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Love within Hate

Chapter 3

Furious Ginny and the New Room

Previously on Love within Hate:

"And this year's Head Boy is-"

"Scott Hardy," Dumbledore finished.

"I found that you're grades were matched with another of the boys, Hermione. So I'm sorry to say that your grades are not the top of the class anymore."

"Prove to us that you aren't just a spy and we won't pound you into pulp," Malfoy told me. "Call her a mudblood," he pointed to Hermione, with a stupid little smirk on his face.

"Ron!" a soft hand came down on my shoulder gently. "I've been looking everywhere for you!"

"Don't touch me, mudblood," I spat. (Ron's POV)

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Harry's POV

I was busy staring at my food when something caught my eye to the right. I turned just in time to see chestnut hair leave to Great Hall. I knew in a second that it was Hermione.

Quickly I got up from my seat and set off to follow her. She looked pretty upset and I didn't want her to do something stupid. Not again. What she had done to herself that one time was horrifying. She was still doing counseling in the summer.

"What do you think is wrong?" Ginny whispered to me. I turned toward her startled. I hadn't known that Ginny'd followed me.

"I don't know, but I'm gonna find out."

We didn't have to go far. She just sat there in the middle of the hall way crying. Ginny and I glanced at each other both thinking the same thing: Is she okay? Did she already do something to herself? Are we too late? But we quickly decided that she was just upset, no physical damage done.

"Hermione," I whispered to her, kneeling beside her. "What's wrong?"

Hermione sat up and looked at me, tears streaming steadily down her face. She didn't answer, just fell into my arms and cried harder. I looked at Ginny helplessly as I held my best friend tightly, trying to soothe her.

After a couple minutes she seemed to calm down a little bit and she pulled away from me.

"What happened, Hermione?" Ginny asked her in a soft voice.

"Ron," she said as a new batch of tears brewed. I stiffened. If Ron did this to her. "He.he." was all she could get out before she started sobbing again. "I went over to the Slytherin table... [sob].because Ron was there. [sob].and he. [sob].told me not to touch him.and.[sob].he called me a.[sob]. mudblood!"

I'd kill him.He hurt Hermione.

"It's okay Hermione," Ginny hugged Hermione tightly, smoothing her hair down, making comforting noises. A couple minutes passed and Hermione stopped crying. "You ready to go back?"

Hermione nodded wiping the tears away. We stood up and headed back toward the Great Hall with my arm around Hermione's shoulders.

Normal POV

But by the time they got back to the Hall the feast was over and the prefects were leading the houses back to their common rooms.

They got there just in time to bump into their favorite person.

"Aw, was the little mudblood crying?" Draco Malfoy teased, "What? Can't take a little insult? Poor baby."

Hermione took a deep ragged breath and Harry could tell she was in- between crying hysterically and putting one of the Unforgivable Curses on him.

When he saw the look on her face he just laughed. Harry caught Ron laughing from the corner of his eye. That was too much for him. He let go of Hermione, dashed over to Ron, punched him in the face, and was back with his arm around Hermione before anyone could tell what was happening.

Malfoy just laughed even harder at this which sent Ginny off her rocker. She went up to Draco and slapped him so hard the whole Hall heard it. Then she glared daggers at him and went over to Ron who was wiping blood from his mouth.

"What the fuck did you hit me for? I didn't hit him!" Draco protested.

"Harry had a right to hit him; he deserved it. You didn't have to laugh at him though," Ginny explained furiously. Everyone else in the Hall was staring at her in shock. After all, she'd been the second girl to slap him in one day.

Draco muttered something that sounded a little like 'bitch' and walked away.

Ginny muttered something that sounded suspiciously like 'spoiled ferret' and continued tending to her brother.

"Miss Granger?" Professor McGonagall called, walking toward her with Scott trailing right behind her. "Please follow me."

"Follow you where?" Ron asked protectively. (a/n- yeah, even after he did all that) "Like you care," Hermione sneered in a non-Hermione fashion.

"If you must know, Mr. Weasley, to her new living quarters," McGonagall answered in her normal snooty tone.

Hermione followed Professor McGonagall and Scott until they stopped in front of a mirror. That's weird thought Hermione, I've never heard of a mirror being used before.

"What would you two like the password to be?" McGonagall asked. Hermione just looked at Scott waiting for him to answer. After all he was smarter than her, correct? She might give a wrong answer. Hermione snorted, As if.

Seeing as no one was going to supply a password, McGonagall took it upon herself to do it herself.

"Fine," she started, "The password will be-"

"Draco Malfoy's a great prat," Hermione muttered, not meaning for anyone to hear her. To her dismay, the mirror swung open, confirming that that was the new password.

She was surprised that all McGonagall did was shrug her shoulders and walk away shaking her head.

As Hermione and Scott stepped in, their breaths caught in their throats. It was beautiful! Not to mention huge! There was a "living room" with a love seat in front of the fireplace along with a small end table on each side and the comfiest looking chairs around. To the left was a door and Hermione found when she opened it, that it was a library. She smiled widely as she gazed at the row upon row, bookshelf upon bookshelf, of books. In the center of the room were two desks, one with Gold and red colors, another waiting to find out what colors it should take. The chairs to the desks looked just as plush and comfortable.

When Hermione exited the library she found another door directly across the way. When she entered it she found, to her complete surprise but not displeasure, a kitchen equipped with everything one would need in such a room, including the latest muggle technology.

"Did you see your room yet?" a voice asked behind her, forcing her out of her trance.

"Uh, no," Hermione answered after fully coming back to reality.

"Well, I hope it's a hell of a lot better than mine," Scott said then with a half smile he added, "For your sake at least."

But even before he finished his sentence Hermione was at the solid oak door to her room. On the front of the door were golden letters spelling out Hermione Rae Granger, Head Girl. Under that was a lion.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, thinking This is it. This is where I'm going to spend the next year of my life. (a/n sorry I got that from Boy Meets World)

Hermione turned the knob, pushed it open and stepped in. Not until she took another deep breath smelling the room (a warm, sweet smell) did she open her eyes.

Boy, did Dumbledore know what she liked! The queen sized four poster was clad in the Gryffindor colors as was the lamp on her night table. She had a book shelf filled with a mix of muggle and wizard books. On the dresser was the newest kind of muggle stereo there was, along with CDs to go with it. There was a mirror over the dresser.

Hermione was still taking in the looks of her room when, once again, a voice disturbed her, "Damn! It is better than mine!"

"You do know how annoying you are, right?" Hermione snapped.

Scott just smiled and said, "I know."

Hermione rolled her eyes and left the "head" quarters.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW A/N- Just so you know, I changed that beginning part cuz I was reading it over and I just noticed how sucky it was. So I hope I changed to for the better!

A/n- okay I think that was the stupidest chapter so far but I needed to put it in. Sorry! Oh yeah and the are for italics, cause I'm totally lost at how to do it. Sooo.. Can someone please tell me how to do italics, bold, and center and stuff, I'm totally clueless!

And to those people who are still reading this stupid story and even more precisely, REVIEWING- thank you so so so so so much!! [Gets down on knees bowing]

Well, adios! I gotta start working on the next chapter!