Granger trudged into the common room sadly. The rest of the gryffindor first year class following except for Harry. Everyone was talking excitedly apart from Ron who look, like Granger looked upset. I was going to call him over when he went and started talking to some irish kid. Turning my attention on Granger I put a small smile on my face.

"Did flying class go badly?" She did a small nod

"Neville broke his wrist... And Harry's probably going to be expelled" What?

"what?" So she explained everything that had happened during flying class. My smile falling from my face as the story went on. Poor Harry he was only trying to be nice and make sure malfoy didn't do something dicky with neville's rememberall.

"Fred George, Angelina, Katie and alicia out here know!" I looked over and saw Oliver standing in the doorway keeping the fat lady open. We all quickly looked to each other before standing up.

"back in a second Granger" She did a little nod and we all walked out. Expecting to be told off about something we all where trying to suppress our groans

"guess what?" Oliver had a smile on his face. It hurt just looking at it, it seemed to big to actually be on someone's face

"Fred is gay?" I questioned

"George is an idiot?" Fred snapped back making everyone but me laugh

"We got a seeker!"

"Really who?"

"harry potter!" Everyone stood gaping at him as he began to explain the smile never leaving his face. After he finished I ran back into the common room smiling. Hermione was sitting awkwardly on her own. I walked over with Fred.

"You hungry?" She looked over at us

"why are you two so smiley"

"That oh pretty lady. Is a secret.. shall we?" Me and Fred the last part at the same time both offering our arms making her laugh and forget about Harry for the moment. She stood up and we all began walking down to dinner. Just before we went in Lee came up to us

"guys! I just found a new secret passage. You gotta come check it out!" Me and Fred looked to each other over Hermione's head. Lee always found 'new' secret passages of course we had already found most with help of the marauders map but there was no harm in looking both giving a slight shrug fred looked back to lee

"Sure give us a minute to finish escorting Hermione here into the Hall and we shall follow you" He nodded and we quickly walked into the hall straight away running for harry and congratulating him on getting seeker. Before with a quick one armed hug to Hermione we ran out. Like we had suspected we had found it before but still. That night I had been having a wonderful dream.. that was until I was woken up by being slapped gently round the face.

"Fred geroff!" I snapped

"George wake up" I knew that voice..And it certainty wasn't Freds. My body shot up and my eyes flicked open rubbing my eyes a bit I saw a figure in front of me sitting on the edge of my bed bushy hair surrounding her otherwise normal sized head.

"Granger?..What are you doing here?"

"It's a three headed dog!"

"What ? Granger.. I realise night mares can be bad but couldn't you go to a person in your own dorm"

"wha...no I didn't have a nightmare. I mean the third-floor it's a giant three headed dog."

"Of course it is Hermione"

"If you don't believe me ask Ronald. We were running away from filch and I used allohomora to open the door and then we went in peeves got filch away and we noticed it"

"A giant three headed dog?"

"Yes! A giant thee headed dog that would have ate us if we stayed in there any longer?"

"Are you sure this wasn't a nightmare I mean you wondering around the castle at night..With my brother"

"and harry..and neville"

"the kid with a broken wrist?"

"it's fixed now."

"right..Well it's not very likely is it?"

"Georgeeee!" she whined

"So your saying, that on the third-floor there is a giant three headed dog ? That you found with neville harry and ron whilst running away from filch"

"yes!" And I believed her, as ridiculous as it sounded. I could tell by her tone she wasn't lying.

"Awesome! Fre-" Her hand flew over my mouth

"what are you doing ? You can't tell anyone" Pulling her hand from my mouth I looked at her confused

"Of course I can.. I need to go check this out"

"Are you a complete flobberworm ?" She snapped "it would kill you also Dumbledore said if he saw you near there you would be in trouble and im betting it won't just be like your everyday prank punishments."

"then why did you tell me ?"

"I don't know, I just wanted to tell someone and your my only fr.. The only person who would find it interesting" She corrected herself not wanting me to know she had no other friends. I gave her a sad smile.

"Fair enough" we sat the in silence for a while

"it's my birthday soon" She had a big smile on her face

"When ?"

"September 19th"

"that is soon.. What do you want ?"

"Nothing"

"now that's a lie.." She let out a small laugh and did a little shrug

"Well, there was this book 'Fantastic beast and where to find them that seems interesting bu-"

"Cool book about beasties..Now off to bed!" She tried to argue but I pushed her off my bed. "firstie's need there sleep..so do third years. Now shoo! We shall talk in the morning" Rolling her eyes she walked out the room I flopped back onto my bed looking up at the top of the four poster. Fantastic beasts and where to find them. I need it in 3 days... I think I need to get out the marauders map tomorrow.

The rest of September went by nicely. Hermione's birthday was cool. I managed to get her the book from a shop in Hogsmeade Fred and Lee also got her presents. Lee getting her chocolate and Fred getting her some stuff from zonko's. Her parents sent her some sugar free sweets. Apart from Hermione's birthday it was uneventful but nice. It was October 31st and I was happily munching on some chocolate whilst walking into my second class of the day which was Transfiguration I got a tap on my shoulder

"Georgie!" I looked to fred and saw him pointing to something. Looking over I saw Granger bushy hair flying through the crowd. She turned around at one point after getting hit by someones bag to reajust her own. Tears were glistening on her face, quickly turning I began to run down the hall after her

"Mr Weasley ! Mr Weasley!" McGonagall screamed after me but I kept running after Granger who had the advantage of being small so able to dodge between people easier.

"Granger? GRANGER!" she kept going. Finally as the halls began to clear more with everyone going into there lessons I managed to catch her. "granger..Granger will you stop" Grabbing her arm I spun her round to face me she kept her head down but I could see her shoulders shaking meaning she was still crying. "come on" taking her hand we quickly walked around the school finally reaching the astronomy tower she sat down on the stairs. I sat down next to her

"what's wrong?" She shook her head which I guess meant she didn't want to tell me. "come on Granger, You can tell me." Once again no reply "please, tell me what's wrong"

"y-your Br-broth-brother is -a-an idiot"

"ron?" I questioned. I needed to make sure I had the right brother before I started talking more. She did a nod " I know he is..What happened?" She calmed herself down a bit so she could talk without her voice cracking

"He was mocking me, and said no one liked me a-an...he was right..n-no one can stand me- i'm ju-just som-e stupid bookworm" She started crying again so I wrapped my arms around her pulling her closer to me she buried her head in my cloak. We were sitting like that for her while her crying and me trying to think of something to say. Finally I got the courage to talk. What crying girls freak me out.

"You're right. My brother is an idiot. So don't listen to him. Maybe you haven't got many friends in your year. So what you have three friend's from third year and 2 of those three are going to kill Ron later for being an idiot. You're awesome Granger"

"your just saying that" Her muffled voice came from cloak

"look at me" Her head slowly came out, her face bright red eyes puffy with tears still gliding down her face "Why would I just say that. You're amazing You're clever, funny, witty even if you can be a bit of a fun sponge that probably good me Fred and Lee need someone to keep us out of trouble you are so much more than just some bookworm... Never pay attention to ron he's an moron . I can stand you and i'm not just saying this to make you feel better. You've known me for 2 months do I seem like the kind of person who would tell someone something just to make them happy ? You're one of my best friends Granger." She looked at me for a few seconds before throwing her arms around me and hugging me tightly.

"you're so sweet George"

"it's a gift" I said with a shrug. She pulled out of the hug and looked to me a watery smile on her face. Before I knew what was happening she had pressed her lip to mine. For a few seconds I sat there shocked before I gently pushed her away. This girl definitely was a gryffindor. "Listen..Granger you're really nice and I do love you" her face lit up "as a friend" Oh no her eye's are looking watery..Or is that from just now crying ? "You're so sweet and I care about you but like I said.. I see you as a friend.. A best friend a-"

"it's fine..I've got to go" Grabbing her bag she jumped up. The tears I just spent so long stopping had re started. "sorry I just though you might..With the moring beautiful a- I just got it wrong." Running down the stairs I groaned

"Granger..Please don't g-" The Astronomy tower door slammed shut.

She spent the rest of the night in the toilet crying. Everyone thought it was because of Ron. Though I seriously doubted it. During dinner Quirrell ran in screaming about a troll before passing out. We were sent to the common rooms only when we got there did I notice that Granger was still no where to be seen. Unfortunately Fred and Lee held me back from going to look for her. Finally she ran through the portrait whole her eyes still slightly puffy but her clothes now covered in dust and little flecks of rubble and chips of wood. I went to talk to her but as I walked towards her she quickly became extremely interested in a conversation that her dorm mates where having. Before long the portrait door opened again and Harry and Ron ran in looking in the same state as Hermione just their eyes weren't puffy. The next day it was spread around what the three first years did and from that moment on they were friends. It got to the first quidditch match and I still hadn't managed to talk to Hermione she had been avoiding me at all costs. As we sat in the Changing room we made jokes trying to calm harry down before starting to play. Everything was going okay until harry's broomstick had a shitfit and started trying to buck him off. Me and Fred flew up to him and I tried to pull him onto my broom but his just went higher. After a few more tries we just started circling below him ready to catch him if he did fall. I was desperate to catch him, not only because I didn't want him to get hurt but because I wanted to be friends with Hermione again and letting her new best friend fall to his death wouldn't really help our friendship. Finally his broom went back to normal and he got back on diving for the floor and he nearly swallowed the snitch. Even so it still caught as catching and so we won the game

"PARTY IN THE COMMON ROOM!" Me and fred bellowed and all the gryffindor's cheered we had already stocked up for a party yesterday hoping we would win so when we got back to the common room we quickly broke out the butterbeer and honeydukes sweets. Unfortunately my bushy haired Granger was no where in sight.

That night I fell onto my bed annoyed. It had been almost a month and she hadn't talked to me. Yeah It must be embarrassing to kiss someone and them to tell you they just want to be friends but still. Being back to just me Fred and Lee was seeing pretty boring now... She was going to forgive me. If I had to tie her to a chair and curse her until she agree'd to talk to me again. I would. With that thought I went to bed. Planning how I would get Granger back as a friend.