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Disclaimer - Sadly I don't Harry or any of his friends or places in the Wizarding World. I don't even own the character Brionna Culver seeing as she's based on one of my best mates! I do however own the plot and any other original characters.

Summary - Follow Harry through his seventh and final year at Hogwarts where he has to deal with girl problems, being a teenager and Voldemort and his Horcruxes. HBP spoilers, prequel to One Night Can Change Everything.

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I don't know how long it will be before I update again coz basically I found out today that the cancer my nan has is terminal and we're looking at months and not years left. At the moment I'm writing this while I'm crying coz it just hit me that she's going to die so I'm not really in the mood to write. I did though write 2 new one shots and put them up so while I'm not here please read and review those and review this. And I got 80 hits for the last chapter but 2 reviews so what happened to the other 78? A few I know why they sometimes don't review but everyone else! Please review it will make me feel better and want to write. Oh and I've misplaced my floppy disk with this story on so I'm currently using the rough version to update with.

Chapter 12 - Harry's First Mistake

As November was drawing to a close, Harry had finally managed to control his schoolwork and Head Boy duties which allowed him to spend more time with his friends.

On evening as he was reaching the half way point during one of his defence lesson with Tonks, she suddenly broke down into floods of tears.

Harry stopped what he was doing and looked at her.

"Tonks what's wrong?" he asked.

"Oh nothing," she replied as she wiped her eyes with a tissue.

"It doesn't seem like nothing to me. Do you want to tell me the real reason why Lupin isn't here?"

Tonks shook her head and blew her nose.

Harry sighed and sat down next to Tonks.

"Tonks what happened?" Harry asked.

"Me and Remus broke up. He said that I was too young for him and that he's too dangerous to be around let alone live with. Harry do you mind if we leave the rest of the lesson? You could do with some extra time and I need to sort myself out otherwise I won't be fit to teach tomorrow," Tonks explained miserably.

Harry nodded then slowly walked out of the classroom leaving Tonks to her own devices.

When Harry was inside Gryffindor Tower he looked for Ron.

Once he found him he asked to speak to him in private and Ron followed to Harry to a dark corner of the common room.

"Hey Ron, do you mind if I sleep in your dormitory tonight? I don't want to sleep in mine. It gets lonely and I haven't really spent time with you since we got back," Harry asked.

"Sure you can Harry. Your bed is still there and no one sleeps in it so it's still yours," Ron replied.

Harry muttered a thank you and made his way upstairs.

Meanwhile Brionna Culver was laying on Dean Thomas' bed smirking at the thought of another notch on her bed post.

She knew that all of the girls in the school thought of her as a cheap tart and all of the boys thought her as easy.

Maybe that was why most of the sixth year boys had gone to her when they wanted to lose their virginity.

But this wasn't the first time that she had slept with Dean, they had been doing this for months.

There was no sexual attraction in it nor were they boyfriend and girlfriend - this was just pure casual sex, a way that they both could get laid regularly which of course didn't really apply to Brionna seeing as she'd had Draco Malfoy the previous day.

Brionna sighed and started to think about the one notch that she wanted on her bed post the most - a certain ebony haired seventh year Gryffindor that went by the name of Harry Potter.

There was a rumour going around the school that he - yes Harry Potter was still a virgin at the tender age of seventeen years old and she wanted that, she wanted his virginity.

She sighed again and got off the bed to go into the bathroom to have a shower.

While she was in the shower she continued to think about Harry.

After she had showered Brionna walked back into the dormitory with just a towel covering her and she caught sight of Harry Potter laying on his old bed.

"Ahem."

Brionna turned round and faced Harry.

"Yes?" she asked sweetly.

"You do realise that this is a boy's dormitory don't you?" Harry asked whilst trying not to look at the scantily clad Brionna.

"Of course I do Harry. The um, the girl's showers aren't working and Dean told me to use these ones."

"Was that before, after or while you shagged him?" Harry asked coolly.

Brionna looked at Harry and said, "I don't know what you're talking about Harry."

"Face it Bri. You're a tart. You use guys for sex, just so you can get laid and I don't care if you're my best mate's little sister's friend either, you need to know it," Harry said truthfully.

Brionna looked at Harry completely godsmacked.

Harry got up off his bed and walked towards her whilst Brionna followed him with her eyes.

"You're just saying that because my friend won't give you the key to her heart after what you said to her. You're so bitter because the one girl that you want most, you know you can't have. I doubt Ron would ever let you go near her again even if you are his best friend," Brionna said smirking.

Harry glared at her.

"How dare you."

"Face it Harry. You're hung up on Ginny Weasley but she doesn't like you like that anymore. In fact I think she hates you more now than she did in the summer holidays. Look around you, there's loads of girls that want you. Especially one in particular," Brionna said as she ran a finger down Harry's cheek.

"Really? And here I was thinking that they only wanted to have Harry Potter the boy-who-lived," Harry said sarcastically.

"Of course Harry. People want to know the real Harry not Harry Potter," she replied as she ran her finger over his scar which made him shiver.

Brionna moved closer to Harry so that their bodies were touching and let her towel slip a bit.

"Mmm excited are we Mr Potter?" she said seductively as Harry looked at the towel and what it was now revealing.

Harry gulped and moved in to kiss her.

Soon enough they had both torn their clothes off and were laying on the bed doing things that Harry had only dreamed of doing with Ginny.

After they had both reached their climax Harry took a shower whilst Brionna lay on the bed thinking about her newest notch on her bed post.

As Harry walked out of the bathroom he looked at Brionna and said, "no one finds out about this especially Ginny," before walking out of the dormitory.

A few days later, Harry found that he was spending each night pacing his dormitory or the common room which ended up in him getting hardly any sleep.

When he paced, Harry would think about everything that had happened in his short but eventful life, things such as Ginny, breaking up with Ginny, his parents, Sirius, Voldemort and the Horcruxes.

Often Harry woke Hermione up and it had started to worry her because she felt that she could never get up and go and talk to Harry because he might think that she was prying into his life.

She knew that Harry wasn't getting any sleep whatsoever just by the way that he looked in the mornings and how much his schoolwork was suffering and had even contemplated about going to see Madam Pomfrey to see if she could help Harry get some sleep.

The only thing that made her not go to Madam Pomfrey was the thought of Harry's nightmares, the only people that knew about those were herself, the Weasley's, Professor McGonagall and Voldemort himself, besides she wasn't entirely sure that Harry was still having them because he hardly told her anything these days.

Hermione knew that the only way to get to the bottom of Harry's sleepless nights would be to talk to Harry.

But she didn't know what Harry's reaction would be to her asking questions about him pacing every night and to her knowing about the lack of sleep he was having at the present time.

The following night Hermione sat in bed reading a book while she waited for Harry to get up as he usually did and go into the common room.

Sure enough at around one thirty, she heard the familiar footsteps that belonged to her best friend.

Hermione waited for a few minutes then got up and slowly walked out of her dormitory and into the common room that she shared with Harry.

She stood in the doorway and watched as Harry muttered to himself while he paced the length of the room over and over again.

"Harry?" Hermione asked.

Harry stopped pacing when he heard her voice and turned to look at Hermione.

"Harry, what's wrong?" she asked again.

Harry sat down and gestured for Hermione to come and join him.

Hermione walked into the common room and sat down next to him.

"Talk to me Harry. I know you do this every night. I've heard you," she told him.

Harry sighed and laid back against the sofa.

"The need is there, I know I need to go to sleep but my body just won't give in. So I give up and come in here to think about things. Tonight I was thinking about the Horcruxes and what if there wasn't any and my life was normal," Harry explained.

"Harry, your problem is that you give up too easily. Keep trying and if that doesn't work then go to Madam Pomfrey. She doesn't ask too many questions. Come on close your eyes," Hermione replied.

Harry nodded and closed his eyes while Hermione stroked his hair.

Within five minutes of her starting to do this Harry was asleep.

Hermione stood up and put a blanket over Harry.

She then kissed his forehead before whispering, "sweet dreams Harry," and going back to bed.

Please review it takes 2 seconds. I need it to make me feel better! And my friend isn't really a slut in real life. She wanted me to write the character like that.