Hermione's POV

Bedore I meet Ron at the Room of Requirment I detour to the astronomy tower where I knew Harry would be.

Once I reach the top of the stairs I see him standing where Dumbledore had falling and I push away my emotions and slowly make my way towards him.

I stand next to him and lean on the rail and look out to the darkening sky. "He's watching over you Harry, they all are." I put my hand on his arm and he takes off his glasses to wipe at his face.

"Yeah I know, I just still feel like- don't worry about it." He mumbles and looks over to me. "You're looking very dressed up tonight." I look back out at the sky and shrug.

"Ron asked me if we could have dinner in the room of Requirment to talk things over." I can tell he's doubting the reason Ron asked me to have dinner. "Hermione."

I sigh and and run my hand through my hair and wince as I accidentally brush against the bruise but thankfully he didn't notice. "Yeah I know. But I could at least hear what he has to say, give him a chance to explain, it's the least I could do."

I turn urn to leave but he grabs my arm and pulls me into a hug which I return. "Just be careful 'Mione, you're like a sister to me and I don't want you to get hurt." I squeeze him fondly and leave the tower.

I get to the room and see Ron standing there in a nice enough outfit waiting for me. I walk up to him and he puts an arm around my waist and kisses my check before escorting me into the room.

I walk in and stand there in surprise as a nice cosy room stands before me with a large fire place and a small dining table with a few candles and a hot meal sitting on it.

He pulls the chair out for me and I smile slightly as I sit down and wait for him to sit opposit me. "This is lovely Ron." He nods and takes a sip of what seems like firewiskey.

"I did this for you, a nice candle lit dinner would be a nice place for us to talk don't you agree?" I nod and take a sip of water, deciding to avoid the wine that seem to have presented itself on the table.

"So what would you like to talk about?" I ask him and he crosses his arms at his chest and leans back into the chair.

"I would like to talk about us." He smirks and I sip at my water again and nod.

"Well at the moment there is no us." I say and he starts to look angry but I quickly save the moment. "At the moment anyway, that's also why I agreed to come here tonight is so that we could sort everything out." He smiles and leans forward.

"Okay, I'll keep it short then." He cleares his throat and looks me in the eyes which is quite intimidating.

"Ever since that kiss, I have wanted you to be with me, I know that I had messed that chance of us up a few years ago but I would like to try again." I nod in understanding.

"I would like that Ron, but I don't want to jump into a relationship, I'd like it if we were to go slow, like the occasional date her and there, and no kissing till I'm ready." I give him a sharp look and he smirks but agrees.

"I was going to stay for dinner but I realise that I had forgotten that I have two essays due tomorrow so I should probably go do that." I stand up and he's next to me in seconds and I tense up.

"You'll be mine, I can promise you that 'Mione." He roughly kisses the side of my head and I make my way out and start thinking about what the fuck I just agreed to.

Draco's POV

"Granger!" I yell out without looking up from the note that was left on my study desk.

"What is it? What's wrong?" She comes running down the stairs with her wand out and looking frantically around.

"You can put your wand away." I hand her the note and she instantly calms down but tenses up again. "Why does McGonagal want to see us in her office?" I shrug but pull her along anyway before she starts freaking out and having irrational thoughts.

"Beats me but we better not keep her waiting, just in case it is important."

We we step into her office and she claps happily and signals for us to take a seat and when we do we wait a few moments while she finishes signing some documents and looks at us.

"I wanted to talk to the both of you about another Yule Ball." I refrain from rolling my eyes but I notice Granger light up immediately at the mention of another ball.

"I will let you both and a team of your choice to organise it, of course still coming back and reporting to me the descisions you made. But you will essentially control the whole thing and I would like everything planned and ready to go so we can have it in a months time."

She he smiles down at us and I see Hermione go from excited to anxious writhing seconds. "But that's barely any time at all to properly organise a ball and do everything in time."

She just continues to smile and Hermione looks like she's about to have a panic attack. With a sudden change of mood she grabs my hand pulling me towards the door. "We better get started now then, thank you Headmisteress!" She quickly yells out as she slams the door behind us.

We go to run back to our common room when she runs into Potter, I couldn't help but listen in to their conversation.

"Hey 'Mione, Ron said that if I saw you that I should ask you if you wanted to have dinner again with him tomorrow night." She looks back to me for a second before looking back to Potter.

"Can you tell him that I would like that but me and Malfoy had to plan another Yule ball and we only have a month so I'll be busy but tell him another time." He nods and give her a quick hug before dissapear img and she grabs my hand as we run the rest of the way back to our room.