Disclaimer: The usual stuff. There are JKR's characters. Hogwarts is hers. She holds the rights to all that stuff, etc.

Updated 10/17/2017 - Editing, cleaning up, etc.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny walk back from having visited Hagrid's hut and eating lunch there. Ron starts to rub his chest a little bit as they near the castle.

"Does it still hurt?" Hermione inquires.

"Yeah, a little bit. Getting hit by a bludger isn't exactly the nicest thing in the world, you know," Ron shoots back.

"At least Lockhart wasn't there to cure you," Hermione remarked with a grin, causing Harry to groan. Harry had to regrow the bones in his arm as Lockhart had "cured" his broken arm caused by a rouge bludger by completely removing his arm bones after a Quiddich Match in his second year.

Once the foursome enters the castle, Hermione turns to Ron and Harry. "Ginny and I have something to do, you two go ahead to the common room."

Ginny looks at Hermione with an odd look, since she wasn't aware of any pre-planned meeting. Ron and Harry tell the two that they'll see them later then walk towards their common area. Hermione grabs Ginny and leads her to an empty hallway.

"So, whose the lucky guy?" Hermione asks Ginny with a huge grin on her face.

"Huh...what?" Ginny says, dumbfoundly.

"You know, this morning. I know you. You're someone who wouldn't do that unless you had someone on your mind." Hermione's grin gets even bigger, if possible.

Ginny then remembers that Hermione caught her naked in bed that morning, and obviously deduced what she had been doing. "Uh, well, uh, no one in particular," Ginny stumbled out.

Hermione looks at Ginny with a skeptical look on her face, but just smiles at her. "OK, but if you need any advice, you know you can ask me."

"Uh, OK. Thanks." Ginny blushes bright red, but realizes that she can't tell Hermione who she was really thinking about.

That night, the foursome work on their homework in the common room. Hermione, who already finished some time ago, is reading a book on advanced spells as Harry just finishes his homework.

"Oy, Harry," Ron suddenly calls out.

"No." Hermione cuts off Ron's request to copy off of Harry before he can even ask.

"Hey, you don't even know what I was going to ask," Ron responds incredulously.

"Yes I do. You were going to ask Harry to let you copy off of his homework. You ask him every time he finishes before you, which happens to be anytime we do homework. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out." Hermione rattles off as Ron gets an increasingly dumbfounded look on his face. Harry and Ginny look at each other and mouth "ouch!" to each other after Hermione finishes her speech.

Ron looks lost for a moment then turns to Ginny. "Ginny..."

"No!" Hermione tells Ron again, this time more sternly.

"What?" Ron asks Hermione incredulously again.

"No, you cannot copy off of me, Harry, Ginny, or anyone else who attends the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Ron glares at Hermione as he looks back down as his parchment and starts jotting down his homework again.

"Now, since that's been cleared up, I'm going to bed." Hermione stands up and starts walking up to the girl's dorm.

"I think I'll go as well," Harry says as he stands up and collects his work.

Suddenly Ginny's heart skips a beat and she realizes that she's about to be left alone with Ron.

"Uh, Ginny, now that Hermione's gone.." Ron starts to ask.

"Uh, yes?" Ginny responds, trying to sound normal.

"Do you think you can look at this to see if it's OK?" Ron points down at a few paragraphs written on his parchment.

"Oh, sure." Ginny pushes her hair out of the way and leans over to read what Ron had written. "Uh, it looks OK to me, Ron." Ginny then turns to face Ron and find that their faces are only inches apart and she looks straight into his eyes. Suddenly she finds herself leaning forward as she gets closer and closer to Ron's face, and before she realizes her lips entangles with Ron's in a kiss.