Chapter 6

A few weeks went by and the Hogsmade trip was almost here. Everyone was exited to go to the little magical city- but no one was as exited as the two mysterious lovers, who incidently happened to be best friends, and didn't know it. Both were confiding their deepest feelings and secrets to their red-headed friends.
They were sitting in the common room one Friday after school when Neville came bursting in with good news. "Hey! Guess what! Guess what!" He shouted as he ran in. Harry Ron Hermione, Ginny, Lavender, and Seamus all looked up from their homework. "Who? Loony Lovegood?" Seamus asked laughing. Neville's face went red and puffy. "As a matter of fact she's not loony" he said and stormed out. Seamus shouted after him, "I didn't mean that kind of loony!" but no good he didn't hear, he was already out of the portrait hole. They waited a little bit longer to make sure he was really gone and that he wasn't going to come back in and then they all burst out laughing. They didn't really mean it but the 6 just couldn't help themselves.
Once everyone stopped laughing over that incident, they finished their homework and when they did that the Quiddich players who consisted of Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Seamus all grabbed their brooms and headed out to play Quiddich. It took a little persuation to get Hermione to come out and play, but in the end they got her to come.
Everyone had a broom exept for Hermione and Lavender so the other 4 insisted that they double up with someone else. Ginny took Lavender on her Commet two-sixty and with a looooooooooooo…(exc) time of persuation from Harry, he finally got Hermione on his Firebolt.
With a lot of re-assuring on Harry's part they were finaly in the air. Hermione was sitting in the front and Harry behind her. She was gripping the broom so tightly that even the worlds strongest man couldn't peel her fingers from the smooth, shiny, surface of the recently polished broomstick. Harry's arms were around Hermione and his hands were just above hers on the broom.
Hermione was a little better because she knew that Harry was an experienced flier and he wouldn't let her fall. She was glad that Ron didn't volenteer to take her on his broom, otherwise she would be scared for her life, and god love Ron and all but no offence Hermione thought that he wasn't that good of a flier. He could barely keep himself on his broom let alone. When the game finally started it was actually fun on Hermiones part. It was fun passing the quaffle back and forth to each other to score a goal (they only had a quaffle because that's all they managed to jack from the storage room.)
The six played until the sky started to get a rosy pink color. When they finally touch the ground, a few people who had come out to watch them stood up and started to exit the stands. Some of the others stayed, for they were there only as a private place that they could talk to their friends.
When Harry landed on the ground in the middle of the Quiddich field, he was surprised to find that Hermione wasn't holding onto the broom still. She was smiling and pink in the cheeks. Harry raised an eyebrow at her. "So you had fun did you?" she smiled. "looks like you're not afraid of heights anymore." "I had loads of fun and yeah" she smiled meekly. "I'm still afraid of heights, its just that I'm not so much anymore." Harry smiled and said. " Ah, its probably because of my superb flying skills isn't it?" "Oh yeah Harry, oh great holy flyer. I'm not worthy to be in your presence." she said and bowed. "Your just jelious" he said and them started walking to the castle. The 4 others were already way ahead.
"Hey!" Hermione shouted. She ran up to him and jumped on his back. "Oi!" Harry said and laughed, so did she. He gave her a piggy back ride all the way back to the castle and up the stairs, into the common room couch where he dumped her and them fell onto another one. Hermione was shocked that he could actually carry her let alone up all those stairs. She kept on telling him to drop her if she got to heavy but he carried on.
They rest of them must have been in their dorms getting their pyjamas on or something because Ron just came down and sat on Hermione's legs on the couch she was laying on. "oi get off!" she said to him "you massive elephant you weigh a ton!" she said to him and he moved off of her so she could move her legs. Then he sat back down again and she put her legs on his lap, which he didn't mind at all.
Soon after the rest of the people joined them and they spent the rest of the time up talking, laughing, playing games, and just having fun, which they do on most other occations. It was around 1 am when Hermione, Ron and Harry dragged themselves to bed and said their goodnights to each other. Hermione looked in her dorm and Ginny and Lavender were sound asleep. Same for Harry and Ron. Neville, Dean and Seamus were all snoring their heads off and dean was half off his bed. Neville was drooling onto his pillow and Seamus, was the one who was snoring the loudest. Harry and Ron each pulled the covers on and it seemed as when they just put their head to their pillows they fell asleep.
Hermione on the other hand stayed up just a few minutes later, thinking about meeting that guy in Hogsmade the next day. Soon though, her thoughts were cloudy and she couldn't keep her eyes open. She fell into a peacefull sleep with the faint deep breathing of Ginny in the background.