Lav and I sat next to each other during lunch. We both barely ate-- we were watching Harry and Hermione. They were laughing, and smiling, staring at each other. Both not really knowing the others feelings. Harry, of course, had some idea. He just didn't know it yet. Lavender and I's original plan was to make them jealous, and flirt with each other in public. After giggling, playing footsies, and her playing with my hair, we gave up. They didn't even notice.

We sat in silence, listening, hearts breaking. I think at that point we almost knew what was going to end up happening. But we'd try to prevent it anyway. Lav tapped me on the shoulder, and tilted her head towards my ear. She was too short to be able to reach my ear, so I leaned down.
"Ron, what do you say we do a little more than make them jealous?"

"That sounds good. Like what?" It sounded a little more than good. It sounded great.
"Like sabotage." I liked where this was going.
"Ok, and how would we do that?"
"I'm thinking... secret admirer?"
"for Hermione?" It was almost too good to be true. Of course, if she did end up falling in love with her secret admirer, I'd claim it was me. Then maybe she would realize her feelings for me. Maybe...
"Of course. Then we tell Harry that Hermione is in love with her secret admirer." Bloody brilliant.

I don't know what made me do it. Probably because she had just found a solution to my seven-year problem. I hugged Lavender, literally picked her up and swung her around. That made Harry and Hermione look away from each other. They smiled and looked at each other knowingly. They began to whisper, and I got paranoid, and put Lavender down. She was laughing, and I was smiling, but we were both wondering what they were whispering about.

Lavender put the wand lightly on her eye and said the spell. Then, her wand glowing she put her wand to my eye. All of a sudden, instead of seeing Lavender, I saw myself. But that was how the spell was supposed to work. We were using the spell so we could both see and judge Hermione's reaction to the note. The spell would last for about 6 hours, and we hoped Hermione would read the note by then. Hermione would, of course, let Lavender, her roomate, read it with her.

"What do you see?" she asked.
"Me." I responded. She grinned.
"Excellent." Then she turned and walked up the stairs towards the girls dormitories. She was nervous, I could tell. Her hand went to the rose, and the note attatched. She was going to leave it on Hermione's bed but when she opened the door, Hermione was there.

"Hermione! I-I thought you were supposed to be at Advanced Potions?" Lavender put her hand over Hermione's name on the note, and put the rose behind her back. Things, so far, were not going as planned.
"I was, but I really needed to talk to you about something... what's that?"
"What's what?"
"The thing behind your back."
"There's nothing behind my back, Hermione."
"No, I saw something. What is it?"

"Um.. a letter.. and a rose.. from my secret admirer." I thought that that was a pretty nice save.
"Oh, can I see?"
"I haven't opened the letter yet.. so I don't know. I kind of want to read it alone."
"Oh." Hermione said, dissapointed.
"Yeah...so I better go now..."

"Lav, wait! I still have to talk to you!"
"What about?"
"Ron."
"... Ron? What about him?"
"Yes, I think he likes you." My eyes widened, and I could hardly breathe. What was Hermione talking about! Was she truly that blind?

"WHAT? N-no.. Ron doesn't like me. Trust me. He doesn't."
"It sure seems like it... I bet that secret admirer note is from him."
"I don't know, I haven't read it yet. But it's probably not. I really have to go now.. I'll talk to you later, Hermione."
"Okay, but think about what I said about Ron."

Lavender bolted out of the door, and down the hallway. Undoing the spell, she questioned me.

"Do you think Harry noticed us, too?"
"I don't know..."
"I wonder if he's jealous..."
"I don't know, but I think that plan failed."
"Me too."
"Any other ideas?"
"Nope."
"Me either."