Chapter Two

In the common room waiting for the time to pass until Slughorns Christmas party was Hermione staring out the window. If it was raining, she thought, this would be such a muggle thing to do. Looking around the room she found it deserted. Lavender and… Ron would be in an old class room, getting up she looked out the window again catching her reflection.

"God I need help." She sighed.

"Talking to yourself is a first sign of madness." A voice behind her quoted, "But then again, liking Ron must be way before that!"

"Ginny!" Hermione laughed, "you made me jump!"

"I heard about what happened today. Once again I apologise for my brother, but I'm sure that Fred and George may have dropped him from the attic… But you never know. Might have been mum." They both laughed. "Well, Luna said you were really upset about him mimicking you, so are you alright?"

"Yes." She looked as if she was going to say more but the portrait suddenly opened letting in Ron and Harry.

"Anyone in the school Harry! You asked Loony Lovegood!" Ron was basically shouting at Harry.

"Don't call her that Ronniekins, I'm glad you're taking her Harry she's really excited." Ginny said smiling at Harry.

"You should apologise." Harry stated to Ron.

"What? And get attacked by canaries?"

"What did you intimidate her for?"

"She laughed at my moustache!"

"So did I, it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen."

But Ron didn't appear to hear, Lavender and Parvati had just walked in. Flinging herself onto Ron Harry spoke to Parvati for a moment before Hermione joined them.

"Hey Harry, I'll see you at the party? I've got to go and meet Cormac." As she said this Harry could tell she hated what she had to do, nonetheless it had the impact she wanted. Like the sound of a plunger being withdrawn from a blocked sink Ron was standing next to them.

"You're going with Cormac!" He demanded.

"That's right." She said simply before walking out.

"You've got to hand it to her," Ginny whispered to him. "She's very suborn. God I'd hate to see their children." Harry started to laugh.

"You'd have too, blood relative." He said, before looking at his watch and following Hermione.

Slughorns party proved to meet up with everyone's expectations. While Harry was being thrown around like a new broom Hermione was trying to escape from Cormac.

"Come on Granger, don't pretend you don't like me."

"I don't like you." Hermione said, at first she had tried being nice but after narrowing avoiding the mistletoe she gave up. Of course there was going to be mistletoe, its it wasnt like the ones muggles grew, wizard mistletoe would lock you in place would keep you under it until you kissed.

"Hard to get Granger? I'll sort that out." He leaned towards her. She ducked down. Moving away she suppressed a giggle.

"Well Cormac, as flattered as I may be you've won a month of detention." A drawling voice said sharply. Opening his eyes Cormac found his self inches away from Snape jumping back he began to apologise. By the time he'd finished he looked around for Hermione but she gone.

"Your friend Granger, have you seen her?" Cormac asked Harry as soon as he spotted him.

"No, maybe she was upset about your moment with Snape?" Walking off Harry soon found Hermione talking to Luna.

"Don't worry Hermione," Luna was saying. "The dilectos have good things planned for you!"

"Dilectos?" Hermione repeated slowly.

"Yes! The creatures of love, daddy looked into it recently and have found they have their most strength around valentine's day. But they feel that you need them so here they are."

"Right, well that's good?" Hermione asked.

"Well, better than nargules but they are rather fickle."

"Okay." Hermione said frowning.

"Dilectos?" Harry mouthed, "Well I've been looking for you two! Listen you know how Malfoy been acting strange?"

"Not this again Harry, he's not a death eater. Remember when we thought he was the heir of Slytherin?"

"This is different, but listen really. I know he's up to something Hermione really and Snape. I heard them talking, but Snapes trying to help Malfoy!"

Hermione raised her eyebrow, "I don't know Harry. Look I've got to go, going home tomorrow need to help arrange the first years, I don't think Ron's going to help…" She smiled sadly at him and walked off.

Authors Note – Please rate and respond even if it's 2050 I'd love it if you did! I'm sorry about chapter length it will increase soon. Once again it's my first fan fiction, and I did look up one of the bits from the book since I like try and make it believable! :)