A/N: Next chapter, knock yourself out:

Chapter 5: Harry and Ron Find Out

Sunday passed fairly quickly. The four had sat outside most of the day, just talking and catching up, and reluctantly they had gone to bed, not wanting school to begin the next day.

On Monday morning Hermione and Nora both made their way out of their new common room to the Great Hall to have breakfast with Harry and Ron. The girls sat down next to them and filled their plates with everything they could reach. Harry and Ron looked in aw.

"So, I take it you two will start fasting soon?" Harry said sarcastically.

"What's fasting?" Ron asked bewildered.

"It's where you don't eat for a long time for religious reasons," Hermione cut in, "and no, we're just really hungry." Harry and Ron kept watching them eat until Hermione asked, "Which class do we have first?"

"Ehm..." Harry said, looking at his schedule for the first time since they got them, which was yesterday. "Let's see, we have Defense Against the Dark Arts first, then double Potions with the Slytherin's then lunch after that we have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs and… oh," he said looking rather relieved, "Charms."

"Well, that's at least two good classes," Ron said cheerfully.

"A much better Monday than last year," agreed Nora.

"At least no more Divination, eh?" Harry said.

"Well, you should've just walked out of there when I did," Hermione told them. "Arithmancy is a lot better than sitting there and dozing off while that woman goes on and on about Mercury and Mars."

"But it's also a lot harder, and I can't take muggle studies because I live like a Muggle and Ancient Ruins sounds as boring as Divination," Nora replied to an offended looking Hermione.

"Ancient Ruins is not as boring as Divination!" she turned and started a conversation with the person next to her, trying to offend Nora, but her neighbor turned out to be Neville and she was stuck listening to his stories of things he either dropped or forgot to add to potions.

"Bossy know-it-all," Nora muttered under her breath. Harry and Ron both gasped, appalled. Hermione never let anyone call her a bossy know-it-all.

"Not good," Ron muttered to Harry.

"Cat fight," Harry muttered back. Hermione gasped, looking in disbelief at her friend.

"I am not a bossy know-it-all! You… you crazy… bitch!" Hermione said shrilly, though with a playful glint in her eye. Nora chuckled; it sounded so ridiculous when Hermione tried to cuss.

"That's 'witch', dear, not 'bitch', 'witch'" Nora replied with a smile on her face. Harry and Ron were both shocked, confused by what just happened; if they ever dared to say something like that to the girls, they would've received serious injuries.

"Oh stop it, you two look very stupid with that expression on your face. We're best friends we know these fights aren't serious. If it were serious one of us would've stormed out of the Great Hall and the other would know not to follow until they were both cooled off," Hermione explained to Harry and Ron.

"But Saturday morning Nora stormed out of the Great Hall and you went after her," Ron said pointing at Nora as if he had done something wrong and were trying to put the blame on her. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Ok, first of all, I did let her cool off a bit and second of all, she wasn't mad at me but at Malfoy," Hermione said looking over at the Slytherin table.

"Why were you mad at that bloody git?" Ron asked Nora, glancing over at the Slytherins as well.

"Let's not talk about that, ok?" she replied quickly, looking dangerously at Hermione for getting her into this mess. She didn't want Harry and Ron to know about the incident with Malfoy, and she really didn't want them to know that she had liked it, though she hadn't even told Hermione that.

"No, no, no, tell us, we tell you stuff. Like when we both got blown off in our fourth year, when we asked Cho and Fleur to the Ball," Harry said, looking two years back at that very embarrassing moment and grimacing.

"Yes, but this is more serious… I really don't wanna tell y…" Nora began to say, but by the sad look on Hermione's face, the boys were going to know, no matter what she said.

"Yesterday she was… she was assaulted by Malfoy," Hermione explained cutting in on Nora's sentence. Nora hid her face in her hands in shame.

"WHAT?" Harry and Ron both exclaimed in unison, looking at her in rage of Malfoy's actions. "You were assaulted by Malfoy?" They then whispered.

"Well, yes, but… Hermione's going out with Terry Boot!" she quickly said in an attempt to turn their attention on Hermione. Luckily it worked; they were very protective of the two girls and never approved of whom they went out with, except when Nora was going out with Dean, they hadn't really had a problem with that… until Dean dumped her for some Ravenclaw girl in their year.

"WHAT?" They shouted, again in unison. "You're going out with Terry Boot?" They said looking over at the Ravenclaw table.

"Well, I wanted to tell you guys, but I wanted to do it when the time was right." Hermione said apologetically.

"Every time is a right time to tell us that!" Ron said.

"No it is not! See how you react! We can't tell you anything!" Hermione said and an argument started between the four about the boys' over protectiveness. It wasn't until Ginny came and told them to shut up and let her tell them some news that they stopped arguing, but they continued to shoot glares at each other.

"What?" Ron asked his little sister.

"Well McGonagall told me to tell Harry that he's been made the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain!" she told them, beaming at Harry.

"So, I'm off the lifelong ban then?" he asked her, remembering Umbridge.

"Yeah, Umbridge is gone now, so you can play again," Ginny said, still beaming.

"That's brilliant!" he exclaimed. Then, as Ginny went to sit with her friends, he turned to Nora and looked very seriously. "Malfoy touched you?" he whispered, with a look shock, disgust and fury on his face. Nora, feeling more filthy by the minute, nodded, her eyes slowly filling with tears, though she quickly wiped them away and pretended they hadn't been there. She knew what the boys were thinking however.

"Don't go after him, though," she pleaded and Ron immediately began to object.

"But he touched you!" he whispered angrily. "He… He…" words obviously failed him, but they could tell him was furious about what happened. Hermione however insisted that they don't jinx Malfoy into oblivion and that they should just forget it happened. The boys, however, muttered they weren't likely to forget this within twenty years, but they agreed not to go after the bloody prick. Together the four walked to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, wondering who their new teacher was, as he hadn't been sitting at the Head Table since they had arrived.