A/N: Hello to all! Now, don't hurt me because of this but it's gonna be another pointless chapter. But have patience, the next chapter is QUIDDITCH! Nobody's as excited as I am.



Chapter 13

Detention and Unwanted Dates.



Three Days before the first Quidditch Match

The first Quidditch match was going to be in a week. Harry had become a workaholic, insisting on practice everyday for 3 hours. In a way, he was worse than Oliver Wood when he was on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.

"Ugh. I cannot believe this. Harry is working us like crazy." Complained Hermione. The team had just come from their 3 hour Quidditch practice. Harry wasn't there yet because he was giving his speech. Luckily, the rest of the team escaped it. Hermione performed a charm that duplicated a person so while the duplicate was listening to Harry, the real people were back in the common room.

"He's your boyfriend, talk some sense into him." Said Ginny.

"He won't budge. You don't know him like I do.' Said Susan.

Hermione lifted an eyebrow. "I know him longer, since our first year actually."

"Well, it doesn't matter, the point is that we have got to stop the practices and the long talks. It's killing the whole team." Said Ginny.

"Well, it is."

"And what's worse is that Ron still isn't talking to us. And how are we supposed to play if our keeper will have nothing to do with us?" said Hermione.

"Questions, questions, anybody got any answers?" asked Susan.

"No." said Ginny and Hermione at the same time.

"This is bad."

"Talk some sense into him. We cannot spend the whole evening playing Quidditch. Do you know how behind on homework we are?" asked Hermione.

"Professor Koljinky already gave me detention for not turning in that potions essay." Said Susan.

"When is it gonna be?"

"Tonight at 10."

"Why so late?"

"Because I asked for it to be that late. Practice, homework all that stuff."

"I pity you because I'm in O.W.L. year and they give us lots of homework, how do you manage it?" asked Ginny.

"I don't know how we're gonna survive next year if we can hardly survive this year." Said Susan.

"I hate to say it, but I agree. This is almost as bad as my third year with the time turner." Said Hermione.

"The time turners. That's it!" cried Susan.

"What about them?"

"Remember, McGonagall gave us time turners, well, we can use them to redo hours. Like you're working on a potions essay in the Common Room, you finished it, and then you turn back and do another essay or something in a different classroom so you won't be seen." Said Susan.

"That's a good idea. I can't believe that I didn't think of it." Said Ginny.

"Then I do the detention, come back in time and come back to the common room and have time to do homework." Said Susan.

"I'm warning you, it's very tiring. It's like a part of you isn't there. And it will drive you nuts. Trust me." Said Hermione.

"We can still try it." Said Ginny.

"I guess we can."

Harry came in. "Hey, how did you get here before I did?"

"Oh, well, you see, we— they began.

"You flew up here? Smart. And you got the extra practice like that. I like your dedication."

"Hole shit!" Susan looked at her watch. "I gotta get to detention at top speed."

"Detention? How in the world did you get detention? You cannot, we cannot afford to get detention right before a Quidditch game." Then Harry went into a rant about how irresponsible Susan was and blah, blah, blah.

'Uh, gotta go." Susan dashed out of the common room.

"Um, we need to do some homework." Said Hermione.

"In our dorm." Added Ginny.

"Away from you."

Harry seemed to not have heard them. He was still talking.

"Let's just go."

Hermione and Ginny crept out of the Common Room.

Meanwhile at Susan's Detention...

"You're late." Wheezed Filch.

"Geez, sorry. It's not my fault that Harry wants 3 hour Quidditch practices and 2 hour pep talks after that."

"Does it look like I care where you've been? Today, you will be washing the floor. Get started."

He handed her a bucket of soap and a rag to wash the floors with. Susan started on the floor.

An hour later...

Still washing...

Two hours later...

Still washing...

Three hours later...

She was done. It was already one in the morning. Susan left the bucket and the rag and headed up to Gryffindor Tower. When she went in, she found that Ginny and Hermione were waiting for her.

"Hey, god I'm tired. Should we get started on the homework?"

"You look very tired. Just do it tomorrow." Said Hermione.

"N-no. I should finish it today." Susan yawned and got started on the charms essay.

"Okay then." Said Ginny.

"Have you finished your homework?" asked Susan.

"Nope. We'll do it now."

The three girls started writing one essay after another. Soon they fell asleep right on top of their essays.

The next day...

"God I'm a mess." Said Susan. She had dark circles under her eyes and her hair was all tangled.

"Here." Hermione handed her some concealer to put under her eyes.

"Thanks."

"Give me some too." Said Ginny.

"Here."

After the girls looked a bit more human, they came down to breakfast. The day passed by in a rush. There was practice again and even though they used their time turners to try and get more homework done, they were still tired. Harry still insisted on the long practices, using the excuse, "you're gonna thank me some day when we've won the Quidditch cup". Susan had talked to him but the best that she managed to do was get him to make his pep talk only 5 minutes long.

"Why was he talking so fast?" asked Ginny.

"Because he needed to fit in everything he wanted to say into 5 minutes." Said Susan, smiling.

"You convinced him to do that?"

"Yep."

"Dang, you're good."

"Thank you."

Susan went over to Harry. "You know, we never have much time for us anymore."

"I guess."

"Wanna do something?"

"What's on your mind?"

"Some snogging.'

"Fine with me."

Susan and Harry disappeared.

"I wonder where they've gone." Said Hermione. Hermione and Ginny didn't hear what Susan said to Harry so they didn't know.

"What do you think they're doing? Probably the same thing that you and Ron used to do." Said Ginny, looking over at Ron. Ron hadn't made up to them yet, even though they were ready to forgive him already.

Hermione blushed. "Well that's in the past." She said sadly. "Come on, let's go. Maybe I can get a date with some guy. Nothing like a date could take your mind of things."

"You miss him, don't you?" asked Ginny.

"Who? Ron? N-no, of course not." Hermione lied.

"Don't lie to me. You know you are a horrible liar."

"Okay, so maybe I do. But how am I supposed to tell him that?"

"Write him a note?"

"He won't even read it because he knows my handwriting."

"Talk to him?"

"He'll ignore me."

"Spread a rumor?"

"He won't think that that's a good apology."

"I got an idea. How about we ask McGonagall for your next class to pair you and Ron up? You will have to talk to each other on a project that's a discussion."

"Sure. And lets ask Voldemort to talk to him about how I feel." Said Hermione sarcastically.

"Well, you should try something."

"Look it's over, it's done with. Its history and I'm moving on. I'm not gonna stay in the past and hope that Ron will come back. It's the end for us. We weren't meant to be anyways."

Both of them didn't say anything for quite a while.

"Hello Hermione." Said a boy.

"Hi." Hermione started twirling a lock of hair.

Ginny frowned.

"Listen, would you like to, you know, go out with me sometime?"

"Sure." Hermione gave him a smile.

Ginny's frown widened.

"Great. Well, um, see you at 11 up at the North Tower."

"Okay. Bye-bye." Hermione gave him another smile.

"Hermione, what the hell do you think you're doing?" said Ginny.

"Getting a date."

"With a boy you barely know."

"I do know him. I've seen him once in the Great Hall."

"Okay, what's his name?"

"Ummmm..."

"You don't even know his name. Oh my god." Ginny shook her head in a disapproving way.

"I do to. I just forgot it for the moment."

"Right."

The two girls headed back to the Gryffindor Tower when the boy that asked Hermione out came back with another boy.

"Hey Hermione."

Hermione gave him a smile.

"What do you want?" asked Ginny.

"Listen," Said the other boy. "I, uh, I-I..."

"You what?" asked Ginny.

"I uh—

"He has liked you for a long time and wants you to go out with him." Said the other boy (the one that asked Hermione out.)

"And you are..." said Ginny.

"Oh, I'm Ted. And this is Matt."

"Ted. I like that name." said Hermione, going into flirting mode since Ron had just turned the corner. "Oh I can't wait for our date tonight." She said loudly.

Ron looked very angry.

"So, will you go with me?" asked Matt.

"Well, I..." Ginny saw the look on Ron's face and said. "Sure, I'd love too."

"Great. See you at 11 on the South Tower."

"Can't wait." Said Ginny, faking a smile.

"Well, see you at 11. Bye." Ted said.

"Bye." Said Hermione.

Ron shook his head and turned around and walked back.

"I can't believe I have a date." Said Ginny grumpily.

"Try to contain your enthusiasm." Said Hermione.

"Why did Ron have to be there? I could have said no. but yet, he always turns up in the wrong place."

"Just like him."

"Yeah."

The girls got back to the Common Room. Susan and Harry were there, making out.

"Get a room.' Said Ginny, smiling.

"Why?"

"Because."

"Whatever." Susan and Harry went back to snogging.

"Those two.' Said Hermione, shaking her head.

Ginny and Hermione took out their homework and began working on it. By the time they were done, it was already 10.

"Come on, lets get ready." Said Hermione.

"Why? I'm not going on that date. I'll stay here."

"Oh yes you are going. If I have to drag you along I will get you there."

"Noooooooooooooooo!" wailed Ginny. "I don't wanna go."

"We're going." Said Susan and Harry. They had finally broken apart.

'Where are y'all going?"

"On a date."

"You guys are pathetic. I mean, you spent the whole evening together."

"So?"

"Your point?"

Ginny gave an exasperated sigh.

"Come on, lets get you ready for your date." Said Hermione, pulling Ginny along.

"I don't want to go. Why can't you go by yourself with your loser and say to my date that I stood him up. It's that easy."

"Who are you going with?" asked Harry.

"This boy named, ummm, what was his name again? Started with a N, right?" said Ginny.

"His name was Matt."

"Oh."

"Matt? Matt Wilkerson? That boy asked me out once but I turned him down. Or was it twice? No I remember it was three times. Or four? Or— said Susan.

"He asked you out?" asked Harry.

"Don't worry. I turned him down because I was with you."

"No duh." Said Hermione. "You've been together since you've met."

"We have? Cool." Harry put his arm around Susan.

"Lets go get you ready. And I have to get ready too actually." Said Hermione.

The three girls went up to their dorm. Harry waited downstairs. When they were done, they went back downstairs and proceeded to their dates.



A/N: Hello again. Well, I decided that Quidditch won't be in the next chapter but in the one after that. Sorry about that but I wanted to tell about the dates in the next chappie. Well, what are you waiting for, help out a person who has a cold, REVIEW!