A/n Sorry it took so long for me to put this up. It took a really long time
huh? Anyway, thanks for all the reviews.I'll be putting up the next two
chapters this week.. Hopefully. Alright enjoy this chapter. Once again
sorry for taking so long.
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He's not dead
Chapter 7
'She loves me?' thought the shocked invisible Ron, 'She LOVES me? Why hasn't she told me? Why haven't I told her I love her too? Why am I still standing here invisible?'
Ron stood there for five more seconds staring at the angelic bushy brown headed witch before walking back to the portrait hole, opening than closing it ("Was that necessary?") taking off the invisibility cloak and walking up to the girls with the book in his hands.
"Here you go Mione," said Ron handing her the book.
"Thanks" said Hermione smiling, 'I love it when he calls me that.'
Ginny was looking from Hermione to Ron, from Ron to Hermione about to burst. She was dying to tell someone ANYONE.
'DAMN THAT PROMISE' thought Ginny
Ron looked at his sister and noticed her anxiousness, and gave her a funny look.
"Gin, are you all right?" said Ron raising an eyebrow.
Ginny nodded; afraid she might let something slip if she opened her mouth and ran up to the girl's dorms without a word.
"I thought she wanted to know what was wrong with Harry." said Ron on accident.
"How did you know?" asked Hermione eyeing him suspiciously.
"Uh, I-um-you know Ginny she's always worried about Harry. She's been asking me since we got back. I just hope he gets better before Monday, I don't even want to know what Malfoy and his gang of gits are going to do to him."
Hermione nodded in agreement and started flipping through the book that Ron got for her.
Ron noticed Harry asleep on the couch and let out a huge yawn.
"I'm off to bed, you think I should leave Harry here or take him up?"
Hermione looked up from her book to look at Harry who looked so peaceful, no thoughts going through his mind and there was a smile on his face. Seeing this made Hermione smile as well.
"No leave him here, he looks so peaceful. No go to bed, good night." Ron nodded then bent down and gave Hermione a quick peck on the cheek completely shocking Hermione.
"Good night." saying that he went up to the boys dorms.
Hermione was left in shock with her hand on her cheek in the place where Ron had just kissed her smiling. She closed her book and went up to bed.
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"RON! RON! Have you seen Harry?" yelled Hermione.
Hermione was in the boy's dorm, trying to wake Ron.
"Wha?" said Ron still sleeping.
"Ron get up, Harry's missing! And so is Ginny."
Ron's eyes popped open at the sound of his sister's name. He sat bolt up (does that make sense?)
"What do you mean Ginny's missing? How the hell can she go missing in a school?"
"I don't know, when I woke up I went go to and check on Harry and he wasn't in the common room, then I went to ask Ginny and she was no where to be seen. So I came up here and checked the map and they're no where on the school grounds." It took a while for Ron to understand and let everything Hermione say sink in.
"Ok, so Harry and Ginny are missing."
Hermione nodded
"And you looked at the map to see if they were anywhere on the school grounds but they weren't?'
Hermione nodded again, tears were shining in her eyes.
"Mione, look at me. They can't be lost; I mean even if they were, they know their way back. And I know that Harry is a little out there right now, but Ginny she's really smart and she'll know what to do."
Hermione was now crying.
"Ron what if someone got to them? What if Voldemort somehow got into the school and got to him, with Ginny? I just hate to think anything bad happening to them."
Ron really didn't what he was doing; he leaned over nose to nose with Hermione and..
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"Awwww, no isn't that sweet" said Seamus Finnegan, (sp?) "Weasley I never thought you would be snogging young Hermione here."
Seamus was one of the boys sharing the dormitory with Ron and Harry. Also there was Neville Longbottom and Dean Thomas. Seamus was a fairly handsome young man with light brown hair and beautiful blue eyes currently dating some girl in Hufflepuff.
"I was thinking the same thing actually" said Hermione smiling.
"HEY!"
"What finally gave you the guts to do anything anyway? I've been waiting. Believe me I was about to give up on you too."
"I-"Ron noticed that Seamus was still standing at the door, "You can leave now you nosy ass"
"Why so moody? Besides I want to know the same thing."
"What? Wh-just leave."
"Fine, but I'll be back."
"Whatever."
Once the door was closed Ron turned back to Hermione.
"Ok, now what was the question?"
"What finally made you the guts to make your move?"
"Umm, well let's just say that I've grown up. Hey let's check the map once more." said Ron wanting to get off the subject.
Ron found the map at the foot of his bed, where Hermione left it when she was trying to wake Ron up, the map was still visible on the sheet of old parchment paper and there were dots everywhere. Ron found the two dots that he was looking for.
"What do you mean you've grown up? That's not the kind of answer I want Ron."
"Hey look there they are." said Ron pointing at the dots with Harry and Ginny's names on them. "What are they doing in the tunnel?"
"What? What tunnel?"
"The one leading to the Shrieking Shack under that damn willow."
"What?"
Hermione took a look at the map and saw Harry and Ginny's dots walking back from the shrieking shack to the entrance and back to the school.
"Yeah, come on lets." Hermione stopped when she saw the look on Ron's face, he seemed mad. "What's wrong?"
Ron didn't say anything but got up and headed to the door, opened it quickly. Someone lay on the floor of the dorm rubbing the side of his face where he fell.
"What's you're problem mate?" said Seamus getting up.
"No, what's you're problem, since when did you care about what happened in my life? What were you doing on the listening in huh?"
Seamus looked at Ron than Hermione than back to Ron.
"Alright, I was looking for Hermione," Ron gave him a murderous look Seamus took one step back, "I umm. wanted to ask her out but when I saw you two kissing I knew it was too late and I kind of hoping that she would yell at you or something and I'd be there to comfort her. I don't know."
Ron looked like he was going to explode.
"Why you lit-"
"THAT, is so sweet of you Seamus, but I obviously can't go out with you, I'm sorry." Said Hermione before Ron could finish his sentence.
Seamus smiled sadly and walked downstairs to the common room.
"Ok, you calm down and get dressed we need to go see if Harry and Ginny are alright." said Hermione giving Ron a kiss on the cheek and leaving him to dress.
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It took Ron forever to get dressed and wouldn't tell Hermione why, so she pushed that thought aside. When they finally reached the entrance hall Harry and Ginny just entered the school. Ginny walked in first.
Hermione saw Ginny and ran to give her a hug.
"Ginny I'm so glad you're ok, I thought something terrible happened to you. Where have you been?"
Ginny smiled hugging Hermione back.
"I've been with Harry since about five this morning, what time is it anyway?"
"About eleven thirty, where is Harry?"
"I'm right here," said Harry walking up behind Ginny with something clutched in his left hand.
"Harry? How..? When.? Oh, thank god you're ok." Hermione left Ginny and ran up to Harry and gave him hug and a kiss on the cheek. (a/n, she seems to be kissing everyone today huh? Ha-ha.)
"Hey I thought those kisses were for me only!" said Ron trying to keep a straight face. He went up to Hermione and put his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. Giving her the same kiss her gave her early that morning but shorter.
"Well would you look at that, see I told you Hermione." Ginny was about to burst with joy.
"Ha, yeah it's been like this since this morning actually." said Ron still holding on to Hermione.
"Ok, Harry you have to tell me, how you took that stupid thing off."
"To tell you the truth, I don't even know my self. You'll have to ask Ginny."
Ginny started blushing like crazy, she was thinking about the answer. (giggles. no I'm not going to go into detail, you won't like, people who are in love with Harry Potter.)
"Ok, um, first of all Ron you can't get mad or kill anyone kay?"
"What? Why the hell would you tell me something like that, great now I have to go kill someone, where Malfoy?"
"Shut-up, anyway just don't get mad okay. Now do you want the long story or short?"
"Doesn't matter just tell."
"Okay, it's just like you said Hermione."
Hermione looked confused.
"Well, it's more like the book said. You left it on the couch last night. Anyway, I wasn't able to sleep so as son as I heard you go to bed I walked down to sit with Harry until I fell asleep. But then I saw the book on the cursed pendants and opened it up to see what it was about. (as if the title didn't give it away!!) There was a book mark marking the page on the basilisk pendant and I read it, understood why you needed to know how I felt. So then I woke up Harry here to tell him, when I told him how I felt nothing happened. So I panicked and started crying, after that I don't know what happened, but I saw the pendant on the couch and Harry trying to calm me down."
"Alright, Harry" said Hermione "What made you take it off?"
Harry smiled, "I think you missed a part in that book of yours Mione. The only way for one to take off the pendant is for one to find someone who truly loves them."
"Yeah, I know. I didn't miss that part."
"Would you let me finish first please?"
"Sorry"
"It's ok anyway they have to find someone who truly loves them, and VISEVERSA!"
"What?" asked Ron, completely lost to what was just said.
"Oh my god Harry!"
"What???"
"I know I'm glad she helped me"
"What the hell is going on? Someone please tell me!"
"HARRY LOVES GINNY AND GINNY LOVES HARRY, YOU NIT!" screamed Hermione.
"WHAT!?!?!"
"Calm down it's not like she's going out with Malfoy or anyone from Slytherin."
"Yeah, that's right. I would kill anyone going out with her from that house before you do."
"Yeah, you're right. Sorry, better you than someone else I guess." said Ron feeling stupid.
"Thanks I guess." Harry grabbed Ginny from around the waste and kissed her disgusting Ron.
"Wait if all that happened in the common room than how did you get into the shrieking shack? And what is that in you're hand? " asked Hermione noticing Harry still clutching the object in his hand.
"Oh, I read the book too" said Harry, Ron started laughing; "Shut up, and you know I read. Anyway, it said that I was supposed to go through phases to get back to normal and it would take a while. But as you can see I'm normal, or as normal as I can be anyway. I decided we needed to put this thing" he held out his hand, (for the slow people who don't know, it's the pendant.) "in a place where no one can get to it. We knew we couldn't put in anywhere in the school, because of all the students so then I though 'Hey why not the Shrieking shack.'"
"When we got there, there was no place to actually hide it. Lupin tore everything up already. So we just stayed there and talked. Yes Ron, we talked and don't look at me like that!"
"Then we realized that we've been there for quite a while and decided to come back and tell you about what happened. So now here we are, and here you are, and now you know. So who's hungry?"
"Harry you never change do you?"
"No, and I haven't had a thing to eat all holiday LOOK AT ME!"
Harry was quite right, he was extremely skinny. He was skinnier than he was when he was with the Dursley's.
"And not to mention that I stink." there was a foul odor coming from Harry and everyone moved back. "Ha-ha very funny you guys. I'm going to take a shower, meet you guys later. Oh and save me something to eat."
With that Harry ran up the stairs to take his shower. At the same time an owl fluttered in through the opened door. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Alright ya'll hope you like this chapter. please review so I know to actually put the other chapters up. I'm almost done with this story, and might finish the other one that I have. Anymawho, review peeze!!!!
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He's not dead
Chapter 7
'She loves me?' thought the shocked invisible Ron, 'She LOVES me? Why hasn't she told me? Why haven't I told her I love her too? Why am I still standing here invisible?'
Ron stood there for five more seconds staring at the angelic bushy brown headed witch before walking back to the portrait hole, opening than closing it ("Was that necessary?") taking off the invisibility cloak and walking up to the girls with the book in his hands.
"Here you go Mione," said Ron handing her the book.
"Thanks" said Hermione smiling, 'I love it when he calls me that.'
Ginny was looking from Hermione to Ron, from Ron to Hermione about to burst. She was dying to tell someone ANYONE.
'DAMN THAT PROMISE' thought Ginny
Ron looked at his sister and noticed her anxiousness, and gave her a funny look.
"Gin, are you all right?" said Ron raising an eyebrow.
Ginny nodded; afraid she might let something slip if she opened her mouth and ran up to the girl's dorms without a word.
"I thought she wanted to know what was wrong with Harry." said Ron on accident.
"How did you know?" asked Hermione eyeing him suspiciously.
"Uh, I-um-you know Ginny she's always worried about Harry. She's been asking me since we got back. I just hope he gets better before Monday, I don't even want to know what Malfoy and his gang of gits are going to do to him."
Hermione nodded in agreement and started flipping through the book that Ron got for her.
Ron noticed Harry asleep on the couch and let out a huge yawn.
"I'm off to bed, you think I should leave Harry here or take him up?"
Hermione looked up from her book to look at Harry who looked so peaceful, no thoughts going through his mind and there was a smile on his face. Seeing this made Hermione smile as well.
"No leave him here, he looks so peaceful. No go to bed, good night." Ron nodded then bent down and gave Hermione a quick peck on the cheek completely shocking Hermione.
"Good night." saying that he went up to the boys dorms.
Hermione was left in shock with her hand on her cheek in the place where Ron had just kissed her smiling. She closed her book and went up to bed.
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"RON! RON! Have you seen Harry?" yelled Hermione.
Hermione was in the boy's dorm, trying to wake Ron.
"Wha?" said Ron still sleeping.
"Ron get up, Harry's missing! And so is Ginny."
Ron's eyes popped open at the sound of his sister's name. He sat bolt up (does that make sense?)
"What do you mean Ginny's missing? How the hell can she go missing in a school?"
"I don't know, when I woke up I went go to and check on Harry and he wasn't in the common room, then I went to ask Ginny and she was no where to be seen. So I came up here and checked the map and they're no where on the school grounds." It took a while for Ron to understand and let everything Hermione say sink in.
"Ok, so Harry and Ginny are missing."
Hermione nodded
"And you looked at the map to see if they were anywhere on the school grounds but they weren't?'
Hermione nodded again, tears were shining in her eyes.
"Mione, look at me. They can't be lost; I mean even if they were, they know their way back. And I know that Harry is a little out there right now, but Ginny she's really smart and she'll know what to do."
Hermione was now crying.
"Ron what if someone got to them? What if Voldemort somehow got into the school and got to him, with Ginny? I just hate to think anything bad happening to them."
Ron really didn't what he was doing; he leaned over nose to nose with Hermione and..
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"Awwww, no isn't that sweet" said Seamus Finnegan, (sp?) "Weasley I never thought you would be snogging young Hermione here."
Seamus was one of the boys sharing the dormitory with Ron and Harry. Also there was Neville Longbottom and Dean Thomas. Seamus was a fairly handsome young man with light brown hair and beautiful blue eyes currently dating some girl in Hufflepuff.
"I was thinking the same thing actually" said Hermione smiling.
"HEY!"
"What finally gave you the guts to do anything anyway? I've been waiting. Believe me I was about to give up on you too."
"I-"Ron noticed that Seamus was still standing at the door, "You can leave now you nosy ass"
"Why so moody? Besides I want to know the same thing."
"What? Wh-just leave."
"Fine, but I'll be back."
"Whatever."
Once the door was closed Ron turned back to Hermione.
"Ok, now what was the question?"
"What finally made you the guts to make your move?"
"Umm, well let's just say that I've grown up. Hey let's check the map once more." said Ron wanting to get off the subject.
Ron found the map at the foot of his bed, where Hermione left it when she was trying to wake Ron up, the map was still visible on the sheet of old parchment paper and there were dots everywhere. Ron found the two dots that he was looking for.
"What do you mean you've grown up? That's not the kind of answer I want Ron."
"Hey look there they are." said Ron pointing at the dots with Harry and Ginny's names on them. "What are they doing in the tunnel?"
"What? What tunnel?"
"The one leading to the Shrieking Shack under that damn willow."
"What?"
Hermione took a look at the map and saw Harry and Ginny's dots walking back from the shrieking shack to the entrance and back to the school.
"Yeah, come on lets." Hermione stopped when she saw the look on Ron's face, he seemed mad. "What's wrong?"
Ron didn't say anything but got up and headed to the door, opened it quickly. Someone lay on the floor of the dorm rubbing the side of his face where he fell.
"What's you're problem mate?" said Seamus getting up.
"No, what's you're problem, since when did you care about what happened in my life? What were you doing on the listening in huh?"
Seamus looked at Ron than Hermione than back to Ron.
"Alright, I was looking for Hermione," Ron gave him a murderous look Seamus took one step back, "I umm. wanted to ask her out but when I saw you two kissing I knew it was too late and I kind of hoping that she would yell at you or something and I'd be there to comfort her. I don't know."
Ron looked like he was going to explode.
"Why you lit-"
"THAT, is so sweet of you Seamus, but I obviously can't go out with you, I'm sorry." Said Hermione before Ron could finish his sentence.
Seamus smiled sadly and walked downstairs to the common room.
"Ok, you calm down and get dressed we need to go see if Harry and Ginny are alright." said Hermione giving Ron a kiss on the cheek and leaving him to dress.
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It took Ron forever to get dressed and wouldn't tell Hermione why, so she pushed that thought aside. When they finally reached the entrance hall Harry and Ginny just entered the school. Ginny walked in first.
Hermione saw Ginny and ran to give her a hug.
"Ginny I'm so glad you're ok, I thought something terrible happened to you. Where have you been?"
Ginny smiled hugging Hermione back.
"I've been with Harry since about five this morning, what time is it anyway?"
"About eleven thirty, where is Harry?"
"I'm right here," said Harry walking up behind Ginny with something clutched in his left hand.
"Harry? How..? When.? Oh, thank god you're ok." Hermione left Ginny and ran up to Harry and gave him hug and a kiss on the cheek. (a/n, she seems to be kissing everyone today huh? Ha-ha.)
"Hey I thought those kisses were for me only!" said Ron trying to keep a straight face. He went up to Hermione and put his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. Giving her the same kiss her gave her early that morning but shorter.
"Well would you look at that, see I told you Hermione." Ginny was about to burst with joy.
"Ha, yeah it's been like this since this morning actually." said Ron still holding on to Hermione.
"Ok, Harry you have to tell me, how you took that stupid thing off."
"To tell you the truth, I don't even know my self. You'll have to ask Ginny."
Ginny started blushing like crazy, she was thinking about the answer. (giggles. no I'm not going to go into detail, you won't like, people who are in love with Harry Potter.)
"Ok, um, first of all Ron you can't get mad or kill anyone kay?"
"What? Why the hell would you tell me something like that, great now I have to go kill someone, where Malfoy?"
"Shut-up, anyway just don't get mad okay. Now do you want the long story or short?"
"Doesn't matter just tell."
"Okay, it's just like you said Hermione."
Hermione looked confused.
"Well, it's more like the book said. You left it on the couch last night. Anyway, I wasn't able to sleep so as son as I heard you go to bed I walked down to sit with Harry until I fell asleep. But then I saw the book on the cursed pendants and opened it up to see what it was about. (as if the title didn't give it away!!) There was a book mark marking the page on the basilisk pendant and I read it, understood why you needed to know how I felt. So then I woke up Harry here to tell him, when I told him how I felt nothing happened. So I panicked and started crying, after that I don't know what happened, but I saw the pendant on the couch and Harry trying to calm me down."
"Alright, Harry" said Hermione "What made you take it off?"
Harry smiled, "I think you missed a part in that book of yours Mione. The only way for one to take off the pendant is for one to find someone who truly loves them."
"Yeah, I know. I didn't miss that part."
"Would you let me finish first please?"
"Sorry"
"It's ok anyway they have to find someone who truly loves them, and VISEVERSA!"
"What?" asked Ron, completely lost to what was just said.
"Oh my god Harry!"
"What???"
"I know I'm glad she helped me"
"What the hell is going on? Someone please tell me!"
"HARRY LOVES GINNY AND GINNY LOVES HARRY, YOU NIT!" screamed Hermione.
"WHAT!?!?!"
"Calm down it's not like she's going out with Malfoy or anyone from Slytherin."
"Yeah, that's right. I would kill anyone going out with her from that house before you do."
"Yeah, you're right. Sorry, better you than someone else I guess." said Ron feeling stupid.
"Thanks I guess." Harry grabbed Ginny from around the waste and kissed her disgusting Ron.
"Wait if all that happened in the common room than how did you get into the shrieking shack? And what is that in you're hand? " asked Hermione noticing Harry still clutching the object in his hand.
"Oh, I read the book too" said Harry, Ron started laughing; "Shut up, and you know I read. Anyway, it said that I was supposed to go through phases to get back to normal and it would take a while. But as you can see I'm normal, or as normal as I can be anyway. I decided we needed to put this thing" he held out his hand, (for the slow people who don't know, it's the pendant.) "in a place where no one can get to it. We knew we couldn't put in anywhere in the school, because of all the students so then I though 'Hey why not the Shrieking shack.'"
"When we got there, there was no place to actually hide it. Lupin tore everything up already. So we just stayed there and talked. Yes Ron, we talked and don't look at me like that!"
"Then we realized that we've been there for quite a while and decided to come back and tell you about what happened. So now here we are, and here you are, and now you know. So who's hungry?"
"Harry you never change do you?"
"No, and I haven't had a thing to eat all holiday LOOK AT ME!"
Harry was quite right, he was extremely skinny. He was skinnier than he was when he was with the Dursley's.
"And not to mention that I stink." there was a foul odor coming from Harry and everyone moved back. "Ha-ha very funny you guys. I'm going to take a shower, meet you guys later. Oh and save me something to eat."
With that Harry ran up the stairs to take his shower. At the same time an owl fluttered in through the opened door. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Alright ya'll hope you like this chapter. please review so I know to actually put the other chapters up. I'm almost done with this story, and might finish the other one that I have. Anymawho, review peeze!!!!
Fawn