An Idea
"Ron just doesn't get it," Hermione thought angrily, "I've been practically raining hints on him for six years and yet he's still clueless." She didn't even know why she loved him. It wasn't like Harry, he was just her friend and she couldn't image it any other way, but Ron was different. He was all she could think about day and night. It was as if her life revolved around his occasional letters and the next time she could gaze into his eyes.
"How can I get him to notice me?" she said aloud. She shook herself, it had been nearly a month since she'd seen him and driving her crazy, and thinking about him was not helping. Hermione grabbed the mix CD her friend Eliza had made for her a few years back and stuffed it into her radio. As the vibrations of the music filtered through her ears her anger and self-pity evaporated. It brought back memories of Eliza jumping on her bed excitedly playing the air guitar. As she laughed an idea hit her so violently her laughter was caught in her throat.
"Could I......No it's far too complicated," She thought. Even with this thought she could not stop the feeling of hope rising in her chest. That would definitely make Ron notice her and she loved this kind of music – rock.
She jumped from her bed, ran to her parent's bedroom and shouted "I need a guitar!"
"Huh?" her mom asked, who was doing her makeup leaned up to the mirror.
"I've decided I want to play the electric guitar. Since I didn't get a present for last Christmas, I was wondering if I could make up for it now," Hermione said in one breath.
"Let your father and I think about it," her mother said.
After two days of anticipation her father called her down to the living room, were he said calmly "We're happy you feel so ambitious about this so we will play exactly half of the price."
"Deal!" She yelled as she ran back to her room. After finding out the price she began tutoring nearby Hogwarts students for five dollars an hour. Considering the price was $250.00 it took her the rest of the summer to come up with the money, but it was worth it when she finally had a beautiful black and silver electric guitar that fit in her hands so perfectly it was like magic. Before packing she had rented books from the muggle library describing the guitar and how to play it. She was lucky it fit in her bag, she wanted to surprise Ron, she didn't know when or how but she would.