***I'm back with a new story! Hope you all like it, and I'm sorry I haven't brought out any new story's in a while, I've been busy with exams. Once again, I don't own anything except for the plot! (I think!). Anyway, on with the story!***

The Scavenger Hunt

Chapter One: Getting started

Friday morning, perfect. I hate Friday's, they always seem to drag on forever. Even if we are off tomorrow. Double Potions, followed by double Transfiguration and then to end the day, Double Car of Magical Creatures with Hagrid. Don't get me wrong I love having Hagrid as a teacher, just not on a Friday afternoon for a double lesson, it always seems to me that time slows down just for that lesson. I look over at my clock on the table beside my bed, 7.10, in the morning and none of the other girls are awake yet, mind you I'm not surprised they like there lye in's. I might as well get up now and jump in the shower before the rest wake up. I rub my eyes and pull myself out of bed. I grab my clothes and towel and walk into the bathroom. I use my shower gel that I got for my birthday of Ginny, mango and passionflower, it spells lovely.

Five minutes later I remerge into the girls dorms and every last one of them is still asleep. I shake my head and laugh in amusement. I grab my bag and put my books in for the day. I put my robes on and swing my bag over my shoulder, before giving my hair a quick brush and leaving it down for today. Again I look back over at my clock 7.45, I might as well go down to breakfast now and catch up on some light reading for the day. I sneak out the girls dorms and close the door quietly behind me. I walk down to common room expecting to find it empty, when instead I see Harry staring out of the window dressed for the day with his books in his hands.

"Harry?"

"Mornin, Mione" he said without turning around.

I love it when he calls me that. In case you don't know, I'll tell you, I don't know when it happened, it just did. I love him. I love the ways his eyes glint when he's happy, I love the way his hair doesn't lay flat, and most of all I love his smile, it warms me up right down to my toes no matter how bad a mood I'm in. I love him for who he is, not because of his title, but because, he's Harry, my best friend, even though I wish we could be more but I don't want to ruin our friendship just for how I feel.

"What are you doing down here so early?" I ask walking over to him.

"I could ask you the same thing" he said turning to look at me and giving me his infamous smile.

"I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep and you?"

"Ron's snoring woke me up, I came down about ten minutes before you did"

"Well, do you want to go down to breakfast?"

"Sure!" he says, smiling at me yet again, I smile back.

We walk out of the portrait hole and down to breakfast talking to each other about our plans for the weekend. We reach the great hall and sit down at Gryffindor table, we begin to eat and five minutes later, Ron appears and sits down next to Harry.

"Morning Ron" I say brightly.

"Hey, Ron" says Harry as he takes a bite of his toast.

"Morning guys"

We finish eating breakfast and as the bell rings, we begin our walk down to the dungeons for our lesson with Snape.

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Thankfully, we were in our last lesson now, Care of Magical Creatures. We were waiting for Hagrid to arrive. Eventually he did, and with him he had many rolls of parchment with writing on them. He stumbled over to the front of the class and placed them on the floor.

"Today, I'm givin you a very special assignment"

Whispers could be heard among the class, including between Harry, Ron and me. He waited for us to quiet down before continuing.

"I will be pairin you up an you will be goin on a scavenger hunt, that starts after class today an will finish on Sunday night, because you av me first lesson on Monday mornin"

I loved scavenger hunts, but apparently many of the class didn't actually know what one was.

"Does, anyone ere know what a scavenger hunt is?" asked Hagrid.

I raised my hand, and was the only person who did. Hagrid looked at me and smiled.

"Hermione, would you like to come up ere and explain to the class what it actually is?"

"Sure!"

Harry took hold of me bag as I made my way up to the front of the class.

"A scavenger hunt, is where you get a list of clues or riddles that you have to solve. Once you have solved them all, you will eventually come to the prize at the end and whoever gets there first wins it" I turned around to Hagrid. "What exactly is the prize Hagrid?" He bent down and whispered in my ear. I squealed with delight. I turned back to face the class. "The prize for the girl, is a book containing all of the spells that have ever existed in the magical world, and for the boy, two passes to meet and greet the England Quidditch team"

Cheers immediately erupted from all of the boys in the class. I walked back over to Harry and Ron as Hagrid took out a list from his pocket and started to pair people up.

"Right, then, Ron you'll be wit Lavender"

"Yes!" he screamed.

Lavender had been his girlfriend for over a year now. He ran over to her before they both walked up to Hagrid to pick up a roll of parchment off the floor containing the first clue. (the second appears once you find the object the first one is talking about).

"Before, I forget to mention, each roll of clues, is different so you cant compare your answers!" shouted Hagrid over the crowd.

"Right, Harry, you're wit Hermione"

I turned to smile at Harry as he did the same to me. We walked up to Hagrid and Harry picked up a roll of parchment.

"Once, you've been partnered you can start looking straight away!"

As Hagrid continued to pair up people, me and Harry started to head up to Gryffindor tower to discuss the first clue.

We entered the common room and each put our bags away in our dorms before going back down to the common room and sitting down on the couch. Harry unrolled the parchment and together we read the first clue out loud.

'I am the only thing that always tells the truth. I show off everything that I see. I come in all shapes and sizes. So tell me what I must be!'

We finished reading and sat there looking at each other, both of us thinking hard at what the answer could be.

"I've got it!" I said jumping up.

"What?" asked Harry as he too stood up.

"It's a mirror! It has to be the Mirror of Erised!"

"How, did you know that?"

"I've loved riddle's ever since I was a little girl" I said blushing slightly.

"Well, lets get going then, we can get something to eat later cant we?"

"Yep!" I said smiling.

Harry rolled up the parchment and put it inside his robe pocket. We were about to step out of the portrait hole when I stopped.

"Harry, there's one problem" I said.

"What is it?" he asked turning around to face me.

"We don't know where the Mirror of Erised is" I said slightly sad that our first clue was proving more difficult than I anticipated it to be.

"I do" said Harry smiling slyly.

"Where?" I asked looking puzzled.

"The Room of Requirement, at least that's were it was when I went there last night"

"Harry you're wonderful!" I said walking up to him and kissing him on the cheek.

"Thanks, I guess" he said as we both blushed slightly.

My lips were burning from where they had made contact with his skin. We walked up to the Room of Requirement in silence, apparently Harry was just as embarrassed about that kiss as I was. Eventually we reached the room. Harry opened the door and allowed me in first before stepping in himself and closing the door behind him.

A/N: That's it for this chapter I hope you all liked it! Any idea's would be very welcome and the next chapter should be out really soon! Please, please review and no flames! Thanks!

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