Willow was setting in the Library working on Ancient Ruins with Hermione and Dawn. She had asked Tracy and Daphne to join them, but both had decided to work on Charms. Willow took this to really mean Daphne wanted to talk about boys and Tracy was being forced to lessen to her friend.

"What did you guys get for the Inca translation for 'change'?" Dawn inquired looking back threw her textbook.

"Here." Hermione said showing her. "Have ether of you found the Mayan symbol for 'guard' yet?"

"Yes, top of page 33." Willow said absentmindedly. She was looking at Hermione remembering something interesting during their first Care Of Magical Creatures class. She had somehow been to Muggle Studies and Ancient Ruins at the same time according to Ron. She was about to ask her bookish Gryffindor friend more about this when Parvati Patil came and sat down with them quickly.

All three girls looked at the Indian heritage Witch and noticed her excited smile. "High Willow, guess what I just saw in the hallway? [giggle]

Willow shared a bemused look with her two friends before asking, embellishing her words sarcastically. "Gee, I don't know. What did you see in the hallway?"

Parvati giggle again before exclaiming. "Your brother and Ginny Weasley snogging in a corner!"

A loud shushing nose was heard from the librarian, Irma Pince, but none of the girls took notice. Dawn looked at Willow to gage her reaction, while trying not to laugh, and said. "Well that's sweet, [snicker] holding hands and kissing cheeks."

"Oh no, this was full on Fairy Lights!" Parvati exclaimed in a loud whisper, only to be given confused looks from the table. Clearly they didn't understand the Wizarding expression. "Oh, what was the Muggle expression, full cake press?"

Dawn, Hermione, and Willow exchanged confused expressions until it dawned on Dawn what Parvati was trying to say. "Oh, you mean full court press."

"Yes, that's the one!" Parvati was now bouncing in her seat. "Where talking Harry, with his hands on Ginny's shoulders, pressing her hard up against the wall, lips fully locked, and his tongue definitely down her throat! The older kids in the hallway looked away in embarrassment. Ginny's twin brothers both saw and couldn't even get up the nerve to let out one cat call. They were both mortified."

They weren't the only ones. Willow's sat in complete stunned silence as she processed what she was told. When did her brother get so bold and why didn't she fell any of this through the magical connection? They had both been working at keeping each other out of their individual heads and know had to concentrate on the other to relay emotion, but something that passionate should have still made it past her shields. Unless there was more going on then what was apparent.

Hermione and Dawn were trying desperately not to laugh at Willow's stunned face. The bushy-haired girl gained enough control to say with an almost straight face. "Well, [snicker] they are both much too young to be that ... affectionate." [snicker]

Dawn was holding her side in pain she was quietly laughing so hard, trying to take deep breaths of air. The table was so distracted by Willow's expression that they failed to register Ron walk up, until he grabbed Hermione by the upper arm and pulled her out of her seat.

"Ron what..." Hermione tried to ask but was cut off when the boy fully locking his lips with hers. The young Witch was extremely confused and taken back by Ron's actions and didn't really react at all. Everyone of Hermione's friends could only look on in shock as the ginger boy seemingly tried to devour bookish girl's face in an over the top French kiss.

Finally, they broke apart with Hermione shocked and speechless, while Ron was red faced and trying to act like everything was normal. The boy looked down at the table stubbornly and asked. "What, have you never seen a bloke kiss a girl before?"

Hermione seemed to finally come to her senses. An angry scowl and embarrassed blush graced her lovely face as she grabbed Ron and began to forcibly drag him out of the library. Dawn and Willow fallowed excitedly, the redhead packing and levitating the bags and books to fallow with a wave of her hand, while Parvati went off to find her sister.

The group of three Gryffindors and one Slytherin arrived in the empty Charm's Corridor. Hermione slammed Ron hard into the wall and shouted. "What the bloody hell has gotten into you? You don't just come up and grab a girl like that, it's not decent!"

"Yeah but you liked it." Dawn laughed.

Hermione turned her angry scowl on Dawn. The fact that she finally managed to get her blush under control made the look much scarier. After getting both American Witches to be quiet, the angry Witch's attention turned once again on Ron. The taller boy seemed to be trying to sink into the wall.

"I ah ... w-w-well you see ah... you look pretty." Ron stuttered out as best he could.

This only served to cause Dawn and Willow to start laughing hard again. Willow started reading Ron's emotions with her empath abilities to see what he was feeling. She wanted to know if it was a spontaneous decision or if there was some kind of boyhood hijinks going on. What she felt confused her. Ron was relieved about something that appeared to be associated with the current situation, except Hermione was angry so what was he satisfied about. If anything, he should be feeling nervous, slightly scared, happy, or in a state of desire.

"Ron, what's got into you today?" Willow asked seriously concerned. "First Harry's groping Ginny in the middle of the hallway and know you're trying to add a Romance Section to the Hogwarts Library."

"I wouldn't go that far, and what do you mean Harry's groping Ginny in the hallway. If he hurts my sister I'll kill him."

"You best be glad I'm an only child Ronald, or any older sibling I had would also be trying to kill you at the moment." Hermione grumbled angrily. She was also thinking along the same lines as Willow.

"Do you know wear Harry is right now Willow? He might be able to tell us more about all this." Hermione asked her friend. She then rounded on Ron. "If this was some kind of prank your both dead!"

"No prank honest!" Ron was quick to assure the angry Witch. Dawn walked bemused silently behind Hermione as she dragged the freckle-faced boy by the ear, fallowing Willow to Harry.

The group found Harry and Ginny cornered in an empty room not far from Gryffindor. Fred, George, and Percy wear giving Harry angry looks while Ginny stood between them. The brave Harry Potter was cowering behind the younger girl who was giving her brothers an equally angry look back.

"What's going on here?" Willow asked forcefully to gain everyone's attention. The Weasleys turned and noticed Hermione holding Ron by the ear.

"We're about to teach Harry how to properly conduct himself around our sister." George said threateningly.

"What did Ron do, get angry when he learned about Ginny and Harry in the hallway?" Fred asked indifferently. His attention was still fully on the little Wizard he wanted to flatten.

"No, he pulled a Harry on Hermione in the library." Dawn said smiling.

Every redhead in the room, except for Willow, turned in disbelief to look at Ron. The boy's sheepish face was enough to confirm Dawn's statement.

"You to?" Ginny questioned Hermione. "What had gotten into the both of you?" She finished first glancing questioning at Harry then her brother.

Harry shrugged his shoulders, trying to act casual and failing. "Nothing, I just felt like kissing you Ginny. Is that so wrong?"

Willow, getting feed up with the questions and no answers, felt her brother's magic and then Ron's looking for similarities. The fact both boys just decided to snog their girlfriends, or well potential girlfriends, on the same day without collaboration just didn't seem right. She noticed a subtle similarity between both boys. It was too weak and faint to get a good read on through Harry thanks to his Powers Of Night inadvertently shielding it. Her only options for a quick answer was Ron.

"I don't want any of you to read this wrong, especially Hermione and Ron. I'm only doing this to get answers." Willow said as she grabbed her brother's best friend and locked lips.

Everyone in the room was stunned. The kiss didn't last very long, and Willow retreated quickly. She looked around the quiet room, purposely avoiding Dawn's smirking face, and asked her brother. "Have you and Ron encounter any kind of foreign magic that no one else has recently? You both have something effecting you but it doesn't appear to be active at the moment, despite the fact it is definitely still there."

Both boys looked at each other confused not really knowing how to answer. Hermione was already trying to determine if there was anything recent that only would have interacted with them. Then it hit her hard like a ton of bricks.

"Those chocolates they stole from Vincent Crabbe!"

Every eye in the room turned to look at the bushy haired girl. She turned to Willow and explained. "Friday night when the three of use snuck into Slytherin, you left with Pansy and Snape. Soon after you left, Crabbe came down dressed nice carrying a box of chocolates. When he saw you weren't there he stormed out angrily after tossing the box on a chair. We left right after and Ron grabbed the chocolates to be funny."

Percy looked outraged while the twins looked excited. "What made you think sneaking into another dorm was acceptable"

George. "You can sneak into Slytherin? How!"

Percy. "Taking chocolates that were not meant for you and from an untrustworthy person!"

Fred. "Why didn't you take us with you? It would have been the prank of the century!"

"Enough!" Ginny screamed. She was on an emotional rollercoaster ever sense Harry kissed her in the hallway that was giving her a headache, her brothers arguing over one another wasn't helping.

She turned to Ron. "Do you still have any chocolate left in your room?"

Ron nodded his head. "The box is on my nightstand."

"I'll go get it." Dawn said. "I want to get my Examination Bowl as well.

The group waited in silence for Dawn to return. Ginny and Harry stood in the corner talking in whispers to themselves, while Ron and Hermione stood close to one another not saying anything, just being a comfort of sorts. Fred and George were talking in excited whispers and Percy was trying to listen in discretely.

Willow watched Harry and Ginny with a little jealousy. The Wicca wished she had someone close like that. She also wondered when they became more than good friends and why she never felt it. Possibly the Magic Twin Connection was forming subconscious blocks to keep some things private between both Potters, both were private individuals to begin with after all. The raven-haired boy felt his sister staring and looked her way. The young Wicca's eyes focus on the boy's forehead were his famous scar was visible.

Willow still didn't know much more about the cursed scar than when she first meet her brother in the hospital. The redhead didn't understand how a piece of Voldemort's soul became dislodged from its source, only to be jammed inside the lightning bolt scar. It was obvious what day it happened, but souls, even extremely evil souls, don't just break apart for no reason. The few conversations she had with Harry about the subject revealed her brother and Dumbledore didn't know very much about it ether, or the Headmaster only told his pawn as little as possible for reasons unknown only to himself.

Willow became distracted from her thoughts as Dawn excitedly bounced back in through the door. In one hand, she carried a plain red velvet square box, and in the other a wooden box with the picture of a boiling cauldron on the front. Percy conjured a table for her to set both boxes down. The wooden box was what Dawn carried her various Scooby Tools in. It was a Christmas present Buffy gave her last year that was magically expanded on the inside and only opened at the owner's touch.

After setting the boxes down, Dawn opened the chocolates, of which only a quarter remained, and pulled one out. She pulled a small stone bowl from her magically expanded kit and placed them both on the table. Reaching back into her kit she produced a small vial of yellow potion and poured it into the bowl. After waiting five seconds she placed the small chocolate inside the potion. She then pulled a notepad from her pocket and placed it on the tabletop, along with a stone pen she pulled out of her kit. The pen stood on its end and began writing by itself.

Dawn studied the notepad with a frown. The ingredients she received confirmation on were rather dark and disturbing when used to make a wide verity of potions. There were a few love potions that called for a few of these, but not many. Judging by the Bungrer Root this potion only activated after one had gone to sleep and could remain in the victim's system for several days depending on the amount ingested.

Dawn showed her findings to the whole group. Percy had a thoughtful look on his face and asked. "Ron ... Harry, did the two of you perhaps have ... loving dreams about Hermione and Ginny. Is that what compelled you both to act in the way you did?"

Ron shuffled his feet awkwardly and stuttered. "Y-ya tha-that's right."

Dawn looked at both boys' nervous faces. It clicked in her mind what truly happened. "You didn't have dreams about Ginny and Hermione, you both had dreams about Vincent Crabbe!"

Both Harry and Ron gave Dawn horrified looks as the other Weasley boys looked between each other. Finally, George and Fred started to laugh hard holding one another while Percy rolled his eyes' at his brothers' stupidity.

"It's not funny! You do realize that this means Crabbe tried to magically seduce Willow. Had Ron and Harry not stolen those candies, then there is no telling what might have happened!" Percy shouted.

Fred and George sobered up immediately. Willow decided to twist the knife in a little more. "Also, had Hermione, Dawn, Ginny, or any other girl eaten the chocolates, than Crabbe could have potentially had his way with them. To make it worse the lust they had for him would have been somewhat real, induced by magical suggestive dreams."

"The only reason it didn't work on my brother and Ron is because they're not attracted to boys. Their minds are wired for girls just like every other boy in this room." Willow finished still staring down Fred and George.

Ginny looked at Harry with a neutral face to hide her emotions. "So, you just snogged me in the hallway to confirm whether or not you were gay?"

Harry looked ashamed. He didn't want to hurt Ginny. "Yes and no, I thought about kissing you a few times but didn't have the nerve. When I began to have those dreams (shudder) I acted on impulse. Yes, I was being driven by fear but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it."

Hermione looked at Ron expectantly. The young Wizard sighed. "I'm sorry Hermione, but it's like Harry said, I was confused and well .. I couldn't think of any other way than kissing you to find out what dreams were real."

"Dreams? You've had dreams about me?" Hermione asked shocked.

Ron gave a small smile as he hugged the bushy haired Witch. "All the time." Hermione beamed at him and hugged him back.

Percy cleared his throat loudly. After everyone turned to look at him, Hermione with an angry scowl because he ruined the moment, Percy said. "Now that we've cleared up why Harry and Ron acted so inappropriately, what are we going to do about the chocolates?"

Willow looked to Percy. "How much trouble could Harry, Hermione, and Ron be in if it was discovered that they snuck in to Slytherin?"

Percy shrugged his shoulders and said. "Loss of points and detention. You would have to include the severity of what happened when they snuck in, but in this case the Headmaster would definitely be lenient."

Looking to the trio the Wicca explained. "It's your call. We can do nothing, and no one needs to know, or we can go to the Headmaster which would probably get you detention and Vincent Crabbe in trouble, or we can contact the American Aurors."

"What could they do?" Ron asked unsure.

"Judging by some of these ingredients," Willow explained. " This potion is ether restricted or outright band. This could be enough to annul the Marriage Contract."

"Let's call the Americans." Harry said quickly. "It might even be enough to get Crabbe and his accomplices expelled. Will go to Professor McGonagall's Office and have her make the call."

As everyone began to head out Hermione stopped Willow. When everyone left she asked the Wicca. "I don't understand something. Why did you let Dawn handle the potion examination? From are academic performances, me or you would have been the better choice."

Willow was thoughtful about her response for a moment, trying to find the best way to explain the situation. Finally, she just went with blunt. "If I wanted to right now, I could probably take the test at the Ministry for a full Madam Certification in Charms, Ruins, Wards, and Herbology and get it. Dawn, however, already has a full Madam Certificate in Potions. It was Dawn that actually taught me how to brew potions."

Hermione was astounded. "Dawn does good work in class but you and I do better. If she has the same level of qualification as Professor Snape than she should be dominating 3rd year Potions."

Willow nodded her head in agreement and then explained. "Dawn doesn't trust Snape. She does textbook grade A work so that all anyone, especially Snape, can't learn anything new from examining her potions. All you learn is what the textbook teaches."

Hermione was still shocked as she asked. "Why doesn't she trust Snape?"

Willow gave her friend a sad smile. "You know Snape was a Death Eater, one of Voldemort's elite. Voldemort gave all Death Eaters a special tattoo that made sure they were true believers of his philosophy. If you were only trying to deceive him, the mark wouldn't take. Snape turned traitor for Dumbledore long before the war ended when he finally saw the light, but at one time he genuinely believed in Voldemort's ideology, his Dark Mark is proof of that."

Hermione was troubled by what she had learned. "So even though Snape turned traitor, Dawn still thinks he's a Death Eater. Why?"

"Simple really, Snape survived by being a clever spy. The real question is who he was spying for, Voldemort or Dumbledore. If he was true to Dumbledore than it explains why the old Wizard trust him so much, but if he was true to Voldemort than how would the Headmaster honestly know. Snape could have been a spy or a double agent, the problem is he was so good at lying, no one can really say."

Hermione remembered defending Snape every time Harry or Ron tried to accuse him of being the villain. She believed he was loyal to Dumbledore even if he wasn't a nice man. She looked Willow in the eye and asked. "What do you believe?"

"I believe some people do deserve second chances. If they truly are regretful of their actions than some consideration should be given. I also believe some people are truly inherently evil and should be put down like rabid dogs." Willow explained.

"Is that why your such good friends with Vampires?" Hermione asked with a grin.

"No." Willow said seriously. "Drusilla, Spike, and Angel had their souls removed and a demonic soul stuck in place. The souls are not responsible for the actions of the demonic spirit. Severus Snape had no demonic soul stuck in place of his human soul to make him do horrific acts. He chose that path of his own free will, soul and all, and he'll have to answer for that one day I'm sure. I just hope however he answers to takes his current actions into consideration."

With that both girls left to fallow the Gryffindors to McGonagall's Office.