Confusion and Potions

"Come on Lupin, come on right there, yes, Yes, YES!" Draco yelled "Come on just give me one more, one more big one! Woot! Woot! Who is the man? That's right I'm the man."

Oh my god that's, that's Draco's voice but what could he possibly be yelling at Lupin like that for, with so much joy in his voice? I have to get out of here and try to figure out what's going on. Hermione thought to herself as she ran down the hallway and back to Gryffindor Common Room.

"Yes Draco, you're the man" came the very bored voice of Harry after watching Draco take most of his money and put it on his side of the card table.

"Oh cheer up Potter soon you can be the man, I'll even dress up a little bit for you" Draco said sweetly as he piled Harry's money in front of him.

"Oh Draco I did not need to know that part of your relationship with Harry," Luicus said as he started to put away his money and head for the fireplace.

"You're leaving Father? Don't you want to stay a bit longer and watch me take all of Harry's money," Draco said as he dodged Harry's punches.

"You know I'd love to see you make a fool out of Potter, here but its already past 12 and I don't need to give your mother another reason to yell at me," and with that he went home via the fireplace leaving everyone to their own devices. After Luicus had left, everyone started packing up their things and preparing to leave the room. Seamus and Blaise were going to stick around for a little bit longer, so Harry headed off to Gryffindor Tower by himself.

When Harry got there he was confronted with a very anxious looking Hermione.

"Oh Hermione I didn't know you were still up, I just was um… going out for a little midnight stroll ya know just to be able to think" Harry said nervously, not expecting to find anyone in the Common Room at 12 in the morning.

"That's ok Harry I just got back from Head Girl duties, I was gonna go to bed anyways so see you tomorrow," and with that Hermione ran upstairs because, she knew if she stayed there a minute longer she would start bombarding him with questions that she hadn't completely formulate yet.

That was close, good thing Seamus didn't walk in with me or else my simple midnight stroll explanation wouldn't have covered it, not with Hermione suspicious and asking questions, Harry thought to himself as he got ready for bed considering he did have class tomorrow and he was sure Snape wouldn't excuse his tardiness for oversleeping.

The next day, Hermione was still so confused about the events of last night and she knew she had to talk to someone about it or she'd never be able to understand. So she decided to talk to the one person she trusted to keep things completely quiet without being totally obvious that they were hiding something; Ginny Weasley. Hermione found Ginny in the common room hunched over a piece of paper, scribbling furiously. But when Ginny saw Hermione approaching she made a dash to hide the paper, so Hermione could see what it said.

"Hey Ginny, I was wondering if I could talk to you about something that I need help figuring out?" Hermione asked, as she sat on the couch next to Ginny.

"Oh…um…sure I guess but I can't right now I have to um…go meet someone for something so…yeah see you later," Ginny said, as she practically flew to the portrait and out of the common room.

Huh I wonder who the guy is, Ginny a nervous wreck! Hermione thought to herself. Oh well I guess I have to talk about it to Ron but I better make sure he doesn't tell anyone. Hermione found Ron in the Great Hall eating breakfast with Dean but before she could pull him away everyone else decided to have breakfast as well. Oh well I can always talk to him later during class or something Hermione thought to herself, and she started to put food on her plate.

"Hey Harry why is Malfoy rubbing two Galleons together and smirking at you?" Colin asked as he took a bite of eggs.

Harry turned around to look at Malfoy, smirked and said, "I don't know, maybe he has finally spent all him money and that's the last of it." God I'm gonna make Draco pay to taking my money like that without a second thought. Harry thought to himself as he exited the Great Hall and headed down to Potions with all the other Gryffindors and Slytherins.

As Harry took his seat in the classroom, Draco came up and sat next to him as they started to prepare their potion.

"So when are you going to give me back my money that you stole from me last night," Harry asked as chopped the ingredients and added them to the potion.

"Stole? You make me out to be some kind of thief, oh no my dear Harry but you are mistaken, I won that money fair and square and if you want it back you'll just have to win it back any way you can think of," Draco smirked, as he began stirring the potion while Harry just glared at him.

"Ron watch out, don't put that in yet!" Hermione yelled as she brought Ron out of his trance.

"Oh sorry Hermione, just so…beautiful," Ron muttered, as Hermione blushed.

" Well yes, as I was saying, last night during my Head Girl duties I found Harry, Draco, Snape, Lupin and Luicus Malfoy in the Room of Requirement together, but I don't know what they were all doing but whatever it was they sounded way too happy. What do you think about this Ron?" Hermione asked, totally oblivious to the fact that Ron wasn't even paying attention to her. "Ron! Ron! Are you listening to me? I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Harry and you don't even care"

"Oh yeah, right Hermione, whatever you say" Ron replied distractedly.

"Oh I give up I'll just have to talk to Ginny, as you are no help what so ever. That is if Ginny isn't avoiding me like she was this morning" Hermione angrily said as she started to finish the potion.