Chapter two: Tension
"Harry. Can you please tell Ron to pass the potatoes?" asked Hermione from where she sat next to him at the Gryffindor table. Harry shot her a dirty look and said to Ron "Pass the potatoes would you mate?". Passing the potatoes up to Hermione Harry said "You know Hermione, you two are behaiving like you are in First year, not fifth".
Hermione took the offered potatoes and said "Well HE started it. Talk to him about it!". Harry rolled his eyes toward the enchanted ceiling of the great hall, where clouds zoomed accross the sky "Hermione its been two weeks! I'm getting sick of being the go between". Hermione nodded "I know Harry. As soon as HE grows up a bit and apologizes for pretending to know about my relationship with Victor, i'll start to talk to him again".
Ron muttered under his breath, just loud enough for both Hermione and Harry to understand him "Its not a relationship!". Hermione shot a poisonous look Ron's way and stood quickly saying "I'm not really hungry after all, I think I'll go and do some homework in the library". Gathering her books in a hurry, Hermione left the great hall with the first students to leave.
"Ron! Just get over it would you? Apologize so we can go back to normal!" said harry in exasperation as he watched hermione leave the hall. "Not until she realizes that she's better off without him!" said Ron obstinately.
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Ron sat comfortably on a couch in front of the fire in the gryffindor common room. Rain splattered noisily against the windows and thunder rolled in the distance. The warm glow of the fire made the common room look warm and cosy and the warmth radiating from the fire was making Ron feel comfortably sleepy. Everyone else was either attending a duelling club meeting, doing homework or talking with friends in the almost deserted common room. TAP TAP TAP. Ron thought he heard a noise, however nobody else seemed to have heard anything strange. Settling back to his comfortable contemplation of the fire, Ron heard the noise again. "TAP TAP TAP". He could definitly hear it this time.
Moving to the source of the noise, Ron drew back a curtain from the window where it seemed to be emanating from and found a majestic Black owl knocking at the window. Ron undid the latch and opened the window allowing the owl, and quite a bit of the bad weather, access to the Room. Latching the window tight Ron turned to the owl and asked "What do you have there?". Allowing the owl to settle on his arm, he used his free hand to untie the scroll attached to its leg.
The scroll came away easily and Ron realised in surprise that it wasn't sopping wet like he expected. "Wonder who its for" he said as he turned it over to look at the name printed on the outside. "Hermione" he said under his breath. Tucking the scroll in his pocket to give to harry to give to her, Ron left the common room to carry the owl up to the owlery.
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"That was such a good meeting" said Hermione happily as she entered the common room in the company of Harry, Seaumus and Lavender.
"Yeah. I'll be able to use some of those tricks on Malfoy next time he gets on my nerves" said Harry jokingly.
"Where's Ron?" asked Hermione as she scanned the room.
"I thought you two weren't talking!" said Harry as he also looked for his friend. "We're not" said Hermione automatically and sat on the seat where Ron had been sitting "That doesn't mean i don't care what he's up to or where he is". At that moment the Portrait Hole opened again to admit Ron who had his hair tousled and was wet through.
"Ron! What happened" said Hermione before she could recall that she wasn't in fact speaking to Ron. Ron looked up in surprise when he recognised that hermione had actually directly addressed him.
"I, uh, Harry can you tell hermione she got a letter" he said producing the Letter from somewhere in his Robes "And, uh i took the owl that delivered it up to the owlery since it was such a bad night out there and its feathers were all ruffled. It was blowing a gale up there and i got a bit wet" he answered her question even though he had not addressed her directly.
Harry took the letter and handed it to hermione "Who's it from?" he asked as she examined the front of it.
"Harry. Can you please tell Ron to pass the potatoes?" asked Hermione from where she sat next to him at the Gryffindor table. Harry shot her a dirty look and said to Ron "Pass the potatoes would you mate?". Passing the potatoes up to Hermione Harry said "You know Hermione, you two are behaiving like you are in First year, not fifth".
Hermione took the offered potatoes and said "Well HE started it. Talk to him about it!". Harry rolled his eyes toward the enchanted ceiling of the great hall, where clouds zoomed accross the sky "Hermione its been two weeks! I'm getting sick of being the go between". Hermione nodded "I know Harry. As soon as HE grows up a bit and apologizes for pretending to know about my relationship with Victor, i'll start to talk to him again".
Ron muttered under his breath, just loud enough for both Hermione and Harry to understand him "Its not a relationship!". Hermione shot a poisonous look Ron's way and stood quickly saying "I'm not really hungry after all, I think I'll go and do some homework in the library". Gathering her books in a hurry, Hermione left the great hall with the first students to leave.
"Ron! Just get over it would you? Apologize so we can go back to normal!" said harry in exasperation as he watched hermione leave the hall. "Not until she realizes that she's better off without him!" said Ron obstinately.
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Ron sat comfortably on a couch in front of the fire in the gryffindor common room. Rain splattered noisily against the windows and thunder rolled in the distance. The warm glow of the fire made the common room look warm and cosy and the warmth radiating from the fire was making Ron feel comfortably sleepy. Everyone else was either attending a duelling club meeting, doing homework or talking with friends in the almost deserted common room. TAP TAP TAP. Ron thought he heard a noise, however nobody else seemed to have heard anything strange. Settling back to his comfortable contemplation of the fire, Ron heard the noise again. "TAP TAP TAP". He could definitly hear it this time.
Moving to the source of the noise, Ron drew back a curtain from the window where it seemed to be emanating from and found a majestic Black owl knocking at the window. Ron undid the latch and opened the window allowing the owl, and quite a bit of the bad weather, access to the Room. Latching the window tight Ron turned to the owl and asked "What do you have there?". Allowing the owl to settle on his arm, he used his free hand to untie the scroll attached to its leg.
The scroll came away easily and Ron realised in surprise that it wasn't sopping wet like he expected. "Wonder who its for" he said as he turned it over to look at the name printed on the outside. "Hermione" he said under his breath. Tucking the scroll in his pocket to give to harry to give to her, Ron left the common room to carry the owl up to the owlery.
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"That was such a good meeting" said Hermione happily as she entered the common room in the company of Harry, Seaumus and Lavender.
"Yeah. I'll be able to use some of those tricks on Malfoy next time he gets on my nerves" said Harry jokingly.
"Where's Ron?" asked Hermione as she scanned the room.
"I thought you two weren't talking!" said Harry as he also looked for his friend. "We're not" said Hermione automatically and sat on the seat where Ron had been sitting "That doesn't mean i don't care what he's up to or where he is". At that moment the Portrait Hole opened again to admit Ron who had his hair tousled and was wet through.
"Ron! What happened" said Hermione before she could recall that she wasn't in fact speaking to Ron. Ron looked up in surprise when he recognised that hermione had actually directly addressed him.
"I, uh, Harry can you tell hermione she got a letter" he said producing the Letter from somewhere in his Robes "And, uh i took the owl that delivered it up to the owlery since it was such a bad night out there and its feathers were all ruffled. It was blowing a gale up there and i got a bit wet" he answered her question even though he had not addressed her directly.
Harry took the letter and handed it to hermione "Who's it from?" he asked as she examined the front of it.