A little out of the ordinary

Chapter 4

By Jammie-Bro

For once in a lifetime, snow was actually falling at Christmas time. The pupils at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft an Wizardry woke, on their first day of the winter holidays to discover every outdoor surface covered in two feet of perfect, mouldable snow. Not the slushy, icy kind that sticks to your gloves but won't make snowballs; but the type you see in movies. By 9 o'clock sharp there seemed to be all the pupils out on the front lawn, holding snow wars, and in Fred and Georges' case, attempting to pelt Mrs. Norris (and any other moving object they could find) with the "new, improved, magical snow slinger" (another Weasleys' Wizard Wheeze!)

Although, one student seemed reluctant to get up.

"I told you, she's still asleep." Ginny protested.

"Well then, wake her up! She's going to miss all the snow if she doesnt stop counting sheep!" Ron argued back.

"No, that would be mean." Ginny whined.

"No, it would be logical." Ron finished, and pushed his way past her into the Girls' Dormitory. Harry, who had been standing silently whilst the two siblings battled it out, rolled his eyes and followed his companion.(He knew better than to get in the middle of a Weasley squabble.) Ginny huffed in defeat and walked off.

Parvati and Lavender squealed as the two boys walked in.

"Oh come on, you're both fully dressed!" Ron scoffed at their reaction, with, Harry noted, a touch of dissapointment in his voice.

"Hermione, wakey wakey!" Harry called sarcastically. The girl didn't stir.

"Wake up 'Mione!" Ron said, gently shaking her shoulder. The two boys found that little short of an earthquake would wake their friend in the land of nod, so ended up using a sonorus spell. Crookshanks jumped half out of his skin, and, to put it simply, Hermione was pretty awake after that.

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"Oh, come on 'Mione," Ron whined. "It's only a little snowball fight." "You know I have tons more studying to do." She stressed. Ron crouched down in front of the girl on the bench, looking up at her. She met his gaze, and her eyes widened at the mischevious Weasley grin he was wearing. "You know I won't take no for an answer." He beamed, and easily picked her up, Hermione flushing, trying desperately to protest, but giggling in the process. Ron led her (Harry falling about laughing in the background) to the deepest pile of snow. The girl, however, was not looking where he was taking her, but noticing how close his face was to hers, and how warm his arms were around her...

"Whoops! I tripped!" Ron cried sarcastically as he purposely fell, Hermione still in his arms, into the thick snowbank. She squealed as the tangle of bodies were engulfed in the white powder. Hermione was very close to half-killing her red-haired friend for covering her with freezing cold snow when she looked up into his eyes. But it all instantly melted away when she saw him smiling down at her. He was still partly on top of her, and her face immediately softened and her cheeks turned pink as his eyes innocently gazed into hers. She didn't realise it at first; but his face was drawing closer to hers, the snowflakes glistening in his flaming hair. Before she knew it they were centimetres apart, their breath clouding above thier heads, and she could feel the heat from him as she began to feel weak. Her mind was blank, she could almost feel the heat of his lips.

Then, softly, their lips met. They were barely brushing, but it was enough for her heartbeat to almost become continuous, it was beating so fast. They were just about to go deeper when-

WHACK.

Something clod, hard and wet smacked their faces. Laughter could be heard as they abrubtly broke apart, only to find Harry, barely standing, in hysterics. In all the time he and Harry had been friends, Ron had never wanted to him as much as he did at that moment. Both Hermione and Ron rose quickly and pursued a laughing Harry across the lawn, pelting him with snowballs.

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A/N: Sorry, another small chapter. I'm off school today, coughing, headachey, and all the rest of it; I think I wore myself after last week- (End of year exams.) Anyway, THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER!!! THE FINALE IS COMING SOON!!!! And also, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all the people who have reviewed!! Please keep going!! I love your feedback! Special thanx 2 these ppl: Alouta, Straycat, Hermione-Hogwarts, CurlsofGold and HighlandGurl. Cyasoon! Jammie-chan ^-^