After a time at the Burrow, Harry was very much looking forward to seeing Hermione again.

As soon as Harry spotted Hermione in the group of people by the Hogwarts train, he ran towards her and threw his arms around her - kissing her, almost making them both fall over.

He finally let her go after a moment. "Harry! You almost knocked me over!" but she was smiling at him.

"What do you expect me to do?" said Harry with a grin.

Ron walked up towards them. "Hi", he didn't look very enthusiastic about seeing Hermione.

"Hi, Ron."

Harry wondered if it was him, or if there was tension between Ron and Hermione more than usual.

He put his arm around Hermione's shoulder. "Uh, how about we find an empty compartment on the train?"

Hermione looked a bit confused. "What? Yes, of course."

They took their luggage and stepped on the train, but Harry noticed how Ron didn't follow them.

"Ron? You're not coming?"

"No, I'm waiting for… someone."

Harry frowned slightly. "Alright, sure."

"What's up with him, anyway?" Hermione asked while they were dragging their luggage through the train corridors.

"I have no idea anymore. At first he seemed depressed about his dad's death but now? I don't know", he stopped in front of an empty compartment. "This one?"

Hermione nodded as she was dragging her luggage. She seemed to be struggling with her trunk.

"You need help with that?"

Hermione wiped her forehead with the back of her hand. "Yes please, I must've packed too many things with me. It's way too heavy."

"You really should learn to not pack so many books."

Harry lifted up the trunk with ease onto the shelf, thanks to his superhuman strength. He heard a sudden voice behind him as he just got the trunk into place:

"Wow, Harry. Have you been working out during the summer?"

He turned around and there stood Ginny and Dean.

"Me?" Harry asked in confusion. "Well… I take a walk every now and then."

Ginny smirked. "Sure. I'll remember that and maybe I can wrestle my brothers to the ground in no time."

Hermione clung onto Harry with her arms around his neck, smiling towards Ginny and Dean. "Don't mind him. He's always so modest. In fact, Harry's done a lot of working out this summer."

Hermione gave him a hard kiss on his cheek.

"Ah…", Ginny glanced distraught to the side. "Well, see you two at the sorting ceremony. Nice to see you, Hermione."

And with that they both disappeared down the hallway.

Harry stared at Hermione as she let go of him and they sat down. "What was that all about?"

Hermione stared back. "For goodness sake, Harry didn't you see how she was looking at you with big dreamy eyes?"

"Hermione, are you jealous?" Harry grinned.

Hermione blushed and shook her head. "No. No! No, of course not! I wouldn't…"

"Yeah, you are."

"What if I am? How would you feel if someone looked at me like that?"

Harry smacked lightly with his lips. "I would probably break their jaw. Yeah, you have a point. But so what if she looks at me dreamy? Let her look and ignore it."

"It's not that easy. You of all people should know that."

The ride to Hogwarts was mostly quiet except when Hermione had to leave for the prefect-meeting. Harry decided to put the suit on and sneak in through the roof and stick to the shadows in the ceiling.

He spotted professor McGonagall walking on and off around the carriage, while the prefects and the rest of the heads of the other houses sat gathered on the seats.

"But I have something important to tell you all, even if you are not from my house. As you all know this dressed up figure attends our school, or at the very least roams it. We don't know his intentions but no matter the case it's up to you prefects to immediately report to the headmaster or the head of your house if there's any sightings of this figure", Hermione reached her hand up in the air. "Yes, miss Granger?"

"His name is Spider-Man. Or, the Muggles call him by that name. He's all over the news in the Muggle-world."

Malfoy chuckled. "Proves how idiotic Muggles are."

"Draco", mumbled Snape slowly. "Watch your mouth."

"What? It's true!"

"Ten points off from Slytherin."

"You can't do that, the term hasn't even started yet."

"Be quiet."

Harry crawled a bit closer to the center of the ceiling.

"May I say my thoughts on this figure, Minerva?" mumbled Snape, and McGonagall nodded.

Snape cleared his throat. "I think the school should harden the security. Albus can't sit by and do nothing while this man… this creature invades our school. This figure is a threat to all of us – how do we know he's not in this very room right now?"

Malfoy scoffed. "Don't be ridiculous. That freak wouldn't dare to show himself here."

Snape casted a deadly side-eye his way.

"You're absolutely right, Severus. We have to speak with Albus about this matter."

Harry had heard enough and got out the same way he got in, taking his suit off again and got a bit of candy off the trolley cart waiting for Hermione.

She returned soon afterwards.

"How was it?" Harry asked when she sat down beside him.

"The usual. Professor McGonagall talked a bit about you, except she doesn't know it's you."

"Ah", Harry cleared his throat. "So they are gonna set up an arrest warrant?"

Hermione grabbed a jelly slug and took a bite out of it. "I would say they are increasing the security. Not like that will stop you."

"It sounded more like a manhunt to me", Harry said, before realizing what he'd uttered and got a suspicious look from Hermione. "I mean… it would be, right? They wouldn't let someone like me go free…"

"Harry."

"No, of course not."

"Harry", she said louder. "Were you listening in?"

Harry tried to avoid her stare and knew he'd already blown his cover.

"I knew it!" Hermione got up and quickly peeked out of the compartment before sitting down again. "Harry, what were you doing there?"

"I was curious!"

"You were curious?"

"Yes!"

Hermione exhaled deeply and pulled a hand through her hair. "Okay, yes. They are planning to track you down, Harry. I don't know how, they didn't say. The Aurors will most likely be a part of it, so you'd better watch out."

Harry fell asleep during the ride, but got waken up by Hermione.

"Harry, we have to get changed. I believe we are there soon."

Harry stretched and yawned. "Really? How long was I out?"

"For a good while. You seemed like you needed it", Hermione tossed him his robes and glasses. "And take your contacts off. I can't imagine wearing those all day would do you any good."

"Hermione, I know when to switch and when not to. Don't worry. I just dozed off."

Harry started change into his Hogwarts robe while Hermione lifted down her trunk.

"How do you feel about getting back to Hogwarts?" Hermione asked.

"Oh you know, I don't have to deal with laundry anymore", he grinned and she laughed.

While they put their robes on, Harry wondered how it really would be to return to Hogwarts – changed and now with the persona of Spider-Man to juggle with school and his normal life.

Maybe it wasn't so bad – the only problem being was how he would get to London. Over summer it was easy to just put on the suit and jump out the window.

At Hogwarts? He would have a much harder time.

Hermione gave him a look and shook her head, walking up to him and helped him with his tie.

"For goodness sake, Harry. There's a very simple spell to use if you can't do it by hand."

"Why aren't you using it if it's so simple?" Harry smiled.

Hermione shrugged. "It would be too simple, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

He moved closer, slowly starting to kiss her. A sudden loud knock made them both jump. Harry quietly cursed in his head and he saw Hermione looked pretty annoyed too.

Outside stood Ron, waiting for them. "Blimey. Can you two stay two minutes together without snogging? You are worse than Dean and Ginny."

Harry scoffed. "Let's just go."

It didn't take long for them to get on one of the carriages, taking them up to the castle and with them came Lavender, Dean and Ginny.

"So what have you two up to this summer?" Lavender asked and looked at Harry and Hermione. "I heard you two had some action going."

Harry grinned. "Yeah, you can put it that way."

"Please Lav, don't", Ron mumbled.

"Whatever you heard, it doesn't concern you", Hermione snapped. "It's personal."

Harry remember the moment he and Hermione got together; it didn't feel that long ago.

It was about one year ago they had fallen in love with each other, after Harry had got back after the duel with Voldemort on the graveyard and taken into the hospital wing.

That was the first time he'd felt such a strong sense of love – it felt right.

"No need to be so stingy about everything, Hermione", Lavender rolled her eyes.

"Didn't you hear her? It's none of your concern", Ginny said annoyingly.

Harry looked up towards the castle as the carriage pulled them closer to it. He had a strange feeling in his stomach, like a sizzling feeling that made him uneasy but at the same time extremely happy – it was good to be home again.

AUTHORS NOTES:

Harry does use contacts (I mostly wanted this as it makes more sense when he wears his mask), but occasionally his glasses. I'm not 100% sure how contacts work and if you do need to swap them for glasses once in a while, but I've done as much research as I could and if I'm wrong, someone may correct me.