The Top Ten People Who Believe that Hermione Granger and Harry Potter are Dating
As recorded by Harry James Potter on November 24, 1997
1. Ginevra "Ginny" Weasley - See attached essay.
2. Ronald "Ron" Weasley - Claims that Hermione and I exchange these looks that just scream, "love," and that the fact that we can communicate with only such looks is something that "just friends" can't do. Which is just mental, because Hermione and I can only do that because we know each other so well and listen, not because we have feelings for one another. Anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion that he's just agreeing with Ginny so she doesn't murder him.
3. Terry Boot - Rumour has it he wanted to ask Hermione to Hogsmeade but decided against it because he thought I would hex him. Truthfully, hexing prospective boyfriends is more up Ron's alley, given his reaction to guys approaching his sister. I'd only hex Boot if he hurt Hermione, but any friend would do that.
4. Molly Weasley - Well, Ginny has to take after someone. I'm fairly certain that Mrs Weasley figures that if I can't be with her little girl, I might as well be with the closest thing she has to a second daughter.
5. Mrs Granger - She asked me if I had any idea where I wanted to plan our wedding. She suggested the Bar on St. Agnes. Though personally I always felt that Hermione was more partial to Paris. That way the day before the wedding she could spend a day immersing herself in culture.
6. Luna Lovegood - Apparently the fact that Hermione and I have the same first two initials means that the empritents will seek us out and attack us until we mate.
7. Professor McGonagall - She was under the impression that Hermione and I had been dating for five months, and then she refused to take down the newspaper article.
8. Draco Malfoy - Yes, I hate to even write his name, but the fact remains that he asked me if I had broken up with Hermione (using a different name) yet and if I had decided to stop being a "traitor to my bloodline," only to comment that he supposed my mother already ruined my bloodline. I would've hexed him, but McGonagall was coming up the corridor.
9. Cho Chang - She broke up with me because she was convinced I was in love with Hermione.
10. Viktor Krum - He, too, was convinced that something was going on between Hermione and myself, and despite my denial of any such relationship, he let their relationship die.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-Henry David Thoreau
"I kissed Hermione, but I don't think it turned out like we thought it would," Ginny read slowly in the privacy of her room, the other girls having returned home for the holidays. "I think we just got ourselves into more trouble than we predicted. Dean." Ginny crumpled the letter and grabbed a clean piece of parchment and scribbled, "Find a way to contact me via fireplace. Midnight. I'll be in the Gryffindor common room." Walking over to the window, she took the owl that had delivered Dean's message and tied her own to the owl's leg. "Don't dawdle," she called after the bird as it, and freed the owl. Crossing her arms, Ginny heaved a sigh. "I have to do absolutely everything, don't I?" she muttered. "Those two better plan on throwing me a spectacular seventeenth birthday party for all the trouble they're putting me through."
"Tell me, what was so special about your wife?"
"...it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic."
-Sleepless in Seattle
It was a good hour before Harry finally fell asleep, having resided himself to the fact that there was nothing he could do for Hermione until she awoke. Sighing, he placed The List on the ground and leaned back in his chair, imagining how he was going to prevent Hermione from murdering him when she discovered what had happened.
"Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going."
-Practical Magic
