A/N: I don't own this.

Chapter 5

Harry was walking in a beautiful field in the countryside with his new girlfriend, Hermione Granger. They were holding hands and walking happily along in the grass. They chose a spot on the ground and decided to sit. Hermione put her head against Harry's and sighed contently. They started to kiss each other and took breaks only for air.

"I love you Harry" Hermione whispered.

"I love you too Hermione" Harry replied.

They moved closer so that they could kiss each other. After several minutes of intimate and passionate kissing, Hermione started to giggle when they took a break for air and wrapped her arms around Harry.

"Oh Harry, you are so amazing" Hermione said, continuing to giggle. Soon the laughter changed to a colder voice. The voice laughing now belonged to Bellatrix Lestrange.

"Time to watch your beloved godfather die again Potter" she said with a sneer on her face.

Harry found himself at the Department of Mysteries watching Sirius duel against Bellatrix Lestrange. It was the night that Sirius had fell through the veil and all Harry could do was watch Sirius duel.

"Come on you can do better than that!" he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.

The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest.

The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.

...And Harry saw the look of mingled fear and surprise on his godfather's wasted, once-handsome face as he fell through the ancient doorway and disappeared behind the veil; which fluttered for a moment in a high wind and then fell back into place.

"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled, "SIRIUS!"

Harry woke up in a cold sweat. He had been having nightmares where he had seen Sirius fall through the veil before, but this was the first time he had seen Hermione in his dream. Normally Harry would wake up after he had the dream of Sirius dying because he could not sleep and today was no exception. Harry sighed and looked at a clock nearby and saw that it was six thirty in the morning. With a sigh, Harry decided to go and take a shower. He took out some clothes and then went to the bathroom.

After taking a long and refreshing shower, Harry came out of the bathroom wearing a pair of jeans and a pair of boxer shorts. He went back into the room he was sharing with Hermione feeling much better. Harry dug in his trunk and pulled out a bottle of Axe deodorant and body spray. He had once seen Dudley use it in an attempt to get a girlfriend but how he smelled wasn't everything. The girl Dudley had dated ended up slapping him across the face and kicking his privates, much to the embarrassment of Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. He then heard a noise behind him.

"What are you doing Harry?" Hermione asked sleepily.

"Oh hey Hermione, I couldn't sleep so I decided to take a shower" Harry said.

"Did you have a nightmare or something?" she asked, getting up from her bed.

Harry found himself staring at the shirt Hermione was wearing. It was a little small on her body and revealed some skin near her midsection. The shirt also hugged her chests real tightly; Harry was mesmerized by the shirt. He was still looking at her shirt when Hermione interrupted.

"Harry, are you okay?" she asked him, looking concerned.

"Um yeah I'm okay" he replied, feeling a little dazed.

Hermione walked over to Harry and looked at him. She was embarrassed when she saw he was not wearing a shirt and she blushed. 'Did Harry know that he could tempt a lot of girls when he wasn't wearing a shirt?' she thought as she caught a sniff of the deodorant that Harry was using.

"Um, Hermione, why are you staring at me like that?" he asked her.

"Do you know how you look when you don't have a shirt on?" she asked, "well I'll tell you if you didn't know. You look dead sexy" she said, jumping onto him and causing the both of them to fall down onto his bed.

Tongues met tongue as they both started to kiss each other. Hermione took a breath and smelled the wonderful mixture of Harry's deodorant and soap. She placed her hands in his messy hair and slowly let out a moan of pleasure. Harry responded by placing his hands around her back and continuing to kiss her. They were soon interrupted when Ginny came into the room five minutes later.

"Mom says that you two should come down soon because breakfast will be ready, your OWL scores have arrived and we're leaving for Diagon Alley soon" Ginny said as she saw Harry and Hermione on the same bed. Ginny blushed embarrassingly then left the room.

"Well, the party's over for now" she said, getting off of Harry.

"Aww, I don't want this to end" he whined.

"Oh stop whining like a baby. We can continue this later deodorant boy" she replied, leaving to go use the bathroom.

Twenty minutes later, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny were sitting at the table downstairs eating a breakfast of bacon, toast and hash browns. Mrs. Weasley joined them along with the twins, Tonks and Mad-Eye Moody. Harry received his OWL scores with great dread but opened them and was surprised by his results.

Name: Harry J. Potter

Mr. Potter,

The following are your OWL scores for the term of June 1996. If you have any questions concerning your scores, please send us an owl or speak with your head of house.

SUBJECT:GRADE:

Defense Against the Dark Arts…………………………O

Transfiguration………………………………………….E

Charms………………………………………………….O

Potions…………………………………………………..O

Herbology……………………………………………….E

Care for Magical Creatures……………………………...E

Divination………………………………………………..A

Astronomy……………………………………………….E

History of Magic………………………………………...

- due to special circumstances, we have decided to let you retake the test on August 10th at 10:30 AM

- your OWL results for this subject are the highest ever in history and count as three OWLs

Remember each O counts as two OWLs and each E counts as an OWL.

Congratulations Mr. Potter, you have eleven OWLs!

Harry let out a sigh of relief as he saw his OWL scores. Harry then took out a piece of parchment and a list of books from his head of house and transfiguration professor, Professor McGonagall.

Mr. Potter,

Congratulations on your OWL results. You are now eligible to take any three of the following courses:

1) Advanced transfiguration

2) Advanced Defense against the Dark Arts

3) Advanced Charms

4) Advanced herbology

You may also select any of the following two subjects:

1) Advanced care for magical creatures

2) Advanced astronomy

3) Ancient Runes

4) Muggle Studies

5) Advanced divination

Please send an owl as soon as possible so that we can enroll you in the proper classes.

Sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

"Harry, how many OWL's did you get?" Hermione asked him.

"I got eleven" he replied.

"Wow that's better than me mate, I got eight OWL's and only one O all thanks to you though" Ron said.

"Yeah but Ron doesn't care about OWL's and NEWT's that much anymore now that he has a girlfriend" Ginny said with a giggle.

Ron blushed furiously and stared down at his food. "Be quiet Ginny" he said.

"Ooh, who's the lucky girl that ickle Ronnie is dating?" Fred asked.

"None of your business" Ron muttered.

"Well I think you did well especially considering both of your study habits. Congratulations Ron and Harry" Hermione said, giving Harry a hug.

"Let me guess Hermione- you got straight O's" Harry said.

"Wrong genius- I got an E in astronomy."

"But you still did better than me" he said with a grin.

"Oh stop it" Hermione said, swatting at Harry playfully before hugging him again.

Half an hour later, Harry stepped out of the fireplace at The Leaky Cauldron. Today was the day that they would buy their books and anything else they would need. Harry especially needed to buy some new robes, he had grown taller and had outgrown his old robes. He also wanted to head into muggle London to buy some more Axe.

"Okay, remember- meet by Gringotts at four" Tonks said cheerfully.

"Um, Tonks I have a question" Harry said.

"Sure, kiddo what's your question?" she asked.

"I was wondering if I could go out into muggle London and buy something out there."

"Sure, just let me know when you want to go" Tonks replied.

"I want to go to Gringotts and get some money out first," Harry said.

Fifteen minutes later, Harry walked out of Gringotts with a hundred muggle pounds and over thirty galleons. Along with Tonks and Hermione, they went back out to muggle London and stopped at a drug store. While Tonks waited outside, Harry went inside with Hermione.

"Harry, why did you start using Axe?" she asked.

"I started to use it because I saw Dudley use it once before he went on a date" he replied.

"Did you know that I think you smell good with it?" she asked, smiling shyly at him and putting her arms around him.

"That's nice to know" he replied, stopping at the deodorant aisle and finding four different odors from Axe.

"Which one are you going to pick?" she asked.

Harry reached for several bottles of Axe- phoenix. "I use phoenix" he replied, taking her hand and going up to the counter with Hermione.

Five minutes later, he had paid for his purchases and went back outside where Tonks was waiting for them.

"So what did you get?" Tonks asked eagerly.

"I got some muggle deodorant" Harry replied.

"Ooh does it smell good?" Tonks asked.

"With his deodorant, Harry is dead sexy" Hermione said, kissing Harry, who promptly kissed her back and put his arms around her waist. They were still kissing two minutes later when Tonks interrupted them by clearing her throat loudly.

"I hate to interrupt you lovebirds like that but we have to get back to Diagon Alley" Tonks said, causing Harry and Hermione to turn red.

"You're right," Hermione said, "we should be going back to Diagon Alley."

Upon reaching their destination, Harry went with Hermione toward Madam Malkin's for some new robes. However, they ran into someone they did not want to see.

"Well well, it's Potter and his Mudblood girlfriend" Draco Malfoy said in his usual drawl.

"Fuck you too Malfoy" Harry said.

Draco Malfoy ignored Harry's last statement then spat in his direction. "You know Granger, your mommy Bellatrix won't be too happy when she sees that you're with Potter you know. She'll just think of you as a useless piece of shit who won't even listen to her" Malfoy said.

"Take that back Malfoy" Harry whispered, moving closer to Malfoy.

"Make me" Malfoy replied.

Harry then spat in Malfoy's face and clenched his hand into a fist. "Good for nothing asshole" Harry replied.

"I'll remember that Potter. Just remember that when the war ends and the Dark Lord is victorious" Malfoy said angrily, walking away.

"Stupid idiotic bastard" Harry muttered under his breath after Malfoy walked away.

Hermione placed a hand around Harry's chest and her other arm around his neck. She gently rubbed his neck and restrained him from going after Malfoy. "Harry, relax and ignore Malfoy," she whispered.

He took a breath before speaking. "Hermione, I'm sorry about what happened before. I will try to be more careful around you next time. I also don't want Malfoy to hurt you or anything."

"Harry, I don't need you to be my knight in shining armor. I can take care of myself but I appreciate it," she said, reaching over to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"Well, its just I don't want you to suffer for being so close to me" he replied.

"Harry, I chose to be close to you. I don't give a damn about Voldemort or his Death Eaters. I love you and that's all there is to it" she said, putting her arms around him and kissing him right in the middle of Diagon Alley.

Draco Malfoy walked away from Potter and Granger. He was upset at the events that had just taken place and wanted to get revenge on them. First he did have to go tell Bellatrix that Granger and Potter were dating and Granger had disobeyed Bellatrix. Something exciting was going to happen he thought, heading back to Malfoy Manor.

A/N: First of all I want to thank everybody who read my story especially the ones who have left me a review. I also want everyone to know that there are certain parts of this chapter that are based on my real life experiences. For example, the incident where Harry spits at Draco Malfoy is also based on another of my real life experiences. I once spat at a kid back when I was carefree and high but now we reached a mutual respect for each other and now we're friends.