Chapter 7
Harry stared at the ceiling of the hospital wing. For once, he didn't want to leave it.
"You can go now Harry" Madame Pomfrey said from the edge of his bed where she stood, arms folded, worried expression on her face. One could always tell when there was something wrong with Harry Potter.
Harry sighed and rolled out of the bed. As he made his way back to the Gryffendor common room he thought he might as well think about his situation.
On one hand, he had Ginny. He wondered if he liked her only because he wanted someone to be with and he knew she liked him. If it was convenience. No. Harry wouldn't like someone out of convenience, it wasn't like him. He did love Ginny though, he just wasn't sure if it was a brotherly love or a sexual love. He began to picture himself doing naughty things with Ginny to see if it felt right to him and then found himself wishing he was 12 again when none of this was an issue.
The last thing he wanted to do was hurt Ginny. He did feel protective over her and naturally he and Ron would have beat any young wizard who broke her heart. Harry never thought it would be him doing the breaking. Yet he was still afraid of Ron doing the beating.
Then Parvati came into his mind. The thought of her was new and exciting and he felt comfortable around her. Not that he didn't feel comfortable around Ginny, but there was always something out of place there. Perhaps it was the voice in his head saying "Get away from her, she's your best friends little sister". Whatever it was, whether or not he and Ginny were supposed to be together, the time was not now. It just didn't feel right. Parvati felt right although a part of him wished it didn't.
To keep Parvati liking him he'd have to act soon on it. But acting soon on it would kill Ginny. He wanted to bang his head against a near by wall. Luckily, he had reached the portrait hole.
As Harry entered the common room, he looked around to see Gryffendor students in their usual Saturday state. Upon seeing him enter, Ginny got up and left the room. That hurt Harry but he figured he'd have to get used to it for a while.
Now was not the time though. He retreated up the stairs to his dormitory and it didn't take long for Hermione to bust in.
"Harry what DID you do to Ginny?" she asked, wide eyed, sitting down on his bed.
Harry leaned his head back on his pillow and closed his eyes.
"I wanna go back to second year" he said solemnly, "Things were so much less complicated"
Hermione laughed and leaned her head on his shoulder, he leaned his head on hers.
"Believe me Harry, I know exactly what you mean… tell me what happened"
"You just want the gossip"
"Harry, tisk tisk, I'm not a gossiper, I just want to help"
"Alright, but you have to promise to not tell Ron"
"I promise"
"I mean it Hermione"
"I PROMISE"
Harry told Hermione the whole story from walking to see Ron with Ginny to the very moment that she ran out of the common room 10 minutes earlier. He told her everything he was feeling about each and asked for her advice.
"Oh Harry, you are in a mess"
"Thanks, just what I wanted to hear"
Ron walked into the room and paused for a moment, looking at the two of them resting on each other.
"Harry if you weren't like a brother to me I would kick your ass"
"Ron don't swear" Hermione scowled.
Ron simply smiled and jumped onto the bed with them. "What are you two talking about"
Neither Harry or Hermione had ever found it in them to lie to their best friend so Harry simply said, "How things were so much simpler when we were younger"
"I second that" Ron said, rolling his eyes and grabbing a pillow to rest his elbows on.
"It will always be us three though" Hermione said with a big smile, suddenly grabbing the two of them for a group hug.
"Aw, isn't that just adorable" Seamus said from the doorway. He had Lavender Brown with him.
"Has Parvati been surgically removed from your hip Lavender?" Ron said, laughing at his own joke. Lavender just gave him a dirty look and curled up on Seamus' bed.
"Well I best be off, I told Angelina I'd meet with her about some strategies for next week's game and I'm just about 5 minutes late" Harry said, getting up from his bed.
"See you at lunch, mate" Ron said as he walked out the door.
Ron looked back and Hermione and realizing they were on a bed again, quickly both blushed and hopped up from it.
"Wanna go outside?" Hermione suggested.
"Sure" Ron smiled, following her out the door.
When they reached the lawn, they found a tree and sat by it. Ron took Hermione's hand in his own and smiled at her sheepishly.
"Are you ready to talk about us?" He asked simply.
Hermione let go of his hand and placed the tips of her fingers on the bridge of her nose. This didn't look like a good sign to Ron and he sighed and quickly shifted his position to sit in front of her. He took her hands in his.
"Hermione, look, I know you're scared, and I know you're worried about our friendship and you think its gonna be weird and awkward and uncomfortable and I just want you to know that I feel all those things too. And its probably going to take us a while to move into this and things are gonna feel very strange at first. But if our friendship could stand through all our quarrels that it can stand through our love too. Please, just give us a chance, I know you want to, I can see it in your eyes and feel it when we're together…"
Ron looked as though he was going to say something else and forgot so instead he just did what he knew always got to Hermione, he kissed her.
Taking her head in his hands and kissing her with the passion that would show her exactly how he felt. Hermione couldn't say no to that. He pulled back and looked into her eyes, "What do you say , love"
"Yes" Hermione smiled at him, "Alright then, let's do this"
Ron was so happy he knocked the two of them onto the ground when he wrapped his arms around her in an excited embrace.
As they layed on the grass, they smiled at each other.
"You're not gonna regret this Hermione, I promise" he said to her, kissing her on the forehead. How sweet they were.
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