Hello Dear Reader Friend, I'm going to update as much as possible! Please enjoy and remember that I do not own Harry Potter, and that you don't either unless you are J.K. Rowling, in which case can I say, when I see Twilight next to your books on a shelf, I move them so that they can't contaminate the greatness that is HP.

Hermione POV

It wasn't that she didn't like Corner, she did. Just not in an animalistic, please rip my clothes off kind of way. So why she had been snogging him earlier in the library was a bit of a mystery even to her. Michael had sat down in her part of the library and was chatting to her easily as she read her book until suddenly it seemed he was altogether too close to her. Suddenly he had leaned in and kissed her. Although surprised Hermione wasn't exactly unhappy, and she didn't mind a snog, but she did not really want it to lead anywhere else. He had dated both Ginny and Cho two very pretty girls, but it wasn't as if Hermione was ugly. She was just not the smack down gorgeous that Cho and Ginny were. Hermione was pretty, in fact if you had tamed the mass of curls that cascaded down her back in tight ringlets, or perhaps plucked her eyebrows and swapped her sensible button up blouse for a V-neck shirt she definitely would have been considered a 'hottie' however none of the above were at all on her list of priorities. So the fact that she and Corner were currently tangled in a hot make out session vaguely confused her, but not enough to have stopped her. Hermione was still in thought as she ascended the steps to the Gryffindor tower, clambering the steep stairs to her cozy room at the top of the common room tower. Walking into her room she discovered a note

Hermione,

Thanks for the snog, I know we're friends, it was kind of a dare from the Ravenclaw truth or dare marathon. That's payback for last time.

Michael.

Last time. She chuckled, Ginny and Michael had just broken up and they were playing the immature game and she had to go and slap Corner in the middle of the corridor whilst proclaiming "For Narnia." She had sent a similar note afterwards. She allowed herself to relax with these games, observing and sometimes taking part, and she was relieved it was a dare. Michael was a prefect after all and she had rounds with him next week, they had kind of an unspoken friendship, after all, he had dated her best friend for six months.

It was at breakfast that she realized something was off. People were staring at her. Not just the usual first years that still looked at the head girl in awe, it was a lot of open-mouthed Ravenclaws, and a large amount of sneering Slytherins. Gryffindors were even looking at her peculiarly. Sitting down next to Harry she poured herself a cup of coffee, and nibbled on a small triangle of toast. Harry, Ron and Ginny all looked at her in a silent wonder. Ginny was the first to speak, "So…Michael?" Her three best friends didn't actually know what to say, or really to think. Hermione wasn't exactly a guy kind of girl, she had no trouble being friends with them however dating wasn't exactly her deal, nor was supposed random making out. Hermione looked up at Ginny, "what do you mean Michael?"

"I mean that you and Michael were in the library yesterday, getting in on in the transfiguration section…" Hermione looked vaguely shocked, it was hard to scare any of them anymore, or if she was shocked she had gotten rather good at hiding this away. "Yes, what of it?"

Ginny soldiered through, "So, are you two dating or what?" At this Hermione laughed, "Dating?! Of course not, it was payback from him from last time we played truth or dare and I had to slap him, remember? Some of the Ravenclaws were playing it last night." She visibly relaxed after that, the other three were still looking at her. Ron kind of leant forward to Hermione, "you know the entire school thinks something is going on between you two? And they think it's juicy because Michael and Gin used to date?"

"But who on earth would go spreading that around? Who even saw us?" Whined Hermione, the small bit of fun she had allowed herself to partake in was backfiring immensely. "We don't know" put in Harry, "All we think is that it started in Slytherin." Hermione's mind went through people who could have possibly seen her, it had to be a prefect at that time of night, and she knew many of the prefects didn't check the library at night because she had never met another student in there after eleven except Michael, Theo, Hannah Abbot, or Malfoy. That narrowed her list down to two Slytherins and Hannah. She doubted Michael would've started the rumor, after all he and Cho had just had a messy break up which she'd heard all about last prefect round with him and this doesn't seem like the type of shenanigan he wanted to be caught up in. That left Malfoy or Theo and when it came to gossip she doubted that Theo would gossip about her. So Malfoy it was. She looked up at her three friends who had been staring at her questionably as she deduced the identity of the culprit in her mind. "Malfoy." All she needed to say was the one name Harry and Ron had a vendetta against. Ginny rolled her eyes "of course it was, just talk to him when you're doing rounds" Hermione settled upon this course of action, she didn't want to cause a scene in the Great Hall, especially when both Cho and Michael were having a whisper fight on the Ravenclaw table that looked like a losing battle for Corner.

AN: I get the note isn't that believable, but believe me when I say this, this kind of thing has happened to me, albeit with a slightly closer friend. I did the slapping he did the creepy ninja kissing… I just thought it was funny to put in because Hermione never seems to have as much fun.

Also I make a promise to you that I will NEVER do an authors note as a single chapter. That kills me when people get your hopes up like that.