bWhat Hermione Heard/b
The two other Gryffindor girls didn't speak a word to me all night. Or all morning. I thought it rather amusing, apparantly they didn't. The remark about Trelawney had been pure fun, but they seemed to think it was something deeper. And that is what's funny.
"I'm off then," I said to them, but it wasn't as if it mattered to Parvati and Lavender. I just thought I'd give them a word of notice I was leaving so they could gossip amongst themselves while I wasn't around. It was very polite of me.
As I left the dormitory I met Ron and Harry at the bottom of the staircase.
"Good sleep?" Ron asked.
"Wonderful." I replied, with a bit of humor in my tone. Ron and Harry looked at each other questioningly, but I didn't stop to explain. I walked forward of them and they caught up, eventually.
"What did you do?" Harry asked.
"What did ithey/i say?" Ron added.
"What do you mean?" I said jokingly. "Who do you mean by ithey/i?" I knew who he meant, but it was fun to play the dumb one every once in a while.
"Parvati and Lavender!" Ron nearly shouted in desperation.
"For your information, IRonald/i" I said it matter-of-factly, "I don't have to tell you everything I say and do outside of your presence."
"But you have to Hermione," Harry said grinning widely, "you're in a relationship now." His face was mocking me. I glared at him.
"Ron, would you excuse us for a second?" I said angrily.
"Yeah sure," he said, and then he jerked back suddenly, "oh I'm sorry, my leash is to short." Harry howled with laughter. I however crossed my arms and tapped my foot. I put on the most menacing face I could think of, and once Ron and Harry were done laughing, their faces had turned from happy to fear.
bWhat Ron Said/b
"C'mon, Hermione, it's just a bit of fun!" I said, trying to wipe the look off her face.
"Just a bit of fun, Ron?" she had sarcasm in her voice. I didn't want us to lose it, not now. "Just a bit of fun? Why don't you just pull down my skirt, and throw me in the lake and let the Squid play with me?! That sounds like a bit of fun!!"
"Hermione, that's not what he meant," Harry tried.
"Oh, you stay out of this, Harry." Hermione said fiercely. Harry put his hands up and backed away. No! He was my last hope for survival!
"Hermione, I'm sorry,"
"You should be, Ron."
"I don't even know what I did!" apparantly this was the wrong thing to say, for Hermione's eyes glazed over and she began talking in a sort of half croaked, half trying to keep her voice down kind of voice.
"You don't know what you did?! Ron, you embarassed me in front of my friend, you insulted me, you made it look like I order you day and night,"
I didn't know what to do, and this didn't seem like the appropriate time for a hug, at least, not from me. And oh great, here comes Parvati and Lavender. This is going to be the best morning ever, isn't it?
"Hermione, I-I'm really, ireally/i sorry,"
"Ron, that just,"
"Let me talk for a moment, would you?" I had to say it as if I was taking order, because I was. She closed her mouth and I kept going. "Hermione, I didn't know it would hurt you that way, and I was thinking in the moment, and not of you." I said it as calmly and rationally as I could.
She didn't say anything, but she looked at the floor. The room was silent. Harry played with something in the background and Parvati and Lavender watched intently.
"Hermione, will you please forgive me?" it was the best I could do. Sorry if I don't have flowers, Hermione.
She muttered something that I couldn't hear at first. I didn't want to ask her to speak up, but then I heard her repeat it and it was a "Yes, Ron. I'll forgive you." Parvati and Lavender looked disappointed. Harry was happy it was finally over so he got up and joined us again.
Hermione and I were just standing there, facing one another. We both had a bright smile to welcome Harry with when he rejoined.
"So you're finished?"
"What?!" I said.
"Finished fighting, Ronald." Harry told me sarcastically.
"I'd look out, Harry, Ron could pin you to the floor in a second," Hermione said, and headed towards the porthole.
"Yeah, and you to the bed in about half." he muttered under his breath. I let out a snicker and then followed Hermione out into the Great Hall.
bWhat Hermione Heard/b
I didn't feel like questioning Ron about what Harry had said, for I hadn't even heard what he said in the first place. Apparantly it was funny enough for Ron to stifle a laugh, but I didn't want a repeat of the catastrophe before hand. The great hall was filled with students already, despite the earliness of their waking.
I felt myself be lifted up by something. My feet weren't touching the ground. Then I saw it was Ron. He was carrying me! His arm was under where my thighs and forlegs meet, and the other supporting my back. It felt like we were already married.
"Might I help you out today, madam?" he said in the most professional voice he could muster. "Perhaps to the table?"
I tilted my head back and laughed. I could see Harry rolling his eyes at us and then faced Ron again. He had the same bright smile on his face. It refused to leave either of us.
"Yes, the table would fit nicely." he set me down next to the table and we all took a seat, Harry across from us. No doubt it had attracted some attention from the other students, not to mention some of the teachers, but it wasn't as if we cared.
The Great Hall filled up slowly. Harry, Ron and I held our stomachs, telling them to stop grumbling.
"Oh igod/i I'm hungry," Ron said, looking longingly at his plate. "Will they not hurry up?"
"There is more to life than eating, Ron," I said wisely.
"Yeah, a lot more," Ron and Harry gave each other peculiar looks. I didn't ask. It must be a boy thing.
I saw that Harry was looking at the Ravenclaw table. Particularly a Ravenclaw girl. Cho Chang seated herself next to her friends, one of them Marietta Edgecombe. Something about that girl bothered me. I never did like her, not from the day I knew her name, which was a while ago.
"Staring at someone, Harry?" Ron said teasingly. "Why don't you go and talk to her then?"
"Are you kidding me?" he said, as if Ron had said something terrible, "After what happened in Hogsmeade? I don't think I'll go near her,"
"I wouldn't want to." I added. "Did you ever notice how she cries so much?"
"She's a teenaged girl!" Harry defended.
"You think she'd be a bit tougher," I added.
"Yeah, I don't see IHermione/i crying all the time," Ron said smugly then put his arm around me in a half hug. I smiled with him.
"Do you want me to call the priest?" Harry asked sarcastically.
"If it would get you to stop looking at Cho," Ron replied.
bWhat Ron Said/b
There hadn't been a day like it. It was a great morning, me and Hermione, teasing Harry about Cho. Some things didn't get any better than this. But things could get worse. I heard footsteps behind me and then a familiar voice. A nasty voice.
"Well Weasleby, looks as if you found yourself a girlfriend," said Draco Malfoy. Hermione and I turned ourselves around in a flash to face him, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle. "They do make a lovely couple, don't they Pansy?"
"Tell me Hermione, are you going to have to buy the wedding ring for him?" Pansy Parkinson said. This had infuriated me. But I couldn't hit a girl, though, there wasn't much girl left in Pansy.
"No, Pansy. But tell me, is there a ring that goes with that lovely shade of pale you're wearing?" this had put an evil look on Pansy's face. She had no remark to give Hermione. One point to us! Zero to them!
"Don't talk to her, Granger! You filthy mudblood," Malfoy had triggered something inside me. I jumped from my seat onto Malfoy and pinned him to the ground. I punched him twice and yelled,
"Take it back, Malfoy!" blood came from his nose. We had attracted attention from the students around us. "Take it back or I'll give you more!"
"No! Why should I apologize to those who are under me?" he said proudly. That had earned him two more punches.
"Take it back NOW!" I yelled. Pansy was shrieking. Crabbe and Goyle eventually pulled me off.
Draco and I were face to face.
"Defending your little girlfriend, Weasleby?" he certainly talked a lot more sternly now that he had two feet on the ground. "I wouldn't defend her for to long, now." he gave a nasty look to Hermione. He and Pansy lead the way back to the Slytherin table, and Crabbe and Goyle dropped me. I didn't it the floor hard. It was amazing how Malfoy comes out with nearly a broken nose, and I get dropped onto the floor softly.
"Ron, are you alright?" Hermione asked as I seated myself. The rest of the table was staring at me. She brushed off some dust on my robes.
"Hm? Yeah, I'm fine, tell me, did any of the teachers notice?"
"Well, there was a moment I thought McGonnagal did," Harry said, "but she didn't. Other than that, no. At least, I don't think."
"Well this is good."
"It would've been nice, though." Hermione said.
"What would've been?" I questioned.
"A boy going to detention for me."
The two other Gryffindor girls didn't speak a word to me all night. Or all morning. I thought it rather amusing, apparantly they didn't. The remark about Trelawney had been pure fun, but they seemed to think it was something deeper. And that is what's funny.
"I'm off then," I said to them, but it wasn't as if it mattered to Parvati and Lavender. I just thought I'd give them a word of notice I was leaving so they could gossip amongst themselves while I wasn't around. It was very polite of me.
As I left the dormitory I met Ron and Harry at the bottom of the staircase.
"Good sleep?" Ron asked.
"Wonderful." I replied, with a bit of humor in my tone. Ron and Harry looked at each other questioningly, but I didn't stop to explain. I walked forward of them and they caught up, eventually.
"What did you do?" Harry asked.
"What did ithey/i say?" Ron added.
"What do you mean?" I said jokingly. "Who do you mean by ithey/i?" I knew who he meant, but it was fun to play the dumb one every once in a while.
"Parvati and Lavender!" Ron nearly shouted in desperation.
"For your information, IRonald/i" I said it matter-of-factly, "I don't have to tell you everything I say and do outside of your presence."
"But you have to Hermione," Harry said grinning widely, "you're in a relationship now." His face was mocking me. I glared at him.
"Ron, would you excuse us for a second?" I said angrily.
"Yeah sure," he said, and then he jerked back suddenly, "oh I'm sorry, my leash is to short." Harry howled with laughter. I however crossed my arms and tapped my foot. I put on the most menacing face I could think of, and once Ron and Harry were done laughing, their faces had turned from happy to fear.
bWhat Ron Said/b
"C'mon, Hermione, it's just a bit of fun!" I said, trying to wipe the look off her face.
"Just a bit of fun, Ron?" she had sarcasm in her voice. I didn't want us to lose it, not now. "Just a bit of fun? Why don't you just pull down my skirt, and throw me in the lake and let the Squid play with me?! That sounds like a bit of fun!!"
"Hermione, that's not what he meant," Harry tried.
"Oh, you stay out of this, Harry." Hermione said fiercely. Harry put his hands up and backed away. No! He was my last hope for survival!
"Hermione, I'm sorry,"
"You should be, Ron."
"I don't even know what I did!" apparantly this was the wrong thing to say, for Hermione's eyes glazed over and she began talking in a sort of half croaked, half trying to keep her voice down kind of voice.
"You don't know what you did?! Ron, you embarassed me in front of my friend, you insulted me, you made it look like I order you day and night,"
I didn't know what to do, and this didn't seem like the appropriate time for a hug, at least, not from me. And oh great, here comes Parvati and Lavender. This is going to be the best morning ever, isn't it?
"Hermione, I-I'm really, ireally/i sorry,"
"Ron, that just,"
"Let me talk for a moment, would you?" I had to say it as if I was taking order, because I was. She closed her mouth and I kept going. "Hermione, I didn't know it would hurt you that way, and I was thinking in the moment, and not of you." I said it as calmly and rationally as I could.
She didn't say anything, but she looked at the floor. The room was silent. Harry played with something in the background and Parvati and Lavender watched intently.
"Hermione, will you please forgive me?" it was the best I could do. Sorry if I don't have flowers, Hermione.
She muttered something that I couldn't hear at first. I didn't want to ask her to speak up, but then I heard her repeat it and it was a "Yes, Ron. I'll forgive you." Parvati and Lavender looked disappointed. Harry was happy it was finally over so he got up and joined us again.
Hermione and I were just standing there, facing one another. We both had a bright smile to welcome Harry with when he rejoined.
"So you're finished?"
"What?!" I said.
"Finished fighting, Ronald." Harry told me sarcastically.
"I'd look out, Harry, Ron could pin you to the floor in a second," Hermione said, and headed towards the porthole.
"Yeah, and you to the bed in about half." he muttered under his breath. I let out a snicker and then followed Hermione out into the Great Hall.
bWhat Hermione Heard/b
I didn't feel like questioning Ron about what Harry had said, for I hadn't even heard what he said in the first place. Apparantly it was funny enough for Ron to stifle a laugh, but I didn't want a repeat of the catastrophe before hand. The great hall was filled with students already, despite the earliness of their waking.
I felt myself be lifted up by something. My feet weren't touching the ground. Then I saw it was Ron. He was carrying me! His arm was under where my thighs and forlegs meet, and the other supporting my back. It felt like we were already married.
"Might I help you out today, madam?" he said in the most professional voice he could muster. "Perhaps to the table?"
I tilted my head back and laughed. I could see Harry rolling his eyes at us and then faced Ron again. He had the same bright smile on his face. It refused to leave either of us.
"Yes, the table would fit nicely." he set me down next to the table and we all took a seat, Harry across from us. No doubt it had attracted some attention from the other students, not to mention some of the teachers, but it wasn't as if we cared.
The Great Hall filled up slowly. Harry, Ron and I held our stomachs, telling them to stop grumbling.
"Oh igod/i I'm hungry," Ron said, looking longingly at his plate. "Will they not hurry up?"
"There is more to life than eating, Ron," I said wisely.
"Yeah, a lot more," Ron and Harry gave each other peculiar looks. I didn't ask. It must be a boy thing.
I saw that Harry was looking at the Ravenclaw table. Particularly a Ravenclaw girl. Cho Chang seated herself next to her friends, one of them Marietta Edgecombe. Something about that girl bothered me. I never did like her, not from the day I knew her name, which was a while ago.
"Staring at someone, Harry?" Ron said teasingly. "Why don't you go and talk to her then?"
"Are you kidding me?" he said, as if Ron had said something terrible, "After what happened in Hogsmeade? I don't think I'll go near her,"
"I wouldn't want to." I added. "Did you ever notice how she cries so much?"
"She's a teenaged girl!" Harry defended.
"You think she'd be a bit tougher," I added.
"Yeah, I don't see IHermione/i crying all the time," Ron said smugly then put his arm around me in a half hug. I smiled with him.
"Do you want me to call the priest?" Harry asked sarcastically.
"If it would get you to stop looking at Cho," Ron replied.
bWhat Ron Said/b
There hadn't been a day like it. It was a great morning, me and Hermione, teasing Harry about Cho. Some things didn't get any better than this. But things could get worse. I heard footsteps behind me and then a familiar voice. A nasty voice.
"Well Weasleby, looks as if you found yourself a girlfriend," said Draco Malfoy. Hermione and I turned ourselves around in a flash to face him, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle. "They do make a lovely couple, don't they Pansy?"
"Tell me Hermione, are you going to have to buy the wedding ring for him?" Pansy Parkinson said. This had infuriated me. But I couldn't hit a girl, though, there wasn't much girl left in Pansy.
"No, Pansy. But tell me, is there a ring that goes with that lovely shade of pale you're wearing?" this had put an evil look on Pansy's face. She had no remark to give Hermione. One point to us! Zero to them!
"Don't talk to her, Granger! You filthy mudblood," Malfoy had triggered something inside me. I jumped from my seat onto Malfoy and pinned him to the ground. I punched him twice and yelled,
"Take it back, Malfoy!" blood came from his nose. We had attracted attention from the students around us. "Take it back or I'll give you more!"
"No! Why should I apologize to those who are under me?" he said proudly. That had earned him two more punches.
"Take it back NOW!" I yelled. Pansy was shrieking. Crabbe and Goyle eventually pulled me off.
Draco and I were face to face.
"Defending your little girlfriend, Weasleby?" he certainly talked a lot more sternly now that he had two feet on the ground. "I wouldn't defend her for to long, now." he gave a nasty look to Hermione. He and Pansy lead the way back to the Slytherin table, and Crabbe and Goyle dropped me. I didn't it the floor hard. It was amazing how Malfoy comes out with nearly a broken nose, and I get dropped onto the floor softly.
"Ron, are you alright?" Hermione asked as I seated myself. The rest of the table was staring at me. She brushed off some dust on my robes.
"Hm? Yeah, I'm fine, tell me, did any of the teachers notice?"
"Well, there was a moment I thought McGonnagal did," Harry said, "but she didn't. Other than that, no. At least, I don't think."
"Well this is good."
"It would've been nice, though." Hermione said.
"What would've been?" I questioned.
"A boy going to detention for me."