Chapter 6
Disclaimer: Ms Rowling owns the whole lot.
The last week before school began again was fairly uneventful, or as uneventful as it could be when you were with the Weasleys. Fred and George had successfully invented a fake Snitch that kept bopping Harry on the nose one afternoon during a friendly match. Ginny had conspired with them and set a whole crate of Peppermint Toads loose in Ron's room two nights ago, and as a result Harry had woken with his pyjamas full of toads and also his stomach, which had been hopping insistently for thirty hours straight. Percy had left the Burrow for a few days to visit his girlfriend Penelope Clearwater. And Ron was planning revenge for the toads - dissolving a couple of the twins' Tonne-Tongue Toffees in their pumpkin soup. What was most uneventful was Harry's status with Hermione. They hadn't had even one moment alone, because Ron was always there, somehow. Harry never had the chance to ask Ron about his feelings for Hermione. Actually, it was probably more like he didn't want to. Deep down he felt that he didn't want to know, and even the thought of Ron and Hermione as a couple made him feel slightly ill. If Ron declared his love for Harry's other best friend, Harry wasn't sure he could seem at all happy for him; he doubted even that he could seem anything short of furious. *** "Hermione?" Hermione snapped out of her dreamy trance and looked at Ginny. "Yes?" "Do you think it's a good idea, then?" Hermione had no idea what Ginny was talking about. She took a guess. "Definitely." Ginny just grinned evilly. "You weren't listening to me." "Yes, I was." "Well then, you just said that selling my Hogwarts robes and buying gumboots is definitely a good idea." Damnit,Hermione thought. She caught me. Ginny could see she still wasn't paying all that much attention. "What's up?" "Nothing. I'm just tired, is all." "Is it a boy?" Hermione came back to earth and hit it with a thud. "No!" she said, a little too quickly. Caught again. Her cheeks started to blush crimson. Ginny folded her arms and leaned forward on the couch, where the two of them had been sitting for about an hour. "Is it someone I know?" Hermione's face turned to match the colour of Ginny's hair. "Ooh, it is. Is it... Malfoy?" Embarrassed as she was, Hermione couldn't help but laugh. "You're asking me that, seriously? What sort of freak do you take me for?" Ginny's face seemed paler for a second, but it passed quickly and Hermione thought nothing of it. Ginny laughed too, but it wasn't her usual laugh. "I know, I know. Of course it's not him. So... is it Ron?" "No," Hermione answered truthfully. But Ginny was getting close. "Harry?" "..No." Hermione looked at a stain on the carpet as she answered, probably a mark of one of the twins' earlier experiments. Ginny knew Hermione well enough to tell instantly that she was lying. "It is! You like Harry Potter!" "Shut up!" Hermione hissed, her face now unbelievably red.
A/N Sorry that was really short. oh well. More to come soon, I have a chapter written but there's still a few to lead up to it with. And I'm probably still having layout problems because I've never done this before.. so lots of apologies, I'll try to fix it up for you. ~Ange.
Disclaimer: Ms Rowling owns the whole lot.
The last week before school began again was fairly uneventful, or as uneventful as it could be when you were with the Weasleys. Fred and George had successfully invented a fake Snitch that kept bopping Harry on the nose one afternoon during a friendly match. Ginny had conspired with them and set a whole crate of Peppermint Toads loose in Ron's room two nights ago, and as a result Harry had woken with his pyjamas full of toads and also his stomach, which had been hopping insistently for thirty hours straight. Percy had left the Burrow for a few days to visit his girlfriend Penelope Clearwater. And Ron was planning revenge for the toads - dissolving a couple of the twins' Tonne-Tongue Toffees in their pumpkin soup. What was most uneventful was Harry's status with Hermione. They hadn't had even one moment alone, because Ron was always there, somehow. Harry never had the chance to ask Ron about his feelings for Hermione. Actually, it was probably more like he didn't want to. Deep down he felt that he didn't want to know, and even the thought of Ron and Hermione as a couple made him feel slightly ill. If Ron declared his love for Harry's other best friend, Harry wasn't sure he could seem at all happy for him; he doubted even that he could seem anything short of furious. *** "Hermione?" Hermione snapped out of her dreamy trance and looked at Ginny. "Yes?" "Do you think it's a good idea, then?" Hermione had no idea what Ginny was talking about. She took a guess. "Definitely." Ginny just grinned evilly. "You weren't listening to me." "Yes, I was." "Well then, you just said that selling my Hogwarts robes and buying gumboots is definitely a good idea." Damnit,Hermione thought. She caught me. Ginny could see she still wasn't paying all that much attention. "What's up?" "Nothing. I'm just tired, is all." "Is it a boy?" Hermione came back to earth and hit it with a thud. "No!" she said, a little too quickly. Caught again. Her cheeks started to blush crimson. Ginny folded her arms and leaned forward on the couch, where the two of them had been sitting for about an hour. "Is it someone I know?" Hermione's face turned to match the colour of Ginny's hair. "Ooh, it is. Is it... Malfoy?" Embarrassed as she was, Hermione couldn't help but laugh. "You're asking me that, seriously? What sort of freak do you take me for?" Ginny's face seemed paler for a second, but it passed quickly and Hermione thought nothing of it. Ginny laughed too, but it wasn't her usual laugh. "I know, I know. Of course it's not him. So... is it Ron?" "No," Hermione answered truthfully. But Ginny was getting close. "Harry?" "..No." Hermione looked at a stain on the carpet as she answered, probably a mark of one of the twins' earlier experiments. Ginny knew Hermione well enough to tell instantly that she was lying. "It is! You like Harry Potter!" "Shut up!" Hermione hissed, her face now unbelievably red.
A/N Sorry that was really short. oh well. More to come soon, I have a chapter written but there's still a few to lead up to it with. And I'm probably still having layout problems because I've never done this before.. so lots of apologies, I'll try to fix it up for you. ~Ange.