Chapter One
The dinner table remained silent. Nobody wanted to say a thing. They were afraid to say something that could set off the two raging volcanoes sitting across from one another. There had been a huge argument between the best friends about jealousy. It had happened right at this very dinner table.
Tomorrow they would be returning to school but Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley would not be returning as friends. Instead they would return as enemies. No, that's too harsh, acquaintances.
The dinner finished and Mrs. Weasley cleaned up. Ron went straight to his bedroom and Harry went outside with Hermoine and Ginny.
Hours passed and they never spoke a single word. Ron sat in his room scribbling away at his sixth journal. When Harry entered the room Ron kept his back to him. Harry put on his pajamas and went to bed. Shortly after Ron did the same. Neither said a word. When morning came, breakfast was also quiet. People ate quickly so they could be ready to leave in order to get to the station before eleven. Trunks were packed into the car and people squished in as well. They were off to London. Hermoine sat in between Ron and Harry staring back and forth at them. She seemed to be getting completely fed up with the pair of them. "Will you two just give it up already and say you're sorry?" she practically begged.

"I'm not the one who started it" Harry replied. "It's not my fault he's jealous over something I can't control!" Ron opened his mouth to reply but Hermoine cut him off.

"Don't say it Ron, it'll only cause an argument and we've had enough of those"

"Yea but--

"Don't" Hermoine sat back and pouted.

The continuation of the drive was silence. They reached platform nine and three quarters just in the nick of time. Their personal belongings were packed aboard and they said their goodbyes. Harry, Hermoine and Ginny sat in the compartment with the other Gryffindors but Ron went to an empty one that would soon be occupied by Slytherins.

"What's up with him?" Seamus questioned.

"Ron and Harry are having a dispute" Hermoine replied as Draco Malfoy walked passed them with a sneer on his face. With him were his cronies, Crabe and Goyle and a tiny girl who looked familiar but wasn't really. She held Draco's hand and her head was bobbing to some kind of music coming through a little machine in her pocket.

"Is that the same girl he was with last year at the end of the year?" Harry asked.

"Yep"

"I thought they broke up?"

"They did, but got back together this summer just before school started" Seamus replied.

"Malfoy was with so many girls this summer and she was with many muggle boys" Dean informed. "It drove him crazy to see her with them muggles. It was definitely a sight you should have seen Harry" "That's Professor Trelawney's daughter isn't it?" Hermoine asked.

"Yep"

"She's changed a lot over the summer," Harry added. "She's umm...a lot better looking now"

"Big time, like I said she spent her summer with muggles at her grandmother's place which is right near my house" Dean said. "She completely became a new person. She's much nicer now too"

As the conversation started to die away, music began playing on through the speakers.

"You say you love me but you can not leave him.

So now I'm leaving you this here same reason.

Cause times change and so do the seasons.

And the seasons changed. So I listen to what you say.

But I don't believe a word you say.

You say you love me but you cannot leave him.

So now I'm leaving you this here same reason.

Cause times change and so do the seasons.

And the seasons changed.

So I listen to what you say.

But I don't believe a word you say.
[VERSE:

I just wanted to get over you.

But I can't stop thinking about you.

Not a second goes by that you're not in my head.

You dick me over again and again but I still remained your friend.

It's time for this to end.

[CHORUS:

You say you love me but you cannot leave him.

So now I'm leaving you this here same reason.

Cause times change and so do the seasons.

And the seasons changed.

Will you still love me tomorrow?

[VERSE:

For way too long you fucked with my mind.

I've sang this song way too many times
And you need to know it's gone on for too long.

Thought it would be just the two of us in the end.

But now I'm leaving and you're not even my friend.

Was the way you felt for real?

[CHORUS:

You say you love me but you cannot leave him.

So now I'm leaving you this here same reason.

Cause times change and so do the seasons.

And the seasons changed.

Will you still love me tomorrow?

Tonight I fell the love in your eyes.

Will you still love me tomorrow?

You say you love me but you cannot leave him.

So now I'm leaving you this here same reason.

Cause times change and so do your feelings and your feelings changed.

And will he love me tomorrow?

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow."1

"Who was that?" Harry asked.

"I don't know" Hermoine replied. "But his voice was so...dreamy"

The other students sat around wondering who the singer was but none would ever guess who had sung. It was just a little bit of fun between Malfoy and his friends. Who would ever guess that? Everyone in his or her compartment knew though.

"Now that that is finish," Malfoy said turning to Ron. "Why aren't you with your precious Potter?"

Ron shrugged not really wanting to talk about it. "We had a fight and we're not talking. It was almost physical but we didn't want to disrupt the dinner"

"Oh pity" Malfoy laughed.

"That's not very nice Draco" Cadance said. "Can't you see the poor kid is hurt and fuming with anger like a raging volcano?"

"Cadance, love, he's not our problem, he's a Gryffindor"

"But he is still a human being"

"Your point?" Draco inquired grabbing her by the arm and pulling her away from Ron. "You've become such a little sweet button haven't you love? I'm not sure if I like that too much in my girlfriend"

"Let go of me!"

Malfoy let go of her arm and sat down. Cadance reluctantly sat down beside him. Throughout the rest of the train ride to Hogwarts Cadance stole some sad glances at Ron. Only Ron noticed them but he pretended he didn't care. When the train stopped and it came time to board the carriages, all except the first years, Millicent shoved Cadance out of the way and took her place next to Malfoy. Cadance was forced to find another carriage. Lucky for her she'd get to ride with Ron. It was the only carriage left with a seat. It was she and Ron on one side of the carriage and two second years on the other looking frightened. It was a silent drive but Ron couldn't stop thinking about the heated feeling he felt whenever Cadance's leg brushed his. It was time to go back to school where another adventure awaited them, but this one would be unlike any other. In the Great Hall, its four tables were set awaiting the student's arrival. They moved in and sat at their house tables. Ron sat far from Harry and Hermoine and with his sister.

"Ron, why can't you and Harry get along?" Ginny asked.

"Ginny, just stay out of this please" Ron replied.

He looked over at Harry and Hermoine. Things between them were changing. Ron could tell now that he was on the outside looking in. Hermoine was so much closer to Harry than she was to Ron and she was closer to Harry than Ron was to Harry. She was so pretty and amazing and Ron wished he could be closer to her. Somehow he knew that it could have happened if he hadn't freaked out at Harry that one day. He had shown Hermoine a side of him he didn't want her to know about. A side he knew would make him lose whatever chance he could have had at being a closer friend with her and maybe her boyfriend.

The first years entered the Great Hall to be sorted. They came in two straight lines down the center of the room. The sorting hat sat at the front of the Great Hall waiting to sort them. It started singing its song. The Great Hall applauded it and the sorting began. Each new student was sorted into one of the four houses. Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor or Slytherin.

After the sorting Professor Dumbledore stood up and gave the beginning of the year announcements. The Forbidden Forest was off limits, restricted section only with a teacher's permission, those types of things. When he finally finished the feast began.

At the Slytherin table, Cadance sat quietly listening to Malfoy and his friends talk about useless things that didn't interest her. She wondered why she had accepted his apology and went back to him. He never let her speak her mind and she was the kind of girl who needed to talk. But yet she had come back to him because...well she didn't actually know why. She had always liked him because he was a nice guy towards her but he was a real jerk with all his friends around. She thought she could maybe change him but she seemed to be wrong. Her eyes began to wander through the crowds of people at every table. Her eyes stopped at Ron. Something about that sad expression and the bright red hair caught her eye that morning. Cadance was a good judge of character and Ron seemed all right but she was a firm believer in tradition. Gryffindors and Slytherins hated each other and that was the way of it.

Millicent glared across the table at Cadance. They had never liked each other partially because Millicent adored Draco and he liked Cadance A LOT. Thoughts were beginning to form in Millicent's head about how to get back at Cadance. She wanted Draco to hate Cadance, she wanted Cadance to be in pain, she wanted Draco to see the mistake he made in taking Cadance as his girlfriend. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of chairs and tables rattling. People began to file out of the Great Hall towards their dormitories. She quickly scribbled a note on a piece of parchment and throughout the noise and commotion managed to get it Ron. Ron looked at her curiously as she passed him the note. When she took off Ron heard Hermoine gather the Gryffindors and lead them out of the Great Hall. He walked slowly behind them and read the note from Millicent.

Ron,

Meet me tomorrow morning by the lake. Come alone and don't be seen.

Millicent

Ron shrugged confused at her note and contemplated meeting her. Why did she want to meet him? Why does he have to be alone? It didn't make any sense. After all the students went to their towers, the teachers went to the Staff room to relax and discuss. They could tell things weren't right at school this year. The students were in dispute and it was feeding an eerie power source inside the school.

"Can you feel it?" Professor McGonnagul questioned. "Right here in the school. Something isn't right" "I'll say, Potter and Weasley weren't at dinner together. The Slytherins were socializing with the Gryffindors. It's all so unsettling and out of place" Professor Sprout sighed.

"I don't like it"

"Perhaps we are just looking too deeply into this" Professor Snape suggested. "It may be nothing but a small argument"

"We shall wait and see what happens" Professor Dumbledore said. "If things get worse we cannot intervene"

"Yes Headmaster" all the teachers agreed and retired to their bedchambers.

1 From Reason by Mest