Laws Of Love: Chapter 20:

The door creaked, causing Harry to look up to see Hermione come into the room carrying Crookshanks in one arm, and dragging her trunk along with her in the other. Harry got up and stared at her inquisitively.

"Well you can't expect me to sleep there with them." Hermione sniffed.

Harry nodded and helped with her trunk. Hermione thanked him and climbed into Ron's bed and said softly, "I'm going to miss him."

Harry sat down besides her and casted an arm around her, "I know, me too."

Hermione hugged him tightly, "You know, we've been best friends now for 6 years."

Harry laid his chin on the top of her head, "Yeah. And I'm grateful for it. These were the best years of my life. You've been a great friend. And I know you need me, so I'll try my best to be there for you."

He heard Hermione sob, as she clutched onto him tighter, "I really love Ron. It just hurts so much."

Harry kissed the top of her head and left for his own bed, "Sleep tight. Just holler if you need me."

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Every day you could find Hermione in the hospital wing besides Ron, holding on his hand as he slept and slept. Most of the time she did her homework there, because it was only around him that she could relax.

She did her detentions, which weren't very hard. She had to help Hagrid out for a week, but he took it easy on her and so she spent most of her time drinking tea in his cabin and discussing Ron. Even now that the detentions ended she came back and did the same because it felt so nice to have someone to talk about it because Harry turned out be not much of help, he himself was also broken down because of Ron's absence. The Quidditch team suffered too, Ginny had to replace Harry and Dean had to replace Ginny. They lost the first game dreadfully because Ginny wasn't quite as good as Harry and Dean was simply terrible.

Christmas was nearing and there were no signs of Ron getting back to normal. The 6th year guys were now used to living with Hermione, and now knew about everything about her. They knew what type of underwear she wears because often she forgot that the guys lived there too so she left them lying around, they also knew when she had her period and when it ended, they also got to know how annoyed and violent Hermione could get if she couldn't get a knot out of her hair, they also discovered that she had about 20 shoes, 15 pyjamas and matching slippers, 7 jeans, 35 shirts, 10 sweaters, 15 thongs, 11 bra's, 6 low riders and 2 hideous boxer shorts, they also found out that Hermione loves romance novels, is crazy about chocolate, has 2 books about playing chess and enjoys long warm baths that take about 3 hours.

These baths were probably what annoyed them most of all. She got up really early to fit them into a school day and she wasn't done by the time the others awoke, resulting that they had to walk down to the common room in their boxers for a piss.

Anyways, Hermione was just returning from the hospital wing when she came across Ginny in the corridors.

"Hey," Ginny said happily.

"Hi." Hermione replied, "What are you doing?"

"Oh," Ginny smiled, "Prefect rounds."

Hermione nodded and said goodbye, leaving Ginny alone in the hall way. Ginny hesitated between the options that she had; she should continue the rounds, go back the common room and chill or visit Ron.

She eventually chose the first one because she knew that later her conscience would nag her silly. She walked up the hall way and a round a corner when she came across Peeves.

Peeves caught sight of her and smiled maliciously, "Oooh, ickle prefect off on rounds. Let me go annoy ickle prefect and help other trouble makers."

Ginny didn't quite get his sentence but before she knew it Peeves was pelting paintings at her.

Ginny made a dash for it and ran down a couple of hallways while Peeves got inventive and starting throwing pieces from the suits of armour at her. Ginny ducked when a helmet came her way and dodged a sword narrowly. She jumped down a couple flights of stairs and smashed hard into the floor, she scrambled back up when she realised that Peeves had found a stash of canon balls and was throwing them down after her.

She sprinted down another corridor and rounded sharply around a corner when she bumped it another person, knocking them both to the floor.

"Oh, watch it!" The voice snapped.

Ginny got up and to her dread she saw that bumped into Malfoy.

Malfoy also noticed this and smirked, "My, I bet you were dying to knock me off my feet."

"As if, Malfoy." Ginny hissed, looking back to see if Peeves was coming, "What are you doing here?"

"Prefect rounds, just like you, now if you please, get the fuck off my leg."

Ginny got up, and as she did she got thrown back down by chair that came flying through the air, "Peeves! Run!" Ginny gasped at Malfoy.

Malfoy complied, but surprisingly before he did, he helped Ginny up.

"Malfoy and Weaselette sitting in a tree, -f-u-c-k-i-n-g!" Peeves's sing song voice said from behind them.

Ginny turned around to yell at him, but as she did she saw that he still had a canon ball so she turned around again and starting running for her life, closely followed by Malfoy. Peeves rolled the canon ball over the floor, hoping it would knock them off their feet like pins.

Malfoy twisting around while running and yelled, "Reducto!"

The ball exploded, but Peeves's imagination did not, he grabbed more paintings and threw the paintings at them like Frisbees.

Ginny stopped when she realised that they were now by the painting that would open up Granger's Hollow. She tapped the nose three times and it swung open. She pushed Malfoy inside and closed the painting door behind them.

"Oh Mother of Merlin." Ginny puffed while Malfoy rested his hands on his knees and waited for the stitch in side to go away.

"Now what?" he hissed.

"We wait till he is gone." Ginny said simply.

But Peeves didn't go away, worse actually he piled twenty desk and 10 suits of armour in front of the painting so that they couldn't get out.

"I'll take them away in the morning, but for now. LET ALL TROUBLE BE FREE!" and they could hear him zoom away, cackling.

"Shit."

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Fred and Harry were playing a game of chess, while George and Neville were discussing several plants that would cause purple boils to jumps up every where, since George was researching for another product and Neville was simply delighted to help and Hermione sat in a corner reading Romeo and Juliet.

Fred won, and the rule was that the loser would go to the kitchens to go get butter bears for every one.

"Yeah but its almost 11, Filch is prowling the halls ways like mad at this time." Harry complained.

"Well go take the marauder's map then." George proposed.

"Yeah, and your invisibility cloak." Neville added.

In the end Harry agreed so he went upstairs to go collect them.

"I solemnly I'm up to no good." Harry said as he tapped the map.

Ink lines started crawling over the piece of parchments and dots popped up. Harry traced a few dots, Filch was on the third floor, Snape was safely tucked away in the dungeons and Mrs. Norris was prowling the Astronomy tower where she found two snoggers, apparently Justin Flinch-Fletchly and Hannah Abbot. Then his eye fell on something else, two dots, awfully close to each other in a room he did not recognize.

Ginny Weasley – OO – Draco Malfoy

Harry stared at it blankly and waited for the Ginny dot to move away and out of the room. But she didn't. She stayed put. Wasn't she on rounds? Harry waited, now impatient. Come on Ginny, move away from him. Infact, at this point they got closer.

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Malfoy, in an anger fit had blasted the second couch in oblivion, leaving the two of them only once couch to share for the night.

At first they were both reluctant, but soon tiredness took over them and they agreed to it. This also meant unwanted physical contact, but this room didn't have a fire blazing and didn't have a heater either, so it got rather chilly after a while, forcing them closer to each other.

"Weasley, move your foot." Malfoy's voice said from the darkness.

Ginny sniffed and rolled over, purposely kicking him in the groin.

Malfoy jumped up and pulled her hair, forcing her head up, then he brought his face down be hers and he snarled in her face, "Careful Weaselette, you don't want anything happening to Potty, Buck-Tooth and Mr. Temperamental do you? I'd be careful if I were you, real careful; because you never know when death is coming for you. But in your case, it's soon. Mark my words it soon."

Ginny said at first nothing but spat in his face, "I'll make your life a living hell, and this night too if you don't watch what your saying."

Malfoy smirked, "We'll see." Then he forced her head back down, smothering her into the pillow.

Ginny was finding it harder to breath, she kicked furiously and flayed with arms, smacking Malfoy in the face.

Malfoy kneed her abdomen forcefully and walloped her on the head. Ginny stopped struggling and relieve washed over as he lifted the pillow.

They both said nothing for the rest of the night, but they both didn't sleep.

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Harry seethed in anger. What were they doing? Kissing? Making out…..or….doing it? In his anger Harry threw a book at the wall, he now desperately needed a drink.

He grabbed his invisibility cloak and hurried out of the dormitory, out of the common room and down to the kitchens. He was heartily received by happy house elves but he didn't give a toss. He requested some fire whiskey, something he never had before, but frankly he didn't care. As soon as Dobby gave it to him he took a long swig and sat down at one of the tables. He rolled out the map and stared intently at it.

"Its so over between us Ginny." Harry said out loud, as he finished his third bottle and slammed it on the table.

"Please Sir," Dobby started to say, but Harry slipped side ways of his chair and fell to the ground unconscious.