Well, this chapter is more about friendship. I wanted to show how much Harry and Hermione grew as friends over the years. Please Review!
Hermione opened her eyes to a strange amount of light coming in from the bedroom window. She tried to set free from Ron´s arms, which were still embracing her. She managed to glance at the clock that this time marked 8:40… 8:40!
"Ron!... Ron!... RON! Wake up! It´s awfully late!"
"What? Why? What time is it?"
"Ron! It´s 8:40! We slept in! I had a meeting at eight o clock! What I'm I going to say?", she rushed the words as she rushed herself, jumping out of bed and running to pick her clothes off the floor. Ron on the other hand stood calmly on the bed.
"Well, tell them your husband kept you busy".
"Very Funny Ron", she said throwing him his night shirt "What are you still doing there? You´ll be late for your hearing!"
A while later Ron came quite late inside their office.
"Good morning!", he said, focusing on the first word.
"Where were you?", asked Harry, "its past nine o'clock! And we have that hearing at nine thirty. I though you weren't coming at all".
"Oh yeah… well… Hermione and I slept in more than usual. We went to bed really late last night", said Ron getting a red glow on his face.
"Oh, so you talked about it?", asked Harry knowing how Hermione must have reacted to the whole situation. He also knew Ron probably wasn't very gentle with the subject. "You had a big fight, didn't you?"
"Yeah we fought…at first".
"So you talked her out of it?", asked Harry with admiration.
"No….I didn't. Actually I think she talked me into it. But we kind of made up for all the fighting later", he answered with the biggest of the smiles on his face. "I mean for the rest of the night we…"
"Hey! No details thank you! I get the picture", interrupted Harry "You made up, that's all I need to know. You wouldn't want any details about me and Ginny, would you?", he joked.
Ron wrinkled his face for a few seconds. Then he managed to forget Harry´s last declaration and he couldn't get the huge smile of his face for the rest of the day.
After the hearing, Harry went to pay a visit to his friend. He knocked the door to her office, and without waiting much he took the liberty of entering.Her desk was filled with parchments and she was once again concentrated on her writing.
"Hey!"
"Good Morning Harry!", he noticed how she also managed to put enfaces on the first word.
"Well... you look considerably more relaxed than yesterday", he said smiling.
"You´ll be happy to know That I am Much more relaxed than yesterday", she answered still concentrating on her writing. "How´s Ron?"
"Well, I don´t know, you tell me!I mean, he hasn´t being paying attention to anything he´s been doing today. I gave up with him a few minutes ago".
"Oh Harry, you know...", she dropped her quill exited "he makes me feel so...so..."
Harry switched his smile into a face of low terror while he waited for her to finish the sentence.
" ...um...lucky...", she said after seeing her friend´s change of interest."You know Harry, stop wrinkling your face and stop being so silly. I think we are old enough for this talks", she mocked, "yes, its awkward,you and I are like brothers and some conversations feel awfully strange. But if we can´t talk to each other about almost everything...who are we going to talk to? I mean, really, sometimes you behave like ridiculous jealous Ron".
He started to feel like a 15 year old stupid Harry. She was right, there were so many things he couldn´t talk to Ron about...instead with Hermione he always had a bond of trust with no intermissions. She would always listen to him, no matter the subject.
"You know...",she continued talking feeling that what she had to say next was necessary to make her point. "When Ginny talks to me about you, I try not to cut her off, unless of course she starts to get too graphic.Normally I just try to listen, or hand out advice".
"What?...talk?... graphic?...Advice!!!?? She tells you about...you know...us?"
"Yes Harry,what did you expect?Women tend to talk quite a lot you know".
"And do you tell her about Ron..? That´s weird".
"Sometimes... when needed", she laughed. "You know I tend to be more reserved".
"If Ron knew we were having this conversation, he would probably freak out".
"I would expect that from him".
They smiled for a while, until Harry remembered the real reason he was there.
"Hermione, I wanted to talk to you about something..."
"Don´t even try to Harry. Ron gave it a shot last night and he wasn´t very successful, was he? I am not going to change my mind. I don´t go around talking you two out of everything I might think it´s dangerous".
"Well...it´s just that... you know...Hermione, I dragged you around for years making you take risks, hurting yourself, making you save my life...when I put it behind me it looks so...selfish. I mean, thank god nothing happened to you. Why should I take a step backwards now that there´s no real danger?"
"You're not selfish Harry... and you didn´t drag me around. I did everything because I always believed in what you did, and because I love you...", she smiled, knowing that there were high chances of her friend to get all awkward again. To her surprise he just said:
"I love you too".
