Chapter 4: A revealing of a theory.

Hermione was really worried about Ron; he had been working really hard with the History of Magic, though she's weary proud of him for taking this class seriously, finally. But once a while his face would frown, like he was in pain or something, and after a while he would excuse himself and just go away and come back 20 minutes later. Hermione had tried to get him to spill it at the few alone times they had had but he still refused to talk, so Hermione didn't dig in to it very much because she wanted every moment they had alone to be used wisely.

While Hermione and Ron had had made weary great progress in their studying time, just out of the blue one of them would ask a question to one another. And even though Hermione saw that Ron thought it was really boring, he had fought trough almost every book Hermione had recommended him, and she was so proud of him. But Harry just sat there, having a book in front of him but not really looking at it. He turned a page sometimes but when they asked him a question he just scoffed at them or gave them an "I don't know." And after a while ha just got up end left without a word.

The actual test Hermione didn't think was that hard, she thought she may had mixed up the dates of the death of Axel von Pontiac and Termeritus Shanks, but otherwise she thought she did well. Hermione had glanced at Ron who sat two benches in front of her and through half of the test she saw his quill stop in a mid sentence and he sat totally still, and then he started to write again like nothing had happened.

When Hermione was finished she saw that she had then minutes left and she decided to study Ron. She saw that he would freeze longer now than before and at the last minute of the test he just sat there, making small noises of pain. When McGonagall called for them to put down their quills, Ron hurried down the hall to turn in his test and then excused himself to the loo a. Hermione was sick of this and wanted to know what was happening to him so after she turned in her test she ran after him, only to be stopped by a locked bathroom door. "Honestly, didn't he think she could undo a locking charm?" She said alohomora, tried to open the door and was honestly surprised when it didn't open. "Has he imperturbable the door? I should know by now to never underestimate Ron Weasley."She thought and smiled to herself but it faded really quickly.

She was really worried of him now; she was just going to decide if she would get a teacher when Harry came behind her.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

Hermione turned around to look at him.

"I'm trying to get to Ron because something is wrong with him but he has imperturbable the door." She snapped at him.

"What, what's wrong with him?" Harry said looking at the door

Hermione had just looked at him but before she could say anything the bathroom door opened and Ron stepped out. He stopped in his step when he saw them standing right in front of him, then he smiled a half hearted smile and asked;

"Hey how'd your test go?"

Harry just shrugged and started to walk away and Hermione had just stared after him. "How could he not even care, I mean I know he's in a great grief, but not even care about your best friends well being. Sure he may not have noticed, but now I told him, and he just walked away." But Hermione had decided that she would figure Harry out later and now pay her attention to her secret boyfriend. She tried to get him to tell her about what was happening to him but he refused as usual.

Now it was Thursday, Harry had gone some were she didn't know and Ron had dragged her out of the common room saying weary loud "Oh, no I think I forgot to return a book to the library, do you want to come with me?" Hermione, who sat curdle in the chair opposite from him had looked up from her book and saw the look in his eyes that said that he had something else in mind than return a book.

"Ok." Hermione had said and put away her book in her bag and stood up. Ron grabbed his and off they went.

When they had climbed out of the portrait hole Ron had grabbed her arm gently and lead her to the Room of Requirement. When they were outside Ron let go of her and started to pace back and forth three times. When the door appeared and they stepped in it looked exactly like the common room. But before Hermione had time to say anything about the room Ron grabbed and turned her around to kissed her hard and passionate on her mouth. Hermione felt her knees weakened when his tongue ask for permission to enter, she immediately granted it.

Ron took both of her hands in his and led her to the sofa in front of the fireplace; he sat down and pulled her down to sit on his lap. Hermione put her hands on his chest and let them wander up to his beautiful hair that she had wanted to feel between her fingers for so long. Hermione was lost in the sensation of his lips on her; they hadn't had as much time these last three days as they had talked about because of the studying and they being surrounded by other people, or Harry at some time.

But now, it war their last night at Hogwarts and because Hermione knew she could not say goodbye to him like she want to on the platform, she was determinate to do it now.

Ron broke away from her lips and started to place feather light kisses on her neck, and when he reached the nape between her neck and shoulder he gently sucked on it and Hermione heard herself let out a loud and deep moan. She felt Ron smile against her skin as he sucked again before he started to wander back towards her lips.

"Mmm how am I gonna last four weeks without your lips?" he said between kisses.

"You have lived without them for five years; I think you can survive without them for four weeks." Hermione giggled as she began to wander a path down his neck.

"Yes, but then I didn't know what it felt like, and now I honestly don't know how I ever lived without them." Ron said and smiled down at her. "I'm gonna miss you so bloody much!" he said and kissed her once again. With their tongues battling Hermione felt her hands wander to his hair once again. He moaned when she tugged it backwards. His hands had started to wander on her stomach and took the path around and up her back in to her hair and back down again, she groaned in to his mouth at the feeling of his hands on her. She honestly didn´t know how she would be able to be without him this upcoming month either, but her parents had complained to much about not getting to see her after she got hurt, so Hermione had agreed to stay at home with them for the first month of the summer and the next Christmas.

So tonight was the last with Ron: and she was going to enjoy every minute of it. His kisses were like a drug to her, it was still so new and exciting to explore him, and to be explored, and she just couldn't get enough. He drew her a bit closer and nibbled her bottom lip, she felt a tingling feeling she never felt before, shoot right to her centre. He broke away from her lips and started to kiss her neck once more and when he reached the soft spot again she let out a loud moan as she felt it again, even stronger.

"Oh my God I think I'm aroused! God it feels good...way to good!" Hermione thought. "Are my hands trying to work up his shirt? And his is trying to get under mine to!" Suddenly Hermione started to panic." What if he gets disappointed about what he feels and would never want touch me, or worse, kiss me again!" No I can't let that happen, I'm not ready for this." She put her hands up to his chest and started to push him away gently.

"Ron we need to stop." Hermione said out of breath but Ron didn't seem to hear her as he had started his journey back to her lips. "Ron stop!" she said a little louder.

Ron sat up straight immediately and looked down to his hand that had just started to slip under her shirt and jinked them away like they had been burned, a panicked look started to grow on his face.

"Oh my God Hermione I'm so sorry! I just got a carried away and when you started to tug at my shirt I just thought it was ok for me to do the same. I didn't bring you here to do that I swear! please believe me..."

Hermione silenced him with a quick kiss on his lips, he looked so cute all panicked and flushed with swollen read lips from her kisses, rambling on with his apology. "Ron, I know that you didn't bring me here for...that." she said feeling her cheeks heat up. "And I got a little carried away myself, but...please don't get mad about this...but I'm not ready for that yet."

"Hermione, why would I get mad about it?" Ron asked looking confused.

"I don't know, some guys can be..."

"Well I'm not one of thus guys, I think that is disrespectful. I understand why you are not ready...well I'm not sure if I'm ready myself for...that. I mean we are only sixteen and have only been together for a little less than two weeks, I think we have plenty of time for that later...if you're not planning o break up with me in a near feature." Ron said with a chuckle like he was only half joking.

Hermione just sat there looking up at him; feeling so much...was it love? "Yes it was...I loved him...I'm in love with Ron Weasley. But I can't tell him yet, no it is too soon. Why is he looking panicked now? Oh I haven't answered him yet."

"No I'm not planning to break up with you in the near feature." She said smiling and kissed him hard. "So you don't mind to go a little slow?" she asked after they broke away.

"No I don't mind, let's just take it as it comes, yeah?

"Thank you." Hermione said as he pulled them to lie down on the sofa with her head on his chest and his arms around her. They kissed some more before heading back to the real common room. Before they rounded the last corner in the corridor that lead to the Fat Lady's portrait hole they shared their last kiss.

When they entered the common room right before curfew they still couldn't spot Harry.

"He's probably already in bed." Ron said but didn't look that convinced by his own words. "I'll check on him, I need to start packing anyway."

"You haven't started packing yet?"

"No I..."

"Well you better start if you want to sleep some before the train leaves tomorrow."

"Yes ma'am! Ron said and did a salute witch earn him a swat on the arm and giggle from Hermione.

"Ow, not the arms." He said and clutched his upper arm.

"Oh my God I'm so sorry Ron!" And put her hands over her mouth in despair.

"It's ok; anyway..."he said and leaned in to whisper in her ear. "I secretly like it when you nag me."

Hermione smiled as she felt the biggest flush she ever had creep up hear neck and cheeks. She saw that his ears were red to as his heart melting lope side grin got on his face.

"Good night." He said and brushed her hand before he took off to the boy's dormitories. Hermione signed and started to go up to her dormitory feeling giddy and happy. But when she went to bed she started to worry about Harry, a guilty feeling started to grow. How could she be so happy when he was so depressed? It was getting harder to not talk to him about Sirius with him. She hated to see him looking so sad all the time, but she promised Ron she wouldn't mention it to him and she wasn't planning to, not yet anyway. She just hoped he'd come back before curfew.

"Come on now guys, if you don't come now were not going to get any breakfast before the train leaves."

Hermione and Ginny were waiting in the common room for the boy's with their trunks and as usual Hermione's weigh like a ton with all her books, she was weary grateful for magic and levitating charms.

"Yeah we're coming now Hermione." She heard Ron's voice coming from the boy's dormitory stairs. Three pair feet and three trunks where descending from the stairs. When Ron, Neville and Harry came in to view, Hermione said.

"Oh honestly guys you can still use a levitating charm."

"Oh right." Ron said and rook out his wand and said "Wingardium Leviosa". Then he looked up at her and gave her his lop side grin and she forgot what she was gonna say next. Ginny interrupted her daze.

"Come on now guys I'm starving and I don't want to deal with a hungry grumpy Ron on the train."

"Oi! Weary funny Gin, I don't get that grumpy."

"Right..."

"I don't! But I agree with you about going because I'm starving too." Ron said and started to walk to the portrait hole followed by Harry and Neville. But Ginny grabbed Hermione and intuition her to walk a couple of meters behind the guys.

"So how long have you been snogging my brother?" Ginny whispered to her as they climbed out of the portrait hole.

Hermione was so chocked she stopped in middle of her step and just gaped at her.

"What I'm not snogging your brother." her voice to high, cracking and her face filling with heat.

"Oh come on Hermione, I've noticed it in the hospital wing how you looked at each other and last night how bought your lips were red and swollen, he whispered to you and you blushed even more than you do now..."

"Oh all right we are together, but please Ginny you can't tell anyone because Harry can't know yet." Hermione said in a quiet voice.

"Yeah I don't think he can handle that right now, that's why I've been keeping it a secret this long."

"Oh that sounds trustworthy Ginny."

"Hey I am good at keeping a secret, some are just wrong to keep but I think this is necessary." Ginny said.

"Thank you Gin." Hermione smiled at her.

"Excuse me but I don't want to stay open all day." The Fat Lady said.

"Sorry Fat Lady." Ginny said and they bought went down to the Great Hall.

They had just found an empty cabin on the train, Ron was just done putting his trunk up on the shelf and turned to lift Hermione's.

"Gees Hermione how many books do you have in here?" He asked as he struggled to lift it off the floor.

"About twenty three I think, I got some new ones from my parent's this Christmas."

Ron just smiled at her, shook his head, put the rest of the trunks up and sat down against the window opposite Harry. Hermione sat beside him, Ginny beside Harry and Neville beside her. Luna, who had joined them in the carriage that got them to the Hogsmeade Station, sat beside Hermione.

"Want to play some chess Harry? Ron asked and started to take out his chess set.

"No." Harry just said and stared out of the window.

"Oh come on Harry; we can't just sit around for the whole ride."

"I said I don't want to play Ron." Harry said through gritted teeth and narrowed eyes.

"Ok don't get your knickers in a twist." Ron said and putting his hands up in surrender as Harry went back to stare out of the window.

"We have to go our last prefect round soon anyway Ron." Hermione said feeling both angry and sad for Harry.

"Oh yeah, maybe later then Harry?" Harry just shrugged.

"Hey where is your Mimbelus Mimbletonia Neville?" Ginny asked before Ron could say something more.

"Oh...eh Professor Sprout said she could take care of it over the summer, she wanted to study it some more, they are pretty rare...eh you ok Ron?

"Yeah I'm fine." He said as his face went back to normal. "I need to go o the loo, meet you at the prefect cabin later Hermione." he said as he walked out.

Hermione knew he was lying but she was not gonna betray Ron and discuss it with the others even though she wanted to know what the other thought about it.

When she came down to the prefect cabin she noticed that Ron hadn't arrived yet. She started to get worried and was just to decide if she was to check on him when the Head boy, Brian Grant, a short boy with blond hair from Rawenclaw, started to speak.

"Is everybody here, no? Well we have nothing that important to say so you can fill in your partners later." He said and then Eileen Farrell, the Head Girl, started to speak.

"You all have done a wonderful job this year so we just want to thank you all, if you come here to the front you get your patrolling schedule for the train ride." Hermione came to the front and saw that she and Ron had the second patrol an hour from now.

When she started to head back Ron came in to view looking pale and feverish.

"Ron, are you...?

"I need to speak with you" he whispered as he grabbed her upper arm firm but gently and dragged her away. He found an empty cabin and walked inside. He locked the door and pulled down the curtain. "I think I have discovered something." he said and started pacing. "I think that the brain that attacked me was from a person, a woman, Tyra Powel is her name. She had been tortured from the cruciatus curse, and she became...you know… like Neville's parents." Hermione had sat down and listened, a little shocked about what he told her. "How do you know this?"

Ron stopped in his pacing and looked out of the window. "You know when it looks like I'm in pain and I excuse myself to the loo?"

"Yes."

"Well in the loo I kind of pass out and... and I get those visions that I usually have at night." Hermione felt tears fall down her cheeks as she gets up and hug him.

"Oh Ron, you should have told me.""

"I didn't want to worry you." He says and hugs her back

"Is that why you didn't want to tell me?"

"Yeah partly but it was mostly that I felt that I had to figure this out myself, and I think I have." Ron said and Hermione saw an exiting sparkle in his eye.

"Tell me." She said as they both sat down.

"Ok, this day vision are different from the ones at night, this one began when she wakes up again. She's in the hospital and the Healers ask her name and she's thinking, Tyra Powel but she dosen't say it out laud even thou she thinks so. They ask her again and she is thinking, I said Tyra Powel, but her eyes just looks away without her commanding them to do so. The one Healer says that she is lost and asks who can tell her family. Tyra starts to panic and tries to get up but her body doesn't obey her."

Hermione just sit there, taking everything in. "So you mean..."

"That I think that everybody that has "lost their minds" to the cruciatus curse, hasn't lost them at all, they are still in there, they've just lost..."

"Their connection between brain and body." Now it was Hermione's turn to pace.

"Exactly, their brain has been functional all this time, that's why the Unspeakables haven't found anything wrong with it in their research. There is nothing wrong!"

"Do you know what this means Ron?" Hermione said smiling up at him.

"Yeah, maybe we can find a cure for it." Ron said smiling back at her.

"Yes and..."She rushed in his arms and felt tears in her eyes again. "You may just have gotten Neville a chance to get to know his parents." She looked up at him as she saw a grin start to form on his face.

"Yeah, maybe there is some hope."

"I'm gonna start research as soon as I come home, about the connection between body and brain and I think my mum and dad knows some doctors so I ask if they know something to."

"Let's not tell anybody yet though, though I don't question that you won't find a solution to this, but maybe we shouldn't get anybody's hopes up just yet."

"No not yet anyway. Not until we are sure that we have found a cure." she said.

"Yeah that's probably for the best."

"So every time you see the vision you feel the cruciatus too." Hermione asked worried.

"Yeah, but it's getting better. I feel less pain now and don't get sick afterwards anymore, I think I'm started to get used to it. And that can be good you know, for the future." He said giving her a half smile.

Hermione knew the he tried to make her feel better and not worry about him, but she did anyway.

"What can I do to make it better?" she asked putting her forehead against his chest.

"Hmm, maybe kiss me afterwards?" he said with his beautiful grin.

"Yes I can do that now but there are just a few hours before were at King's Cross so I can't do it after that." She said smiling.

"Well then I send you a letter afterwards and you can send me a kiss."

"Yes I'll do that but I better give you one now for the one you had a few minutes ago." And she did.

Hermione and Ron came back to their cabin after the patrol and lied that they had to take two hours because one in the Rawenclaw sixth year was sick.

The train ride went smoothly after that. Ron, Neville and Ginny switched turns to play chess or exploding snaps. Harry sill refused to play with Ron and excused himself for a walk. Luna was reading the last number of the Quibbler occasionally looking up to see when the others played. Hermione was reading one of her books, though she played chess with Ron once just to get him to stop begging. She lost as usual.

The train moved on quickly and in a blink of an eye, the train started to slow down and they were ready to get off of it. Harry had arrived back half an hour before and was now standing in the front of the line.

When the train stopped and they were on the platform Hermione saw Malfoy and his gang approach them.

"Your gonna pay for what you did to my father Potter! Your all gonna pay!" he said and looked at Ron and Hermione.

"Get back Malfoy, or you'll be sorry!" Harry said through gritted theat.

"What are you gonna do Potter, now when your dog to a godfather isn't here to protect you!" Malfoy smiled and his gang started to laugh.

Harry would have hit Malfoy if Ron hadn't grabbed on to him. "Don't worry Potter you will see him soon again!" Malfoy said as the wandered of his gang laughing even harder. Harry struggled against Ron.

"Calm down mate, they're not worth it." Harry stopped struggling and Ron let him go, Harry picked up his stuff and started to head to the brick wall that would lead them to their families.

Hermione spotted her parents almost at once after she wet thru the barrier and run to hug them.

"Hi sweetheart, did you have a good year? And are you ok?" her mother asked as they hugged.

"Yes it's been weary good, mum. And yes, I'm fully healed" She said and went to hug her father

"Hi pumpkin, God I've missed you!"

"I've missed you to dad. I'm just gonna say goodbye to my friends and we can be off, ok?"

"Right we wait here." Her dad said.

She went and hugged Ginny first and they promised to write to each other. The she hugged Harry and he hugged her back but not hard, she made him promise to write and tell him how he was feeling but she thought that he only agreed to it to get her out of his way. She hugged Ron last.

"I'll miss you!" she whispered.

"I'll miss you to! And write to me all the time, ok? And write if you find out anything but don't write what it is."

"I'll promise."

"Me too." They gave each other one last hug.

"Granger!"

Hermione looked over her shoulder and saw Moody approach them.

"The Order has put up awards around your house and has connected your fireplace to the floo network so that if something is to happen you can floo right to the Burrow.

"But we don't have a fireplace."

"You do now. Your parents think it is for you to contact your friends more easily for now, but they have to know what's happening in this world soon, ok. They too must have constant violence now, understand."

"Yes sir." Hermione said and looked down at her shoes.

"Hermione you coming?" her father shouted.

"Coming dad." She turned to Ron again and hugged him one last time and said "Bye." And then walked with her parents back to their car, feeling Ron's stare all the way.

AN: ykickamoocow111 I looked it up just now and Ron dose still have a sense a danger. When the brains started to tangle around his arms he starts to shout "No… no… I don't like this… stop…stop!" But I can also see that the spell made blood come out of his mouth. So now it's quiet obvious that that spell didn't make him drunk. But I started to write this story from just the memory of Ootf. Even though that I've read it 9 times I've not read it since DH came out. But I think that I will sill stick to the drunken spell for now, because I can't come up with something else right now.

Oh I can't wait until you read the next chapter! I think its weary exiting! =)

Sorry for the grammar and misspelling, hope you could understand it anyway. R&R please =)

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