*2 months later*
"Ron, PLEASE." Hermione rolled her eyes.
"What?" Ron sniggered.
Hermione and Ron were sitting alone in the common room doing their Potions homework. It was friday night and everybody had vanished somewhere. Either to rest or to the giant party held at the Ravenclaw common room. What made Ron stay with her, Hermione knew exactly but didn't wanna say.
They played Truth or Dare and Hermione chose truth.
"Come on, say your full name!"
"I suppose you're expecting me having a name like Pippi the Longstocking?"
"Kind of."
"Forget it. Hermione Elisabeth Granger."
"I hope you'll be Hermione Elisabeth Weasley in a few years." Ron muttered hopefully under his breath.
"Sorry?"
"Nothing." Ron said quickly. "We should better finish this essay off for Snape, it seems that the party downstairs's ending."
"Good thinking."
For the next ten minutes all they could hear was the sound of two scratching quills and Ron's from-time-to-time sighs. When he once sighed really deeply, he obviously wanted to make sure Hermione knew he had enough of Potions for that night.
"Oh shut it, Ron. You wanted to stay and finish this with me, but if you have a problem with it go downstairs and make yourself comfortable with a bunch of giggling girls running around you and Harry."
"Why would they be running around us?"
Hermione stopped writing and looked up.
"Come off it. Everybody knows you two are gonna try out for Mister Hogwarts." She started writing again.
"But not everybody knows YOU are gonna try out for Miss Hogwarts."
Hermione's head snapped up.
"Don't you dare tell anybody!"
"I wasn't going to! I just thought - er - it was - um - quite - errrrrrm...." Ron was feeling uncomfortable. He landed in a conversation where he DIDN'T want to land and he couldn't get off it anymore.
"I should better go to bed." Hermione broke the silence.
"Um yeah good idea." Ron agreed.
Hermione shut her book and rolled up her finished Potions essay parchment and put everything in her bag. Ron just left everything on the table and cleared up the little bits of parchment they used to play Tic Tac Toe in studying breaks. Hermione walked up to the dormitory stairs, Ron behind her. They walked and Ron stopped by the 7th years dormitory. Hermione kept walking.
'Come on Ron, tell her... tell her... you're in love with her and you know it. You have to tell her, she probably already noticed. She's gonna walk away, TELL HER!' Ron thought.
"Hermione!" Hermione stopped and turned.
"Yes, Ron?"
"I - um - I just thought - I mean - er - I want you to - to know that - you know - that I - "
Hermione watched him, puzzled.
"That I want to wish you goodnight." Ron finished. Hermione smiled.
"Good night to you too, Ron." She turned and walked a few steps more and then entered the girls dormitory.
'You idiot Ron you made yourself look like an idiot HONESTLY!'
"Now, now, Ron, don't have your spirits rise. She's my girlfriend after all." Ron had not noticed at all Harry was lying in his bed.
"I heard everything and I know that your intentions weren't to wish her goodnight. You wanted to tell her you love her, you wanted her to tell you she loved you back, you wanted to kiss her etcetera etcetera etcetera. Get used to this, she's not yours and will not ever be. Have a little respect for your friend, okay? If she doesn't want it then why pressure her?"
"I wasn't pressuring her!"
"You seemed so. She's clever enough to figure out what were you trying to say. You were so transparent."
"And what?"
"And nothing. I'm only trying to say that you're trying to seduce her even when you know she's your best friend's girlfriend." Harry said.
"Fine, Harry. I won't try to seduce anybody. YOU have already seduced every girl in the school so why should I try? I should also better quit the Mister Hogwarts thing, shouldn't I? Just because the saint Harry Potter is going to be there."
Harry didn't comment. He shut his curtains and left Ron staring at the scarlet curtain in the place where seconds before used to be Harry's head.
* * *
Meanwhile, Carrie sat on her bed staring blankly out the window. She had been sorted into Gryffindor, with a couple of annoying girls who were eyeing Harry all the time. It sounded disgusting - to have 5 immature 11-years-old in love with your FATHER. And your father is 17. And you are 11. With the bare thought of it, Carrie burst into uncontrolled laughter. She fell back on her bed rolling of laughter. Gaby, Ellie, Monica, Melanie and Vicki stopped daydreaming about Harry and shockingly looked over at Carrie. She never behaved that way. She was always shy, didn't talk much, but always been a real swot. They weren't friends with her, and for all they cared, they didn't have to be.
"Carrie?" Ellie asked.
"Wh - hic - what?" Carrie started hiccoughing of laughter but she kept laughing.
"What's wrong?"
"What would be - hic - wrong?"
"You never behaved this way before." Monica interrupted.
"Oh yes I did - hic."
"No you didn't."
'Riiiight, they didn't know me before this.' And with the thought of what would be that she told them she travelled 28 years back in past she started laughing even harder.
Gaby, Ellie, Monica, Vicki and Melanie gave up on trying to have a decent conversation with her and turned back to their daydreaming. Carrie was still sniggering when she snuck out of the dormitory. She walked up to the 7th years dormitory and knocked on the boys door. Ron opened them.
"Hi Carrie."
Carrie felt her stomach do a flip-flop. She had a crush on Ron since she first saw him 2 months ago. She thought he was sooooooooo cute! She'd say hot, but apparently she was too young for words 'like that'.
"Hey Ron." She smiled. Ron smiled back.
"Can I talk to Harry?"
"Sure, get in."
Carrie walked in the dormitory, waved to the rest of the boys and caught Harry's eye. She went and sat on his bed.
"I have something to tell you." The boys looked over at the two of them, looking alarmed. Harry noticed it.
"It's nothing of the love nature, I'm not having Hermione and her cousin in love with me! Am I?" Harry looked over at Carrie, obviously kidding.
"Yes and no." Carrie replied. Harry's eyes widened in shock.
"Yes, it's love nature, and no, you're not having Hermione and her cousin in love with you."
Harry relaxed.
"Okay... what's up, then?"
Boys were listening carefully.
Carrie started laughing. She covered her face with her hands and fell back on Harry's bed, still laughing.
"Carrie!"
Carrie sat up again.
"Okay, fineee... listen carefully what's going on outside your door."
Some noises were coming from outside. Everybody looked to the door and heard giggles. Then somebody started singing.
"When you call my name
it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees
I wonna take you there
In the midnight hour
I can feel your power
Just like a prayer
You know I'll take you there
I hear your voice
It's like an angel singing
I have no choice
I hear your voice
Feels like flying
I close my eyes
Oh God I thank him for you
Out of the sky
I close my eyes
Heaven help me!
When you call my name
It's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees
I wonna take you there
In the midnight hour
I can feel your power
Just like a prayer
You know I'll take you there"
Boys were listening shocked, and while the person was singing Carrie carefully snuck to the door and when some girl yelled
"Harry we love you!!!" Carrie suddenly opened the door.
Gaby, Monica, Vicki, Melanie and Ellie were standing outside the door. Carrie moved herself out of their sight and they stared at the boys while the boys stared back. Dean and Seamus started laughing so hard they fell off her beds and at the same moment the girls started screaming and ran up to their dormitory. Carrie fell to the floor dying of laughter and the other boys started laughing. She glanced at Harry who just sat in his bed looking at Carrie and supressing a laugh but then he cracked up as well.
"You're having serenades sang to you, Harry!" Neville barely said through his laughter. Then the door opened again and Ginny and Hermione walked in the dormitory still gazing after the screaming first years. Hermione noticed Carrie and the pure fact of the whole 7th years dormitory dying of laughter in the middle of the night looked a bit suspicious.
"What was going on here?" Ginny asked.
"Harry just had a serenade sang to him!" Ron blurted and re-cracked laughing again. Carrie was unable to speak, as well as Harry.
Ginny burst laughing. "What?"
"You had to be here to find it funny" Dean stuttered.
"Carrie what were you doing here?" Hermione asked.
"I was - hahaahahaha - trying to - hahahaahehaaaaahahh - tell the boys about this - ahahahahahhahaha"
"Oh dear God Carrie!" Hermione just could not stop herself from laughing.
Ginny and Hermione sat near Carrie on the floor and started laughing with the boys.
"Hey girls - can I ask for a favour?" Harry finally got serious a little.
"Sure" said all of them in unison.
"Stay sleeping with us this night."
Carrie and Ginny gazed at each other, and almost started laughing but then looked at Hermione who looked like she had a really bad dilemma going on which she actually was having.
"I don't know..."
"We'll stay!" Ginny and Carrie said in unison.
"Girls!" Hermione said warningly, but Harry and Ron were already offering their beds.
"Ginny can sleep in my bed, I'll sleep on the floor." Harry said.
"Yeah, and Carrie can sleep in mine, I'll sleep on the floor too."
"Oh, you don't have to sleep on the floor, Carrie and I are just going to crumple up at your feet, right Carrie?" She looked over at her.
"Right, Ginny."
"Okay if you want it that way." Harry shrugged.
"Hermione, you going?" Asked Carrie.
"Oh... I don't know..."
"Come on Hermione, it'll be fun!" Ginny persuaded her.
"Yeah Hermione!" Seamus said.
"Fine then, I'll stay." Hermione smiled and got to her feet.
"You can sleep in my bed." Neville jumped off his bed.
"YOu don't have to Neville, I'll crumple up at your feet as well." Hermione smiled.
"Okay"
"Don't you dare touch my girlfriend, Neville." Harry joked. Hermione was already up at the bed and she hung upside down to have a look at Ron and Carrie, her bushy hair falling down.
"And don't you dare touch my cousin" She laughed, straightened up and looked at Harry.
"You too -" Ginny and Hermione said in unison - "paws off her!" And they all started laughing.
"What's the time?" Dean lazily asked.
"It's - good Lord! - 1 in the morning" Hermione answered.
"We should better go to sleep." Ginny suggested.
"Yeah" they all agreed.
"So, good night everyone." Harry said. They mumbled 'good night' and tried to sleep. A few minutes later when Harry and Ron made sure the girls were asleep they silently started talking.
"Ron" Harry started.
"Yeah"
"Are you in love with Hermione?"
"Yes, I am..." Ron whispered.
"Listen... I'm sorry for what I said. I really didn't mean it, I just had a bad day."
"It's okay, it doesn't matter. Actually, I don't think I'm in love with Hermione anymore."
"You're not?"
"No... guess who I like now?"
"Who?"
"The person sleeping at my feet."
"Oh my God!"
"Hush!"
"Sorry... Carrie?!"
"Yeah"
"Well, I have something to tell you then."
"What?" Ron sounded alarmed.
"She's got a crush on you too"
"Oh my dear God."
"Yep."
"Wow."
"Yeah" Harry silently sniggered.
"I can't believe it"
"Well, now you know, so we should better go to sleep."
"Good thinking. Good night, Harry."
"Good night, Ron."
They stopped talking and fell asleep. But there was one little thing they didn't know. Carrie was awake. She opened her eyes and stared through the window not believing what she just heard. She looked over at Harry and Ginny, then at Ron's face. He was so cute when he slept. She closed her eyes and wandered off into sleep.
"Ron, PLEASE." Hermione rolled her eyes.
"What?" Ron sniggered.
Hermione and Ron were sitting alone in the common room doing their Potions homework. It was friday night and everybody had vanished somewhere. Either to rest or to the giant party held at the Ravenclaw common room. What made Ron stay with her, Hermione knew exactly but didn't wanna say.
They played Truth or Dare and Hermione chose truth.
"Come on, say your full name!"
"I suppose you're expecting me having a name like Pippi the Longstocking?"
"Kind of."
"Forget it. Hermione Elisabeth Granger."
"I hope you'll be Hermione Elisabeth Weasley in a few years." Ron muttered hopefully under his breath.
"Sorry?"
"Nothing." Ron said quickly. "We should better finish this essay off for Snape, it seems that the party downstairs's ending."
"Good thinking."
For the next ten minutes all they could hear was the sound of two scratching quills and Ron's from-time-to-time sighs. When he once sighed really deeply, he obviously wanted to make sure Hermione knew he had enough of Potions for that night.
"Oh shut it, Ron. You wanted to stay and finish this with me, but if you have a problem with it go downstairs and make yourself comfortable with a bunch of giggling girls running around you and Harry."
"Why would they be running around us?"
Hermione stopped writing and looked up.
"Come off it. Everybody knows you two are gonna try out for Mister Hogwarts." She started writing again.
"But not everybody knows YOU are gonna try out for Miss Hogwarts."
Hermione's head snapped up.
"Don't you dare tell anybody!"
"I wasn't going to! I just thought - er - it was - um - quite - errrrrrm...." Ron was feeling uncomfortable. He landed in a conversation where he DIDN'T want to land and he couldn't get off it anymore.
"I should better go to bed." Hermione broke the silence.
"Um yeah good idea." Ron agreed.
Hermione shut her book and rolled up her finished Potions essay parchment and put everything in her bag. Ron just left everything on the table and cleared up the little bits of parchment they used to play Tic Tac Toe in studying breaks. Hermione walked up to the dormitory stairs, Ron behind her. They walked and Ron stopped by the 7th years dormitory. Hermione kept walking.
'Come on Ron, tell her... tell her... you're in love with her and you know it. You have to tell her, she probably already noticed. She's gonna walk away, TELL HER!' Ron thought.
"Hermione!" Hermione stopped and turned.
"Yes, Ron?"
"I - um - I just thought - I mean - er - I want you to - to know that - you know - that I - "
Hermione watched him, puzzled.
"That I want to wish you goodnight." Ron finished. Hermione smiled.
"Good night to you too, Ron." She turned and walked a few steps more and then entered the girls dormitory.
'You idiot Ron you made yourself look like an idiot HONESTLY!'
"Now, now, Ron, don't have your spirits rise. She's my girlfriend after all." Ron had not noticed at all Harry was lying in his bed.
"I heard everything and I know that your intentions weren't to wish her goodnight. You wanted to tell her you love her, you wanted her to tell you she loved you back, you wanted to kiss her etcetera etcetera etcetera. Get used to this, she's not yours and will not ever be. Have a little respect for your friend, okay? If she doesn't want it then why pressure her?"
"I wasn't pressuring her!"
"You seemed so. She's clever enough to figure out what were you trying to say. You were so transparent."
"And what?"
"And nothing. I'm only trying to say that you're trying to seduce her even when you know she's your best friend's girlfriend." Harry said.
"Fine, Harry. I won't try to seduce anybody. YOU have already seduced every girl in the school so why should I try? I should also better quit the Mister Hogwarts thing, shouldn't I? Just because the saint Harry Potter is going to be there."
Harry didn't comment. He shut his curtains and left Ron staring at the scarlet curtain in the place where seconds before used to be Harry's head.
* * *
Meanwhile, Carrie sat on her bed staring blankly out the window. She had been sorted into Gryffindor, with a couple of annoying girls who were eyeing Harry all the time. It sounded disgusting - to have 5 immature 11-years-old in love with your FATHER. And your father is 17. And you are 11. With the bare thought of it, Carrie burst into uncontrolled laughter. She fell back on her bed rolling of laughter. Gaby, Ellie, Monica, Melanie and Vicki stopped daydreaming about Harry and shockingly looked over at Carrie. She never behaved that way. She was always shy, didn't talk much, but always been a real swot. They weren't friends with her, and for all they cared, they didn't have to be.
"Carrie?" Ellie asked.
"Wh - hic - what?" Carrie started hiccoughing of laughter but she kept laughing.
"What's wrong?"
"What would be - hic - wrong?"
"You never behaved this way before." Monica interrupted.
"Oh yes I did - hic."
"No you didn't."
'Riiiight, they didn't know me before this.' And with the thought of what would be that she told them she travelled 28 years back in past she started laughing even harder.
Gaby, Ellie, Monica, Vicki and Melanie gave up on trying to have a decent conversation with her and turned back to their daydreaming. Carrie was still sniggering when she snuck out of the dormitory. She walked up to the 7th years dormitory and knocked on the boys door. Ron opened them.
"Hi Carrie."
Carrie felt her stomach do a flip-flop. She had a crush on Ron since she first saw him 2 months ago. She thought he was sooooooooo cute! She'd say hot, but apparently she was too young for words 'like that'.
"Hey Ron." She smiled. Ron smiled back.
"Can I talk to Harry?"
"Sure, get in."
Carrie walked in the dormitory, waved to the rest of the boys and caught Harry's eye. She went and sat on his bed.
"I have something to tell you." The boys looked over at the two of them, looking alarmed. Harry noticed it.
"It's nothing of the love nature, I'm not having Hermione and her cousin in love with me! Am I?" Harry looked over at Carrie, obviously kidding.
"Yes and no." Carrie replied. Harry's eyes widened in shock.
"Yes, it's love nature, and no, you're not having Hermione and her cousin in love with you."
Harry relaxed.
"Okay... what's up, then?"
Boys were listening carefully.
Carrie started laughing. She covered her face with her hands and fell back on Harry's bed, still laughing.
"Carrie!"
Carrie sat up again.
"Okay, fineee... listen carefully what's going on outside your door."
Some noises were coming from outside. Everybody looked to the door and heard giggles. Then somebody started singing.
"When you call my name
it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees
I wonna take you there
In the midnight hour
I can feel your power
Just like a prayer
You know I'll take you there
I hear your voice
It's like an angel singing
I have no choice
I hear your voice
Feels like flying
I close my eyes
Oh God I thank him for you
Out of the sky
I close my eyes
Heaven help me!
When you call my name
It's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees
I wonna take you there
In the midnight hour
I can feel your power
Just like a prayer
You know I'll take you there"
Boys were listening shocked, and while the person was singing Carrie carefully snuck to the door and when some girl yelled
"Harry we love you!!!" Carrie suddenly opened the door.
Gaby, Monica, Vicki, Melanie and Ellie were standing outside the door. Carrie moved herself out of their sight and they stared at the boys while the boys stared back. Dean and Seamus started laughing so hard they fell off her beds and at the same moment the girls started screaming and ran up to their dormitory. Carrie fell to the floor dying of laughter and the other boys started laughing. She glanced at Harry who just sat in his bed looking at Carrie and supressing a laugh but then he cracked up as well.
"You're having serenades sang to you, Harry!" Neville barely said through his laughter. Then the door opened again and Ginny and Hermione walked in the dormitory still gazing after the screaming first years. Hermione noticed Carrie and the pure fact of the whole 7th years dormitory dying of laughter in the middle of the night looked a bit suspicious.
"What was going on here?" Ginny asked.
"Harry just had a serenade sang to him!" Ron blurted and re-cracked laughing again. Carrie was unable to speak, as well as Harry.
Ginny burst laughing. "What?"
"You had to be here to find it funny" Dean stuttered.
"Carrie what were you doing here?" Hermione asked.
"I was - hahaahahaha - trying to - hahahaahehaaaaahahh - tell the boys about this - ahahahahahhahaha"
"Oh dear God Carrie!" Hermione just could not stop herself from laughing.
Ginny and Hermione sat near Carrie on the floor and started laughing with the boys.
"Hey girls - can I ask for a favour?" Harry finally got serious a little.
"Sure" said all of them in unison.
"Stay sleeping with us this night."
Carrie and Ginny gazed at each other, and almost started laughing but then looked at Hermione who looked like she had a really bad dilemma going on which she actually was having.
"I don't know..."
"We'll stay!" Ginny and Carrie said in unison.
"Girls!" Hermione said warningly, but Harry and Ron were already offering their beds.
"Ginny can sleep in my bed, I'll sleep on the floor." Harry said.
"Yeah, and Carrie can sleep in mine, I'll sleep on the floor too."
"Oh, you don't have to sleep on the floor, Carrie and I are just going to crumple up at your feet, right Carrie?" She looked over at her.
"Right, Ginny."
"Okay if you want it that way." Harry shrugged.
"Hermione, you going?" Asked Carrie.
"Oh... I don't know..."
"Come on Hermione, it'll be fun!" Ginny persuaded her.
"Yeah Hermione!" Seamus said.
"Fine then, I'll stay." Hermione smiled and got to her feet.
"You can sleep in my bed." Neville jumped off his bed.
"YOu don't have to Neville, I'll crumple up at your feet as well." Hermione smiled.
"Okay"
"Don't you dare touch my girlfriend, Neville." Harry joked. Hermione was already up at the bed and she hung upside down to have a look at Ron and Carrie, her bushy hair falling down.
"And don't you dare touch my cousin" She laughed, straightened up and looked at Harry.
"You too -" Ginny and Hermione said in unison - "paws off her!" And they all started laughing.
"What's the time?" Dean lazily asked.
"It's - good Lord! - 1 in the morning" Hermione answered.
"We should better go to sleep." Ginny suggested.
"Yeah" they all agreed.
"So, good night everyone." Harry said. They mumbled 'good night' and tried to sleep. A few minutes later when Harry and Ron made sure the girls were asleep they silently started talking.
"Ron" Harry started.
"Yeah"
"Are you in love with Hermione?"
"Yes, I am..." Ron whispered.
"Listen... I'm sorry for what I said. I really didn't mean it, I just had a bad day."
"It's okay, it doesn't matter. Actually, I don't think I'm in love with Hermione anymore."
"You're not?"
"No... guess who I like now?"
"Who?"
"The person sleeping at my feet."
"Oh my God!"
"Hush!"
"Sorry... Carrie?!"
"Yeah"
"Well, I have something to tell you then."
"What?" Ron sounded alarmed.
"She's got a crush on you too"
"Oh my dear God."
"Yep."
"Wow."
"Yeah" Harry silently sniggered.
"I can't believe it"
"Well, now you know, so we should better go to sleep."
"Good thinking. Good night, Harry."
"Good night, Ron."
They stopped talking and fell asleep. But there was one little thing they didn't know. Carrie was awake. She opened her eyes and stared through the window not believing what she just heard. She looked over at Harry and Ginny, then at Ron's face. He was so cute when he slept. She closed her eyes and wandered off into sleep.
