Disclaimer: For the second time1 I don't own Harry Potter! Although I wish I did…J.K Rowling invented them and they are staying hers!

Pairing: Ron/Hermione

Ron Weasley looked into his bubbling potion and made a face of disgust. His love potion, supposed to be a light pink, had suddenly changed from orange to green.

"Well…that's just great," Ron groaned as he added Ash winder eggs to his gurgling concoction. That only worsened the green goo further, upsetting it to gray. The red headed Gryffindor peered at the board in front of him and realized to his horror the eggs were supposed to be frozen.

"Bloody hell!" he muttered. He turned to his partner Hermione to see her potion. The bushy haired girl was stirring it and on the third turn it turned a lovely light pink.

"Um…Hermione?" asked Ron. "Do you suppose I could get a bit of help?"

Hermione smiled. "Of course." She then looked into the potion and frowned. "What on earth did you put in it?" she asked.

"Um…" Ron's ears went rather red. "Anything I could find really…that was before I noticed the ingredients on the board. And then I put the Ash winder eggs in it but then I realized they were supposed to be frozen…"

Hermione sighed shaking her head. "Let's make a trip to the cupboard. We'll get the ingredients there…" And so the two Gryffindors went to the back of the class to get the potion ingredients.

A tall pale faced Slytherin walked over to the Gryffindor's potion. His gray eyes flashed as a wicked grin came over his face. Draco Malfoy opened the end of Hermione's water bottle and put a few drops of her potion inside. The crystal clear water turned a violent shade of red before resuming its natural color. Then Malfoy smirked as he walked back to his own table.

"Bloody git…" muttered Ron as they made their way back. "I can't believe he grabbed the last eggs…"

Hermione nodded pouting. "Well…the least you can get on that potion is a D…"

At that moment Snape slithered over. "F." he said pointing to Ron's grey potion. It seemed to have hardened into a large blob. Then the greasy haired teacher walked back to his desk smirking.

Ron looked at Hermione with an, 'I told you so.' look.

Hermione rolled her eyes as she reached for her water bottle. She gulped some of the contents before putting it back down. She looked at Ron who was prodding the blob with the end of his wand. Suddenly her eyes went cloudy and she stared at Ron with a longing look in her hazel eyes.

Ron looked at his partner, about to ask a question when he saw Hermione staring at him. "Um…" he said, not knowing what to say.

Hermione took this as an invitation to move closer to him. She found his had on top of the table and slowly entwined her fingers in his smiling brightly.

The red head's eyes widened. "Hermione," he choked. "What the bloody hell are you doing?"

Hermione smiled. "You are so adorably clueless…" she said.

Ron cocked an eyebrow. "Ok…what WAS in that water?" Several students were giving them curious looks and the Slytherin's were cackling madly in their seats. Theodore Nott tumbled from his chair clutching his sides and the Slytherin's laughed harder.
Hermione giggled. "Nothing silly…" she said leaning closer.

Ron became wide eyed then. "Hermione snap out of it!" he said, waving a hand in front of her face.

Hermione only grinned as she neared his face.
Ron barely had time to react before her lips were on his. Ron actually smiled as the kiss progressed. Several students gasped and some clapped loudly. The slytherin's were still laughing and someone sent a bit of their potion flying towards Malfoy who was laughing loudest of them all. The potion collided with him and he instantly fell under its spell. His partner, Blaise Zabini looked at him as he shook his friend.

"Draco," said the Italian waving his hand in front of his face. "Hello? Earth to Draco…"

Malfoy smiled totally infatuated by his hazel skinned friend. The blonde leaned closer to Blaise and Blaise tried to push him away. "No!" he said. "No!"

But Malfoy wouldn't be denied his coal haired prize. He ignored Blaise's cries of despair and connected his lips with his friend's.
After a minute, Malfoy pulled away and Blaise sat dumbstruck.

Ron and Hermione smiled at each other as their kiss ended and stared into one another's eyes.

"What's this world coming too?" wondered Harry as he looked at his partner, Parvati Patil. He froze under the stare she was giving him as she moved closer to him. "Not you too!" he shouted.
Snape watched the struggling students around him. Hermione and Ron smiling lovingly at each other, Draco trying to kiss Blaise again and Blaise struggling to get out of his friend's hold. And Potter crying out to stop the madness as Parvati advanced.

He leaned back in his chair smirking smugly. Yes, he did enjoy his job…