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Chapter 8
"I'm not sure what I was thinking." Ginny moaned.
Ron was sitting in front of the fire in the Griffendor common room. He was sitting on the floor in the same spot where Harry and Hermione had kissed on a previous night. It was also the same spot where he had sat for the last two hours not moving at all. He just sat there staring into the fire not doing anything but sitting in that very same spot.
Ginny moaned once more from where she sat in a chair close by watching her older brother.
"Why me?" she whispered. Though it was unnecessary for even if she had screamed it at the top of her lungs Ron wouldn't have heard a thing. He was doing the same thing he had been doing for the last two hours. It seemed like years, not hours. But it had only been two hours since Ron had came back from the hospital wing and sat down in front of the fire. And from the fire he had not left.
She had tried everything. She had tried chess, exploding snap, food, pranks (courtesy from Fred and George) talking, joking, and even crying. But nothing seemed to get Rons attention. It was useless. He was locked up inside of himself and did not seem to be planning on coming out of his shell any time soon. He was like a zombie. Even his staring identical brown eyes seemed to be locked immobile on the cheery roaring fire. He was frozen.
Ginny had given up an hour ago. She had given it her best shot. But her attempts were fruitless and unsuccessful. So now there was nothing left to do but keep a close eye on her older brother and do what she could to comfort him if the need came.
"It's supposed to be the other way around." Ginny said in a loud voice narrowing her eyes at his unmoving figure. "You're supposed to be the older brother watching me and comforting me." She paused letting this sink in if he was listening which was highly unlikely. Her narrowed eyes returned to normal and her expression softened as she paused. "You're not supposed to be this way." She said this in a voice just loud enough for him to hear. "No one is supposed to be like that way." She added trailing off into thought.
He didn't deserve this. She shouldn't be so hard on him. Though Ginny wished she knew why he was like this. Sure, he may have hurt a girl, or maybe killed. Ginny swallowed down a large lump in her throat and clasped her hands in a praying motion. Her eyes closed.
"Please don't let her die." Ginny said softly.
"My brother doesn't deserve this and neither do I. Neither does Lavender. Please for Merlin's sake let her get better!" Ginny opened her eyes and sighed. Her brother was still sitting there. Apparently he hadn't heard. But she had to try her best and give it one last shot, for Lavenders sake.
"Want to play a game of chess?" Ginny inquired.
There was only silence.
"So you think Ginny's having a good time?" Hermione asked looking up at Harry. The two of them had eventually broken apart from their loving embrace and little connection between the lips. They were now walking side by side down the narrow tunnel.
"Maybe." Harry shrugged trying to sound hopeful. But he doubted that Ron was out of his odd zombie state and he doubted that Ginny was having any fun.
"Yeah maybe." Hermione said quietly as an afterthought. She too doubted Ron had improved.
"Though I doubt it." Hermione admitted honestly what they were both thinking.
Harry nodded in agreement. He didn't know what was up with Ron. He seemed so strange and zombie like. Though zombie was too cruel of a word for the opinionated, sarcastic Ron that he and Hermione had known for the last four or five years. It seemed so hard to see Ron like that, in that state. It was like seeing someone completely different. It was almost as if you were seeing someone who looked identical to Ron but was completely different. Because the Ron that they had left behind was not the Ron they knew so well and were best friends with.
"I have a feeling that Ginny isn't enjoying herself." Hermione stated.
"Oh and what makes you think that. I thought you hated divination and all that other mind reading and psychic stuff." Harry said jokingly smiling a little.
He remembered all to clearly how much Hermione hated divination. He could still remember the day when she had stormed out of that class. It was a shame though. It had always been funnier when she was there with Ron and Harry. It was the one class in which Hermione spoke badly about the teacher and admitted that the subject was completely useless. It was the only class that Hermione didn't like. And this was still very hard to believe.
"It doesn't take a genius to figure that out." Hermione smiled a little also as she said this.
"Hey are you calling me dumb?!" Harry exclaimed pretending to be outraged at the thought.
"Maybe I am." Hermione joked.
Harry glanced over at her and smiled a little goofy grin. He couldn't help it. Hermione was very beautiful. Before he had just thought of her as the bushy brown haired girl that was a walking encyclopedia and always had her head in a book. But now things had obviously changed. Now he realized that he loved her and that she was more beautiful then he had imagined. But that's what happens when you fall in love. Everything about the person you love seems grand and magnificent. That's why people are always waving their hands in front of your face when you see that special someone and drift away from the world.
Perhaps Hermione was staring at him too in the special way because at the exact same moment.
"Ouch!" Harry and Hermione both rubbed their heads. Hermione glanced up and realized that neither her nor Harry had been watching where they were going for quite some time now. Hermione turned a crimson red remembering why she hadn't seen where she was going. Hermione suddenly forgot the pain for a moment and reached up and felt something just above the two of their heads that they had both slammed into.
"A trapdoor." She said to Harry feeling it and pushing it very lightly seeing if it would open. It did indeed open and Hermione quickly shut it wondering what the meaning of this was.
"We've reached the end of the tunnel I guess." Hermione said turning around to see that they had climbed a long never ending flight of stairs without even noticing. She raised an eyebrow and glanced at Harry waiting for him to say something.
"I left the invisibility cloak back there." Harry said avoiding her eyes for a moment. "But that's okay we won't need it and we can get it when we come back this way." He said quickly before she could say anything.
He opened the trap door with a soft creaking noise. A shaft of dusky light descended onto them from above. Harry turned to her grinning.
"After you." He bowed mockingly and Hermione rolled her eyes. She clambered up into a dusty room full of boxes. She peered around and stood up moving to the side so Harry could come up behind her. Where were they? It looked like some kind of storage room.
A shutting noise behind her told her that Harry had closed the trap door. He pointed to the staircase leading up into what looked like another room that was much brighter compared to the tunnel and this storage room.
He started toward it beckoning her to follow him. Hermione followed him a little perplexed as to their location. Harry looked all around and then climbed the stairs. Hermione followed wondering what she would find.
"Welcome to Honeydukes!" Harry said pulling Hermione from behind the counter where the staircase had led too. Hermione gasped. They were inside Hogsmeade, inside the sweet shop Honeydukes. This was amazing. Something clicked inside Hermione's head and she remembered something.
"Harry is this how you got here in the third year when you didn't have your permission slip signed and used to sneak in with the invisibility cloak." Harry coughed meaningfully and Hermione remembered that there were other people in Honeydukes other then her and Harry. One or two people were looking curiously over at the two of them hearing Hermione's surprisingly loud voice.
Hermione looked embarrassed and ducked into one of the barrels under the "Unusual Tastes" beginning to look through the cockroach clusters jars. Harry followed suite and began looking through the barrel with her his head bent close to hers.
"Yeah." He whispered inside her ear with a grin.
"I thought so." She whispered looking up at him with a sly grin.
"So do you want anything in here." Harry said shifting a jar of cockroach clusters between his hands.
Hermione glanced around the store quickly and then looked down at the barrels and the section that they were in. "Unusual Tastes" The cockroach clusters and the other candies and this section made her lose her faith in Honeydukes. One of the jars were open and the cockroaches were moving about getting themselves free of the sticky glue that was holding them.
"No." Hermione said quickly walking out of the store shivering slightly with the unpleasant scene still in her head. Harry walked out after her.
"Where to then?" Harry asked her as they stepped out into the cool crisp night air. The sun had just about set into the sky and you could still see the pink streaks through the trees that lined the horizon. Hermione took a breath of the night air closing her eyes.
"I don't know. Where do you want to go?" She asked opening her eyes and looking up into the vivid blue sky that was now increasing in darkness and twinkling a little as a few stars appeared in the blanket of blue.
"I don't know where do you want to go?" Harry asked unable to think of anything at the moment, as his brain wouldn't register properly.
"I don't know where do you want to go?" Hermione asked knowing where this would probably end up going.
Harry and her turned to each other and there was a slight awkward silence. Then they both laughed.
"You can choose."
"No you should choose."
They laughed again. This was getting them nowhere. They were at Hogsmeade and couldn't think of anything to do now. And here they were still trying to decide who would decide where they would go. This was turning out to be a very interesting date together.
"How about the book store?"
"What about Zonkos?"
Again laughter rang out through the streets as Harry took Hermione's arm and led her into the bookstore.
"But after we get to go to Zonkos." Harry said.
"Whatever you say." Hermione laughed and allowed Harry to lead her into the bookstore.
This was going to be a nice first "real" date afterall.
What the two didn't know was…
Ron moved for the first time in nearly three hours. His eyes that had been staring into the fire now slowly moved upwards so that his head was staring straight ahead. As if coming briefly out of the nightmare that he was frozen into he stood up nearly falling again because his whole body had fallen asleep. He rubbed his weak legs and shakily climbed the staircase up to the boy's dormitory.
Ginny roused from her sleep. Her eyes opened and she slowly turned over to see her older brother climbing the stairs to the boy's dormitory. Immediately her eyes widened and she sat up. Was he back to normal? What had she missed? How long had she slept for?
"Ron?" She asked just loud enough so he could hear.
He stopped and nearly turned around but decided against it and kept walking.
"Goodnight Ginny." He said as he reached the door to the dormitory. He fumbled with the doorknob looking very tired and weary.
"Goodnight Ron." Ginny said as she watched her brother finally get the door open. He gave her a little wave and a glance before finally walking in. She could hear him stumbling and she nearly laughed at the thought of her half a sleep brother tripping over everything.
She waited until the stumbling noise stopped and then slowly she leaned back against the chair her arms folded in her lap. A small smile creased her lips. Ron was perhaps okay. And for that little sign of hope and small glimpse of her "real" brother she was thankful for. Hopefully the two of them will recover completely some time soon.
With a yawn Ginny stood up and stretched. Ron was accounted for. He would hopefully be asleep. He needed rest by the way it looked. The clock chimed. It was nine o'clock. Harry and Hermione would be back in an hour. Ginny really didn't feel like waiting up for them. She was really tired and Ron was sleeping inside his dorm now.
Ginny yawned again and started up the steps. Harry and Hermione would come back in due time. They would be fine, she assured herself. Slowly she made her way up to the girl's dormitory and into her bed. Ginny had one last assuring thought that her brother and Lavender were going to be okay before she fell asleep.
Ron couldn't sleep. He had been so tired and now all of a sudden he was wide-awake. He felt more awake then he had all day. He sat up on the bed leaning over the edge staring down at the sneakers and robes that he hadn't bothered to get out of because he had been so tired. He didn't get it. Why did he feel so awake all of a sudden? There was no way he could sleep now.
He could hear Neville snoring loudly in his bed; sound asleep and undisturbed. Dean too was asleep judging by the silence coming from his bed. Seamus was somewhere because he wasn't in his bed and he hadn't been in the common room. Ron was just about to lay back down when he realized that Harry was missing too. Where was he? Ron pondered this for a moment wondering where Harry could be at this time of night.
"Hogsmeade." Ron mumbled snapping his fingers a little too loudly because Neville grunted but went back to sleep.
"Should've known." Ron said once more. That must be where Seamus was too. And come to think of it Hermione must be there too because he hadn't seen her anywhere either.
Suddenly there was a noise outside the dormitory and he heard voices. Loud footsteps and laughter told him that the Hogsmeade students were back. Ron lay down on his bed pulling the covers over him once more and closed his eyes pretending to be asleep.
"Bye." He heard Seamus call as he opened the door to their dormitory.
"I had a nice time." Said an answering feminine voice. Was it Hermione? Ron suddenly felt alert and felt his heart pounding in his chest how dare she go out with someone else. But there was no need to worry, for as Ron leaned over to get a better look he saw Parvati and Seamus in the dim light embracing each other.
Ron wiped his forehead in relief. Then he laughed silently as he watched Parvati kiss Seamus on the cheek and then hurry away with a grin on her face. Seamus stumbled into the dormitory also grinning. He tripped over several objects causing Ron to have to hide his face in the pillow to stop himself from bursting out laughing. Seamus was love struck. Ron continued to bury his head into the pillow as he listened to Seamus mutter sweet things about the night he had with Parvati.
"She's so beautiful." He whispered as he fell finally back onto his bed. After several more mumblings of "Oh Parvati I love you." From Seamus Ron reckoned it was safe to come out from beneath the pillow. Seamus seemed to be asleep by now. He couldn't wait to tease him about that tomorrow and to tell Harry all about it.
Speaking of Harry. Where was he? Everyone was back from Hogsmeade. He was probably down in the common room still talking perhaps with Hermione or Fred and George or his girlfriend! Ron suddenly remembered that Harry had a girlfriend. Maybe they had gone out together. He grinned and seized the doorknob yanking the door open. He stood just outside and heard that there was indeed someone kissing outside down in the common room in front of the fire.
Ron grinned evilly and sat down on the first step. Sure enough there was a couple down there that was very involved with each other. But his face fell when he saw who it was.
"Fred and Angelina." Ron muttered as he walked back into the dormitory disappointed. Everyone knew they were a couple. There was no surprise there. Still where was Harry then? He had been hoping on catching him with his girlfriend and was highly disappointed.
He walked over to the window that was by Harry's bed. Harry was probably still out with his girlfriend. He should go get the invisibility cloak and go find him. It would be funny to see him with her. They probably went back to her house. So she probably wasn't in Griffendor.
Better yet he could go get Hermione and ask her if she wanted to come with him to find Harry. She would probably want to come along. And then he and her would be able to spend some time together and perhaps have a little kiss. And then perhaps Hermione would reconsider.
Ron smiled at his plan and quickly began to go through Harry's trunk searching urgently for the cloak. And the marauders map would probably be necessary too. Ron began searching and eventually he found the sacred map. He pocketed it and continued looking for the cloak. But it wasn't there.
"Wonder where it could be?" Ron thought aloud. Perhaps Harry had taken it with him to cover him and his girlfriend when they were kissing or so that they could go somewhere more private. Or perhaps they had taken it in case Ron decided to do what he was about to do now. But Ron grinned. The marauders map never failed him.
It could see through invisibility cloaks.
(Er okay that's it for now. More to come hopefully soon I am liking the way this is going so I am going to finish it. It's almost done as you can see by the way this is going. Sorry it took so long for this to get out. I am going to start writing the next chapter now since I have some free time because my parents are out. Sorry it took so long. Please Read and Review and once again I must thank my reviewers. I can't thank you enough.)
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Chapter 8
"I'm not sure what I was thinking." Ginny moaned.
Ron was sitting in front of the fire in the Griffendor common room. He was sitting on the floor in the same spot where Harry and Hermione had kissed on a previous night. It was also the same spot where he had sat for the last two hours not moving at all. He just sat there staring into the fire not doing anything but sitting in that very same spot.
Ginny moaned once more from where she sat in a chair close by watching her older brother.
"Why me?" she whispered. Though it was unnecessary for even if she had screamed it at the top of her lungs Ron wouldn't have heard a thing. He was doing the same thing he had been doing for the last two hours. It seemed like years, not hours. But it had only been two hours since Ron had came back from the hospital wing and sat down in front of the fire. And from the fire he had not left.
She had tried everything. She had tried chess, exploding snap, food, pranks (courtesy from Fred and George) talking, joking, and even crying. But nothing seemed to get Rons attention. It was useless. He was locked up inside of himself and did not seem to be planning on coming out of his shell any time soon. He was like a zombie. Even his staring identical brown eyes seemed to be locked immobile on the cheery roaring fire. He was frozen.
Ginny had given up an hour ago. She had given it her best shot. But her attempts were fruitless and unsuccessful. So now there was nothing left to do but keep a close eye on her older brother and do what she could to comfort him if the need came.
"It's supposed to be the other way around." Ginny said in a loud voice narrowing her eyes at his unmoving figure. "You're supposed to be the older brother watching me and comforting me." She paused letting this sink in if he was listening which was highly unlikely. Her narrowed eyes returned to normal and her expression softened as she paused. "You're not supposed to be this way." She said this in a voice just loud enough for him to hear. "No one is supposed to be like that way." She added trailing off into thought.
He didn't deserve this. She shouldn't be so hard on him. Though Ginny wished she knew why he was like this. Sure, he may have hurt a girl, or maybe killed. Ginny swallowed down a large lump in her throat and clasped her hands in a praying motion. Her eyes closed.
"Please don't let her die." Ginny said softly.
"My brother doesn't deserve this and neither do I. Neither does Lavender. Please for Merlin's sake let her get better!" Ginny opened her eyes and sighed. Her brother was still sitting there. Apparently he hadn't heard. But she had to try her best and give it one last shot, for Lavenders sake.
"Want to play a game of chess?" Ginny inquired.
There was only silence.
"So you think Ginny's having a good time?" Hermione asked looking up at Harry. The two of them had eventually broken apart from their loving embrace and little connection between the lips. They were now walking side by side down the narrow tunnel.
"Maybe." Harry shrugged trying to sound hopeful. But he doubted that Ron was out of his odd zombie state and he doubted that Ginny was having any fun.
"Yeah maybe." Hermione said quietly as an afterthought. She too doubted Ron had improved.
"Though I doubt it." Hermione admitted honestly what they were both thinking.
Harry nodded in agreement. He didn't know what was up with Ron. He seemed so strange and zombie like. Though zombie was too cruel of a word for the opinionated, sarcastic Ron that he and Hermione had known for the last four or five years. It seemed so hard to see Ron like that, in that state. It was like seeing someone completely different. It was almost as if you were seeing someone who looked identical to Ron but was completely different. Because the Ron that they had left behind was not the Ron they knew so well and were best friends with.
"I have a feeling that Ginny isn't enjoying herself." Hermione stated.
"Oh and what makes you think that. I thought you hated divination and all that other mind reading and psychic stuff." Harry said jokingly smiling a little.
He remembered all to clearly how much Hermione hated divination. He could still remember the day when she had stormed out of that class. It was a shame though. It had always been funnier when she was there with Ron and Harry. It was the one class in which Hermione spoke badly about the teacher and admitted that the subject was completely useless. It was the only class that Hermione didn't like. And this was still very hard to believe.
"It doesn't take a genius to figure that out." Hermione smiled a little also as she said this.
"Hey are you calling me dumb?!" Harry exclaimed pretending to be outraged at the thought.
"Maybe I am." Hermione joked.
Harry glanced over at her and smiled a little goofy grin. He couldn't help it. Hermione was very beautiful. Before he had just thought of her as the bushy brown haired girl that was a walking encyclopedia and always had her head in a book. But now things had obviously changed. Now he realized that he loved her and that she was more beautiful then he had imagined. But that's what happens when you fall in love. Everything about the person you love seems grand and magnificent. That's why people are always waving their hands in front of your face when you see that special someone and drift away from the world.
Perhaps Hermione was staring at him too in the special way because at the exact same moment.
"Ouch!" Harry and Hermione both rubbed their heads. Hermione glanced up and realized that neither her nor Harry had been watching where they were going for quite some time now. Hermione turned a crimson red remembering why she hadn't seen where she was going. Hermione suddenly forgot the pain for a moment and reached up and felt something just above the two of their heads that they had both slammed into.
"A trapdoor." She said to Harry feeling it and pushing it very lightly seeing if it would open. It did indeed open and Hermione quickly shut it wondering what the meaning of this was.
"We've reached the end of the tunnel I guess." Hermione said turning around to see that they had climbed a long never ending flight of stairs without even noticing. She raised an eyebrow and glanced at Harry waiting for him to say something.
"I left the invisibility cloak back there." Harry said avoiding her eyes for a moment. "But that's okay we won't need it and we can get it when we come back this way." He said quickly before she could say anything.
He opened the trap door with a soft creaking noise. A shaft of dusky light descended onto them from above. Harry turned to her grinning.
"After you." He bowed mockingly and Hermione rolled her eyes. She clambered up into a dusty room full of boxes. She peered around and stood up moving to the side so Harry could come up behind her. Where were they? It looked like some kind of storage room.
A shutting noise behind her told her that Harry had closed the trap door. He pointed to the staircase leading up into what looked like another room that was much brighter compared to the tunnel and this storage room.
He started toward it beckoning her to follow him. Hermione followed him a little perplexed as to their location. Harry looked all around and then climbed the stairs. Hermione followed wondering what she would find.
"Welcome to Honeydukes!" Harry said pulling Hermione from behind the counter where the staircase had led too. Hermione gasped. They were inside Hogsmeade, inside the sweet shop Honeydukes. This was amazing. Something clicked inside Hermione's head and she remembered something.
"Harry is this how you got here in the third year when you didn't have your permission slip signed and used to sneak in with the invisibility cloak." Harry coughed meaningfully and Hermione remembered that there were other people in Honeydukes other then her and Harry. One or two people were looking curiously over at the two of them hearing Hermione's surprisingly loud voice.
Hermione looked embarrassed and ducked into one of the barrels under the "Unusual Tastes" beginning to look through the cockroach clusters jars. Harry followed suite and began looking through the barrel with her his head bent close to hers.
"Yeah." He whispered inside her ear with a grin.
"I thought so." She whispered looking up at him with a sly grin.
"So do you want anything in here." Harry said shifting a jar of cockroach clusters between his hands.
Hermione glanced around the store quickly and then looked down at the barrels and the section that they were in. "Unusual Tastes" The cockroach clusters and the other candies and this section made her lose her faith in Honeydukes. One of the jars were open and the cockroaches were moving about getting themselves free of the sticky glue that was holding them.
"No." Hermione said quickly walking out of the store shivering slightly with the unpleasant scene still in her head. Harry walked out after her.
"Where to then?" Harry asked her as they stepped out into the cool crisp night air. The sun had just about set into the sky and you could still see the pink streaks through the trees that lined the horizon. Hermione took a breath of the night air closing her eyes.
"I don't know. Where do you want to go?" She asked opening her eyes and looking up into the vivid blue sky that was now increasing in darkness and twinkling a little as a few stars appeared in the blanket of blue.
"I don't know where do you want to go?" Harry asked unable to think of anything at the moment, as his brain wouldn't register properly.
"I don't know where do you want to go?" Hermione asked knowing where this would probably end up going.
Harry and her turned to each other and there was a slight awkward silence. Then they both laughed.
"You can choose."
"No you should choose."
They laughed again. This was getting them nowhere. They were at Hogsmeade and couldn't think of anything to do now. And here they were still trying to decide who would decide where they would go. This was turning out to be a very interesting date together.
"How about the book store?"
"What about Zonkos?"
Again laughter rang out through the streets as Harry took Hermione's arm and led her into the bookstore.
"But after we get to go to Zonkos." Harry said.
"Whatever you say." Hermione laughed and allowed Harry to lead her into the bookstore.
This was going to be a nice first "real" date afterall.
What the two didn't know was…
Ron moved for the first time in nearly three hours. His eyes that had been staring into the fire now slowly moved upwards so that his head was staring straight ahead. As if coming briefly out of the nightmare that he was frozen into he stood up nearly falling again because his whole body had fallen asleep. He rubbed his weak legs and shakily climbed the staircase up to the boy's dormitory.
Ginny roused from her sleep. Her eyes opened and she slowly turned over to see her older brother climbing the stairs to the boy's dormitory. Immediately her eyes widened and she sat up. Was he back to normal? What had she missed? How long had she slept for?
"Ron?" She asked just loud enough so he could hear.
He stopped and nearly turned around but decided against it and kept walking.
"Goodnight Ginny." He said as he reached the door to the dormitory. He fumbled with the doorknob looking very tired and weary.
"Goodnight Ron." Ginny said as she watched her brother finally get the door open. He gave her a little wave and a glance before finally walking in. She could hear him stumbling and she nearly laughed at the thought of her half a sleep brother tripping over everything.
She waited until the stumbling noise stopped and then slowly she leaned back against the chair her arms folded in her lap. A small smile creased her lips. Ron was perhaps okay. And for that little sign of hope and small glimpse of her "real" brother she was thankful for. Hopefully the two of them will recover completely some time soon.
With a yawn Ginny stood up and stretched. Ron was accounted for. He would hopefully be asleep. He needed rest by the way it looked. The clock chimed. It was nine o'clock. Harry and Hermione would be back in an hour. Ginny really didn't feel like waiting up for them. She was really tired and Ron was sleeping inside his dorm now.
Ginny yawned again and started up the steps. Harry and Hermione would come back in due time. They would be fine, she assured herself. Slowly she made her way up to the girl's dormitory and into her bed. Ginny had one last assuring thought that her brother and Lavender were going to be okay before she fell asleep.
Ron couldn't sleep. He had been so tired and now all of a sudden he was wide-awake. He felt more awake then he had all day. He sat up on the bed leaning over the edge staring down at the sneakers and robes that he hadn't bothered to get out of because he had been so tired. He didn't get it. Why did he feel so awake all of a sudden? There was no way he could sleep now.
He could hear Neville snoring loudly in his bed; sound asleep and undisturbed. Dean too was asleep judging by the silence coming from his bed. Seamus was somewhere because he wasn't in his bed and he hadn't been in the common room. Ron was just about to lay back down when he realized that Harry was missing too. Where was he? Ron pondered this for a moment wondering where Harry could be at this time of night.
"Hogsmeade." Ron mumbled snapping his fingers a little too loudly because Neville grunted but went back to sleep.
"Should've known." Ron said once more. That must be where Seamus was too. And come to think of it Hermione must be there too because he hadn't seen her anywhere either.
Suddenly there was a noise outside the dormitory and he heard voices. Loud footsteps and laughter told him that the Hogsmeade students were back. Ron lay down on his bed pulling the covers over him once more and closed his eyes pretending to be asleep.
"Bye." He heard Seamus call as he opened the door to their dormitory.
"I had a nice time." Said an answering feminine voice. Was it Hermione? Ron suddenly felt alert and felt his heart pounding in his chest how dare she go out with someone else. But there was no need to worry, for as Ron leaned over to get a better look he saw Parvati and Seamus in the dim light embracing each other.
Ron wiped his forehead in relief. Then he laughed silently as he watched Parvati kiss Seamus on the cheek and then hurry away with a grin on her face. Seamus stumbled into the dormitory also grinning. He tripped over several objects causing Ron to have to hide his face in the pillow to stop himself from bursting out laughing. Seamus was love struck. Ron continued to bury his head into the pillow as he listened to Seamus mutter sweet things about the night he had with Parvati.
"She's so beautiful." He whispered as he fell finally back onto his bed. After several more mumblings of "Oh Parvati I love you." From Seamus Ron reckoned it was safe to come out from beneath the pillow. Seamus seemed to be asleep by now. He couldn't wait to tease him about that tomorrow and to tell Harry all about it.
Speaking of Harry. Where was he? Everyone was back from Hogsmeade. He was probably down in the common room still talking perhaps with Hermione or Fred and George or his girlfriend! Ron suddenly remembered that Harry had a girlfriend. Maybe they had gone out together. He grinned and seized the doorknob yanking the door open. He stood just outside and heard that there was indeed someone kissing outside down in the common room in front of the fire.
Ron grinned evilly and sat down on the first step. Sure enough there was a couple down there that was very involved with each other. But his face fell when he saw who it was.
"Fred and Angelina." Ron muttered as he walked back into the dormitory disappointed. Everyone knew they were a couple. There was no surprise there. Still where was Harry then? He had been hoping on catching him with his girlfriend and was highly disappointed.
He walked over to the window that was by Harry's bed. Harry was probably still out with his girlfriend. He should go get the invisibility cloak and go find him. It would be funny to see him with her. They probably went back to her house. So she probably wasn't in Griffendor.
Better yet he could go get Hermione and ask her if she wanted to come with him to find Harry. She would probably want to come along. And then he and her would be able to spend some time together and perhaps have a little kiss. And then perhaps Hermione would reconsider.
Ron smiled at his plan and quickly began to go through Harry's trunk searching urgently for the cloak. And the marauders map would probably be necessary too. Ron began searching and eventually he found the sacred map. He pocketed it and continued looking for the cloak. But it wasn't there.
"Wonder where it could be?" Ron thought aloud. Perhaps Harry had taken it with him to cover him and his girlfriend when they were kissing or so that they could go somewhere more private. Or perhaps they had taken it in case Ron decided to do what he was about to do now. But Ron grinned. The marauders map never failed him.
It could see through invisibility cloaks.
(Er okay that's it for now. More to come hopefully soon I am liking the way this is going so I am going to finish it. It's almost done as you can see by the way this is going. Sorry it took so long for this to get out. I am going to start writing the next chapter now since I have some free time because my parents are out. Sorry it took so long. Please Read and Review and once again I must thank my reviewers. I can't thank you enough.)