Hi. In this chapter, Ron and Draco partner up to get revenge on Harry and Hermione.

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Thanks to Kitty, and Zire-7, haha, you make me laugh.

At 9:30pm, Harry decided to go up to bed from the Gryffindor common room. He was exhausted from the day of reading and discussing with Hermione, so he finally excused himself, taking with him Catching Fire, the next book in the Hunger Games series. Hermione had gone up to her own dormitory about half an hour before, and there was no one left in the common room except for Ron. 'You coming, Ron?' asked Harry. They were the first words he had spoken to Ron since before Potions. Ron glanced at Harry rudely, and then looked towards the fire without a word. Harry took it as a no. 'Um, well, good-night.' Harry contemplated apologising to Ron, but decided against it, thinking that he didn't really have anything to apologise for.

As soon as Harry had turned out of sight, Ron stood up from the armchair abruptly and left the common room, ignoring the protestations of the Fat Lady ('Hey! What are you doing? You can't just...!').

Ron walked as quietly as he could down the deserted corridor, pulling out the Marauders Map and Harry's invisibility cloak (he had Summoned both off Harry's bedside table). As he pulled the cloak on, he opened up the map and after whispering, 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,' he examined the area around the dungeons, scanning the map for Malfoy.

Sure enough, pair of feet labelled 'Draco Malfoy' was standing still outside the dungeons. Ron guessed that he was leaning on the statue of Salazar Slytherin that was metres away from the entrance to the Slytherin common room. He remembered the statue from second year, when he and Harry had disguised themselves as Crabbe and Goyle.

Ron soon arrived in front of Salazar's statue, pulling off Harry's invisibility cloak, and looked at it with suspicion. Where was Malfoy? Ron's doubts that had faded when he had seen Malfoy's name on the Marauders Map, were back again with reinforcements. Maybe he was going to hex him. Ron cursed himself for being so stupid.

Now Malfoy would boast about tricking Weasley into meeting him.

As Ron began to check behind Slytherin's statue, he laid a hand upon the shoulder of the statue to support his weight. To Ron's surprise, he felt flesh and Malfoy laughed.

Ron jumped backwards, gasping loudly.

Draco Malfoy appeared suddenly, out of thin air.

Ron's face turned a shade of purple and began to splutter, 'what the… that - where did you … I mean … Merlin's … don't ever do that again.' Ron turned from confused to angry.

'Didn't you know, Weasel?' asked Draco arrogantly. 'If you touch Slytherin's statue, you become invisible. I thought everyone knew that.'

'Shut up, Malfoy.'

Draco's eyes glittered dangerously. 'Let's get down to business, shall we?'

Ron sighed and nodded. 'You'd better not be having me on.'

'I saw how Potter ignored you. If I were you, I'd do something back to him.'

'Glad I'm not you're friend, then.'

'I think we should steal something of his.'

Ron sneered, trying not to think of the map and invisibility cloak squished in his pocket. 'He wouldn't even notice.'

'I noticed that Potter and Granger were ignoring you because of some book series they were talking about.'

'What are you getting at?' asked Ron.

'I think we should steal this series, just to see their reactions when they realise it's missing.'

A slow smile spread across Ron's face.

Malfoy continued, 'I'd enjoy it because I hate Potter, and you'd be getting revenge. So, is it a deal?'

Ron nodded, and held out his hand.

They shook on it.