"... I'm happy everybody returned back safely" Dumbledore said not so happily.
Hermione was sitting at the gryffindor table feast at dinner time.
Headmaster professor Dumbeldores was making his regular speech as usual after ever students returned from their christmas vacation.
She was holding hands with Fred on the table who was sitting on her right, with george on his other side.
Ginny and harry across from her, with lavender on her left.
Everyone was in expectation of the feast to start soon, not because they were so starving or anything, but in that way they don't have to hear anything from that evil pink woman, who uses ministry power over Hogwarts.
"And with that, I'm completing my speech, let the feast be..." The headmaster was interrupted by that sickly sweet voice, which everybody in the school hated without any comments.
"Ahe...Ahem"
Dumbeldore looked at Umbridge, with narrowed eyes, before turning to the students "Miss Delores Umbridge, would like to make a speech right now"
The whole gryffindor table groaned, harry was glaring at umbridge.
Nearby her "This bitch..." Fred muttered and she chastised him "Fred... Don't swear" And he gave her a smile.
"Hello students, I know you all are so excited for what I'm going to say. Let's just get straight to the point.
This year due to some mischief from some students, the ministry had to make a decision, that is the seventh years will no longer get to have a position of head girl and head boy in their year"
The whole seventh years started to protest loudly and the other students started to whisper amongst themselves
"Silence!" Umbridge shouted and the whole great hall fell silent.
"Also the head positions, under my suggestions were now transferred to fifth year students, who i choose" Umbridge said looking at far end of the hall near the wall where the slytherin table is situated.
Hermione, harry, all the gryffindors along with the entire school followed her gaze, where she was looking.
And found Weasley and Malfoy smugly looking at everyone.
Malfoy and Ron glared at Harry and Hermione.
"Don't get so excited now fifth years, I'll make the announcements tomorrow"
Hermione know what this is about, she is going to pick two slytherin boy and a girl to put their noses into other people's business specifically gryffindor's.
She was trying to catch the whole DA group before Christmas, ron, malfoy and their little evil team including filch tried to catch them but to no avail their plans never worked, due to the heads and the time.
But this time it may work, if they become heads they can take the rules in their own hands, they can easily find whatever they are upto, the whole gryffindor's and even professor dumbeldores may have to face serious allegations. Oh god.
Also with the way malfoy was patting Ron's back she is sure he is the one to come up with this strategy and him and malfoy being umbridge favourite students, she would have accepted.
"Blimey mate, you should have looked the face of them, they looked like they are going to faint" ron said and burst out laughing.
"The look on Potter's face was priceless today ron, thanks to you for it" Draco is said smiling.
Ron waved his hands "Nah. It's team work"
"Team work!" Draco scoffed "As if this idiots would have come up something like this" he said pointing to crabbe and Goyle, who looked at each other and shrugged and continued drinking their secretly nicked fire whiskey.
They are in their dorm room, along with blaise who was reading some scandalous magazine.
"Well if you think today was great, wait till you see tomorrow, when me and Daphne become the heads". Ron said with his usual lopsided grin.
"You going to become the head boy... blaise asked not taking his eyes off the book he was seeing.
"Well, if you don't like it..." Ron quickly started to retort.
"I never said anything like that. I just thought it will be draco at first, but I'm happy for you" blaise said with his eyebrows raised amused at how quickly Ron's mood have changed.
"I was the one who she decided at first, but I gave up because ron deserves it more than me, he is the one who came up with the plan and I'm happy for him" Draco said heartily smiling at ron, who smiled back.
There was a rasping at the door "Ron... Ronald. Are you in there, can we talk?" Came a soft female voice.
Ron groaned "Not again"
Blaise and Draco laughed and winked at ron, who grunted and said "Shove off, you wankers...".
He put on his shirt and exited the room closing the door behind him.
There stood Daphne in her tight pyjama top and pants, which showed her curves perfectly. She was beaming at him expectantly.
"Hey Daphne. How are you?" Ron asked smiling back.
She didn't answer instead grabbed his hand and moved them to an corner in the nearby alcove.
As soon as they stopped moving she jumped and hugged him so tightly, that he went breathless.
"I missed you so much ron" she said her voice lightly cracking.
"Uh...I missed you two" he said uncertainly.
"You didn't even reply my owls" Daphne said pouting, still clinging to him.
"I..." He started, not sure what to say.
"It's okay, i know your sister wrote me back, saying you went to your aunt's house, to spend your summer there"
He let out a sigh of relief.
Well it's true, he went to his aunt's house, only it was just one day.
In truth he was getting frustrated with her daily owls, he didn't even replied to one, not even one.
After few days, he told ginny to write some reply back, so she would stop sending owls.
Of course Ginny glared at him and stopped talking to him few days, but after that everyone forget about that.
It's good that he didn't spend the Christmas with his family wherever the secret place they went.
He spent his holidays with percy who is the only one with some brains in his family.
He really felt excited to follow his path, one day he could even become the next minister of magic.
That's why he supports people like lucius and umbridge, not because he liked them. It's only because he will get a decent job at the ministry and also rich one day.
"Ron... do you hear me?"
"Huh?!"
"I asked are you happy to get to spend a room with me?" She asked smiling coyly.
He smirked, in the memory of how it all started, it was the middle of fourth year, when guys started to ask the girls to the ball, Draco was already to go with Pansy Parkinson due to her insistence.
Then there was Daphne green grass, the most beautiful blonde girl in their year.
He was actually surprised when she readily accepted his invitation to the ball, maybe the rumours of her having crush on him were true.
The ball went so good until he saw Granger dancing with viktor krum and he felt an sudden envy deep with in him. Maybe it's because she was so beautiful that night.
She is beautiful ordinarily, but that night she was so gorgeous, he never saw her putting makeup like other girls. He never liked Granger anyway
Why is he thinking of that gryffindor bitch when he has a beautiful blonde in his hands anyway.
He liked Daphne, but not more than a friend. He don't want a relationship with her, maybe some action, but apart front that nothing.
He knows Daphne also want just that, not anything more than that.
They took each other's virginity on the night of yule ball, it was so amazing, but it was not the only night, they also had so good nights after that.
There was no love between them, lust maybe. But never love.
"Of course, iam" he said before grabbing her waist and pulling her flush against him, their hips coming into contact.
She flushed and looked down shyly at his chest, he laughed.
Leaning down he caught her lips in his mouth, sliding his lips against hers, sucking and nibbling at her lower lip.
She shivered from the heat, where his hands are moving on her sides and waist.
His lips trailed kisses from her lips to the back of her ears, kissing behind her ear, she gasped and clutched his shoulders tightly.
His hands moved behind and slowly slide under her pants, his palms flat on her bare bum, kneading her flesh.
She moaned and kissed him harder, before leaving her all together.
She looked at him questioningly "Ron, what is it" she snapped.
He smiled and she knows he is teasing her "Ron, please..." She whined before hugging him again.
"Go and sleep Daphne, maybe tomorrow let's see..."
He said and walked back into the dorm smirking ignoring her calling after him.
"So...I heard you and fred. Huh?" Parvati asked nudging her with her shoulders, from her right.
Hermione blushed and looked down.
Lavender who was sitting on her left shrieked "Finally"
"Shhh... Lavender keep your voice down" Hermione said smiling to her friend.
"Oh sorry. But it's a long time coming, everyone know about you two, that is except you two itself" lavender said mockingly, she and parvati laughed at that.
After some quite minutes parvathi asked "So how far have you two gone"
"Err... one or two small pecks...?"
"That's it?" Lavender asked mouth gaped.
"Are you serious lavender? We just got together, it's not even complete two days" Hermione said disbelieving.
"I know, but you two have been at each other's throat all the time. So I thought..."
Hermione's eyes gone wide. "No. Never..."
The girls laughed at her expression.
"So you are not going to have more than kissing with him then" parvati asked.
"I didn't mean that, i meant...(sigh) Maybe in some not near future"
"Hermione you know he is handsome right, like almost all the Weasley men?!" Lavender asked and parvati smiled like there is something hidden in that question.
"Yeah, i know..."
"So you have to give him some action, to keep his focus on you. Just because you two got together, that doesn't mean no other girls will try to flirt with him"
"What you mean other girls, do you have any ideas?!" Hermione asked with narrowed eyes.
"Maybe. Maybe not, but not Fredrick, so don't worry"
"Then who is it? George?!" Hermione asked wide eyed.
"That's not the issue here, listen what we are trying to say is..." Lavender trailed off looking at parvathi for some help.
"That is you have to give him some entertainment, maybe more than kissing, but not all the way. Know what i mean?" Parvati asked
"Oh" Hermione said her cheeks hot. True she love fred, but never thought about that part with him.
She also remembered who came in all of her dirty fantasies and grimaced.
She maybe have to think of this 'more than kissing part with fred after wards', just not now.
She also prayed that the weasley lavender was smitten with should be george, because she doesn't want her friend to have a horrible boyfriend, a bay guy, some one like Ronald Weasley.
She still remembered how she hate that green grass girl from the night of yule ball for no reason, apart from seeing her dance with him.
How could she be so stupid, going to the ball with him? He must have begged her to come with him.
Who in their right mind would associate with a jerk like him.
Suddenly a picture of the both of them happily dancing with each other came to her mind and she forced herself not to vomit.
With her every ounce of will power, she erased them from her mind and focused on how to move forward in her relationship with Fred.