JEALOUSLY WITH A SIDE OF GUILT

An Authors Note:

This story takes place during the summer before sixth year and during sixth year itself. This is a reposting of the original fiction. Their will be changes in the plot though. The events of the sixth book were not included in this story. This is completely made-up and I do not claim to be connected to any affiliate of harry potter in any way. Constructive critiscm asppreciated.

Chapter one:

Harry walked into Ron's room to find pigwidgeon zooming around the ceiling as usual.

"Hey", Hermione said as she walked in." do you want to play some Quidditch with the twins and Ron? They're fighting about uneven teams downstairs for a quick game before we head off for diagon alley."

"Sure", Harry said.

Harry headed on downstairs, to find the twins and Ron just as Hermione had left them.

"Two against one is completely unfair!" Ron yelled.

"No it isn't! everyone says were enough alike to be one so it'll be one on one, not two on one, even though I prefer that." Fred said calmly.

"I'll play" harry said from the corner.

"No you're two people, not one!" Ron continued to argue about.

"I'll play" harry repeated.

"Oh come one, stop being such a wuss Ronnie iddledikens. You're the big guy on the Quidditch team rntcha? Play us if you wanna keep that title." George said "yea or we may just let slip the picture of the team you were in the bathroom and you found a..."Fred said then got cut off by Ron "Fine!"

"I'll play!" Harry screamed this time.

They finally looked up. "Oh, well then it works." Fred said.

They all headed outside and got the brooms and balls from the shed while Ginny and Hermione came outside to watch the game. Fred erected the goal hoops and Harry warmed up on his firebolt. The game was fast and complex. In the end it was a tie. Harry was a surprisingly good chaser and scored 10 goals with Fred scoring the other ten.

They then walked back in the house and got ready to head to diagon alley.

Right before they left Ron pulled Hermione into a spare room. After about a minute, Hermione walked out with her face hidden by her hair, while Ron came out muttering silently to himself and walked right past Harry as though he didn't see him.

What was that about? Harry thought.

Ron was hard to understand at times so Harry went after his instinct. Follow Hermione and find out what happened. She would be a lot easier. She turned to go up the stairs but Harry grabbed her arm.

"Hey, what's going on?" Harry asked.

"Oh, well. I dunno."She said looking as though she was choosing her words very carefully.

"Oh come on, tell me what happened. You two've been all secretive since I got here…" he said.

"Harry its nothing, well…you promise you wont flip out OR tell Ron I told you?" she asked.

"You know me, I would never tell." He said truthfully.

She avoided his eyes as she mumbled "were dating now. He asked me out during the second week of summer."

Harry realized with shock that he felt disappointment inside him. He had always seen them getting together and been perfectly fine with it. He had also suspected this would happen and hadn't felt any sort of grievance towards it, but now he felt jealousy towards Ron, that he had gotten to Hermione first.

"Harry?" Hermione said tentively.

"That's great Hermione! I always saw you two together!" Harry said, acting like he knew he should be feeling. Hermione seemed like she didn't believe him, but looked happy nevertheless.

"Yea, I think everybody did." she said laughing nervously.

"Right, well I better go get ready." Hermione said.

She started to turn, and as she did, they both noticed Harry's arm was still on hers. Harry quickly let go. They both blushed and she headed upstairs.