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Chapter 8:

Harry and Hermione had to try hard not to run up the stairs after Professor McGonagall came back down.

"What do you think happened?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know..." Harry replied, "I want to ask Ron, but I don't think he'd talk to us..."

"I think maybe we should just talk to him tomorrow." Hermione said, "I think he'd probably have cooled off by then."

"Yeah...I guess..."

"Okay, well I'm going to go to bed now. I'll see you in the morning." Hermione stood up and disappeared up the girl's dormitory staircase.

Harry stayed down in the common room until near 1:30 in the morning. Seamus, Dean, and Neville stayed too.

"Ron won't let us in." Neville said.

"I wonder what happened." Said Dean.

"I heard he punched out Malfoy." Seamus replied.

"Where'd you hear that?" Harry inquired.

"Some of the Ravenclaws down in the great hall said they saw Malfoy running to Snape's office with a black eye grumbling about Ron."

"Really?" Said Harry, "I'm going to see if he'll let me in." He stood up and walked up the stairs.

"Ron?" He said knocking on the door, "Will you please let me in?"

Ron opened the door. He looked like he'd been crying.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked.

"Yeah." Ron said moving out of the doorway.

Harry stepped inside, "What happened? Why'd McGonagall want you?"

"Malfoy was saying some nasty things about Hermione and me...so...I hit him."

Harry wanted to ask what Draco had said, but could tell Ron didn't really want to talk about it, "Oh." Harry said, "I'm going to get the rest of the guys."

Harry turned and walked back downstairs, "You guys, he'll let us in now."

They all went up into their dorm.

"Hey, Ron, I heard you gave Malfoy a nice shiner!" Seamus laughed.

"I don't want to talk about it." Ron said and climbed into his bed.

"Okay then..."

After a few minutes, they all changed and went to bed.

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"Are you okay, Hermione?" Michelle asked when Hermione came in.

"Ron won't talk to me, or Harry for that matter. I don't know what's wrong with him."

"Oh," Michelle said, "I'm sure he's okay..."

"He saw Harry and I hugging on the stairs, he was pretty upset, but I talked to him and explained it was just an innocent hug. He seemed okay after that." Hermione explained, "But then he went upstairs and locked himself in his room."

"Hmm." Michelle said, "I wish I could be more help, but I really don't know what to tell you. Do you know if something happened when he was going upstairs?"

"No."

"Well, try talking to him in the morning."

"I will." Hermione changed and climbed into her bed.

She lay there for quite a while, but she couldn't sleep.

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