Look Into My Eyes, And Tell Me You Love Me: Preface
Ron is gone. Ron is gone. These words of Ginny Weasley ringed in the head of a certain Muggle born brunette as she curled herself up in a ball and cried her eyes out. Many times have the Golden Trio escaped danger, or found a way to avoid it, and now it seems so unrealistic that her ginger haired friend was gone. Hermione Granger was alone in the Astronomy Tower, her back against the cold hard wall crying to make the pain go away. It was not working
She was so confused now, because she had been so angry at Ronald a few nights before, and now she regretted it. The tears seemed to stream down her face endlessly as she thought about it over and over again. Everything happened so fast, and the last thing she saw before Ron disappeared was his eyes staring right at her, almost pleading to help him although he knew that his best friend was unable to do so due to the situation at that time.
Hermione was mentally beating herself up, regardless of the fact that she had already been doing so by refusing to eat or sleep. By separating herself from her friends and refraining from speaking for the past few days since Ron was taken from them by Death Eaters. She was almost certain that they had already killed him, or even worse torturing him with the other Unforgivable Curse to gain information from him.
Harry had been quite busy too, though. He was equally devastated by the incident but he had no choice but to put aside his feelings as he had to concentrate in Occlumency, to prevent the Dark Lord from messing with his head. Thus, Hermione was left alone with no one to share her grief with. She had thought about spending time with Ginny because she would have felt even more hurt because despite of her many siblings she still lost a brother, but every time Hermione set eyes on Ginny she cried even more because she looked like him.
Suddenly Hermione heard footsteps heading towards the Astronomy Tower. That's odd, she thought. After a while nobody bothered to go there because Hermione would always be there crying. It was a heart-breaking yet pitiful sight to see, and so most of the students just stopped going to there. It was as though Hermione had haunted the Astronomy Tower like Moaning Myrtle does in the Second Floor Girls Bathroom.
Hermione did not lift her head up to see her visitor and just continued crying. They'll go away eventually, she thought, but no. The figure approached Hermione and sat next to her. In silence the figure placed one hand around her and Hermione immediately felt the warmth of the person next to her. It must be Harry, and she slowly snuggled into his embrace. Only Harry understood the silence that was needed to be conveyed when Hermione was sad, and so without looking she thought she knew this person next to her but after a while that person let out a slight cough, and in an instant Hermione Granger knew it was not The Boy Who Had Lived who was sitting next to her.
So who d'you think was sitting next to Hermione? (: The answer is obvious, of course :D