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Chapter 6

Everyone was now making their way out of the great hall to go to bed. Hermione led the way to the common room as Natalie, Ginny, Harry, and Ron all followed.

"Wow!" Natalie gasped in amazement as she entered the common room. It was the most spacious, comfortable looking room. "This is amazing! So this is pretty much like the Gryffindor hangout?"

"Yeah." Answered Ginny. "Pretty cool, huh?"

"Yep. So where do I sleep? I'm t-t-tired!" Natalie said letting out a huge yawn.

"Oh, you'll be in my dormitory!" Hermione said. "We have so much fun in there! If only the guys could come! Whoa it would be some crazy stuff!" 

Everyone looked at Hermione like she was crazy. She never talked like that.

"Um..Herm..? Are you ok?" Ron asked looking kinda scared.

"Of course! I just felt a little…rebellious." She laughed.

"Guys and girls can't go into each other's dorms?" Natalie asked confused. What did they think they were gonna do!?

"Well…we can go into guys dorms if we choose but they can't come in ours." Hermione said. "They just aren't trust worthy. I mean look at 'em!"

"Yeah? And what will happen if we do?" Harry asked curiously.

"Oh well that's no fun! You find out when you try!" Hermione said playfully. "Come on, Natalie…hey what do you want us to call you? Natalie, Nat…?"

"Um…I've never really had a 'nick-name' before." She answered.

"Well what did your old friends call you? Just Natalie?" Ron asked.

"Um…yeah. They didn't bother." Natalie answered. She wouldn't dare tell them that she had been a complete loser at her old school.

"Oh well hmm…well have to think of something other than that." Hermione said. "Come on, let's get some sleep." She beckoned Natalie to follow her and she did. In a few seconds, they disappeared up the stairs.

"Not trust worthy?" Ron asked amused. "Hah! That's funny!"

"Hey, wanna see what happens if we do try to get in their dorm?" Harry asked mischievously.

"Um…well…" Ron said nervously. "What if we like get in trouble? Or we get gross bumps all over our face?"

"Aw! Come on! It can't be that bad! We can just say we got bored and curious or something…" He said as he made his way toward the girl's dormitory.

"Um…ok." Ron said running to catch up with Harry.

Harry went up about five steps and he felt something rumble and the ground go out from under his feet. He fell on his face and slid down into Ron who had been standing at the bottom laughing.

He looked up and saw a long slope turn back into stairs.

"Haha! That was awesome!" Harry exclaimed jumping back on the steps…this time backwards so he would slide down on his back instead of his stomach.

Everyone was looking at him like he was stupid except Fred and George who had decided to join him and were now looking like idiots.

"Do you have any idea how stupid you guys look?" Ron asked amused.

"Yeah? So what?" Harry said standing up at the end and had apparently had enough. 

"Ok, that was interesting. Let's go to bed." Harry said making his way to their stairs.

"So who tried to come up?"

Harry and Ron spun around to see Hermione at the top of the slope with a smug look on her face.

"Told you there was no point." She said as she slid down the slope easily.

"Yeah well it was fun." Harry laughed.

"Why are you here anyways? I thought you were going to bed." Ron asked.

"Well I wasn't tired so I decided to come back out. So whatcha wanna do?" She asked happily.

"Where's Natalie?" Harry asked suddenly out of his stupid mood.

Hermione's happy expression changed suddenly into a sad, pitiful one. "Oh, well…umm.."

"What?" Harry asked.

"Well…she just wants to stay up there." She answered.

"Did we do something wrong?" Ron asked.

"Oh no! She thinks you guys are great! It's just…hey you guys wanna go for a walk?" Hermione asked noticed some other people listening.

"Yeah." They answered.

It was 9:00 and there was still some light in the sky. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were walking around the lake, Hermione still looking sad.

"Hey, why did you get sad all of the sudden?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, and why did you want to go one a walk?" Harry asked exchanging glances with Ron.

"It doesn't matter." She answered simply. "Natalie has just had a pretty tough life and well…it's sad."

"Tell us." Ron pressed.

"No," she said, "She didn't want me to tell anyone."

"Well you can tell us." Harry said simply.

"No, you are the last person she would want to tell!" Hermione said quickly.

Harry was taken aback and had a shocked and confused expression on his face.

"Oh, ok….well I'm tired, goodnight." Harry said and without waiting for an answer, walked back up to the castle.

"What the…?" Ron said looking at Harry's back.

"What was that all about?" Hermione asked worried. "He didn't take it personally did he?"

"Well, apparently he did but he probably wouldn't want us chasing after him." Ron said.

"Yeah I guess…but I'm not tired…do you want to keep walking?" She asked.

"Yeah."

They walked around the lake and didn't talk very much. Hermione had never felt so uncomfortable in her life. Why was she feeling this way? With Ron? 

"Soo…" Ron said to break the awkward silence.

"It's getting pretty dark. We should go inside." She said quietly. She looked at Ron and saw him staring at her.

"What?" She asked looking down to the ground quickly.

"Um…How long have we known each other again?" He asked getting closer to her.

"Why?" She asked looking slightly scared.

Before she knew it, his lips were against hers…but she didn't pull away. She liked it. It seemed like forever before they pulled apart.

"Wow." She said backing a few steps away from Ron.

Ron looked down quickly and even though it was dark, she could tell he was blushing furiously.

"Well, we should get back…it's getting late." She said looking at the ground as though it was interesting.

"Yeah." They walked a few feet away from each other up towards the castle and disappeared through the large oak doors.

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