"Well, I'm quite excited for this year. I think we'll learn some interesting stuff." Hermione said cheerily, they were heading off to their common.
"There's nothing new for you to learn 'Mione!" Ron said, while holding his girlfriends hand, "You learned it all before you even got to Hogwarts in your first year!"
"I certainly don't know everything, Ron," Hermione said with a smile on her face. She had seemed very happy ever since they had left their common room for class, and Harry and Ginny had noticed, but didn't know why. "Since we didn't get any homework from Professor Binns- which was quite the surprise to me! I definitely thought we would have some! I mean, he's not the one to not give out homework. Oh, I hope he doesn't go easy on us this year. I did not come back to school to not be challenged. Oh my! What if all the teachers don't give homework. That would be dreadful. Wouldn't it be dreadful? We wouldn't learn a thing! I don't th-"
"Hermione!" Ginny had interrupted Hermione from her rambling speech.
"Hmm?" Hermione said, completely oblivious to what she had been doing.
Ginny laughed and said, "Never mind. What were you saying?" The three others listened, amused, to Hermione rambling on about random subjects which would have made Lavender Brown proud.
Just as Ginny was about to tell Harry about how Hermione was reminding her of Lavender, that same person came strolling around the corner towards them. Hermione hadn't noticed until Lavender had squealed, "Won Won!" and she ran towards Ron, completely oblivious to the fact that he was holding the hand of his girlfriend.
Hermione's good mood had completely left in that one moment, and was obvious by the look on her face. Ron looked as if he had just seen a humongous spider. He looked like he was going to throw up, because of the look Hermione was giving him, and how tightly Lavender was holding onto him.
Lavender kissed him on the cheek, and grabbed his two arms, leaning back to take a look at him. "Wow! Ron, you look so great! I missed you so much!" She squeezed his muscles and her eyebrows went up and down suggestively. Ron cleared his throat, obviously at a loss for words, and afraid to say anything in front of Hermione. Lavender grabbed him up into a hug once again, and over her shoulder Ron gave a pleading look to the other three.
Ginny spoke up first, "So Lavender, um, you're back for your seventh year, I noticed?"
She reluctantly tore her eyes away from Ron and looked at Ginny, "Oh yes! I didn't learn a thing last year." Hermione snorted, everyone doubted she had ever learned anything at Hogwarts, except maybe how to annoy Hermione. "And there was no Won Won there to distract me..." she said, turning back to Ron. Her fingers going up his arm like spiders. She bat her eyelashes, and looked up at Ron, smiling.
Attempting to distract her once again, Harry said, "Yeah, I heard it was pretty bad here last year..."
"Dull as tombs!" Lavender exclaimed, "The food was terrible too! I wish I had gone on that little vacation you three went on last year..." she giggled. Hermione glared at her, their little 'vacation' had not been all that great.
Lavender noticed Harry and Ginny's linked hands and gasped, the palm of her hand went up to her mouth, showing off her perfectly manicured fingernails. "You guys are dating again?! That is so great, Ginny! When did this happen? Oh! And you have separate dormitories," her eyebrows waggling up and down again, "I bet Harry likes that. Maybe Ron can show me around his room..." She looked up at Ron, her hand still on his arm, giving him a seductive look.
"I don't think that's going to happen." Hermione spoke up for the first time.
"I think Ron can make his own decisions," Lavender said, giving Hermione a forced smile.
"Well, since his girlfriend will be right in the next room, I don't think that'll happen." Hermione repeated, glaring at her and stepping forward, closer to Lavender.
She looked up at Ron, "I thought it was just you, Harry, Ginny, and... her," Lavender said, turning her head so she could glare at Hermione.
"That's right." Hermione said, as if talking to a five year old, "Do the math, honey."
"That is definitely not math, Hermione." She looked over at the other three, and covered one side of her mouth, and whispering, as if Hermione wasn't standing right there, "Apparently being away from school hasn't helped her much." She giggled, even though no one even looked amused at her joke.
Hermione took another step closer to Lavender, "Let me make this more clear for you. I'm dating Ron. You are not." She grabbed Ron's hand and pulled him towards their common.
They heard Harry say, "Listen, we have to go. See you later Lavender." And Lavender's cheerful response, "Okay!" They caught up with Ron and Hermione right when they got to the portrait. Hermione was silent, while Ron looked quite scared.
"Didn't expect her to come back this year..." Ginny said, trying to start a conversation. They walked into the common room, and Hermione dropped Ron's hand and ran to her room. They heard her sniffle before she slammed the door shut.
"Great," Ron sighed, he started walking towards Hermione's door. Harry and Ginny looked at each other nervously, as Ron knocked on her door. "Hermione?" He asked gently.
"Go away!" They heard her say from inside the room.
"I-" Ron began to say to the door.
"Ron, don't make it worse," Ginny said sympathetically. Ron slumped his shoulders and walked over to the couch and leaned on it. He bent his head back.
"Why is she so upset?" Ron asked the ceiling, Ginny answered however.
"She thinks you're going to want Lavender back."
Ron snapped his head up. "What?! She knows I love her!"
"Well, no matter how strong Hermione seems on the outside, she can be insecure at times. You did date Lavender... she probably thinks Lavender is prettier than her, which is so not true, half of Lavender's weight is in makeup, and you're going to want her instead..."
Ron fell onto the couch onto his stomach and groaned into the pillow, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life," Ron's voice was muffled.
"Well, it's like Lavender said, 'being away from school hasn't helped her much.'" Harry said, his voice high pitched, an imitation of Lavender. The three laughed at what he had said, and soon they just started laughing hysterically.
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