Chapter 10 Bad News

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Mia08 – You have the right idea, not exactly correct, but you're on the right track. Ron and Hermione aren't getting engaged though; not yet anyway.

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"Man, it stinks that you can't come with us to the burrow for Christmas," Ron said to Hermione one morning a few days before break as they were walking to DADA.

"Yea, I know, I'm sorry baby, but I don't get to see my parents that often anymore with school and everything, so I need to spend the holiday with them. I'll make it up to you when we get back to school, don't worry." she said as she kissed him on the lips.

"Alright, but it better be good," he said laughing as they walked into the classroom.

"What's going on?" asked Hermione as they sat down at the table next to Harry and Ginny.

There was no teacher and the students were going wild. There were people dancing on tables and there was snogging all over the classroom.

"We don't know," replied Ginny, "it's been like this since we got here a few minutes ago."

"Yea," added Harry, "no teacher and wild students, it's not that bad though, I mean no teacher means no work. It's a great Christmas present for me."

"Wow, this could be fun," said Ron.

"Yea, I've always wanted to dance on a table." said Hermione.

"Wow, I never really expected that from you, but I've kind of always wanted to also." said Ginny as she climbed onto the table, "come on Hermione," she said as she took Hermione's hand and pulled her up.

"Wow, this is good," said Harry as Ginny and Hermione dirty dancing on the table.

"Damn, I wish all of our classes were like this," said Draco Malfoy as looked up Ginny's skirt.

"Hey, that's my baby sister!" yelled Ron pushing Draco off of his chair.

"And she's my girlfriend!" added Harry punching him in the face.

Hermione and Ginny got off of the table and tried to stop the fight, but there was no use, there were punches flying everywhere.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" yelled Snape as he walked into the classroom and pulled the boys apart, "your teacher has been poisoned and will not be able to teach classes again until after break. Malfoy, Potter, Weasley, come with me." He finished as he walked out of the classroom.

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Harry and Ron had both gotten detention for fighting with Malfoy. Malfoy only got a warning because he told Snape that Harry and Ron started it and he only fought back in self defense. They couldn't argue back without saying that Hermione and Ginny were dancing on the tables and Malfoy looked up Ginny's skirt and that's why they hit him, but then the girls would have gotten in trouble too.

"This is such bullshit! Malfoy never gets in trouble!" Ron said to Harry as they were cleaning trophies in detention.

"Yea, I know," said Harry as he finished the last trophy, "let's go to bed, I'm mad tired."

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The next morning at breakfast Hermione's jaw dropped when she read the letter that she had just received from her parents.

Dear Hermione,

Hi, how are you doing honey? It's been a while since we last heard from you, hope you are doing well in school. We just wanted to let you know that we were really looking forward to seeing you this Christmas but last week daddy's boss told him that he needed him to go out of town for Christmas week. We thought that you could still come home, and then you would only get to see him the morning that you went back to school, and you would be with me for Christmas. Yesterday my boss called me into his office and told me that they needed me to work all Christmas week. I explained that I couldn't work because you were coming home from school and I needed to be with you, but he just told me that if I didn't work I would lose you job. We are so sorry honey, but you won't be able to come home this year for Christmas. We were hoping that you would be able to stay at one of your friend's houses so that you wouldn't have to spend the holiday at school, and we are going to send your Christmas presents to you via owl. We love you Hermione.

Love,

Mom and Dad.

Hermione was shocked. She was looking forward to spending Christmas with her parents this year. She was also upset because she would have to be spending Christmas at school. Then she re-read a line of the letter, we were hoping that you would be able to stay at one of your friend's houses so that you wouldn't have to spend the holiday at school, and she remembered that Ginny had offered for her to stay at the burrow for Christmas.

"Hey Gin, read this," she said to Ginny as she handed her the letter.

"I was hoping that your offer to stay at the burrow was still available," she said when Ginny finished reading the letter.

"Of course it is, you are always welcome at our house, I'll owl mom tonight to tell her that you are coming." replied Ginny.

"Thanks Gin!" squealed Hermione as she hugged Ginny and then ran off to tell Ron that she would be spending Christmas with him.

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A/N: R&R. I've got chapters 11-15 planned, but I don't know what to do after them. I can't tell you what they are going to be about or anything like that, but if you have any ideas of what could happen with the story feel free to give me ideas. Thanks, and I love reading your reviews! Sorry, this chapter was a bit shorter than the rest.