Ginny had spent the last few days trying to persuade Ron to talk to Hermione, with no luck. 'He is so stubborn.' Ginny kept saying with a grunt every time she had finished a conversation with Ron. Hermione was distraught even Malfoy wasn't talking to her. That's what she wanted, wasn't it? Hermione didn't know what she wanted anymore, she really liked Ron, but there was something about Malfoy that made her want him. Now that he wasn't talking to her she wanted him more, she felt like her heart was tearing in two with indecision.
"Right I spoke to him again, I think I'm breaking him." Ginny said walking in to Hermione's dorm.
"Thank you so much for doing this for me, I don't know what I'd do with out you." Hermione smiled up at Ginny, as Ginny took a seat opposite her on Lavenders bed.
"You do know, if you break my brother's heart again I'm never going to talk to you again." Ginny said wagging her finger at Hermione.
"Yes mum, I understand." They both laughed at this comment for a few moments. Both girls screamed out of fright when an owl started banging on the window with its beak. Hermione jumped up and opened the window to let the owl in. She grabbed the letter of him, which was addressed to her, he began to peck her until he was paid. Hermione tore the envelope open almost tearing the letter inside. The letter read:
Meet me out side the room of requirement tonight at 8.
"Who is it from?" Ginny said eagerly.
"I don't know, it doesn't say." Hermione said flipping the letter over trying to find any sign of a name. "Who rights a letter and then doesn't sign their name?" Hermione said, still looking for a name.
"What does it say? I'm sure you should be able to tell from that." Ginny said taking hold of the letter. She read over it and screwed her face up in thought, trying to figure out who wrote the letter. "Who knows about the room of requirement? And who knows that you know about it?" Ginny said her mind still visibly trying to work out who it was.
"Well any member of DA will know that I know, so it must be one of them." Hermione decided.
"Well we'll just have to see who it is." Hermione said taking the letter back and putting it on the desk next to her bed. "How are things going with you and Harry then? I saw him giving you the eye before." Hermione giggled at her last comment.
"Well we're seeing what happens, don't tell Ron though he doesn't know." Ginny made sure she added that on the end.
"I don't think I could tell Ron even if I wanted to, he moves every time I go near him. I would have to shout it across the common room if I wanted to tell him anything." Hermione said in a defeated voice.
"Don't worry I'll get through my brothers think skull. It might take a while, because it's so thick." Hermione cheered up slightly after Ginny said this.
*
To Hermione it still seemed like Ron wasn't talking to her, as much as Ginny kept saying he was coming around. As much as she wanted the letter to be from Ron she didn't see how it could, he was being moody with her.
"Ginny what am I going to wear for this? I mean if it's from Ron I want to wear something nice, but if it is someone else then I don't want who ever to get the wrong impression. It could just be an innocent meeting." Hermione began to ramble.
"If it was just an innocent meeting they would have signed their name." Ginny replied, this only made Hermione more nervous.
*
"Ron, when are you going to talk to Hermione? This can't go on forever or I think my head will explode." Harry said miming a big explosion on either side of his head, with his hands.
"I will talk to her when I know she isn't still seeing Malfoy, I mean how could she, with him?" Ron ranted. "Do you know what, I think I'm going to give her a piece of her own medicine and see how she likes it." He said as if a light bulb had gone off in his head.
"What?" Harry looked at Ron with a confused look on his face.
"I'm going to see someone else, and make sure Hermione knows about it. Then she will know how I feel and come running back to me." Ron said after seeing the confused look on Harry's face.
"So do you know who it's going to be, or are you just going to see what happens." Harry asked intrigued about who Ron would choose, and how well the plan would work. He had known Ron for five years now, this was the sixth year, and he knew how well his other plans had worked so he didn't really hold much hope for this one.
"Lavender!" Ron almost shouted out. A few heads turned to give him a strange look, but quickly turned back to their conversations. "She had a thing for me at the end of last year, I'll see if she will go out with me." Ron explained quickly to Harry.
"I just hope this works, it might backfire and Hermione will never talk to you again." Harry said with a worried look on his face Ron's face dropped when he saw Harry's.
"You don't think I'm clever enough to think up a good play, do you?" Ron accused Harry.
"I do, I just don't want you to mess things up with her, she is still my friend and I do care if you hurt her feelings, ok." Harry looked sternly at Ron.
"It's ok don't worry, Harry I love her I don't want to hurt her too much. I just want her to know how I feel." Ron's ears went slightly red after he made the comment about loving Hermione.
*
Hermione walked down
the stairs that led to the common room. She was ready for her
meeting, with who ever it was. She was wearing a knee-length black
skirt, which she had completely forgotten she had owned. She was also
wearing a plain white mini-t. She didn't want to wear anything too
revealing in case it was someone she didn't like, but she wanted to
look nice in case it was someone she did.
Her heart dropped
though when she saw Ron still sitting in the common room. All hope
that it could have been him who sent the letter was gone. Ron was
staring at Hermione, he wanted her badly, but he had to teach her a
lesson first. Hermione walked straight out of the common room and on
to the room of requirement. The door sung open and she was shocked to
see the face on the other side.
"Draco." Hermione said shocked. She could see what looked like a restaurant table with a candle in the middle and two plates of dinner on it. Against what her head was shouting at her, she walked in and sat opposite where Malfoy had taken his seat.
