What I actually know how to update? Yes I do. Your laziest author is back with another chapter of mind blowing awesomeness on the Romione story. This translates to: This is a filler chapter! Yeah! So, hope you enjoy this. Except an update sooner than the period of time it took this. I'm working on my writing will power. Pray it's a success (your amusement is on the line her people)!
They slid to a stop on a huge pile of rat bones. Lovely. The silence was deafening. Or maybe it was the tension since the rat bones were making crunching noises.
Hermione was looking slightly frightened, intimidated, and if possible griping Ron's hand tighter even. She knew she shouldn't, logically, be afraid. After all, the basilisk was dead, Harry, Ron and Ginny were still fine, and this honestly wasn't the worst place she'd ever been. The fear persevered however, determined. Something about this place wasn't right. She couldn't put her finger one what it was but it wasn't right. It had this dark foreboding presence that couldn't be ignored. Like something bad happened to everyone entered. Hermione gulped.
Ron however was having a completely different reaction. Maybe it was because he had already experienced the bad thing. I mean nothings worse then worrying about your possessed sister and your best mate fighting a death glare giant snake of doom and a bit of Voldemort's soul (though he wasn't aware at the time but still an evil villain's soul known or not, it's scarily impressive.) while your stuck with a dude who just tried to kill you with a memory charm who because of your wonderfully defective wand, now doesn't know who he his which is pretty bloody annoying when you already hate his guts. So you could say Ron was past his bad experience here. I mean sure it's creepy but so is every other place he's been with Harry. So Ron did one of the few things that would creep Hermione out even more, he started to laugh.
Hermione just kind of stared at him till he stopped.
"What?" he asked completely oblivious to just how utterly insane he looked.
"Why. Are. You. Laugh-ing." She said her words slowly hoping to get across his obviously cracked mind.
It must have been around that point when Ron realized just how demented he sounded. His embarrassment at the situation caused his reply to go something like this. "Uhhh…" He mumbled. "I was just…uh…laughing at the…uh …" he seemed to trail off here. Then he gained courage and coughed it out quickly "Memories."
"Ron!" Hermione said her fear making her more hysterical than usual "What can possibly be amusing about this place!"
Ron chuckled nervously "Well, looking back this was really one of the more easier adventures for me. Plus" he said laughter edging into his voice "Lockhart was making a git of himself and that has its entertainment value."
Hermione just shook her head, or was it her teeth shaking her head? She didn't know) "Well, R-ron, if you'r-re so brave why d-don't you go first-t." Hermione managed to retort with minimal stutters. While being scared out of half her wits (which means she has now been reduced to person who is a straight A student, but not however A+++++) she still managed to be vindictive. How they were still managing to flirt is a mystery to me. Ron not being the least bit scared, while Hermione was looking, accepted and led the way…to a giant snakeskin.
Hermione froze staring in horror
"Oh," he muttered," Probably should have told you 'bout that." Hermione stiffly nodded her head, while making a strangled little noise. Ron took her hand and started to drag her through the snakeskin.
"C'mon 'Mione." He coaxed, "It's only a bit of snake skin." Hermione choked on a sarcastic huff but Ron got the message," Okay, okay, it's a bloody large piece of snake skin, but it's only skin. Besides the real things dead, there's nothing to worry about." Hermione refused to unfreeze. "Fine then," Ron said, " I might as well go all the way if you going to revert back to your petrified state every time you see it, never mind looking it in the eye." Hermione stared blankly at the skin, figuring the skin was the problem he tried to divert her attention from it.
"Okay 'Mione don't look at the skin, look at me" slowly Ron turned her head towards him. And like that Ron Navigated through the snake skin. Hermione's eyes never moving from his, till they finally made it out of the skin "We're through the skin 'Mione were done." He walked the few steps foreword into…
"Oh, yeah, huh forgot about this too." Ron murmured sheepishly, staring at the avalanche of rocks, with a small gap in it, "Well Harry really was a scrawny git if he could fit through that hole." He chuckled quietly at his joke. Hermione, who had snapped out over her frozen state but still wasn't paying attention, nodded absentmindedly. If there's one thing that can distract Hermione from fear, it's a problem that needs to be solved.
Ron watched as Hermione surveyed the situation of the wall of rock, and began to mutter and flick her wand around. He smiled fondly as she solved the problem in a matter of minutes. That was his Mione alright, Ron found himself thinking. Then he became of what he was thinking and blushed, unfortunately I might add, as Hermione turned to flash a grin back at him having just finished clearing the tunnel safely.
"Ron," she asked, "Are you okay, you look a bit flushed?"
Ron blushed even harder. But decided to give her a compliment anyway. "Blimey Hermione, wish you would have been here the first time around, would of made my job a heck of a lot easier."
Hermione rolled her eyes at his laziness. "Honestly I don't know how you accomplish anything with your work ethics."
Ron shot her a glare and muttered under his breath "Well, I don't know how you have any fun with yours."
"I heard that Ronald." Hermione sang out and flourished her wand at him in a way that made him prefer the creepy tunnels to being with Hermione any longer; so he sprinted off into the tunnels. This lasted a couple seconds before he fell with a muffled curse, seeing as it was pitch black and all.
Hermione smiled softly as she lit her wand and followed Ron into the tunnel "Lumos, Ron, Lumos." She said as she entered the tunnel.
This comment was followed by a muttered "I bloody well know that now don't I."
Hermione's laugh echoed through the chamber, bringing a little light to a darkened world.
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