Chapter Eighteen: What the-
"Are you nervous for the game tomorrow?" Harry asked casually. Ginny and Harry were sitting cross-legged on each end on the couch on the large, over-stuffed, black leather couch centered in the middle of the Common Room. Ron and Hannah were giggling and snuggling on the love seat beside the couch. This truly was not Ginny's idea of a date, watching her brother snuggling while she sat about a mile away from her own date discussing Quidditch. She loved Quidditch, but she liked Harry just as much and wished she could be closer to him.
"Oh, not really. I have a good feeling about it...what about you?"
"I think I get nervous before every game," Harry admitted.
Ron groaned loudly and pulled away from Hannah and through a pillow at Harry's stomach, "just kiss already!" Hannah laughed and pulled Ron back into a kiss. That's it! How is this a date? Ron is encouraging kissing!
Harry sighed nervously and continued, "But once I get on my broom I think I gain confidence again."
"I thought Harry Potter was always confident," Ginny said crawling closer to him on the couch.
"Not always," Harry smiled.
"Are you confident right now?"
"What is there to be confident about?"
"Well how about this...," Ginny's face moved closer to his, he uncrossed his legs so Ginny could get closer and naturally she crawled up between them. He put his hand on her back and led her closer and closer until finally they kissed.
"Finally," Ron sighed rolling his eyes. He went back to kiss Hannah but he noticed Harry's hands leading towards Ginny's butt, "hey mate that's great, that's just fine," Ron called, but Harry didn't seem to hear him, "I said kiss, not... that!"
"Ron," Hannah ordered, "Leave them alone!"
Ginny laughed and pulled away from Harry smiling, this was more like her idea of a date; close to Harry and her brother scolding their actions. The only thing missing was Hermione, Neville and Seamus reading by the fireplace laughing at all of them. Seamus was playing Wizard's Chess with his sister Sandy, Neville was on a date with Luna some where on the school grounds and Hermione was in the library, alone with Draco Malfoy.
"Poor Hermione," Ginny sighed.
"What?" Harry asked worried, "what's wrong with Hermione?"
"Nothing," Ginny laughed, "but she's studying in the library on a Friday night,"
"So? She studies every night,"
"But on Friday's she at least hangs out with us…usually, even if you and Ron have your own company she talks to Seamus, Dean, Neville, any one! Tonight she's finishing a project with Malfoy, what if he's giving her a hard time?"
Meanwhile...
Hermione ran her hands through Draco's soft blonde hair as they kissed passionately in the back of the library.
"Yea, she's probably going through pure hell right now,"
"Exactly. I think we should go make sure he's not, or if he is make him stop,"
Harry was about to protest, he wanted to stay here with Ginny; but she looked sincere and seemed worried about Hermione, "ok," he said, "let's go to the library," Besides, the night was still young right? This date wouldn't be over for hours yet, not if Harry had any thing to say about it. Ginny smiled and took his hand, leading him out of the Common room and down to the library.
They arrived at the library about twenty minutes later (they took their time). They walked around the library until they came to Hermione and Malfoy's books. Harry looked around the rest of the library, turning in a complete circle, "where do you think they went off to?"
"A better question is where would they go off to? Draco Malfoy isn't exactly the type of person I imagine Hermione dropping studying for,"
"Perhaps she's teaching him a lesson. Literally," Harry laughed, "it wouldn't hurt,"
"Oh stop joking, this could be serious,"
"Okay, okay," Harry said, silencing him self and sneaking a kiss on her cheek, "now where would they go?"
"Why don't we split up?" Ginny said prying his hands off her waist. She wanted to kiss him in the Common Room, but through the hallways and now in the library was becoming too public.
"Why can't we look together?"
"Because if we split up we're bound to find her quicker which means we can get back to our date quicker,"
Harry didn't even consider it for a moment, "I'll take the left,"
Ginny smiled and headed in the opposite direction. Looking down each isle, she never realized just how big the library was. As she got further and further down passing subjects like Ancient Ruins, Alchemy, Astronomy, the very anciently studied: Belmagophysics(the physics of spells and charms that originated in Belgium), and Biomagistics. Hermione will love studying these next year, Ginny thought while examining all of the large and old text books. She was coming to the end of the isles of books, to a dark, dingy area that is noted for being secluded. It was also known as the stacks, where the librarian never ventured because books never needed to be return there meaning kids would come here when they were tired of studying and 'carry on'. Ginny laughed to herself, Hermione back in the stacks...that's a good one, as if she would ever stop studying to do that, or ever stop studying at all for any matter.
Ginny was about to turn around, she only came this far to humor herself but then she heard laughing and whispering. It sounded oddly familiar so Ginny kept walking forwards and turned the last corner of the stacks, "Hermione, there you a-," Draco and Hermione pulled away slowly at this intrusion. Hermione gasped when she saw Ginny. Ginny looked over at Draco, then back to Hermione, then to where their arms were, then Ginny's eyes widened in realization. What the-... Ginny stood there literally speechless.