Love at Hogwarts

Hermione looked up at Harry. "You know," she said, "I really don't think we should do this now. We've just confessed our feelings toward each other, I don't think we should rush into this. Lord knows I'd love to, but I just don't think it's the right time. I hope I haven't upset you Harry."

Harry looked down at her and smiled. "Hermione, you haven't upset me at all, if you don't want to do this, I sure as heck wont force you to do it! Besides, I think we'd both perform better if we waited until the time is right."

Hermione was smiling widely. "Thank you Harry, you don't know how much this means to me!" Then she looked down at herself. "Oh my gosh! I think we had better make ourselves presentable!"

Harry laughed. "Yes, yes of course. If Ron saw us like this, he'd never let us alone.

Hermione giggled in agreement. "You know though, I'm feeling kind of sleepy but I don't really wanna walk aaalll the way up to the dorms."

"Well, I'd be more than happy to keep you company down here until tomorrow morning," Harry offered.

Hermione looked at him with her eyebrows raised. "We'd be sleeping right?"

"Of course we would! Like I said before, I wont make you do anything you don't want to," he assured her.

She smiled at him. "Thank you Harry."

Then she laid her tired body down on the sofa and closed her eyes, falling into the arms of Morpheus. Harry gazed down at her adoringly, his emerald orbs glowed with affection. 'How could I be so lucky?' he thought to himself. 'Of all the people she could have chosen, she picked me...me.' He smiled and laid down next to her, encircling her body with his arms. With the sweet thoughts of Hermione taking over his mind, he fell into his own slumberland.

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Ron, Ginny, and Lavender all sat in the Great Hall, talking about what they thought was happening with Harry and Hermione. "I hope they let each other know what was going on," said Ginny, "because they really deserve to be together." Lavender and Ron nodded in agreement.

"How much time do you think we should give them before we head back up there?" asked Ron.

"Oh, well lets see, we've been down here for about 45 minutes or so, right?" They nodded. "Well then, I think we should give them at least 20 more minutes. I think that should be enough time to confess feelings and get whatever pent up sexual frustration they have, out," she said jokingly.

Ron chuckled. "Yeah, don't even get me started on how much Harry talks about wanting to 'get some.' That kid is one big mess of hormones!" The girls laughed uncontrollably.

"Well, we can't say the same for Hermione, she's never been one to talk about stuff like that," Lavender said, still laughing.

They talked with each other for a while longer when Lavender glanced at her watch.

"Oh, I think it's time to head up the common room. Hopefully we don't find anything too disturbing!"

They all laughed and Lavender got up, followed by Ron, then Ginny. They headed quickly out the huge doors of the Great Hall and up the stairs to the Gryffindor Common Room. They stopped in front of the Portrait Lady and Ron muttered 'Chocolate Frogs,' the door opened and they entered. They walked farther in, with Ginny leading, followed closely by Lavender, who was followed even more closely by Ron, who had a hold of her first two fingers.

All of a sudden he stopped suddenly, his nose crashed straight into Lavender's shoulder. "OWWW!" he yelped.

"Shhhhhhhh!!" Ginny shushed him and nodded over to the over-sized sofa. Laying on it, underneath a yellow and maroon comforter, were Harry and Hermione, fast asleep. She was facing Harry with her arm slung around his back, her head resting under his chin. Harry had his left arm tucked under his head and his right arm resting lightly on Hermione's hip. His black hair was looking a bit more messy than usual. They looked very peaceful.

"Geesh, Merlin knows what's happened in here!" whispered Ginny.

"Well, I don't think too much happened," Ron pointed out. "They have all their clothes on."

"But from the looks of things, I'm going to guess that they told each other their feelings...otherwise I highly doubt they'd be sleeping together on that sofa," Lavender said, tossing her head in Harry and Hermione's direction.

"Well geez, I'm just happy that they've finally got everything out in the open. This craziness has been going on long enough, now we wont have to stand by and wonder if they'll ever figured it out on their own!" Ginny exclaimed quietly, so as not to disturb the two sleeping bodies that occupied the over-sized sofa. She continued, "I think we should be getting to sleep now. I'm only surprised that nobody kicked us out of the Great Hall sooner. I didn't realize it was this late."

"I'll walk you two up to your room." Ron offered. He winked at Lavender, who smiled back at him.

The three walked quietly to the beginning of the stairs to the girl's dorms and started up. Ginny was first, followed buy Lavender, then Ron, who had his hands resting on her hips as they walked upwards. When they got to the door Ginny opened it and walked in. She turned around and said, "Lavender, you coming?"

"Yeah Gin, I'll be there in a minute ok?"

Ginny rolled her eyes. "Ok, ok, I can take a hint." Then she turned around and shut the door quietly.

Lavender turned her head from the door to Ron. He was standing in front of her with his arms around her waist, and his fingers laced together. She smiled up at him. "So, I guess we'll see each other tomorrow morning for breakfast."

He smiled back. "Yes, I suppose so. I really hate to go to bed tonight, I would rather stay up all night and be with you...preferably snogging." He winked and grinned down at her mischiefly.

She giggled. "Ronald Weasley! There will be enough time for that later, but I am honestly very tired."

"Alright, I'll see ya tomorrow morning." He bent down and kissed her.

She returned his kiss as she wrapped her arms around his neck and drew herself closer to him. Then she broke away and smiled at him. "Good night Ron." Then she turned to the door, open it, and walked in. She looked back to see him grinning at her. She smiled back, then closed the door.

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Hermione's eyes fluttered open. They closed as quickly as they had opened, for the sunlight was cascading brilliantly through the open curtains of the common room, blinding her vision. She stirred a little, and attempted to open her eyes again, letting her eyes adjust to the brightness. When her eyesight was back to normal, she could see Harry sleeping peacefully next to her with his arm wrapped semi-tightly around her waist. she looked at his face, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, as if he were having a very good dream. His eyelids were closed, hiding his emerald eyes. Hermione couldn't help herself. She moved her head up slightly and her lips made contact with Harry's. She pulled back when he felt him move. Slowly his eyelids parted and she could see those beautiful green eyes.

"Good morning Sunshine," she said.

He looked down at her and smiled groggily. "And good morning to you Beautiful."

He leaned down and brushed his lips to hers. She pulled away quickly. "I don't think you wanna do that," she warned him. "I'm afraid I have terrible morning breath!"

Harry laughed. "Morning breath or no morning breath, I'm still gonna get in a kiss or two!"

He snatched Hermione around the waist, pulled her closer to him, and planted a wet kiss right on her lips. Hermione giggled uncontrollably as she tried to squirm away.

"I think we could both use a good mouth cleansing charm right about now," she giggled as she sat up.

Harry looked up at her with a raised eyebrow. "Are you implying, my dear, that my breath stinks?" he asked in mock stupidity.

This only made Hermione laugh harder. She couldn't get any words to come out of her mouth, so she shook her head up and down.

"Well if you're going to be that way..." Harry stared as he jumped on her and showered her with big, wet, morning-breathy kisses.

Hermione couldn't take it anymore, she let out a screech of giggles and tried to wiggle out of his grasp to no avail. She was pinned underneath Harry, who had her arms raised above her head and held them firmly down while tickling her creamy stomach, as she shrieked out in pleasurable torment.

"Harry...please...HAHAHA...Harry...stop...tickling...HAHAHAHA." She tried to get the words out, but they caught in her throat, blocked by her gasps of air and giggles. She could tell he was enjoying this, and she thought to herself 'Oh you'll get yours later Mister, make no doubt about that!' Finally with all her might, she was able to shove Harry off her and onto his back on the opposite side of the sofa.

"HA!" she exclaimed as he toppled backwards with a confused 'hey!'

She jumped up and straddled him, then grabbed her wand, which was conveniently laying on the coffee table in the middle of the room...just in her arms length. She muttered a few words under her breath so Harry couldn't hear, and instantly a spray of silver and purple sparks flew out of the tip and grabbed onto his wrists and pinned them down firmly.

"HEY! This is totally not fair! I didn't do this to you!" he pleaded.

"Ah yes, Mr. Potter, but you are much stronger than I am, so in all reality, this is quite fair," she said teasingly.

He smiled up at her in an innocent kiddish sort of way. "Well, Miss Granger, now that you have me all tied up and defenseless, whatever are you going to do to me?"

Hermione thought for a moment. "Weeelll..." she started, "I could always do this."

She then bent down and kissed his neck, flicking the tip of her tongue over his silky skin. She moved slowly from his neck, to his jaw line, then finally to his waiting lips. She placed her right palm on the side of Harry's cheek, and gently ran the fingers of her left hand through his unruly black tresses. She traced his lips with the tip of her tongue, then pulling away when he opened his mouth. As she pulled away, he opened his eyes to look at her his piercing green eyes, and when she looked into them, it took her breath away. They were so unbelievably beautiful, she'd just never realized it until now. She was so mesmerized with his eyes, that she didn't even notice that he'd leaned up to gently touched his lips back to hers. When the contact was made, her eyes got wide with surprise, and she jumped back slightly. Then, when she realized what he was going to do, she giggled, and leaned down to return the favor.

"You know," Harry said through muffled kisses, "this would be a lot easier if my arms weren't bound together."

"Oh geez! Sorry Harry, I forgot about that," Hermione said.

With a quick swish of her wand, Harry's arms were freed. He took advantage of this, and wrapped his arms around her waist, and kisses her lips hungrily. Hermione returned his kisses, deep and passionate. Then she broke away again, and rested her forehead to his.

"Harry, I think I'd better go shower, and brush my teeth and all. So I'll see you downstairs for breakfast." With that, she started for the door, then turned around again. "Hey Harry, do you think anyone saw us sleeping down here? And if they did, I wonder what they thought."

Harry grinned at her from the sofa. It was a mischievous sort of grin. "Let them think what they want," he replied.