"What am I doing"? Thought Harry "I'm in love with Ginny. I can't be thinking about her best friend, and mine, like this."

"You ok Harry?" Ginny questioned

"Oh my god, she knows. SHE KNOWS I FANCY HER. No. she can't... be cool."

"Yeah. Fine. Never been better." Harry replied, talking a lot faster than usual.

"It's just; you haven't really spoken to me much recently…" Ginny said as she glided through the crimson Gryffindor common room towards the fire where he was sitting.

"She looks quite pretty… I guess."

Harry looked down at his parchment, realised what was on there and threw it into the fire before Ginny had a chance to see it.

"I'm sorry" he mumbled "I'm just busy with school work and … stuff"

"Hmm, ok then. See you at dinner" Disappointed, Ginny went up to the girls' dormitory.

Harry looked into the fire and watched the parchment, scribbled on with the name "Hermione" over and over again, burn until it disappeared.

"What am I doing? I'm in a 2 year relationship with Ginny, I can't be in love with Hermione… it just can't happen."

It was dinner. Down in the Great Hall, Harry was sitting opposite Hermione. He couldn't stop himself from staring at her. During the last few weeks, Harry had realised just how beautiful Hermione was. He often found himself laughing at her jokes, asking her for help on things he didn't need help on, and doing extra homework… just to spend time with her in the library.

"She looks amazing with her hair up. Her eyes, they're so intense… like swimming pools I just want to dive in. and her lips! Oh how inviting they are, I need to kiss them. Feel how they feel, touching mine. I wonder what would happen if I just leant in and kissed her. She might enjoy it. Oh I can smell her from here, Cinnamon. She smells so good…"

Harry was lost in his own thoughts.

"HARRY?" Ron barked.

"Uh? What?"

"You're daydreaming mate. Everything alright?"

"Yeah, fine" Harry replied, not even looking at Ron. He finished his pumpkin juice and left the Great Hall.

Harry had found it quite hard to concentrate recently. So he decided to use while Hermione wasn't around to attempt to do some school work.

"If x 2y+13 and 14y -22 32 what is x?"

Just as Harry was getting a breakthrough, Hermione came in crying.

"Oh Harry, I'm so glad you're here" She sobbed, falling into Harry's arms.

"What's happened!" Harry said, amazed at the light, soft, girl who he had such strong feelings for, in his arms.

"Draco Malfoy… he… he… he…" crying so hard, Hermione found it hard to get her words out "He completely ruined my project which I had worked on for MONTHS and now I'm going to fail. I'll be a failure for the rest of my life. I'll never become an auror. I'll never amount up to anything…"

"Calm down, calm down. It's one project; it won't make you fail the rest of your life. I'm going to go have a few words with Malfoy. You ok?" Harry said with a slight hint of anger in his voice. Hermione looked up at him, her eyes shining with tears, she smiled, nodded and walked up to her dormitory.

Harry charged toward the Slytherin common room, thoughts racing through his mind.

"How dare he hurt her? I'm going to kill him. He'll regret the day he hurt the girl I love. I love? I'm in love with her. Oh god. I'M GOING TO KILL HIM"

"Let me in! I need to speak to Malfoy!" Harry said urgently to the painting of a night which was guarding the Slytherin common room.

"No one gets in without a password, besides you're not even Slytherin."

Harry was just about to start shouting at the picture when he heard a familiar voice in coming from the broom cupboard behind him.

"Oh Draco, you're such a good kisser." Said the voice

Harry knew the voice, and without thinking yanked the door open.

"Draco? GINNY!"