Dramione

Chapter 3

"Hey Hermione, Malfoy." Said Ron as he walked up to them

"Ronald what do you want?" Hermione said icily.

"Nothing, I'm just being polite." Ron said wondering what he had done to incur Hermione's wrath.

"Hey Hermione what's up Ron?" asked Ginny and Harry simultaneously as they came up behind him.

"Ronald is up to something, I know it I just don't know what." Hermione explained

"I am NOT up to something! I'm just being polite! Sheesh!" exclaimed Ron as he stalked away.

"Hermione what make you think that Ron is up to something?" inquired Ginny

"Well for one thing I specifically told Harry and Ron not to follow me on my first date with Draco and they followed me ANYWAY!" she said feeling exasperated at them both.

Harry walked up just as Hermione was walking away. He asked her what was up.

"YOU SHOULD KNOW!! I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU AND RONALD NOT TO FOLLOW ME ON MY DATE! BUT YOU FOLLOWED ME ANYWAY I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THIS FROM RONALD BUT NOT FROM YOU!!!"

"Hermione calm down, we just wanted to make sure that you were OK. You seemed a bit out of sorts is all and we wanted to make sure that you were alright"

"You also wanted to make sure that Draco didn't do anything to me didn't you?"

"Yes...I'm ashamed to admit that I had a hand in it, but my father would have done the same for my mother had she and Snape been dating."

"I suppose, hey want to go down to the Great Hall for dinner, we're late for dinner as is."

"Sure thing, let's head before anyone else notices we're not there."

When Harry and Hermione arrived in the Great Hall they were greeted by chaos. There was food and spells flying everywhere, students sitting at the wrong tables and even Dumbledore had given up trying to restore any semblance of order to the mess. Harry and Hermione ducked under the first table they saw, which happened to be the Gryffindor table, and were greeted by 10 shocked students who couldn't muster a word and as it stood there were about 3 students from each house hiding out.

"What is going on? Neville? What are you doing down here?"

"Hiding? and as for why...well Draco walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down to wait for you and when everyone else saw that he was sitting at our table a fight ensued, the Slytherins were trying, in vain, to get him back to their table and our table made it 100% clear that he couldn't sit there. When Pansy came over to talk to him he told her, in full hearing of the entire house, 'I'm dating Hermione Granger so I'll be sitting with her from now on.' So basically that was how he told the entire house that he was dating you and once Pansy knew she took off and told the Slytherins who told the Ravenclaws  who told the Hufflepuffs...it didn't end well...Once you 2 were outed to the school others from all the other houses including Gryffindor, began sitting at other tables and spreading the word that they were dating so and so from that house...if either house didn't like that a duel stared and soon enough there was food and spells flying and not even Dumbledore could control it. He gave up, sat back and watched hoping it would boil over before anything too serious happened. Ginny sent Pansy Parkinson to the Hospital Wing with a stinging Jinx to the eye and a whole lot of other people who were picking fights with Gryffindors ended up reduced to the size of a pea or stinging jinxed I think there were a couple of leg locker curses as well...once the Quidditch teams joined the fray fully that's when it got super interesting, beaters making make shift catapults for food or levers for food and setting them off by hitting them with their bats and sending food flying at unsuspecting passersby, pea shooters...it's a mess."

Hermione crawled out from under the table and in full view of the school she stood in the middle of the Great Hall. 

"Immobiulus!" Everyone who was fighting froze and everyone who was hiding under the tables crawled out. They also had help from those who had been hiding under the tables because the tables provided cover from the spell. In little more than 20 minutes the entire hall was spotless everyone dove back to their positions and Hermione unfroze them and as the final curses hit home the students stopped to stare at the carnage, or lack thereof, that surrounded them and they all retreated back to their house tables except for a few who stayed behind to help people get out from under the tables and then sat with their houses.

Hermione stood up, cast a sonorous charm "Hello, students and staff of Hogwarts, yes it's true Draco and I were spotted in Hogsmeade together the other day at the 3 Broomsticks, and personally I don't think that's quite grounds for a duel and a food fight in the Great Hall just because Draco sat at the Gryffindor table and said in a loud voice for all to here that I'm his...girlfriend...ummm...Draco? something you wish to share with me?" she cancelled the Sonorous charm and turned to face him.

"Umm...yes, would you like...ummm...would you like to...spend Christmas with me?...I'm...ummm...staying at Hogwarts over Christmas this year, my parents are going on holiday, maybe we could go to Hogsmeade or something?"

"Spend Christmas with you? Here? Sure, that would be nice." She sat down beside him at the Gryffindor table and they started to make plans for Christmas."

"But Hermione, I thought you were coming to the Burrow again this year?"

"No. I'm staying here, but don't worry about me, I'm sure I'll be fine."

"Yeah, sure." Harry and Ron lapsed into silence as they ate while Hermione and Draco talked animatedly about Winter Break, it was only a couple of weeks away.

"Students and staff of Hogwarts," Dumbledore stood up "in honour of Christmas this year, in addition to our usual festivities and such, we will be holding a Yule Ball on December 19, just before you head off to your holidays, it's still a couple of weeks away so don't worry too much about, just something to think about, alright, now, you don't want to be late for your classes!" The tables cleared and the plates and goblets vanished as the students rose en masse for their first class of the day.

"Hermione, may I walk you to class?"

"Thank you Draco, that would be most kind." Harry and Ron latched on as soon as they got up to leave and followed them to their first class of the day, Double Potions.