AN/ Sorry for the long wait, but I really haven't had time for writing, plus this fic just never seemed to want to get written. However, I have done a complete rewrite of what has replaced the earlier chapters and things seem to be flowing and working in my head a lot better. I strongly suggest rereading the whole thing again, things have been altered, and not just my writing style. I won't even try and make any promises of when the next chapter will be up; but I do hope it will be some time this year.
And sadly enough that would be a fast update in my books. x/ Again, sorry for the delay, hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Warning: Slash
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Plotting Planning and Worshipping
Chapter Six
By ScreamForSOH
Ron's POV
I was brought up to believe Gryffindors are the good guys, and Slytherins the bad guys. And I guess with that frame of mind, once I got to school, things just seemed to continue to fall into those ideals. So when Hermione suggested during seventh year that things might not need to be like that, I couldn't help but laugh. Now… I'm just glad that things were changed.
It was about half way through the year when she mentioned it for the first time. She had just gotten back from studying in the library on one of what she called her private study times, so basically when she could shake me and Harry long enough to get some work done on her own. Anyway, she came into the Common Room and was talking to me about the amount of work she had gotten done, and had even gotten into a discussion with Parkinson about the Transfiguration homework they had. I scoffed at the idea and told her to lay off the drugs, which earned me a roll of the eyes and advice to actually look at how the Slytherins behaved, how some had changed.
So rather than continue arguing with her about it I started doing as she told and watched the Slytherins, and I was really shocked when I realised that when the went through the halls between classes in groups of two or more, that it wasn't an act of intimidation, it was more a defensive mechanism. Then after Transfiguration one morning, I actually heard Parkinson say sorry, and thank Hermione for helping her pick up her books. And that was only the beginning of it, the less we retaliated to the Slytherins' jibes, the less they said anything to us, and within a month things were almost… civil between the houses. Almost. Fights still broke out, but it was more out of habit and the ingrained belief that whatever the other house was saying was a dig at them.
What did you expect, for generations the houses had been fighting, wasn't going to change over night. But with the mediation of Hermione and others who had decided they had enough of the fighting things were sorted out before anyone ended up actually hurt. That was until the trivia night Neville and Luna put on…
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