Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters.

A/N: I haven't written in a while but now I'm back. Powered by my lack of internet and my new laptop, now when I say my I mean the school's but that's not the point. I have a lot of ideas I just haven't put them into writing because handwriting is so time consuming, but I will get them down now.

Chapter 10

Hermione was feeling great about her repaired friendship with Ron even if it did mean she couldn't see Fred as much. But throughout the rest of the Christmas holidays the whole Weasley family was together and as happy as could be. But there was a great shock brought to the trio only a week into their rejoined friendship.

"He wants you to what?" gasped a surprised Ron.

"Take Occlumency lessons from Snape," Harry sighed falling to the bed.

"Oh my," Hermione sighed sitting beside him.

"What exactly is Occlumency?" Ron asked as he paced the room.

"What am I going to do?" Harry asked himself as he looked up at the ceiling.

"Well did Snape tell you why he wanted to give you these lessons instead of Dumbledore?" Hermione asked slightly concerned.

"How should I know? He just told me that Dumbledore wanted me to take the lessons and that was it," Harry said angrily peering at Hermione.

"What is Occlumency?" Ron asked again walking up to Hermione.

"Well, from what I've read Occlumency is a process of closing your mind to others or to have the power to in a way read the minds of others. It's like if I could tell what you were thinking right now, Harry!" Hermione explained.

"It's not hard to know what I'm thinking now," Harry sighed.

"Oh, well, I suppose that's true," Hermione said, face reddening.

"Hey, I know why Snape is doing your lessons, Harry!" Ron said halting from his pacing. Hermione got the same feeling that she had every other time Ron said Snape was out to get Harry, even though he never was. Ron looked towards both of them before continuing. "So, Dumbledore wants Harry to take Occlumency lessons to close his mind to You-Know-Who, and naturally Snape is working with him so he takes the job. But, his plan is to open his mind to You-Know-Who so he can find out about that corridor. What do you think?"

"It might just be true this time," Harry said bolting up.

"Of course it's not true!" Hermione squealed getting up, "Snape was never out to get Harry before and he isn't now."

"Come on Hermione! You still can't be standing up for him. Not after all that he has done to us," Harry cried walking up and grabbing her shoulders.

"Well, I will agree that he has it for us but he has never done anything to hurt us. After all he did save your life once," Hermione said pulling away from him, "and Dumbledore trusts him. If we can't trust Dumbledore who can we trust?"

"Well, I guess if Dumbledore trusts him with this job I can't do anything about it," Harry sighed.

"You know we had better go down to that party and show everyone we do care about Mr. Weasley," Hermione said turning out the door closely followed by the boys.

"So you think it will work?" Hermione heard Fred ask as she passed the twins huddled in a corner. She could only imagine what they could be up to now what with Ron making up with Hermione. Probably just more tricks and jokes for their dream joke shop.

"Sure it will work," George was telling Fred as he watched Hermione walk by, "you did talk to Ginny about it didn't you?"

"Yeah, that and I really think this will work. As long as Ron doesn't run off before I talk to him right?" Fred said getting his signature Weasley twin grin back.

"Well you had better get down there and break the news that you want your little bro back," George said smiling. He was happy for his twin. He had a girl that loved him back and he was about to patch things together with his brother who had thought he loved the same girl. All he needed was for the joke shop to get started and he would have the perfect life.

"Hey," Ron said as Fred walked up to him. Fred noticed the half forced smile on his brother's face.

"Hey, Ron, I just wanted to apologize for some things. Like how I've been ignoring you lately. You know what I mean," Fred said carefully choosing his words. He wanted to make Ron know that he was really sorry for what he had done.

"It's alright mate," he heard Ron say, "I understand how you would feel. I mean if it was you saying what I said to Hermione I would try to stop you too."

"Well," Fred smiled looking over at Hermione, "now I can see what you've seen in her for the past five years." He saw Hermione cast a glance over at the two Weasley brothers and smile. He knew she was happy for both of them, giving up their fight just to make things go back to normal.

"Does this mean we are back to being brothers?" Ron asked laughing.

"Sure does little bro! Now let's go get some food, I spy mum's sandwiches!" Fred cheered striding over to the table looking back and forth along the array of food.

"So what do you think?" Hermione heard a voice over her shoulder.

"About what?" Hermione turned staring into George Weasley's eyes. George's eyes were more of a green than Fred's pure blue ones. Other than that they were identical, down to the last freckle. What made Fred more attractice to her than George.

"Fred and Ron. Who will win your heart? What will this mean for the other? Well?" George asked putting the Weasley twin drama into his speech.

Hermione laughed, "As for who will win my heart I don't know. Although I think they are back to being brothers now and not enemies." Hermione smiled thinking about what would happen when they got back to school. She wouldn't be seeing a lot of Fred there between different lessons to his pranking that didn't leave a lot of time to see him. Who knows, maybe she'd have to give up some study time to see him.

The ride back to Hogwarts was pretty much uneventful. They rode back to Hogwarts on the night bus and it was quite funny to see Ron toppling to the floor every time they set off. Before they knew it they were speeding down the road next to Hogsmeade and came to a screaching halt in front of the gates. After saying goodbye to Tonks and Lupin they set off towards the school.

The next chapter I think will mainly have how Hermione and Fred are feeling though the first few days of school. I think it will be pretty intersting.