A/N Sorry for the long update I have been on holiday and the teachers at my school have given us loads of holiday homework xxx

Chapter 13

Ron, Seamus, Dean, Harry and Neville were relaxing in front of the fire in the Gryffindor common room and congratulating themselves on their victory at splitting Draco and Hermione up.

"At least now she's out of danger" Ron said

"Yeah but what if she still likes him? We need to keep them apart" Dean said thoughtfully and the boys nodded in agreement.

"Well it's simple enough. We can all be with her during classes and lunch and dinner and she'll be with Ginny as well. But the only thing is that she shares a head common room with Malfoy." Seamus said.

There the boys hit a blank. They couldn't force either of them out and they weren't allowed in there without permission which they were rarely granted and Hermione liked time on her own without them. They were just going to have to trust that everything else they did stopped any feelings she might have for Malfoy and it wouldn't matter if they were together in the common room or not.

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It had been two months since Hermione had broken up with Draco and in an effort to get over him she had thrown herself into her studies. Barely losing a mark in any of her subjects with each homework assignment and constantly doing background reading. But it was no use. After two weeks she was still as much in love with him as she ever was and she saw no way out.

The Gryffindor boys were forever with her in class and mealtimes and it annoyed her to no end. She wished they would leave her alone, all they did was say nasty things about Malfoy and talk about quidditch which bored her to death. She wanted to be alone, with him. In the end she sought the help of Ginny who had been trying to talk to Hermione since the break up but Hermione never opened up. Finally Hermione found Ginny and asked her to have a sleepover in the head common room with her that weekend and also if Blaise could somehow get Draco out of it for the evening. Ginny accepted eagerly and promised to ask Blaise about it.

For past month Draco had been feeling the lowest he had ever felt in his life. He tried getting over it and saying that he didn't want her anyway and it was just a phase; but when he received a gloating letter from his father saying how glad he was at the break up with that "disgusting little mudblood" anger roared inside his chest and an instant desire to defend Hermione made him sure he still loved her.

It didn't help that they were in the same classes and he kept trying to catch her eye but she constantly avoided looking at him and he frequently found himself staring at the back of her head and daydreaming about her. More than once Blaise had to shake him out of these before the teacher noticed.

"You have it bad mate" he said after the fifth time and Draco looked sad and nodded. If only she would talk to him but she hadn't spoken two words together to him for two months.

"Mate, you can't go on like this" Blaise said to Draco during potions one day.

"What can I do? I've tried getting over her but it's no use" Draco replied.

"I have an idea. Come to the room of requirement at 7:00pm this Saturday and we'll sort something out." Blaise said. Ginny wasn't due to be with Hermione until then so Draco would be out of their way.

The Gryffindor boys meanwhile were unhappy. In the past week Hermione had barley spoken a word to any of them and she seemed increasingly sad and miserable.

"We were supposed to make her happy not sad" Neville said.

"I know but who knows what Malfoy said to her. I think a bit more time should do the trick. She's still getting top marks, so something is only seriously wrong when that starts to slip" Harry replied and the other boys satisfied with this went back to their normal state of cheerfulness.

At 7:00pm sharp Ginny climbed through the portrait hole into the head common room and found Hermione on the sofa with mugs of hot chocolate and plenty of sweets. Ginny sat down at the other end of the sofa Hermione was sitting on and tucked her feet underneath her and picked up her hot chocolate.

"So Hermione what's this all about" Ginny said

"Well I'm still in love with Draco" Hermione said and Ginny laughed.

"I can see that" She said.

"What do I do Ginny? I mean he wants Pansy not me" Hermione said sadly. Ginny set her mug down and took Hermione's hands in hers.

"That's bollocks Hermione and you know it. Draco wouldn't go within ten feet of Pansy. There has to be some kind of mix up." Ginny said.

"Ron and Harry and the boys seem to think it's for the best" Hermione sniffed. Something clicked in Ginny's head.

"Really? Well they're wrong and here's what we're going to do about it" Ginny said and she told Hermione her plan.