So here is the next update. Sorry they are so short but this is how they have to be. Hope you guys like this one. I do. It has alot of Ron and Hermione interaction. Thank you everyone for reading and reviewing. Hope you like this chapter.- Ace

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Chapter 8: Decorating the Great Hall

"Good morning class." Short little professor Flitwick greeted the class as he climbed his pile of books.

"Good morning Professor." The students replied in unison.

Flitwick gave a jolly smile. "Today we will be practicing the summoning charm. I know that everyone here is familiar with it but I thought that instead of summoning things like books, we might spruce up the great hall and make it more festive. So grab a partner and a box of decorations and lets head down to the great hall."

Hermione looked to Ron. "Wanna be partners? We can transfigure some of decorations into couples dying or something." She suggested with a smile. Ron stared at her for a moment. Her comment didn't sound like something she would have done years ago when they had first become friends. It sounded more like something Harry would have said. But she had grown up since then and changed a lot. Plus she had spent way too much time hanging with him and Harry that they must have rubbed off on her.

He nodded with a smile. "Okay. I'll grab the box." He said standing up and moving over to Flitwick's desk. Whether he was in love with her or not, Ron found that he still liked to hang around with Hermione and most of the time his feelings didn't get in the way of them just being friends. He liked it that way and he didn't want it to change. He grabbed a box of red, white, and pink decorations and met up with Hermione at the door. Together they walked down to the great hall following the rest of class who was trailing behind the tiny professor.

Once in the great hall the class spread. Ron and Hermione were in charge of a corner behind the staff table. Ron set the box on the ground and Hermione bent down and weeded through it. She pulled out a paper cupid and three roles of crepe paper. She smiled as an idea came to her head.

"What if we change this 'Happy Valentine's Day' banner to read 'Happy Vomit day'?" she suggested. Ron smiled bright.

"Sounds perfect," he said pulling his wand out of his pocket. "And perhaps with a little help from a spell I learned from the twins we can make these cupids a little better." He grinned as he bent down next to her and they began to mess with the decorations. All the 'Happy Valentine's Days' were turned into 'Happy Vomit Days'. The paper cupids instead of shooting arrows now had their mouths open and were gaging themselves with their arrows. It was Ron's idea to have them actually up heaving fake vomit.

"You know that sounds like something the twins would do. You're more like them then you think." She said as she reached down into the box and pulled out the last of the decorations. Ron was using the summoning charm to throw the crepe paper back and forth, doing a poor job of decorating on purpose.

As Hermione lifted out the last cardboard cupid from the bottom of the box, she came across a small piece of parchment that had her name on it. The secret admirer had slipped in again. But how could that be? How did they know which box she was going to get?

"Ron look," she said holding up the parchment. Ron turned around and saw the parchment in her fingers. His mind forgot what he had been doing and he lost control of his summoning charm and the roll of pink crepe paper flew through the air and hit Lavender on the head.

"Hey!" She exclaimed looking over at Ron. Ron turned to her and noticed what had happened. He immediately rushed over, apologized, and took the roll from her.

While he did this, Hermione unfolded the paper and read it's contents.

Hermione,

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing
if it does not mean loving some people more then others."
George Orwell

Your secret admirer

Hermione smiled. She liked this quote a lot. She had read it before and had thought about how she felt about certain people in her life. There were definitely people she did not love but there were people that she loved a lot. Ron and Harry were two of these people. The first being loved in two ways at the moment.

"Is it from him?" Ron asked as he returned with the crepe paper. Hermione nodded and read the quote out loud. "I like that quote," he commented as he returned to summoning the crepe paper back and forth.

"Me too." She said standing up. She slipped the note in her pocket with the others and pulled her wand out at the same time. "Pass me a roll," she said with a smile. He smiled in return and tossed her a roll of red crepe paper. Together the two of them summoned the rolled back and forth between them. Together they laughed and had fun altering the decorations. Hermione's mind only once flickered back to her secret admirer, when she wished that it could have been Ron.