I watched as Granger came out of the library once again Ron and Harry trailing just after her. They had been spending ages in the library lately. I wonder why..
"Harry's going for quidditch practise want to come watch with me?" Ron asked quickly catching up with her.
"Sorry ronnie-kins. Me and Granger have prier arrangements" I said walking over quickly. Sharing her with Harry and Ron sucked. They all looked over to me sitting on a window sil. Restraining myself from Granger like I usually would to a girl I looked to ron "you can come if you want" say no, say no, say no.
"Nahh it's cool. I think i'll just watch Harry practise" He said with a shrug "Bye Hermione, George"
"George..How are you meeting up with Hermione ? You need to be at practise as well"
"Fred's telling everyone i'm sick in the hospital wing. Bad stomach flue. You better not tell wood he'd kill me"
"why don't you just go to practise and hang out with Hermione later?" Ron asked
"Because" I replied standing up "you two pillocks only leave her side when you go to bed and for quidditch practise. And since I don't want to lose my rep hanging with my younger, less cool brother I thought i's skip a quidditch practise so I could see Granger for a little while. I didn't think I would have to tell her I was skipping quidditch." I said awkwardly. She wouldn't take that as me flirting or whatever would she ? Whenever she thought I was flirting she got angry. I guess she still liked me and me flirting just made it harder for her to get over me. I can't blame her I am pretty hot. I gave her a small smile and she smiled back.
"that is very sweet George, but you could have just asked me to meet you some other time you don't need to miss quidditch practise. Go and I'll meet you later"
"no, Fred would have already told Wood i'm ill if I turn up he'll guess that I was faking. Also I already have something planned for us to do. So harry get to practise ron get to watching him practise and Granger..Walk with me" Harry did a small nod giving hermione a quick hug.
"bye hermione, George"
"later Harry" Ron did a little nod to me and hugged Granger before walking away as well I turned and started walking the other way. I heard her little feet pattering on the ground to catch up with me.
"You really didn't have to miss practise George"
"I know, but have you seen the weather. I've been looking for an excuse to get out of practise" I stated smiling down at her. "so what are we going to do ?"
"I thought you had something planned"
"oh yeah forgot about that" I barked out a laugh and quickly turned down one of the secret passage ways. "I was planning we go for a walk around the lake then just sit and chill somewhere and catch up since you're always with Tweedledum and the boy who lived but then...the weather kinda sucks so I decided we could instead go to the Ravenclaw common room. There having a little gathering. Some butterbeer and some random games. Exploding snap, chess some little duels.
"Duels?"
"just play ones no serious spells. Jusy jelly-legs jinx rictusempra. You know that kinda stuff. Just for a bit of fun... You want to go?" She stopped and so I turned looking at her confused. She had her I don't want to break school rules look on her face...She had that look a lot when she was with me actually.
"are we aloud..if it's in the Ravencl-"
"Yeah course. Cho invited me... If you don't want to go it's fine" I said seeing the reluctant look on her face
"no.. it'll be fun" she said smiling.
"Great. Onwards!" I quickly continued down the passage. I heard her laughing before she followed me again.
"So how do you know about all these secret passageways and short cuts" I thought for a second of the marauders map. Do I tell her ?
"Me and Fred just..found them" She probably wouldn't like the idea of it "Where almost first years run around trying to find classes we round around trying to hide from filch. So we stumbled into most of them"
"where you ever just innocent kids ? Not trying to annoy filch or anything"
"When we were first born I believe we were but that changed from around 6 months." I shot her a smile "..i guess we just like to make people laugh and don't care if we have to brake a couple of school rules if we do it."
"why ?..i mean yeah it's cool to make people smile and stuff but you kinda seem like you're whole life is devoted to making others smile"
"Well..You want to be happy in life right?" I looked down to her and she nodded "Making people happy makes me and Fred happy so it's a win win...Also we get to do a lot of awesome stuff while trying to do it. This way" I quickly turned left on a little cross roads in the passage way A few feet down there was a solid wall.
"Urm. George.. There's a wall there. Are you sure you didn't mean to go right?" Letting out a laugh I looked down to her
"i'm sure now Granger watch. This is a handy way. Not even filch knows about this wall. Or he doesn't know how to use it."
"And how did you use it?"
"how did you get to Diagon alley this year? Being muggle-born and all I'm guessing you didn't flu powder or anything."
"Professor Flitwick came and got us. And yes we did flu powder. .He hooked us up to the system."
"oh...how did you enjoy it ?"
"It was weird..And I fell over when I went to get out"
"nice..Now watch her Granger, you remember coming out from the leaky cauldron and the wall thing"
"Yes? Ohhh! Is it like that?"
"Almost Granger. Wait how did flitwick reach?"
"he uh..Had to get someone else to come do it for him" she said awkwardly making let out a loud laugh again.
"Anyway watch closely." I took my wand out and poked the end of it into a little crack in the wall. "aperire" Pulling my wand out again the wall quickly rearranged itself so there was a gap for us to walk through. Quickly pulling Granger through the wall closed behind us.
"how did you find out what to say?"
"Just..guessed. Aperire means open" she looked at me confused. Maybe she can tell im lying. Whatever it's not like she'll ever guess about the Map. "any Granger welcome to outside the Ravenclaw common room."
"hu? How did we get here. There's stairs to get up here we didn't even go up a hill"
"Magic Granger" I said with a smirk before turning to the door and knocking the large brass knocker.
"what is broken everytime it's spoken?" A voice said. I stood staring at it confused. It usually gives a questin you can give you're opinion on and then if you say enough crap you get in.
"Silence" Came Hermione's voice beside me
"hu?" The door swung open and I stared at her confused. "how did you know that?"
"i have common sense" She said simply stepping in. Smiling slightly I followed her in. Everyone looked over as we walked in.
"Hey guys" I said slightly awkwardly. Usually people are already busy playing some games that they don't notice me coming in "this is Granger"
"hermione" She snapped and I smirked down at her
"granger" At that point Cho ran over hugging me
"Hey Hermione" I looked over to see who was saying hi to her whilst wrapping my arms around cho tightly for a quick hug before letting them fall to my sides agai. It was some midget first year
"Hi terry" She said awkwardly
"want to play chess?"
"no thanks. I'm really bad"
"how? You're clever" I laughed at this
"She doesn't like being beaten"
"I'll play" She snapped glaring at me and following him away.
"Hey cho?"
"George"
"can you let go of me now ?"
"sorry" she quickly moved away and smiled up at me. I looked at her slightly amused. "do you want a butterbeer?"
"i'de love a butterbeer" I walked off with her to a table where loads of butterbeers where stacked. Grabbing a butterbeer I uncorked it.
"isn't your team practising now?" I turned around and saw Roger Davis standing looking at me confused.
"nahh"
"i can see them out the window" he replied raising an eyebrow
"Don't tell wood...I'm sick in the hospital wing right now" he let out a laugh
"i won't. But this better not make you lose out on the quidditch cup. I'm fed up of slytherin having it."
"Shouldn't you be rooting for ravenclaw?" I asked laughing slightly
"slytherin beat us badly..Don't you remember?" I never miss a quidditch game. why wasn't I there? "oh wait. You were in the hospital wing!"
"oh.." I muttered embarrassed
"Tripping down stairs..nice"
"shut it davis" I snapped grabbing another butterbeer and storming to where that terry kid and Granger were playing Chess. Passing the other butterbeer to her I sat down next to her and watched. She was losing...badly. I sat watching as Hermione got more and more annoyed that she was losing. Finally Terry got her in check mate and she flopped back into her seat.
"naww it's alright Granger.. You weren't to...umm. You'll get better" I gave her an encouraging smile but she just glared at me. "anyway what are you doing play chess. This may not be a party but really this is just boring. Let's go talk to some people" Grabbing her arm I pulled her up and dragged her to a group of people that we started talking to. After a few hours Fred marched in in his quidditch gear. Water dripping from him. Waving his wand so he dried of he smiled.
"Hello young Ravenclaws" I heard penelope clearwater let out a groan. She didn't like us weasley twins.
"Gred!" I exclaimed walking over to him "how was practise"
"Usual... Just Wood made me work 20 times harder than usual to make up for you not being there..You owe me one" I nodded
"Weasley!" Both of us looked over and Rogerwas standing there arrogantly
"want a duel" Fred groaned and I laughed. Fred had beat him last year in a duel and now every time we came to one of these things Roger would try to beat him and fred would always win.
"Not right now Davis"
"you scared?"
"bring it Davis" Fred snapped quickly and I laughed. Fred was so easy to convince to do something. Everyone cleared a little patch for them to duel in all with the same amused looks as me.
"Same rules as usual" I stated. "you both ready?" both nodded "Then, duel" As spells started firing madly from davis Fred stood looking relatively bored deflecting his spells easily.
"Tarantalegra" Fred flicked his wand and the spell hit davis who's legs started dancing. Where as any normal person would quickly stop the spell on there legs before carrying on Davis just carried on trying to cast spells whilst his legs moved madly. After a little bit longer fred flicked his wand again
"expelliarmus" Catching the boys wand easily Fred did a lazy smirk "I win, who else wants to try?" Before long Fred was having duel after duel with Ravenclaws he had beaten before. Managing to disarm penelope clearwater who huffed and stormed of once she got her wand back Fred smirked. All the people who would usually duel had. "anyone else ?" Fred said happily smirking at a few first years who backed away.
"I might as well have a go" I walked forwards smirking pulling my wand from my pocket.
"you sure Georgie?"
"Bring it Gred" Everyone watched as we both shot spells at each other. "Expelliarmus!" I smirked as I caught his wand. Turning round raising my arms to everyone who laughed and clapped. Suddenly I felt arms wrap around me as I was rugy tackled to the floor. Rolling over I saw Fred trying to reach his wand. I threw both mine and his to the side and we started to play fight. Finally he managed to get me in a headlock. After a while of trying to pull his arms away from my neck I gasped out that I give in and he let go. Cho gave us our wands back and I walked back over to Granger who was laughing.
"anyone else want to try?" Fred asked arrogantly.
"I'll try" I looked next to me and saw Granger looking at my brother confidently.
"you sure Hermione?" Fred asked "i'm not going to go easy on you just because you're my brothers best mate"
"i'm sure" She walked towards him happily. Everyone looked pretty shocked that first year was trying to take on a third year. Obviously they didn't know Hermione was the best student in her year and probably knew as many spells as a third year did.
"georgie if you would be kind enough to say go" Fred said happily to me.
"Fine.. go"
"Locomotormortis!" Hermione quickly shouted out
"Protego" Fred said easily "you'll have to do better than that mione. Rictusempra!" Hermione easily dodged it
"you'll have to do better than that Freddie" I let out a laugh at her calling him Freddie. Spells were flying everywhere. Although they were on like pertificus totalus so nothing that could actually hurt you
"confundus!" Hermione snapped Fred just managed to dodge out of the way.
"fernuculus!" quickly said back
"Densaugeo!" Fred once again just dodged it
"Rictusempra!" just as he shot it he quickly called out another spell. Hermione dodged the first one but the second one hit her in the chest and she let out a yelp covering her face.
"granger" I quickly ran over to her. She was rubbing her eyes "Granger are you okay" she didn't reply "Granger look at me" She shook her head and I sighed "Granger you either look at me or I pull you're hands away" slowly she removed her hands from her face. Fred was now standing next to me and I was tempted to hit him. Her eyes were completely red and slightly swollen. Fred let out a little hiss.
"it hurts" she whimpered.
"I'm so sorry Hermione" Fred started quickly.
"shut up fred,Lets get you to the hospital wing Granger" I said pulling her behind me as she started to rub her eyes again "don't rub them"
"Bu-" Fred walked after us out the door.
"Mione I am so so sor-"
"shut up Fred!" I snapped pulling her in front of me "I need to get her to the hospital wing"
"i'll come" He offered
"no! Just go away"
"why?"
"because this is you're fault"
"I said I was sorry"
"why did you fire spell that could actually hurt her?"
"I didn't think it would do that did i"
"idiot" I muttered still pushing Granger in front of me who was now sniffling.
"did you just call me an idiot?"
"yeah" I snapped not bothering to look at him. "you weren't meant to use spells that can actually hurt."
"I didn't think that would happen did I? And she used one that would give me loads of boils which would have hurt if it hit me. So it wasn't only me braking the rules." He defended. I heard a little sob and locked and saw her eyes where getting worse. Fred ran to my side again looking at Hermione
"shit.I am so sor-"
"Fred I told you to piss off!" I growled pushing him away from her grabbing her I quickly started walking again as fast as I could so she could still keep up with me. This time Fred didn't bother trying to follow us.