Caught in the Rain
By
Hannio
Chapter One
A Fire side argument
DISCLAIMER – None of the characters mentioned in this fic belong to me
AUTHOR NOTE – I have never in my entire life as a writer written a Harry Potter nor did I ever have any attention of writing one, but My friend convince me to write one fro her so here we go. Fingers cross it won't be a long chapter story but knowing my luck it will.
Before you say anything I have no idea of the couples it could be Her/R or Har/Her or even Her/O and Har/D. I don't know any suggestions would be good, I have an idea but I'm not sure.
Anyway hope you enjoy my first Harry Potter fic!
DEDICATED TO – Geha she was the one who convinced me to do this fic so it's her fault. Check out her fics as well because they are really good. Trust me
Hermione Granger glanced around her allowing a peaceful expression to cover her face. It had to be near midnight, her favourite time of the day. She knew why, it was the one time when you honestly had nothing to do but to relax and you could just be peaceful and yourself completely alone. The others were probably all asleep worn out from the excitement of a Quidditch match between the Slytherins and Hufflepuff, all the school had attended cheering on Hufflepuff but of course to no avail. Malfoy had caught the snitch and pulled his broom up to where her and her two friends were standing. Looking directly at Harry Potter and smirking his eyes declaring his warning to him. You're next Potter. Hermione shook her head, she wished they would get over it but she knew from the hate filled gazes between the two of them that it was unlikely to happen.
A light was on beside her the only thing that was breaking the darkness of the common room. Her logical side was urging her to go to bed, arguing that tomorrow was another jam packed day and if she wanted to pass potions then an extra hour in the library was required before she knew the liquidities potion, last time she had only partially turned her block of wood into liquid and that wasn't good enough. She knew all of this and she agreed with what it was saying, she just couldn't move though. The room was nicely warmed due to the fire that was now extremely low and the chair by it had been sat in enough throughout the years to mould it to her. In fact she was so comfortable that she could feel her eyes slowly closing as her muscles in her back fully relaxed.
The door suddenly flew open, the oak wood banging noisily against the stone wall. She jerked up in fright her brown eyes darting round her, her heart beating faster than regular. She recovered herself quickly and frowned slightly. She wasn't alone she knew that from the prickling on her arms as if someone was caressing it with a feather bringing the small hairs up and yet at the same time she couldn't see a thing, there was nobody there. It could only mean one thing to her. She stood up the blanket she had wrapped around her falling to the floor and spoke in her most disapproving voice, only barely managing to resist putting her hand on her hips.
"Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley, I know you're there so show yourselves right now" a silence met her and she began tapping her feet. God they must believe that she was born yesterday or something. Finally a sigh greeted her and they both suddenly appeared as Harry pulled the invisibility clock off them. If she wasn't used to it the sight might have unnerved her slightly, unlucky for them though, she was far too used to it. She allowed her gaze to glance lightly on each boy's face, both wearing the same mask of resignation as if they had been expecting it. Once again she was reminded with a vengeance at the fact that her two best friends truly were two good looking boys. Harry was average height with the promise of growing taller the older he got; he was skinny so his clothes appeared slightly baggier than they could have been. His face was fairly narrow and thin with thick black hair covering his head messily, they was nothing to tame it though, even spells preformed by herself had failed to even dent it slightly. Large emerald green eyes surrounded by black lashes stared at her appearing all the larger by the glasses he wore. While his features suited his sharpness and emphasised it. Ron on the other hand was tall, to the point that at 13 nearly 14 Hermione would hazard a guess that he was near 5 foot 9, he was slim but not as much as Harry and his clothes were slightly too small for him. His hair was short and wavy and a bright blood red, it fell into a fringe that was close to falling into sapphire blue eyes. His features were sharp and slightly large for his face but given time they would soon suit it when he had finally stopped growing. She pushed the thought out of her head and spoke "What are you both doing out of bed?" she demanded, she could of sworn she had seen them go up with Seamus and Dean around 10ish. Harry and Ron exchanged a glance than Harry spoke, his voice sounding slightly higher than usual she noticed, her eyes narrowed at him what was he hiding?
"It's nothing Hermione" he commented "I couldn't sleep and neither could Ron so we went for a walk to see if it could help us sleep" Hermione raised an eyebrow
"Really" she replied softly, Ron nodded at this point and turned to her
"Yeah with Harry having these nigh…" Harry stuck an elbow into Ron's ribs and silent him with a glare, Ron flushed to the root of his hair and turned his gaze to the corner of the room as if there was something interesting there for him to watch. Hermione wasn't the cleverest in the year for a reason though.
"You're having nightmares Harry?" the way she stated it made it clear to him that it was not a question more a statement. Harry remained silent and Ron's neck began to flush giving the tell tale sign that he was uneasy about something. She turned her attention to the weaker link and spoke quietly "Ron" Ron jumped and turned to her an uneasy look in his eyes
"Yes" he replied his voice deeper than usual
"Is Harry having nightmares" Ron almost groaned out loud what did he do to deserve this? Why was he pulled in once again?
"Hermie" he said unconsciously bringing in his nickname for her "I can't… just don't" Hermione brown eyes clashed with his and she suddenly felt really bad, she wasn't being fair to him asking him to betray his best friend confidence to appease his other one.
"You're right Ron sorry" Ron's face brightened up as he realised he was off the hook but no smile graced his well cut lips. Hermione turned to Harry who was watching her with a guarded look
"Are you Harry?" she asked, her eyes pleading with him to tell her, he sighed and dragged a slim hand through his hair bringing to a bigger state of confusion and nodded
"I am" he admitted, she sat down again and motioned the two chairs opposite her, pulling her blanket up she wrapped herself in it then spoke when they sat down
"What about?" Harry bit his lip
"Voldemort" he admitted, she shuddered instinctually as did Ron, his eyes glanced round as if he expected the dark lord to jump out at them.
"What… about him?" she whispered. Harry shrugged
"I can't explain it and don't ask me to, it would give you and Ron nightmares for life" he stated coolly, she shuddered again this time from the frightened look in the green eyes confronting her. Harry was scared, Harry who had faced everything life had thrown at him was scared and that in return scared her.
"Have you told Dumbledore?" she asked her voice betraying a tremor. Harry shook his head
"No" Hermione felt a surge of anger go through her, what was with Harry sometimes? Why did he have to do everything himself? This was serious and he couldn't be bothered to even tell someone who should be informed exactly what was going on. Dumbledore should be informed almost immediately but she knew already Harry wouldn't tell a soul until it was too late.
"Why the hell not?" she demanded suddenly breaking the silence that had occurred after he spoke. Harry's and Ron's eyes widened at the tone of her voice she sounded furious
"What if it's nothing?" Harry stated "I'd look the fool it would get around and people would think that I was crazier than usual" Hermione swung an arm out
"Who cares, you should only care about the fact that the Dark Lord is haunting your dreams" she ignored the flinch from Ron "Dumbledore should know it could be a warning that we need to prepare for but you're only thinking of your reputation what is with you?" Harry's eyes darkened to pine green and he glared at her, a hard look coming over his face "Stop trying to do everything yourself Harry and for God sake get some help for once" She stopped feeling her heated face begin to cool in the fire. Harry stood up one hand curling into a fist as he spoke in a tone of suppressed of anger
"What would you know Hermione" he stated "One day you'll realise that books won't help you in the real world something you can't learn you have to experienced but god forbid you'd do that. You can't help with this so don't even try it, I didn't even want to tell you and now I know why" he turned from her to Ron "Night mate" he said then with a final glare at Hermione turned and walked to the door leading to the boys dormitory and flung open the door slamming it behind him. Hermione bit her lip as her eyes filled with tears. God she had handled that badly but she was getting so worried, the dark lord was focusing completely on Harry and she could see the way it was tearing him apart she only wanted to help but it seemed as if she had just made things worse. She turned to Ron who was staring at the red and gold carpet, the dim light creating shadows on his face.
"I've screwed up haven't I?" she demanded her voice cracking slightly "He's going to hate me and how can I blame him? I shouldn't have said those things to him should I?" Ron looked up his eyes looking dark in the light and opened his mouth to speak then closed it. What was he meant to say? Hermione turned away from him and stared into the fire. She had blown it. She looked up as Ron stood up stretching slightly. His gaze continued to look at her in the strange thoughtful way which wasn't usually his style, normally his eyes were always cheeky or looked like he was having the worse day of his life, normally she could read him like a book but this time she just couldn't. He went to the fire and threw two logs in watching them as the fore caught them and they blazed merrily away, then he turned to her and walked to her.
"He'll get over it" he said softly "You said what needed to be said so don't worry about it Hermie" she nodded one tear running down her face. He leaned down and kissed the top of her head, then placed his hand on her shoulder "For real girl he'll be fine. See you tomorrow" he exited the room quieter than Harry had leaving her with the fire and a whole heart full of regret and worry.
There you go, hope you enjoyed it as I said it's my first Harry Potter fic so be gentle, no flames and I'll update when I can. I have no idea of the couples so let me know ok and I'll see what I can do!