Ron Weasley and the Emerald Necklace

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry potter characters. This story is about Ron and what he wants/likes. There also might be some spelling/grammar mistakes.

I own characters Keri and Bethany

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CHAPTER 1: Midnight Problems

6th year- late January

Streamers were always flying about. A game of Exploding Snaps played, and Filibusters fireworks going off. Lots of food and drinks, yelling and celebrating. Each time it was the same. Ron not able to go through the crowd without two people at a time shaking his hand, congratulating him on the Quiddith game, Hermione and other girls dancing like cheerleaders. Then Ron would meet Harry sitting down, no one near him.

"Are you sure its safe?" Harry would ask.

"What Harry, what should be safe?" Ron asked frustrated.

"I don't blame you, of course I should have paid more attention."

Then he would follow Harry up the to the boys dormitory, and once they opened the door, they were at a dock, Harry gone. A boy and a girl were always out there.

"Our love- our life- must be real." The man would say, and drop a green necklace in the water. The girl would yell and scream. Then Ron would turn around and he was back in the common room, girls starting to drag him someplace and someone would tap him on the back.

"Your dealing with something more dangerous then you could ever dream of." Ron would turn around and then-

He would wake up.

Ron sat up and looked around him. In his four-poster bed as usual and still dark outside. He got up. He felt like going for a walk out in the halls but with all the teachers and ghosts, he needed Harry's invisibility cloak. He then noticed Harry was out of bed getting it.

"Harry?" Ron called.

Harry jumped. "Ron. You scared me." "Sorry. What are you doing awake?" Ron asked getting up.

"I was going to go for a- walk." Harry told him. "Can't sleep." He pointed his thumb over to the snoring Neville.

Ron smiled. "How 'bout I walk with you? See what teachers are awake."

So they both got under the invisibility cloak and walked around the halls aimlessly. They then heard voices. It was Filch and Snape.

"One of them had flaming red hair-"

"Weasley." Snape grunted.

"No no- much younger. Suppose it was a second or first year..."

"A first year roaming around MY office! Potter. Weasley.suppose Grangers been for a night stroll too." Snape mumbled more names as he looked around with his cold eyes. "Why can't kids stay in bed these days?"

"Well the other one had really long blonde ha-"

"Tresher!" Snape said immediately. "Keri Tresher, Gryffindor, second year." Snape smiled evilly. "Her friend must be Bethany Barthle, Hufflepuff, second year."

Filch looked at him. "Err.Yeah." Then they all heard a loud piercing scream. Filch and Snape looked at each other then were off. With interest and curiosity, Ron and Harry followed closely behind.

It was all the way outside, by the lake. Ron's eyes were wide as he saw a large swampy green arm pull a pale blonde haired girl into the water. Snape and Filch hurried to pull her out. She kept screaming, that more teachers and Hagrid rushed over.

"A little help please!" Filch said, and with one hand Hagrid pulled them out and they fell onto the grass. The creature in the water disappeared.

"What-what was that?" Professor McGonnagall asked.

"Was some kind o' lake monster." Hagrid said searching the water. "Well, it can' hurt us now."

"I'd like to test that," muttered Snape.

"Don't bother," a very messy and tired looking Prof. Sprout said. "Whatever it is, it's least likely to attack a bunch of older wizards."

"Or Ghost." Nearly Headless Nick added with anticipation.

"Just in case, all the ghost and short people should stand back." Prof. Binns said, however not moving away from the lake.

"Short people?" Prof. Flitwick squealed hastily. "Why don't you just say Professor Flitwick instead of referring him to 'short people'!"

"I'm kind of short." Keri added quietly.

"Oh never mind this all, never mind. Are *you* okay, Keri?" McGonagall asked. "I am- but Bethany isn't." tears started pouring out of the girl's eyes.

"What we should be asking is why that girl and her friend are walking around in the middle of the night going in teachers' offices." Snape said, glaring at her.

"I have not been going to anybody's office, Snap!" Keri cried. She was obviously brave to speak to Snape like that and even calling him Snap.

"That's Professor Snape to you, Tresher." Snape snapped.

"Obvious mistake!" The girl snapped back, peering into his cold eyes.

"Now, now, Keri, lets get you to the Hospital Wing for a checkup, come along, come." McGonagall shoot an angry look and Snape and then took Keri up to the castle.

Snape looked at the lake suspiciously and then followed the other teachers inside.

"Wow- I wonder what that thing was." Ron said looking at the lake. "Must have been some kind of-"

"Ron- what is that?" Harry pointed to something glimmering besides the lake.

They walked over to it and Harry picked it up. It was a bright emerald necklace.

Ron snatched it. "Harry- this was in my dream!" He touched the engraving surrounding the stone.

"Well-lets bring it up, and we'll look at it in the morning." They started walking to the castle. "Wait- is this the same dream you've been having for like a week?"

"Yep." Ron said. "I don't know when it's gonna stop."

Harry smiled and shrugged. "You should always listen to what dreams say- they may become important later." Harry said. Ron thought about this.

***

They told Hermione at breakfast and wasn't mentioned again until Herbology.

"So- you say this necklace was in your dreams?" Hermione said as she put a handful of dirt and put it in her pot.

"Yeah. If my dream is right, it's probably no good." Ron told her.

Hermione bit her lip. "I suppose I could try to look it up." She looked a bit tired. "But you guys have to find that blonde girl and ask if it belongs to her."

Ron and Harry agreed as Seamus and Dean approached them.

"Hey, can we work at your table?" Seamus asked.

"Uh sure," Hermione said and they sat down.

"So anyway, the next day I hear the sound again." Dean told Seamus as they grabbed some dry dirt and mixed it with some powder to make it soft. Ron, Harry and Hermione listened closely. "Ee-eee-eeee."

"Probably some animal," Seamus suggested, putting his dirt in his pot.

"It didn't sound like any animal- it was probably a monster." Dean said as he then added his dirt. Then to the other three he asked, "Where do we get the plant?" Hermione pointed to a large bucket by Prof. Sprout. Dean smiled and got up.

"Get me one!" Seamus said as Dean walked off, whistling.

"Have you heard the screech before?" Hermione asked Seamus suddenly.

"Hmm? Oh yeah no, Dean says he's been hearing them." Seamus softened the dirt inside the pot. "Thinks there's a monster lose. Anyway he heard a scream last night, did you guys hear it?"

"Yeah." Ron and Harry replied at the same time.

"Not really." Hermione said, humming a little.

"I didn't. Lots of people did." Seamus said. "Teachers say some 2nd year was walking around and got scared by a shadow. But other people been saying that a 1st year was meeting her secret boyfriend and a lake monster grabbed her and was about to eat her."

"The lake monster thing is true," Ron said getting his plant. Harry stepped on his foot. "Ow-what- oh yeah I mean, that's what *I* think."

"Some people chose to believe that.where's Dean?" Seamus asked. They looked to see that Dean was not at the bucket. Seamus shook his head. "If he went wandering for that monster or something." Seamus left.

"I wonder what this monster thing is," Ron said, smiling at his plant. "Hey Harry! Maybe it's those merpeople?"

"I don't think the merpeople would hurt anyone." Harry said.

*** "Nope- why would you think its mine?" Keri told Harry and Ron, who asked her if she lost a necklace.

"Oh-no-"

"You must have heard that I was the second year who almost got swallowed by the big, slimy green water monster." Keri nodded. "People been just coming up to me asking if I knew what it was, if the teachers knew what it was, and you'll keep hearing me say the same thing, no, no, no!"

Ron looked at her as if he didn't catch a world he said. She was a pretty fast talker in the day he supposed.

Harry smiled. "Yeah well.that's the way it is sometime-"

"Yeah I guess we'll never know what's really down there, hey aren't you Harry Potter? People say this is your sixth year and that you're an awesome quidditch player my sisters on the team, Teri. You are the-seeker oh yes I remember now well isn't there a match coming up in a week or so- "(Harry tried to answer but Keri talked on.) "-Oh wait I heard it's in a week, right? Well who are you playing against- Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw I saw you play with Slytherin you were awesome how you dived under that one bludger and still caught it, was that this year or last year?"

Harry looked at her blankly. "Wha.err.yeah?" She looked at him showing all her teeth.

"People been saying your funny sometimes well I gotta go talk to me again sometime, bye ya!" and she left.

Harry and Ron sat there in the cool breeze, silent. Then Ron asked, "Why would anyone come back to talk to her?"

*** Ron walked alone from the Great Hall. Hermione was in the library and Harry was still at the Quidditch meeting. He headed to the library just to see Hermione and put on the green necklace, not knowing that soon he'd know who it belonged to.

He then thought about Keri. She seemed to be interested in Harry. I mean, everyone else was. Ron was keeper on the quidditch team (Keri had NOT mentioned him earlier), possibly not a good one since only about 5 people (other than the team) congratulated him on the last game. Everyone's attention was on Harry.

Don't get Ron wrong, he was able to put up with it, and Harry was the seeker. But at times sometimes he wished to get more attention, that everyone would notice he was more then 'Harry Potter's best friend'.

Ron was almost at the library when he heard a noise. It was no ee-eee- eeee though.

"That's MY necklace!" someone said and pulled the necklace from behind, choking him.

***************************************** End of first chapt well the story gets better. The attention on the mysterious water monster thing will be less and more about Ron.

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