Chapter 5 – Their Cunning Plan.

Disclaimer: Hey guys guess what! I still don't own Harry Potter, shocking innit?

Harry kid – real sorry mate but it isn't Harry getting the job but I promise you I will make sure he is in it as much as possible. In fact I may fire a teacher and get him to replace them. But if not I'm already working on a new story to upload after this one which will have him as a main character.
FishAndMenCanLiveTogether a.k.a Loz ­ - it took me ages to work out that you weren't talking about the story I've been sat here thinking who the hell is Ashley until I thought back to P.E. (you're right you should have).
PaulaS – I know you weren't don't worry about it mate and I think I may have been a bit on edge that day so I was ready to make a lot of false accusations.
I also re-read the story you were talking about and I agree with you that it is quite similar so far so I will try to make it as different as possible. Don't worry all will be explained soon if not in this chapter then the next.
Bhekie – don't feel mad at Neville it was really very useful with what he said seeing as how it helps my story along and anyway someone got to have a big mouth haven't they?
Martha – ha I shall resist the bagpuss threat! (But I did start writing again after reading your review lets just call it a coincidence!).

Ginny walked down the hallway to Hermione's room, she had been in there all morning and had already completely missed breakfast. The door was locked so Ginny knocked. After a few minutes Hermione opened it and Ginny barged in before she could say anything.

"You missed breakfast."

"I over slept." Hermione muttered flopping down on the bed "I'm on holiday too I'm allowed a lie in from time to time."

"You were quiet all of yesterday."

"Yeh well no one was supposed to be happy, we were supposed to be remembering all our friends who died."

"But still everyone got on with things you just locked yourself in your room all night."

"So?"

"I know you're upset for various reasons but can you just leave it for a while?"

"You're asking me to just hide all my feelings?" Hermione snapped.

"No, no of course not, but Ron's only just come back can you let him settle in before we question him too badly."

"I don't know Ginny."

"Please he's my brother I don't want to loose him again. And I don't think mum would be able to cope if he left." Ginny pleaded.

"Fine but I'm not just going to forget it, I'm still going to confront him, but I suppose I've waited this long another week or so won't hurt."

"Hermione you are the bestest best friend in the whole entire world!" Ginny squealed running over and hugging Hermione.

"Ok Ginny calm." Hermione laughed.

"Oh and Dumbledore asked if you'd be on duty later on outside, Neville fell into a vat of one of Malfoy's potions and has turned green. So obviously they can't do it."

"What potion was this?"

"I don't know really. Malfoy never said what he was making."

"So Neville's in the hospital wing?"

"Oh no, Malfoy undid the effect quite easily but then Neville was running away from Peeves and fell down the stairs and knocked himself out. He's in his room and Malfoy's cleaning up the potion."

"He really does seem different nowadays."

"Yeh I know, he's even nice to Harry marrying Lavender and having a kid was the best thing he ever did. Have you seen him with Leon he's so un Malfoy like it's quite sweet really."

"I know! Anyway tell Dumbledore that that's fine."

"Ok see you at lunch?"

"Yeh sure."

Ginny got up and left the room, she walked back down the hall to the room her and Harry were staying in. She opened the door to find not only Harry, but Neville, Draco, Fred and George too.

"Well?" George asked looking up.

"It's all set, she said she'll do it so now it's down to you two how do you plan on getting them in there?" Ginny asked turning to Fred and George.

"Oh we have a few tricks up our sleeves."

"So basically just drag them in there and lock the doors right?" Draco shot.

"N-no." Fred stuttered turning red. Everyone shot him a 'yeh right' look "yeh ok that's what we we're going to do." He sighed.

"Come on lets go find Ron he'll want to celebrate getting the job." Harry said getting up and sliding his arm around Ginny's waist. Everyone got up and started to leave.

"Oh actually you two Hermione can't see you guys before she goes out on duty." Ginny said to Draco and Neville

"Why?" Neville asked

"'Cuz she thinks you're out cold and in you're room. So you'd better stay there for a while. And Draco you're supposed to be cleaning up a spilt potion in you're classroom. It's the only thing I could think of at the time, she asked why you couldn't do it."

"Oh ok. I've got papers to mark anyway" Draco shrugged and he and Neville walked off to their separate rooms.

The four of them found Ron in the Gryffindor common room playing wizard chess against Lee.

"Hi Ron, have you been here all day?" Fred asked while ruffling Lee's red hair.

"Nah I just said bye to mum, Bill, Charlie and Percy, they all needed to go back to work tomorrow. Mum said she'd owl you guys tomorrow."

"Well mind if we watch you play?" Ginny asked settling herself down so she could see the clock. A little later, when Lee had been beaten twice and won once, James and Leon joined them and they all went to lunch.

Hermione finished her lunch and left her friends ready to start walking out to the lake to keep an eye on the kids out there. She sighed as the cold nipped at her face and hands, but was thankful that it was neither snowing nor raining. It amazed her how all the students could spend their time out here, most of them wearing little more than jeans and a t-shirt.

After thirty minutes she was about ready to hurl herself into the lake just as something to do so she was eternally grateful when she was Fred running towards her.

"Hermione! I think a kid has locked themselves in the Quidditch changing rooms!"

"Why?"

"Because the door's locked and there's a kid in there."

Fred turned and started walking quickly back to the other end of the field and onto the Quidditch pitch. They stopped at the door and Hermione grabbed the door handle and rattled it. It opened.

"Fred what on earth did you drag me down here for, you could have easily opened the bloody UNLOCKED door yourself!" Hermione yelled, just so very slightly annoyed.

"Hermione calm yourself, hold some dignity, even if it had been that door which was locked a simple spell would have put it right no I need your brilliant powers over persuasion to get the student out of the shower room where the door is very much spell proof." Fred said with a bemused expression.

"Oh. Right. Ok then." Hermione muttered feeling slightly embarrassed as she followed Fred into the changing room. The door however was wide open. Hermione turned round giving Fred a questioning look.

"Sorry Hermione I really hate to do this but you'll thank us in the end." He said as he pushed her into the room and locker the door behind him.

"Ron! You have to come and see what they've done to the changing rooms it's so cool!" George called jogging across the lawn towards him.

"Why what is it they've done?" Ron asked as he found himself being dragged along behind his brother.

"Oh you'll see."

They finally got to the changing rooms and George pushed Ron into the room. Ron looked around expectantly but it all looked about the same as when he had been at school. In fact it was exactly the same. There was even the dent in one of the lockers where Oliver had punched it after loosing a game against Hufflepuff of all teams! Ron was just about to turn around to ask George what the hell was he playing at when he heard the click of the door being locked.

He stood still for a second before pulling out his wand and quickly walking over to the door. He tried various spells before concluding that a spell had been placed upon it that he couldn't undo. He sat on the bench and rested his head in his hands. He sat there for a moment wishing that his head would stop thumping, when he realised it wasn't his head and more the shower room door. He unlocked it and yanked it open sending Hermione flying into him.

"Oh thank god I thought I'd be in there until classes started!" Hermione cried as she picked herself up and brushed herself down. She looked up to see Ron trying not to laugh. "Oh hi Ron." She muttered before walking the door and trying to open it.

"I've tried it, George locked me, well us, in."

"Oh great perfect just perfect."

"Hey! Calm down." Ron laughed. "It's not the end of the world, people know we're here so it's not like we'll be stuck for ever. This is just one of Fred and George's jokes. They'll come and let us out eventually."

"So what do we do until then?"

"Wait I suppose. It'll be a great chance to catch up! I've hardly spoken to you so far you always seem to have work, I suppose I'll be like that soon, when I start teaching."

"Oh just bloody perfect!" Hermione muttered to herself but Ron still heard.

"Well you could try to be a little happy it isn't that bad is it?"

"Actually yes it bloody well is. See the thing is you seem to have forgotten how you left, or you want to forget, well the thing is it's still with me so it's a little harder for me to be happy seeing as how I want to hex you into oblivion."

"God Hermione that was ten years ago." Ron muttered trying to laugh but failed quite badly.

"Well it still hurts Ron." She whispered

"Well then can't we just go back to how it was, I still like you and I'm guessing you still like me so how about we give it another try?" Ron cleared the space between them in two quick steps and took her face in his hands.

"What so I can wake up one morning and find your side of the bed empty? Half your clothes gone? Sit around for two whole years in the vein hope you'd come back or at least write?" Hermione yelled pushing him away. "No Ron, no I can't do that. We were together for four years Ron, you said you loved me, did that mean absolutely nothing to you?"

"Of course it didn't you meant so much to me."

"Not enough to make you stay though." Hermione whispered closing her eyes hoping when she opened them that this wouldn't be happening.

"What can I do? Tell me and I will!" Ron pleaded. Hermione slowly opened her eyes nope still here. She sighed.

"Nothing Ron! You can't do anything! It's not like you can get the Quidditch teams to write a message in the sky and then all will be forgiven."

"Why not?"

"It just doesn't work that way, I trusted you with myself. I gave you my all and I really loved you. Then you broke my heart you just left and it took me a long time but I got over you. I'm not going to go back to how it was just so you can hurt me again."

"But Hermione I've changed I promise I have! You'll see. Please just take me back?" Ron begged.

"I can't Ron and you know it. But seeing as how we're going to be working together I guess it'll be hard for me to hate you all the time so friends?" Hermione asked as she stuck out her hand.

"Yeh ok." Ron muttered as he shook it, disappointed. But, he told himself, it was a start.

Hermione went and lay across one of the benches, she was happy to have got her feelings out but upset at the same time and also a little scared, was she really 100 over him or was she just kidding herself? Only time would tell she guessed. She looked across at him. He was stood in the centre of the room, his face scrunched up in concentration. She giggled.

"Ron what the hell are you doing?" she asked between laughs.

"I'm trying to apperate."

"God Ron does nothing penetrate that thick skull of yours? Where are we?"

"Hogwarts."

"And what is it you cannot do inside the Hogwarts grounds?"

"Erm..."

"Think back to that book I quoted at least a million times per year, the one you said make a handy fourth leg to your bed when it broke in sixth year? Ringing any bells at all?"

"Erm..."

"You really are very slow aren't you?" She snapped but with a smile to show she was only teasing. "Come on say it with me 'You cannot apperate or disapperate inside the Hogwarts grounds!'"

"Oh yeh. Well we're buggered then aren't we? We're stuck."

"Yeh but Fred and George will let us out."

"It's dinner time. They're not gonna come for hours."