Hi! Thanks for all the great reviews, I'm updating as promised and if I get more reviews I will update again tomorrow. I realised not much happened in the last chapter so this chappie has a bit more plot to it. hehe. Enjoy!

Several more people had managed to sidle their way into the hall without getting caught under the mistletoe when Harry, Ron, and Ginny heard a book cover slam behind them.

"Oh, this is just so silly, you guys." Hermione was looking at them,

"I mean its only a little plant. Besides from the sound of it, mistletoe must have some sort power similar to a love potions and those are often imprecise. Professor McGonagall told me so last year."

"But Hermione, you can't be serious, I mean…what if you had to sn-" Ron began

"I won't have to snog anyone. I'm sure the mistletoe just acts to enhance or enlarge any pre-existing emotions, it couldn't have the power to create entirely new ones."

And with that Hermione tucked the large volume under her arm and marched determinately towards the doors just as another figure emerged from the crowd.

Ginny's eyes widened, "Oh my god, Harry look who's walking towards Hermione!"

Harry looked up to see a annoyingy familiar figure, standing arrogantly erect, and striding purposely towards the doors of the great hall.

"MALFOY!" Ron screamed.

Indeed Draco Malfoy had arrived in front of the great hall from the Slytherin Common Rooms and instead of waiting to see what everyone was doing waiting outside the great hall he pushed through the crowd and walked straight inside, smirking, and reached the doors at the exact same time as Hermione.

Everyone watched in silence as the two approached the door- unaware the other was there.

Both Harry and Ginny regarded Ron nervously. Harry was relieved to see that he looked rather hopeful, he started, "Maybe they won't go through at exactly the same ti-aaaaahh"

Hermione and Malfoy had reached the doors when, suddenly, as though pulled by invisible wires they were dragged towards each other.

"I can't look! Poor Hermione!" Ginny said.

Harry privately agreed.

Hermione felt herself being pulled towards her left. She looked up in surprise to see Draco Malfoy walking towards her. Only, he wasn't walking towards her, he was being pulled towards her, and she, she was being pulled towards him! Which could only mean one thing….

"Uh oh!" was all Hermione had time to whisper before she found her lips pressed against Draco Malfoy's mouth.

His lips were warm, not cold, as she might have expected. She looked with fear at his eyes- expecting to see derision. But the power of the spell had caught him off guard.

He too was looking at her with a fear she had rarely ever seen on his face before. Fear softened his features, brought humanity to those steely blue eyes of his and brought compassion to his kiss.

Hermione's mouth was slightly opened from her breathed "Uh oh!" and Draco's tongue slid between her opened lips unexpectedly. It flited into her mouth for a second, barely touching the tip of her own, tantalizing her, sending chills down her spine and thrilling her completely.

But scaring her none the less.

The entire crowd was watching them. No one could turn their eyes away. To Harry and Ginny it seemed as though the moment when Hermione's and Malfoy's lips touched lasted ages.

Neither dared look at Ron now.

"I'll kill him" Ron growled. " I'll kill that-" and Ron went off on a two minute tirade using language that would certainly have caused Mrs. Weasley to box his ears until Christmas.

Hermione opened her eyes, she didn't remember ever closing them. Draco opened his eyes next and Hermione swore she saw him blush slightly as he stumbled away from her.

Then it was over. His features hardened in disgust.

"Ugh..filthy mudblood" he said, so everyone could hear.

"What's your problem? You can' just jump me because you could get anyone else to do the job!"

"Malfioy don't be such an idiot! Its magical mistletoe and if you had been paying attention you wouldn't have walked under it at the same time as me. But no- you were being too smarmy to pay any attention- I'm not surprised that you didn't see where you were going-it's hard to see anything when yourego precedes you into every room you enter!" Hermione screamed, unwanted tears flooding her eyes.

With that Hermione stormed off. Draco wiped his mouth with his sleeve, spat to the side and walked into the great hall mumblingly audibly about 'contamination'.

Ginny ran off to find Hermione.

Harry caught Ron's eye again.

This time neither of them were laughing.

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