Let me say this slowly for you. I don't want anyone thinking I'm the mastermind behind Harry Potter, cuz I'm not. J.K. Rowling invented, created, thought up, made up, and owns everything that deals with Harry Potter books, characters, ect. K? K. K. NOW ON WITH THE STORY!!!!!! *~*

AN: Well, maybe not quite. I've been getting requests to make longer chapies. I'm really tryen, and as you might care to notice, my chapters have been getting longer and longer. But sometimes I feel as if I'm rambling so, I guess I'll give it a shot. But if I ramble it's not my fault. *~*
Harry knew he was as good as dead. Ron would see to that. So, like any person who's life was in jeopardy, Harry ran, and he ran fast, as fast as he could. Before he knew it, he was flying up the stairs just past the third floor corridor. He figured Ron wouldn't be anywhere close to him so he might as well slow down, but before he did, just to make sure, he looked back. Thhwump!!!

"Bloody hell! I'm sooo sorry I didn." Harry had just realized who he was talking to and sitting on. "G-Gi-Ginny. I was just. I was. Umm." He said as he got off her.

"It's ok, Harry, really. Just pay a little more attention next time you're.Uuuuuuuh. What were you doing?"

"Oh, I was just." started Harry going red. Had news traveled fast enough for her to know how he felt? Surely she hadn't herd yet.

"You were just." she encouraged.

"Quite stupid really. Your brother was just chasing me up here from the dungeons because." Harry was cut off mid-sentence when he heard a familiar thunderous voice echo through the hall.

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Hermione was quite happy with herself. She had finally gotten enough resolve to tell Ron how she felt about him, well, maybe. It all depended on whether or not she could keep it together when she saw him again.

She knew it would be nothing new to Harry; since she had told him how she felt about Ron, back in their 4th year. But she knew it would still be a big shock to him that she would actually come out and say it.

Hermione is one of those old-fashioned girls, who thinks its all up to the boys to get the relationship going, (I agree.) but as usual, Ron had given her no choice but to leap into the 20th century and ask herself. She decided to wait so she could tell Ron in front of Harry, after all, even if Ron didn't like her back, Harry would be there for her.

Right now though, she didn't want to think about the bad possibilities, so she decided to work out a way to tell Ron after dinner, that way she wouldn't have to embarrass herself in front of everyone. Just as she though this however.

Panting and out of breath, Ron came bursting into the room carrying what looked like a very badly hexed Harry. Ginny was bustling behind them with a look of contempt on her face that was obviously directed toward her brother.

"What happened?" asked a worried and slightly shocked Hermione.

"Oh, nothing. My brother just about damn near hexed Harry to death." Snapped Ginny.

With a look of horror on her face, Hermione asked, "Why Ron."

"He, he just. I don't know." Sighed Ron.

"HE JUST LIKES ME THAT'S ALL!" yelled Ginny. "I knew you were protective of me Ron but I'm shocked that you would do this to your own friend, just because he likes me."

"He likes you Ginny?" said an awestruck Hermione.

"Yes, and my prick of a brother almost killed him for it!"

"I - I - I didn't mean to. I really hope he's ok. I don't know what I'll do if he isn't." moaned Ron.

"I'll tell you what you won't do, when he wakes up! You won't do anything to him, and you'll let me tell him that I like him to, and you'll accept it if we start dating!" said a peeved Ginny. "Got it?"

"I'll try, that's the best I can do Gin." Promised Ron.

With that promise, Ginny went over to Harry's side ware a stressed Madam Pomfrey was working busily. On ocation she shot glares at her brother, but in about 10 minutes time, Harry woke up, causing Ginny to turn her full attention to him.

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After the little argument, Ron went over to Hermione's side. Not wanting to confront a still fuming sister.

"Ron, you really shouldn't have done that." Whispered Hermione, who was slightly afraid Ginny would over hear and be even more pissed with her brother.

"I know, it was just I had a lot on my mind already, and fining out that my best mate had a crush on my sister just sent me on overload." Explained Ron.

"It still wasn't the right thing to do." Hermione paused; thinking now would probably be as good a time as any to tell Ron how she felt about him. They were, after all, pretty much alone. "Umm, Ron, there's something I wanted to tell you."

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"Harry, there's something I want to tell you."
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