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Hermione groaned, wincing at the sudden light flooding in her room. "Wow Ron, look out this window, she has an excellent view from here." Harry yelled excitedly. She stretched and opened her eyes just in time to see Ron ready to pelt a pillow at her. "Alright, alright, I'm up." She moaned.
"Hey Hermione, why up so early? It's not even a weekday." Harry teased, his emerald colored eyes sparkling with mischief.
Hermione gave him one of her withering looks, "Why did I ever decide to give you guys the password and must you two rampage my room so early in the morning?"
Both boys looked solemnly at her and said in unison, "We must; it's our duty."
Hermione laughed and threw the nearest pillow. "Did you rehearse that?"
Harry grinned, "Nope, but you should have seen Ron before we came into your room. He started threatening Malfoy's portrait to open up or else…"
"Serves the git right. How did he end up as Head Boy anyways? Such a shame it didn't work." Muttered Ron. Hermione chuckled.
"Ugh, I'm starving! Come on Hermione hurry up! Breakfast is going to end soon!" Ron suddenly complained. Harry rolled his eyes, "Right and it just started." Ron didn't appear to have heard as he grumbled, mumbling nonstop about good health.
Hermione smiled, thinking how good it felt to be with her friends. "You two can go on ahead. I'll be down in a few minutes."
"She'll fall for it for sure. Who knows, this plan may actually work. Imagine, kill two birds with one stone…"
Hermione sat down for breakfast. "Finally," Ron said, chomping on a piece of toast. "Someone has decided to grace us with her presence. Harry and I were afraid you fell asleep in the bathroom or… got attacked!! Imagine, what would we ever do without our Head Girl?"
"Very funny Ron, very funny." Hermione scoffed, helping herself to bacon and eggs.
Harry asked curiously, "What did take you so long?"
"Ugh, its just one of those slow…." Hermione paused as the owls flew in for the weekly mail. "Hey guys, look, my mum sent us some homemade chocolate cookies!" Ron said grinning, reading a letter with Harry.
Hermione however wasn't listening for she was occupied with her own package. It was a rather small yellow box, yet was adorned with a beautiful black ribbon. Hermione eyed it curiously, wondering who might have sent it. She opened it carefully and to her surprise, it was a small teddy bear.
"Hermione, late birthday present?" Harry joked, poking at the fluffy white fur and the dark purple bow tied around its neck.
Ron looked over, "Dunno about that. Her birthday was three weeks ago!"
Hermione scrutinized every inch of the bear as she sat it on her lap, admiring the golden eyes. "Well, it is rather cute. I wonder who sent it to me." She said bemused.
Ron shruggled. "There's the card." He said, pointing a chocolate covered finger at a white envelope on the ground. Hermione picked it up and opened it to find a short letter. Harry and Ron watched her reaction as she scanned it quickly. To their utter dismay, a slight blush crept across her face.
"Well, he seems really nice and…interesting." Hermione admitted, wrapping her arms around the bear and smiling thoughtfully.
"He?" Ron gaped.
Ron stared at Harry. The message on his face saying, "Did you send that?" He got all the answer he needed as he saw the slight crestfallen look on his best friend's face.
"Yesss, she received it…."
"Draco, what are you staring at?"
"Nothing Blaise. Nothing."
A/N: Heh heh, never judge a book by its cover. What might be up with Harry? Oh and for reference, Hermione's birthday is on September 19th. That's all for now folks, don't forget to review!