WOW So many reviews! Thanks a lot guys! Sorry if you guys received mails from stating that I posted loads of updates but I made a few changes in chapter 6 (basically I made Neville Head of Hufflepuff instead of Ravenclaw, that's the only change).

Also, since I'm a huge fan of Star Wars (if you are as well, please check out the fanfiction I'm currently writing called "Carbonite"), I put a dialogue between Padmé and Anakin, except it's Hermione and Harry here ;) Thought it'd be funny.

ask100: I'm glad you liked the update email I sent. I was afraid it would be kinda "spam". Uhm I don't know, maybe Harry's gonna find her, maybe not ... ;)

HarryMione4evr: Glad to see you're still here! You'll see how Hermione's first day is gonna turn ;)

AandKerock: I'm using the word spell checker but since it's configured to be in French, I only have an option to do so in English, I'm not sure it's doing a proper job. But I'll try to do a better checking!

Book Lover990 : Glad you liked the chapter, see, I'm updating ;)

Pia O'Leary: wow, I think you made one of my longest reviews so far. Thanks a bunch! I'm very glad you like it! There will be more couples, some unexpected, some well known, but I might try to make you think some people are going to get together while they won't ;) You're learning French? Ouch, I've heard French is difficult to learn, so many irregular things ... If you need help, just email me, I'd be glad to help :D

scorpio-1983: I'm so glad you're still reading! Even more glad that you still like it!

Right, on with the story, I think I'm gonna take ask100's idea ...

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Harry had been looking for Hermione for about twenty minutes now. He needed to talk with her about the Gryffingor's Quidditch team. As he had been appointed Hogwarts Quidditch Coach, he needed to get information about all the teams. He had succeeded in getting information from Neville about the Hufflepuff's team and he had even gotten information about the Slytherin's team from Snape. He just needed to find Hermione and then he'll be able to enquire about the Ravenclaw's team with Professor Pakoti.

Where on earth could she be? He had tried her apartment but Lady Fiona had told him that Hermione had left earlier with some papers. Knowing Hermione, he had quite quickly figured out she might be in the library. After all he had always found her there whenever he had been looking for her. Fat chance for she wasn't there. He had looked through a window to check if she wasn't outside but couldn't see her. Oh wait a minute, as the Head of Gryffindor; she could be in the Gryffindor Tower, couldn't she? Harry then made his way towards the Gryffindor Tower, hoping he could find Hermione there.

He was glad to see the Fat Lady again.

"Hello dear," she greeted him.

"Can I come in?" he asked.

"Password?" enquired the Fat Lady.

"Uh ... I don't know it in fact," said Harry.

"I'm afraid I can't let you in then," answered the Fat Lady.

"Even a teacher can't get it without a password?" said Harry, "Even an ex-Gryffindor?" he tried, "Even the Boy-Who-Lived-Twice?" he begged doing his best puppy eyes.

The Fat Lady looked at him as if trying to judge the situation.

"Look, I'm looking for Hermione, if she's not inside, it's alright, I don't need to get in, but if she is, I just need to talk to her," she said, "Please?" he quickly added.

"Alright, I think Professor Granger won't be mad at me if I let you in," the Fat Lady answered him opening the entrance leading to the Gryffindor's common room.

"Thanks!" Harry said happily while he entered the common room.

He then noticed that Hermione was asleep in the armchair and took the opportunity to look at her. She seemed at peace and after having looked at her during breakfast, he could tell she really needed her rest. He truly hoped she would get rid of her nightmares as soon as possible, which were not doing any good to her, especially just before the day of the come back of all the Hogwarts students. She needed to be more confident because he knew she was the most capable witch and that she'll be a wonderful teacher. After all, she had spent seven years, re explaining Ron and him all the lessons, showing them exactly how to move they wands and how to properly pronounce the spell so that it could work. If she had succeeded with them, there was no way she could fail with other students. She had that in her, he was sure of that.

He was still staring at her, sitting on the opposite armchair. She had not changed that much over the years. Her hair was way better though. "At least, one of us succeeded in it," he silently laughed. She still was the Hermione he had known for years. His best friend Hermione, his best girlfriend Hermione, his Hermione, his girlfriend Hermione. WOW, now wait a minute, what had he been thinking? Better get those thoughts way back his mind. But still, he had always been so concentrated on his battle against Voldemort that he had never had the opportunity to think of her in that way. After his fifth year, that is after Sirius's death, he had denied himself the right to be interested in girls. He knew he needed to put all of his strength in fighting Voldemort. He had even tried to put his friends aside at one point. But they had stuck to him, not wanting to be left aside, totally wanting to help him. But now; Voldemort was dead and his followers were tracked down, now he had time to think a little bit more about girls, women in fact. Hermione had always been here for him; from day one. Could he feel a little bit more than a true and deep friendship towards her? He had never actually loved someone in fact. Except Sirius that had been this mixture of father and older brother to him. He loved his friend, that's true. But he had never allowed himself to love a woman. He couldn't call love what he had been feeling towards Cho at the time. Only time will tell, he decided. He felt strong feelings for Hermione, but he didn't know what exactly the nature of them was.

As Hermione began to stir from her sleep, he stopped staring at her and smiled.

"Hello sleepy head, hope you had a good rest," he gently teased.

"Oh my god," said Hermione, "What time is it? How much did I sleep?"

"Don't know how much but it's nearly lunch time." answered Harry.

"Oh man, I'm SO very late in my preparations! I needed to see McGonagall about the prefects chose and you about Quidditch and then I had to prepare my first lessons! Oh man!" she nervously said.

"Calm down," soothingly said Harry. "I'm here for Quidditch too; I needed the list of the member of the Gryffindor's team." He added.

"Sure, here it is. I needed your say about who I should appoint captain." Hermione said.

"That's a tough question seeing we don't know the team. We should wait and decide after their first practice." He proposed.

"Seems fait enough to me. Deal then." said Hermione.

"Let's go for lunch then."

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"Headmistress, could I see you in your office after lunch?" asked Hermione.

"Please call me Minerva," started McGonagall "You can meet me there at 2 if it's ok with you. Anything serious?" she enquired.

"Oh no, I was just wanted to go over the prefects list with you as I don't really know the students. And talking about that, I think I'll appoint the new Quidditch captain later. I know nothing about the team after all." said Hermione.

"That sounds just like pure logic," answered Minerva McGonagall smiling. "How are you feeling about tomorrow? Pretty nervous I guess." She continued.

"Nervous isn't the right word I think. I'd said scared is more appropriate. I really hope I'm going to do a good job here." answered Hermione.

"I'm sure you will." said a very confident Headmistress. She then turned to Harry that was on her left.

"I'll let you do the speech about the Quidditch International Magical Schools Championship if you like," she told him.

"That sounds good," he answered. "Will Ron be here as well?" he asked.

"Yes, as he's the representative of the Minister of Magical Sports, he has to be here too." said McGonagall.

Hermione used that time when Harry was speaking with McGonagall to look at Ginny. She had not forgotten the woman's uneasiness when she had visited her in the morning. What was going on with her? And what was Snape doing there? She then turned to look at Snape to realize he was looking at her as well. She put her attention on her plate and finished her meal while questions were ragging in her mind. What was that all about?

As they finished lunch, Hermione headed towards McGonagall's office with the Headmistress as they needed to check the prefects list. Harry was in the library preparing his speech for the Come Back Feast the day after. He was happy that the school year was finally going to start!

When Hermione was done with McGonagall, she decided to head to the library to check on the first chapters of the Charms class. She wanted to read them for each year , that will give her the opportunity to know what she'll be doing in two days when class were going to really start. She found Harry working over a paper and laughed.

"Now tell me, who are you and what have you done to my best friend? I'm the one that's usually working on a piece of parchment in the library." She teased.

"I'm working on my speech," answered Harry smiling.

"Need some help?" Hermione proposed.

"I think I'm done, if you could just read it to tell me what you think..."

"Sure." She said taking the parchment and reading it. "Sounds good to me, they're going to be thrilled about the news I bet." She said smiling.

"Oh yes, I would have been thrilled if something like that had happened while I was still a Hogwarts Quidditch player! You bet I would have!" he said excited.

"So you're ready for the start of the term?" Hermione asked.

"Yep, all ready." He answered.

"Well you had a very good practise at it when you were teaching us in the DA, remember that?" she asked.

"Uhuh, I also remember that old bat Umbridge woman that stopped us!" he said.

"You'll be a great DADA teacher, maybe the best in many years of the Hogwarts history." Hermione said very seriously.

"Oh come on, Remus as good!" said a blushing Harry.

"He certainly was, as far as I'm concerned, he's second on my top DADA teacher's list" Hermione joked.

"Oh and who's third?" Harry asked curious.

"Lockhart of course" answered Hermione. She then laughed at Harry's reaction. "Oh come on Harry, I'm joking! Seriously, Snape would be third."

"Snape? But we never had him as a DADA teacher! How could you rate his capacities?" asked a scandalized Harry.

"Obviously he was good enough to be able to spy on Voldemort and never been caught." Hermione started. "And I heard he made a very good job during his two years as DADA teacher. I wonder why he came back to potions though." She mused.

"Whatever, I'm first on your list, that's the point" said Harry.

"Right," answered Hermione. "Ok I really have to get ready with my class;" she said while standing up and starting looking through the numerous books on the shelves. She picked seven of them and started to read the first chapters of each of them. Harry looked at her surprised.

"Don't tell me you're reading them?" he asked.

"Of course I'm reading them." answered Hermione not lifting her nose from the book she was immersed in.

"But, I though you'd know them y heart since you spent so much time on them!" answered Harry.

"Back then, I was reading them on a student point of view, I have now to read them on a teacher point of view." answered Hermione, still reading.

"Oh I see, it's the same reason why you wanted to go to muggle studies then." He said.

"Uh uh you can say that." Hermione said.

"You do know all of those books are in your office, right?" he asked.

That made her look at him; she was slightly blushing. "I know she started, "But I ... see, as the students aren't here for now, I kind of wanted to have the library all to myself a last time."

Harry started to laugh at her answer, she was so cute with her little puppy eyes. She'll never change on that point and that was nice to know.

"You're making fun of me!" she stated.

"Oh no, I'd be much too frightened to tease the Gryffindor's Head." answered Harry, still laughing.

"Get out of here!" she threatened him.

Still laughing, Harry left the library, leaving it all to the young witch.

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Man was she nervous. The students were to arrive any minute now. She had been asked to be ready at the staff table with the other teachers while Professor Pakoti was greeting the first years that had been leaded by Hagrid. McGonagall had done it for years and she missed it, unfortunately she had not enough time to do it now.

Soon the other students will arrive in the Great Hall to sit and attend the Sorting Ceremony. Why on earth was she so nervous? She had been there years ago. She knew what was going to happen. That was seriously starting to get on her nerves. It had to stop, really! She nearly missed a beat of her heart when the first students happily entered the Great Hall. They ware chatting and sitting to the tables were they were belonging. Hermione looked more closely to the Gryffindor students. When they were all around the tables, the huge doors of the Great Hall closed once again as to prepare the arrival of the first years. Hermione saw Ron arriving from the staff table and taking place at the staff table. She smiled at him and was starting to speak with him when the huge doors opened to reveal some very scared first years.

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