Disclaimer:

I refuse to disclaim owning Harry Potter etc!!! Why you ask? Well, I never CLAIMED to own them so I don't see why I would have to DISCLAIM owning them. Therefore this is not a disclaimer stating that I don't own them; this is a claimer (is that a word; oh well) of non ownership of Harry Potter and everything else.

I think too much about really stupid things don't I?

Authors note:

MY GOD! IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I WROTE. I just gonna take two seconds and apologise for leaving this so long; it's just that when I tried to get back into writing it my brain just refused to go back and rewrite this chap. But it's finally done and I just couldn't wait to get it up. If it isn't up to standard I apologise but hopefully over the next while I'll get back into writing it.

On a different note; I SAW THE THIRD MOVIE LAST NIGHT FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND IT IS SOO FANTASTIC IT'S BEYOND WORDS!!!! If you haven't seen it yet (yeah right, like there's anyone reading this that hasn't seen it!) go and see it right this second, well, go after you read this chap at least. But seriously I can't wait until it comes out on DVD. I would go and see it again and again in the cinema but I'm not aloud to due to the fact that I was on such a rush after seeing it the first time that I talked about it until two in the morning and rein-acted my favourite parts to the annoyance of my friends and family.

Anyways, got that out of my system so enjoy and don't forget to let me know what you think.

thoughts are now

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Chapter 8:

Up in the girl's dorm Hermione found herself unceremoniously plonked on her bed. Sitting up she glared at her 'captors' who, in her opinion, looked far too pleased with themselves. Sighing in defeat she pushed herself up so she was sitting cross legged with her back resting against the headboard. It wasn't that she was against talking to Ginny and Alicia, it's just that she wasn't used to 'girl talk'. She had always been a bookworm without friends until Ron and Harry came along, and they were guys. The closest they ever got to girl talk was freaking over which girl to ask to the Yule ball.

"Hermione, can ya lose the 'I'm about to die' look, we're not going to devour you ya know. We just wanna talk."

"I know. So what do you want to know?"

"Let's start with the easy stuff, how long have you been in love with Ron?"

"um…a while, and that's the easy stuff? That isn't exactly an easy question to answer."

"Yes that's the easy stuff, wait until I start asking you about all the fantasies I'm sure you've been entertaining."

"Eww, that's just wrong Alicia, think of the mental scaring I'm gonna have from that. But anyway, personally I think she's been in love with him since forth year. She was so annoyed that he didn't ask her to the ball and soo jealous when he went with someone else, you should have seen it. They were so cute."

"No." Hermione said from the bed, causing Ginny to frown at her.

"What do you mean no, you were soo in love with him then."

"I know, but that wasn't when I fell in love with him. I've been in love with him longer than that, since first year I guess."

Alicia cooed at the though of her friend falling in love so young. Ginny however looked scandalised; "What? Huh…how did I not know this? Why did I not know this? How did you keep that to yourself all these years? Why didn't you tell me? First year?..."

Hermione sighed, "Yeah, it's sad but I liked him as soon as I saw him, even with dirt on his nose he was still adorable, but I really fell for him when we went down the trap door to fight Quirrel. I was so worried when he got caught in the devils snare, and I thought my heart would break when he got hurt in that chess game; he was so brave risking his life like that so Harry could go on. And I just knew I was a goner when he woke up in the hospital wing and the first thing he asked me is if I was alright, and then if Harry was ok. He didn't even complain about being hurt or anything, it was just the sweetest thing I'd ever heard."

Alicia smiled at the story; "Man, you got it bad."

Ginny still looked scandalised at the thought that she had missed this all these years, then a thoughtful expression crossed her face and she got a far away look an her face. The pair watched as she mentally retraced her memories for clues that she hadn't seen at the time. Not that they would have been able to tell by the look on her face that that was what she was doing, as she look like she was depicting difficult sums in her head; but the fact that every few minutes she would mutter "well there was that one time she…", or "Why didn't I notice that then?" After a few minutes of this in which Hermione and Alicia sat staring at her Ginny came back to reality and looked at Hermione in astonishment. "You really have been in love with him all this time haven't you?"

"Yeah." Hermione said sadly. "Not that it matters. I've tried everything to make him realise how I feel, and he's either completely clueless or he knows and is ignoring it because he doesn't feel the same."

"I'm pretty sure it's that he's completely clueless." Ginny said gravely staring at a point on the floor.

"So what about you Ginny? Anyone special in your life we should know about?"

Her head snapped up to reveal a dear in the headlights expression. "ME?!" she squeaked, her voice more than a few octaves higher. "I thought we were talking about Hermione? Hermione! not me! Nothing important about me lets focus on Hermione! Or Alicia; we should find a guy for you, didn't you say you broke up with your boyfriend right before coming here, what was he like? That way we'll know what to look for in potential boyfriends."

Sharing an amused look Hermione and Alicia nodded to each other making a silent agreement to give her a short reprieve while Alicia talk before they pounced on her again.

"Jake? He was perfect." A dreamy far away look crossed Alicia's face as she recalled her ex. "He was smart, but not too smart. Really sweet, he always gave me little compliments and pressies just because he could. Taller than me but not that tall; ya know the perfect height that when they put their arm over your shoulder you can just snuggle into the crook of his neck? Dark brown hair that you would almost think it was black, and it was always messy, like he'd just rolled out of bed. Now most girls would hate that but I just wanted to constantly run my fingers through it. The bluest eyes you'd every seen. Dimples when he smiled. Slim build, he was on the Quidditch team; chaser, he was the best player on the team in my opinion. All around nice guy who pretty much everyone liked."

"Wow. Sounds perfect all right." Hermione said as she pictured him.

"I second that wow. How come we don't have boys like that here, are all the good looking perfect blokes in America?"

"Oh, I don't know about that Gin, I've seen plenty of guys around here that are pretty cute. And it's not like everyone was like Jake; believe me when I say that it's just as hard to find guys like that in America as it is to find them here. But I don't know if I'm ready to go back to dating just yet, I mean I only broke up with Jake right before coming here because we both knew it wouldn't work long distance. I think I need to settle in a bit before I think about getting together with anyone here. But now that we've heard my and Hermione's stories it's your turn Ginny, so spill; how come your single?"

"Um, we'll the thing is there's never really been anyone that I've liked that liked me back. I mean I've been out with a few boys but nothing serious. And even if there was someone I liked it's not exactly like I'm free to date whoever I want." Ginny said in a sad voice as she hugged her knees and lent back against the bed post behind her.

"What do you mean Ginny; of course you're free to date anyone you want!" Hermione said as she leaned forward from her position on the bed.

"Well, remember when I went to the Yule ball with Neville back in third year. Neville told me later that Ron had had a little 'talk' with him about what was appropriate behaviour as far as I was concerned. Neville tried to tell him that we were only going as friends and, well, Ron pretty much told him that he'd better keep it that way or else he'd have him to deal with."

"Oh my god!! Why would Ron do that? It's not his place to say who you can or can't date. How dare he?! Just you wait until I give him a piece of my mind." Hermione said red in the face. From the looks of it she was just about ready to go tell Ron exactly what she thought of him but Ginny just shook her head and smiled at her.

"It's ok Hermione, I mean think about it this way; Ron's always been a bit overprotective of me; and then after what happened in second year ... He just sees this as his way of looking after me. Well, that and the boy just has too much time on his hands. That's sort of part of the reason why I was always so keen on you two getting together. I always sort of hoped that he'd be so wrapped up in you that he'd lay off me for a while and I might actually be able to have a little fun."

Alicia, who had been thinking about 'Project D&G', perked up at that.

Perfect! If we get Hermione and Ron together first then he'll be out of the way and I can get Ginny and Draco together!

"That's a great idea Ginny. We can get Ron and Hermione together and then we'll work on getting you a guy!"

And in the mean time I can push you and Draco together so you'll realise you like each other.

"Um, guys? Not that I'm against me and Ron or anything, and I think it would be great for Ginny to be able to date, but I've been trying to get him to notice me for years and nothing's worked. What makes you think this time will be any different?"

Alicia smiled; "Well up until now you've been working alone to get his attention. But now you have help, believe me it'll be a lot easier. Plus…I have a plan."

"Why do I have the urge to check for horns and a tail when you get that look on your face?" Hermione said as she began to get worried. "That's the same look you got before you carted me up here."

"And see how well that turned out! Trust me, this will work. Remember when everyone was telling me stories of the last four years, and you guys told me about the Yule ball, and how you went with this guy Victor Krum?"

"Yeah...what does that have to do with me getting Ron? Victor has a girlfriend if you were thinking of using him in your plan."

"Not Victor, but it was plain to see that Ron had serious issues with you going with him so I'm thinking that the easiest way to get him is to make him jealous. So jealous in fact that he snaps and tells you to break up with the guy and go out with him. And voila, 'Operation: get Ron' is complete!"

"Operation: get Ron?"

"Yes. (Puts on dull commentator voice) You mission; whether you like it or not; is to make one Ronald Weasley jealous and ask you out. This mission may be life threatening but we have every faith in you. This message will self destruct in three… two..."

"You know, that might work."

"GINNY! She's talking about manipulating your brother by using some guy to make him jealous!"

"I know; that's why it might actually work. Ron's so emotional that when he breaks he won't even think about embarrassing himself by telling you how he feels. He'll just spit it out. There's only one flaw."

"What? There's no flaw, my plan is perfect." Alicia frowned at Ginny's comment.

"Not quite. We don't have a guy. We can't use one of the Gryffindor boys because Ron would know them and therefore figure out that they weren't actually going out or he would bully them into 'dumping' Hermione."

"I don't think I know any Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff guys that would be able to pull it of even if we could talk them into pretending to be my boyfriend. And Slytherins; although they would be able to act, but there's no way they would because I'm a muggle born."

"But I already have the perfect guy in mind. All we have to do is tell him, I know he'll help us."

"Hey, no fare! I've been here four years and Hermione's been here five and neither of us can think of a guy and you've been here less than a week and you know the perfect guy who you know will help us!"

"Umm…yup!" Alicia grinned.

"So who is it?" Hermione asked.

"Who?" Alicia replied looking confused.

"The guy."

"What guy?" Alicia queried while discreetly sending Ginny a wink.

"The guy who's supposed to be my boyfriend for goodness knows how long!" Hermione hissed as she tried to stop herself from strangling Alicia. Ginny however was trying to hide her giggles as she had figured out the Alicia was purposely riling Hermione.

"Oh! That guy…"

"ALICIA!"

Laughter erupted from Alicia as she mentally congratulated herself on a job well done.

I love doing that!

"Come on Alicia" Ginny said as she gave in to the giggles; "She's suffered enough. Who is this perfect guy you're thinking of?"

"OK, ok…Draco Malfoy."

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"Um, guys?"

Ginny squeaked something that sounded roughly like 'Malfoy?!' while opening and closing her mouth like a fish.

Hermione sat on the bed with a confused glazed looked on her face… then she fainted.

NOTES:

Might not be my best but it got me to where I was before I lost everything and that's the main thing. I don't have anything after this but I know where I want to go with it so that's a start. Don't know how long it's gonna be but I NEVER want to leave it that long between updates again. In theory I'd like to have this story finish or at least on the verge of finishing by the end of September so I'll hopefully be very busy over the next few months.

On a different note I put up a test chapter of the story I started while my computer was down and I'd like to see what people think of it. It however will be going at a slow pace as it's not my main story at the minute. After I finish Alicia I'll be focusing on it. You can get to it and my other stories by clicking on my name at the top of the page.

Please review. I've missed hearing from you guys, it's been too long.

THANKS:

Pam: lol, I loved this review. I hope you liked the little snippit I put in just for you. I know I made ya wait more than a month but I hope ya liked it. Sorry I couldn't make Draco run around screaming he loves you but ya never know what might happen in the future…

Glittergrl14142: nah; their just best buds. This is gonna be a Draco/Ginny story. Glad you like it.

Writer Gurl4: hope you like it and sorry it took so long.

KooKoo: No this is definitely a Draco/Ginny story. I'm glad you like the conversations, I love writing them. Hope you keep reading.