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Authors Note: Thank you guys so much for your notes, I may not rewrite the last chapter if you guys really like it, but I'm not really happy with it. Well thanks for the notes! And now onto the story! (Hehe, I'm a dork)

Chapter 7:

When they reached the entrance hall, they all just stood there and looked at each other.

Ron looked like he was going to say something, but didn't. Instead he turned around and walked up the marble staircase.

Harry and Hermione watched him from the bottom of the stairs.

"Is he okay?" Harry asked.

"I don't know." Hermione replied

"Do you think we should go after him?"

"No, I think we should leave him alone for a little while."

Harry nodded.

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Ron wandered around the corridors, deep in thought about his conversation with Hermione. Suddenly he bumped into something rather solid.

"Watch it, Weasley!" A cold voice yelled.

Ron looked up. He was standing in front of an extremely angry-looking Draco Malfoy, "Sorry." He muttered and continued walking down the hall.

"What's the matter, the mud-blood turn you down?"

Ron stopped in his tracks. He turned around, his face reddening with anger, "What did you say?" He asked slowly.

"It's so sad, you can't even get a lowly mud-blood to go out with you."

This was too much for Ron to deal with; he leapt at Malfoy and punched him in the face.

Malfoy shrieked and fell to the ground.

Ron looked down at him, his hands balled into fists, "Don't you ever say anything like that again." He said shaking with rage.

Malfoy stared up at him, stunned.

Ron stalked off down the hall. He stormed down to the Gryffindor common room.

"Fimbly." Ron grunted and climbed through the portrait hole.

"Are you all right, Ron?" Dean asked from in front of the fireplace when Ron came in.

"Fine." Ron didn't look at him as he walked by. He rushed up the stairs and into his dorm.

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Hermione and Harry came up to the common room a few minutes later.

"Do you know where Ron is?" Harry asked.

"He went upstairs." Dean told them, "He looked pretty mad."

"Thanks." Hermione said and pulled Harry to the boys' dorm staircase.

They ran up and knocked on the door.

"Go away." Ron said from inside.

"Ron it's us. Please let us in." Harry said.

"Please just go away."

Hermione looked at Harry, "Let's just go, he'll talk to us when he's ready."

Harry looked at the door and back at Hermione.

They turned and went back downstairs.

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Professor McGonagall burst into the common room a few minutes later, "Where is Mr. Weasley?" She asked, looking slightly flustered.

"He's upstairs, what'd he do?" Harry asked.

She didn't answer but rushed up the boys' staircase.

She pounded on the door, "Ronald Weasley!" She yelled, "Mr. Weasley, open up!"

Ron opened the door.

"Professor Snape has just told me that Mr. Draco Malfoy came down to his office with a black eye and told him that you punched him." Professor McGonagall glared at him, "What do you have to say for yourself?"

"I did. I'm sorry." Ron replied looking at the ground.

"Well," McGonagall was taken slightly aback at Ron's admitting what he'd done, "A detention is in order, and I will be notifying your parents."

Ron shifted uncomfortably.

"You will serve your detention tomorrow at 11:00 with Mr. Filch."

Ron nodded.

The professor turned around and went back down into the common room.

All the students watched as Professor McGonagall left through the portrait hole without saying a word to any of them.

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