Author's Note

Well, another successful chapter, thanks again for the great reviews! No flames yet! I guess I'm doing a good job. Lol.Well, this chapter does not have any "limes" like I had said. At the last minute I re-wrote the whole chapter. Hope you like!

Chapter Four:

By the way Harry and Hermione looked at Ron, he realized he had interrupted them.

"Oh...er...sorry, I guess I will go."

"No, it's ok Ron, you can stay." Hermione told him. She was no longer laying her head on Harry. Harry looked disappointed.

"Are you sure?"

"Sure"

"Alright, so, Malfoy is livid right now, I just seen him in the corridor. I wonder what's gotten to him?" Ron stated, with a look of wonder.

Hermione turned red.

"Oh, right, that would probably be because of me..." Hermione went on to explain her brief meeting with him earlier that morning.

"Haha, he deserved you bringing up his wonderful dad." Ron put on emphasis on wonderful.

"Yeah, I'm surprised that I didn't do more to him, I guess I didn't because with the way things were going this morning, if I would have I probably lost my prefect badge."

Harry had not joined the conversation, usually he would have jumped at the chance to poke fun at Malfoy. Hermione couldn't help but notice how he looked a bit upset and deep in thought when she looked at him looking at the mountains fly by outside the window.

Hermione and Ron continued to talk, soon GInny and Luna came back and joined in. They talked until Hermione and Ron had to go to the front compartment. Harry never said a word once.

Ron and Hermione left to go get new orders. She said good-bye to everyone, and gave Harry a hug when she left with Ron, but he only have her a faint smile. Hermione couldn't help but wonder why he was acting this way towards her.

In the corridor on the way to see the Head Boy and Head Girl, Ron asked what he was interrupting.

"Oh, it was nothing." Hermione replied.

"It didn't seem like nothing."

"Harry and I aren't fighting anymore. We talked and I realized how foolish I was for listening to a dream. I mean, you'd think I would learn after what happened last year with Harry." Ron was walking with his mouth agape because he had told Hermione that when he first seen her on the train today. Hermione did not seem to realize Ron's expression. She continued " I just wish you had entered a minute later, Harry was starting to tell me something. But you stopped him when you entered." Hermione sighed.

Ron knew at once what he had interrupted. Harry was going to tell Hermione about him fancying her.

They arrived at the front compartment. All they had to do was wait there until the train stopped and help direct first years to Hagrid. That was simple enough.

Hermione was the first to get off the train when it stopped. She yelled for the second years and older to follow her and for the first years to follow Hagrid. She then ran off to find Harry, who luckily, was entering a carriage right in front of her.

"Harry!" Hermione called out to him so he would not close the door. She ran over to him.

"Thanks for holding the door." She gasped due to the lack of breath from running.

"No problem."

"Oh, hey, Harry, are those things still there?" She asked curiously.

"What things?"

"The Threstrals."

"Oh, yeah, unfortunately. They give me the creeps."

They entered the carriage, which luckily, was empty. Hermione decided now was the perfect time to ask him about what he was going to ask her. There she was again, wonder, thinking about Harry. Was she ever going to stop?

"Harry?"

"Yeah"

"Um...so...what were you going to tell me on the train today before Ron entered?" Hermione asked shyly.

"Oh, I was going to tell you that...speak of the devil." Ron had just entered.

"Man, I thought I would never find you's." Ron let out a sigh of relief.

"Ron!"

"What? What did I do now?"

"Could you please stand outside the carriage for a second?" Hermione asked him.

"Er...sure..." he replied with a look of confusion on his face. However, right as he was about to exit, the carriage started to move. "Sorry mate, but I don't think I can now..."

"Fine, but forgive me, I will fix you in a minute. Libio Zarguus." Ron started to flail around. He was trying to scream, but he couldn't he didn't have a voice.

"Er...Hermione, what did you do to him?"

"Oh, I put a hex on him. It blinds him, and makes him deaf, and because he's deaf, he cannot determine tone, so therefore, he cannot talk."

"...Brilliant..." Harry said absentmindedly.

"Oh, so Harry what were you saying?"

"Oh, right...well, I was...er...just going to tell you...that I... Well Hermione, I fancy you." His face was a brilliant red.

"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed as she threw her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Hermione, what about Ron?"

"What do you mean, he won't care."

"No, I mean, are you going to fix him?"

" Oh right...Libio Zargus." Ron instantly looked as though life had finally flooded into his body.

"OY! WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT FOR?"

"Ron, Harry and I had to talk, we didn't want you to listen in." Hermione said matter of factly.

"You could have warned me!"

"Sorry mate, Hermione, what hex was that? It seemed like you said the same thing to put it on Ron and to reverse it." Harry said, very curiously.

"Oh, that was Libio Zarguus. That was the one to put it on him. Libio Zargus was the one to take it off."

"I didn't hear a difference." Stated Ron, still in a bad mood.

"Oh, but see, there is a difference. It's in the "Zargus". When casting the spell, it's pronounced zar-goose. However, when reversing the spell it's pronounced zar-gus. Very simple really." Hermione said, seeming to be extremely happy with herself for knowing this spell, which happened to be N.E.W.T. (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests).

The carriage stopped. Ron left, seeming to be glad to be getting away from Hermione. That had to be a new record. A fight before term even started. Hermione chuckled at the thought.

Hermione beat Harry out of the carriage, and before he could get out of the carriage Hermione stopped him. She put her finger to his lips so he couldn't talk. She then leaned in and kissed him on the lips. She blushed, but then said in a low voice in his ear "I fancy you too."

Author's Note

Well, things seem to be getting a little heated between Harry and Hermione don't they. Chapter five is longer, I promise, and more happens. Also, it is kind-of a background chapter. Review Please!

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