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anyway on w/ the story.
throughout the story my friend rachel helped me w/ it.she sometimes helps co-write my story and i sometimes help her co-write hers.my story so far is like 27 chapters long but in like 5 different notebooks at the moment and hers is like 20 chapters long.i'm still trying to convince her that she should post it so you never know.
chapter 4: fight!
They where walking back up to the common room with Hermione still sobbing on Ron's shoulder when they were stopped by Snape.
"Well, well, well. It's the engaged couple. Yes, McGonnagaltold us everything, but she never said that yoiu could be out after hours. Come with me."
They followed quietly and without a struggle because Ron didn't want to make Hermione feel more miserable than she already was.
They weren't walking to Dumbledore's office, but rather to the staff room. Snape opened the door and all the teachers were in there, even Dumbledore.
"Get in," Snape snarled, pushing them into the room and by the look in McGonnagal's eyes, she had told the other professors about the letter.
"What's wrong, Severus?" Dumbledore asked.
"Out of bed after hours, these two." He said smiling and pointing at Ron and Hermione, with hermione still sobbing on ron's shoulder.
"And do you two have an excuse?" Dumbledore asked nicely.
Ok, apparently McGonnagal didn't tell them.
"Yes . . . we do."Hermione said in between sobs.
"and what would that be Miss Granger?"
"I can answer that Albus." McGonnagal said standing up and walking over to Hermione an dputting her arm around her.
"What would that be Minerva?" Dumbledore repeated.
"Well," she started."While I was up in the Gryffindor common room congratulating Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger, her parents owl came to the window with a letter from her dad saying that her mother," she started to sob, "got killed by Death Eaters . . . that invaded her house. The baby and her dad . . . nearly got away. The house was destroyed and they are currently living with the Weasley. That's why they . . . were out after hours. Hermione ran out and down to the lake to cry." McGonnagal ended sobbing on Ron's other shoulder. Some teachers started to cry and some clapped their hands over their mouths.
"Ron, is there going to be a funeral?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Ron.
"Yes, it will be on December 27 at 2:00pm." Ron answered promptly.
"That's tomorrow. I want you, Miss Granger, Miss Weasley, and Mr. Potter to pack. You are going to the Burrow at noon. Be in my office by quarter till. It is now 2 in the morning. Minerva come here. McGonnagal walked over to Dumbledore, sat down in a chair next to him, and started crying on his shoulder. He kissed the top of her head. "Go on and inform Miss Weasley and Mr. Potter."
"Ok." Ron said dully.
Ron walked Hermione back to the common room and everyone stopped partying instantly. Apparently someone hade told everyone about hermione's dad because people came up to hermione and kept saying ,"Sorry about your mom' or 'Hope you're all right.' Ron told everyone to go to bed to give the trio and Ginny some time alone. Ron told Harry and Ginny what Dumbledore said and they went up to pack the things they had. Ron just laid down on the couch with Hermione crying into his shirt all night. he tried to comfort her by muttering soothing words in her ear, but it didn't work. Finally they both fell asleep on the couch together and then at 11:30 in the morning he woke up and woke up hermione so they coule go pack up their things. The trio and Ginny walked up to Dumbledore's office with their trunks at 11:45.
"Fizzle Wizzbee, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Cauldron Cakes-"
"Ron, give up you might as well say Lemon Drop and it-" Hermione said as the stone gargoyle leapt aside."Wow, it worked."
"Who would have known he liked lemon drops? Thanks to you, Hermione, I now know what a lemon drop is. They're actually not that bad."
"Told you so."She said dully as they walked onto the stairs.
"come in."Dumbledore said as he heard the knock on his door.
They walked in and Dumbledore was near the fire getting Floo Powder ready.
"Hi professor." They said in unison.
"Ready to go?"
"Yep." ron answered.
"I'm really sorry about your mom, Miss Granger." The twinkle in his eyes were disappearing like it did when he told McGonnagal the Potter's were dead.
"Thank you Professor." Hermione said about to go into another fit of tears."Are we all ready to go?"
"Yep."
"Why don't you go first Mr. Weasley." Dumbledore said, "it's your house after all."
"Ok."Ron said while taking some Floo Powder. He stepped into the fire and said, "the burrow," and dropped the powder. Emerald green flames eruped and he was gone.
"ok, Harry."
Harry tokk the floo powder and did the same as ron and then ginny did the same and as hermione reached for some, Dumbledore stopped her.
"Are you alright Miss Granger?"
"yes i'm fine."
"very well."He handed her some floo powder.
she did the same as harry, Ginny and Ron and then was followed by dumbledore. They arrived at the Burrow to find everyone gone except-
"Dad." hermione choked.
"HERMIONE."
She ran over to him and hugged him wiht tears in her eyes.
"Where is everyone and where's the baby?"
"The baby is upstairs sleeping and everyone else is in the kitchen. What do you say we join them?"
"Precisely what I was going to say." Dumbledore had arrived.
"OK."
They walked into the kitchen together and Mrs. Weasley ran over to Hermione and gave her a bone crushing hug. She could tell that she had done the same to Harry, Ginny and Ron because they were all rubbing their sides. Mrs. Weasley stepped back to look hermione up and down and gasped.
"Hermione, are you getting married?" Mrs. Weasley asked looking at hermione's left hand.
"Yes." She said slowly and causiously wondering if her dad and mrs. Weasley would be mad.
"to who?"
Hermione looked past Molly at ron who nodded.
"To Ron."
"Really?"
"Yes. We're getting married Valentine's Day."
She ran over to ron and Gave him another bone crushing hug and Dr. Granger gave hermione a scowl.
"Can I talk to you Hermione?"
"sure."
"follow me."
They walked into the living roon and he seemed nervous but started to talk.
"Hermione, how come you didn't owl me after this happened?"
"I didn't have time-"
"What do you mean, 'didn't have time?' " he nearly yelled making hermione start to cry.
"Ron proposed to me at the Yule Ball Christmas night and then we dance for the rest of the night until Dumbledore told us it was time to leave to go to bed. We were about to start the party when Ron told everyone about us and tehn your letter came and I ran out to the lake crying an dhe came to comfort me. We walked back in and dumbledore told us we had to leave today to come here." She sobbed.
"Listen to me Hermione." He said taking her in his arms,"I love you, but I really don't want you to get married to him-"
"What?" She said pulling away from him and taking a step back.
"Well, I really love Ron like my son, but-"
"but what? I LOVE RON AND HE LOVES ME." she yelled.
"I know he does hermione. I could tell by the way he looked at you."
"then why don't you want me to marry him?"
"Because I said I loved him like a son. Not my oldest daughter's husband.
"Well i love him and he loves me and I am getting married to him whether you like it or not." She said matter-of-factly.
She ran out of the room and ran into ron who was, with the rest of his family, listening, and grabbed him by the hand and pulled him up to his room. Once they got there she looked as though she wanted to kill someone and then she just sat down on Ron's bed and put her head in her hands and started to cry. ron Walked over to her and put his arm around her and kissed the top of her head.
" 'Mione, you all right?" he asked.
"No, my mom just died, I just got into a fight with one of the two family members that I have left, about you. I have lost all the people that I love except you and my little sister."
"It's alright hermione, everything will be ok." he said comfortingly.
"I hope so."