"She only wants you to ask her to the ball because she thinks you're the chosen one" Hermione said

"But I am the chosen one" Harry said with the grin and Hermione hit him in the back of the head with the paper she was holding "ow"

"Not the point" Hermione said "I was just trying to look out for you Harry, but if you would rather I didn't and some conniving little bitch worms her way into your heart and hurts you don't come crying to me" and Hermione turned to leave trying to hide the hurt in her eyes and her voice as she didn't want Harry to question the reason why she was looking out for him was because she was because she was a good friend and not because she wanted to date him herself.

However as Harry heard what she said even harry in his teenage boy obliviousness to the mystery that is teenage girl was able to break down the coded message in Hermione's words as he didn't have the emotional range of a teaspoon like a certain redheaded boy. Hermione had been the first girl to hug him and the first person he could remember giving him a purpose to be around for as if it had not been for him she would have been killed in the first year by a troll because of the idiocy of Ron. She was the first person that believed him when he told her he didn't put his name in the goblet which both made him happy and upset him that his other friends didn't believe him as much as Hermione did but it made him happy the amount of blind faith the beautiful bookworm had in him. It had been in his fifth year that he had realized that he had more than brotherly feelings for Hermione surprisingly it was his ex girlfriend Cho Chang that had helped him realize those feelings as he had arranger a date around the fact he was meeting Hermione later rather than scheduling Hermione around the date with Cho.

However it was then he realized that it should have been Hermione first and everything else second as they where best friends yet Harry always seemed to end up to say or do the wrong thing like someone had cursed him at it was always whenever a Weasley was around, the potions book they argued when Ron was around, 3rd year with the firebolt Ron was around.

"Hermione" he said stopping her in his arms "no girl is going to worm her way into my heart or have any thing to do with my heart"

"How do you know?" Hermione said and then sniffed as she tried to stop herself from crying

"Because" Harry said "it isn't mine to give to another girl and I should hope the person that has it would want to keep it"

"And who is this lucky girl Mr Potter?" Hermione said "do I know her?" and she was secretly wishing that it was her

"Yes you do" Harry said "it's you Hermione"

"What?" Hermione said hoping her hearing hadn't deceived her

"I love you Hermione Jean Granger" Harry said "and I would be honored for you to be my date to Profe3ssor Slughorn's party and my girlfriend afterwards?"

"I would love to Harry James Potter" Hermione said and he leant in and kissed her softly

An hour later

"Professor Dumbledore?" Harry asked

"Yes my boy?" Albus said "and I have told you to call me Albus"

"Is it possible to have spells on people to prevent them from doing things?" Harry said

"It depends on what you mean Harry?" Albus said with a slight smile "and on what degree there is not a spell to stop Tom from being evil Harry"

"No on a lesser scale sir" Harry said with a similar smile "like a spell to make me not think that I wouldn't find Hermione attractive"

Albus' smile faded at this he didn't know who would want to do something so trivial he knew that lord Voldemort would rather have Harry in a relationship so that he would have someone to lose rather than him have no one to lose in the first place and Severus wouldn't get involved in something so childish if he wanted to cause Harry pain.

"Sadly yes" Albus said "there is such a thing as a compulsion charm but they must be maintained at least twice a day"

"Would you be able to tell?" Harry said trying to hide the hurt from his voice "if I have had one put on me and by who sir?"

"Yes Harry I would" Albus said drawing his wand and muttering a spell after he had seen the results he was both appalled and offended at what he saw

"Sir?" Harry said "what's the matter?"

"You have had over 4 thousand compulsion charms placed on you in the past 6 years Harry" Albus said "by multiple members of the Weasley family" and Ron and Ginny who where both at Hogwarts felt the castle shake as the rage of Harry James Potter was released and they knew that they where screwed.

When Harry went back to the library in search of Hermione to take her to see Professor Dumbledore he was still shaking with rage which was threatening to boil over with every chance that it got when someone with red hair walked past which lead to Harry nearly jinxing Susan Bones who was talking with Hermione when he returned.

"Hey Harry" Susan said "I was just talking to Hermione about the Slughorn party it is about time you two got together"

"Thanks" Harry said and noticed that Hermione was blushing "Susan if you don't mind can I borrow my brilliant girlfriend for a bit?"

"Of course Mr. potter" Susan said formally "but as a prefect I have to warn you if I find you in broom closets after hours I will take points Miss granger prefect or not" and she walked off smiling

"What's the matter Harry?" Hermione asked

"Professor Dumbledore needs to see you" Harry said "to see if you have any compulsion charms on you"

"Did you?" Hermione said

"Over 4 thousand" Harry said "to make me not attracted to you"

"Who did them?" Hermione asked

"Weasleys" Harry said and the castle shook for a second time that day