Disclaimer: I've been doing a lot of soul searching the past few days and I've discovered something about myself: I do not own Harry Potter.
Chapter 7: Day 5, February 2
***February 2***
"Ron wake up, we're gonna be late for breakfast, it's 8:30" said Harry.
Ron opened his eyes and they were as wide saucers.
Moments later Harry was grabbing all of Ron's Blankets and throwing them onto his own bed.
"Get up you stupid prat, we're going to be late."
Ron jolted up from his bed which startled Harry and asked excitedly "what's the date Harry?"
Harry still trying to gather himself from the fright that Ron just gave him replied "its February 2nd you stupid git. You didn't have to scare me like that"
"Do you remember the mess I made yesterday in potions? Has Snape been up here to look for me?" asked Ron very fast.
"What the bloody hell are you talking about mate? You never made a mess in potions yesterday and why the hell would Snape be looking for you?" said Harry
"Yeeeeeeeee YES! OH YES YES! HA HA! " shouted Ron jumping up and down shaking his fists.
"Ron what is going on? Why are you so happy?"
Ron didn't answer Harry, he ran toward the window, looked out and beamed at the sight that he saw.
"I did it, I got away with everything I did yesterday. Ah, look at the shy and the mountain's Harry. Cue the birds, cue Hagrid coming out, puts down the boxes, and go back inside to get more . . . " said Ron as he looked out the window surveying everything.
"What is it with you today Ron and what did you get away with yesterday? Are you feeling ill or something?" asked Harry sounding worried.
"Nothings the matter Harry, in fact I feel born again" replied Ron still smiling
"Well I'm going to go down stairs and wait for you because I can see that you are not a morning person today" said Harry looking strangely at Ron once again.
"No need to mate, just give me a few seconds and I'll be set; I'm starving" said Ron
And sure enough within a minute Ron was all set and ready to go down to breakfast.
"Whoa that was quick, its 8:35" said Harry.
"Well I'm starving, I feel as though I haven't eaten in days" said Ron smiling.
Ron and Harry found Hermione in the common room waiting for them as usual and as usual Ron noticed that Hermione was exactly where she was suppose to be standing.
"Good morning guys"said Hermione
"Morning" said Harry
"Morning Herm, and yes it is a good morning" said Ron beaming at Hermione.
Hermione looked taken aback and turned to look at Harry for an explanation. Harry shrugged and shook his head.
On their way to the Great Hall Hermione smiled and said "there's something different about you today Ron, what's got you so happy today? I thought I heard you shouting today"
"Well Hermione what's not to be happy about today or life in general? It's a gorgeous day, the sun is shining, I can't hear them but I'm sure the birds are singing, and I have my two best friends in the world with me by my side. Shouldn't I feel happy about that?" said Ron smiling grabbing both Harry and Hermione each by the shoulder.
Hermione was at a lost for words. She just walked on giggling.
Harry laughed and shook his head "stop it mate, your going to make me cry"
"Well excuse me for being positive" said Ron roaring with laughter
All three of them continued to the Great Hall joking and laughing. When they took their seats at the Gryffindor table, Ron wasted no time in digging into his breakfast. He piled tons of toast, eggs, bacon, sausages, and hash browns onto his plate as if he were at a buffet. In the end his plate had looked like a miniature volcano.
"Hungry?" asked Harry laughing
"Yeah, very" replied Ron stuffing hash browns and eggs into his mouth.
"Uh, Ron I think that's going to make you sick" said Hermione
"Non sense" said Ron his mouth stuffed.
Harry, Hermione and the rest of the Gryffindor's continued to stare at Ron unbelievingly as he finished his forth plate of his mountain of toast, eggs, bacon, sausages, and hash browns. As soon as Ron finished his forth helping, he started on his bowl of porridge.
Ron was eating at a lightning fast pace and was too busy to notice all the eyes upon him. When he finished his third bowl of porridge he looked up and said "what?" while wiping his mouth
"That was some.....uh, some meal huh?" said Harry
"Yeah, it was excellent. Time to go to potions now?" asked Ron
"Yeah, we should get a move on its ten minutes to nine" said Hermione still looking at Ron
"Perfect, gotta catch Snape before it's too late" said Ron as he got up.
"What? Why do we have to catch Snape?" asked Harry.
"I have to do something, come on lets go" said Ron as he grabbed his books.
"Wait Ron, not so fast" yelled Hermione as she ran to keep up with the two. Ron finally stopped but they were not at the entrance to the potions classroom. They were standing at the same place where Snape was suppose to come up and catch them standing around.
"Ok ok, we just made it" said Ron.
"Alright Ron what's going on? What do you want with Snape? We're not even at the potions classroom yet" said Harry
"Snape will be here any moment now" said Ron with a grin on his face.
"Potter, Weasley What's going on here" it was Professor Snape.
"Nothing sir, just stoped to tie my shoe." lied Harry.
Ron smiled as Snape showed up just in time to snarl at the three and Harry said what he was suppose to say.
"Well that are you two waiting for?" growled Snape.
"Sorry sir" replied Ron and Harry
But instead of going ahead of Snape, Ron politely said "After you Professor Snape" and put out his arm to politely direct the professor to go ahead of him. Snape gave Ron a grunt and walked ahead of the trio.
"Fools first" Ron thought to himself smiling as he put down his arm and followed Snape.
"That was awfully polite of you Ron, showing respect like that to Snape of all people" said Hermione beaming at Ron.
"Yeah" said Harry rasing his eyebrows.
"Don't say I'm nice yet you guys, just wait" said Ron with a grin as the three followed behind Snape.
Than 'CRASH!'
Snape's upper half was drenched in hot coffee. But by the looks of it his head took most of it.
"Ugh, Mr. Malfoy look at what you've done. You got hot coffee all over my face and robes you stupid boy" snarled Snape getting up.
"I'm terribly sorry professor, I didn't mean to, it was an accident sir" said Malfoy quickly sounding very sorry.
Ron couldn't help but laugh. He let out a roar of laughter while Harry too was trying to hold in a laugh but it was too much as Ron was not helping the situation and Harry let out a roar also. The boys fell to the floor laughing while Hermione just giggled and left quickly for the potions classroom to escape the upcoming wrath of Snape.
"THAT IS ENOUGH, STOP IT NOW!" shouted Snape.
Ron and Harry both stopped laughing as they got up but still had a fit of giggles.
"Sorry Professor" they both said still holding back a laugh.
"Oh you two will be sorry all right, since you both think that this is so funny you can also laugh at the punishment that I'm going to give you" yelled Snape
"Fifty points from Gryffindor, and a week's worth of detention for the both of you" hissed Snape
"Yes sir" said Ron and Harry
"Now get to class" barked Snape.
Ron and Harry quickly went to class still howling at the incident with Malfoy and Snape. It was worth it just to see Snape drenched in hot coffee. As soon as the boy entered the potions class they seated themselves next to Hermione and wasted no time in telling her what happened afterwards.
"Well of course he was going to give you a week's worth of detention. You laughed at his misfortune" said Hermione laughing
"By the way Ron, how did you plan that whole thing anyway Ron?" asked Hermione
"Yeah how did you know that was going to happen?" asked Harry
"What do you mean?" replied Ron trying to look innocent.
"Well Ron you were very anxious to meet with Snape after you had finished your breakfast, you said you had to do something and you did gesture Snape to go on ahead when he stopped us in the corridor" said Hermione as Harry nodded in agreement.
"Uh, um, well the thing is that. . ." Ron never got the chance to answer because Snape had just entered the classroom looking very surly.
"Pop test"said Snape but there was no smirk on his face this time as Ron noticed.
"Today you will be brewing the Cruxtitions potion. If you read your chapter last night as you were told to than you should know what ingredients are needed to make this complicated potion. I trust that you already know that I will be selecting potions at random and testing them on students, so get into pairs because you have to test your partner's potion. You have half of this class to prepare your potions, than the next half will be used to test them."
"Yeah yeah yeah" said Ron to himself
Snape layed out his lesson plan for the day and bolted out the door.
"Well are you going to tell me how you did it?" asked Hermione
"Sorry Herms, got some serious work to do, I'll tell you both later. Oy Neville, get over here mate" said Ron
Neville joined Ron at his table looking relieved to have Ron as his partner.
"Should I do it again? Snape would defiantly not be pleased" said Ron
"Do what again Ron?" asked Neville
"Oh nothing Neville I was just daydreaming that's all. Should we get down to work than?" replied Ron.
"Yeah alright, sure thing Ron" said Neville
Ron had no plans this time to test Snape's reaction to another explosion. Instead he very slowly worked on his potion and once again helped Neville with his. But Ron was not interested in really helping the others this time, not even Harry.
"This isn't going to affect Harry's mark. I mean by this time tomorrow he'll be doing it again" Ron said to himself.
The only reason Ron decided to help Neville was because Ron didn't want to past out like he knew he would if Neville did it on his own.
While Neville was working on his potion Ron couldn't help but stare at some of the girls that were in his class.
"You know Neville, I never realized that Parvati looked that pretty, Lavender too. Ever think of trying to get a girlfriend Neville?"
Neville blushed and turned into a human tomato "um, no I don't think I'd be able to get a girl Ron. I'm not, well you know. . . handsome"
"That's not a very positive attitude Neville. Come on, why don't you ask a girl out?" said Ron
"No, I don't think so Ron" said Neville
"Well mate I think its high time I start to change my attitude about the opposite sex" said Ron with a smile.
"Ok Ron whatever you say" said Neville shaking his head smiling.
"I mean I don't even know anything about the females in our year. I should get to know them a little better huh?"
Another plan or experiment was now in formation in Ron's head.
"Yeah, that would be a start I guess" said Neville. "But what about asking Hermione out, aren't you two best friends?"
"Yeah but that's just it, we're just best friends Neville" said Ron not really wanting to believe in his own words.
Ron glanced at his watch and noticed he had loads of time left before Snape came back to test their potions.
"Neville watch our potions will you? Don't do anything but keep watch because I've got everything under control" said Ron.
Neville nodded and Ron left to head over to Hermione and Lavender's table.
"Hey girls. How's it going?" said Ron
"Hello Ron" said Hermione surprised to see Ron at their table.
"Everything's going great Ron, thanks. How about you and Neville?" asked Lavender smiling at Ron. Hermione frowned.
"Oh Neville and I have things under control over there I think" replied Ron giving Lavender a charming smile which caused her to blush and giggle.
Hermione didn't look to pleased with the flirting going on between Ron and Lavender but she just kept quiet, observed and frowned at the two.
"Ok Ron Weasley time to turn on that ole Weasley charm your brothers told you about" Ron said to himself
"So Lavender . . . "
A/N: Thanks for the reviews, don't stop. Reviews encourage me want to write more.
Also I try to introduce an important element for Ron in every chapter so it makes every chapter important later.
If Ron seems OOC in the next few chapters, well its because he's stuck in a place where nothing seems to matter therefore he will want to try things he never before thought of doing(i.e potions explosion)
Isn't that what everyone would do?
Q: What would I do if I was stuck in one place where nothing mattered?
A: I'd eat everything in sight.
I'm not sure if it's clear yet but this IS a Ron/Hermione fic.
If it seems like I'm weaving a web, don't worry it'll all become untangled in the end. Just hang in there. I'm going to make Ron learn something.
And yes there is a reason for this time lapse.
And yes Ron will get to have Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology soon, very soon.
I haven't decided if I want to write another chapter now or after The Order of the Phoenix comes out. I want to enjoy reading it so I won't be writing for about a week or so. But if there's interest in this fic I would be glad to post another chapter or even 2 before the 21st of June.
Chapter 7: Day 5, February 2
***February 2***
"Ron wake up, we're gonna be late for breakfast, it's 8:30" said Harry.
Ron opened his eyes and they were as wide saucers.
Moments later Harry was grabbing all of Ron's Blankets and throwing them onto his own bed.
"Get up you stupid prat, we're going to be late."
Ron jolted up from his bed which startled Harry and asked excitedly "what's the date Harry?"
Harry still trying to gather himself from the fright that Ron just gave him replied "its February 2nd you stupid git. You didn't have to scare me like that"
"Do you remember the mess I made yesterday in potions? Has Snape been up here to look for me?" asked Ron very fast.
"What the bloody hell are you talking about mate? You never made a mess in potions yesterday and why the hell would Snape be looking for you?" said Harry
"Yeeeeeeeee YES! OH YES YES! HA HA! " shouted Ron jumping up and down shaking his fists.
"Ron what is going on? Why are you so happy?"
Ron didn't answer Harry, he ran toward the window, looked out and beamed at the sight that he saw.
"I did it, I got away with everything I did yesterday. Ah, look at the shy and the mountain's Harry. Cue the birds, cue Hagrid coming out, puts down the boxes, and go back inside to get more . . . " said Ron as he looked out the window surveying everything.
"What is it with you today Ron and what did you get away with yesterday? Are you feeling ill or something?" asked Harry sounding worried.
"Nothings the matter Harry, in fact I feel born again" replied Ron still smiling
"Well I'm going to go down stairs and wait for you because I can see that you are not a morning person today" said Harry looking strangely at Ron once again.
"No need to mate, just give me a few seconds and I'll be set; I'm starving" said Ron
And sure enough within a minute Ron was all set and ready to go down to breakfast.
"Whoa that was quick, its 8:35" said Harry.
"Well I'm starving, I feel as though I haven't eaten in days" said Ron smiling.
Ron and Harry found Hermione in the common room waiting for them as usual and as usual Ron noticed that Hermione was exactly where she was suppose to be standing.
"Good morning guys"said Hermione
"Morning" said Harry
"Morning Herm, and yes it is a good morning" said Ron beaming at Hermione.
Hermione looked taken aback and turned to look at Harry for an explanation. Harry shrugged and shook his head.
On their way to the Great Hall Hermione smiled and said "there's something different about you today Ron, what's got you so happy today? I thought I heard you shouting today"
"Well Hermione what's not to be happy about today or life in general? It's a gorgeous day, the sun is shining, I can't hear them but I'm sure the birds are singing, and I have my two best friends in the world with me by my side. Shouldn't I feel happy about that?" said Ron smiling grabbing both Harry and Hermione each by the shoulder.
Hermione was at a lost for words. She just walked on giggling.
Harry laughed and shook his head "stop it mate, your going to make me cry"
"Well excuse me for being positive" said Ron roaring with laughter
All three of them continued to the Great Hall joking and laughing. When they took their seats at the Gryffindor table, Ron wasted no time in digging into his breakfast. He piled tons of toast, eggs, bacon, sausages, and hash browns onto his plate as if he were at a buffet. In the end his plate had looked like a miniature volcano.
"Hungry?" asked Harry laughing
"Yeah, very" replied Ron stuffing hash browns and eggs into his mouth.
"Uh, Ron I think that's going to make you sick" said Hermione
"Non sense" said Ron his mouth stuffed.
Harry, Hermione and the rest of the Gryffindor's continued to stare at Ron unbelievingly as he finished his forth plate of his mountain of toast, eggs, bacon, sausages, and hash browns. As soon as Ron finished his forth helping, he started on his bowl of porridge.
Ron was eating at a lightning fast pace and was too busy to notice all the eyes upon him. When he finished his third bowl of porridge he looked up and said "what?" while wiping his mouth
"That was some.....uh, some meal huh?" said Harry
"Yeah, it was excellent. Time to go to potions now?" asked Ron
"Yeah, we should get a move on its ten minutes to nine" said Hermione still looking at Ron
"Perfect, gotta catch Snape before it's too late" said Ron as he got up.
"What? Why do we have to catch Snape?" asked Harry.
"I have to do something, come on lets go" said Ron as he grabbed his books.
"Wait Ron, not so fast" yelled Hermione as she ran to keep up with the two. Ron finally stopped but they were not at the entrance to the potions classroom. They were standing at the same place where Snape was suppose to come up and catch them standing around.
"Ok ok, we just made it" said Ron.
"Alright Ron what's going on? What do you want with Snape? We're not even at the potions classroom yet" said Harry
"Snape will be here any moment now" said Ron with a grin on his face.
"Potter, Weasley What's going on here" it was Professor Snape.
"Nothing sir, just stoped to tie my shoe." lied Harry.
Ron smiled as Snape showed up just in time to snarl at the three and Harry said what he was suppose to say.
"Well that are you two waiting for?" growled Snape.
"Sorry sir" replied Ron and Harry
But instead of going ahead of Snape, Ron politely said "After you Professor Snape" and put out his arm to politely direct the professor to go ahead of him. Snape gave Ron a grunt and walked ahead of the trio.
"Fools first" Ron thought to himself smiling as he put down his arm and followed Snape.
"That was awfully polite of you Ron, showing respect like that to Snape of all people" said Hermione beaming at Ron.
"Yeah" said Harry rasing his eyebrows.
"Don't say I'm nice yet you guys, just wait" said Ron with a grin as the three followed behind Snape.
Than 'CRASH!'
Snape's upper half was drenched in hot coffee. But by the looks of it his head took most of it.
"Ugh, Mr. Malfoy look at what you've done. You got hot coffee all over my face and robes you stupid boy" snarled Snape getting up.
"I'm terribly sorry professor, I didn't mean to, it was an accident sir" said Malfoy quickly sounding very sorry.
Ron couldn't help but laugh. He let out a roar of laughter while Harry too was trying to hold in a laugh but it was too much as Ron was not helping the situation and Harry let out a roar also. The boys fell to the floor laughing while Hermione just giggled and left quickly for the potions classroom to escape the upcoming wrath of Snape.
"THAT IS ENOUGH, STOP IT NOW!" shouted Snape.
Ron and Harry both stopped laughing as they got up but still had a fit of giggles.
"Sorry Professor" they both said still holding back a laugh.
"Oh you two will be sorry all right, since you both think that this is so funny you can also laugh at the punishment that I'm going to give you" yelled Snape
"Fifty points from Gryffindor, and a week's worth of detention for the both of you" hissed Snape
"Yes sir" said Ron and Harry
"Now get to class" barked Snape.
Ron and Harry quickly went to class still howling at the incident with Malfoy and Snape. It was worth it just to see Snape drenched in hot coffee. As soon as the boy entered the potions class they seated themselves next to Hermione and wasted no time in telling her what happened afterwards.
"Well of course he was going to give you a week's worth of detention. You laughed at his misfortune" said Hermione laughing
"By the way Ron, how did you plan that whole thing anyway Ron?" asked Hermione
"Yeah how did you know that was going to happen?" asked Harry
"What do you mean?" replied Ron trying to look innocent.
"Well Ron you were very anxious to meet with Snape after you had finished your breakfast, you said you had to do something and you did gesture Snape to go on ahead when he stopped us in the corridor" said Hermione as Harry nodded in agreement.
"Uh, um, well the thing is that. . ." Ron never got the chance to answer because Snape had just entered the classroom looking very surly.
"Pop test"said Snape but there was no smirk on his face this time as Ron noticed.
"Today you will be brewing the Cruxtitions potion. If you read your chapter last night as you were told to than you should know what ingredients are needed to make this complicated potion. I trust that you already know that I will be selecting potions at random and testing them on students, so get into pairs because you have to test your partner's potion. You have half of this class to prepare your potions, than the next half will be used to test them."
"Yeah yeah yeah" said Ron to himself
Snape layed out his lesson plan for the day and bolted out the door.
"Well are you going to tell me how you did it?" asked Hermione
"Sorry Herms, got some serious work to do, I'll tell you both later. Oy Neville, get over here mate" said Ron
Neville joined Ron at his table looking relieved to have Ron as his partner.
"Should I do it again? Snape would defiantly not be pleased" said Ron
"Do what again Ron?" asked Neville
"Oh nothing Neville I was just daydreaming that's all. Should we get down to work than?" replied Ron.
"Yeah alright, sure thing Ron" said Neville
Ron had no plans this time to test Snape's reaction to another explosion. Instead he very slowly worked on his potion and once again helped Neville with his. But Ron was not interested in really helping the others this time, not even Harry.
"This isn't going to affect Harry's mark. I mean by this time tomorrow he'll be doing it again" Ron said to himself.
The only reason Ron decided to help Neville was because Ron didn't want to past out like he knew he would if Neville did it on his own.
While Neville was working on his potion Ron couldn't help but stare at some of the girls that were in his class.
"You know Neville, I never realized that Parvati looked that pretty, Lavender too. Ever think of trying to get a girlfriend Neville?"
Neville blushed and turned into a human tomato "um, no I don't think I'd be able to get a girl Ron. I'm not, well you know. . . handsome"
"That's not a very positive attitude Neville. Come on, why don't you ask a girl out?" said Ron
"No, I don't think so Ron" said Neville
"Well mate I think its high time I start to change my attitude about the opposite sex" said Ron with a smile.
"Ok Ron whatever you say" said Neville shaking his head smiling.
"I mean I don't even know anything about the females in our year. I should get to know them a little better huh?"
Another plan or experiment was now in formation in Ron's head.
"Yeah, that would be a start I guess" said Neville. "But what about asking Hermione out, aren't you two best friends?"
"Yeah but that's just it, we're just best friends Neville" said Ron not really wanting to believe in his own words.
Ron glanced at his watch and noticed he had loads of time left before Snape came back to test their potions.
"Neville watch our potions will you? Don't do anything but keep watch because I've got everything under control" said Ron.
Neville nodded and Ron left to head over to Hermione and Lavender's table.
"Hey girls. How's it going?" said Ron
"Hello Ron" said Hermione surprised to see Ron at their table.
"Everything's going great Ron, thanks. How about you and Neville?" asked Lavender smiling at Ron. Hermione frowned.
"Oh Neville and I have things under control over there I think" replied Ron giving Lavender a charming smile which caused her to blush and giggle.
Hermione didn't look to pleased with the flirting going on between Ron and Lavender but she just kept quiet, observed and frowned at the two.
"Ok Ron Weasley time to turn on that ole Weasley charm your brothers told you about" Ron said to himself
"So Lavender . . . "
A/N: Thanks for the reviews, don't stop. Reviews encourage me want to write more.
Also I try to introduce an important element for Ron in every chapter so it makes every chapter important later.
If Ron seems OOC in the next few chapters, well its because he's stuck in a place where nothing seems to matter therefore he will want to try things he never before thought of doing(i.e potions explosion)
Isn't that what everyone would do?
Q: What would I do if I was stuck in one place where nothing mattered?
A: I'd eat everything in sight.
I'm not sure if it's clear yet but this IS a Ron/Hermione fic.
If it seems like I'm weaving a web, don't worry it'll all become untangled in the end. Just hang in there. I'm going to make Ron learn something.
And yes there is a reason for this time lapse.
And yes Ron will get to have Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology soon, very soon.
I haven't decided if I want to write another chapter now or after The Order of the Phoenix comes out. I want to enjoy reading it so I won't be writing for about a week or so. But if there's interest in this fic I would be glad to post another chapter or even 2 before the 21st of June.