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Hermione's POV
There was a slight shift in Hermione's relationship with Fred after the night with the extendable ears. He always sat down next to her at meals and there always seemed to be a seat waiting beside him when they would all gather in the sitting room for games or meetings.
It was a small change, nothing that would have been obvious to outside eyes. But all of Fred's siblings seemed to have confirmation that something was going on between them, even though Hermione herself wasn't completely sure what it could be defined as.
Funny enough, Hermione found that she and Ron had become better friends over the last few weeks. They argued less, seemed to work more cohesively together and simply got along better than they had since their second year.
"How's the parchment coming, Hermione?" Ron asked as he sat on the floor of her and Ginny's room.
Hermione groaned, "Still not working completely. I think we need to try sending Harry another owl, just so he knows we're not ignoring him," Hermione sighed as she continued to reread the spell book in front of her. She had been rereading all the books about linking charms for two solid days now.
Ron held out a carefully folded slip of parchment, "Already taken care of. Only problem now is how to get a hold of the owl."
"What did you write?" The witch took the paper and examined the wax seal; it was the symbol of the House of Black. "Does Sirius know that you used his crest?"
"Nope. Ginny suggested we use it. You know, in case someone catches us using the owl… maybe they would buy the story that we were sending something for Sirius and the Order." Ron chuckled lightly, "We wrote him a… haykoo... I think that's what it was called? Something Ginny found out about in the library here."
"You and Ginny wrote Harry a haiku poem?" Hermione tried to contain her smirk.
"Yea! It's about Kreacher. We thought it would be sneaky way of telling him where we are and it's sort of our way of preparing him for that horrible little house elf."
"Ron, he's not horrible. He was just around dark wizards for far too long," Hermione glared at her friend.
"Whatever you say 'Mione."
The witch glanced at the note again, "Wait how are we going to send it? And what if Sirius is the one to catch us?"
"That's where you come in Hermione," Ginny strolled into the room and bounced down onto her bed opposite Ron and Hermione.
Hermione cinched her eyebrows together, "What does that mean?"
Ginny flashed an almost evil smile, "We need you to set up a diversion. You're having trouble with the linking spell still, so we were thinking maybe you could ask Sirius for help. Out of all the adults in the Order, he's the only one who would be willing to help us with something like this. So, you can get assistance and you can distract him while we use an owl."
"Well, I guess that would work. Who will be diverting your Mum's attention?" Hermione closed a finger in her book to mark the page.
"Me probably," Ginny shrugged. "I'm sure I can come up with something to spark her interest."
"You should see what Mum thinks about Hermione and Fred."
"Ronald!" Hermione blushed horribly as she swung the heavy book at her best friend.
"You know Ron, that is not a bad idea at all," the menacing grin was across Ginny's face again.
Hermione grabbed one of her pillows from the bed and threw it toward the redheaded witch, "Don't you dare. It's strange enough talking about it with the two of you. I cannot even imagine someone speaking to your mother about it!"
Ron and Ginny burst out laughing as Hermione's face turned an even deeper crimson.
"Well, fine then. Let's practice talking about it, so you're more comfortable then," Ginny offered as she maneuvered to avoid another hurled pillow.
Hermione forgot her book and covered her face with her hands and groaned loudly at the precarious witch. Ron chuckled to himself and patted his friend on the shoulder, "I think that's my cue to leave. Really don't need to hear the details between you and my brother. Good luck with the girl talk, 'Mione."
Ginny waved at her brother as he left the room, "You know, I think Ron's gotten more tolerable since you two decided to just be friends."
Hermione rolled her eyes, but laughed at the ridiculous comment, "I think it's more like, we don't intimidate each other anymore so it's much more comfortable to be around one another."
"Could be, but Ron's not the one I want to talk about." Ginny crossed the small room and sat directly in front of Hermione, "Now I'm doing this for your own good; because if this thing with Fred continues, everyone in the tower is going to ask you questions about it. So you'll need to get over this embarrassment sooner rather than later."
Hermione shot her only close female friends a doubtful look, "And…"
"And, I want to know what's going on between you and my brother."
Despite the fact that Hermione was really uncomfortable with the upfront nature that Ginny usually had; the younger witch was right. Hermione was going to need to figure all this out before the end of the summer or suffer while she tried to understand it while they were back to Hogwarts where even more people would be watching.
Hermione sighed heavily, "All right, but 'I don't know' is probably going to be a very overused answer."
"That's fine. It will give you a few things you need to sort out before we head back to school."
Woohoo! I had some fun writing this; let me know if you had fun reading it too!
I'm really feeling that my Ron would be ok with this relationship. Nothing really got started with him and Hermione, and I'm hoping that he learned from the blow up at the Yule Ball. I'd like to think he's enjoying his new friendship with Hermione and getting to know her in a different way. So he will probably be uncomfortable with the idea of Hermione dating Fred, but I don't think it's going to cause a fit or anything.
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