Fremione Year One

Chapter 2 | A Birthday to Remember

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Hermione thought that her dorm mates Lavender, Parvati, and Romilda were nice enough, but she hadn't really connected with them during the first night... or the first two weeks for that matter. Even though making friends was proving to be difficult, she thoroughly enjoyed all of her classes. Harry was kind to her, but because of his friendship with Ron and Ron's distaste towards Hermione, Harry would tend to choose Ron over her. Good news was, she hadn't made any true enemies, Malfoy and his goons were unfriendly, but they wouldn't go out of their way to interact with Hermione, whether it was because they were too busy harassing Harry or simply because they thought she wasn't worth their time, didn't matter, as long as they left her alone.

There was a certain relationship in particular that had developed, though. It wasn't exactly a friendship, but it was something that Hermione felt was steady, something she could depend on. The Weasley twins were in constant trouble, always causing mischief, so Hermione took it upon herself to lecture them about the negative influence and results their actions would have. Her lectures only seemed to amuse the boys.

"You two better uncharm that torch to throw fireballs at Slytherins, you'll hurt someone and get detention for the fifth time this year."

"Awe, we didn't know you cared so much about us, Granger." Fred said.

"Obviously, you would always make a point to tell us the harm we might cause."

"But you've never shown an interest in what would happen to us."

"It's quite flattering."

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you actually enjoy having us around."

"That's why you don't want us to get detention."

"So that we're available for you to spend time with us." They finished together. Hermione scoffed, clearly, unimpressed with their deduction skills. Although, she did admit to herself that she did like having them around. When they weren't putting others in danger, they did make her laugh. Not to mention, every interaction she had with them was rather positive. She decided to play along with what they said, seeing as her other tactics didn't have much of an influence to get them to listen.

"You're right. I do enjoy having you both around. Besides, if you two are in detention, then who's going to make me laugh while I'm studying in the common room?" Hermione said, and she was quite pleased with the reaction she got from the twins. They were blushing to the tips of their ears at Hermione's comment. "Guess I'll just have to find someone else, someone funnier. Someone more handsome. Oh well, you two haven't left me with any other choice." Fred and George's faces split into identical grins and they pulled Hermione into a sandwich hug, making many gushing noises directed at her.

"Oh, Mione, I feel like we've taken our relationship to the next level." Fred said.

"We promise to stay out of detention as much as possible from now on." George said. "We can't promise no detention."

"But we can promise less." With that, Fred flicked his wand and the torch was back to normal.

Hermione, satisfied with her ability to get them to undo their mischief, attempted to make her way back to the Gryffindor common room, but Fred and George wouldn't let go. She spent the entire walk, grumpily squished between them. Fred had his arms wrapped around Hermione's left one, and George the same on her right, while both rested their heads on top of hers. Once they got to the common room, Hermione figured they'd let her go, but was sadly mistaken and started blushing madly when many people's gazes turned towards her and the twins as they entered the room.

Fred and George dragged Hermione over to the couch and Fred tightened his grip to make sure she wouldn't run off while George went to get Lee and some notebooks full of ideas for their joke shop products.