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Harry's secret

"Congratulations" Harry said to Ron in an un-enthused manner.

"Thanks, I thought you'd be a bit happier though Harry, after all, how long have I talked about wanting to go out with Hermione?" Ron said.

"I'm sorry Ron, I am happy for you, it's just weird." He said.

It was weird for Harry, because he had been hearing Ron praise Hermione for years, and for most of those years he never thought anything of his feelings toward Hermione. But recently he had secretly taken to Hermione too, but knowing how much Ron had like her he refused to ask her out. In his mind he believed that she liked him too, but Harry thought it would be to hard on Ron if he was to date Hermione. Now he was wondering though about his own feelings, this was going to be very difficult seeing the woman he loved kissing his best friend and knowing there was nothing he could do about it.

Hermione meanwhile was walking around outside of the great hall, unaware that Ron had said anything to Harry. "What am I going to do?" she wondered. She decided that she had to tell Ron, as soon as possible, she couldn't go on with this. He had the right to know. She returned to the great hall , and to her seat between Ron and Harry. Hermione quickly noticed that Harry was very quiet. "Is everything alright?" she asked Harry. He nodded trying not to make eye contact with her.

"It's alright Hermione, I couldn't help myself, so I told Harry about. . . us, and he was fine with it, even happy for us, so we don't have to worry about hiding our feelings from him any longer. " Ron said, and put his arm around Hermione. He kissed her again before she could react. She pushed him away ,

"Ron not here, we need to talk, talk about the Spring ball".

"Ok , we'll talk about it later, all the little details, don't worry." Ron said.

Harry caught Hermione's eye and realized something was wrong. Back in the Gryffindor common room they were sitting around the fire , Ron and Harry playing wizards' chess, and Hermione doing homework (as usual). It was getting late, and the fire was dimming low, Hermione kept pestering Ron all night about wanting to talk to him. "We've got a few more weeks to worry about it, don't worry" was his common reply.

As the days rolled by Harry got more agitated by the way Ron disregarded Hermione. Hermione had almost given up her attempts to tell Ron that she was not interested in him. He just wouldn't listen to a word that she said. One night while they were sitting around working on homework Hermione tried to question Ron again, he kissed her and said not to worry about it.

"I can't take it anymore" Harry snapped, and got up ready to leave. Both Hermione and Ron were surprised by his reaction.

Harry was fuming, he got so sick of watching Ron being so affectionate. It seemed like Hermione didn't really care that much about Ron at all in Harry's eyes. She seemed interested more in talking to him about the dance, and something else was bothering her too that he couldn't tell.

Harry stormed up to his dorm and got his invisibility cloak and then back down to the common room. "I'll see you guys later." He said as he vanished through the portrait hole. Hermione quickly followed after him, it was late at night and she wasn't sure where Harry was going but he shouldn't be out late. So through the portrait hole she followed Harry. Ron decided that Hermione was better at handling talking issues than he was, so he would just wait there to find out what happened.

Outside of the portrait hole Hermione just caught Harry as he was putting his cloak on. "Harry stop, what's wrong?! And don't tell me nothing because I can tell that there is something wrong."

"Hermione, will you just leave me alone, you should know that I really don't want to talk right now." He said , and started to throw his cloak on. He vanished right before her eyes, and she wished she could vanish too, because at that moment Mr. Filch was coming up the staircase towards the Gryffindor tower.

"Harry, I know you're still there, I need someplace to hide, it's Filch!!" she whispered to Harry. All of a sudden she was pulled close to Harry's body and the cloak had been thrown over her as well. Both remained in silence as Filch passed by. As they stood there they could each feel the other's body touching them. Harry's warm breath upon Hermione's neck gave her chills.

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