A/N: okay guys, sorry this took forever. But I finally just wrote this I have been trying to get a new category placed on this thing, for Commander in Chief (An obsession of mine) and I have that story more than halfway done... ergo... this took forever to write. I've also been working on a play for my church. But this is a good long chapter... that is long in my standards. Hope you like.

S.K.

An Unforgivable Curse

"No."

"No one's here… Oh come on, it's been ages."

"It's only a matter of time, till they come looking for us." Harry said lifting Hermione off of his lap and placing her gently in front of him on the desk. "I would rather we not get caught in any compromising positions."

"Fine," Hermione said with a sigh as she slid off the desk, "I ought to kill McGonagall."

"Hermione…" Harry said as he watched her plop down on a chair on the other side of the desk.

"Harry, you can't seriously believe that THIS was what she meant when she said discrete," She continued folding her arms over her chest and leaning back on to the chair.

"Hermione… you distract me to no end," He said leaning forward in his desk. "I can't be discrete around you, I'm not strong enough."

Her resolve weakened and she smiled, "well, we must do something about this soon." She leaned forward on his desk so that their faces were mare inches apart.

"Must we?" Harry said inching closer; "have you no self control?"

"I do…" Hermione said coming even closer, "but I do so enjoy testing yours."

"It seems, that you're the one that is frustrated." Harry said bringing his lips to kiss her cheek.

"I can hold out…" Hermione stated moving her face towards his lips and kissing him ardently. "But what good would that do me?"

Harry knew he shouldn't have started this game. He was ready to take her there, on his desk, but his ego wouldn't allow it. "Ahem," The sound came from the door.

Both teachers turned to face a fifth year from Hufflepuff, Amanda Doan, who stood wide-eyed at the door. "Pardon my intrusion, but professor Potter, I have a question for you," Amanda said shyly her face turning crimson as she noticed the discomfort of her teachers.

"See you in the Great Hall professor," Hermione said tersely heading towards the door.

"Er, Yes…" He said then sat down behind his desk hoping she hadn't heard too much of the conversation. "Come in Amanda, what is it?"

"Well there is the issue of…" Amanda started and Harry's mind drifted into the conversation he had been having with Hermione. He sat with Amanda and was surprised as how DADA had become second nature to him. He needn't concentrate on his student that much to explain the function of a patronus and why it took the shape that it did.

"A strong patronus…" Harry started, but was interrupted by an owl at his window. He took his letter and looked it over, then he looked over to Amanda. "A strong patronus is shaped by any thing that the caster finds special."

"What's yours shaped like professor?" She asked as he sat back down at his desk and tried to look very interested in this conversation. "Mine is just a cloud."

"Practice makes perfect," He said not willing to explain his stag. He looked at the wall clock in his office, "It is nearly supper, I'll see you tomorrow in class."

"Yes professor." Amanda said, and headed for the door a bit disappointed. She, like many other girls at Hogwarts, fancied the handsome enigmatic professor. She had to admit that everyone suspected that Potter and Granger were an item, but seeing it in action spurred some feelings of jealousy towards the transfigurations professor.

"Hi Amanda," said her best friend Imily walking up behind her, "Did you get on with professor Hotter?"

"No," she answered her honestly, "he was in there with granger, it was sickening."

"What were they doing?" Imily asked.

"Thankfully nothing too compromising." Amanda said shrugging on her robes as they walked on, "She was kissing him! My professor Hotter"

"Can you blame her? He is absolutely fit," Imily said, "and can you blame him? She really grew nicely this summer."

"Which side are you on anyway?" Amanda snapped.

"Yours," Imily quickly amended, "They probably won't last much longer." Amanda smiled at the addition as they continued on their way to The Great Hall.

Harry found Hermione in the library working through a book on magical toys. "We're meeting Sirius this weekend, He and Remus think they have the answer to our Kelidoball dilemma." Harry said standing across from her at the table.

"Where?" Hermione said hefting the sizeable book and heading to the librarian's desk.

"The hollow." Harry said following her.

"Great, Now I feel like we're getting somewhere." Hermione said heading out of the library with the book. "When are we leaving?"

"We meet there at around eight tomorrow." Harry said leading the way to the Great Hall.

Once they entered the dining room, most students sat there enjoying their food. They sought their friend at his usual spot, and saw both Ron and Luna having a quiet conversation that bordered on sickeningly sweet. "I will spend Hogsmeade weekend, with you. I promise." Ron whispered to her.

"Pardon." Hermione said, "Hate to interrupt but may I borrow Ronald for a second?"

"Well..." Luna said looking as though uncertain of Hermione's mood, "All right, but remember to send him back."

"Don't worry, I'm sure hell hurry back as soon as we're done with him." Harry said pulling Ron away from his super sexy girlfriend.

"Did you know that her grandmother was a Veela?" Ron said as he pulled him away.

"I don't doubt that." Harry said.

"Hello? Can we get to the nub of it please?" Hermione said looking a little annoyed.

"We're off to the hollow tomorrow." Harry said.

"Brilliant, is that it?" Ron said anxious to get back to his conversation with Luna.

"Yes." Harry said pulling Hermione back into the Great Hall so that they did not interfere with their friend's love life.

"What was that?" Hermione said on her way to the main table.

"Think about this afternoon and Amanda…" Harry said, reminding her of how much she hated her time with him to be interrupted.

"Fine," She conceded as they sat down in their places at the table. "You know Amanda fancies you."

"She does not." Harry said looking about nervously.

"Does so," She said reaching for her fork, "Did you see what she was wearing?"

"Her uniform?" He answered reaching for his goblet.

"From first year." Hermione said. Harry nearly choked on his drink, she continued, "Her skirt was so short that if she did it right you would have had a fantastic peek at her knickers." Harry laughed at this, perfectly aware of the crushes both he and his girlfriend elicited from their students.

The next evening, Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way out of the gates of the school. It felt like before. The three had an easiness with each other that seemed to have been missing for the past few months.

Once outside of the gates, Harry looked at his best friends and said, "Ready?"

"Lets go." Ron said linking arms with Hermione. Hermione linked arms with Harry and they all disapparated.

When the three apparated in Godric's Hollow, The little house sprung to life. "Blimey Harry!" Ron said as the ruined house began to heal itself when Harry touched the gate, "That is bloody fantastic." Harry and Hermione smiled at their friend's reaction.

"Kreacher!" Harry called as soon as they walked into the lounge, but the creature didn't come. "Where is he?" He wandered out loud.

"He must have returned to the ownership of Sirius," Hermione said.

"Right!" Harry exclaimed and smiled grateful to have his godfather back.

When Sirius arrived a few minutes later, he said that Remus had promised to head to the hollow as soon as possible, "Remus is spending time with his lady friend tonight, so we should get started." Sirius stated.

"So what have you come up with?" Harry said as Sirius placed the kelidoball gently on the coffee table.

"Well, Remus and I had been looking at this damned contraption, and I noticed that it reacted to simple hexes that I threw at it when frustrated."

"So?" Ron asked.

"So if more than one wand hex the kelidoball it may very well destroy the thing."

"Brilliant," Hermione said, "lets get started!"

"I'm starved... why don't we eat first?" Sirius said then calling on Kreatcher.

"Even better," Ron said, as they all sat and ate before settling down to work. They tried various hexes. Even when Remus joined them later, they continued to try, the horcruxe changed colours it trembled it even screamed one time but it was never destroyed.

"This is useless..." Harry said late that night, after hours of attempting to vanquish the horcruxe, he headed towards the table where Hermione sat pouring over the toy book.

By this time Sirius and Remus were both stretched out on sofas on opposite sides of the room. Ron was on the floor between Sirius and the coffee table. "This just means we have to look at it more closely," Hermione stated quietly, as they all looked to be asleep.

Harry looked at the three dozing men in the lounge, and sat across form Hermione. She looked at him without raising her head. He took off his glasses and placed them down on the table. As he rubbed the bridge of his nose, she reached out running her foot up his leg.

"Don't start..." Harry said then stopped himself, and took a look around the house. It was his house, not school. "What am I saying?"

Hermione giggled as he came to her and picked her up, sweeping her off to his parents' bedroom. She kissed him with a heat of passion that boiled over within her. He set her down on the bed and began to undress himself. Hermione did not want to wait and undressed too.

"You are beautiful," Harry said as he made love to his girlfriend, "I love you."

"Oh Harry." Hermione said quietly feeling tears of joy come to her eyes. She felt so good with him inside her, but his words took her to the brink of unadulterated ecstasy. She echoed his words to him over and over again with each thrust that he made. Their senses were filled with one another and everything ceased to exist.

The sound of the chirping birds woke her. She felt so good and relaxed lying in Harry's arms. But she had to go, so she slid out of bed and threw on Harry's shirt and headed to the loo.

Once she was out, she tip toed out towards the dining room table careful not to wake the men in the lounge area, and brought the book she had been looking at the night before and brought it to the room.

She settled into bed next to Harry and began to read where she had left off. "Of course." She said finding something in the book that she hadn't thought of before. She turned to Harry to wake him.

"I'm not getting up." Harry said trapping her in an embrace. She tried to wiggle out of it but soon gave up and settled into his embrace more comfortably. As soon as she got settled, Harry began to kiss her neck. He was fully awake now, and so was Hermione's libido.

She let herself be swept away again in their tender exchange. Forgetting everything that she was going to tell him. They did not use words, but used the language of their bodies.

"Good morning." Hermione said once they were done.

Harry smiled down at her and kissed her again. "What was it you were trying to tell me before." He said rolling on to the bed wrapping his arms around her.

Hermione snorted softly; "you can't seriously expect me to remember that now can you?"

"Yes I can," Harry said, "you are Hermione granger."

Hermione chuckled and kissed his cheek. "We're gonna need some help with the horcruxe."

"From who?" Harry asked.

"Fred and George," Hermione said and slid out of bed again. "Come on, I'll explain on the way out."

They dressed quickly and headed to the living room where Sirius was already awake. He looked at both of them with a smirk on his face that told them he'd heard them that morning. Hermione smiled at him and shook her head. "We've got a lead, we think." Harry said.

"What's the next step?" Ron asked as he stretched. You could hear his column crack.

"Your brothers," Hermione said. "I was reading a book on magical toys, and there is a part that states that to take a toy apart you have to understand its components."

"Right," Remus stated with a yawn, He looked from Harry to Hermione as if they had grown a second head.

"No one knows more about toys than Fred and George." Harry stated in understanding.

"Precisely," Hermione said, and noted that now Ron was looking at them strangely, "What?"

"You've done it haven't you?" Ron asked.

"Done what?" Harry asked, Remus and Sirius turned their heads.

"It..." Ron continued.

Hermione put her had up forestalling further commentary, "I thought you didn't want to know."

"Well you've got the largest snog mark on your neck and your hair... it's bloody obvious."

"Ron, deal with it." Hermione said heading to the mirror.

"Can you flue your brothers and ask them to meet us at Hogsmeade?" Harry asked Ron moving back to the issue.

"Yeh... I can do that." Ron said with a shudder trying to move past the last conversation, and headed for the fireplace.

Remus and Sirius were in stitches in the kitchen. It was all too familiar for them. James and Lilly had been passionate in their relationship and they were used to the signs. They needed to talk to Ron about it, maybe he would feel better about it later.

The seven members of the order met at the three broomsticks. They asked for a suite and settled down to attempt to understand the kelidoball. Fred and George brought a few from their shop so they could practice breaking them down. "This is bloody ridiculous." Ron said tossing a kelidoball down on to the pile.

"I think that is our cue to rest." Remus said leaning back on his elbows.

Harry and Hermione sat back to back leaning on each other for support. They both played with a kelidoball, levitating it to see who kept theirs up in the air longer. Hermione shifts a little, and licks at Harry's neck achieving the expected.

Harry lost his concentration and his kelidoball dropped with a thud on the ground. Hermione laughed lowering her kelidoball on to the pile. "That's cheating," Harry said moving allowing her to fall on to her back.

"All's fair Harry," Fred said.

"Well played Hermione." George finished with a grin.

Harry picked up his discarded horcruxe and threw it up in the air. "I don't know how we're ever going to get this done."

"We have tried almost every hex there is short of the unforgivables, and finding its properties have proved harder than I thought." Hermione said.

Harry threw the kelidoball back up into the air, then raised his wand in a swift movement and said "Avada Kedavra." It hit his kelidoball and it exploded.

Everyone stared. Harry looked at where the kelidoball used to be. "An unforgivable curse." Harry said and sprung into action heading towards the horcruxe.

"Well everyone stand back, we don't want any of this to hit anyone." Sirius said as harry placed the horcruxe in the middle of the room. The room went still as Harry did it again.

At first the keildoball held up. The beam of green light glowed steadily between him and the ball. Hermione stood next to him and repeated the curse upon the ball. Then Ron joined in adding the power of three.

After a few seconds of the three curses the ball exploded and a green glow began to bounce all over the room then it hit Hermione pushing her back onto the couch in the suite.

Then it was all over. Hermione stood up and looked around the room. "That makes three." Harry said

Ron and Hermione reached out to him and they all hugged in support. "Glad that's over." Ron said.

Hermione kissed Harry's cheek then let go of her fiends. "Right... now shall we eat? I'm starved," she said grabbing her jacket and heading out the door.

"The lady has spoken," Sirius stated and walked out behind her. The rest of the group followed heading down to the restaurant.