Chap six is here! Enjoy peeps!

Chapter Six: Out in the Open

"You didn't act like you were supposed to Granger" he said, slowly making his way towards me.

I stood up and looked him in the eye, to prove that I wasn't afraid of him.

"What do you want Oliver?" I questioned, as I slowly backed away from him. Which only resulted in backing myself into a wall.

He laughed cruelly before he spoke again.

"Do you think that I am that stupid? When I told you I couldn't been seen with you, you were supposed to beg for me to be your boyfriend, not storm off back up to your precious friends in Gryffindor tower!"

He said the word Gryffindor with suck a look on his face that anyone who walked in would think that he had just eaten something revolting. But I knew otherwise. I laughed at how idiotic he was behaving and went to march straight past him and out of the room, but as I reached the door handle, he grabbed me by the waist and through me backwards, back against the wall.

I winced as I felt my body come into contact with solid concrete, but refused to let him see me like this. So slowly, I regained my composure and removed my wand from my robe pocket. I pointed it straight at him before I spoke.

"I don't know what you're playing at, Oliver, but you had better stop, or your going to wish you had never met me in the first place, I swear" I said dangerously.

For the second time, I attempted to make for the door, but this time, just as I knew he was going to push me backwards, I held up my wand and screamed 'Expelliarmas!'. Anyone who passed by the door at that moment would have thought that a duel was taking place, but I soon remembered that everyone else would already be in class by now.

My spell, however, sent Oliver flying backwards and into an unused desk at the far side of the room. I cast the charm on the door, to make it open, and then placed it back inside my robe pocket. Just as I turned the handle on the door, I looked over at Oliver, just as he was getting up of the floor and stared at him, to get my point across.

"Don't ever, ever, try that again, or next time you will get hexed so hard, you will end up going backwards into last week!"

I spun on my heal and slammed the door shut behind myself. Whatever just happened in there, I wasn't about to stop and analyze it, so without another thought, I headed of to the rest of first lesson, which was unfortunately, Potions with Snape and the Slytherins. I knew that I was going to pay for my lateness, but I couldn't help smiling to myself, despite the fact.

"Miss Granger, do you have any idea how late your are to my class?" Snape roared as soon as I opened the door to the classroom.

"Sorry" I said. "I had some things I needed to take care of first"

"You make up your lateness, by serving detention here, tonight, at seven o'clock sharp, and don't be late!"

"Yes professor" I said, barely audible.

Quickly, I took a seat in between Harry and Ron, and began to take notes down off the board, as they sent me looks that said 'what-happened?' and 'are-you-ok?'. I gave them both encouraging smiles and went back to the lesson as I didn't want to get into trouble again.

"Ok Hermione, what's going on?"

It was dinner time in the Great Hall, and we had just finished lessons for the day, thankfully, and Ron and Harry were trying to get out of me what happened and why I was so late to the lesson. I really didn't want to have to explain the whole situation with Oliver to Ron, seeing as Harry already knew about it, and the fact that he was the one who made me late for class, so I made up a white lie on the spot, I could tell Harry about it later couldn't I? After all, I really needed to ask him something.

"Sorry, guys, but I was just in the library and I lost track of time, that's all" I said, hoping that Harry would play along, unfortunately, he didn't, apparently, he wanted the truth now, no matter what.

"You and I know that's not true Hermione, after we finished talking this morning at breakfast…"Harry seemed to swallow a lump in his throat at the thought of it. "You said you were going back to the dormitories to get a book you forgot"

He stopped for a moment, seeming deep in thought, when he spoke again, only this time I could sense that he was angry, he knew something had happened between me and Oliver.

"Hermione, did Oliver have anything to do with why you were late this morning?" he asked.

But before I could answer, Ron jumped in.

"Who's Oliver?: he questioned, looking from me to Harry.

I knew I was going to have to tell him sooner or later, so I figured that now was as good a time as any.

"Well…"

And so I told him, everything that had happened between me and Oliver, then I went on to tell them both what had happened this morning, an by the time I was finished, both looked ready to kill. But thankfully, neither of them moved from their seats, and that I was grateful for.

"Please, promise me that either of you wont go and do something stupid, please?" I begged, looking from Harry to Ron.

They both nodded in return, and said in unison, 'we promise', which I was glad about.

"Thank you, now can we please talk about something else, anything else?" I asked.

Harry gave me his infamous smile and I couldn't help but return it. We both dug into our dinner, when Harry had to leave, he said he was going to get a head start on his Potions essay, but I couldn't help but think that something else was bothering him, in fact, I knew something was bothering him, and my instincts were usually right.

"Hey Ron" he looked up at me to show that he was listening. "Is there something bothering Harry?"

A/N: Ok, hope you all enjoyed that! Chapter seven is on the way! Please, please review and no flames! Thanks!

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