Title: The Wonderful Yet Horrible Plan
Ship: Harry/Hermione
Name/Pen Name: Corrine/Romance Freak
Word Count: 1,191
Theme #/Theme: 7/Make it Work
Challenge count: 2/7 Finished

Content: PG
Spoilers: Books 1-6
Warnings: N/A
Summary: In Harry's PoV. The trio is at school, Voldermort is still at large. What Happens when Ron and Ginny try to get Harry and Hermione together?

The corridors were empty that night, some of the only light coming from the tips of our wands and the windows. It was only ten o’clock, but I still had the map and the invisibility cloak with me. I looked over at Hermione, she had a scowl on her face and it wasn’t going to change soon. “I can’t believe they would do that!” she said, throwing her hands in the air. “Harry, what in Merlin’s name caused them to do this?” She was looking at me. She was referring to Ron, Ginny, Dean and Lavender.
The four of them came bursting into the common room, at about nine-ish. Hermione was reading and I was watching her read, having nothing else to do. I had found out that Hermione talks to herself when she reads, if it’s a fantasy book. She had just said something about how the two main characters were crazy to not see they were in love. The door opened and they came running in.
“Hermione, Harry!” shouted Ginny. Hermione looked up from her book and saw that I was looking at her, before turning her attention to Ginny.
“What?” asked Hermione, putting her bookmark in and closed her book.
“Well, we found Peeves destroying the telescopes in the astronomy tower.” Said Ron, and he sat in a chair.
“Shouldn’t you tell McGonagall?” I asked.
“We did, she told us to tell you, since you were both Head Boy and Head Girl.” Said Dean, Lavender nodded.
“But why?” asked Hermione
“We don’t know, just go stop him. Astronomy is my favorite class.” Said Lavender, Hermione nodded and sent me to get the cloak and map, just incase though we didn’t need it. It was just a force of habit. We soon left and were on our way to the Astronomy Tower.
Now we were walking back from the completely fine Astronomy Tower. Hermione was mad, it was the bad kind of mad, were if I didn’t watch my feet she would hex me into oblivion. “Harry? Are you even listening?” asked Hermione. I looked at her, I must’ve been caught day dreaming.
“I was,” I said, the lights flickered on the walls “Do you want to go get some food?” Hermione rolled her eyes, and laughed quietly.
“Do you and Ron ever stop thinking about food?” asked Hermione, I shrugged.
“I don’t think about it as much, I have other things besides food to think about,” I said, her eyes darted back to me. I could see she was worried about me now. “Don’t worry, it’s nothing serious.” She nodded and looked out one of the windows along the hall. Soon she came to a complete stop. I stopped and stood behind her.
“Harry, what if you don’t win? What if we can’t find them all?” she asked worriedly, it was one of the first times we had talked about Voldermort or the war since last year. She turned and looked at me. I saw tears falling down her face.
“Don’t worry, we can do it. It won’t matter in the end because we have…” I stopped, not wanting to finish say that sentence, revealing a deep dark secret. Hermione didn’t seem to notice and she nodded. I watched as she wiped her tears away and continued walking leaving me standing there.
“Harry, come on. I’m okay now.” She called over her shoulder and I ran back up to her. We walked in silence to the kitchens. I tickled the pear and the door flew open. We walked through and we waited for Dobby.
“Mister Harry Potter, Oh Dobby was hoping you’d come and visit” Said Dobby happily. “And hello Harry Potter’s Hermione.”
“It’s good to see you again, too Dobby.” I said I noticed Hermione smiling and going slightly red at Dobby’s comment. I laughed quietly and she hit me.
“So what can Dobby get for you?” asked Dobby.
“Do you have any…?” I stopped “What do you want?” I looked at her.
“Ice Cream or something simple.” Said Hermione, Dobby nodded and left. “Since when does he call me Harry Potter’s Hermione?” She snapped at me, and I just shrugged. She was about to yell at me when Dobby came back. He led us to a table. We sat and ate our ice cream. We began talking. I wasn’t listening.
I nodded every now and then to make it seem like I was listening. I watched her, and the way she bit her lip when she thought. I never touched my ice cream. I saw Hermione looking at me then the ice cream. “Harry you haven’t spoken or touched your ice cream.” Said Hermione, I was once again brought out of my thoughts by her voice.
“I’m fine, just thinking. Do you want my ice cream?” I asked, she nodded and I passed the slightly melted untouched ice cream. We once again went into silence. We were there for about an hour. We walked back to the tower in comfortable silence.
**Meanwhile**
It the common room, Ginny, Ron, Lavender and Dean were talking about their master plan. “If this works, we’ll be heroes!” said Ron.
“If it doesn’t?” asked Lavender.
“We’ll be in big trouble, Hermione is not one for jokes.” Said Ron “Even harmless ones.”
“They’ve been gone for two hours, something must’ve happened.” Said Dean, Ron and Ginny both shook their heads.
“Knowing them, they’re both oblivious to the fact that they are in love with each other. It’s driving Ron and I both nuts seeing them stare at each other when they don’t think the other is.” Said Ginny.
“And they say I’m the dense one.” Said Ron, they laughed.
“So how much longer will they be gone?” asked Lavender.
“Thirty minutes at the most.” Said Ginny, Ron nodded.
“So, now what?” asked Ron after a few moments of silence.
“How about some Exploding Snap?” asked Dean, and they began to play.
**Meanwhile**
“Harry?” asked Hermione, breaking the silence between us. We were walking back to the tower after visiting Dobby.
“What?” I asked, I looked over in her direction. The moon was shinning through the window.
“I just realized that you never finished your sentence earlier.” Said Hermione, I knew then she wanted me to finish it. “Harry,” she pulled my hand and I stopped. We stood faceting each other “What do we have?” I closed the space between us.
I moved a piece of hair from her face and whispered in her ear, “We have each other.” I whispered, I saw her eyes dart open. Next thing I knew we were kissing. I had lost all coherent thought by that time. I broke the kiss, and she pouted. “So I take it you like me as well?” My breathing was heavy and she was blushing.
“Since third year,” she said.
“I only realized last year, that’s why I broke it off with Ginny, partly.” I said, she nodded, we soon were on our way back to the tower. I was more then happy, ecstatic maybe. I knew from then on anything and everything would be okay no matter what

The End

That was cute as hell. I thought you did Harry's first person POV very very nicely. Harry and Hermione weren't OOC, which was good.

But Ron, Lav, Dean, and Ginny were a bit out of character.
And you could have put more effort into better english.

4 stars!

Ah that "misguided" Dobby huh?
I quite like Harry's POV, and the small flash back to where it all started.

I'm not fond of their friends trying to play matchmaker, them both being Heads, and talking about their obvious love but that's just my personal preference.

So, was the plan to just get the two alone for a bit? They pretty much just sent them to the Astronomy tower. Were they not already sitting together alone?

Pretty good, but there's room for improvement - like splitting it into paragraphs so its easier on the eyes.

Cheers

5/10 or 3 stars

Nice! It was really fun!