TORN
A Harry Potter Fanfiction
Chapter One
"They're disgusting," Ron muttered under his breath, eying his sister cuddling and snogging her boyfriend, Harry.
"Oh, please, Ronald, I think they're adorable," Hermione reprimanded him. "Now, if you curse Ginny again and turn her into a frog, I'm positive you'll get detention!"
Ron snorted. He attempted to focus on his Transfiguration homework but moments later burst from his seat.
"That's enough!" He shouted. Ginny untangled herself from Harry and jumped out of the armchair in the Gryffindor common room.
"Do you have a problem, Ronald?" she said to her older brother, her hair fiery but her voice as cool as ice.
"Actually, I do," Ron said loudly. "I have a problem with my best mate fooling with my little sister in public while others try to do their homework!"
"I'm sorry nobody likes you, Ron, but that's definitely not my problem." Ginny crossed her arms defiantly.
"Ron, stop it," Hermione stammered, flustered. She couldn't stand it when the Weasleys fought, which was often.
"People like me!" Ron shouted.
"Yes, but not girls!" Ginny shot back.
"Hermione likes me, right, Hermione?" Ron turned to Hermione.
"Well, er, of course I do," she smiled weakly. Ginny just shook her head and went back to Harry, who grinned and wrapped his arms around her.
"That's it." Ron grabbed his books and stomped out of the common room. Hermione desperately followed him out.
"I just can't do it!" Ron hollered as he paced around an empty classroom. "Why, why especially in front of me? That shouldn't be allowed, should it?"
"Well, you see, Ron, they're not doing anything wrong." Hermione tried to console him.
"I bloody think they are!" Ron shouted, throwing his Potions textbook. "And her nerve to say girls don't like me!"
Hermione smiled. She would never tell him, but she thought Ron was pretty cute when he was upset.
Ron fetched his textbook and checked the time. "We have Potions class in fifteen minutes. I'm going to go early, I guess, since I have nothing better to do, after all, no girls like me," he spoke sarcastically. "I wouldn't be surprised if Harry didn't show up."
Well, Harry showed up, Hermione thought. He was smothered in lip gloss, but he showed up. Not that he liked Snape, anyway.
"Now, to commence our class, we will begin by rearranging the seats for beginning of your seventh year, since I have noticed many of you….chatting with your classmates when you should be paying attention. Perhaps this is why so many of you fail Potions." Snape drawled.
"Or maybe it's because your class is so boring," Harry whispered to Ron, who snickered.
"The front row will be…. Goyle, Harry, Crabbe, Parvati, Ron, and Cho."
Harry groaned and picked up his books to move to his new seat. Obviously Snape had decided to torture him some more. Goyle and Crabbe looked as if Christmas had come early, and Ron was grinning cheekily to the thought of sitting next to two pretty girls for the year.
"Second row...Neville, Hannah, Padma, Blaze, Pansy, and Zacharias."
Snape went through almost all seven rows before he called Hermione's name.
"And last row….Ernie, Susan, Justin, Anthony, Draco, and Hermione."
Hermione's head snapped up. The year next to Malfoy?! While Ron would probably never like her, he'd probably fall for Cho or Parvati, but she got Malfoy? What had she done to Snape to deserve that? She lugged her schoolbooks over to her new desk, the last desk in the last row. Malfoy groaned as well and whispered loudly, "Fantastic. I get to sit next to the Mudblood."
The Slytherins laughed cruelly while Hermione looked down at her Potions textbook. Malfoy dropped his books on his desk and didn't ever glance at Hermione throughout the entire class. When the bell rang to signal lunch in the Great Hall, Hermione snatched her books and ran out of class as fast as she could, without a goodbye to Malfoy. She joined up with Ron and Harry outside the class.
"Can you believe it? Fancy I get to sit next to Parvati and Cho for the whole year! Wait until you see Ginny's face when I tell her that. Parvati and Cho! The whole class, Cho kept nudging me and whispering little things to me, she was gorgeous! In fact, I think she may even fancy me!" Ron droned on and on.
"Oh look, there's Ginny." Harry interrupted and rushed to join her, greeting her with a kiss.
"Anyway, Cho said to me"-
"You don't fancy Cho, do you?" Hermione burst.
He turned red. "Well, a bit, maybe. Why?"
"Well… because, you see… I sort of…."
Ron didn't say anything. He just reached down and took her hand. They walked all the way to the Great Hall together, and Hermione was so happy it was enough to erase her bad mood from being next to Malfoy. She even noticed Ginny break her kiss with Harry to murmur, "Finally, it happened. I didn't think they'd ever get together!"
"Now I probably shouldn't get mad at Ginny any more, should I?" Ron said as they sat down next to each other in the Great Hall, with eyes on them.
"I guess not," Hermione grinned.
"Well, at least, not if I do this." He leaned over and kissed her, a careful kiss on the lips. They both broke away, grinning madly.
"I don't think I fancy Cho any more." Ron whispered happily.