Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

ago wasn't it?"
Ginny gave him a surprised look and whispered in his ear, "After your comment a moment ago I would
have thought you would be trying to kick him out immediately."
He leaned over and whispered right back in hers, "well, I figure that there's not much I can do about it
right now, so it's better to go with the flow."
Ginny just smiled and nodded as if Harry had whispered something sensual in her ear.
Slughorn boomed with laughter, "ah, young love," he said as he sat down in one of the plush chairs, "I
remember when I was back in school…" and he was off, reminiscing about some girl he had dated in
his seventh year.
For the next hour the twenty plus students sat in the compartment and listened to Slughorn's stories of
the celebrity couples that he had introduced. By the end of it Harry wasn't sure if he had been living a
nightmare, or actually having one. He pinched himself to check, and sure enough he was living one.
After a particularly boring story about two Quidditch players, or was it two breeders, the stories were
starting to blur together, Hermione made a show of checking her watch and then saying, "professor, I'm
sorry, but I'm going to have to ask everybody to leave, the four of us have to start patrolling the halls in
about 10 minutes."
"Of course, Ms. Granger," said Slughorn as he struggled to get up, "I should have realized that such
important students would have things to do, I'm sorry for taking up so much of your time." And with in
5 minutes Slughorn and all the other students had left.
"Is that what it's always like?" asked Ron a few minutes later.
"Yes," said Hermione as she sat herself down next to Ron, who had been surrounded by a small group
of girls during the last hour, preventing Hermione from getting any where near him.
"Then I've changed my mind, I don't want to be a part of the Slug Club."
Harry, Ginny and Hermione laughed, and Harry said, "Don't worry, I'm going to try and schedule
practices so that they coincide with his 'parties'.
"Actually, his parties are kind of fun," said Ginny, "there's always some really interesting people that
come. In fact I met Gwenog Jones at his Christmas Party and she gave me her card and told me that I
had enough potential to go pro once I graduated."
"Yeah, there are always some really interesting authors there also," said Hermione.
"Did you notice Neville?" asked Harry, "I think he had more girls fawning over him than Ron did."
Ron laughed uncomfortably.
"That was only because the girls that were fawning over Ron were getting a death stare from
Hermione," said Ginny, "and then they were going over to Neville." It was Harry's turn to laugh.
The four sat in a happy silence for a few minutes before Hermione said, "you know, we really do have
to get up in a few minutes and patrol the halls."
"Yeah," said Ron as he settled himself deeper in his plush chair and pulled Hermione closer.
Harry and Ginny looked at the two of them, "we'll take the first patrol," said Harry. But it was too late;
the couple had already fallen asleep.
Ginny laughed softly, "It's odd, Hermione has adapted some of Ron's habits."
"Yeah," whispered Harry as he and Ginny got up, "let's just hope that Ron starts adapting some of hers