A/N: Wow, lot's of reviews. Thanks everyone! Anyway, I'm trying to finish up this chapter quick so I can upload it tonight (don't ask me why, but the beginning author's note is always one of the last steps for me) so, without further ado, here's the next chapter:

Chapter 4:

Ron and Hermione

Hermione's eyes were slightly glazed over as she looked at the review-screen. "Wow, 15 reviews for this chapter!" she exclaimed. She began to type the authors' note.

A/N: Wow... lot's of reviews. But not too many to still respond individually, so here we go.

Leafy Rose: Thanks, we thought it'd be fun to work as a team.

Mrs. Sirius Black: Heh, thanks. Good typoes, by the way.

Priestess of Dan: Um... we can assure you that Harry is not a mime.

Mimbulus: Well, if you like stories that make sense, you must be terribly disappointed with this one. Sorry : )

Ashvaultrose: I am not addicted to reviews. Although they are very nice.

IrishLadyNight: Thanks, you're lovely too. (Gryffindor777 would like to state that he realizes in retrospect that the apology for making fun of people's stuff was probably unnecessary, but doesn't feel like changing it now.)

vaguelyamused: thanks for the review, and Ginny's glad you liked her psychobabble.

LizzieisBizzie: Yes, I did enjoy watching Ron dance...

Threatenedwriter: thanks, and we don't intend to stop soon.

Grangerlovesweasley: We're glad you like it, and we definitely will keep going (see below).

Cassiopeia: We're glad you like it, and good luck with your story too.

RupertLover14: Yes! e-ham!

princesssparkle808: Thanks, we had hoped it was funny.

voicesinmyhead12: Thanks, we tried to be very thorough in the aspects of fanfiction we include. But we're not done yet! (:Evil grin.)

Rubber-duckiesofdoom: Ginny says thanks and is glad it struck you as "awesomeful." ; )

Hermione, much appeased by the flattering number of reviews she received, was now ready to continue with the story.

"Right," she said, assuming the authoritative tone that she took whenenever there were potential reviews to be earned, "this chapter is one of the most decisive yet. In fact, the most decisive yet. Which isn't saying much since it's only the fourth chapter. But still, it's going to be big!"

"Hermione, stop. You scare me when you're like this!" commented Ron.

"Then you scare entirely too easily!" revealed Hermione, who then laughed maniacally. The reason that she laughed maniacally is that she doesn't really seem like a person who would laugh maniacally on a regular basis, and the author is of the opinion that a good maniacal laugh is good for a person every once in awhile. Which is why the author is laughing maniacally now.

"Whatever," said Ron. "I think I should get to take a turn typing this chapter because I didn't get to take one last chapter, and if I don't type again soon, then it's going to make me feel like I learned how to type the other day for no reason at all."

"Okay, Ron. We'll let you type the start of the chapter. But first, we need to talk strategy. This chapter is important, so we can't go into it unprepared."

"Hermione," said Harry bracingly, "this is not important. It's fanfiction. And if you don't calm down, we're going to have to put you into fanfiction rehab. And we don't want to have to do that."

Harry glanced at Ron and Ginny, who nodded in support. They had had a talk earlier this evening about how Hermione seemed to be getting unhealthily addicted to reviews. They were contemplating whether or not they'd need to stage an intervention.

"All right," said Hermione, in a voice of forced calm. "Anyway, what we've got to do is to thicken the plot. There are a number of ways to do this. For instance, we could discover that someone is related to someone who they had never been related to before. Like, it could turn out that I'm McGonnogal's daughter or something. Even though that would mean that I was not muggle-born and this would take away a major part of my personality. Muggle-born shmuggle-born, fanfiction writers say! Of course, this would help to make the Draco/me pairing more believable, although I've never actually seen the two scenarios in the same story. Anyway, about the new relatives thing, I should make it clear that me being related to a pureblood is not the only option. Any character could turn out to be related to any other character, including characters whom the fanfiction author recently made up. These relations need not give any consideration to age. For instance, it is perfect acceptable for Lupin to be Sirius' son, even though they were in the same year. Or, Lily could be Dumbledore's nephew, because the newfound relations don't have to recognize gender boundaries either. Fanfiction writers are very forward thinking, as a group."

"Um... that sounds stupid," said Ginny. "What are our other options?"

"Well... a lot of people seem to like to give Harry new powers. These new powers could include wandless magic, ability to talk to animals, and the ability to tame wildflowers, although the new powers should in no way be limited to these options. Harry's new powers should not be limited by anything," clarified Hermione.

"Well... even though that's rather stupid as well, it's better than the last one. Let's do that," suggested Harry.

"Are you sure? The other most popular choice is to make Severus Snape realize the error of his ways and decide that he really wants to be Harry's friend after all," said Hermione.

"Well, I don't want to be his," countered Harry. "Not even in a fanfiction."

"Yeah, I aggree with Harry," agreed Ron, who didn't care how redundant that just sounded. Ginny nodded in approval.

"All right then," said Hermione. "Go ahead, Ron."

"Oh, by the way, can I do a disclaimer? We haven't done one of those in awhile," stated Ron.

"Okay," agreed Hermione.

Ron typed

"Disclaimer: We do not own any of J.K. Rowling's characters and do not intend to make any profit off of them...

Reclaimer: On second thought, we do own ourselves. But we're still not in this for profit. Apparently, we just really like reviews."

"Whatever," said Hermione, trying to ignore that Ron was somewhat making fun of her with his last comment. "Just start out by having us wake up on one of the days we're at the Burrow. The plot can thicken from there. And, even though you'll probably make spelling errors without trying, feel free to try to help meet our 7 per chapter quota. We're still behind."

Ron began to type.

"It was a sunny day. They woke up and ate breakfast happily. It was very good."

"No, no no!" said an aggravated Hermione. "You're not writing like a fanfiction writer! Real fanfiction writers don't have the patience to mess with so many adjectives and adverbs. Nobody's going to believe that we're really fanfiction writers, and then they won't review! Just... take out all the adverbs and adjectives, and then keep going."

So, this was what Ron did, because it was best not to argue with Hermione when her voice reached the pitch that it had recently achieved.

The new chapter opener looked like this:

"It was a day. They woke up and ate breakfast. It was. And then it was not. Because they had eaten it."

"Erm... okay. that was enough for me," said Ron, who had recently discovered that his newly acquired typing skills weren't all they were cracked up to be and that he was having to resort to hunting and pecking more often than was convenient. Plus, he didn't really like writing in the first place.

"Fine, all right, I'll take over for a bit," siad Hermione, "I just remembered that this chapter has to include a little bit of development of the Harry/Ginny pairing, and also have Ron and I start to go out. Unless there are any objections to having that in our story?" asked Hermione in a sweet voice which concealed her real intentions. Her real intentions, of course, were to get Ron to inadvertently insult her by objecting to the pairing. And then she would get to argue with him, which was one of Hermione's favorite things to do.

Ron declined to take the bait, as he did not so much enjoy to argue with Hermione. Because Hermione always won. And Ron didn't like to lose. So, he said, "No, no objections. That sounds very nice."

Ginny and Harry simply nodded, a bit disappointedly. They also enjoyed when Hermione and Ron argued, because they thought it was rather amusing.

Hermione began to type.

"After breakfast, Harry and Ginny looked at each other awkwardly-"

"Wait!" exclaimed Ron, "that's an adverb."

"Very good," said Hermione, "I'm glad that you've finally learned your parts of speech." She was still trying to goad him into an argument.

"But we're not allowed to use adverbs!" said Ron.

"No, you're not allowed to use adverbs. I am, because I can be trusted to use them

responsibly and sparingly," explained Hermione.

"Oh, whatever," said Ron, rolling his eyes.

Hermione, satisfied that Ron was beginning to get irritated, continued to type.

"The reason that they looked at each other awkwardly was that they had not yet begun to

go out. One would assume that after their very long hug during the previous chapter, they would have been going out. But they weren't, because the author wants to milk this awkward pre-relationship phase for as long as possible.

However, the author finds no reason to drag out the Hermione/Ron relationship because the fanfiction community seems to have reached a consensus that this one will begin before Harry/Ginny. Therefore, Ron and Hermione began to date on the first day that Hermione showed up at the Burrow. Of course, Hermione had to be the one to initiate the relationship, because Ron had forgotten that she was a girl, even though he had seemed to realize this for at least several minutes in fourth year."

Hermione looked around to see the general reaction to what she had just typed. Ron had gone slightly red. "Are you suggesting that I'm too dim to have realized that you're a girl?" asked Ron, finally having had enough of Hermione's barbs.

"Oooh, very good, Ron. Bit quicker on the uptake than usual aren't we?" asked Hermione.

"Hermione, why do you always want to argue with me?" asked Ron, perplexed.

"If you haven't figured that out yet, you're really hopeless!" accused Hermione.

The two exited the room again. Ginny and Harry looked at each other, smiling.

"You know, they could at least have the decency to have the argument in the room!" said Ginny.

"Well, it's not as if we won't be able to hear it wherever they have it. They're not exactly subtle," said Harry.

"Very true," agreed Ginny. "But, I guess this means you'll have to get your new powers during the next chapter instead of this one... Looks like this chapter's over."

"Yeah. Let's just slap an author's note on, and find the best place to listen to the rest of Hermione and Ron's argument," suggested Harry.

"Good call. Oh, but we forgot to put in typoes this chapter. Should we go back and change what we've already written?"

"Nah, the quicker we get done with this the better," stated Harry, "I want to hear this argument."

"Fine," said Ginny, "let's just put a bunch in the author's note." She began to type very quickly.

"A/N: Right, sorry about the shoort chapter length. Weer very sorry. Oar, well, I guess that's not very believable. If we were sorry, we'd lengthen the chapter a bit. So, disregard the apology. Just review, or else you tell Hermione why there's no reviews. 'Cause Harry and I certainly don't want to do it."

Ginny quickly uploaded the story, and then they both ran off to find the room where Ron and Hermione were fighting, quite sure that tonight would be the night that the fight finally ended in one of them asking the other out.

A/N from Gryffindor777: Right, hope you liked that. I almost considered feeling pressured to not screw this up because it appears that people are actually reading this story (:surprised gasp:) but then I remembered that this is a parody, and it's supposed to be stupid, so the only way I can really screw it up is to run out of stupid ideas. And I think it'll be several chapters before that happens. Still, let me know whether this chapter's good or not, so I know whether I'm still going in the right direction in this story. Either way, it's pretty amusing for me. Thanks to everyone who's read this far!