1 Chapter two: When Harry tells Ron

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Harry casually walked over to where Ron was sitting, dropped his books and started thinking.

Ron, Ron, hey Ron! Stop thinking about Parvati Patil!

2 "What? Oh hi Harry, what are you doing over here?"

Think it you numskull!

Oh ok, I forgot about that-Ron

I just heard Seamus thinking-Harry

Well that was unusual, he's just almost as much of a brainiac as Hermione- Ron

No, Ron, He was thinking about Hermione. Thinking that she was all cute and how smart she was and stuff like that. All mushy stuff-Harry

Oh my god! No way! Seamus loves Hermione! Well this will certainly give me some ammunition against him when he starts ripping on me-Ron

No Ron, don't you understand? If we say that we know he likes Hermione then we will have to tell him about the potion, because the way he was thinking those things… I don't think he would tell even Dean about that-Harry

Oh come on Harry, we could just say a little birdie told us-Ron

No Ron! That would get us in big troub-Harry

What?! Oh god here comes Hermione, look, let's not tell her ok?-Ron

Ok-Harry



3 "Hi guys. What is it your not going to tell me?" Hermione questioned, but the look on her face said she had "heard" everything. "Well, Hermione, it's just, we thought it would be slack on Seamus if we told you." Harry babbled, knowing Hermione would be able to see right through it.

4 "I see. Well, did it ever occur to you that I was sitting within three feet of Seamus when he thought that." Their faces told her they had stupidly forgotten this particular element of the problem.

5 "Oh well, it's all over now, lets just forget it ever happened, ok?" Ron said, but he said a little fast, which made Hermione think there was more than Ron let on. Hermione decided to let it go "Ok, guys, look, I'm just going to go ask Professor McGonagall how much longer until the period ends, ok?" The boys agreed, mostly because they had other things that they wanted to say to each other.

Later that night, in the boys' dormitories, Harry and Ron were up late trying to think of a way to get them out of this trouble. The trouble being that Harry and Ron both liked Hermione, as much more than a friend, and Seamus liking Hermione was a bit of a problem. Actually, Seamus liking Hermione was a MAJOR problem. Ron and Harry had been planning to just ask Hermione to go steady, and the guy who got her was the guy who first asked her. Harry and Ron were not particularly bothered, because while they both shared a deep affection for Hermione, they did not want to wreck their friendship over a girl.

So as the hours wore on, Harry and Ron could not come up with a way to stop Seamus liking Hermione, or to get him to get over her. Then, as Harry's head was just touching the pillow, Ron's thoughts slowly drifted across into Harry's brain.

Harry, are you still awake?-Ron

Yes. But I wish I wasn't. I'm so tired.-Harry

Well I had an idea, -R

What? –H

How about one of us just asks Hermione to go steady? That will put Seamus off for at least a little while.-R

But which one of us? I would love to, but if you want to as well, then maybe you should ask her. After all, I still kind of have a thing for Cho Chang. –H

All right then Harry, if you insist, Ron thought with more than a hint of glee. His dream was finally coming true, he was going to be Hermione's boyfriend, that was, if she said yes. But somehow, deep in his heart, Ron knew Hermione loved him.