(A note from me!
God I hope you all liked the last chapter. 6 pages is not easy to write, especially when you
have to correct mistakes that you mad ein previous chapters. Sorry for the typos btw! I'll end up
reuploading some of these chapters again... maybe. Well if I have over six hours of time to write two
chapters in a day, then I can correct and upload :)
Things are starting to get good and you might have caught some foreshadowing from Ginny.
God... if I write that chapter, I won't know what to do. Er... ya. Anyhow, the rest of this story is going
to go muchos muchos fast. I'm only going to highlight on the big things. We still have a lot more to
go. (The Quidditch Stadium, Detention with Umbrdige, Her Betrayal, The War, Quidditch Games,
Katherine and Harry– yes I know, he better not cheat!, Talking with Fred and George, Ron confessing
his ultimate love for Hermione, and MUCH more. So read chapter 14!!)
!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!
CHAPTER 14
Ron's Painful Punishment
Ron was walking to the Great Hall to get some breakfast the next morning, when an overly
large elephant stopped him.
"Weasley."
"Yes Professor Umbridge?" Ron asked sweetly.
"Do you remember that you had two weeks detention with me starting yesterday?"
Ron's face frowned. "I'm sorry, I forgot."
"Three weeks," she said. "You will miss your Quidditch Lessons. Six o'clock to Seven o'clock."
Professor Umbrdige strode off, her black shawl flying behind her. Ron sighed and walked into
the hall where he saw Harry and Hermione all ready there. He took a seat next to Harry.
"Three weeks detention with Umbridge because I forgot to show up the last two night," Ron
said as he snatched the pumpkin juice contained and filled his cup angrily.
"Well, what did you expect, Ron?" Hermione asked as she ate a piece of bacon.
"Oh bugger off Miss Perfect," Ron said furiously. Hermione looked hurt.
"Just because it's your fault for doing something, doesn't mean to have to yell at me!"
"OKAY, shut up, BOTH OF YOU! I'm not having a fight start during breakfast when everyone is
cranky," Harry said put a hand on Ron's chest to hold him back from attacking Hermione and another
hand towards Hermione to prevent her from stabbing him with her fork. If Ron still liked her, then
why did he act like that?
"I'm going to sit with Mark," Hermione said and grabbed her plate and flung her bag over her
shoulder. He took a seat down at the end of the table where Mark kissed her on the cheek and
Katherine welcomed her.
"Anyhow, about the detention," Ron said. "Should I tell Umbridge I know what she's doing?"
Harry shook his head. "No... no... Erg, now that you mentioned her, I'm thinking about Sirius.
What if she did frame him?"
"All the clues add up to that, don't they?" Ron asked.
"I guess so. She was Minister of Magic the year Sirius was accused of killing everyone. She
HAD to have changed the files that were forwarded to her to say killed by Sirius Black."
"But why would she frame him?" Harry asked. "We need to tell Dumbledore as soon as we get
more information. Try and get some out of her tonight."
Harry and Ron took off to Care of Magical Creatures. Hermione had stayed behind with her
Mark.
The doors had already opened and many of the kids were filing inside.
"Great," Ron said. "Slytherins like always."
Hagrid stood at his desk . He had shaved his beard and had tidied up his hair. Ron clapped at
this new look and Harry shook his head in agreement.
"Sit down boys..." he said. "Than' you for tha complimen'."
When everyone had seated, the classroom doors shut. Hermione had taken a seat away from
Ron who looked menacingly at her.
"Welcome back everyone! Were goin' ter study smaller creatures until we can get lessons
outside. So terday, we gonna learn about Puffskeins!"
Lavender and Parvati squealed. "I LOVE PUFFSKEINS!"
"Remember, Fred used ours for Quidditch practice. The stupid bloke–"
Hagrid opened a door and walked into another room. He came out holding three or four
cages. Round, cuddly animals were inside humming. The had custard-colored fur.
"I'll hand one out ter all of ya. Our assignment fer the week is ta care after your Puffskein. It's
a baby righ' now, but if you play with it an' feed it, it should grow abou' five, mayba' six inches more."
Hagrid walked around the classroom hanging Puffskeins to each kid. Draco Malfoy started
poking his and the Puffskein started growling at him.
"Don' harass the animals please... you migh' get hurt," Hagrid said, eying Draco.
"These are cute," Harry said, petting his.
"Food for your animal will be on my desk... please do not overfeed or hurt them."
"What if they die?" Ron asked.
"They won't... probably when their hungry, they stick their tongue out right? That's what I
remember reading in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," Harry said.
Everyone was having a fun time running around the room, chasing their Puffskeins. Ron's
stomach lurched when he saw a horrible sight.
"Look Harry," Ron said and pointed to a corner where Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe were banging
their Puffskeins together and hitting them forcefully.
"That is it. I have had enough of that bitch, Malfoy," Ron said and patted his Puffskein onit's
head. It started to pant. Ron got out of his seat and walked over to Malfoy who was smacking the
Puffskein in the face.
"Hey MALFOY!" Ron said as he approached him.
"What do YOU want," Draco said scornfully.
"This!" Ron said and grabbed Draco's shirt collar and punched him right in the nose.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Draco screamed as he held his nose.
"DON'T HIT THE PUFFSKEINS!"
Ron grabbed each of them who started to lick him for rescuing them. He raised a fist at
Crabbe and Goyle who jumped up to defend their leader, but they cowered away at the sight of his
anger.
Hagrid looked at Ron amazingly.
"Um... um... thirty points to Gryffindor," he said and all the Gryffindors gasped. No teacher
had ever given points for PUNCHING someone before. Hermione smiled at Ron as he passed by with
three more Puffskeins in his hand.
The class ended and Draco and his fellow Slytherins were eager to beat the crap out of
anyone who laughed at them because Ron had punched Draco. It was extremely halarious and Ron
now had four Puffskeins to care for. If all of them turned out healthy, Hagrid said that Ron would
receive fifty house points.
The rest of their classes that day were very boring. History of Magic and Charms, where
Professor Flitwick explained what N.E.W.T.S. were. Harry found himself dozing into a sleep during
that class. Hermione was now talking to them, she thought it was very courageous what Ron did.
They had Astronomy that night at nine o'clock. Harry was going to go visit Fred and George during
dinner which had already started.
"I'm going to go up to the restaurant," Harry said and split up with Ron and Hermione to run
to the staircase at the end of the hall. He ran up almost ten flights of stairs and reached the top
where he opened two big oak doors.
He exited and found that many people were not in the lobby and eating at the restaurant on
the floor below. He found the hotel and told the receptionist who he wanted to see. The man dug out
Harry's picture to okay him and told him the room number again.
Harry ran up and got into the elevator. He had forty-five minutes, but he had a feeling this
would take a while. Room 45, 3rd floor. He dashed to the suite and pounded on the door. Fred
answered it.
"HARRY!" he called out. "Nice to see you, chap!" George came to the door and smiled.
"Come inside," George said. "I'll fix you some coffee."
Harry nodded. "I have a question for you two. You understand girls, right?"
"Understand them! My god, we practically are them!" Fred said and George looked at him
weirdly.
Harry sat down on the sofa. "Okay. All I want to know is, when your in a relationship with
someone at my age, how fast do you take it?"
"Well... remember Alicia, Fred? George asked. "How fast did you guys take it?"
"Pretty fast... I mean we didn't start making out until our third, fourth week of dating. Why?"
"Because everyone who is dating now... they are making out on the first day. I mean, it's a bit
fast!"
George shook his head as he brewed some java. "Too fast indeed. You guys have until June to
be intimate. Just wait a bit."
"Are you going out with someone, Harry?" Fred asked.
"Okay... please don't yell at me when I tell you."
"Why would we?" George laughed as he handed Harry his coffee.
"Because I'm going out with Ginny."
Fred screamed like a girl and George spit coffee all over Harry.
"I'm sorry!" Harry yelled over their commotion but they were too busy singing.
"GINNY'S GOT A BOYFRIEND! GINNY'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!" then they shifted moods and
advanced on Harry. "If you knock her up, you'll be dead– GINNY'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!"
"Don't tell okay?" Harry asked. Fred and George nodded. "I have to go. I need to get back to
eat a bit of dinner. Thanks for the advice..."
Harry left their room and found himself back at Affotts in no time at all. He went to get a quick
dinner and found that Hermione and Ron were gone. He couldn't be telling her, could he? Ginny was
at the table.
"Ginny! Quick, where are Ron and Hermione?"
"In the courtyard, Harry, Ron said he needed to talk to her," Ginny said. Harry grabbed her
up and kissed her in front of everyone.
"AND I DON'T CARE WHO SAW THAT!" Harry yelled ecstatically and Katherine jumped up in
rage for some reason. Harry ran off leaving Ginny standing in the middle of the hall, touching her lips
gently with her finger.
Harry ran to the courtyard and grabbed Ron.
"GET OVER HERE!" Harry said urgently. Hermione looked taken aback. Harry dragged him
over to a tree like the time with Ginny.
"Don't tell her," Harry said, "that you like her."
Ron looked very angry. "How do you know?!" he whispered.
"I wasn't sleeping," Harry said. "I'm sorry Ron. She's going out with Mark. Don't ruin it."
"Oh fuck off," Ron said. "I'll do what I want." Ron shoved Harry out of the way but Harry ran
and tackled Ron.
"Don't do it!" Harry said in his ear. Ron flung his elbow back and it jabbed Harry in the
stomach.
"HERMIONE!" Ron yelled as he was being fought by Harry. "I LOVE YOU!"
Hermione looked at Ron. Ron looked back and gasped. Mark had apparently seen her in the
courtyard and went to see her. Mark had his hands around her waist.
She just looked down and slapped Mark's hands away. She walked out of the courtyard and
never came back.
It was detention with Umbridge, and Ron had made the biggest mistake of his life. Why
couldn't he have listened to Harry? He knocked on Umbridge's door.
"Come in," boomed a voice. Ron entered office which was full of pink shawls drape around
large shelves with china plates on them. Her desk had sculptures of pink bunnies on it. "Sit," she said.
Ron obeyed her.
"I hear," she grinned toothily, "that you punched Draco Malfoy in the face in Care of Magical
Creatures–"
"He deserved it!" Ron said.
"Physical abuse is not permitted in Affotts... maybe you should experience the pain he did."
She raised her wand. Ron's eyes widened.
"What are you doing?" he said nervously.
"Giving you pain... to start off the detention." She raised her wand higher and pointed it right
at Ron's heart. "CRUCIO!"
Ron screamed horrendously and shook uncontrollably in his chair. His eyes darted to the back
of his head. Professor Umbridge laughed viciously and said the curse again.
"STOPPPPP!" Ron screamed as he spit blood out of his mouth. Umbridge lowered her wand.
Ron stopped shaking. He was very cold and felt sick. He bent over suddenly and vomited all over the
floor.
"You will clean that up," Professor Umbridge said and turned around to get him a scrubbing
utensil and a bucket. She filled it up with water using magic.
"You will have much fun in detention Mr. Weasley..." Umbridge laughed as Ron tried to clean
the floor but kept collapsing every time he had a sharp pain run through his body.
Harry was talking to Hermione in the common room about Ron.
"Don't ignore him Hermione... please? For me?" Harry said. She shook her head.
"I just hate that he did that. He knows I like Mark. It's like he wants me to like him again and
I won't EVER."
Ginny was sitting next to them... he felt a tug at his cloak and he turned around. Ron had
entered the common room. His front shirt was full of blood and vomit.
"Umbridge," he said weakly.
"Oh my God, Ron!" Hermione screamed and went to help him, but Ron fainted.
Harry and Ginny got up to go over to him.
"He's conscience... I think he's passed out," Harry said as he examined Ron's pulse. "What did
Umbridge do to him?" Harry said fearfully.
"Get McGonagall... someone!" Ginny yelled to the common room. A small group of people
raced of the room to find their Head of House. Katherine and Mark came over with a cloth to wipe off
the mess on his shirt.
"We have to tell Dumbledore, Harry," Hermione said. "She's tortured Ron."
God I hope you all liked the last chapter. 6 pages is not easy to write, especially when you
have to correct mistakes that you mad ein previous chapters. Sorry for the typos btw! I'll end up
reuploading some of these chapters again... maybe. Well if I have over six hours of time to write two
chapters in a day, then I can correct and upload :)
Things are starting to get good and you might have caught some foreshadowing from Ginny.
God... if I write that chapter, I won't know what to do. Er... ya. Anyhow, the rest of this story is going
to go muchos muchos fast. I'm only going to highlight on the big things. We still have a lot more to
go. (The Quidditch Stadium, Detention with Umbrdige, Her Betrayal, The War, Quidditch Games,
Katherine and Harry– yes I know, he better not cheat!, Talking with Fred and George, Ron confessing
his ultimate love for Hermione, and MUCH more. So read chapter 14!!)
!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!
CHAPTER 14
Ron's Painful Punishment
Ron was walking to the Great Hall to get some breakfast the next morning, when an overly
large elephant stopped him.
"Weasley."
"Yes Professor Umbridge?" Ron asked sweetly.
"Do you remember that you had two weeks detention with me starting yesterday?"
Ron's face frowned. "I'm sorry, I forgot."
"Three weeks," she said. "You will miss your Quidditch Lessons. Six o'clock to Seven o'clock."
Professor Umbrdige strode off, her black shawl flying behind her. Ron sighed and walked into
the hall where he saw Harry and Hermione all ready there. He took a seat next to Harry.
"Three weeks detention with Umbridge because I forgot to show up the last two night," Ron
said as he snatched the pumpkin juice contained and filled his cup angrily.
"Well, what did you expect, Ron?" Hermione asked as she ate a piece of bacon.
"Oh bugger off Miss Perfect," Ron said furiously. Hermione looked hurt.
"Just because it's your fault for doing something, doesn't mean to have to yell at me!"
"OKAY, shut up, BOTH OF YOU! I'm not having a fight start during breakfast when everyone is
cranky," Harry said put a hand on Ron's chest to hold him back from attacking Hermione and another
hand towards Hermione to prevent her from stabbing him with her fork. If Ron still liked her, then
why did he act like that?
"I'm going to sit with Mark," Hermione said and grabbed her plate and flung her bag over her
shoulder. He took a seat down at the end of the table where Mark kissed her on the cheek and
Katherine welcomed her.
"Anyhow, about the detention," Ron said. "Should I tell Umbridge I know what she's doing?"
Harry shook his head. "No... no... Erg, now that you mentioned her, I'm thinking about Sirius.
What if she did frame him?"
"All the clues add up to that, don't they?" Ron asked.
"I guess so. She was Minister of Magic the year Sirius was accused of killing everyone. She
HAD to have changed the files that were forwarded to her to say killed by Sirius Black."
"But why would she frame him?" Harry asked. "We need to tell Dumbledore as soon as we get
more information. Try and get some out of her tonight."
Harry and Ron took off to Care of Magical Creatures. Hermione had stayed behind with her
Mark.
The doors had already opened and many of the kids were filing inside.
"Great," Ron said. "Slytherins like always."
Hagrid stood at his desk . He had shaved his beard and had tidied up his hair. Ron clapped at
this new look and Harry shook his head in agreement.
"Sit down boys..." he said. "Than' you for tha complimen'."
When everyone had seated, the classroom doors shut. Hermione had taken a seat away from
Ron who looked menacingly at her.
"Welcome back everyone! Were goin' ter study smaller creatures until we can get lessons
outside. So terday, we gonna learn about Puffskeins!"
Lavender and Parvati squealed. "I LOVE PUFFSKEINS!"
"Remember, Fred used ours for Quidditch practice. The stupid bloke–"
Hagrid opened a door and walked into another room. He came out holding three or four
cages. Round, cuddly animals were inside humming. The had custard-colored fur.
"I'll hand one out ter all of ya. Our assignment fer the week is ta care after your Puffskein. It's
a baby righ' now, but if you play with it an' feed it, it should grow abou' five, mayba' six inches more."
Hagrid walked around the classroom hanging Puffskeins to each kid. Draco Malfoy started
poking his and the Puffskein started growling at him.
"Don' harass the animals please... you migh' get hurt," Hagrid said, eying Draco.
"These are cute," Harry said, petting his.
"Food for your animal will be on my desk... please do not overfeed or hurt them."
"What if they die?" Ron asked.
"They won't... probably when their hungry, they stick their tongue out right? That's what I
remember reading in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," Harry said.
Everyone was having a fun time running around the room, chasing their Puffskeins. Ron's
stomach lurched when he saw a horrible sight.
"Look Harry," Ron said and pointed to a corner where Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe were banging
their Puffskeins together and hitting them forcefully.
"That is it. I have had enough of that bitch, Malfoy," Ron said and patted his Puffskein onit's
head. It started to pant. Ron got out of his seat and walked over to Malfoy who was smacking the
Puffskein in the face.
"Hey MALFOY!" Ron said as he approached him.
"What do YOU want," Draco said scornfully.
"This!" Ron said and grabbed Draco's shirt collar and punched him right in the nose.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Draco screamed as he held his nose.
"DON'T HIT THE PUFFSKEINS!"
Ron grabbed each of them who started to lick him for rescuing them. He raised a fist at
Crabbe and Goyle who jumped up to defend their leader, but they cowered away at the sight of his
anger.
Hagrid looked at Ron amazingly.
"Um... um... thirty points to Gryffindor," he said and all the Gryffindors gasped. No teacher
had ever given points for PUNCHING someone before. Hermione smiled at Ron as he passed by with
three more Puffskeins in his hand.
The class ended and Draco and his fellow Slytherins were eager to beat the crap out of
anyone who laughed at them because Ron had punched Draco. It was extremely halarious and Ron
now had four Puffskeins to care for. If all of them turned out healthy, Hagrid said that Ron would
receive fifty house points.
The rest of their classes that day were very boring. History of Magic and Charms, where
Professor Flitwick explained what N.E.W.T.S. were. Harry found himself dozing into a sleep during
that class. Hermione was now talking to them, she thought it was very courageous what Ron did.
They had Astronomy that night at nine o'clock. Harry was going to go visit Fred and George during
dinner which had already started.
"I'm going to go up to the restaurant," Harry said and split up with Ron and Hermione to run
to the staircase at the end of the hall. He ran up almost ten flights of stairs and reached the top
where he opened two big oak doors.
He exited and found that many people were not in the lobby and eating at the restaurant on
the floor below. He found the hotel and told the receptionist who he wanted to see. The man dug out
Harry's picture to okay him and told him the room number again.
Harry ran up and got into the elevator. He had forty-five minutes, but he had a feeling this
would take a while. Room 45, 3rd floor. He dashed to the suite and pounded on the door. Fred
answered it.
"HARRY!" he called out. "Nice to see you, chap!" George came to the door and smiled.
"Come inside," George said. "I'll fix you some coffee."
Harry nodded. "I have a question for you two. You understand girls, right?"
"Understand them! My god, we practically are them!" Fred said and George looked at him
weirdly.
Harry sat down on the sofa. "Okay. All I want to know is, when your in a relationship with
someone at my age, how fast do you take it?"
"Well... remember Alicia, Fred? George asked. "How fast did you guys take it?"
"Pretty fast... I mean we didn't start making out until our third, fourth week of dating. Why?"
"Because everyone who is dating now... they are making out on the first day. I mean, it's a bit
fast!"
George shook his head as he brewed some java. "Too fast indeed. You guys have until June to
be intimate. Just wait a bit."
"Are you going out with someone, Harry?" Fred asked.
"Okay... please don't yell at me when I tell you."
"Why would we?" George laughed as he handed Harry his coffee.
"Because I'm going out with Ginny."
Fred screamed like a girl and George spit coffee all over Harry.
"I'm sorry!" Harry yelled over their commotion but they were too busy singing.
"GINNY'S GOT A BOYFRIEND! GINNY'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!" then they shifted moods and
advanced on Harry. "If you knock her up, you'll be dead– GINNY'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!"
"Don't tell okay?" Harry asked. Fred and George nodded. "I have to go. I need to get back to
eat a bit of dinner. Thanks for the advice..."
Harry left their room and found himself back at Affotts in no time at all. He went to get a quick
dinner and found that Hermione and Ron were gone. He couldn't be telling her, could he? Ginny was
at the table.
"Ginny! Quick, where are Ron and Hermione?"
"In the courtyard, Harry, Ron said he needed to talk to her," Ginny said. Harry grabbed her
up and kissed her in front of everyone.
"AND I DON'T CARE WHO SAW THAT!" Harry yelled ecstatically and Katherine jumped up in
rage for some reason. Harry ran off leaving Ginny standing in the middle of the hall, touching her lips
gently with her finger.
Harry ran to the courtyard and grabbed Ron.
"GET OVER HERE!" Harry said urgently. Hermione looked taken aback. Harry dragged him
over to a tree like the time with Ginny.
"Don't tell her," Harry said, "that you like her."
Ron looked very angry. "How do you know?!" he whispered.
"I wasn't sleeping," Harry said. "I'm sorry Ron. She's going out with Mark. Don't ruin it."
"Oh fuck off," Ron said. "I'll do what I want." Ron shoved Harry out of the way but Harry ran
and tackled Ron.
"Don't do it!" Harry said in his ear. Ron flung his elbow back and it jabbed Harry in the
stomach.
"HERMIONE!" Ron yelled as he was being fought by Harry. "I LOVE YOU!"
Hermione looked at Ron. Ron looked back and gasped. Mark had apparently seen her in the
courtyard and went to see her. Mark had his hands around her waist.
She just looked down and slapped Mark's hands away. She walked out of the courtyard and
never came back.
It was detention with Umbridge, and Ron had made the biggest mistake of his life. Why
couldn't he have listened to Harry? He knocked on Umbridge's door.
"Come in," boomed a voice. Ron entered office which was full of pink shawls drape around
large shelves with china plates on them. Her desk had sculptures of pink bunnies on it. "Sit," she said.
Ron obeyed her.
"I hear," she grinned toothily, "that you punched Draco Malfoy in the face in Care of Magical
Creatures–"
"He deserved it!" Ron said.
"Physical abuse is not permitted in Affotts... maybe you should experience the pain he did."
She raised her wand. Ron's eyes widened.
"What are you doing?" he said nervously.
"Giving you pain... to start off the detention." She raised her wand higher and pointed it right
at Ron's heart. "CRUCIO!"
Ron screamed horrendously and shook uncontrollably in his chair. His eyes darted to the back
of his head. Professor Umbridge laughed viciously and said the curse again.
"STOPPPPP!" Ron screamed as he spit blood out of his mouth. Umbridge lowered her wand.
Ron stopped shaking. He was very cold and felt sick. He bent over suddenly and vomited all over the
floor.
"You will clean that up," Professor Umbridge said and turned around to get him a scrubbing
utensil and a bucket. She filled it up with water using magic.
"You will have much fun in detention Mr. Weasley..." Umbridge laughed as Ron tried to clean
the floor but kept collapsing every time he had a sharp pain run through his body.
Harry was talking to Hermione in the common room about Ron.
"Don't ignore him Hermione... please? For me?" Harry said. She shook her head.
"I just hate that he did that. He knows I like Mark. It's like he wants me to like him again and
I won't EVER."
Ginny was sitting next to them... he felt a tug at his cloak and he turned around. Ron had
entered the common room. His front shirt was full of blood and vomit.
"Umbridge," he said weakly.
"Oh my God, Ron!" Hermione screamed and went to help him, but Ron fainted.
Harry and Ginny got up to go over to him.
"He's conscience... I think he's passed out," Harry said as he examined Ron's pulse. "What did
Umbridge do to him?" Harry said fearfully.
"Get McGonagall... someone!" Ginny yelled to the common room. A small group of people
raced of the room to find their Head of House. Katherine and Mark came over with a cloth to wipe off
the mess on his shirt.
"We have to tell Dumbledore, Harry," Hermione said. "She's tortured Ron."