A/N: hi everyone! Here's another chapter today! I'm trying a new font but I'm not sure if it'll work! Keep reviewing and you can chose whom Harry falls for!

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Chapter 5

Darn him that freaken spaz show! He made me believe that he really cared and that he actually didn't want me with Malfoy because he cared about my feelings. Yeah right he just doesn't want me fraternizing with the enemy! I saw him talk to Draco after I ran off and I wonder what he said! As I was absentmindedly treading the path to Gryffindor Common room, I ran into Katie. She was crying and looked a total mess. I stopped and tried to help her!

"Katie, what's wrong?" I asked really very concerned.

She sniffed and didn't answer. Katie tried to push past me but I held onto her wrist and looked into her eyes. Two large tears rolled down her cheeks and her shoulders shook.

"Katie you can tell me what's wrong!" She nodded as though resigned and led me into the common room. We sat in two huge armchairs by the fire and she just cried. After a while, I magiced up a tonic and let her drink it. It made her stop crying and she was able to speak.

"There's this guy," she began, her lip trembling and she sniffed tucking her hair behind her ear. I motioned for her to continue. "And he's really cute and seems nice to me. We were talking and then suddenly a group of his friends walked by and he called me," she stopped and rubbed her eyes taking a deep breath. I patted her back and motioned for her to continue again. "He called me a mudblood" she burst into tears again at the memory and I knelt in front of her, I didn't notice Harry and Ron enter the common room.

"Was he in Slytherin?" I asked gently taking one of her hands in mine. It was as cold as ice. She nodded and I continued, "Guys in Slytherin are like that! They don't like showing what is in their hearts to other people. They hide behind a mask so everything bounces off and when a true feeling slips in they don't know how to deal with it properly." She smiled weakly and nodded as if she understood. "He was nice to me before that though!" She said looking at me with questions.

" He may really like you I mean who wouldn't!" she smiled again, "But sometimes guys aren't ready to tell or show their friends their feelings for a girl. Sometimes we don't take it the right way! Now how bout we go and get you freshened up?"

"Ok," she said as we both stood up. I followed her into the girls' dormitory and we sat on her bed. I picked up a purple brush on the nightstand and began to brush out her hair. The brown mass was a lot like mine just less bushy. I took out my wand and performed a straitening spell making it sleek and shiny falling down past her shoulders. A golden sheen shone through and her bangs fell into her eyes. I showed her how to work the straitening spell that I used every morning and she caught on quickly. Katie put her hair into a ponytail and changed out of her school robes. Today had only been a half-day.

Katie had had three classes to our one, (Snape had lengthened class with Dumbledore's permission) so I helped her with homework. I showed her how to perform a spell for spelling errors on essays and she performed it perfectly. I began comparing her to myself at fourteen. That was when I had developed a small crush on Draco Malfoy.

I stayed with Katie for about another hour and then said I had to go. I found Harry and Ron still in the Common Room playing wizards chess and laughing. Harry grew quiet when I walked through the room. I saw him excuse himself from Ron and walk over to me.

"I heard the conversation," He said to me and I grew angry, "He had no right to eavesdrop on my conversations with a fourteen-year-old girl. I told him so.

"Harry James Potter,'' I yelled, "You have no right to eavesdrop on PRIVATE conversations." My eyes blaze with anger and I knew it. He shifted uncomfortably and looked at the ground.

"I know," He said, "I sorry too. It's just that I walked in and you were comforting a girl. It was- it was touching" he said at last and I just stared. No way was this the Harry who I had been mad at. He was being too sentimental.

"Harry?" I whispered but he didn't give me a chance to answer, "Oh and uh Hermione," he whispered back but I didn't listen I broke away and went to sit next to Ron who was staring at us oddly.

"Are you guys okay?" he asked amused a slight chuckle in his voice.

I shoved him off the arm of the chair on which he had been sitting and sat down myself. Ron picked himself up off the floor and growled at me. I flicked my hair at him and he shut up fast.

"So are you two a couple?" He asked. We shifted around uncomfortably and Ron finally muttered something like 'forget it'.

I played Harry in chess and I have to admit for a person with air between his ears he was pretty good. I beat him once and he beat me once. Ron however, creamed us both. We were laughing and having a good time when a voice inside my head told me I should go take a nap I was suddenly very tired. I said goodbye to Harry and Ron and stumbled out of the common room and back to mine. I whispered the password and the gargoyle leaned down and opened its mouth.

I walked through into the common room where a fire had been going and collapsed onto a chair. I took out my potions book and a scroll of parchment and began to write my essay on the Hiddenized Draught. Snape wanted three sheets and it took me about an hour to finish. I did my spell- checking spell and rolled up my parchment for the next day. I closed my eyes for a moment to think about the day.

I must have fallen asleep for next thing I knew. The dinner bell was ringing. I walked out of the common room and towards the Great Hall. Harry wasn't at dinner but Katie had saved me a seat and so had Ginny. I sat between them and we made light conversation. The enchanted ceiling was dark and speckled with stars each a bright speck among the black. The moon could be see and it shone with a light of warmth on the Great Hall.

When I had finished eating I got up to leave and noticed Draco Malfoy get up also. I ignored the fact that he didn't turn towards the dungeons when we left the great hall instead reached out and put a hand on my shoulder. I turned around to say goodnight but his lips met mine for a brief second before he pulled away and hurried out of sight.

I shook my head unable to rid myself of the warm tingly feeling, which had spread from him before turning the corner towards the Gargoyle. I walked trough the beast mouth and straight into Harry who was starting to leave. When he saw me he smiled and sat down by the fire instead of going away. He had his homework all spread out over a table in the center of the room and looked tired. I shook my head at him mentally reminding myself to scold him sometime about not eating dinner.

We talked for a while and then I got up to go to bed. As I was about to open the door, I felt a hand around my waist and a turned to see Harry. He hugged me and didn't let go. I felt myself go limp and weak as he whispered into my ear.

"You give good advice to people, you should follow it yourself." Before letting me go.

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