A/N: Decidedly not mine…though I wouldn't mind if they were tehe Anyway I hope you enjoy the story, I apologize if there are any grammar/spelling errors as I do not have a beta to check things out for me, please do note that I did spell and grammar check the story before posting it.

This story will be a TRIO fic, in other words Harry, Hermione, and Ron are in a relationship together, you have been warned.

If there is anything confusing about what you see, isn't clear or such PLEASE let me know, I will fix it as soon as possible. Okay enough talking now, I hope you enjoy and please please PLEASE review!

Oh! Also the title is taken from a song I found very fitting called Don't Fade On Me, it is performed by Firehouse. They are a great band and have terrific songs, as according to regulations I will not post the lyrics, but please, take the time and look it up. Okay, not I really am done ranting! Enjoy!

If you recognize this story it is because I previously had this story up under the title of Questions but I decided it needed a bit of revamping.

Don't Fade On Me

By Dreamer22

Chapter 1 Harry

"..." Regular talking

'...' Talking to themselves

Talking telepathically

'I wonder what would have happened if I...'

(Dream)

"Is it true?" he said. "They're saying all down the train that Harry potter is in this compartment. So it's you, isn't it?"

"Yes," said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of them were thick set and looked extremely mean. Standing on either side of the pale boy already dressed in their Hogwarts uniform, they looked like bodyguards. He held out his hand to shake Harry's, but Harry hesitated. This boy, Draco, he seemed quite mean and nasty towards people he thought were inferior to himself. Harry decided that it was best not to make enemies before he even arrived at school, and shook Draco's hand when he offered it to him.

"I'm sure I can tell for my self who the wrong sort is, but I thank you for the offer and I'll keep it in mind if I'm ever unsure of someone." Harry said quite honestly as Draco glared, and Ron hid a snigger under another cough.

"Right then, you be careful before you hang around this..." Draco was pointing towards Ron when Neville came around again looking for his lost toad.

"Sorry, but have you seen a toad at all?" Draco glared at Neville as he spoke, then back at Harry, and left.

(End Dream)

'No, that's just stupid, it wouldn't change a thing.' Harry thought to him self as he sat in the train compartment with his two best friends, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger.

The three had met on this very train, exactly five years ago as they made there way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as first years. So much had happened in the past years, Ron had become Harry's first true friend, he had been friendly with Hermione at first, but then she didn't speak to him or Ron because of a rude comment made by Ron. That is until Draco tried to set Harry and Ron up, Draco had wanted a duel, and Hermione had tried to stop them but had gotten locked out when the Fat Lady took an evening stroll to another painting which forced Hermione to follow the two boys.

After that night's adventure escaping detention they had become friends. They were more then friends actually, they were best friends. Harry couldn't even remember how many time they had snuck out under his fathers invisibility cloak after that Christmas with it covering the three of them, now it covered Harry and Hermione together, or just Ron since Ron was nearly a foot taller then both of them. Harry couldn't help but laugh at then mental image of Ron's lower leg moving down the hall while the rest of him was invisible.

"Hey, what are you laughing at now?"

Harry smiled at Ron, laughing once again before speaking. "Mione, do you remember the last time Ron tried to use the invisibility cloak at the end of last year?"

Hermione looked up from her book and smiled. Quickly her smile grew and she began laughing hysterically with Harry, all the while Ron sat there confused as ever. Once Hermione explained to Ron what had happened he was laughing as hard as they were.

After the sorting and the feast they had gone upstairs and sat together on the couch in front of the fire in just their school shirts and pants, or in Hermione's case, skirt. They had barely moved an inch, not even hours later as the fire began to die. No one bothered them at all, it was 'understood' that the couch and two chairs that surrounded to fire place was 'theirs', and nobody really cared that they always had the best seats in the common room, not even the seventh years. They all knew that if it weren't for the three of them, most, if not all of them would not be alive today. Thinking of this brought Harry back to his thoughts on the train, and how things could have been different if it was not Ron's family who helped him get onto the platform, or Hermione didn't chase after them.

'What if we never became friends? What would be different? Would people have really died if it weren't specifically for Ron, Hermione, and I? Or could it have been any other two people if I were sorted into Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw, or even Slytherin as the sorting hat had said I would do well in. Are my best friends inter changeable? Or are they meant to be my friends and help me no matter where we were sorted?'

Harry was becoming sleepy, and Ron and Hermione appeared to feel the same way but no one said anything or moved from their spots on the couch nearly cuddled up together, they all just sat there glad to be together once again.

(Dream)

"Thanks Draco, I really could use someone to show me the ropes. I really appreciate it." Harry said shaking Draco's hand.

"You're smart Harry, very smart, I'm glad you know who's worth hanging around with." Draco glanced towards Ron with an evil grin. "As for him..."

"What about me?" Ron stood up hastily, his face growing red with anger to match his hair.

Harry quickly glanced at Ron, trying to tell him that it was ok. "Leave Ron out of this Draco."

"Watch what you say Potter or you'll end up on the losing side."

"Well I wouldn't want that to happen, now would I?" Harry said smirking at Draco Malfoy. Ron stood where he was, unsure of what was going on.

"No, you wouldn't." with this Draco turned and left the compartment with his goons close behind.

"I hate Malfoy!" Ron exclaimed sitting back down in his seat, nearly crushing his pet rat, Scabers.

"Why do you hate him? He doesn't seem to be that bad." At this Ron's eye's bulged. "I mean, he is very much stuck up, and obviously seems to think very highly of him self, but he seems harmless really." Harry noticed the look on Ron's face, and continued while trying not to laugh. "I think he could be a good friend, well as long as you never do anything or say anything wrong to him or about him."'

"Are you bloody mad! Him? Draco Malfoy? A good friend? I'll agree with him on this, you DO need someone to teach you to ropes about Hogwarts. I mean I've never been there, but I've been around witches and wizards my entire life. I know what different families are like Harry, and the Malfoy's aren't what one would call the 'good guy's'. His father was even accused of working for You-know-who, and You-know-who is the one who killed your parents!" Ron's face was such a bright color red by this point; Harry thought he might burst at any second. "Do you really think that you should be friends with someone like that Harry? Someone that evil?"

"Who's evil?" asked a girl who had suddenly appeared in the open door way of their compartment.

"Malfoy, that's who, and who are you?" Ron gazed in question at the girl already dressed in her uniform with a head of curly medium brown hair and cinnamon eyes.

"Ah, Draco, of course, no one is more evil then he is, well except his father, and He-who-must-not-be-named, that is. As for me, my…"

Ron wouldn't let her finish," See I told you Harry, he's evil, and everyone knows it!"

Harry tried not to roll his eyes as he listened to Ron go on and on about the evil that is Malfoy. Ron was still going on about him when he realized that the girl with the cinnamon eyes was still there. "You never told us your name." Harry said flatly as he glanced at the girl, attempting to see if she was, as Ron said 'good or evil.'

"Well if this rude little twit didn't interrupt me, you would have known my name." The girl glared at Ron, "My name is Hermione, if you must know, Hermione Granger."

"Hi Hermione, I'm Harry Potter, can I call you Mione?"

Hermione's eyes were wide as they could go at hearing his name, "Yea, sure, makes no difference to me." Harry smiled at her and she wanted to melt. Hermione turned towards the other boy trying to distract her from Harry, "I heard Draco say your 'another Weasley', what's that supposed to mean?" Hermione glanced at Ron waiting for his answer.

"I am a Weasley, Ron Weasley. He said 'another Weasley' because I have three older brothers at Hogwarts already, George, Fred, and Percy, and two brothers who graduated already, Bill and Charlie. Oh yea, not to mention my little sister Ginny. There's seven of us plus me mum and dad, and we don't exactly have Malfoy money. So I'm just 'another Weasley'."

"Wow, seven kids, that's a lot. Do you get along with them all?"

"Not all of them. Percy and I, well let's just say we couldn't be more different, with the exception of our build, we have both always been tall for our age, and our trademark red Weasley hair. Percy is very rule oriented. He's a prefect this year for Gryffindor house. My other brothers and Ginny are much shorter then we are Percy is the only one who's taller then I am, and Bill and Charlie are seven and nine years older then I am."

"I wish I had a big family."

"You're an only child too, Mione?"

"Yea, guess we have something in common."

Harry smiled; glad to know he wasn't the only one with out siblings. Just then Harry realized Ron was staring at them. "What?"

"You actually want brothers and sisters?" Ron stared at them with a dumbfounded look on his face. "You two are completely bonkers. If I could get rid of the lot of 'um I would. Well I might miss Ginny, I'm closer to her then my brothers' mainly because were barely a year apart. Though I might be tempted to bring the twins, George and Fred, back every once in a while for some of their pranks."

Harry began to laugh at his new friend, at how he kept going on about George and Fred's jokes, and all the different things that they invented, and all the things that they've blown up over the summer alone.

Hermione stayed and talked with him and Ron on the train, leaving only when she told them they had to change into their school robes. She came right back ten minutes later and they talked and ate Bertie Bott's every flavor beans until the train stopped.

(End Dream)

Harry sat up suddenly, looking around the Gryffindor common room, for a moment thinking it was first year again. Harry glanced to his right to see Hermione asleep with her head on his shoulder, her hair falling across her face, and Ron asleep with his head on her shoulder. Harry grinned happily at his friends, glad to know that nothing Malfoy ever did would ever tear them apart, even in his dreams. They were best friends and had stood up to the dark lord, Lord Voldemort, risking their lives to save one another. They hadn't only risked their lives; they had each almost lost their lives at least once attempting to save each other's lives. They had even been made members of the Order of the Phoenix this past summer after they learned that it was the three of them together that were meant to finally bring Voldemort down for good, not just Harry.

Never in a million years would anyone have guessed that these three fifteen year olds were meant to stop the most powerful dark wizard in all the world and through out the ages. Harry himself barely believed what he and his friends were meant to do.

Harry shook the thoughts of fighting Voldemort out of his head and set it down on top of Hermione's head and fell back asleep.

End Chapter 1 Harry

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Posted December 23, 2005