"What the- oh bloody hell!" Ron exclaimed as he looked up at the mistletoe that was currently floating above him.

"Dumbledore's being all weird at the moment. Bad luck, mate." Harry said thanking his lucky stars that he wasn't the victim of the mistletoe… this time.

Hermione who happened to be at their side, as always, gave one glance at the mistletoe and then, taking a deep, steadying, almost annoyed breath, kissed Ron on the cheek.

The mistletoe disappeared, only to reappear above Malfoy's head.

"No one's gonna kiss him. It's gonna be there for a looong time." Ron said laughing as they watched Malfoy look around him to find a girl who would be willing to kiss him. Upon finding no suitable candidate he shrugged and looked almost disappointed. His walk when he went past the trio had lost the traditional Malfoy swagger.

Hermione sent her own disappointed look towards her friends as they sniggered at him and as Pansy passed her she whispered something to her. Harry sent her a most perplexed look and looked over at Ron, who hadn't noticed anything anyway.

"What? What do you look confused about? That I'm talking to Pansy? She's actually really nice and she's my link in the Slytherin common room. I know things about those Slytherins that you would know if you got over that ridiculous prejudice. They're not all bad. Malfoy and you have some friction, that much is obviously true, but Pansy is a great friend. We have so many girly talks together."

"She's in Slytherin!"

"Yes, and she's a nice girl. All I told her was that she had to just kiss Draco and then he wouldn't look so miserable and lose his rep because the mistletoe is still hanging above him because no one wants to kiss him. I'd do it myself but I wouldn't want to ruin her chances."

"Excuse me? You'd what?"

"I'd kiss him, just like I did with Ron when it was above him just now. Look I think this is only in place for one day."

"But it's Halloween! There shouldn't even be mistletoe out yet!"

"Granted it is an unusual time for there to be mistletoe and I'm thankful it's only above the guys, for the moment. Touch wood it won't switch genders." She tapped Ron's head as it may as well have been made of wood because it was pretty much empty.

"Why? Do you want to be kissed?"

"What a provocative question, Harry! What do you think? If you think I want to be kissed by some random boy then I think I need to screw your head back on the right way round."

"Um, no. I was thinking more along the lines of Ron and myself, actually." They both looked at Ron, who was gazing at the rain outside in a dreamy fashion. "Strike that, make it just me then."

"You want to kiss me?"

"Oh no you don't! You may be the brightest witch in the year, but I'm the brightest wizard in the year and I do know when you're trying to trap me into telling you who I fancy!"

"Aha! So you admit it, you do fancy someone?"

"I- what?"

"Who do you fancy?"

"No! I'm not telling you!"

"Believe me, Harry, I'll find out…somehow."

"I don't doubt that you will; just don't make fun of me when you do."

She smiled and hugged him. The two had become very close recently and when you would have imagined that they, as two brave Gryffindors, would have had the courage to tell each other that they fancied the pants off each other. Naturally, being bashful teenagers, they had yet to do so.

Even though the holiday was Halloween Dumbledore had enchanted a piece of mistletoe to randomly appear above the head of the boys in the school and they would only be released from the clutches of this herb when they were kissed by a girl. The penalty therefore was that any unpopular boy would have to walk around with it above his head until some poor girl took pity on him and got rid of it for him. Seamus had been so shocked when it appeared above him that he tried to curse it away. He ended up in the hospital wing with parsley growing out of his ears. Dean tried much the same thing but when he showed up in the hospital wing he seemed to only say one word, and that one he shouted.

"Parsley!"

Seamus would have laughed at him, but since he couldn't hear anything he couldn't hear the word he was shouting. Madame Pomprey laughed though and even after Dean was cured he still shouted it at odd moments.