Sooner or Later
By: AngelDusterBuster
Disclaimer: Let's face it. We all know I don't own any of the characters from the Harry Potter books. So if you see something here that was ever mentioned in the books remember that I was only given the material I didn't create it!
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Chapter Eleven: Bumps In The Road
"What were you thinking Harry? And bringing Ron into it…", for the umpteenth time Harry heard that night, "Harry please answer me"
"Professor…I think Harry's just tired", Ron tried to help Harry out, "He said he…"
"Shut up Ron", Harry muttered under his breath kicking Ron.
"Okay the first time it…", Ron turned silent forgetting Remus was in the room.
"Why do I get the feeling there's something you aren't telling me?", Remus sighed heavily, "you know what your right…let's all get some rest. And Harry you are expected to be in class tomorrow"
Harry knew that was coming, "Okay"
"I'll…I guess I'll find you somewhere tomorrow", Remus rubbed his eyes all the stress was obviously starting to get to him.
"Come on", Ron tugged on Harry's arm, "if were going to wake up in a few hours we need to get some rest"
Ron had to pull Harry down the corridors. He knew what Harry was going though. He'd been there and it was an empty feeling.
"Harry why didn't you let me tell him you aren't feeling well?", Ron broke the silence. It was almost one and the corridors were quiet.
"Because I'm feeling better", Harry lied.
"Just like that?", Ron practically laughed, "Yeah sure you do"
"Lay off will you?", Harry yawned, "I feel like I'm going to fall over"
"Same here", Ron decided to change the subject, "but you look worse"
"Oh thanks Ron!", Harry feeling irritable started to take little things like that seriously.
"I'm just kidding", Ron for the first time took a good look at his friend, "I take it Lupin's either blind or….or going to class is a punishment. Because you look like you need five days rest"
"Is the point of this conversation to make me feel like crap?", Harry suddenly froze in place.
"Like I said before. Breathe", Ron started pulling Harry down the hall again. He noticed Harry wasn't even helping Ron pull himself along anymore, "You okay?"
But Ron didn't get an answer because Harry had run down the hall into the nearest bathroom.
"Harry!", Ron ran after him with the little energy he had left. He pushed the door open rushing inside, "hey are you okay?"
Ron heard Harry moan, "I take that as a no…do you uh…want me to find someone?"
Harry didn't answer, "Harry? Are you okay?"
Ron had to laugh when he finally saw Harry, he'd fallen asleep on the ground, "Harry…Harry get up"
Harry finally did wake up a few seconds later, "Where am I?"
"The bathroom…you got sick", Ron was leery whether he should mention.
"Oh yeah", Harry attempted to sit up.
Ron protested, "Hey it's okay if you need to get a quick breath"
"I'm ruining any possible sleep you could've gotten", Harry reminded Ron.
"You're really getting annoying", Ron rolled his eyes, "can't you ever just oh I don't know….accept kindness and help?
"Not in my genes", Harry took a deep breath, "getting sick over Christmas was bad enough but…again!"
"People don't usually get sick that much…especially you. It could just be everything that's going on", Ron suggested extending an arm out to help Harry, "you'll feel better when you get some rest"
"What would I do without you?", Harry joked.
"That is a question yet to be answered my friend"
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"He's doing it again Hermione! You wake him up…I'm not going to be the one to have Harry all angry at me this morning", Ron rushed into the common room out of breath.
"Doing what?", Hermione looked at Ron puzzled.
"He won't wake up", Ron gave Hermione a look saying just get up there and fix him.
"Fine Ron I'll save your butt again", Hermione rolled her eyes. It'd been this way the past few days. Harry had been very irritable to the fact that everyone was following him around so much. The fact that Ron wasn't allowed to let him out of his sight.
With much reluctance and a heavy heart Hermione climbed up the staircase to the seventh year boys dormitory. Sure even as soon as she entered she saw Harry lying on his bed Dean and Seamus standing over him.
"Move", Hermione shoved them out of her way sitting down next to Harry.
"What's wrong with him Hermione?", Dean spoke up.
Hermione quickly reminded herself that Harry's suicide act was to be kept quiet as she responded, "He hasn't been feeling well"
But it wasn't a lie because Harry hadn't looked well the past few days. She gently shook Harry calling out his name, "Harry…Harry it's morning we have potions remember?"
Harry groaned ignoring her.
"Oh that's real nice!", Hermione tearing the blankets off his bed, "Get up right now Potter!"
The two boys behind her exchanged smiles and laughs, "You think this is funny?"
"I've never heard you call Harry by his last name", Seamus laughed harder.
"Really Harry this is stupid…I know your upset about Sirius but you have to move on with life! Ron and I can't handle this anymore…", Hermione watched Harry silently get up from the bed, "And your vow not to speak to anyone isn't helping anything"
"Oh good you got him up", Ron walked into the room, "Now get out"
"I'm not your sister Ron!", Hermione glared at him, "I'll leave when I want to"
"Trust me you'll leave if you don't want to see a little more of Neville that you never wanted to see", Ron threatened.
Ron was pleased when he appeared to have grossed Hermione out enough, "Fine I'll leave. But it's because I want to"
"Yep you and Ginny sure have a lot in common", Ron grinned as Hermione walked out of the room, "Ready Harry? Harry wait up!"
Ron let out a silent groan in his mind. Harry's two year old act was getting old really fast, "Harry? Did you change your name or something? Harry wait okay!"
Harry made no move to slow down so Ron rushed ahead, "I'm really getting sick of this you know"
"So leave me alone then", Harry made Ron jump in the air when he spoke, "stop listening to orders and do your own thing"
Ron was about to protest when he watched Harry pull ahead into the potions classroom. Harry made sure as he had done lately that he took a seat where neither Hermione or Ron could fill in next to him.
"Take a seat Mr. Weasley if you don't want to serve detention tonight", Ron heard a voice behind him.
Class had gone along fine as Hermione and Ron saw for the next while. So neither of them could've saw Harry's sudden change come.
"Mr. Potter what are you doing?", Professor Snape snapped when Harry had stopped working.
"Nothing", Harry muttered softly.
"Then get back to work!", Snape yelled loud enough to turn all heads to the back of the room, "all of you!"
Ron studied Harry for a moment. But Hermione appeared to be five steps ahead of him.
"He looks faint Ron", Hermione whispered from next to him.
"He also doesn't want our help", Ron quickly reminded Hermione.
"He needs to get to the hospital wing Ron. This has gone on for long enough…he hasn't felt well for a few days", Hermione took a step toward Professor Snape.
"Wait", Ron held her back, "He's just going to make things worse. We'll wait until after class and then--"
"AHHH", A female voice yelled from the back of the room.
Hermione and Ron's heads snapped back immediately to Harry. Hermione looked up at Ron as the two ran to the back of the room, "I told you!"
"Miss. Brown what is the problem!", Snape obviously hadn't seen Harry collapse.
"Harry!", Lavender shouted, "Harry fainted!"
The class immediately went silent, even the Slytherins which was highly unusual. Professor Snape walked to the back of the room much faster than any of them had expected him to.
"Someone go get Madam Pomfrey", Snape muttered to the students around, "now!"
Ron stared at Professor Snape obviously wondering why Snape hadn't left him lay on the ground. Why Snape seemed to care. But his attention quickly traveled elsewhere.
"Hermione", Ron grabbed the back of her robes, "get a hold of yourself!"
Hermione turned to look Ron in the eye. Tears were pouring down her face. Ron pulled Hermione into a hug. He had a feeling there was more bothering her that Harry's fainting. It'd happened before. No, it had to be something deeper then that. Something he would have to find out on his own.
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When Harry woke up he had a pounding headache worse then he'd ever imagined having. He reached for his glasses when he felt a hand push him back. He opened his eyes trying to focus on the room around him.
Harry's heart jumped when his eyes finally focused, "Sirius?"
"Sorry", Remus put a hand on Harry's forehead, "It's Remus"
"Oh", Harry felt a lump in his throat, "what…what happened?"
"You fainted in potions class Harry", Remus kept his eyes on Harry.
"I did?", Harry asked.
"Ron said you haven't felt well for a few days. He said you continuously grew sicker over the past few days. That he and Hermione both tried their best at persuading you to come down to the hospital wing", Remus handed Harry a glass.
Harry stared down into the glass.
"It's just to help your head…you have a fever. Again", Remus handed Harry's glasses to him so he could see what he was doing better.
"Thanks", Harry muttered drinking the entire potion on the spot, "Have you ever heard of someone who gets sick so often?"
"That's the thing Harry. Professor Dumbledore doesn't think something's right about that. I tried to convince---"
"Wait a minute", Harry held up a hand, "Dumbledore thinks there's something wrong with me?"
"He wants to perform some sort of tests on you…I'm not your legal guardian and your in his care until Sirius comes back. I'm sorry Harry…you have to do what he tells you. It's out of my hands", Remus apologized.
Harry shrugged, "I had a feeling something was wrong with me. That's why I was reluctant to come down here"
"Reluctant?", Remus laughed.
"Okay…more like I refused", Harry smiled looking up when he heard the door open, "Yes I'm alive…come on in"
"Very funny", Ron rolled his eyes entering the room, "Um…I sorta need to talk to you Harry"
Remus took the hint, "Yeah well I have some things to do right now. I'll check back with you in an hour okay?"
"Okay", Harry muttered looking over at Ron, "what's with you? Did something else happen?"
"Let's just say were both jerks and terrible friends", Ron slumped down in the chair Remus had pulled up next to Harry's bed earlier.
"Well I probably am but…what'd you do?", Harry joked. Ron obviously wasn't in the mood.
"In anytime during the two of our dumb mistakes did we ever really talk to Hermione about it?", Ron started up.
"Well…not literally", Harry rubbed his eyes.
"Do you have any idea how much we have hurt Hermione?", Ron put his head in his hands, "In other words how would you feel if both Hermione and me tried to kill ourselves?"
"Ron. You're overreacting. Hermione is fine", Harry yawned.
"She is not fine! Your fever is obviously affecting your brain so I'm going to excuse what you just said", Ron jumped up.
"If she wanted to talk about it she would've come to us", Harry reminded Ron.
"You're impossible. Hermione cried back in the common room for about an hour. For some reason she's worried about you. I however, have no idea why! You obviously have things figured out for yourself", Ron rushed out of the room.
"Ron!", Harry yelled. If he didn't already have a headache, things had just gotten worse.
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"It can't harm him in anyway Remus. The greatest risk is that he'll sleep for quite a few hours afterwards", Professor Dumbledore explained.
"Yeah if I'm not worried you shouldn't be either", Harry tried to catch Remus' eye, "it's probably nothing after all"
"Exactly my point", Remus through his hands in the air, "what's the use in doing it at all?"
"You've always trusted me before Remus", Professor Dumbledore reminded him, "have I ever done anything that wrong?"
"It's just so sneaky…Sirius would never approve of doing anything like it", Remus shook his head.
"Yeah well Sirius isn't around is he?", Harry accidentally blurted out.
Remus' glance fixed on Harry. He made a mental note to talk to Harry about that later, "Well I guess it's out of my hands anyway"
There heads all turned when the door slammed open. Hermione stood in the doorway trying to catch her breath, "Ha--arry I've gotta talk to you before Ron gets here!"
"What?", Harry squinted.
"Um…", Hermione looked up nervously at Remus and Professor Dumbledore.
"We'll go discuss this some more in my office", Dumbledore motioned for Remus to follow.
"What's going on?", Remus looked from Harry to Hermione.
"Remus", Was all Dumbledore said to get him to follow. There was something about Dumbledore's voice. It was impossible not to obey, even in adult years after graduation.
"What's going on?", Harry sat up groaning, "Ugh…that was dumb"
"I just want to apologize for Ron overreacting and getting angry with you last night…", Hermione rambled on faster then Harry could comprehend.
"You do not need to apologize to him!", Another voice entered the room.
"Guys", Harry said quietly hoping it was enough to get their attention.
"Well you didn't need to come down here and bother him with what I told you when he's sick!", Hermione screamed back.
"Guys!", Harry shouted a little louder.
"Well you---"
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP", Harry yelled, "this is really stupid. Why are we fighting?"
"This coming from someone who doesn't care that he hurt his best friend?", Ron through a pillow in Harry's direction.
"Ron!", Hermione yelled in Harry's defense standing between the two.
Harry grabbed the pillow ready to throw it back at Ron. But instead it slammed into Hermione.
"Harry!", Hermione exclaimed catching the pillow before Ron could throw it back.
"Both of you stop being so immature!", Hermione took a step toward Ron, "If your going to through something at someone at least do it right"
"Hermione!", Ron laughed biting into the pillow that came his way as it hit him, "Now who's immature?"
"You two", Hermione grinned, "oh face it were all stupid…"
Harry laughed for the first time in a long time, "What would you do without us?"
Hermione's smile faded, "Neither of you are ever going to do that to me again. If you do I'll kick both your asses"
Ron thinking through what she just said shook his head, "Wait a minute…did you say both?"
"Yeah and that's a promise I can keep!", Hermione sat down on a bed across from Harry, "Ugh these are just as uncomfortable as they were four years ago"
"You get used to them", Harry shrugged.
"Yeah when your in one every other month!", Ron laughed again.
"What can I say….the service is great", Harry stretched out lying on his bed.
"Yeah well pretty soon there just going to put your name over that bed", Hermione rolled her eyes.
Ron and Harry laughed, "Um Hermione? It's already there"
Not taking them serious Hermione took a step toward Harry looking at the wall next to him, "You know I really don't---"
"Now!", Ron yelled.
Hermione ducked down grinning, "Now why did you throw another pillow at each other again?"
"So close…", Ron sighed.
"Maybe next time", Harry yawned again, "And I assure you Hermione Granger, there will be a next time"
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Author's Note:
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