Hermione made her way to the Ancient Runes Classroom. She was wrong; her book wasn't sitting next to her chair. It must have fallen out at some other time. Great now she did have the whole of the castle to search. Cursing herself for letting Ron stay under the tree, no matter how funny he had looked, she turned to the door.

"You should be more careful with your things. Mudblood." Malfoy was standing with his back against the door, holding her book.

"Where did you find that." She demanded.

"There." He gestured toward where she was standing. "I snuck in here earlier and it was laying there. Do you put your name on all of your possessions?"

"Some." She walked over to him and put her hand out. "Can I have my book back now?"

"What's the magic word?" he smiled tauntingly.

"Ferret." She sneered at him. "Now may I please have my book."

"Maybe, when I'm done reveling in this moment."

"What moment? You having stolen my property and me trying to get it back?"

He ignored her barb. "So what possessions do you mark as yours?"

"Things I don't want to lose." She sighed.

He moved away from the door to stand close to her. "Like your panties?"

"My underwear is none of your business. So you can drop the sexual harassment tone right now. I hit you once Malfoy, don't make me do it again."

"So touchy. I just asked a simple question. And for the record, you only got that punch in because I wasn't expecting it, you couldn't do it again."

"So you say." She crossed her arms. "Are you going to give me my book or what?"

"Answer me something first." A rakish grin spread on his face. "Have you ever thought about me naked?"

She groaned. "Please, my eyes are still attached to the sockets, aren't they?" when he just stood there she continued. "Which would be a no."

He held the book out to her "Good to know." Pushing away from the door he turned around and left the room.

Flipping through her book she made sure he hadn't done anything to it. Sure that it was intake she put it in her bag and headed to the common room. She thought about their conversation. What had that been about? Was that his new tactic for getting to her? Messing with her head by making sexual comments? Just in case, she might want to have her wand easily accessible.

"I think it's going to rain." Luna said.

She was shaking Ron's arm, but there was no real need, since he hadn't been able to get back to sleep since she started talking her nonsense. He sat up and looked at the sky. It had grown darker, and the wind was starting to pick up.

"Yeah, we should probably get inside." He stood up. "Is it dinner time yet?"

She giggled. "You are such a boy. But yes, actually almost."

"Good, I'm starving."

"From what Ginny says that's a normal condition of yours."

"It's not my fault. It's my stomach's. I am just doing what it tells me."

He turned toward the great hall when they walked through the doors. Most people trickled in later, so there weren't many people there yet. Making his way over to the Gryffindor table he turned to see Luna looking toward the Ravenclaw table.

"Why don't you come sit with me for now? Unless you wanted to sit at an empty table."

She smiled at him. "ok." She walked over and took a seat.

Sitting down next to her he glanced around. He didn't really know what to say to her. They never actually talked. Outside he had been able to close his eyes and pretend to sleep to avoid the awkwardness, but now they was no escaping it.

"So how's your dad doing?" He asked, for lack of anything better to say.

"Good." She replied. "He's working on a piece about Nagdalis. They can shrink to be no bigger than a grain of sand. They like to sleep in your eye sockets."

"Pleasant." He said, as he wondered why he chose that topic.

"Oh they don't hurt you; in fact they're what make you dream. They just pop in for a nap and then leave again." She smiled at him. "What about your family? Is everyone ok?"

"Oh, yeah, Percy's being his usual annoying self, Fred and George are.. well… yeah, everyone's fine." He laughed.

"You know, you don't have to try and make conversation."

"What?" He turned to her. "I… I mean…"

"It's ok, I know that we don't really have anything to talk about. I don't mind just sitting in silence. It isn't awkward if you don't really think about it." She smiled at him.

"Oh, well… ok then…"

Dinner was over by the time Harry and Ginny got back. They headed up to the common room to change clothes. They hadn't talked on the way up from the pitch. Harry thought he should say something, but he wasn't sure what it should be. Ginny solved the problem for him.

"So that whole thing back there… I mean… it was just a… wasn't it?"

"Yeah." He said. "Not that I… Cause I do… I mean just not…"

"Yeah." She said.

He smiled. "Ok, well now that we have that cleared up."

"Back to normal. Like nothing ever happened."

"Right."

One word and part of her died inside. Sometimes boys were such idiots! She climbed through the portrait hole and went straight up to the girl's dormitory, completely ignoring Ron when he tried to get her attention.

"What happened to her?" Ron asked Harry when he sat down next to them.

"I don't know." Harry said, trying not to look guilty. "Girls?" he offered.

Ron seemed appeased. He breathed a inward sigh of relief. If Ron thought something was wrong with her though, maybe there was. He had to go talk to her. He got up and headed for the stairs.

"Where are you going now?" Ron asked.

"I was going to go upstairs and…" He tried to think of something to say that Ron wouldn't want to tag along for. "Try and get a jump start on that essay for potions." That should work.

"Hermione's rubbing off on you." He shivered. "Well, here." he held out a package. "I saved you some dinner."

"Thanks." Harry said as he took it from him. Then turning he headed up the stairs, but instead of turning towards the boys dorms he turned and headed for the girls.

A/N ~ ok, so that whole 2-3 installments tops thing, apparently not true. It won't be too long though, promise. Anyway, I'm bored and trying to stay awake so that I can actually make it to class. Though I slept all day today so it doesn't make much difference. Ok, so I'm not making much sense here… I won't lie, SpongeBob is on distracting me. Lol.