"Ginny, Ginny! Wake up, it's morning."
"Ugh, I figured that out on my own, thanks. The sun coming in through my window was a pretty big give away."
"Well hurry up, I'm not going to sit around reading the rest of Summer break and you're going to be right there with me doing nothing educational." Hermione was really ready for anything at the moment. She felt like anything she did would work out just the way she wanted, or even better.
"Gosh, Hermione. What's got you so excited?" said Ginny as she rose from her bed, "Are you on a sugar rush or something?" Then Ginny got a little sparkle in her eye.
"I have no idea Ginny, but after yesterday I feel like I'm unstoppable!" Hermione actually got up and started to dance. Really dancing! Then she hopped up on Ginny's bed and started jumping. Even when Ginny jumped up and bounced her off she just laughed.
After a few minutes of extreme bed jumping the girls finally calmed down and got ready for breakfast.
"Ginny...?" Hermione said through gasps for breath.
"Hermione?"
"…Race you to the kitchen!!!" Hermione took off running down the hall with Ginny right behind her. Hermione won, of course, considering that she had a head start and she and Ginny sat down, panting, for breakfast.
"Good morning, girls! Isn't it a lovely day? I hope you slept well, I know I did!" Mrs. Weasley giggled happily and put a huge mound of pancakes, bacon, eggs, and cinnamon buns in the middle of the table. It seemed she to had fallen under the same happy spell that Hermione and Ginny seemed to have succumbed to.
Only a few moments after the food hit the table did the boys (Ron, Fred, George, and Percy) smell the wonderful aroma and run into the kitchen.
"Hey, Mum, good food. Isn't today wonderful?" Percy said very chipper.
The only ones who weren't ecstatic were Ron and the twins. Fred and George were smiling but not with the same happy glow as the others. Ron just sat down tiredly and began eating. It took a few bites before he looked up.
"Um, good morning?" He looked quite confused.
"Yes, Ronald it is! Did you sleep alright?" Ron looked strangely at all the smiling faces and then shot a look at Fred and George.
"What did you do to them?"
"Now, Ronnie, what makes you think we did anything to them? What's so strange about waking up happy? Just because you're a grouch doesn't mean ever body else has to be." Fred and George were smiling very widely now.
"Nothing is wrong with it except when it happens to everyone on the same day. What did you do?" Ron was getting a bit flushed in the face now.
"Oh fine, Ronnie! Ruin all our fun, why don't you!? If you MUST know, we've been working on a new item for the joke shop. It's called Happy Nap." Fred pulled a bag of purple powder out of his pocket and held it up. "Just sprinkle some on your pillow before bed and you'll feel happy all day, no matter what goes wrong."
Mrs. Weasley still looked happy but looked, at the same time, like she wanted to slap both her sons for using them as test subjects.
"You did what!? Oh my clever, clever boys! I will talk to you tomorrow when this wears off!" she said cheerfully.
"Um, right then, Mum. We wouldn't have used you guys but seeing as how there aren't any first years around, we needed test subjects before the new school year."
"Wait!" exclaimed Ron, "Why didn't you put any on MY pillow?!"
"Well, Ronnie, you're just so happy all the time any way that we figured giving you some would just make you even more annoying as ever." George smirked but Ron looked disgruntled.
Hermione and Ginny, who had only barely been listening to this confession, continued chatting fiercely together.
"You know what Hermione?" Ginny smiled widely.
"What?"
"I feel like I could do anything right now! I wish my guy was here! Maybe I'd have the courage to ask him out without using my love word."
"You know what, Ginny? You're right! I CAN do ANYTHING right now!" She turned and looked at Ron who had been listening in, wondering what a 'love word' was, when she jumped up from her chair. "Even this!!" Hermione ran over to Ron, still seated at the table with everyone else watching, jumped at him, ("Hermione, what are you doing!?") put her fingers in his hair, and kissed him so hard that they and his chair fell backwards on the floor, Hermione still holding him with her hands and lips the entire time.
The whole room just stared, jaws dropped as far as possible as Ron and Hermione made out on the floor until, finally, Hermione broke apart and just stared smiling at Ron who said nothing and just stared right back. Hermione's smile started to weaken until Ron put on the biggest smile of his life and kissed her right back with the same ferocity. It was actually a few minutes before Fred and George couldn't take much more and yanked them off each other.
Panting hard Ron managed to speak. "Wow, Hermione." Hermione smiled while Ginny was at the other end of the table dreaming about having Hermione as a sister-in-law and laughing her happy head off.
"Wow, Ron."
"Um, er, well then. That might be a side effect we should fix. Right, George?"
"Right, Fred."
"Hey now! Who says she did that because of your Sappy Nappy, or whatever? Did you ever think that maybe Hermione just likes me?" Hermione blushed and confessed to the room that Fred and George should not make any changes to the formula. It had given her the courage to do something she had wanted to do since the end of first year and she was so thankful for this that she kissed Fred and George too. Ron scowled at this and took Hermione back into his arms and told his stunned brothers to back off. Mrs. Weasley looked happy enough to cry and Ginny looked the same. Just then Percy emerged from his room and looked at the strange scene.
"Um, did I miss something important?"
Everyone smiled mischievously and went back to breakfast, which Ron and Hermione ate cheerfully, holding hands under the table the whole time.
A Note From Me:
I guess I'm supposed to do a disclaimer so...I don't own Harry Potter, I'm just borrowing the characters from JK Rowling. this chpater makes me happy to read. I hope you enjoy it. )