Hermione woke the next morning. It took her a while to remember why she felt so happy and when she did a smile spread across her face. She and Ron and snogged for a while - maybe half and hour? They would have continued if had not been for Crookshanks, who had purred loudly and interrupted them. She knew that Ron had enjoyed it as much as she did, too, because he yelled, clearly annoyed, 'You still don't have any control of that cat!'

Lavender and Parvati were chatting about the Hufflepuff boy Lavender had just snogged.
'He wanted to take it further, but I wanted to take it slow -'
'Are all Hufflepuff boys like this? Maybe Diggory was like that, too -'
'Don't talk about him like that, Parvati, it's disrespectful -'
Hermione got dressed and pulled her now bushy hair into a ponytail. Even though she knew it was quite early, she opened the girl dormitory door to go down to the Common Room. She was surprised to be staring at a slide - some boy had tried to come up, just mere moments ago. They would still be down ...
She slid down the slide, giving a 'Woo!' as she went. She stopped to look at Ron on the same Armchair he had sat on last night. His red bangs were up to his eyebrows and his hair was no further that the bottom of his neck.
'Morning, Hermione.' he greeted. The common Room, once again, was empty, though today she could hear Boys' voices coming from the Boys' Dormitory.
Hermione mimicked Ron and sat down in the Arm Chair net to him. He looked disappointing - maybe she should have sat with him.
'So ... are we a thing now?' Ron asked awkwardly.
Hermione smiled at him. 'If you want.'
Ron smirked, then came over to lightly kiss Hermione. Hermione rapped her arms around his neck ... she wanted this to last forever ...
There were sounds of footsteps.
The two quickly let go of each other and tried to act casual as Harry walked into the room.
'Lessons are about to start.' he said, yawning.
The morning passed very quickly. Herbology had been fine, though Neville seemed to be catching up with her. She still found it strange how Snap had asked for antidotes for Defense Against the Dark Arts ... surely Slughorn would be teaching that? No, he had taught Sleeping Potions today. Slughorn had let Hermione keep some since hers was exceptionally good.

In DADA, Hermione found herself holding her breath when Ron and Harry handed in their homework. Snape skimmed through Harry's ... he didn't say anything. Hermione's stomach loosened slightly. Snape skimmed over Ron's ...
'What in the name of Earth is Beozart, Weasely? Detention!'
Ron groaned. 'When?'
'To be decided. Now sit down!' he snapped.
Malfoy laughed behind them and Hermione shot him a disgusted look.
'Ooh, look, the Mudblood is trying to be tough -'
Ron made an angry move towards Malfoy, but Harry and Hermione held him back.
'Settle down!' yelled Snape, and the class took their seats.
'Get out your books, and turn to chapter five, on -'
Ron nudged Hermione. Out of the corner of his mouth, he whispered, 'We've got a free period this Saturday, do you want to - er - meet me in the library?'
Hermione nodded gleefully and looked around. No body seemed to have heard them. Snape was glaring at Harry, but then his gaze traveled up to them. Had he heard?
'Weasley!' He snarled walking over to them. 'Detention this Saturday!'
This time Hermione wanted to punch Snape. Through gritted teeth, she stopped herself from launching herself at Snape with every ounce of strength as he said the words, 'If you have the time to mingle, you should have the time to complete your work!'
As Snape went back to teaching, Hermione pulled out the Sleeping Potion out of her robes ... if she slipped Snape some on Saturday, when he was eating at the staff table, he would be asleep within an hour ... this wasn't the Sleeping Solution, he wouldn't fall asleep as quick ... then after that, Ron and her would mingle for an hour until Snape awoke. But would he be in his office within an hour? Wouldn't a teacher see?
Hmmm ... the chances of Snape being in his officee was likely, as he had homework to mark. Other teacher's would have their homework to mark.

Feeling the revenge, she smirked as he plan unfolded.