Hermione sat back in her chair unable to speak. Scarlet dots began to creep across her face. Sirius stopped laughing and took a good long look at her. Mrs. Weasley was watching from across the way and Lupin had just walked over to take a good look at Harry. All eyes were on her and she sat silent for what seemed like an eternity.

"You do like him, don't you Hermione?" Sirius finally spoke. Everyone in the room seemed to be holding their breath waiting for the answer. Hermione looked over at Harry. He was sitting on the edge of his bed staring at her with this huge grin on his face. Flowers cascaded off of every availible desk, chair and window sill around him. The sun seemed to streak across his dark hair and illuminated his green eyes. He looked so eager, and yet for the first time since she had met him, he looked afraid.

"Hermione? Hello?" Harry waved his hands in front of her face. She shook back into reality.

"Umm, yes Harry. I will be your girlfriend." she smiled at him. He jumped up out of his bed and wrapped his arms around her neck. Something in the window caught her eye, and as she watched she could make it out more clearly. Ron was lifting his head. He was pulling up his body trying to sit up. Mrs. Weasley sat with her hand over her mouth, tears streaming down her face. "Harry look!" Hermione pointed into the window at Ron.

"Yes Hermione I know it's really nice and sunny out. A really great day, good day to be alive." Harry smiled as he looked at the clouds floating by.

"No, Harry look." the smile faded from Sirius face as he pushed Harry's head around to face Ron. Harry's eyes grew wide in shock.

"Ron..." he whispered, tears welling up in his eyes. Hermione was sobbing and Lupin put his arm around her to comfort her. "What happened?"

"Oh Harry!"Hermione began to cry even harder at the thought of trying to explain what happened.

"Well, why are we standing around here! We should be over by his side!" Harry started to get out of bed when Ron groaned. The effort to get up was too much for his body and he fell back with a thud. "What happened?"

"That is the question isn't it Harry!" someone from the back of the room asked. Flashes of light began to go off and within seconds Harry's bed was surrounded. There were reporters all around him, including Reeta Skeeter. Camera flashes were going off right and left. "Well Harry? What happened?" they all seemed to scrunch in closer. Harry wipped the tears from his eyes and looked confused for a brief moment then regained composure.

"Tell us about you and Miss Granger getting together." Reeta slipped in from somewhere in the back. Hermione scowled at her. She had been trying to escape over to Ron but was stopped by the words. Everyone turned to face her.

"Yes Miss Granger, you were there, tell us what happened." everyone surrounded her. Mrs. Weasley began to wail louder now and though Hermione couldn't see what was going on, she knew what was happening.

"It started like this." Sirius smiled brightly for the people around him pushing Hermione from to the outside. "We knew that Voldemort was stronger, we knew that he was going to attack, but without Dumbledore it was going to be impossible." he began to explain but they weren't paying attention to him anymore.

"Miss Granger tell us what happened!" another reporter shouted towards her. Someone pushed her back and over to Harry's bed. She was so confused and people started to become a blurr.

"Well, I don't..." she began but then Harry spoke.

"She waited by my bedside night and day!" Harry smiled at the camera as people took more pictures. He pulled Hermione close to him and hugged her for the camera. "She held my hand all the way through!" people began to crowd in so close they were squishing Hermione.

"I think it best that you all leave them alone! They have been through a great ordeal and Harry just came to. He needs his rest." Lupin was yelling over the insane babble trying to push people out of the way. No one was listening. "Who let these people in?"

"RON NO!" Mrs. Weasley yelled over the crowd. Hermione felt as if she was moving in slow motion. All sounds seemed to fade away into the sobbs coming from Mrs. Weasley. The crowd parted slightly and Hermione slipped away from Harry. As soon as she saw Ron, she stopped. He lay lifeless in the bed, his arm slumped over the side. Mrs. Weasley lay crying over the top of him, with Mr. Weasley by her side, patting her shoulder as if that was going to make everything okay. The monitors by his bedside stopped beeping. His face was pale and his eyes rolled back. The wand that was laying on the table beside his bed rolled off and snapped in half as it hit the ground.

"No." Hermione whispered as she began to walk forwards, but someone grabbed her hand. She turned to look and see who it was flashes once again going off in her face. Harry smiled, surrounded by the mob. He tried to pull his hair flat and had put his glasses back on. With one gentle tug he pulled Hermione into a big hug.

"Please don't leave me." he pleaded into her ear. Hermione looked back over to Ron and then to Harry.

"What about Ron? He's dead!" Harry wipped away the tears from her eyes. He looked over to Ron for the first time, a frown crossing his face.

"Then we shall tell the story of how Ron saved my life. The world will know what bravery it took and what he did. Please, they need us to tell the story." he waved his hand at the crowd. Hermione nodded and walked with Harry back to the center of the crowd.

"Harry how did it happen?" someone asked from the back.

"It went like this," Harry started, "I decided..."