Er..." Fred didn't know what to say. Hermione smiled, blushing a little lighter than Fred's maroon.
"It's ok, but you have about a minute to be where ever you want to be when the rest of the house comes." Harry said. Fred looked at Hermione.
"Can I just talk to him for a moment?" Hermione said anxiously. George nodded and they moved to the other side of the common room. Fred and Hermione scooted next to each other and nodded slightly to the rest of them. George crossed the room, opened the portrait hole and gave a fleeting thumbs-up to the people in the hall. They came rushing in.
"What happened?"
"Are you two going out?"
"What did you do?"
People broke out into questions the second they came in. It was actually quite like a press conference, except Hermione told them they were answering no questions. People gave up in about a half hour, then they started to go up to their dormitories, or leave the common room, probably telling people in other houses what was going on. Ron screamed, "Someone tell Malfoy!" at the top of his lungs and a half dozen people left the common room. People took the left over Cauldron Cakes. In an hour, the common room was much quieter, though Fred and Hermione sat in the same place they were when everyone came in, side by side on the couch, finally, Hermione retreated to her dormitory, kissing Fred on his forehead before she left. (A/n:: Hey! Fred rhymes with Forehead! That's so cool! Sorry, I'll shut up now)
"So?" George asked expectantly, immediately plunging down on the couch next to Fred as Harry took his other side. "the verdict is...?"
"I can't believe it!" Fred whispered, slightly shocked. "She actually didn't mind! She said, of course, that she needs time to think about it, but she actually might go out with me!"
"Think about it?" Harry said skeptically, "More like scan it through Malfoy, see how comfortable he is with the arrangement.... but I think She'll definitely say yes," he added, looking at Fred's slightly fallen face.
"So you're not going out and you got that close?" George said smiling. Fred nodded. "Where's that accursed brother of ours?" He said, looking around.
"He went to find Cho." Ginny said quietly from behind a book.
"That can never be good." said Fred, getting up, followed by Harry and George. This was the first reaction to anything Harry or George had seen since yesterday. He started toward the door, but Ron came storming in, almost in tears. He barged into the boys' dormitory without a word to any of them. Fred sighed and collapsed back into his seat. Hermione came down the stairs.
"Who slammed the door?" She asked quietly, but it was obvious she knew the answer. "What did you boys do this time?" she smirked instead of frowning at them and took her now normal seat, almost on Fred's lap.
"It wasn't us." George said. "Malfoy and Cho are secretly going out."
"What?" Hermione said, loudly, getting up. Fred looked slightly depressed at this, so he got up too. "Oh that's it, I've got to go see what he says about this." Harry knew immediately she was going to that room. She grabbed Fred's wrist and pulled him out of the common room.
"Well, I don't want to miss out on the action." George said, heading out the door.
"I'd rather be there than here," Harry said with a glance at Ron, who was standing at the top of the staircase.
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A/N:: My plan's worked! I think I even might have time for another chapter!! Thanks in advance to the reviewers, because if I'm writing the next one tonight, I won't get a chance to thank them. Tell me if you have any suggestions, and if I don't disagree with flames too much, I might fix what you're asking me to. Buh bye now!
Toxiclove1:: Flatter than a pancake!!! **Puts on drill Sargent voice** Are you ready? Can you handle it? ( just a little sugar high without sugar, that's all.
**gasps** lilaznpinky525 didn't review! Just kidding!!! S'ok. I'll live. Ok, on with the chapter, because I'm really excited. You might want to read the end of the last chapter before you try this, though because I pick up exactly where I left off.
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The second Fred sat down, he jumped back up again.
"TELL ME WHAT?" Ron's voice rang out, making the half of the common room that wasn't staring at them to start staring.
"Fred is it that thing about your ..." George repressed a giggle as he finished, "...secret crush?" Harry couldn't help laughing either.
Fred smiled, as though confused, but then said, "No it's about something Harry and I found out on the way to the kitchens." He looked as though on the verge of telling him, but Harry stepped forward.
"I'll tell Ron." Harry said. He leaned closer so that only Fred could hear him, "I'll tell him about your...**giggle**...secret crush, ok?" Fred blushed and nodded. Harry beckoned Ron to the door. When they were out in the corridor, Harry's anger ran high again, but he couldn't tell Ron what it really was, because even if he wasn't friends with Ron, he was still friends with Cho. Harry led the way, just walking aimlessly and Ron followed.
"Tell me what?" Ron said loudly, his face burning.
"Er...Fred has a little...crush on someone." Giggled Harry.
"Who?" Ron prompted immediately.
Harry snorted loudly, then giggled, "Her...my...owe...ne!"
Ron stared at him, disbelieving, then let out a low whistle, then laughed. "How did you find out?" he said lightly, his hand straying to his pocket.
"He told me. Well actually he didn't want to tell me, but it is so obvious." Harry said, cracking up again.
Suddenly, Ron pulled his wand out of his pocket and held it at Harry's throat. "Not about that." He whispered through gritted teeth. He was actually shaking with rage. "About Cho." Harry took out his own wand, then ran back to the common room. Harry was pale and scared. George stood up, looking at him. Harry pointed out the common room door, breathlessly.
"Trying...kill...me." Harry panted. George looked at his twin, who was reading an essay Hermione wrote and left on the common room table.
"Fred, Ron's trying to kill Harry." George said seriously, which broke Fred out of a trance-like state.
"Oh. Ok." Fred said wearily, getting up and pulling out his wand. They exited the common room, leaving Harry to be bombarded with questions about...well, everything. His fight with Hermione, his fight with Ron, Fred's crush on Hermione. ... Harry felt like they were reporters or something. He sat down, ignoring them all. Ginny came and sat down next to Harry.
"Ron's just jealous because everyone seems like they're hiding something from him. I know you're keeping some things to save his relationship with Cho, but other things you should tell him." Ginny said, propping her feet up on another chair. Harry was about to respond, but at that precise moment, Fred and George came into the common room, each holding one arm of Ron, who couldn't walk due to the Jelly-legs curse put on him.
"Lunch's starting, people, get to the Great Hall." George said, as hungry people queued up to get outside, leaving the common room empty except Fred, George, Harry, Ron, and Ginny. Fred noticed something, let go of Ron, and ran across the room to Katie Bell. Ginny jumped up and took Ron's arm.
"Oy! Katie! What about Hermione?" Fred asked, blushing slightly.
"Oh, hang on." Replied Katie as she ran up the girls' dormitory stairs. They all stared at the door Katie just went through until it opened again. "She'll be right down. She's just got to pull herself together." Katie left the common room. George sensed something and ran up to his bed. He came back, Harry swore, in less than a second, carrying all the Cauldron Cakes someone could possibly hold. He dumped them all out onto the table.
"I have a feeling we'll be eating lunch here." He muttered as everyone nodded. The girls' dormitory door swung open and Hermione emerged. She didn't look like she pulled herself together at all. Her hair was a complete mess, she looked tired, her eyes were all puffy and her cheeks and robes were wet. Fred ran up the stairs when she was half way down and he took her hand. Harry felt like this was something he shouldn't be watching, shouldn't be intruding on, so he opened a Cauldron Cake and nibbled on it. Ron looked slightly amazed at Fred, but also sadly curious at why Hermione had been crying her eyes out this whole time.
"Hermione...what?" He said, voicing expression on his face. George and Ginny were biting on their knuckles to keep from laughing. Fred and Hermione reached the bottom of the stairs, Hermione glaring at Harry.
"Sorry." He mumbled. He couldn't take the site of Hermione like that. She sniffed in a reluctant approval tone and sat down on a couch next to the fire. Fred, as expected, sat down next to her. He summoned a Cauldron Cake and gave it to her. She smiled weakly.
"Thank you." She whispered. Fred blushed. The whole scene was sweet until George coughed loudly.
"I think I'm going to lunch. Harry, Ron, Ginny, you need to build up strength for the Quidditch match next weekend." He said.
"But I'm not even playing!" Ginny whined.
"If you don't come, I'll make sure you're injured so bad you'll never play Quidditch again." George said in a sarcastic, but dangerous voice. Ginny raised no more disagreements and soon they were walking to the Great Hall.
"Hermione and Fred. Lovely sounding, isn't it?" Ron said brightly. Harry laughed in spite of himself.
"Hermione Weasley. How's that?" Ginny chirped. Everyone laughed. As they rounded a corner, Harry found himself facing Malfoy again.
"Hmm, three Weasleys and a celebrity. What are you laughing at?" Malfoy said. Everyone glanced at each other.
"Your beloved Hermione has found love in better places, Malfoy." Ginny said coldly. A strange shade of pink appeared on Malfoy's face.
"What?" He spat.
"Nothing." Everyone chirped.
"Where're you going?" Harry asked.
"None of your--"
Harry whipped out his wand and pointed it at Malfoy. "Where are you going." Harry said slowly and clearly this time.
"I'm on my way back to lunch, thank you." Malfoy sneered.
"If I'm not mistaken," George chimed. "Your common room is in the Dungeons, downstairs."
Malfoy looked nervous. "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll tell Snape you know where our common room is." Malfoy turned and ran.
"Why do you guys want to know where Malfoy is going?" Ron asked.
"We were just curious." George said immediately as they entered the Great Hall. Ron looked around for Cho, but she wasn't there. George and Harry exchanged worried looks and took seats at their table, explaining to everyone they didn't know what Fred and Hermione were up to, but had a pretty vague idea.
"George, they aren't..." Giggled Katie, which started the whole table giggling.
"They might be, for all we know." George laughed. "But for Heaven's sake don't go in there." Everyone laughed and this is how they spent their lunch. Soon, though it was over and they had to go back to the common room. George decided that it should only be people who are involved first and took Ron, Harry, and Ginny into the common room with him. "Give us two minutes" he said. Immediately, though, Those four wished they'd let other people go first. Hermione's head was resting on Fred's chest, and he was holding her tightly, blushing darker than his hair. He jumped when the four came in and the couple darted to opposite sides of the couch.
"Er..." Fred didn't know what to say. Hermione smiled, blushing a little lighter than Fred's maroon.
"It's ok, but you have about a minute to be where ever you want to be when the rest of the house comes." Harry said. Fred looked at Hermione.
"Can I just talk to him for a moment?" Hermione said anxiously. George nodded and they moved to the other side of the common room. Fred and Hermione scooted next to each other and nodded slightly to the rest of them. George crossed the room, opened the portrait hole and gave a fleeting thumbs-up to the people in the hall. They came rushing in.
"What happened?"
"Are you two going out?"
"What did you do?"
People broke out into questions the second they came in. It was actually quite like a press conference, except Hermione told them they were answering no questions. People gave up in about a half hour, then they started to go up to their dormitories, or leave the common room, probably telling people in other houses what was going on. Ron screamed, "Someone tell Malfoy!" at the top of his lungs and a half dozen people left the common room. People took the left over Cauldron Cakes. In an hour, the common room was much quieter, though Fred and Hermione sat in the same place they were when everyone came in, side by side on the couch, finally, Hermione retreated to her dormitory, kissing Fred on his forehead before she left. (A/n:: Hey! Fred rhymes with Forehead! That's so cool! Sorry, I'll shut up now)
"So?" George asked expectantly, immediately plunging down on the couch next to Fred as Harry took his other side. "the verdict is...?"
"I can't believe it!" Fred whispered, slightly shocked. "She actually didn't mind! She said, of course, that she needs time to think about it, but she actually might go out with me!"
"Think about it?" Harry said skeptically, "More like scan it through Malfoy, see how comfortable he is with the arrangement.... but I think She'll definitely say yes," he added, looking at Fred's slightly fallen face.
"So you're not going out and you got that close?" George said smiling. Fred nodded. "Where's that accursed brother of ours?" He said, looking around.
"He went to find Cho." Ginny said quietly from behind a book.
"That can never be good." said Fred, getting up, followed by Harry and George. This was the first reaction to anything Harry or George had seen since yesterday. He started toward the door, but Ron came storming in, almost in tears. He barged into the boys' dormitory without a word to any of them. Fred sighed and collapsed back into his seat. Hermione came down the stairs.
"Who slammed the door?" She asked quietly, but it was obvious she knew the answer. "What did you boys do this time?" she smirked instead of frowning at them and took her now normal seat, almost on Fred's lap.
"It wasn't us." George said. "Malfoy and Cho are secretly going out."
"What?" Hermione said, loudly, getting up. Fred looked slightly depressed at this, so he got up too. "Oh that's it, I've got to go see what he says about this." Harry knew immediately she was going to that room. She grabbed Fred's wrist and pulled him out of the common room.
"Well, I don't want to miss out on the action." George said, heading out the door.
"I'd rather be there than here," Harry said with a glance at Ron, who was standing at the top of the staircase.
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A/N:: My plan's worked! I think I even might have time for another chapter!! Thanks in advance to the reviewers, because if I'm writing the next one tonight, I won't get a chance to thank them. Tell me if you have any suggestions, and if I don't disagree with flames too much, I might fix what you're asking me to. Buh bye now!