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Of Spaceships and Betrayals - Drabble1

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Hermione leaned against the headboard, a throbbing headache working its way up from the base of her skull to her frontal lobe. She had exams to study for, homework to do, and yet here she was trying to explain to Ron what, exactly, a spaceship is.
She had drawn him a diagram, but that only seemed to confuse him even more. He was hunched over it, sitting cross-legged at the end of the bed, with a pained expression on his face.
Finally he looked up, a gleaming light in his eyes, "Oh, I see! It's a joke. Good one 'Mione!"