"So what'd you want to tell me?" Harry peered at his friends curiously.
Ron opened his mouth to speak but then froze.
"Er…well…the thing is Hermione and I…"
Ron looked at Hermione pleadingly, he had no idea how to tell Harry about the spell.
"O well Harry, you might not believe this but…" she froze.
A blonde-haired boy was walking down the street and Hermione came up with a distraction, "Draco and I are dating!"
Ron looked at Hermione like she was crazy while Harry looked at her in disbelief and Hermione looked stunned at what she had just blurted out before thinking.
"Um, ok...well Dracos on the Light side again so I have no problem with it."
…
"DRACO and HERMIONE are WHAT?"
"Shhhhh…" Harry shushed Ginny, "It's supposed to be kind of a secret for now…"
Ginny looked a little stunned and than through her head back and laughed, "Well Dracos nice now, but you have to admit it's kind of weird."
Harry loved it when Ginny laughed, when suddenly all of her seemed to light up, even her hair seemed to be look even brighter, while her eyes sparkled with mischief. He loved everything about her: her radiant hair, her sneaky brown eyes, how she could laugh in the face of danger, her sense of humor. He stared at her while she was chewing on some of her salad and suddenly realized there was a piece of lettuce in her teeth. All he could concentrate on was the piece of lettuce that was in her white teeth until…
They both stared at the piece of lettuce in Harry's head before Ginny laughed merrily while Harry felt a blush creeping through his cheeks.
"Silly, if I had a piece of lettuce in my teeth you could have just told me," Ginny's eyes were alight with laughter and Harry grinned sheepishly.
…
Remus smiled as he looked around the house that he and Harry shared. Sometimes when he got up late and ate breakfast with Harry and would feel like he was eating breakfast with James or Lily. He was even starting to think,
"James looked a lot like Harry,"
instead of the other way around (Harry looks a lot like James).
…
"Um, Draco…"
Hermione was fidgeting nervously in front of him- she had asked him to meet her at the Leaky Cauldron because she didn't want someone to tell him that they were 'dating.'
"Yes?" Draco said in his usual cold tone.
"I err, kind of maybe told Harry we were…"
"Yes?" Draco asked again, not sure where this was going.
"I told him w-we w-were sort of… dating!"
Draco's gray eyes widened in surprise, "Why would you…"
"Well err, the thing is Ron and I meant to tell Harry something but we kind of changed our minds in the middle of something and we had to come up with an excuse so it just kind of came out…"
Draco cocked his head.
"I'll tell him the truth eventually but is it ok if we 'date' till Friday and then we break up?"
"Okkk…"
He looked a little awkward and Hermione was blushing furiously.
"So should we go on a 'date.'"
…
Hermione was nervous: today she and Draco were double-'dating' with Harry and Ginny. Harry had Floo-ed in and asked her if she wanted to and she had no choice but to agree. At first she thought she should make an excuse but she was terrible at lying. Well anyway, she had managed to convince Draco to come…
She was wondering why she was feeling so shy and nervous about pretending to date Draco- usually she could handle anything. There were butterflies in her stomach and she wondered if she could possibly like him. She did a spell to curl her hair in big curls and put on a long scarlet dress that hugger her every curve.
Ring!
The doorbell.
It was time.
…
Tonks opened her mouth as Remus fed her a piece of chicken. She giggled like a little schoolgirl and mentally slapped herself. She was 25 not 16! She made a mental note. When talking to Remus:
'I must not act like a blubbering idiot.'
…
Ginny and Harry grinned at each other when they saw Hermione and Draco holding hands awkwardly as they sat down in front of them.
"So Ginny, how's the shop?"
A month ago when Ginny had left Hogwarts she had decided to help Fred and George with their shop and together they reached beyond the universe of pranking and into a whole new dimension.
Ginny grinned, "It's doing great but I finally decided what to do full time! I'm going to be a Gringotts curse breaker like Bill and go on all sorts of adventures underground! It's going to be awesome!"
She was careful not to spill her drink all over her white dress- when she was excited she was a total klutz!
…
Hermione smiled, it was almost time for this date to end. It had been so awkward and when Draco and Hermione finally started joking around they realized what they were doing and looked anywhere but each other. Meanwhile Harry and Ginny were having a fight with their charmed forks.
"Ha! Take that Harry!"
Harry groaned before his fork knocked Ginny's down.
Ginny pouted.
Disclaimer: We do not own Harry Potter.
A/N: this was written by tanninginthesun and she apologizes if it sucks.