Hermione decided to sit at a table beside Lupin. Trying not to glance too much at her beloved teacher. Then, suddenly, a note of parchment came down drifting from nowhere. She opened and read it.
[ I know you're here Hermione and you should have thought about it before you started to glance at me like a maniac... just kidding, I'm fine with it. If you need help with those furry books you know you can ask me anything. Remus]

He had really left her perplexed by this note. Perplexed and frustrated. What if he knew? She decided that the best was to go to sleep as she had spent some hours at the library but it was still early. She knew she wasn't about to sleep easily.

When Hermione entered the common room she saw a small group of students huddled over two tables and a bit of parchment. The group was highly predominant of redness. The Weasley twins orchestrating it all. As she reached the tables she heard hollering and loud laughter.
"What are you all doing? 'Cause it's clear you're not studying" she spat out, angry about the fact that Harry and Ron never took up a book in all their six past years.
"We're rating the teachers. Who do you prefer 'Mione, Sirius or Remus?" asked the twins in one voice.
"Why do you suppose I would possibly liken one of them?" she spat out and left for the dorms.
"I know who she likes, it's Remus" said Ron solemnly, so they all added a vote for Remus from her.

She lied awake in her bed with her curtains closed. Thinking about that question. Instantly she thought about Remus, turning bright pink even though she lied in pitch black darkness. But still she would fall for Sirius' every wink and smile. Would she fall for some slight flirting which she knew he did with everyone around the grounds? She knew Sirius was the good looking playboy as he had always been and she didn't like that he flirted with everyone, because she would certainly be jealous when he wandered around flirting. That made her instantly think of the werewolf. Sure he had a furry little problem once a month but she had also one, pretty red in fact. And she didn't really mind, she could brew him wolfsbane potion and maybe turn into an animagi. Stopping dead in her tracks she realized she had something more than a students' infatuation in hold for her teacher. She let out a groan and turned to her side to let sleep conquer her.

Harry run down the stairs from the dorm room, not seeing his red headed friend in the common room he decided to go straight to breakfast hoping he would be there instead. As he entered the Great Hall he realized he was right, Ron sat beside Lavender, as usually by now, and Hermione opposite of them talking eagerly about something. At that moment he remembered Ron wanted to tell him something but then he realized he probably had but not directly to him, it was when the twins had asked her about the list of teachers and the one to respond had been Ron.
"Morning guys" he said as he sit down beside Hermione ,who looked quite happy that morning. They chatted about what classes they had that day and Hermione quickly helped Lavender with some questions she had. At that moment they heard a knock on wood and Dumbledore stood up with a soft smile.
"It has came to my hands a very entertaining list for you students, but let's say not so amusing for the teachers of this school. As I see by your faces many of you don't know what I'm talking about so I'm going to explain: it's a list that describes what a certain group of students thinks about how attractive the teachers are. Quite funny, if you ask me, and I got seventh place, not bad eh?" he said and all the students laughed as they recognized the glint in his eyes. "But I do have to warn whoever did or made this list public must tell their Head of House in four days. We already know who the kind authors of this noble little piece is but we want them to show their courage and turn themselves in. Thank you and without more hesitation off you all go to class" he finished and clapped his hands and the breakfast was gone.

The Weasley were highly amused as they ran around hiding under their free periods, but Hermione wasn't so care free, she decided she had to turn herself in and the faster the better. She decided she would go after her Potions class.

Sirius sat in his chambers pondering about what had happened that past afternoon in the common room when he had entered. All the students fell silent at once. Some girls giggled and blushed at the sight of him while some boys just put on a knowing grin on their face, thus including Harry and Ron. He had decided it was a real bad idea to show up and feel that embarrassed so he spun on his heels and left all the students with a face of surprise and scurried away trough the portrait hole.
"God! Why does this happen to me?" He sighed with his face buried in his hands.
A faint knock hit his door and he wondered who it could be. As no one entered he shouted that it was okay. In came Hermione with a slight brush installed on her cheeks. Sirius just smiled at her, a warm loving smile accompanied with a playful glint in his eyes.
"What do you want miss Granger?" he asked trying to be a proper head of house.
"I just wanted to say that it's my own fault that list came into Dumbledore's hands before breakfast" barely audible for Sirius but he understood her and smirked.
"So what's the vendetta for?" he asked her sweetly. She was so shocked at her response as she was shocked she had forgotten she talked to a marauder. She explained everything to Sirius , she had actually heard what Ron said after she left for her dorm. Sirius just laughed and told her it was okay, that nobody had been harmed, well Snape's ego had but that didn't count.
After some time talking he decided to ask her.
"You do like Rem, right?" he added a sweet soft smile, nearly fatherly like.
"Well, erm, I, I , I well yes I do" she said blushing like red Christmas tree lightning.

"Good, that's good. Because I know for sure he really likes you too and I might dare to say in the same way." Sirius said and at those words Hermione just went blank and eyes wide like sauce pans." I know that because he blushed when Dumbledore had us all in his office to tell who got most point, which was me of course, mainly because most Gryffindor and Ravenclaw ladies voted for me, but then he said only one Gryffindor girl had voted for him and the rest were Ravenclaws, but the interesting part is that it was Ron Weasley who had made that vote for someone. As we all know Remus and Dumbledore are clever ones so they knew instantly it was you who liked him" he added as a conclusion and so that she could understand what he meant and that he truly had motives for saying what he had just said. Then he decided to shoo her away to lunch with those sauce pans for eyes.

"Why do you look like a drowned fish, 'Mione?"Ron asked her went she sat down with them at lunch.
"Ermmm, nohing, only that your sweet brothers put on tracing spells on that damn list" she spat out angry.
"So it was you!" he hissed at her narrowing his eyes.
"Yes payback for your assumption of me liking professor Lupin" she said with a smug smile.
"Which by the way is true" said Ginny who flopped down beside Harry leaving all open mouthed. "It's fine boys you can close your mouths, I don't need to feed you guys nor see what you eat, thank you" she said with a laughter.
Hermione decided not to say anymore and eat her lunch to leave early for her free period before Defense against Dark Arts. When she was about to finish she received a note swirling down on her plate. She opened it and read it, trying to contain her happiness and awkwardness.
[ 'Mione, please come early to class. Need to tell you something. Remus ]