Caught in the rain
By Hannio
Chapter Four
A Gryffindor conversation
DISCLAIMER – Nope, none of them are mine, damn it
AUTHOR NOTE – Here's chapter 4, you'll all have to decide whether Seamus has a crush on Hermione or not, I know but I'm not saying. As I said before I love the characters of Dean and Seamus so they'll feature a bit in the story. Hope you enjoy!
"Hermione are you ok? I mean after earlier and all" Hermione stopped in her tracks and looked at Dean in surprise. Well this day had certainly been interesting so far. Not only had Seamus and Dean helped her out earlier with that arrogant berk Draco but also now for the first time one of them was striking up a conversation with her. She smiled at him, giving him her real smile instead of the usual half ones she gave the rest of the Gryffindors in her year.
"Yeah I'm used to it" she commented. He grinned
"I can understand it you know," he said lightly "Being Muggle born myself and all" Hermione frowned slightly; she always forgot that Dean was a Muggle born like her. "He called me that name once as well" Dean carried on in the same friendly sounding voice, a cheeky grin coming over his face "He most definitely did not do it again once Seamus was through with him" Hermione smiled slightly
"Seamus took care of it for you?" she repeated and he nodded having the grace to look embarrassed.
"It's not that I couldn't deal with Draco bloody Malfoy myself, I could. It was just it was the first year and all and well I had no idea what the word meant, I guessed it was an insult and all but I didn't realise it was as bad as that. Seamus did know what it meant though and he reacted" Hermione nodded her head, her mind going back to the time that Ron had tried to stick up for her when Malfoy first used the word against her, the spell had backfired and hit Ron instead but she had never forgotten what she had tried to do for her.
"I didn't know what it meant either till Ron told me, neither did Harry for that matter" she commented slowly, Dean grinned again
"Hermione Granger not knowing something" he repeated "Stop the press someone, this is front page news" Hermione looked embarrassed as a few people around them laughed, Dean hadn't bothered keeping his voice down.
"Are you annoying Granger Dean?" a softly spoken Irish voice asked at that moment, both of them glanced round to see Seamus walking up to them, a smile present on his face. Dean laughed running a hand through his curly black hair
"Me?" he said in a mock surprised tone "Teasing someone, Seamus how can you think of something like that about your bestest friend in the world, I'd never tease a lady" Hermione snorted before hiding it in a cough, both boys heard her however and turned with smiles. Finally she had enough and spoke
"Why are you being friendly with me all of a sudden?" she demanded fiercely "We've never even really looked at each other and all of a sudden we're all talking and everything as if we've been friends forever" Seamus looked surprised at her outburst and spoke
"It's not that we didn't want to talk to you" he said "It's more like you're impossible to talk to" Dean nodded his agreement and carried on
"You're always with Ron and Harry and when someone else tries to have a conversation with you, you just brush them off and go and study or something" Hermione looked at them guiltily. They did have a point. Seamus spoke with a laugh
"I could understand why you would ignore Lavender and Parvati though" he chuckled "They could easily talk the hind leg off a donkey and over such useless things as well"
"At least you can talk more about normal things then they can" Dean remarked, jerking his thumb back over his shoulder to where the two girls sat, wearing tons of jewellery and giggling over a magazine.
"Alright Guys, cheers for helping Hermione out earlier" they smiled at Harry as he walked through the portrait with Ron behind him
"No problem" Dean said with a wave of his hand "Just helping out a fellow Gryffindor in her hour of need" he winked at Hermione and turned to Seamus "It was Seamus who did it all though, I was his second that's all" they all turned to Seamus who shrugged his shoulder using the Irish charm as he grinned
"Well Draco Malfoy has a lot coming to him for a lot of things, he think he can get away with murder that boy but he'll soon realise he can't. To call Hermione that name is just…" he stopped and frowned instead
"Well he's wrong" Ron said loudly, his face turning red as his eyes flashed "Hermione most definitely isn't one of those, no one is, this stupid pure blood thing is a waste of decent people's time"
"And the Malfoy's are definitely not decent" Seamus added. Harry smirked
"Snape isn't either, can you believe all that homework he gave us" an united groan from the other three boys met this comment
"I can believe it" Dean muttered grimly "This is Snape we're talking about after all, any other teacher would have been a shock but not from him"
"He was a Slytherin here wasn't he?" Seamus asked, Harry nodded looking at him in curiosity "Don't you see, of course he's gonna give Gryffindor a hard time, sworn enemies of his former house and all"
"I'm quite looking forward to the homework actually" Hermione said brightly "It should be interesting" Ron snorted
"Interesting?" he repeated "Quidditch is interesting, DADA is interesting, even degnoming the garden is more interesting then this essay is going to be" Harry laughed
"Think how much worse it would have been if Neville had added that ingredient that Hermione stopped him doing, it would have exploded completely" they chuckled slightly
"Should we start it?" Seamus asked Dean who groaned and nodded
"We better, he'll be after you now Seamus you insulted his favourite student after all" Seamus rolled his eyes
"I'm terrified" he remarked dryly, he turned to Hermione smiling pleasantly at her "Would you like to join us Hermione?" Hermione looked at him in surprise missing the smug smile that covered Dean's face before he could straighten his features.
"Why not" she remarked finally, Seamus smiled at her ignoring the fact that Ron was now giving him a suspicious look while Harry looked on in amusement
"You're welcome to join us to" he remarked turning to the other two boys as Hermione walked off quickly to get her books, it looked like Harry was going to turn him down when Ron spoke
"Of course we'll join you" he said roughly "Won't we Harry?" he turned and glared at Harry who held up his hands
"Chill mate we will" Ron nodded looking satisfied and ignoring some very smug looking grins directed his way. Hermione returned from collecting her book and looked at them with a smile, it lingering slightly more on Ron, she couldn't get that kiss on the cheek out of her mind.
"Shall we study then?" she asked brightly
Chapter four is finally up, hope you enjoyed it. Please review ok, next chapter will be up soon, this is all the build up so be patient
Hannio xxxx
