she slammed the door shut, and wrapped her arms around her boyfriend.

She laughed as he shrugged and went to sit down, still holding her onto her with one hand and grasping what consciousness he had with the other.

She was sitting on his lap when he reached over and picked on of the bears up. "You know love, its rather funny that he chose his revenge with Teddy bears I mean, we sent a bogart after him, that was rather a low blow... what the , AHAHHHHHHHHHHH" The cute, adorable, innocent teddy bear morphed, at rapid speed into an eight-legged- hairy, crazy moving spider!

Hermione, who wasn't terrified of spiders, was more than a little unnerved as spiders crawled out of every nook and craney of the room. Hermione was the first to realize that the Teddy bears were becoming spiders.

Ron, was no help in getting rid of them, he grabbed a base-ball bat, (which was the only muggle sport he whole-heartedly enjoyed, particularly the Boston Red Sox! Excellent.) which he then proceeded smack at random objects from far away on top of the desk, the whole wile screaming like a pansy.

Hermione was a different story. She was a champ and soon discovered that stomping them really didn't do the job, they were too large. So she began to try a variety of jinxes and hexes, which only affected what they looked like, what damage they did on the furniture and how badly they scared Ron. Eventually she began screaming as well, but only in desperate frustration.

The door to the office opened, "Salvation" Ron muttered. Boy was he wrong. Harry poked his head in, muttered "Quilderio" and backed out of the doorway to give the office a front row view of the couples embarrassment.

It was at that time that, the minister of magic, Hermione's almost in-law and a man she had known since childhood and deeply respected, chose the opportunity to make his presence known. Along with Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagle and Severus Snape, and a bunch of school children who had grown up hearing about Harry, Ron and Hermione's exploits of Hogwarts which were now legendary.

"Gonna Kill... " she muttered to herself, and just kept on actively avoiding the starting and growing crowd around her usually nice and orderly office.

Ron was rather embarrassed himself, his father seeing him being wuss, but his fear over-ruled all other emotions and all he did to contain it was stop the screaming.

"Ron, will you bloody shut-up?!? If your not going to make yourself useful here at least leave some space in the room for me to think."

"Hermione, look out, it's gonna get you!" Ron bellowed this.

What came next was either an act you true love or absolute insanity. Ron, in an act of desperation to save Hermione from the killer spiders, leaped from the desk, landing on top of her taking the "blow" from the baby spiders which were now hatching from egg sacks that were grown on the sealing from the Teddy Bears and enchanted to grow at an ultra speed.

"Ron, what on Gods green earth are you doing?" Hermione choked this out as she desperately tried to breathe from a full grown man landing on top of her.

"I was saving you, they were gonna kill you. If I hadn't seen it,..."

Hermione looked into Ron's eyes and instantly recognized this wasn't just about that spider, it was a flashback brought on by the extreme stress of the situation. Back in the war, the final battle that had occured Ron had leapt out of nowhere to catch a hex that was supposed to be for Hermione in the chest. He still had the scar from it, a ovally, red slight bump that you only noticed if you looked carefully. They were all scarred from those days, she knew it. She also knew that she and the others were still just beggining to deal with the past.

Be that as it may it was unexcusable for Harry to pull a prank like this in the office, absolutely unprofessional. She was appalled, yet slightly amused. However, embarrassing her in front of the whole office...

A couple of conversations were started out the door, and Hermione realized that not only Harry was behind this but so were Ginny and the Twins, she would get them back for this, she would not lose this game she was determined to stay out of in the first place. She would win and it wouldn't be pretty.

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