After DA, in the middle of December and just before the holidays, Ron and Hermione helped Harry pack away the pillows (Hermione hurrying Ron as she realised that both Harry and Cho were stalling). Waving goodbye they headed down the corridor and hurried into a disused classroom next to the toilets. Unbeknownst to them Ginny and Luna were also heading in the same direction.
Ginny stopped out side the classroom, "Well, I'm going to the bathroom."
Luna nodded and leaned on the door waiting for her to come back. After a minute she noticed the sound of voices coming from behind the door. Carefully she edged it open and was about to say hello when the couple started to kiss- to put it mildly.
Quickly she shut the door and backed away feeling slightly sick.
"What?" Ginny asked as she returned from the little girl's room startled by Luna's surprised face.
To Luna the shock still hadn't sunk in and she started screaming her answer, "Ron and Hermione!!" she muttered but she was getting louder, "Ron and Hermione!!"
"Oh my God!" Quickly Ginny dragged Luna away from the room.
"RON AND HERMIONE!!!!
Ginny knew that she had to get the girl to shut up, "Luna!! Luna!! It's okay!! It's okay!!
"NO! THEY'RE TOGETHER AND DOING THINGS!!"
"I KNOW!! I know!! I know."
Luna's eyes widened with understanding, "YOU KNOW!?"
"Yes, I know! And Neville knows! But Harry doesn't know so you have to stop screaming!!" Worriedly she glanced back at the room of requirement, "I think we're okay- Cho's keeping him busy." A slight look appeared in her eyes but it was gone so quickly that Luna didn't see it. "Come on and I'll tell you everything."
The girls headed to the library where they could talk however they didn't really expect to get interrupted by Hermione and Ron- or Harry for that matter.
Luna's shock had calmed and happiness was coming through at the thought of the two most stubborn people in the world finally getting it together. "You mean whenever Hermione and Ron were doing prefect duties or going to check something with a teacher or -- Oh! All that time Ron actually wanted to do his homework."
"Uh-huh, snogging. Snogging. Oh, and actually working, this is Hermione we're talking about here."
"Oh, I can't believe it! I mean I think it's great! For him. She might be able to do better."
Ginny was about to stand up for her brother when Neville entered, searching for a book to help with potions homework. He smiled when he saw the two of them. "Hi girls," he said.
Ginny quickly beckoned him over, "Neville! Come here! Come here!"
"What?"
"Luna just found out about Hermione and Ron."
He quickly glared at her, "You mean how they're friends and nothing more?"
"No. Neville, she knows." Ginny emphasised, "We were outside an empty classroom and Luna saw them doing things through a crack in the door. Luckily she moved away before being scarred for life."
Luna decided to take an active part in the conversation. "Okay, so now they know that you know and they don't know that Ginny knows?" she asked him.
"Yes," he answered after a second of confusion, "but do you know what? It doesn't matter who knows what. Now, enough of us know that we can just tell them that we know! Then all the lying and the secrets would finally be over."
"Or, we could not tell them we know and have a little fun of our own," Luna suggested in a scheming tone of voice.
"What do you mean?" questioned Ginny.
"Well every time that they say that they're going to do homework we'll go with them and constantly ask for help."
Ginny smiled evilly, "Ohhh, I would enjoy that!" She was also slightly disappointed that she hadn't thought of it herself.
"No-no-no! Wait Gin; you know what would even be more fun? Telling them." Neville was starting to get slightly hysterical at the idea of even more lies that he'd have to keep.
"Err, no, I want to do Luna's thing. Come on Neville we're just having a bit of fun." She wasn't that convincing.
"I can't take any-"
Luna cut in, as it was obvious he was going to be stubborn, "You don't have to do anything! Just don't tell them that we know."
Ginny and Luna turned towards each other, effectively shutting Neville out of the conversation. "So how are we going to mess with them exactly?" Ginny asked.
Neville just groaned in defeat.
"Well, you could use your position as Hermione's best female friend and Ron's sister."
"Okay, but what about you." Her friend's smile was slightly scary. "Luna what are you going to do?"
"Well I'll use the strongest tool at my disposal- my sexuality."
Ginny and Neville stifled their scoffing laughter as Luna gave them a death stare. Looking around they noticed a distinct lack of people so the three of them quickly headed towards their separate dormitories after realising how late it was.
That fateful evening was the night of Harry's vision involving a snake and Ginny's father, and therefore was the last time the three of them would see each other until after Christmas. The plan would have to wait.
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And wait they did, it wasn't until the Valentines Day Hogsmede visit that the girls got the chance to put their scheme into action. With Harry heading down to the village with Cho, Luna started her, almost strategical, attack on Ron.
Ginny sent the prearranged signal to move as he started to head down to the quidditch pitch. By the time he'd reached the main entrance Luna was waiting for him with a dangerous look in her eyes and was humming "Weasley is our king" under her breath.
"Hello Luna," Ron said carefully. He still wasn't sure how to act around 'Loony' Lovegood.
"Hey Ron!" she answered enthusiastically. Out the corner of her eye she could see Ginny keeping watch. Confident that she had Ron's attention and no audience Luna began her performance. "Ooh, wow that uniform looks great on you," she complimented.
"Really?" Ron said confused and now slightly frightened.
Gently she fingered the sleeve material "Yeah. The material feels so soft and the colour brings out your eyes. Have you been working out? "
Now Ron was getting really scared, "I have been doing a lot of quidditch practice I suppose." Luna then started giggling uncontrollably. "Are you okay?" he asked though feeling that he was in some way being made fun of.
"Well, if you really want to know, I'm -- Oh! I can't tell you this."
"Well you should talk to Ginny then," he pressed while trying to get away. Unfortunately for him she had managed to manoeuvre herself between him and the doorway.
Luna wasn't about to let him get away yet. The boy was dense when it came to girls and she wanted to make absolutely sure that he knew what she was doing. "Well actually you're the one person I can't tell this too. And the one person I want to the most," she said coyly.
"What's going on?" Things were not going well for him: Hermione wasn't on great terms with him at the moment, Angelina was going to yell at him for being late and now Luna was flirting outrageously.
"I think it's just that I haven't been with a guy in so long and how sometimes you're looking for something and you just don't even see that it's right there in front of you wearing a flattering sports robe-- Oh no, have I said to much? Well it's just something to think about. I know I will." Inside she was cursing herself- this was so embarrassing. But it was their own fault, Ron should just admit to his affair with Hermione.
Ron gulped as she finally let him past, letting her hand graze his arm as she left. Quickly he made his way to quidditch whilst Luna hurried to the meeting in the Three Broomsticks with Hermione.
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"Hi." Hermione whispered to Ron. It was the night of Valentines Day and the two hadn't seen each other since breakfast due to that annoying game that was taking up so much of their precious time together and Harry's article for the Quibbler.
"Oh, so you're talking to me now are you." The couple was standing in the middle of the common room, which was empty, as everyone had gone to bed.
"What are you on about Ron?"
"You were rather snappish with me when we were talking about Snape earlier. You do realise that if your going to carry on arguments throughout the day Harry is going to ask what started them off."
"I was not snappish! And you were the one not talking to anyone when you came back here!"
Ron disregarded her last comment; he didn't want to talk about quidditch tonight, "Yes you were!"
"No, I was not!"
"Were to!"
Suddenly she realised how loud they were. "Ron, quiet down," she whispered harshly.
"Don't worry I've already put a silencing charm on the room." He spoke at a normal volume.
"Oh."
"That's two things you've underestimated me for now."
Now it was Hermione's turn to be confused (it didn't happen very often) but she kept her face plain, she didn't want Ron to have any more ammunition in their fights. In truth she had been harsh earlier but how did he expect her to act when he was going to spend the most romantic day of the year on a broom.
Ron used the moment's silence to close the space between them and kiss her lightly on the lips. He broke away and rested his forehead on hers. "I've wanted to do that all day," he whispered.
"Me too, and I'm really sorry that quidditch isn't going as well as you want it to. But I know you'll come into your own soon," she replied, the earlier argument forgotten.
"Thanks. Now put this on," Ron said holding up Harry's invisibility cloak, "I didn't steal it- just borrowed it," he defended when he saw the look she gave him.
"Why?"
Ron didn't answer straight away but took her hand, also disappearing under the cloak, and led her towards the portrait, "I'm going to show you how you've underestimated me twice today." Even more confused, Hermione followed him silently.
Ten minutes later they arrived at the Room of Requirement.
"Oh Ron," Hermione gasped as she entered the room. All around were burning candles framing a small, round table coupled with two chairs placed opposite each other. Rose petals carpeted the floor in majestic sweeps and soft classical music floated in down from the ceiling.
"I know that you wanted to spend Valentines together and I know there's only what-"he glanced at his watch, "one minute left of it but I really wanted to do something nice for you."
"It's beautiful, it really is Ron."
He led her towards the table, "Now I hope your hungry but I asked the house elves- nicely- if they'd make us a romantic meal for two." Hermione smiled and they set about enjoying the very late evening together.
About half way through dinner Ron asked Hermione how the interview went.
"Well, it was hard for him to do I think, but he does seem to look better after every telling."
"So everything went well?"
"Yes, except..."
"What?"
"Luna kept annoying me. She gave me some odd looks and kept singing that dratted song under her breath."
Ron gulped and told her about his run in with the girl earlier.
"So what are saying? That Luna was flirting with you?" Hermione was a little doubtful.
"I'm telling you I think Luna fancies me."
"That's not possible."
"Ow!" Ron felt a slight dent in his pride.
"I'm sorry it's just that I don't think your Luna's type."
"Oh, well I can't hear that enough."
"I'm sorry," Hermione laughed, "I think that you just misunderstood her."
Ron was starting to get a little irate, "No, I didn't misunderstand, okay? She was all over me! She kept talking about how my uniform brought out my eyes for crying out loud!"
"Those eyes?" she mocked and stared straight into them.
"Well I'm not wearing it now am I" he defended.
They both burst out laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation but that didn't stop the cogs in Hermione's brain from beginning to work out Luna's real motive.
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It was a couple of days later before Hermione saw Luna's flirting first hand. Harry was at Occlumency leaving Hermione, Ron, Neville, Luna and Ginny in the Great Hall after dinner, they were the last ones there and hadn't notice the decreasing numbers of people as they got into a heated Quidditch debate. Eventually Ginny noticed the lack of company and decided it was time to put 'phase 2' into action.
"Hey Hermione, what are you doing now?" she asked, "Want to do some homework with Luna and me?"
Hermione shot a quick glance at Ron that you wouldn't have seen unless you were expecting it, "Uhh, you know actually I was going to work on the prefect rostra."
"Oh." Ginny said knowingly and gave Luna a look.
"Hey Ron, want to do it with me?"
"Sure, I'll do it with you." Hermione's scathing expression made him want to retract his suggestive words.
"Okay great, hold on a sec!" Ginny said as she disappeared into her book bag and reached out a thick wad of paper handing it to Hermione. "Oh, here you go! I went round the prefects and spoke to the head girl- this is all the info I got for you."
Hermione just sat with her mouth hanging open, "Ginny you really shouldn't have gone to all that trouble."
"No, she wanted to, and I helped," said Luna with a to-innocent-to-be-true look on her face. Neville pretended to drop a fork on the floor to hide his laughter at the sight of Ron and Hermione's faces, which were flickering between disbelief and acting as if they were happy at an odious job made easier.
Ginny and Luna got ready to leave the table, "Okay we actually have work to do so we'll see you tomorrow. Night guys," said Ginny.
"Bye Ron," Luna spoke, and then leaned in close to his left ear and whispered, "I miss you already."
As soon as they left he turn to Hermione, disgust filling his features, "Okay, did you hear that?"
Hermione was sitting in shock at what she'd heard, "Actually, I did."
"Okay, so now do you believe that she's attracted to me?"
Instead of agreeing with him a thousand thoughts went through Hermione's head until finally it clicked, "Ohhh. She knows about us."
"Are you serious?" he gulped at the idea of the daughter of a newspaper editor knowing quite a big secret.
"Yes, Luna knows and she's just trying to freak us out! That's the only explanation for it!"
"Okay but what about my beautiful eyes and strokeable arms," Ron rebuked as his pride took yet another knock until he realised how ludicrous he sounded, "She knows!" Hermione just nodded at his epiphany and then had another one of her own when she remembered Neville.
Slowly she turned to him, "So Neville," she said in a sweetness with an edge that made him want to run far, far away, "Luna knows about us."
"Well I didn't tell them," he defended.
"Them!? Who's them?
He silently cursed his slip, "Err, Luna and Neville".
"Neville," pressed Ron.
"And Ginny. I would've told you but they made me promise not to tell."
Ron started cursing under his breath, but at Ginny's name an idea came into Hermione's head.
"I'm sorry!" Neville continued, "But hey, it's over now, right? Because you can tell them that you know they know and I can go back to knowing absolutely nothing!"
"Unless..." Hermione began to voice her idea.
"No! Not unless! Look this must end now!"
"Hey Mione what is it?" Ron asked carefully, slightly scared at a look of mischief on Hermione's face that he hadn't seen since the time turner of third year.
"They think they are so clever messing with us! But see they don't know that we know that they know! So..."
Ron clicked "Ahh yes, the messers become the messies!"
The gleeful look on both of their faces made Neville feel as if he'd rather tempt fate with Snape at the moment than be at the receiving end of the couple's revenge.
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AN: I would just like to say that The One Where Everybody Finds Out is my all time favourite episode of Friends and in my opinion series 5 was the best of the program's 10-year run, I can only hope that I do it justice.
Thank you to all of my reviewers- these are the best messages I've ever had and I'm so glad to have found people who love both HP and Friends as much as I do.
Finally there is only one chapter of this left and it will be up this weekend.
Ginny stopped out side the classroom, "Well, I'm going to the bathroom."
Luna nodded and leaned on the door waiting for her to come back. After a minute she noticed the sound of voices coming from behind the door. Carefully she edged it open and was about to say hello when the couple started to kiss- to put it mildly.
Quickly she shut the door and backed away feeling slightly sick.
"What?" Ginny asked as she returned from the little girl's room startled by Luna's surprised face.
To Luna the shock still hadn't sunk in and she started screaming her answer, "Ron and Hermione!!" she muttered but she was getting louder, "Ron and Hermione!!"
"Oh my God!" Quickly Ginny dragged Luna away from the room.
"RON AND HERMIONE!!!!
Ginny knew that she had to get the girl to shut up, "Luna!! Luna!! It's okay!! It's okay!!
"NO! THEY'RE TOGETHER AND DOING THINGS!!"
"I KNOW!! I know!! I know."
Luna's eyes widened with understanding, "YOU KNOW!?"
"Yes, I know! And Neville knows! But Harry doesn't know so you have to stop screaming!!" Worriedly she glanced back at the room of requirement, "I think we're okay- Cho's keeping him busy." A slight look appeared in her eyes but it was gone so quickly that Luna didn't see it. "Come on and I'll tell you everything."
The girls headed to the library where they could talk however they didn't really expect to get interrupted by Hermione and Ron- or Harry for that matter.
Luna's shock had calmed and happiness was coming through at the thought of the two most stubborn people in the world finally getting it together. "You mean whenever Hermione and Ron were doing prefect duties or going to check something with a teacher or -- Oh! All that time Ron actually wanted to do his homework."
"Uh-huh, snogging. Snogging. Oh, and actually working, this is Hermione we're talking about here."
"Oh, I can't believe it! I mean I think it's great! For him. She might be able to do better."
Ginny was about to stand up for her brother when Neville entered, searching for a book to help with potions homework. He smiled when he saw the two of them. "Hi girls," he said.
Ginny quickly beckoned him over, "Neville! Come here! Come here!"
"What?"
"Luna just found out about Hermione and Ron."
He quickly glared at her, "You mean how they're friends and nothing more?"
"No. Neville, she knows." Ginny emphasised, "We were outside an empty classroom and Luna saw them doing things through a crack in the door. Luckily she moved away before being scarred for life."
Luna decided to take an active part in the conversation. "Okay, so now they know that you know and they don't know that Ginny knows?" she asked him.
"Yes," he answered after a second of confusion, "but do you know what? It doesn't matter who knows what. Now, enough of us know that we can just tell them that we know! Then all the lying and the secrets would finally be over."
"Or, we could not tell them we know and have a little fun of our own," Luna suggested in a scheming tone of voice.
"What do you mean?" questioned Ginny.
"Well every time that they say that they're going to do homework we'll go with them and constantly ask for help."
Ginny smiled evilly, "Ohhh, I would enjoy that!" She was also slightly disappointed that she hadn't thought of it herself.
"No-no-no! Wait Gin; you know what would even be more fun? Telling them." Neville was starting to get slightly hysterical at the idea of even more lies that he'd have to keep.
"Err, no, I want to do Luna's thing. Come on Neville we're just having a bit of fun." She wasn't that convincing.
"I can't take any-"
Luna cut in, as it was obvious he was going to be stubborn, "You don't have to do anything! Just don't tell them that we know."
Ginny and Luna turned towards each other, effectively shutting Neville out of the conversation. "So how are we going to mess with them exactly?" Ginny asked.
Neville just groaned in defeat.
"Well, you could use your position as Hermione's best female friend and Ron's sister."
"Okay, but what about you." Her friend's smile was slightly scary. "Luna what are you going to do?"
"Well I'll use the strongest tool at my disposal- my sexuality."
Ginny and Neville stifled their scoffing laughter as Luna gave them a death stare. Looking around they noticed a distinct lack of people so the three of them quickly headed towards their separate dormitories after realising how late it was.
That fateful evening was the night of Harry's vision involving a snake and Ginny's father, and therefore was the last time the three of them would see each other until after Christmas. The plan would have to wait.
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And wait they did, it wasn't until the Valentines Day Hogsmede visit that the girls got the chance to put their scheme into action. With Harry heading down to the village with Cho, Luna started her, almost strategical, attack on Ron.
Ginny sent the prearranged signal to move as he started to head down to the quidditch pitch. By the time he'd reached the main entrance Luna was waiting for him with a dangerous look in her eyes and was humming "Weasley is our king" under her breath.
"Hello Luna," Ron said carefully. He still wasn't sure how to act around 'Loony' Lovegood.
"Hey Ron!" she answered enthusiastically. Out the corner of her eye she could see Ginny keeping watch. Confident that she had Ron's attention and no audience Luna began her performance. "Ooh, wow that uniform looks great on you," she complimented.
"Really?" Ron said confused and now slightly frightened.
Gently she fingered the sleeve material "Yeah. The material feels so soft and the colour brings out your eyes. Have you been working out? "
Now Ron was getting really scared, "I have been doing a lot of quidditch practice I suppose." Luna then started giggling uncontrollably. "Are you okay?" he asked though feeling that he was in some way being made fun of.
"Well, if you really want to know, I'm -- Oh! I can't tell you this."
"Well you should talk to Ginny then," he pressed while trying to get away. Unfortunately for him she had managed to manoeuvre herself between him and the doorway.
Luna wasn't about to let him get away yet. The boy was dense when it came to girls and she wanted to make absolutely sure that he knew what she was doing. "Well actually you're the one person I can't tell this too. And the one person I want to the most," she said coyly.
"What's going on?" Things were not going well for him: Hermione wasn't on great terms with him at the moment, Angelina was going to yell at him for being late and now Luna was flirting outrageously.
"I think it's just that I haven't been with a guy in so long and how sometimes you're looking for something and you just don't even see that it's right there in front of you wearing a flattering sports robe-- Oh no, have I said to much? Well it's just something to think about. I know I will." Inside she was cursing herself- this was so embarrassing. But it was their own fault, Ron should just admit to his affair with Hermione.
Ron gulped as she finally let him past, letting her hand graze his arm as she left. Quickly he made his way to quidditch whilst Luna hurried to the meeting in the Three Broomsticks with Hermione.
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"Hi." Hermione whispered to Ron. It was the night of Valentines Day and the two hadn't seen each other since breakfast due to that annoying game that was taking up so much of their precious time together and Harry's article for the Quibbler.
"Oh, so you're talking to me now are you." The couple was standing in the middle of the common room, which was empty, as everyone had gone to bed.
"What are you on about Ron?"
"You were rather snappish with me when we were talking about Snape earlier. You do realise that if your going to carry on arguments throughout the day Harry is going to ask what started them off."
"I was not snappish! And you were the one not talking to anyone when you came back here!"
Ron disregarded her last comment; he didn't want to talk about quidditch tonight, "Yes you were!"
"No, I was not!"
"Were to!"
Suddenly she realised how loud they were. "Ron, quiet down," she whispered harshly.
"Don't worry I've already put a silencing charm on the room." He spoke at a normal volume.
"Oh."
"That's two things you've underestimated me for now."
Now it was Hermione's turn to be confused (it didn't happen very often) but she kept her face plain, she didn't want Ron to have any more ammunition in their fights. In truth she had been harsh earlier but how did he expect her to act when he was going to spend the most romantic day of the year on a broom.
Ron used the moment's silence to close the space between them and kiss her lightly on the lips. He broke away and rested his forehead on hers. "I've wanted to do that all day," he whispered.
"Me too, and I'm really sorry that quidditch isn't going as well as you want it to. But I know you'll come into your own soon," she replied, the earlier argument forgotten.
"Thanks. Now put this on," Ron said holding up Harry's invisibility cloak, "I didn't steal it- just borrowed it," he defended when he saw the look she gave him.
"Why?"
Ron didn't answer straight away but took her hand, also disappearing under the cloak, and led her towards the portrait, "I'm going to show you how you've underestimated me twice today." Even more confused, Hermione followed him silently.
Ten minutes later they arrived at the Room of Requirement.
"Oh Ron," Hermione gasped as she entered the room. All around were burning candles framing a small, round table coupled with two chairs placed opposite each other. Rose petals carpeted the floor in majestic sweeps and soft classical music floated in down from the ceiling.
"I know that you wanted to spend Valentines together and I know there's only what-"he glanced at his watch, "one minute left of it but I really wanted to do something nice for you."
"It's beautiful, it really is Ron."
He led her towards the table, "Now I hope your hungry but I asked the house elves- nicely- if they'd make us a romantic meal for two." Hermione smiled and they set about enjoying the very late evening together.
About half way through dinner Ron asked Hermione how the interview went.
"Well, it was hard for him to do I think, but he does seem to look better after every telling."
"So everything went well?"
"Yes, except..."
"What?"
"Luna kept annoying me. She gave me some odd looks and kept singing that dratted song under her breath."
Ron gulped and told her about his run in with the girl earlier.
"So what are saying? That Luna was flirting with you?" Hermione was a little doubtful.
"I'm telling you I think Luna fancies me."
"That's not possible."
"Ow!" Ron felt a slight dent in his pride.
"I'm sorry it's just that I don't think your Luna's type."
"Oh, well I can't hear that enough."
"I'm sorry," Hermione laughed, "I think that you just misunderstood her."
Ron was starting to get a little irate, "No, I didn't misunderstand, okay? She was all over me! She kept talking about how my uniform brought out my eyes for crying out loud!"
"Those eyes?" she mocked and stared straight into them.
"Well I'm not wearing it now am I" he defended.
They both burst out laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation but that didn't stop the cogs in Hermione's brain from beginning to work out Luna's real motive.
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It was a couple of days later before Hermione saw Luna's flirting first hand. Harry was at Occlumency leaving Hermione, Ron, Neville, Luna and Ginny in the Great Hall after dinner, they were the last ones there and hadn't notice the decreasing numbers of people as they got into a heated Quidditch debate. Eventually Ginny noticed the lack of company and decided it was time to put 'phase 2' into action.
"Hey Hermione, what are you doing now?" she asked, "Want to do some homework with Luna and me?"
Hermione shot a quick glance at Ron that you wouldn't have seen unless you were expecting it, "Uhh, you know actually I was going to work on the prefect rostra."
"Oh." Ginny said knowingly and gave Luna a look.
"Hey Ron, want to do it with me?"
"Sure, I'll do it with you." Hermione's scathing expression made him want to retract his suggestive words.
"Okay great, hold on a sec!" Ginny said as she disappeared into her book bag and reached out a thick wad of paper handing it to Hermione. "Oh, here you go! I went round the prefects and spoke to the head girl- this is all the info I got for you."
Hermione just sat with her mouth hanging open, "Ginny you really shouldn't have gone to all that trouble."
"No, she wanted to, and I helped," said Luna with a to-innocent-to-be-true look on her face. Neville pretended to drop a fork on the floor to hide his laughter at the sight of Ron and Hermione's faces, which were flickering between disbelief and acting as if they were happy at an odious job made easier.
Ginny and Luna got ready to leave the table, "Okay we actually have work to do so we'll see you tomorrow. Night guys," said Ginny.
"Bye Ron," Luna spoke, and then leaned in close to his left ear and whispered, "I miss you already."
As soon as they left he turn to Hermione, disgust filling his features, "Okay, did you hear that?"
Hermione was sitting in shock at what she'd heard, "Actually, I did."
"Okay, so now do you believe that she's attracted to me?"
Instead of agreeing with him a thousand thoughts went through Hermione's head until finally it clicked, "Ohhh. She knows about us."
"Are you serious?" he gulped at the idea of the daughter of a newspaper editor knowing quite a big secret.
"Yes, Luna knows and she's just trying to freak us out! That's the only explanation for it!"
"Okay but what about my beautiful eyes and strokeable arms," Ron rebuked as his pride took yet another knock until he realised how ludicrous he sounded, "She knows!" Hermione just nodded at his epiphany and then had another one of her own when she remembered Neville.
Slowly she turned to him, "So Neville," she said in a sweetness with an edge that made him want to run far, far away, "Luna knows about us."
"Well I didn't tell them," he defended.
"Them!? Who's them?
He silently cursed his slip, "Err, Luna and Neville".
"Neville," pressed Ron.
"And Ginny. I would've told you but they made me promise not to tell."
Ron started cursing under his breath, but at Ginny's name an idea came into Hermione's head.
"I'm sorry!" Neville continued, "But hey, it's over now, right? Because you can tell them that you know they know and I can go back to knowing absolutely nothing!"
"Unless..." Hermione began to voice her idea.
"No! Not unless! Look this must end now!"
"Hey Mione what is it?" Ron asked carefully, slightly scared at a look of mischief on Hermione's face that he hadn't seen since the time turner of third year.
"They think they are so clever messing with us! But see they don't know that we know that they know! So..."
Ron clicked "Ahh yes, the messers become the messies!"
The gleeful look on both of their faces made Neville feel as if he'd rather tempt fate with Snape at the moment than be at the receiving end of the couple's revenge.
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AN: I would just like to say that The One Where Everybody Finds Out is my all time favourite episode of Friends and in my opinion series 5 was the best of the program's 10-year run, I can only hope that I do it justice.
Thank you to all of my reviewers- these are the best messages I've ever had and I'm so glad to have found people who love both HP and Friends as much as I do.
Finally there is only one chapter of this left and it will be up this weekend.