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'Oh my god he's kissing me! I always imagined it to be this great, but...oh no Seamus! If he ever knew...'

Lavender, with her better instinct, pushed Ron away from her. "What the hell was that?"

Ron looked confused, she had kissed him back; this was not supposed to happen. "Ummm, I think it's a kiss. Well that's what the kids call it these days."  

"Do you have any idea of the impact that this is going to bring on our small yet fragile lives?" Lavender yelled at him with a full blow of fury. She wanted Ron, but she had never thought about the one important factor: Seamus. If he ever found out that she had fallen for Ron, he would never understand and their friendships would be forever scarred.

"I'm sorry that in a moment of pure insanity that I let my hormones loose and dared to kiss Lavender Brown. For the world is over as we know it!" Ron yelled sarcastically as he walked away from Lavender.

"It's obvious that you never thought about the one person all of this would affect. Seamus? Did he ever cross your mind as your lips decided to place themselves comfortably over mine? If he ever found out it would hurt him deeply. So yes, our worlds are over!" Lavender yelled as she walked in the opposite direction.

"Where the hell are you going Lav? May I remind you that your dorm is in this direction!" Ron yelled as he pointed in front of him.

Lavender groaned and stormed past Ron, not daring to look into his eyes.

Hermione stormed out of Charms class in vehemence, she had just gotten a B- on her exam and was extremely disappointed in her self. "Charms is usually my best class, Harry!"

Harry listened to his girl friend complain and tried to analyze the situation in his mind. "Hermione, you are one of the smartest, or maybe even the smartest witch I have ever had the pleasure to meet. If you're really upset with your grade and you want to do better, maybe you should study a little harder, or you could get a tutor."

Hermione's face lightened up and she turned to Harry, with a large smile plastered on her face. "A tutor! That's a perfect idea Harry! Ah you're perfect! Thank you!"

Hermione hugged Harry before she ran off to the library. "Hey Herms," Harry called after her. Hermione turned around and waited for Harry to speak. "I did find you a tutor...I think I deserve a little something!"

Hermione ran back up to him and whispered in his ear, "meet me tonight at 10:00 pm in the Astronomy Tower." Like at Hogwarts there was an Astronomy Tower, and the use of it was exactly the same use as the one at Hogwarts. Hermione ran off to the library leaving Harry standing in the middle of the hall smiling.

Hermione went into the library where tutors were found daily. She sought out the librarian Ms. Duncan.

"Excuse me; I'm looking for a Charms tutor?" Hermione asked the librarian kindly. Ms. Duncan tilted her glasses to her nose and looked over the library and pointed to a table at the far left corner. "Right there Miss."

Hermione thanked Ms. Duncan, and walked over to the back of the library and sat down at the desk.

"Hello, I'm Hermione Granger. I hear you're a Charms tutor?" The man slowly put down his book and looked at Hermione

"Well, well, well, we meet again." Nathan smirked at Hermione as she smiled nervously.

The silence was awkward and Hermione had just want envy which was to leave the library and find another tutor.

"So I hear your having problems with Charms?" Nathan said looking over Hermione's grade.

"It just seems to me that you have problems with the oral portion of the exam. If you examine your grade, you'll notice that you have almost all the answers write on the open responses and multiple choice, but you got taken off 15 points for your oral." Nathan said all of this trying to sound as professional as he could.

Hermione nodded and bit her lip before she spoke up. "Do you think you'd be able to help me with the oral section?"

Nathan smiled at her and looked directly into her eyes. "The oral portion has to do with confidence and trust. Do you trust me to teach you this?"

Hermione nodded and gulped. Nathan looked over his schedule and looked back up at Hermione. "Meet me tonight, here in the library at 9:45. Can you do that?"

Hermione nodded and stood up. "Thanks for helping me Nathan. I really appreciate it."

Nathan put his hands on her shoulders and looked down into her eyes. "There's no problem Hermione, trust me." Hermione stifled a laugh and watched Nathan walk out of the library.

"So let me get this straight...you kissed Lav and she pushed you away?" Harry said as he and Ron were having lunch.

"Yeah, she told me that it had to do with Seamus and that she didn't want to hurt him. I mean he is my friend too, I care too!" Ron exclaimed as he picked at his food.

"Well the only alternative I can think of to make you both happy is simple. You have to tell Seamus that you have feelings for his ex girl friend." Harry wisely said.

"Easier said than done, mate." Ron preached before eating his food. Harry nodded and looked out the window where Hermione and Lavender were sitting having lunch of their own.

"It's horrible really. I can't walk into a room without wanting to kiss him!" Lavender exclaimed as she took a bite of her sandwich.

"Aren't you the one who told me you loved him? I thought you'd be ecstatic, jumping off the walls because he kissed you?" Hermione asked her friend.

"I know Herms. But then I thought about Seamus and I froze. I love Seamus he's my best friend and my ex boy friend. This would really hurt him and I can't bring myself to tell him that I've fallen for one of his friends."

Hermione nodded and told Lavender that she had to tell Seamus because it was the only way to get everything out in the open. "It's the only way that you'll be happy."

Lavender rushed a hand through her hair and looked at Hermione. "So what about you? I mean I've hardly heard about your relationship with Harry yet. How's it all going?"

Hermione sighed. "It's going fine between Harry and me. I mean we love each other and it's great but there's this guy Nathan..."

"Nathan?" Lavender asked anxiously taking another bite of her tuna sandwich.

"Yeah, Nathan. I don't like him like I love Harry don't worry it's not that bad. It's just I'm intrigued by him and he's sweet, smart funny, and he's gorgeous. I have a feeling I'm attracted to him. And now he's my Charms tutor and I can't trust myself in front of him."

Lavender took all this in and looked at Hermione again. "Think of Harry when you're with him. At least then you know you can trust yourself."

"Seamus wait up!" Ron called after his friend. Seamus turned around and waited for Ron to have caught up with him.

"We need to talk..." Ron said to Seamus as he took him out around the gardens of the academy. Seamus nodded and they walked around the beautiful plants.

"I'm really glad that you've been taking care of Lav, Ron. I was really worried at first but now she seems a lot happier and I wanted to thank you for that." Seamus exclaimed as he and Ron walked.

Ron gulped and thought of how harder it was going to be to tell Seamus. "How is your relationship with Lavender now?" Ron asked Seamus.


Seamus sighed and thought before speaking again. "It's going great; I mean I think it's going great. Of course it's not as it was before but it's still comfortable and I still feel happy when I'm with her. Ron throughout my whole life there has been only a couple of people I trust completely. There's been my family and there have been my friends. Lavender and you have been there for me for a long time and I trust you two completely. I'm a pretty lucky guy."

Ron smiled nervously and cursed under his breath. "So what was it you wanted to talk about?" Seamus asked Ron.


Ron smiled at Seamus. "Oh umm, I forgot actually. It was nothing important." Ron hated lying to Seamus but he really didn't want to hurt him.

Ron continued walking with Seamus and felt a strong weight on his shoulders.

Hermione arrived in the library at 9:45 and saw that Nathan and she were the only two people who were still there.

"I'm glad you could make it." Nathan said as he sat across from her. Hermione smiled at him and spoke carefully, "My studies are very important to me Nathan."

Nathan nodded and took a minute to study Hermione before he stood up again. "All right lets get started!" Hermione followed suit and took her wand.

Hermione demonstrated a couple of simple Charms spells but as they got more difficult, Hermione began to make more mistakes and she trembled.  

"This is hopeless." Hermione sighed as she put her wand on the table. Nathan took Hermione's wand and handed it back to her.

"No it isn't Hermione. You have to trust yourself. You have to have enough confidence to know that you can do this. I know you can do this, but all I need for you to do is know that you can do this too."

Hermione stood up and took her wand in her right hand. Nathan walked up closer to her and put his hand on his heart and he took Hermione's hand and put it over his.

"Do you hear the even beating of my heart?" Nathan asked and Hermione slowly nodded. "This is how your heart should be beating as your doing your spells. Your heart has to be in complete harmony with the rest of your body." Hermione nodded and feeling insecure she thought about Harry as Lavender instructed her to.

Meanwhile Harry was in the Astronomy Tower waiting for Hermione. Harry looked down at his watch and read 10:30. He sighed and walked out of the room feeling quite upset that Hermione had not met him there. "She must be in the library studying." Harry said to himself as he walked into the library.

Harry saw Hermione and Nathan close together and saw Nathan's hand in Hermione's. Harry could not stay and watch and just let his blood boil. Harry was more than upset and sad, he was heart broken. Harry ran into his room and fell onto his bed; he lay there just thinking and slowly fell into an uneasy sleep.

End of Chapter Eight!

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