{Hermione POV}
Time to go see Sirius. Harry, Ron and I had collected the food and were heading off. Harry and Ron had longer legs so they walked faster I knew when we were going so I let them go ahead and lost myself in my brain.
"Hey, 'Mione" came a familiar voice from behind me
"Fred! Hi." I smiled at him, how could he always make me smile?
"When are you meeting up with Padma?" he asked
"Crap, I forgot about that." I thought, mentally cursing myself
"Oh, we decided not to meet up," I decided removing Padma from the situation was probably the best idea
"Cool, so, um, wanna get a Butterbeer with me?" he asked, he seemed nervous, I'm not sure why
"I can't sorry, I'm supposed to be with Harry and Ron right now." I said apologetically
"No, it's fine, really. Go have fun!" he said with an interesting smile, there was some sadness in it
"Alright," I stood on my tiptoes and hugged him I held on for a long time and when he let me go I was blushing.
{Fred's POV}
I let her go and her cheeks were the faintest pink. She ran off and I felt the need to follow her. She was walking right to the edge of the village.
I couldn't see far enough to see Ron and Harry until I hid behind a crate in front of a bar. A big black dog had come and Harry was speaking to it. All three of them followed the dog and went into a cave. I followed them and peered into the cave.
Hermione was in the corner patting a hippogriff; wait, not a hippogriff, the hippogriff that she had been torn up about being executed last year; Hagrid's hippogriff Buckbeak. The dog was gone, and in it's place stood a shabby man. Couldn't be more than 26 or 27 years old. He was eating food that Harry brought and he looked familiar. I knew the face. It was Sirius Black. You can't forget the face of someone whose wanted poster was everywhere for a year. They were talking to this murderer like he was their friend. Like he wasn't a murderer. This was too strange. Buckbeak looked up and saw me. I couldn't tell what he was going to do. He bowed. But before everyone turned and saw whom he was bowing at I was running to Zonko's where I expected George would be and where things were probably normal.
I didn't tell George. I wanted to ask her first. To ask her why she was meeting a mass murderer and why that same mass murderer was in possession of a stolen hippogriff. I needed to know why she and my brother were putting themselves in danger to take food to someone who pretty much killed their best friend's parents.
{Hermione's POV}
Walking back after seeing Sirius was really quiet. He was living off rats! We really needed to make an effort to see him more. Over dinner, we discussed everything that Snuffles had said, in code; I noticed Fred looking down the table at me. He looked hurt. No he looked like I had hurt him. Oh no, I really like Fred. Please don't let him be mad at me.