Chapter One

Hermione woke up and looked at the alarm clock beside her bed. "Lovely. 6:00. I think I'll just go down to the library." she thought to herself. Hermione got up and walked over to the foot of her bed and opened her trunk. It was still a little dark in the girls' dormitory, so she held out her wand and whispered "Lumos" so she wouldn't wake anyone up. Once she could see into her trunk, she pulled out a light pink turtleneck, a pair of white-kaki corduroys, some shampoo, soap, and a towel and headed for the shower.

When Hermione finally reached the library at 6:30, she was very surprised when she walked through the door. "Ron? Is that you?" she said with a dumbfounded look on her face. "Yeah. Why?" replied Ron.

"Well-you-well-I-um-what are you doing?"

"I'm reading. Can't I read, too?"

"Well of course you can it's just-Merlin! I lust never thought I'd see the day when Ronald Weasley would be in library at 6:30 in the morning reading-an actual book!"

"What do you mean 'an actual book'?"

"You always read magazines like 'Quidditch Weekly' and those aren't books you know!"

"Well, I actually wasn't reading. I was sleeping most of the time."

"Go figure."

"I was waiting here for you really."

"How did you know I get up at 6:00 and come down to the library?"

"Ginny. Anyways, it seemed like a 'Hermione thing' to do. I also figured that this would be a good time to talk to you."

"Oh. What did you-er-want to talk to me about?" Hermione blushed. "OK. Just stay calm, stay calm." she thought to herself.

"Well, Lavendar is driving me insane! She won't stop following me! I can't get rid of her! Can you please tell her to stop? Please, Hermione, please!"

Hermione had a dumbfounder look on her face, thinking he was going to ask her something else. "Oh...um...right...you should tell her how you...uh...feel, I guess. Just tell her that you don't like her in that way and maybe you could just be friends. I've-uhm-got to go, Ron. Talk to you later."

Hermione ran out of the library leaving Ron with a perplexed look on his face. "At least he doesn't like HER." she said to herself when she reached the hallway.

Later on in the afternoon, Hermione met up with Harry, who (as always) had Parvati Patil with his arm around her waist, and Ron and walked to Hogsmead. Ron, of course, wanted to go into Honeydukes, so Hermione thought she should go with him to talk to him about earlier and told Harry and Parvati that they would meet them in The Three Broomsticks.

"Hey, Ron?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry about this morning-me running out and all-I forgot that I had to-uh- meet with Parvati this morning-um-to explain to her about this one thing we learned in History of Magic."

"Oh-that's fine. By the way, thanks for your advice-it helped!"

Ron winked at her.

"Oh-your welcome...RON! You going to trip over that bowl of..."

CRASH

Jelly Slugs fell all over the floor, covering it in goo. Hermione couldn't help but laugh. "What are you laughing for? I have to pay for all of these now! I don't even like Jelly Slugs. Especially when they are on the floor!"

"I'm sorry! -But you face-was so funny! -You looked like-a constipated baboon!" Hermione and Ron burst out laughing. "Which is very unusual for you because normally you look really hot." They both stopped laughing and Hermione blushed and started running through her mind what she had just said.