Harry stared at his two best friends. They seemed so different than the last time he saw them. Even though it had only been a week and a half since he left Hogwarts, it felt like an eternity. But he was back at Grimmauld Place, his godfather's house, the one he had inherited along with the rest of the stuff in it. It brought back so many memories, he almost liked Privet Drive better, were there weren't so many horribly sad memories, to remind him, that it was his fault that Sirius died.
'Harry, Harry? Talk to us please.' Hermione called out to her best friend, who looked as though he was staring off into space.
'Sorry, this place just brings back so many memories, if only I hadn't had that vision!'
'Harry it wasn't your fault! You didn't ask for that memory, Voldemort sent it to you! How many times do I have to tell you that??' Hermione argued back.
'Look, I wasn't practicing Occlumency. If I had been I'd never of had that vision, or go to the Department of Mysteries!' Or found out about the prophecy, he thought to himself, he still hadn't told them about it.
'Listen I don't care what you try to tell, it's still my fault. I should of practice harder, I needed to learn it, Dumbledore knew something like this was going to happen, but I didn't listen!' With that he ran out of the drawing room, to his own room, slamming the door shut.
He had only just got there, and already he was brooding.
Meanwhile back in the drawing room, Hermione and Ron had got into an argument.
'I told you not to push him to hard, now when are we going to tell him.' Ron snarled.
'So you agree, we should tell him right away.' Hermione implied.
'What?!? I never said that!' Ron said angrily, things between Hermione and him certainly hadn't changed, over the last two weeks! 'You want to tell him as soon as possible, but I think that we should wait awhile, he'll blow up if we don't!'
'He'll be mad that were keeping secrets from him! I don't want him to not talk to us, because of what happened...'
'Then,' Ron cut her off, 'we'll tell him once he's calmed down, alright? Just not right now, please Hermione...'
'All right, fine.'
'Great!'
With that, Hermione left the drawing room to go find Ginny.