Part Two: July 7/1-7/9 1996
Hermione Granger
Hermione,
I'll give you the fact that the world isn't perfect, but our world changes much more slowly than the Muggle world. For us fifty years is short.
As for Harry, yes I've been receiving letters. He keeps talking about Loony Lovegood, apparently she has been sending him trinkets from around the world.
He is no longer wallowing in guilt over Sirius's death, Luna has helped him put it behind him.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/1/96
Dear Ron
Harry hasn't been writing to me, has he mentioned it to you?
I personally don't get what he sees in Luna. That girl has few serious thoughts in her head, though if she weren't in Ravenclaw I'd say she had few thoughts at all. I've told Harry a dozen times that she has a few screws loose but he refuses to listen to me.
Regarding changes in the wizarding world, I believe that the reason change doesn't occur is because there are no Muggleborns in high places within our government. Just let us Muggleborns have power and then you'd see change.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
There have been Muggleborns in power. The Wizengamot has at least one as a member. Also there have been three Muggleborn Ministers. Change, no matter who is in charge, is often met with resistance. According to Ginny's Muggle Studies book it also is resisted in the Muggle world.
As for Harry, he claims that you insulted him because he was friends with Luna. I personally believe that you are jealous of him, or rather of the time he spends with Luna, and used to spend on Cho.
So tell me the truth, are you falling for him?
- Ron
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Ronald Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/2/96
Ron,
What would you know about anything? Frankly I am slightly worried about you. What in the world are you talking about? Why would I be jealous of Harry and anyone?
I do not think of him that way.
- Hermione
P.S. I guess you have done the History of Magic assignment.
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
I've been sitting here at No. 12 with little else to do but talk to Ginny, read through old text books I find here, and do the school work we've been assigned. Also Bill and Fleur have been having some problems, and since Charlie is in Romania, and twins now live above their shop, I've become a handy ear for all problems.
Now, I am not saying that you are jealous in the romantic sense, far from it. However, you are used to being the sole female in Harry's life. If Harry announced he was homosexual you would rejoice because your position was secure. But Harry likes women, even if he is something of a late bloomer, and you have to accept that. No more putting Luna down just because she is eccentric, if you see her really hurting him that is one thing. Shunning her because she is odd is another.
Think of it in the same way you think of telling me to stop harping on Krum.
Yes I've done the History of Magic assignment, who'd you choose out of all our Ministers to compare?
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/3/96
Dear Ron,
I decided to compare Fudge to the first Minister of Magic Broom. I have to say that I don't think much of either of them.
Regarding Harry and my emotions, I think you're wrong. I want Harry to be happy no matter what. I was as upset as you at the way Cho treated him. I just don't think Luna is a good influence on him. She is really not of this earth.
And the way I talk about Luna is nothing like what you've said about Viktor. He is a real sweet guy and you used to be so hot for his autograph.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
I didn't say that you didn't want Harry to be happy. I was merely saying that you guarded your position as the one and only female in his life rather like Fluffy guarded that trap door in first year.
Harry doesn't need 'good influences' in his life. What he needs is someone like Luna who often forgets not only her own name but the fact that he is the 'boy who lived.' When she does remember she doesn't care.
Broom and Fudge? I shudder to think about how dry your parchment will be. I at least choose Ministers who went out and did things.
- Ron
PS How can you think Krum is sweet? The man has Death Eater written all over him.
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Ronald Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/4/96
Dear Ronald,
You should be thankful that magic isn't allowed over the summer, because if it was you'd be receiving a Howler not this letter.
Viktor is not a Death Eater! Nor does he want to be one! If he did, or was, do you think he'd be writing to me as much as he does?
Did you ever answer as to a gift we can get for Harry?
- Hermione
P.S. You most likely wrote about the minister who was a former England Quidditch Player and that one who was an Auror.
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Hermoine Granger
Hermione,
Krum is probably trying to lure you into a false sense of security. It is only then that he'll turn you over to You Know Who.
I think we should get Harry a knew broom, but anything that isn't a book should do.
And just because I've decided to do my assignment on Wood and Black doesn't meant that they were any less effective then Fudge and Broom.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/5/96
Ron!
That is quite enough about Viktor! Why are you so against him? No, don't answer that. I am not sure I would be up to understanding your logic.
Harry has a perfectly fine broom, top of the line from what I have gleaned from you two over the years. There is absolutely nothing wrong with books, so I don't see why it can't be one.
On the subject of Wood and Black, they may not have been less effective then Broom and Fudge, but you can't say they were more effective.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
What was with you today? I would have thought you'd be happy to see all of us in Diagon Alley. You certainly spent a lot of time talking to Pavarti, Padma and Lavender.
Fleur said that she was disappointed that you couldn't find the time to come over and talk to her.
Harry has a really good broom that Sirius gave to him. I am not so sure he's going to want to ever look at it again.
Books are all very well for you but some of us have run out of book space.
- Ron
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Ron Weasley
12 Grimmauld Place
London
7/8/96
Dear Ron,
The reason that I didn't say hi to Fleur or Gabrielle the other day was because you, Seamus and Dean, not to mention every other male in the vicinity, were crowding around them.
Harry will want to continue to use the Firebolt in Sirius's memory. What better way to honor Snuffles then pounding the Slytherins in Quidditch?
Not enough shelf space for your books? That is what the floor, various chairs and your desk are for.
Sincerely,
Hermione
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Hermione Granger
Hermione,
We weren't crowding around the Delacours!
At least, they didn't complain that we were.
I hadn't thought of Harry and the Firebolt like that. It's true that Snuffles would want Harry to have the best for Quidditch and the Firebolt is that. Maybe we can get him an enchanted play-book?
You have books on the floor? Chairs? Your desk? Herm, that gives me a pretty good picture of what your room looks like.
- Ron
End Notes:
- Hmmm... Methinks I have way to much time between Computer Science and Math.
- wintermoon2: Glad you approve of the fluff. =) I've been way too depressing lately. Hermione's use of the word 'our' was meant more like in the sense of their generation.
- Dysis: I am glad you like the story. =)
- Line-From-Denmark: Thank you for your review. =)
- tephyS: Thanks for reviewing. =)
- Moine Weasley the original: The wording does mean something, but Ron is slightly clueless still. Of course he wouldn't be so loveable otherwise.
I haven't read Feeling Sorry for Ceclia, but I have a book that carried the letters thing very well: 'Socery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot' by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. I recommend it highly.
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