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Whispers in a Mountain Cave and jtangel - I love the constructive criticism. Please keep it coming!
Everyone: Ron is a little OoC.and the reason is I really don't like him. =D
I LOVE THE CRITICISM! I really need it so if there's any holes in the plot that you find, please let me know and I'll do my best to make the story better!
Queen of the Harpies- LOL I know I thought the freak/whore thing was hilarious too!
Neveada- DUDE did you know I've been reading your story 'Heart of a Lion, Skin of a Snake.' I'm always too lazy to review but I absolutely love your story!
And is Ron gay? Hmm..all we can do is wait and see mwahahaha :)
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Hermione and Ron avoided each other at all costs. Hermione groaned. Her first class of the day was Double Potions wit the Slytherins.and Ron. Taking a look at her normal seat, she noticed Harry was talking to Ron. Hermione fumed. 'How could he still talk to Ron after what happened this morning?!' She saw them turn around, and Ron shot her an apologetic look. Hermione ignored him and sat alone in the back.
'How did you I end up being friends with Ron? He called me a mudblood!' Hermione thought.'Draco called me a mudblood. He called me a mudblood for years, and I forgave him. Ron deserves to be forgiven, he was just angry. He was just taking the mickey.
(A/N: I don't know if I used 'taking the mickey' right)
'Draco was your enemy, but he cares about you now. He's more similar to you than Ron is. Ron was your friend for all the years Draco was your enemy, and now they've completely switched roles.'
Hermione turned to look at Draco, and saw that he had been staring at her. She had butterflies in her stomach, and she quickly looked away and blushed. ' I can not like Draco Malfoy,' she told herself. She then looked towards Ron, who was staring at her, and watched her exchange with Malfoy in anger.
The dungeon doors closed, and Severus Snape entered the classroom, robes billowing behind him. The class immediately fell silent. He tapped his wand on the board and the chalk immediately began to write down the ingredients and instructions in neat, pointy handwriting.
"Today, we will be working on truth potions. It is very easy to make an error while brewing, so I suggest you double-check the amounts of each ingredient carefully," he looked pointedly at Neville. "You will be working in pairs today," he paused for effect, "But I will be choosing your pairs." He smirked. The students groaned. "5 points from Gryffindor for lack of cooperation."
"Potter and Crabbe. Granger and Parkinson. Malfoy and.Weasley," he smirked, along with Malfoy, before continuing. "Longbottom and."
Hermione watched Ron's facial expression with amusement. She rose from her seat abruptly and sat down between Pansy and Draco. She met Draco's eyes, and they snickered as Ron walked over toward Malfoy. She watched as Malfoy scooted over a seat, so Ron could sit next to her. Hermione pointedly ignored Ron, and cursed Draco under her breathe for moving aside. She turned toward Pansy, who was deep in conversation with a Slytherin Hermione was unfamiliar with.
"I'll get the ingredients, no need to get up," Hermione said politely.
Pansy nodded, and turned back to her friend. As she rose and began walking to the ingredient cupboard, she heard Ron say 'Sod off, Malfoy,' and then Draco responds with 'Whatever, Weasel. Go fetch the ingredients' She turned around and Draco smirked at her, and Hermione (very uncharacteristically) smirked back. Ron saw this exchange, and Hermione could tell he was angry. As she reached the cupboard, she pulled out the ingredients, and mentally checked them off. 'Mandrake root, dragon scale, arachnid venom.' Hermione thought, 'This must be a pretty powerful truth potion, aside from Veritaserum.' Her thoughts were interrupted by a polite cough. She turned and saw Ron standing beside her.
"Look, I'm really sorry," Ron started.
"Oh. Has pureblood Weasley come to make amends with the lowly mudblood?" Hermione said icily.
"It's not like that, Hermione-" he began.
"Only my friends can call me Hermione."
She turned on heel with the needed ingredients and left Ron standing there in guilt and anger. Snape and Malfoy watched the scene with amusement, while Harry was both surprised and appalled by Hermione's actions. Ron followed Hermione to her seat and she ignored him.
Hermione turned to Pansy and manage to convince her to help her work on the potion. Ron kept staring at Hermione, and every now and then Snape would say 'Weasley, 5 points from Gryffindor for lack of participation.' Hermione and Pansy would talk lightly, and, much to the surprise of both, were able to complete the potion problem free.
"I need to talk to you," Ron pleaded. "why won't you talk to me?"
Hermione ignored Ron's pleading and began transferring the potion into the flask.
"Please, just talk to me!" Ron whispered urgently.
"Why talk to you when I have nothing important to say? Aren't I just a dirty, filthy, worthless, mudblood? Nothing I have to say is good enough for you, am I correct?" Hermione replied icily.
"I didn't mean that, you know I didn't mean that Mione-"
"That's rubbish, Ron! You even said so yourself! If you didn't mean it then why did you say it?!"
All eyes were on them, and neither took any notice.
"I wasn't thinking, I didn't think-"
"That's just it, Ron! You didn't think did you? You didn't think that your statement would offend me, because I used to consider you a friend? Well it offended me, Ron! And it hurts to know that you even thought that way about me. It hurts to know that after 7 years of friendship, you can just humiliate me in front of the entire school over a pathetic little dream."
"I SAID I'M SORRY, MIONE! ISN'T THAT ENOUGH?!"
"NO, RON! It isn't enough."
At this point, both Hermione and Ron were red in the face from yelling. Hermione picked up all of her things, grabbed the flask, shoved it into the hands of Snape, and left. The room was silent.
"20 points from Gryffindor, Weasley, for disrupting my class," Snape said quietly. "The next time we meet, we will be testing our truth potions. Potter, inform Miss Granger that she has detention with me at 8 o'clock tomorrow for leaving my class during a lesson and of what will happen in our next class."
Harry opened his mouth to protest Hermione's detention, but thought better of it and simply nodded.
The class ended, and the students left the classroom in a hurry. Hermione was waiting outside, and as Ron walked out, he tried to talk to Hermione, who ignored him. Harry walked toward her, and was about to inform her of what Professor Snape said, but she already knew.
"Detention tomorrow at 8, testing truth potions next lesson. I heard," Hermione half-smiled at Harry.
He nodded in response and gave her a half-smile in response. He walked with Ron to Divination. Before Ron rounded the corner, he turned around for one last glance at Hermione, only to see Hermione and Draco whispering quietly to each other.
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Ron and Harry walked slowly to Divination, the tension between them building up.
"Why'd you say it, mate?" Harry asked quietly.
Ron stopped, as well as Harry. The eyes of Ron were unreadable.
"I don't know, Harry. It just came out. At the time, I thought it was the right thing to say. But now I regret it. I don't know what to say to her that will make up for it. Talk to her for me Harry?"
"Sorry, Ron. I can't help you out of this one. This is one mess you need to clean up yourself."
Harry turned and began to walk away, leaving Ron standing in the same place, thinking. Harry turned around.
"You coming, Ron?"
"Yea," Ron said quietly, and with one last glance behind him, walked toward his best friend.
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The rest of the day passed by uneventful. Hermione did her best to avoid Ron, and at lunch sat on the other side of Harry and next to Ginny. After classes, Hermione was becoming incredibly anxious. She walked to she and Draco's common room, and to her surprise saw no one there. Deciding to savor this, she grabbed a book off the shelf and began to read. Again she found she could not concentrate. All she could think about was the meeting with Draco. 'I wonder what's so important?' she thought. Interrupting her thoughts, and her reading, was the distinct shouting outside the common room. She rose out of her couch and opened the portrait hole, and found Ron and Draco in a very heated argument. Pansy glued on to his arm, and Crabe and Goyle were behind him loyally. Hermione felt a twinge of jealousy, but it faded when she saw Draco push her off. Ron was standing alone.
"Weasel, I don't know what your problem is," Draco said calmly, a smirk plastered on his face.
"You're my problem Malfoy! You're the reason Hermione isn't talking to me aren't you? You've.you've don't something to her, so she'll talk to you!" Ron shouted, red in the face.
Hermione stepped out of the portrait hole and remained out of view.
"Are you mad, Weasel? I have nothing to do with Hermione's behavior!" Draco shouted in return, "Are you forgetting that you called her mudblood, Weasel?"
Hermione smiled, and luckily no one noticed Draco had just said her first name aloud.except for Ron. Ron's fist hit Draco square in the jaw.
"I said it because I was angry!" Ron argued.
Draco prevented his friends from taking any action. Draco touched his lip, and looked at his fingers, which now held blood. He turned and looked directly at Hermione.
"Yea? At least I didn't mean it," and on that note, Draco turned to the portrait hole with his posse, mumbled the password, and entered the common room. Ron was left muddled by Draco's words, and turned around to head toward the common room.
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Hermione needed to talk to someone. She realized Harry was her only hope. There was a sinking feeling in her stomach, ad she realized she'd have to tell Harry everything. She walked to the Gryffindor common room briskly, and was surprised to find it almost empty on a Friday evening. She was even more surprised to see that the only one person remained, and to her luck it was Harry. Harry saw her entering and smiled warmly at her.
"I was wondering when you'd come," Harry said.
Hermione returned the smile. She sat down beside Harry, and looked at her watch. 7:30. Just enough time to tell Harry everything.
"I'll start from beginning." Hermione started.
"I'm all ears, Mione,"
And so Hermione told Harry everything.from the incident at home to the kiss with Draco Malfoy. She was unaware of the tears rolling down her cheeks, and Harry put his arm awkwardly around her shoulders.
"Harry, I don't know how I'm feeling. Every time I'm with Draco I forget all my problems.and Ron isn't making any things better by the display today. I don't understand how he could treat me like that in the morning and expect me to forgive him in the same day," Hermione wiped her tears away with the sleeve of her robe.
"Mione, are you forgetting that you became friends with our enemy of 7 years?" Harry said calmly.
Hermione pondered this for a minute. "But you see Harry, Draco is different. He knows what I've been through, he feels what I'm feeling. Draco may have been my enemy but lately he's been more of a friend than Ron has," she responded, "after Ron said those.those things today, Draco was there to comfort me."
Harry chuckled lightly. "I know, I saw."
"You saw?! Harry!" Hermione sighed. "So I guess you know I'm meeting him in secret as well then?"
"Yep. I'm sorry Mione, I couldn't help but stay behind," Harry looked at the clock, "and you better hurry, because it's a quarter past nine."
"Oh no! I haven't even started my homework, or began to get ready! Do I look okay Harry?!" she said.
"Hermione, you look fine. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were beginning to fancy Malfoy," Harry said with a grin.
Hermione blushed, and hoped Harry didn't notice. "Don't be silly, Harry."
Hermione got up and smoothed out the wrinkles in her robes. Before she left the room, she turned to Harry.
"Thanks for everything, Harry. I don't know what I'd do without you," Hermione smiled at him.
Hermione left him alone in the common room. Ron came out from the shadows, and Harry felt the guilt of what he had just done sweep over him.
"Get the invisibility cloak, Harry. Something needs to be done about them."
Harry reluctantly rose from his seat to the boy's dormitories to fetch his cloak. A million possibilities of the consequences of their actions ran through his head. 'What have I done?!'
Whispers in a Mountain Cave and jtangel - I love the constructive criticism. Please keep it coming!
Everyone: Ron is a little OoC.and the reason is I really don't like him. =D
I LOVE THE CRITICISM! I really need it so if there's any holes in the plot that you find, please let me know and I'll do my best to make the story better!
Queen of the Harpies- LOL I know I thought the freak/whore thing was hilarious too!
Neveada- DUDE did you know I've been reading your story 'Heart of a Lion, Skin of a Snake.' I'm always too lazy to review but I absolutely love your story!
And is Ron gay? Hmm..all we can do is wait and see mwahahaha :)
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Hermione and Ron avoided each other at all costs. Hermione groaned. Her first class of the day was Double Potions wit the Slytherins.and Ron. Taking a look at her normal seat, she noticed Harry was talking to Ron. Hermione fumed. 'How could he still talk to Ron after what happened this morning?!' She saw them turn around, and Ron shot her an apologetic look. Hermione ignored him and sat alone in the back.
'How did you I end up being friends with Ron? He called me a mudblood!' Hermione thought.'Draco called me a mudblood. He called me a mudblood for years, and I forgave him. Ron deserves to be forgiven, he was just angry. He was just taking the mickey.
(A/N: I don't know if I used 'taking the mickey' right)
'Draco was your enemy, but he cares about you now. He's more similar to you than Ron is. Ron was your friend for all the years Draco was your enemy, and now they've completely switched roles.'
Hermione turned to look at Draco, and saw that he had been staring at her. She had butterflies in her stomach, and she quickly looked away and blushed. ' I can not like Draco Malfoy,' she told herself. She then looked towards Ron, who was staring at her, and watched her exchange with Malfoy in anger.
The dungeon doors closed, and Severus Snape entered the classroom, robes billowing behind him. The class immediately fell silent. He tapped his wand on the board and the chalk immediately began to write down the ingredients and instructions in neat, pointy handwriting.
"Today, we will be working on truth potions. It is very easy to make an error while brewing, so I suggest you double-check the amounts of each ingredient carefully," he looked pointedly at Neville. "You will be working in pairs today," he paused for effect, "But I will be choosing your pairs." He smirked. The students groaned. "5 points from Gryffindor for lack of cooperation."
"Potter and Crabbe. Granger and Parkinson. Malfoy and.Weasley," he smirked, along with Malfoy, before continuing. "Longbottom and."
Hermione watched Ron's facial expression with amusement. She rose from her seat abruptly and sat down between Pansy and Draco. She met Draco's eyes, and they snickered as Ron walked over toward Malfoy. She watched as Malfoy scooted over a seat, so Ron could sit next to her. Hermione pointedly ignored Ron, and cursed Draco under her breathe for moving aside. She turned toward Pansy, who was deep in conversation with a Slytherin Hermione was unfamiliar with.
"I'll get the ingredients, no need to get up," Hermione said politely.
Pansy nodded, and turned back to her friend. As she rose and began walking to the ingredient cupboard, she heard Ron say 'Sod off, Malfoy,' and then Draco responds with 'Whatever, Weasel. Go fetch the ingredients' She turned around and Draco smirked at her, and Hermione (very uncharacteristically) smirked back. Ron saw this exchange, and Hermione could tell he was angry. As she reached the cupboard, she pulled out the ingredients, and mentally checked them off. 'Mandrake root, dragon scale, arachnid venom.' Hermione thought, 'This must be a pretty powerful truth potion, aside from Veritaserum.' Her thoughts were interrupted by a polite cough. She turned and saw Ron standing beside her.
"Look, I'm really sorry," Ron started.
"Oh. Has pureblood Weasley come to make amends with the lowly mudblood?" Hermione said icily.
"It's not like that, Hermione-" he began.
"Only my friends can call me Hermione."
She turned on heel with the needed ingredients and left Ron standing there in guilt and anger. Snape and Malfoy watched the scene with amusement, while Harry was both surprised and appalled by Hermione's actions. Ron followed Hermione to her seat and she ignored him.
Hermione turned to Pansy and manage to convince her to help her work on the potion. Ron kept staring at Hermione, and every now and then Snape would say 'Weasley, 5 points from Gryffindor for lack of participation.' Hermione and Pansy would talk lightly, and, much to the surprise of both, were able to complete the potion problem free.
"I need to talk to you," Ron pleaded. "why won't you talk to me?"
Hermione ignored Ron's pleading and began transferring the potion into the flask.
"Please, just talk to me!" Ron whispered urgently.
"Why talk to you when I have nothing important to say? Aren't I just a dirty, filthy, worthless, mudblood? Nothing I have to say is good enough for you, am I correct?" Hermione replied icily.
"I didn't mean that, you know I didn't mean that Mione-"
"That's rubbish, Ron! You even said so yourself! If you didn't mean it then why did you say it?!"
All eyes were on them, and neither took any notice.
"I wasn't thinking, I didn't think-"
"That's just it, Ron! You didn't think did you? You didn't think that your statement would offend me, because I used to consider you a friend? Well it offended me, Ron! And it hurts to know that you even thought that way about me. It hurts to know that after 7 years of friendship, you can just humiliate me in front of the entire school over a pathetic little dream."
"I SAID I'M SORRY, MIONE! ISN'T THAT ENOUGH?!"
"NO, RON! It isn't enough."
At this point, both Hermione and Ron were red in the face from yelling. Hermione picked up all of her things, grabbed the flask, shoved it into the hands of Snape, and left. The room was silent.
"20 points from Gryffindor, Weasley, for disrupting my class," Snape said quietly. "The next time we meet, we will be testing our truth potions. Potter, inform Miss Granger that she has detention with me at 8 o'clock tomorrow for leaving my class during a lesson and of what will happen in our next class."
Harry opened his mouth to protest Hermione's detention, but thought better of it and simply nodded.
The class ended, and the students left the classroom in a hurry. Hermione was waiting outside, and as Ron walked out, he tried to talk to Hermione, who ignored him. Harry walked toward her, and was about to inform her of what Professor Snape said, but she already knew.
"Detention tomorrow at 8, testing truth potions next lesson. I heard," Hermione half-smiled at Harry.
He nodded in response and gave her a half-smile in response. He walked with Ron to Divination. Before Ron rounded the corner, he turned around for one last glance at Hermione, only to see Hermione and Draco whispering quietly to each other.
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Ron and Harry walked slowly to Divination, the tension between them building up.
"Why'd you say it, mate?" Harry asked quietly.
Ron stopped, as well as Harry. The eyes of Ron were unreadable.
"I don't know, Harry. It just came out. At the time, I thought it was the right thing to say. But now I regret it. I don't know what to say to her that will make up for it. Talk to her for me Harry?"
"Sorry, Ron. I can't help you out of this one. This is one mess you need to clean up yourself."
Harry turned and began to walk away, leaving Ron standing in the same place, thinking. Harry turned around.
"You coming, Ron?"
"Yea," Ron said quietly, and with one last glance behind him, walked toward his best friend.
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The rest of the day passed by uneventful. Hermione did her best to avoid Ron, and at lunch sat on the other side of Harry and next to Ginny. After classes, Hermione was becoming incredibly anxious. She walked to she and Draco's common room, and to her surprise saw no one there. Deciding to savor this, she grabbed a book off the shelf and began to read. Again she found she could not concentrate. All she could think about was the meeting with Draco. 'I wonder what's so important?' she thought. Interrupting her thoughts, and her reading, was the distinct shouting outside the common room. She rose out of her couch and opened the portrait hole, and found Ron and Draco in a very heated argument. Pansy glued on to his arm, and Crabe and Goyle were behind him loyally. Hermione felt a twinge of jealousy, but it faded when she saw Draco push her off. Ron was standing alone.
"Weasel, I don't know what your problem is," Draco said calmly, a smirk plastered on his face.
"You're my problem Malfoy! You're the reason Hermione isn't talking to me aren't you? You've.you've don't something to her, so she'll talk to you!" Ron shouted, red in the face.
Hermione stepped out of the portrait hole and remained out of view.
"Are you mad, Weasel? I have nothing to do with Hermione's behavior!" Draco shouted in return, "Are you forgetting that you called her mudblood, Weasel?"
Hermione smiled, and luckily no one noticed Draco had just said her first name aloud.except for Ron. Ron's fist hit Draco square in the jaw.
"I said it because I was angry!" Ron argued.
Draco prevented his friends from taking any action. Draco touched his lip, and looked at his fingers, which now held blood. He turned and looked directly at Hermione.
"Yea? At least I didn't mean it," and on that note, Draco turned to the portrait hole with his posse, mumbled the password, and entered the common room. Ron was left muddled by Draco's words, and turned around to head toward the common room.
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Hermione needed to talk to someone. She realized Harry was her only hope. There was a sinking feeling in her stomach, ad she realized she'd have to tell Harry everything. She walked to the Gryffindor common room briskly, and was surprised to find it almost empty on a Friday evening. She was even more surprised to see that the only one person remained, and to her luck it was Harry. Harry saw her entering and smiled warmly at her.
"I was wondering when you'd come," Harry said.
Hermione returned the smile. She sat down beside Harry, and looked at her watch. 7:30. Just enough time to tell Harry everything.
"I'll start from beginning." Hermione started.
"I'm all ears, Mione,"
And so Hermione told Harry everything.from the incident at home to the kiss with Draco Malfoy. She was unaware of the tears rolling down her cheeks, and Harry put his arm awkwardly around her shoulders.
"Harry, I don't know how I'm feeling. Every time I'm with Draco I forget all my problems.and Ron isn't making any things better by the display today. I don't understand how he could treat me like that in the morning and expect me to forgive him in the same day," Hermione wiped her tears away with the sleeve of her robe.
"Mione, are you forgetting that you became friends with our enemy of 7 years?" Harry said calmly.
Hermione pondered this for a minute. "But you see Harry, Draco is different. He knows what I've been through, he feels what I'm feeling. Draco may have been my enemy but lately he's been more of a friend than Ron has," she responded, "after Ron said those.those things today, Draco was there to comfort me."
Harry chuckled lightly. "I know, I saw."
"You saw?! Harry!" Hermione sighed. "So I guess you know I'm meeting him in secret as well then?"
"Yep. I'm sorry Mione, I couldn't help but stay behind," Harry looked at the clock, "and you better hurry, because it's a quarter past nine."
"Oh no! I haven't even started my homework, or began to get ready! Do I look okay Harry?!" she said.
"Hermione, you look fine. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were beginning to fancy Malfoy," Harry said with a grin.
Hermione blushed, and hoped Harry didn't notice. "Don't be silly, Harry."
Hermione got up and smoothed out the wrinkles in her robes. Before she left the room, she turned to Harry.
"Thanks for everything, Harry. I don't know what I'd do without you," Hermione smiled at him.
Hermione left him alone in the common room. Ron came out from the shadows, and Harry felt the guilt of what he had just done sweep over him.
"Get the invisibility cloak, Harry. Something needs to be done about them."
Harry reluctantly rose from his seat to the boy's dormitories to fetch his cloak. A million possibilities of the consequences of their actions ran through his head. 'What have I done?!'