Harry Potter and The Matchmaker

Chapter One

"So," said a happy, flirtatious, female voice from behind Professor Hermione Granger. "Will he be there?"

Hermione new exactly what her friend and fellow professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Louisiana Roads, meant, but instead of saying so, she simply said, "Who are you talking about, Loui?"

Loui rolled her eyes and stepped all the way into Hermione's class room. "You know very well who," she said, her smile broadening into a grin. "I am talking of non other then Ronald Weasley, your ex beau from your days as a student here. Is he coming to the fifth year reunion or what?" Loui asked, now leaning on her hands on Hermione's desk, her American accent plain as day.

"How should I know," Hermione said, wiping off the notes she had placed on the board manually, instead of using magic, where she wouldn't have to look at her best friend. "I thought for sure you would ask if Harry was coming." she added, turning around to face Louisiana.

"Oh, I know he is coming," Loui told her offhandedly. "What I don't know is if your other school mate is."

"Well, you'll just have to wait and see tonight, wont you?" Hermione said with a small smirk and walked out of her classroom to get ready.

Loui laughed as Hermione closed the door. "He is so coming," she said to herself. "I adore it! It's about time I got her together with someone and I know he is the prefect person for her, even if they don't know it."

~*~

Later that day, after lunch, Loui sat at a reception-like desk in front of the main hall. She had many different name tags on them with pictures of all the graduated students photos of them when they where sixth years on each of them.

She had given out many of the tags already and directed each person to where they where staying that week. For one whole week this reunion would last, starting with the Welcome Back Ball and finishing, at the end of the week, with the Goodbye Ball. In-between these two balls, were many fun events planed as well as free time to remember and walk around the school.

Loui's 'shift' was almost over and one of the other teachers would come and take over. While she began to gather her things, she saw the shadow of a man come across the table.

She looked up to see a handsome red-head with a devilish smile on his face. She smiled up at him welcomingly. "Hello, and welcome back to Hogwarts," she looked at him for a moment about to ask his name. Then, she realized who he was and her smile turned even more devilish. "Ronald Weasley," she said with confidently as his tag popped into her hand, as it was charmed to do.

He took the tag from her and pined it on. "Please, call me Ron. Ronald makes me fill like I am in trouble," he laughed at his own joke though Loui only smiled.

"I'll try to remember that," she said as she stood up as a male professor came and took over for her. "Come on, I'll take you to your room. It'll save one of our Perfects the trouble and I am going that way anyway. Besides, I've heard a lot about you."

Ron laughed again. "Really?" he said as he fallowed her up the main stairwell. "And who, may I ask, has been talking about me?"

"An old friend of yours," Loui said simply. "Oh, I am Louisiana Roads, by the way. I transferred here a few years ago from America. I teach Care for Magical Creatures. I heard the man, Hagrid, who taught it before me, moved to France to be with his wife, some woman who is headmistress of Beauxbation Academy of Magic."

"Madam Maxine," Ron nodded.

"That's it," Loui smiled. "Well, what do you do, Ronald?"

"Ron," he said automatically. "I am an Auror."

"I suspected that. From what I was told, you would be an Auror, a wizard police officer," Loui laughed as they came to the portrait of the Fat Lady. She spoke the password "Phoenix Feather".

"Are you the head of Gryffindor Tower?" Ron asked as he stepped through the familiar door and into the common room.

Loui smiled. "No," she said, humor in her voice. "Professor Granger is." She looked at him to see his reaction.

It was a mixture of emotions, only a few was Loui able to identify, such as pleasure, suddenness, shyness, anger... just to name a few.


This pleased and worried Loui. Pleased for the joy she saw, worried about the anger. She would have to find out just why Hermione and Ron broke up.

Before anything more could be said, another Gryffindor student, a Perfect, came up to Loui. "Professor Louisiana, you're needed you in the Great Hall. They sent me to get you."

Loui nodded. "Tell them I'll be right there." she said with a smile.

When the student nodded and left, Ron asked, "You let them call you by your first name?"

"Oh, well, you see, my twin sister, Montana works here as well. She is the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Since it would get very confusing having two Professor Roads in the school, we allow the students to call us Professor Louisiana and Professor Montana," she explained. "Well, I must go. Your room is at the very top of the boy's dorms. I do believe you and Harry Potter will be sharing the room. I figured you two wouldn't mind." She smiled and then left for the Great Hall.

After she was gone, Ron walked up to his room, where he saw Harry had already been and gone, by the things in on the bed, and set his trunk beside the free bed. "So, it's true. Hermione does work here," he murmured to himself.

"Which will bring all three of us together again," said a deep, male voice from behind Ron. He turned to see a tall, thin man with messy black hair and a lightening scar on his forehead.

"Harry," Ron exclaimed and, much to both of their surprises, went over and gave him a hug. He then back away and they both laughed.

"Come on, let's go for a walk across the grounds. I haven't been here since we graduated," Harry told him.

"Yeah, just like old times," Ron smiled, though he didn't really believe. So much had changed.