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The List by Hermione_Crookshanks



Format: Novel
Chapters: 15
Word Count: 55,104
Status: COMPLETED

Rating: 15+
Warnings: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature

Genres: Humor, Romance, AU
Characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Draco, Dean, Ginny, OtherCanon
Pairings: Harry/Hermione, Ginny/Dean, Ron/Luna, OC/OC

First Published: 11/21/2006
Last Chapter: 02/24/2008
Last Updated: 02/24/2008

Summary:


After everyone in the school accuses them of going out, they (or rather Harry) decide to keep a list. The List names everyone who thinks they're a couple. In other words, all of Hogwarts (not to mention a few muggles). Now Harry and Hermione have to prove that they're just friends. The only problem is, even they�re starting to wonder if their names belong on The List� COMPLETED.
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Chapter 1: Prologue
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I'm back! Basically my best guy friend and I have a mental list of everyone who thinks we're going out, and it literally includes almost everyone we know. We�re like brother and sister, but I thought it would be an interesting idea to spin with Harry and Hermione... And so I give you the prologue.



Ten reasons not to create �The List�

1. Waste of paper. A huge waste of paper. Do you realize how many people think we�re going out Harry? We�re all going to die from a lack of oxygen because all of the trees will be needed for this stupid list of yours.

2. It�s pointless.

3. Why laugh over the fact that everyone in our school thought we were going out when we can talk about the group of mad men and women who were out to kill us?

4. The likelihood that either one of us will end up married is very small, considering the fact that everyone we meet seems to think that we are head-over-heels in love with one another.

5. Ginny.

6. It�s also a waste of ink. You�re going to regret this when you can�t finish your essay for potions and Professor Snape gives you a month�s worth of detention.

7. If anyone on the list dies, people might assume it was actually a hit list.

8. You should be catching up on your assignments, not creating other ways to procrastinate.

9. You�ll loose the list anyway.

10. If we do end up married, I�m sure our significant others will love to hear that everyone believed that we belonged together. I think that would make a simply lovely toast. �To Hermione and Har�. Sorry about that. I always thought that when I made this toast, Hermione and Harry would be the ones getting married. Anyway, I wrote the toast back in sixth year, and I figured there was no point in throwing it out. So John, just ignore me while I recount Harry�s life. Feel free to insert your name for his and switch around all of the details��



"Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies."

~Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata



It started out innocently enough. In fourth year, Viktor Krum, Hermione Granger�s boyfriend at the time, accused one of said woman�s best friends, Harry Potter, of being on more than friendly terms with his girlfriend. Of course, Harry denied it vehemently. Nevertheless, after Viktor Krum left, the relationship, save for a few pen pal letters, was over. A year later Cho Chang, Harry Potter�s girlfriend, accused Harry of being romantically involved with Hermione. Once more, Harry denied that there was any truth behind the idea. A few months later the two broke up. When Cho told Harry that she was upset with Hermione for placing a hex on Cho�s best friend (who had destroyed their secret Defense Against the Dark Arts organization), Harry defended Hermione, saying that he believed the hex was, �Brilliant.� Needless to say Cho threw another fit, and that was the end of that.

It was sixth year that things began to get out of hand. Everywhere they went they were followed by whispers. Their classmates constantly asked them how long they had been going out, and when they replied that they were just friends, their fellow students almost fainted out of disbelief. Even their mutual best friend, Ron Weasley, had given them a questioning stare accompanied with the ever so popular, �Are you sure that you two aren�t a couple?�

By seventh year (the year, coincidentally, when the two were assigned Head Boy and Head Girl and given a tower to themselves) it had gotten to the point where it didn�t matter whether or not Harry or Hermione said that the two were just friends. No one believed them. It was while Hermione was ranting to Harry about this very subject in their common room that Harry had the brilliant (and ultimately disastrous) idea.