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A/N: Oy! I'm back for a new chappy! (sweat too much romance going on) Sorry for the delay, I couldn't type this out for a while --;;OH! Don't forget to read and review!!!! xD

Chapter 5: Love or is it?

Early the next morning, Harry got up from his bed and got dressed for classes. He silently walked to the common room and sat by the warm fire next to him. Harry sat there alone staring at the fire; he turned his head to the staircase to their dorms. He heard footsteps coming from the staircase, walking down the stairs came Julia.

"Oh, it's just you," Harry said

"Yeah, it's only me, what are you doing up do early anyways?" Julia asked, out of curiosity.

"I couldn't get any sleep, you?" Harry lied.

"Well I'm just up so I could, er… get to class earlier," she stuttered, "Mind if I sit beside you?"

"Er… yeah sure," he patted a spot on the couch where Julia could sit.

Julia walked to the couch and took a seat near Harry. She was shivering from the coldness of the room, even though the fireplace was brightly lit up. Harry grabbed a blanket on one of the other couches and wrapped it around Julia. He put his arms around her shoulders. She was shivering a lot.

"Cold?" Harry asked.

"Mhmm," Julia nodded.

It was still dark outside, with Harry's arms around Julia, she slowly turned to give him a kiss on the lips. Just then Hermione silently walked into Julia and Harry.

"Oh-um A-am I interrupting something?" Hermione said.

Harry and Julia were now sitting on opposite sides of the couch hushing brightly.

"Uh – Hermione, it's not what it seems," Harry stuttered.

"Oh?" Hermione crossed her arms, her voice with a hint of anger. "Mind explaining?"

Harry stuttered and Julia remained quiet.

at the great hall

"Oy, that was great!" Ron exclaimed.

"Yeah," Michelle agreed.

"What class do we have next?" Julia inquired, as she rummaged through her backpack.

"DADA," Hermione said angrily.

"What's her problem?" Michelle whispered to Ron.

"I dunno," Ron said.

at DADA

As Professor Lupin was teaching a lesson, an exchange student barged into class.

"Is this Defense Against the Dark Arts class?" he asked politely.

"Yes, indeed," Lupin said.

"Sorry I'm late, Professor Dumbledore kept me a bit late for class," he said, "He told me to give this note to you." He went to give Lupin the note.

"Ah, I see… you're the new exchange student, Takashi, is it?" he asked.

"Yes, sir," Takashi said,

"Please call me professor Lupin," he said, "Take a seat."

Takashi walked to an empty seat besides one of the Raven Claws, his unbelievably long sword caught everyone's eye. Everyone's mouths were open wide with drool coming out while staring at his sword.

"Why does he have that humungous sword with him?" Hermione whispered to the others.

"I dunno, are you… er… even allowed to have those in school?" Ron said, looking a bit frightened from Takashi's sword.

"Who knows," Michelle said, "I mean, he doesn't even have a wand with him."

"I read in a book that there is a spell to transfer wand magic into other objects," Hermione stated.

"You think that's what he's using for his wand?" Julia asked.

"Possibly," Harry said.

"Well, you never know," Michelle, added.

DADA class has ended and the gang all went back to the common for break. Everyone but Hermione didn't start on their essay from professor Lupin. Ron sat beside Michelle and Harry sat as far away from Julia as possible.

"What's wrong with them? They've been acting like this since this morning," Michelle sighed.

"I dunno," Ron replied.

"We better take care of this," she said.

"Wha…?" he paused.

"Don't think I could do thing on my own," she put one arm on her hip.

"Oh fine," he whined while crossing his arms.

Michelle got up from the couch and walked up to Julia.

"Julia, I need to talk to you, it's important," she said, grabbing Julia's arm.

"Hm?" Julia replied, "O… kay."

Julia jumped up from the couch and followed Michelle to a corner away from Harry and Hermione.

"Listen, Julia," Michelle whispered, "What's wrong? I mean you, Harry and Hermione have been acting weird all day."

"I seriously don't want to talk about it Michelle," she replied

"Come on, we've been friends for how long? You know that you could talk to me about anything," she said

"You're right, but still, I don't think that I should tell anyone about it yet,"

"Pweash?" Michelle did her puppy eyes to make Julia tell.

"Oh please! Puppy eyes would never work on me anymore!" she exclaimed

There was a short, and quiet pause for about a minute or so.

"All right! All right!" she exclaimed, "I'll tell you."

"Thank you," she smirked, "Hah! Puppy eyes do work on you," she stuck her tongue out.

"I hate you," she really didn't mean it.

"Yeah and my name is bob," she said sarcastically, "Now on to what's wrong with you, Harry and Hermione."

"Well, err…" she started, "Um… how do I put this?" she said to herself. Julia put her hand on her shoulder. "Erm… okay, well, you see. Harry and I got up really early in the morning, but at different times,"

"And…?" she was confused.

"Well, we were cuddling in the cool, brisk night in the common room," she replied, "Then, it happened."

"What?!?!?!? Tell me!" Michelle exclaimed. She was left wanting to know what happened with Harry, Julia and Hermione. Don't tell me Hermione caught them doing something that she didn't like. She thought.

"Um… I kissed Harry and while we were kissing…" she started, "Err… um… Hermione just walked in on us kissing."

"You what!?!"

"Shh!!!!!" she said, "But while we were kissing, Hermione came down from the girls' dorms and saw us kissing. I think she hates me now."

"Oh… I had no idea, I'm sorry,"

"It's okay," Julia sighed.

"You want to head back to the guys now? You don't have to sit on the same couch as Harry is, just sit with us if you're so afraid of him," she said sarcastically.

"What ever!"

Mean while Ron had a talk with Harry.

"Oy, mate, what's wrong with you?" Ron asked

"Y-yeah I'm fine," said Harry

"All right,"

"Yeah…"

The two girls walked back to Harry and Ron, leaving out Hermione. They both sat on the right side of Ron.

"Did you find out anything?" Michelle asked.

"Uh… n-n… nope," Ron answered.

"Right thanks, anyways I'll see you guys later, I have to… um… go to the bathroom," she said.

"All right, bye," Ron said after giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"Bye," the other three said in unison.

Michelle got up and left for the doors. Everyone remained quiet until Michelle came back from the "bathroom." About 1-2 hours later, Michelle came back and everyone was still in their seats.

"Hey I'm back!" she said

"Oy! That was a long bathroom break!" Ron exclaimed

"Shut it Ronald!" Hermione said

Ron suddenly became quiet.

"Well look at the time, Transfiguration is about to start," Michelle stated, "Let's go."

"Yeah we'd better be going," Harry said

They all started getting their stuff ready for Transfiguration. But the only person that stayed for a moment was Julia. She grabbed Harry's hand and they talked about his morning.

"Harry, I need to talk to you," Julia said.

"About the um…"

"Yeah," she nodded, "I don't know what has got-"

Julia had stopped because Harry had given her a short passionate kiss on the lips.

"Hey, I like you, and nothing can change that,"

"Aww… oh! I just remembered we better to class before McGonagall takes points from us,"

"Yeah we better get to it,"