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Chapter 3

Brotherly Love

Hermione had been sitting in the common room for a bit over three hours. Right before she fell asleep, Ginny trudged into the common room as she had done 3 hours before.

"You just won't let me sleep, will you, Ginny? I stayed up all night after Ron had carried you out, and I've been waiting 3 hours after that mortifying episode!"

"I am truly sorry, Hermione, but after breaking Harry's heart, you deserve it."

"I didn't feel happy doing it! Anyway, before you left with McGonagal she said she was going beyond the insanity rule. What did she do?"

"She said my insanity came from being pressured to perfection by people around me. So, I will see the psychiatrist once a month, while I'm 'insane', but I will be in solitary detention every weekend until I'm 'sane'."

Hermione fell back into the couch. "What! This is truly the worst week of my life."

"The detentions are so I can do my homework alone. The good part is that I get to spend my 3-hour detention in the library. I need it because your homework is so difficult! But don't worry, Hermione, I'll get you out of this."

"Thank goodness it's Saturday. I feel too sick to go to class."

Ron came down the boys' staircase clearly having just woke up.

"Where's Harry?" "Hermione" asked Ron.

"I don't know… woke me up early… get eaten by giant squid," Ron muttered groggily.

The real Ginny excused herself to go find Harry while the real Hermione sat on the couch uncomfortably.

Act like Ginny, Hermione kept saying to herself.

"How is it that your hair is more out of place now then it is after you play Quidditch?" Hermione was mentally hitting herself, but she knew it was something Ginny would say.

Ron gently shoved her and plopped down next to her.

The moment Ron shoved her, Hermione's heart skipped a beat. She found it weird because Ron had just shoved her, but she felt the same way she did last year when…

Her thoughts were interrupted by Harry noisily entering the common room. When he saw "Ginny" he hung his head and hurried to the boys dormitory.

Suddenly, Hermione knew how Ginny felt. Harry's sudden and unsuspecting entrance made her think of the year before again. She remembered how it felt to see Ron and Lavender all over each other. She remembered her heart… breaking. She looked at Ron, who had fallen asleep again, and smiled. She knew how to make it up to Ginny.

Hermione found Harry looking at a picture of him and Ginny after he kissed her the first time at the celebration party. When he saw her, he flipped the frame down.

"Hi, Harry. Feeling alright?"

"Yeah, I'm… I'm fine," Harry lied, hanging his head again.

"No. You're not. I can tell when you're lying. Your close friends can, too. I know you're falling into a slight depression state. You probably think I've moved on, but I haven't. it broke my heart, too, to break up with you, but it's for a good reason. I lo… care for you."

"Care? So does Hermione. You're not saying much…"

Hermione just couldn't continue acting like Ginny. It was impossible to tell Harry that she loved him. She did love him but just as a brother.

"Harry?"

"Yeah, Ginny?"

"Remember yesterday how calm I was when I broke up with you and how 'Hermione' broke down and cried?"

"That's all I've been thinking about."

"That's because… I'm not Ginny. I'm Hermione. That fight I started yesterday was just an act so Ron wouldn't find out. I figured if I told you, you might tell Ron. Otherwise, I would have told you about it last Friday when it happened."

Harry's jaw dropped as he tried to grasp everything Hermione had just said.

"I… I… I was right. So, you're Ginny, now, and Ginny is you. It's very confusing when you think about it…" Harry held his had for a second. "So, Ginny still loves me?"

Hermione felt very uncomfortable talking with him about Ginny. "Yeah, I guess. I'm sure she does. Before I go and before you go talk to Ginny, you have to promise you won't tell Ron. I don't want him to worry or get mad about me not telling him."

"You really care about Ron's feelings, don't you?" Harry commented as he smirked at Hermione.

Hermione blushed and left the room.

:Common Room:

Hermione walked over to the sleeping figure of Ron. She noticed how cute he looked in his state of deep sleep. After searching over the common room for any people, she gently stroked Ron's face. When his eyes suddenly opened, she pulled back and fell backwards on her hand. They stared at each other for a second. Hermione's heart was beating so fast that she hadn't focused on her broken wrist.

"What are you doing!" Ron asked with brotherly disgust.

Hermione regained Ginny's confident composure and plastered an annoyed-at-my-older-brother look on her face.

"I was trying to figure out what's wrong with your face! It's amazing how there are 6 boys and 1 girl in our family, and you got all the ugly."

Ron looked at "Ginny" a moment before heading back to the boys' dormitory. With Ron gone, Hermione's heart slowed down, and when her heart slowed down, the pain in her wrist came.

Ron came back down after a moment with his wand in his hand, clearly showing that his intentions were to jinx his sister. After he saw "Ginny" clutching her wrist and grimacing in pain, he pocketed his wand rushed to her side.

"What's wrong with your wrist?"

"I landed on it when I fell back. I think it's broken."

"Let's take you to the hospital wing."

On the way to the hospital, Ron kept "Ginny's" wrist parallel to the ground. Hermione felt her spine tingle.

Once In the hospital, instead of leaving, he stayed with "his sister" until Madam Pomfrey bandaged her wrist.

"Ron, you are a great big brother," complimented "Ginny" as she and Ron walked back to the common room.

"Who are you?" Ron said back with his famous lopsided grin (a/n: which I think would be very hot!).

Hermione blushed. "I am capable of giving compliments occasionally, you know."

They were silent for a moment before Ron laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"We actually had a moment. When we go home for Christmas we'll tell Mum about our brotherly/sisterly moment, and she'll be healed in a second."

Hermione's face fell. She had almost forgotten that she was in the youngest Weasley's body. Sometimes she wished she could be like Ginny, and have the confidence to talk to Ron.

Back at the common room it was finally crowded like it usually was on Saturdays. A few people were gathered around tables chatting away. Hermione saw a couple over on a couch engaging in… couple things. Ron didn't.

She shoved Ron back through the portrait hole (a/n: I'm a purist), and quickly put a light but sturdy armchair in front of it. She then proceeded to tear the snogging couple apart.

"Do you two busy-bodies know that Ron was this close to seeing you two at it?" Hermione held her fingers a millimetre apart.

Harry and Ginny hung their heads in disappointment.

"Obviously, Harry told you that he knew, Ginny. I know it's been over a week, but could you two control yourselves until we're back to normal! I would very much appreciate it if people didn't think that you and I were snogging, Harry!"

"I'm sorry, Hermione. I never intended to make a scene," Ginny did her famous feel-sorry-for-me face.

"It's not working, Ginny. You're in my body."

"I can't wait until we switch back. I think I lost a hairbrush in your hair."

"And yours is falling all over the place."

"And my hair… rocks," said The Boy-Who-Lived.

The two girls laughed at Harry's off the all comment.

Apparently, someone moved the chair because Ron came in looking fumed.

"What was that for!"

"Hermione" looked a "Ginny" oddly. "What are you talking about?"

"When we climbed into the portrait hole (a/n: again… I'm a purist which means that I see everything as it was written, NOT as it was portrayed in the movie) Ginny pushed me back through and trapped me outside!"

The real Hermione looked at Ginny and mouthed, "Monday, we tell McGonagal."

Ginny nodded and whispered something long in Harry's ear.

"We'll be in the library," Harry suddenly announced.

Harry and "Hermione" rushed off and out of the common room.

Ron shook his head at "Ginny" and headed to his dormitory. Hermione got Ginny's school books from upstairs and sat down at a vacant table to complete it.

About 15 minutes later, Ron came back down with books in hands. Hermione jumped about a metre in the air when he slammed books on the table.

"Keep an eye on these. I'm off to the library to the library for just a second."

Hermione did some sort of a hand movement which couldn't really be called a wave. After Ron came back 20 minutes later she did the same hand movement, but she didn't finish it when she saw the look on his face.

"Why do you look so sad, Ron?"

"It's Hermione…"

Hermione's eyes widen. She completely forgot that Harry and Ginny were in the library together. What were they doing!

The cliff hangers are for you hoping that you will review with all that pent up excitement, but you haven't, so afraid that I would continue with the story unless I get at least 6 reviews. GOOD reviews. I doesn't make me feel good inside when people say, 'Your story sucks. It was a waste of time even reading 3 chapters." If you don't like it, please don't read it. It's not hard to just keep your insults to yourself, then hurt other people's feelings. I do accept constructive criticism (not something like, "It was all bad. Rewrite everything).

Thank you so much to those who complimented my story. I've tried to detail this chapter more. I read through it trying to proofread. I caught some words, but it's not easy to proofread what you wrote.

Sorry if I sound mean and demanding. My friend just moved to Texas permanently and that's got me kinda bitter. And it's 11 'o clock at night and I just got home from a football game (band: clarinet).

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