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A/N: I know this chapter is a bit short, but I really had some bad writers block, so please tell me what you think of this chapter!

Chapter 7

It was mid-October, when Ron started noticing that a few days every other week Hermione kept disappearing.

"What do you think she's up to?" Ron asked Harry. They were both sitting on Harry's bed; Dean and Seamus were sleeping.

Harry shrugged, "I dunno. She's been acting very strange though."

Ron nodded, "I noticed." Then, he sighed.

Harry gave a big yawn and then looked at his watch, "It's almost 12:30, and maybe we should go to sleep."

Ron shook his head stubbornly and stood up, "I'm going to the Common Room to wait some more."

"Okay, goodnight."

"Goodnight."

Ron walked out of the room and through the corridor to go to the Common Room. He took a seat on a chair and waited.

Suddenly, he heard the portrait complaining, "Waking me up in the middle of the night, children these days!"

He saw somebody approaching, but the light from the fire was too dim to make out who it was. He stood up and gripped his wand tightly.

"Who's there?" he called out.

Then, he heard the familiar gasp, "What are you doing up so late?" Hermione asked her voice shaking.

Ron took her arm and brought her closer to the fire, so that he could see her face clearly, "I was waiting for you." He almost let go of her arm when he saw her face, she had tears running down her cheeks, and her hair was a mess as if she was in a fight.

"What's going on Hermione? Tell me." Ron said his eyes pleading.

She looked away from him, "I can't!" she replied shrilly.

"Yes you can." Ron said softly, looking into her eyes as if her eyes would reveal where she had been.

"I can't." Hermione said again as tears started streaming from her eyes.

Ron decided to give in, "It's okay, Hermione." He said giving her a comforting hug. If she doesn't want to tell me, then I'll just find out on my own, but I'll need Ginny's help.

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Ron was in Herbology; he couldn't stop thinking of what his plan would be. We already tried being direct and asking her, but she just wouldn't tell us. He felt even more stressed because he had this huge crush on her, and he couldn't even tell her now because she was acting so weird.

Every time he or Harry tried talking to her, she would act all nervous and scamper off to the library or somewhere.

Ron remembered a few days ago in the Great Hall Hermione received an owl and when he asked whom it was from she just got mad at him and told him to mind his own business. As if seeing her act this way wasn't any of his business.

He also remembered this particular incident when Harry and him were talking about the Order and what was going on, Hermione got this panicked look on her face and just bolted from the room, which was kind of weird because she was always curious to know what the Order was up to.

"I got it!" Ron exclaimed suddenly

Professor Sprout looked at him with a big smile on her face, "What a surprise! I never expected this to ever happen, what is the answer then?"

"The letters!"

Professor looked at him quizzically, "The letters? No, that's incorrect. Moving on…"

The letters…I'll just tell Ginny to go through Hermione's letters! But the main question was…when?