Disclaimer: I don´t own Harry Potter. If you haven´t understood that yet, you´re awfully slow.

A/n: Sorry it took so long before I got this out, but it´s not my fault. A thunderstorm destroyed my Internet access, so I´ve been off the net for ages now. Horror!

Eruaphadriel: Evil? Me? Hey, you´re the one who let Angelina date Percy! But since you think it´s nice work, I won´t hex you.

PsYcHiC SeLiNa: I hate Felicity too! I think she´s evil and should be punished. And I´m the one writing this story.

Maria Casey Wood: I got it after reading it a couple of times! And I think you may be right about it. But who knows what the future will bring? My guess is lots of chocolate )

Isy Black: I totally agree. How can she not be in love with George? It is a mystery.

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George´s PoV:

Felicity was beginning to annoy me.

Ever since our kiss in Hogsmeade she´d been convinced we were a couple and she never left me alone. She´d even taken over Alicia´s seat next to me at meals, but since it didn´t seem to bother Alicia I hadn´t said anything. Yet. But if Felicity continued cooing over me the way she did now, I was afraid I´d tell her where to stick it.

On top of that, the last few days it had felt like Alicia was avoiding me. I had no idea why, one day we´d been best friends and the next she wouldn´t even look at me. She acted like she was feeling guilty about something. I hadn´t talked to her about it, but when she partnered off with a Hufflepuff who also happens to be the most boring guy at school instead of me in Potions, I decided I had to find out what was going on. Later the same afternoon, I found her in the common room chatting with Angelina and asked if I could have a word with her.

"Leesh, why are you-" was all I got to say before she interrupted me.

"George, I need to tell you something." She hesitated, seeming very nervous.

"Go on," I said encouragingly.

"It´s about your girlfriend."

"Who?"

"You have that many?" She grinned for a split second, but then became serious again. "I´m talking about Felicity, of course."

"Oh, her." I had forgotten all about Felicity for a moment. I suppose it means I´m a terrible boyfriend and so on, but with Alicia standing in front of me she just didn´t seem important. "What about her?"

"I really don´t want to be the one to tell you this, but you have to hear it..." Quickly, she told me everything she had overheard Felicity saying: That I was nothing but a substitute to her, someone she used to make Roger Davies jealous. Roger Davies, of all people!

"So..." I said when she´d finished. "She´s just using me?"

"Yes." Alicia sighed. "I´m really sorry, but I felt that I had to tell you."

"It´s okay," I assured her. "I´m glad you told me."

Actually, I wasn´t that upset. I was a bit hurt, of course, but I was also grateful for being given a reason to dump Felicity. She was really getting on my nerves, but Alicia didn´t have to know that. She had rejected me, and I didn´t want her to think I still was in love with her. Which I was, of course, but I had no plans of telling her that.

"What are you going to do?" she asked after a while.

"Well... I guess I´m gonna dump her." She nodded in understanding. "You know what´s funny?" I said. "I´ve always thought she was stupid. Who would have believed she could come up with a plan that clever?"

"I certainly wouldn´t," she agreed. "I´ve always thought the only thing she was interested in was clothes and boys. Guess I´ve underestimated her."

"Looks like we both have," I replied.

"George?" Alicia said suddenly.

"Yeah?"

She blushed. "Um... Forget it."

I looked at her curiously. Again I had the feeling that she was hiding something from me, but I dismissed it. It was probably just regular paranoia.

xxxxx

The next day Felicity and I had planned to have a romantic picnic at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Or more precisely, she had planned it. I had agreed to it to make her happy, though I couldn´t understand why she thought it was such a romantic place. Anyway, I had decided that this would be a good opportunity to break up with her.

When we arrived at the top of the Tower, a cold wind was blowing. However, Felicity didn´t even seem to notice it. She just squealed excitedly at the view. I didn´t bother to comment that she´d been up here hundreds of times before.

"Felicity," I said after she had settled down and stopped pointing out things to me, "there´s something we need to talk about."

"Really? And what could that be?" She looked up at me from where she´d sat down. She had put out a red and white blanket and was now busy placing food on it. For a moment she looked so sweet and innocent that I almost changed my mind. But only almost. Honestly, Roger Davies!

"I´m breaking up with you," I told her.

Her eyes widened.

"You´re what?"

"Breaking up."

"But... Why?"

"Because you´re just using me to make Roger Davies jealous," I said lightly. "By the way, you do know he´ll never notice you as long as Fleur is around, don´t you?"

Suddenly she was on her feet, looking furious. Her fists were clenched at her sides, and her cheeks were red. I almost expected sparks to fly from her eyes. She didn´t excactly look sweet and innocent anymore.

"How do you know? Who told you?" she demanded to know.

"Alicia did. She heard you in the library, talking to your friends about your little plan."

"Oh, she told you, did she?" Felicity´s voice grew cold, and her eyes narrowed. "Well, she can´t say I didn´t warn her!" With that, she was gone.

I looked after her, puzzled. What did she mean? What had she warned Alicia about? I had a feeling Alicia was hiding something from me. I didn´t have the faintest idea what it was, but I fully intended to find it out. And I figured the best way to do it was to go straight to the source, Alicia herself.

However, this was easier said than done. I spent three hours just trying to find Alicia, and when I found her and told her what Felicity had said, she paled visibly, but refused to say what it was all about. Instead, she kept telling me I´d find out for myself soon enough. Then she ran off to find Katie, leaving me as confused as before.

xxxxx

But like she had said, I found out for myself the next day. I first noticed that something was was going on when Fred and I entered the Great Hall for breakfast. Where we went, heads turned to look at us and I heard a distinct buzz of whispers. There were even a few people who pointed at us.

"Forge?" Fred said. "Have you done any big, spectacular pranks without letting me in on them?"

I shook my head. "Have you?"

"No. I believe we´re in kind of a dry spell, actually."

"Yeah, I think you´re right. We´ve got to do something about that. But anyway, why the hell are people looking at us if neither of us has done anything?"

He shrugged and we sat down. I could see Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown whispering and giggling. When they noticed I was looking at them, they both blushed, but kept giggling.

Then Alicia entered the hall and I understood that Fred and I hadn´t really gotten any attention. She was by herself, probably because she´d overslept, and practically every head in the Hall turned to look at her as she appeared. For a moment everything was quiet, then a new and louder buzz of whispering was unleashed. Alicia paled, turned and fled. As I got up to follow her, I saw that Felicity and all of her friends seemed to be laughing.

I caught up with Alicia on the second floor. As soon as she saw me coming, she started running, but I managed to get hold of her arm before she could escape.

"Let me go!" she demanded angrily.

"Only if you´ll tell me what´s going on."

"It´s none of your business! Anyway, you´ll find out eventually," she said sullenly.

"It bloody well is my business! When Fred and I came to breakfast, everybody stared at us! I think I have the right to know why."

Alicia sighed. " She´s told everyone."

"Who´s told everyone what?"

"Your dear girlfriend have told everyone that I´m in love with Fred! Does that answer your question?" she said, trying to look angry, but I could see that she was nearly crying.

"What? But how did she know?"

"She followed you at the Yule Ball. She heard everything we said, and now she´s told!"

"That´s what she warned you about? Why didn´t you tell me?" I couldn´t understand why she had hidden this for me. If only she´d told me! Then none of this would have happened.

"Maybe I should have told you. But..." She looked down, obviously not sure if she really wanted to say this. "I guess I didn´t want you to not break up with her just to protect me from being hurt."

What is one supposed to say to something like that? I couldn´t think of anything, except for the not very articulate: "Oh, Leesh..." However, this seemed to be quite enough, as she burst out in tears and almost threw herself in my arms. I held her tightly while she sobbed on my shoulder.

"What do you think Angie´ll say?" she sniffled when the worst crying was over. "She´s going to hate me forever, I know it."

"Of course not," I said gently. "You´re best friends, she won´t hate you. "

"Yes she will. She´ll be so angry she´ll never talk to me again, and no one will ever speak to me again and I´ll be an outcast with no friends..."'

"Alicia, shut up," I interrupted. "Angie is not going to hate you. You´ll not be an outcast, and as for not having friends... D´you really think I´d let you down?"

She smiled through the tears. "I guess not. I´m so glad I have you, George. You´re the best."

"I know," I said and grinned at her. "Haven´t you realized that before now? I´m disappointed with you, Miss Spinnet. I thought you were smart." She giggled and I had to fight a sudden urge to kiss her. No kissing of best friends, I reminded myself. That only leads to trouble. If only she wasn´t so damn beautiful...

But before I could do something I´d probably regret, she let go of me.

"I´d better go get some food from the kitchen, I´m starving," she said. I nodded dumbly, unable to think of anything but how much I wanted to kiss her.

"Wanna come?"

"Um... Sure. I didn´t have time to eat much myself." Very gallantly, I offered her my arm, and we went off in search of something to eat.

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