Harry had slept fitfully all that night. He was awakened with a horrific start. There, right before him was a horrible cave woman brandishing a dinosaur bone. She yelt and hollered sending Harry into quite the state.

"Nooo" he huddled against the wall in anguish and great fear. "Me cave person," the beastly woman barked at him, scratching and clawing at his face mercilessly, "me no know what to do so me attack people and scratch them!"

Harry managed to toss the frightful thing off of him and scurry into the commmon room. He began to warn the others to flee but he was alone in the spacious, dim, room. "Me kill! Me kill!" The cave woman hurtled out of the bedroom and tackled Harry to the floor. He hit his head with a sharp crack and lay dazed while the somewhat familiar looking girl towered over him.

He kicked her feet from underneath her and she sprawled to the floor. He ran to the fireplace and grabbed a searing hot pocker. He brandished it at her and she spat in fury. "ME KILLLL!" and she sprung.

They rolled about the ground, Harry bashed her upside the head with the poker twice, three times, four! But still she would not relinquish her death grip from around his throat. His vision began to blur and his head began to swim sickeningly. Teetering over the precipice of conciousness. He fainted in a sticky pile of his own sick.

Hermione took off the cave woman costume, "What have I done!" She cried and grabbed her unconcious soul mate down the diagonal hallway to the nurses station.

Four Hours Later

Harry finally came to. Huddled over his bed was Hermione. With her was Remus Lupin and Sirius, who had been wringing his hands nervously, hoping for the speedy recovery of his only living relative.

"Oh Harry!" Hermione flung herself onto Harry's bed, tears streaming freely. "I'm so sorry. I just wanted to show you how rediculous it was that you thought I was a cave person in a past life! I never meant it to go so far!"

Harry brushed her teary confession away absently. All was forgiven. "You were right, Hermione, I was being a major cad. How could I ever think that about someone as smart and driven as you?"

Sirius clapped his hand lovingly onto Remus's hunched shoulder and the two exchanged a gleeful look. "Best leave them to it old chap," Lupis said and the two old friends walked off hand in hand.

Once they were alone Hermione lifted her tear stung face to Harry's, "so you really don't hold it against me?" She sniffled.

"Of course not, let's just forget all about it. I already have pretty much, Kraugh who?! You're the only girl for me!" They embraced, overcome with finally leaping the final hurdle that had so frustrated their passions. "But there's one thing that's still puzzling me..." Harry anounced after a few silent blissful minutes had passed.

Hermione tensed. "What's that?"

"Well..." Harry started, trying desperately to organize his thoughts. His head still rang from the earlier oxygen depriavation he'd suffered. "It's just a little strange how Dumbledore never mentioned all that about magic to me before, we were both super curious about Ron becoming a wizard, or so I thought... But now that I've had some time to chew it over it just doesn't make sense!"

Hermione trembled all over. The one thing she had prayed to never happen was about to come true. And right before Kraugsmas too! She raked her brain desperately for some way to distract Harry. "Oh! They're about to put up the Kraugsmas lights in the great hall!" She remembered out loud.

Harry forgot all about that curious puzzle that had been teasing his deductive powers. "Let's!"

Later, After The Kraugsmas Ceremony

McGonagol finished putting up all the lights on the Kruagsmas tree and the gathered holiday crowd began to disperse after a short hymn. "Kraug bless us! Every one!" Neville Longbottom broke out to a general smattering of applause. He blushed and then Voldemort chased him out of the room.

"Run Neville! Run!" Hermione wailed, "run for your life he's right behind you!"