An- Sorry its a few days late but it's really long! and took forever to edit and write! Next weeks will be a valentines special for all you alone on Valentine's Day (I am). see you then

I'm in charge

Hermione spent the first day at Hogwarts avoiding the twins, she wasn't at all sure why, maybe because of how close Fred had been with her. Either way she found herself spending more time with Ron, neither of them would talk but they'd both sit in silence and study. Hermione had tried to convince Ron to talk to Harry about his lessons with Snape, but Ron said that males didn't really talk about things like that. Hermione had sighed at the time and continued to get on with her work.

"Hermione?" Ron asked, sounding like he had something important to say. Hermione turned and looked at him, his eyes looking at her and taking in every detail. Hermione wondered if this is how she looks at Fred, but didn't dwell on it too much.

"Yeah?" she asked not sounding too annoyed with him. Ron looked at her for a split second and shook his head. "It's okay I think I've got the answer now" Hermione looked over at him knowing he was lying. She put down her quill and turned to face him directly.

"Talk to me, tell me what's wrong" Hermione said looking him over, the way his body slightly tensed and the way he forced his feet towards the ground.

"Nothing's wrong" He said, not really looking at her and trying to focus on his work.

"Tell me" She asked with more force; Ron ignored her and carried on writing his, quill leaving indents in the parchment. "Fine, don't talk to me about it, I just thought it would be nice to talk" she snapped. Ron ignored her again and carried on writing.

"Oh come on tell me what's wrong!" Hermione had tuned to face him again. Ron turned sharply glaring at her.

"Just leave it okay! It's my problem and I'm sure you're too busy flirting with my brother to even notice that I'm having a hard time!" Ron pushed his chair out and stormed off, leaving Hermione to study alone in peace. Hermione sighed and tried to get back to her work but just then a tired looking boy plonked down in the seat that Ron had just left.

"Snape's evil." Harry glared at the table and turned to face Hermione. Hermione looked at him and his face changed "I heard what Ron said, would it be stupid to ask which brother he's on about?" Hermione shook her head and fidgeted round on her chair to get away from him. "Come on Hermione, you can't avoid this topic forever, we all know there's something going on" Hermione sighed and got up from her chair gathering her things and stepping away from the table, Harry stuck his leg out making Hermione trip over, she dropped her books all over the floor and stumbled to pick them up. "Hermione are you okay!?" Harry pretended to sound concerned like he hadn't just tripped her up.

"Yeah I'm just so tired and" Hermione stopped before she said anymore. Harry looked down at her and frowned offering his hand out to help her up, she accepted and continued to put her stuff away in silence.

"The weapon – that you know who's after – is in the department of mysteries" Hermione gasped at Harrys statement.

"Of course, think about it… Sturgis Podmore was trying to get through a door at the Ministry of Magic … it must have been that one, It's too much of a coincidence!" Hermione stated excitedly "You should ask Fred about it, Mr Weasley might know something" Harry shifted uncomfortably.

"Okay, what's going on with you and Fred?"

"Nothing, honestly Harry, I only mentioned his name, but seriously you should talk to Arthur" Harry shook his head

"It's not that you mentioned him, it's that you mentioned him! Arthur has 6 other children" Hermione sighed and continued to walk out of the library at an exceedingly fast pace, as if she was trying to get away from Harry. However he managed to keep up.

"Harry this is serious, this isn't like you and Cho!" Hermione stopped to think about her words. Harry looked offended and slightly hurt but he tried to cover it up "That's not what I meant" Hermione took in a sharp intake of breath "Me and Fred are soul mates"

"Hermione that's amazing!"

"No Harry it's not" She sighed and stopped outside the common room not realising they had come so far "He can't remember anything, I set a curse on him" She sighed and hid her face under her hair. Harry stood there in awkward silence not sure what to do

"What can you do?"

"I don't know" She sighed and went to go into the common room but Harry grabbed her wrist firmly and pulled her back, pulling at the long black top she had on.

"We can't talk in there" Harry paused to think "So I'm presuming you're keeping it a secret" Hermione sighed out of frustration.

"Yes! So don't tell anyone! Fred had known for ages because Molly told him, he was supposed to tell me at New Year's but I read this book and it set a curse on him and now he can't remember his feelings towards me, or mainly what actually has happened between us!" Hermione sighed "Harry I don't know what to do, I physically can't live without him!" She held out her arm and unrolled the long sleeve top she had on Harry gasped at the black that was running down her wrist.

"What! How? I don't understand?" Harry was shocked he took a step back. Then stared down at her wrist and took and few small steps towards her, he reached out his hand and ran it along the black that was imprinted there and was surprised when it didn't rub off on his hands.

"It's Fred, he's got an elastic band around his wrist and he keeps snapping it against his wrist. At first it didn't draw blood but now it's every single time, you'd be surprised at how much it hurts. I'm also really cold" she turned her hand around to show him the ends of her fingers they were turning blue. Harry looked up at her face and noticed how pale it was in this light he also noticed how tired she looked.

"Are you sleeping okay?"

"Not really, I'm not really sleeping at all, for the brightest witch of our age, I'm not very bright" She laughed but it was a hollow lonely noise that made Harry wince slightly. "The only time I slept was last year, before New Year's" She closed her eyes so slowly that Harry couldn't tell if she was blinking or falling asleep.

"Hermione you have to talk to Fred" Hermione laughed but again it was hollow and slightly evil sounding.

"You sound like Ginny!" Harry smiled at her.

"Well at least there are two of us who can help!" They laughed together and walking into the common room. The common room was packed and full of shrieks of laughter and excitement; Fred and George were demonstrating their latest bit of joke shop merchandise.

"Headless Hats!" shouted George, as Fred waved a pointed hat decorated with a fluffy pink feather at the watching students. "Two Galleons each, watch Fred, now!"

Fred swept the hat on to his head, beaming. For a second he merely looked rather stupid; then both hat and head vanished.

Several girls screamed, but everyone else was roaring with laughter.

"And off again!" shouted George, and Fred's hand groped for a moment in what seemed to be thin air over his shoulder; then his head reappeared as he swept the pink-feathered hat from it. Hermione and Harry wondered over, Harry still laughing, Hermione poked him.

"How do those hats work then?" She was watching the twins very closely. "I mean, obviously it's some kind of Invisibility Spell, but it's rather clever to have extended the field of invisibility beyond the boundaries of the charmed object… I'd imagine the charm wouldn't have a very long life though." Harry didn't answer; he was starting to feel queasy from his Occlumency lesson with Snape and the whole thing with Hermione's wrist.

"I think I'll go to bed," said Harry he walked across the common room, dodging George, who tried to put a Headless Hat on him, and reached the peace and cool of the stone staircase to the boys' dormitories. He was feeling sick again, just as he had the night he had had the vision of the snake, but thought that if he could just lie down for a while he would be all right.

Hermione stood alone in the common room, until she spotted Ginny at the front of the crowd the slithered through and managed to bump into her slightly making her turnaround slightly.

"Why am I not surprised to find you here?" Ginny laughed "Stalking now are we?" Hermione sighed and looked over at Fred who also was watching her he smiled at her and she smiled back. Ginny looked over at Fred and waved him over.

"Look now you can talk!" She joked and pushed Hermione slightly towards him.

"GINNY!" Hermione shouted, but she had disappeared to talk to someone else.

"Making a good profit?" Hermione asked looking up at Fred's tall figure. He winked

"You bet! Why do you ask Granger? Worried I'm not going to be able to support the family?" Hermione took a step backwards and knocked into a small first year.

"I'm so sorry!" She cried at the small figure now lying on the floor, he looked upset but didn't look hurt. Hermione asked anyway "Are you hurt?" He shook his head and walked away. Hermione sighed and put her head in her hands.

"Wow you better be better than that with our children" Fred laughed over her shoulder she jumped and took another step back.

"I guess you've regained your confidence with the situation" Hermione said crossing her arms over her chest in a defensive position.

"Not really, I'm just trying to lighten your mood" He smiled down at her and she found herself smiling back, not a small fragile smile but a big smile, Hermione found herself blushing.

"Also what exactly is the situation? Can I date other girls or – OW! Ginny!" Ginny had come back and had hit him hard on the shoulder. "I was joking"

"Yeah you better be!" Ginny said aggressively Hermione laughed slightly

"Sure, why not? If I can date Ron, ohhhh or Harry ooohhhhh better idea: BOTH!" Ginny stopped and stared at her, Fred's face went white and he looked at the floor.

"Ummm sure Hermione if that what makes you happy?" Fred said awkwardly "I know how much you love both of them and how happy they make you" He took a step away from her making Hermione felt a pain in her chest that for once didn't come from her.

"Hermione! Can we talk?" Ginny asked Hermione laughed however unlike before it wasn't hollow it was filled with joy and happiness, but it still made them flinch but for different reasons.

"I was joking! Why would I date Ron, or Harry, or both!?" She asked, sounding surprised they took it so seriously.

"Well we all thought that there was something there?" Ginny sighed "Anyway what exactly is going on between you too?" Hermione turned a deep red and looked at Fred who looked at Hermione; they both shrugged and kept staring at each other trying to know what to say. Ginny looked around at the empting common room.

"We'll I'm off to bed you two decide and tell me in the morning" Ginny walked off leaving Fred and Hermione in silence. Hermione checked her watch and sighed.

"It's late and we're obviously not getting anywhere, shall we talk tomorrow?" he didn't look up from the floor so Hermione walked off but was stopped when he grabbed her wrist making the top come up slightly revealing the 'mark' on her wrist. Fred let go and took a step back looking down at his own wrist that was covered in blood. Hermione looked at him but got nothing back he just kept staring down at his hand like he couldn't believe what he'd done. Hermione risked one last look at him before running off.

"Hermione! Wait! I can explain!" Hermione just kept running. Fred looked down at his wrist once more and ripped the elastic off viciously. He stood there for a few moments reflecting what he'd done, before he went off to his own dorm and closed the door harshly, making his twin jump in shock.

"What's wrong bro with the Hoe-mione" George laughed at his own joke, but Fred just ignored him, he walked straight to his bed and flopped face down on the pillow and screamed loudly. He lay there in the darkness his face pressed up against the pillow for minuets, hours, he didn't know when but at some point he fell asleep thinking I've messed it all up now!

A few mornings after Fred walked down to the Great Hall, he hadn't slept in days, not since he last spoke to Hermione, he'd been having nightmares about the past present and future and they were all about Hermione, the more he dreamed the more he remembered about her. The remembered that he liked her hair curled, like it was when they got lost in Australia, Fred hadn't believed that dream and thought it was about the future, until he asked Gorge and Ginny about it and they informed him on all that he had known about soulmates before he lost his feelings/ memories. Fred stumbled slightly on the last step of the Gryffindor tower and saw there was a new decree. Fred sighed, what number are we on now?

BY ORDER OF THE HIGH INQUISITOR OF HOGWARTS

Teachers are hereby banned from giving students any information that is not strictly related to the subjects they are paid to teach.

The above is in accordance with Educational Decree Number Twenty-six.

Signed: Dolores Jane Umbridge, High Inquisitor

He walked into the hall and sat down opposite his youngest brother who was sat next to Hermione. She didn't look up at him when he sat down and carried on her conversation with Ron. She got up suddenly after one of them said something and walked briskly out of the Great Hall. Fred got up and followed her; Ron's eyes followed him all the way to Hermione.

"Granger!" She ignored him Fred ran up behind her and grabbed her waist spinning her around to face him. She did not look impressed, they hadn't spoken since he realised what he was doing with elastic band.

"What Weasley!" She shouted. Fred leaned towards her whispering in her ear

"Is that how you talk to the father of your children?" He moved away smiling

"Who said you'd be the father of my children?"

"Ginny, she and George filled me in on what mom had told me about soul mates, before I forgot"

"Who said I wanted children?"

"Ginny"

"Did she?"

"No, it was George but I thought it would sound better if I said Ginny"

"George?"

"Yeah, he said that you'd told Ginny or Mom or something" Hermione sighed.

"What do you want?"

"Spend the next Hogsmeade trip with me"

"But it's Valentine's Day"

"Exactly, Soulmates remember?"

"I don't think I can"

"Why would that be, Granger, do you not want to know the father of your children?"

"Sure, It's just I think I'm busy"

"Oh"

"It's not a date or anything!"

"Then cancel!"

"I can't"

"For me"

"Still can't!"

"Okay spend whatever you have of that day with me"

"Okay" Hermione sounded slightly happy about it; Fred leaned forward once again and whispered,

"I like knowing more about this than you, it puts me in charge" Hermione laughed and whispered

"Except you don't" she winked

"I think I do, I'm definitely in charge"

"Really?"

"Yep!"

"Prove it!" Hermione snapped. Fred leaned forward as if to whisper but kissed her on the check. Then whispered,

"This isn't over Granger" He moved away and pointed at himself, shouting "I'm definitely in charge"

Hermione smiled and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear I don't think you are Weasley, just you wait!

It wasn't until later that night that Hermione saw Fred; he walked into the common room when she was sat on the floor. He was looking slightly lost like he'd just run a marathon. He came and sat down next to Ginny on the sofa, as did Lee and George. They all started talking about Quidditch; Ginny was complaining that she had practice on Valentine's Day and the fact that their team was crap without the twins and Harry. Hermione concentrated on the essay she was writing and tried to block out Fred who was lightly kicking her in the back.

"Hermione, what are you doing on the Hogsmeade trip?" Ginny asked, trying to keep her in the conversation. Hermione looked at Fred who shook his head and mouthed 'Lee'. Hermione stuttered and tried to say something.

"Um well it depends on a letter really, but nothing" Then she added quickly "Depending on the letter"

"Does Hermione have other friends?" Fred looked shocked and amused at the same time. Once again Hermione stuttered and tried to come up with an answer but couldn't.

"You have other friends?" Fred asked once again, Hermione turned round and pushed him so he rocked back slightly. "Whoa! Easy there Hermione!" He held out his hands in defence but Hermione grabbed them to look at them, he tried to pull away but she had hold of them well. There, cut deep into the flesh, were the words I must not tell lies. Hermione raised her face slightly to make eye contact; Fred gave her an uneasy smile.

"Hermione, Fred, can I talk to you for a second?" George asked laughing slightly "I just need to ask about new years- that girl that I met, I would like to talk in privet" They all stood up and walked to a corner and stood there uncomfortably.

"What girl Georgie? You know I can't remember anything from that night!" George sighed and looked at Hermione.

"Show me your hands" Hermione pulled down her sleeves and there was a slight mark from where Fred had snapped the elastic but as Fred's was cleaning up so was Hermione's. But George was looking at her left hand and back to Fred's left hand. There just appearing in black was the words I must not tell lies. George looked at the two of them and sighed. "This is dark magic! I hope you understand that" They both looked at him "This is why we don't tell anyone!" Hermione and Fred nodded and George looked impressed. They all walked back to the sofa where Ginny and Lee were still discussing Quidditch.

"I'm no good at being Seeker, maybe I'll try out for chaser next year"

"What makes you think we're coming back? We have a lifetime ban!" Fred sighed, landing on the sofa. Hermione resumed her homework and sat there in silence, only half-listening to the conversation.

"So Hermione, you coming to watch the Gryffindor match? Ron's in it!" Lee said excitedly.

"Yeah Granger how is Ron?" Fred joked smirking down at her.

"I'm sure he's fine" Hermione said not looking up from her homework.

"Are you sure, you too don't seem as close as you used to be. Did you have a fight? Or is there someone else on the scene?" Fred joked again laughing.

"What scene?"

"The love scene" Fred winked at her.

"Oh there's someone else" Lee looked surprised.

"Who?" Hermione smirked

"Oh he doesn't want people to know, it's really complicated. But he's just a guy, I mean there's plenty of fish in the sea" Fred looked at her becoming annoyed.

"I bet he's better looking"

"Oh I wouldn't say that! But he's definitely bigger headed" She smirked down at her homework. George and Ginny were trying not to laugh but Lee just didn't get it.

"Does Ron know?"

"No"

"I'm sure this new guy's really good for you" Fred said, trying to big himself up.

"No actually. He's kind of abusing me, but it's not his fault he can't remember" Hermione smiled and stood up "Well I'm off to bed it was nice talking to you all!" Fred stood up and followed her.

She turned round quickly and whispered in his ear,

"That's why I'm in charge Weasley" and with that she walked off thinking Granger 1 Weasley 0

An- Hope you enjoyed the fremione banter ;) next week :D