Love at Hogwarts

Ginny looked at Lavender. "Ooooh my gosh!" she exclaimed. "I bet Ron was going to say 'Hermione' when he corrected himself. And if so, then that means that Harry likes Hermione!"

Lavender shook her head. "I think we should talk to Ron before we talk to either Harry or Hermione, because if it's not true then someone is bound to get their heart broken."

Ginny agreed. "Well what are we waiting for then? Lets go get Ron."

Both girls dashed up the stairs leading to the boy's dorms and knocked loudly on the door. "Who is it?" came a muffled voice from inside the room. It sounded like Ron's.

"It's us!" Ginny exclaimed loudly. "Whadaya want?" asked Ron.

"We wanna talk to you Ron, it's very important! Come out here this minute!"

The door opened and Ron came out, closing the door behind him. "So what did you two want?" he asked.

"We need to talk to you in the common room, follow us," instructed Lavender.

The three walked down the stairs to the common room and settled themselves on the plush furniture. "Okay, will you tell me now what you want?" Ron asked.

Lavender sat down in front of him and looked him square in the eyes. "Now Ron, I want you to tell me the truth alright?" she said. Ron nodded. "Does Harry like Hermione? Answer me truthfully."

Ron looked at Lavender, then to his sister and back to Lavender. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to say, as he couldn't find the words to get out of his mouth. Finally he simply shook his head 'yes.' The girl's mouths dropped open and smiles formed across their faces.

"Would you believe us," Lavender started, "if we told you that Hermione shares Harry's feelings? Now it was Ron's turn for his mouth to drop open--which is did.

"Are you serious?" he asked.

They both nodded. "That's where we came from when we came down the stairs. It took some convincing, but we finally got it out of Hermione that she did like Harry. I just don't see how we could have been so blind. They flirt with each other all the damn time. Don't you guys think it was so obvious?" Ginny asked them. They both nodded in agreement.

"Now," Ginny started, "this is what we are going to do. We're not going to send them anonymous love letters or anything sappy like that. We are going to try and be very practical about setting them up, because God knows they won't get together by themselves. Okay, Ron, you go tell Harry to be down here in exactly thirty minutes, and we will tell Hermione to do the same. We'll just leave them alone together and hope they figure all of this out for themselves. No one will barge in to ruin anything, I'll make sure of that. Now let's go!"

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Lavender and Ginny sprinted up the stairs to the girl's dorms and Ron started up the stairs to the boy's.

Both girls burst into the dorm room very loudly, hoping to wake Hermione if she wasn't awake already. They seen that she was, in fact, awake. She was sitting up against her headboard on her bed. Ginny and Lavender ran over to her and sat down on her bed.

"Okay Hermione, you listen to me very carefully," Lavender instructed. "In exactly thirty minutes we want you to go down to the common room. Don't ask us any questions, we wont answer them, just go down there, okay? Please."

Hermione looked at her like she was psycho. "But..." that was as far as she got.

"Nope, no questions Mione, just do this for us alright?"

Hermione hesitated but said 'yes' anyway. Lavender and Ginny smiled at her, gave their thanks and headed out the door. Hermione was bewildered. 'What on earth are those two up to' she wondered. "Whatever it is, I bet it's not good," she thought aloud.

Of course, her curiosity got the best of her, and in exactly thirty minutes Hermione was opening the door to the dorms and heading down the stairs to the Gryffindor Common Room.

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Ron thudded up the stairs to the dorms and opened the door to find Harry sitting by one of the windows staring out blankly. "Ahem," Ron cleared his throat, which snapped Harry back to reality.

"Harry," Ron began, "I want you to listen to me carefully, and please don't ask any questions, because I can't answer them, okay?" Harry looked puzzled but shook his head in agreement anyway. Ron started again, "In exactly thirty minutes I want you to go down to the Gryffindor Common Room. If you really want to find out what this is all about, you'll go down there. But I must be going now, I'll see you later Harry." And with that Ron walked out of the dorm room, down the stairs, and met the girls. They walked out of the portrait hole and down the hall of Hogwarts to get some food.

"It's all up the them now," Ginny said. "I just hope they can bring themselves together."

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Harry eyed his watch. When he glanced back down at it, it was time to go down to the common room and see what surprise Ron had in store for him. He headed to the door, opened it, and started down the stairs.

When he got to the bottom, he could see the profile of a girl sitting in one of the sofas. Her hair was brown, but it looked like a light golden color as the flames of the fire in the fireplace danced around her face and hair. He immediately recognized it to be Hermione. 'Now what on earth is she doing down here?' he thought. He looked at her and couldn't help but realize how beautiful she looked. He smiled and walked over to her. As he got closer he was able to see more of her face. She was staring into the fire place, oblivious of anything else. "Hermione?" he said. She gave a startled jump and stood up immediately.

"Oh, hi Harry she said. What are you doing down here?"

"Well Ron told me to be down here in exactly thirty minutes if I wanted to find out what he was talking about."

Hermione stared at him. "How strange, Lavender and Ginny told me the same thing. Oh, I bet they're up to something," she muttered. She looked over to Harry who seemed to be lost in thought. She wondered what he was thinking about, but she didn't really have time to continue her thoughts because before she knew it Harry had walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. He looked down at her as a nervous smile crept to his lips.

"Harry, what..." she began.

Before she could finish, Harry put his index finger to her lips to shush her. "I have something that I think needs to be said." He looked deep into her chocolate brown eyes and smiled down at her. "Hermione, I think I should confess this now," he started, "I love you."

Hermione was in shock. 'Did he just say that he loves me!?' she thought. She looked up at him uncertainly. "Do you really mean that?"

"I mean that with all of my heart. I've liked you for along time, but just recently I've realized that I actually love you. It's not puppy love, this is undeniable true love."

"Oh Harry! I am so glad you told me that, because I feel the exact same way, I just wasn't sure how to approach you and tell you, because I was afraid that you might laugh in my face or some horrible thing like that."

Harry chuckled. "Don't worry Mione, I would never do anything like that to you. Besides, now that we have our feelings out in public, I think it's time to do something about it."

"What do you..." Hermione's words were lost as Harry bent down and kissed her lightly. He pulled away and smiled down at her. She returned his smile and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling his face down to hers, she kissed him. She felt his mouth open slightly as he traced her lips with the tip of his tongue. She pulled away and smiled as she took his hand and led him over to the biggest sofa in the room. She sat down and pulled Harry down on top of her. She looked up at him and could see the smile occupying his mouth. He snaked his arms underneath her back and kissed her lips, then moved to her neck. His hands found their way to her shoulders. He broke from the kiss and looked into her eyes. His hands were slowly moving from her shoulders to her collarbones, down to her stomach. Harry grabbed the bottom of Hermione's shirt and lifted it up over her head. He discarded it on the floor next to them. He continued to kiss her neck and collarbones, with his hands tangled up in her hair. He slowly moved down from her collarbone to her chest, then down to her stomach. He placed kisses on her belly and occasionally dragged the tip of his tongue over the top of her navel. As he worked his way back up to her neck, he noticed that Hermione's face was a few shades of red and pink. He smiled down at her. "Having fun down there?" he asked. She looked up at him and giggled. "I sure am," she replied as she wrapped her arms around Harry's neck and brought his face down to hers. Then she reached for the bottom of Harry's shirt and pulled it up until it was up over his head. She dropped it next to her shirt on the floor. Then she started for the buttons on his pants. He followed her lead and did the same. Soon they had discarded their jeans on the floor in a pile with they're shirts. Harry looked down at her. "You know what will probably happen now don't you?" he asked. She nodded. He quickly added, "Unless you don't want to."