The rest of the day was an uneventful one for Ron Weasly, which he was quite happy about, one detention is enough for one day.
After dinner in the Great Hall Ron walked back to the common room with Harry and Hermione. After entering the common room Hermione sat and a chair and began reading yet another book. Harry and Ron proceeded to the Boys Dormitory.
Ron flopped down on his bed, he was exhausted. 'Today could have gone better.' He thought. 'Well it could have been worse-"The rest of Ron's thoughts were cut off by Harry's voice.
"I think I have a plan Ron. Though I'm not quite sure why. Should have told Hermione? No she would get too worked up about it." Harry began talking and arguing to himself out loud.
"Harry, what are you talking about?" Ron mumbled, his face stuffed in a pillow not caring how he sounded.
My box and stuff being out. I wouldn't have thought anything about it had you not chased something out of here."
Ron was mentally beating himself up about that last statement. 'you idiot what were you thinking. Now you have done it.'
Harry continued on unaware of Ron's odd facial movements. "âMaybe it was a house elf or something. And I am almost positive Neville had it. You would be surprised at how fast he is, especially a kid of his structure you would think-"
"Harry your rambling." Ron stated flatly
"Oh, yes. Sorry. Anyway what are we going to do about this?" Harry asked genuinely concerned.
'Uh oh, now what are you going to say? Look for a distraction, a way out.' He thought looking around the room for an excuse to change the subject. His eyes scanned everything and then stopped at a small alarm clock on Dean's bedside dresser.
"GAH! Is that the right time! I have to be in detention in 5 minutes! I will never make it to the dungeons on time. I have to go Harry nice talking to you. Have fun with uhâ whatever you were saying. Goodbye." He said hurriedly and ran out the door, slamming it behind him.
'Well that was good. At least you got away from Harryâ for the time being. Now all I have to deal with is a pissed off Snape. Great, just great.' Ron had never run so fast down the dormitory steps in his life. With all the extra speed he gained from going down the stairs he propelled himself to the common room exit. Oddly enough there were no students in the common room. The only problem was that they were all standing in the doorway.
"What in bloody hell is this?!" Ron yelled pushing through massive amounts of children.
There were about 20 kids in a space made for only about 5 kidsâmaximum.
"Oh hey Ron. You were right about this hallway its so comfortable. I told Dean about it. Then he told Seamus, who told Lavander who told-"
"That's enough!" Ron yelled loosing his patience. "Let me get this straight you started this whole thing, just because you told Dean."
"Well âno." Neville said taking a moment to think before answering.
"No?"
"Yeah. I was actually your idea. Remember yesterday when you brought to my attention how cozy this place was. And I thought it would be a shame if it went over looked."
Ron slapped his head and said, "So this is all actually my fault?"
"Wellâyes." Neville replied.
Ron looked up and said "Dear God what have I done?"
Then he was pushed into the crowd a bit more. This was making him extremely frustrated now. 'I should be in detention now.' Was all he could think.
"I hope you are not upset about me telling everyone about your spot. Was it supposed to be a private spot? Because if it was I'm sorry. Your not mad are you." Neville carried on while Ron struggled to get through the crowd.
Ron turned his head and looked at Neville. "No I am not mad at you, or least I wont be if you help me get through these people."
And so Ron and Neville struggled through student after student, trying to get to the exit of the common room and the exit to all the insanity, in Ron's case.
Things were just getting worse as they went along this week, and would probably get worse before they got better.
Please read and review. I know this was a short chapter, but then again I doubt anyone is actually reading this so I guess its ok.
