Chapter 5: Ron

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After Hermione left the library she headed straight for the great hall. She HAD to talk to Harry. She had to make him believe her. She took a deep breath before entering. She walked with her chin held high over to the empty spot beside Harry. "Hullo Harry." she said as she sat down. "Hi, Ron. I need to talk to you Harry."

"O.K.?" he said unsurely.

"Alone." she said giving him a 'you better' look.

Harry looked at Ron and shrugged. "See you in a bit, Ron."

When they had got into the hallway (which was empty because every one was at dinner), Hermione said "Do you think I...I..." she was having a hard time saying it. "Like Malfoy?"

"Well things certainly look that way."

"Harry I DO NOT! Why would I like someone who was so... so... well... MALFOY?"

"Don't ask me."

Then she burst into tears. "Harry I really miss being friends with you and Ron! I would never trade the two of you in for a guy I liked... err, well you know what I mean, you guys mean a lot to me!"

"Shh... Stop crying now, I believe you."

"Oh thank you so much! I knew you'd understand." she said now grinning.

"I'll go try to make Ron believe you too, but something tells me he's going to take more convincing than I did."

"What do you mean?"

"Oh... well, you know how stubborn he can be, but never mind, see you in the common room!"

"Bye." she was still grinning. "Harry really is a great friend," she thought to herself.

Hermione went back to the common room to finish her Charms homework. About an hour later the rest of the Gryffindors started to trickle in. "Any luck Harry?" asked Hermione as Harry walked towards where she was sitting.

"None, I'm afraid."

"WHY won't he listen?"

"As I said, Ron can be a bit stubborn at times."

"True."

"I'll try Hermione."

"I guess that's all you can do." then she packed up her things and went up to the girls' dormitories.

The next day her first class was Arithmacy. "Oh, great." she thought. "I get to see Draco." He was already seated when she entered the class.

"So Granger did you sort the err misunderstandings out?"

"Well sorta."

"What do you mean 'sorta'?"

"Harry believes me, but Ron is another story."

"Ahh... Weasley, yes, I figured he'd be harder to convince."

"You know Harry said that too but I don't know what you mean."

"Isn't it obvious? He LIKES you!"

"What?!?!? You must be mistaken. We resolved that along time ago."

"Trust me Granger, he likes you, have you seen the way he looks at you in Potions? It's sickening! Although what he sees in you..." again he eyed her up and down, as if he was appraising her worth, "I'll never know." His lip curled up in what Hermione thought to be both the most annoying and adorable way.

"Well you're no prize yourself you know. I don't see girls tripping over their feet for you." An expression came across Draco's face that frightened Hermione very much.

She was strangely relieved when Professor Vector said, "All right class turn to page 207 in your text books.

Hermione couldn't concentrate for the rest of the day. "I was sure Ron had put that all behind him!", she kept saying to herself. "Does he really look at me that way? Why didn't I notice it before?", but most troubling of all was, "Why did Draco look like that? He almost always keeps his cool. I mean he does have a good temper, or a calm one at any rate, for someone who's well... a Malfoy anyway. What, in what I said made him do that?" Finally during Potions she decided to try and forget it.

After she and Harry had finished making the sleeping potion they were assigned to brew that day, she asked Harry "So has Ron..."

"Nope" replied Harry.

She turned around to look at Ron, and saw that he was deep in conversation with Draco. Neither of them looked happy about what they were discussing. Hermione shrugged, "Oh well", she thought to herself, "Ron probably just cut up the newt wrong or something."

As she was leaving Potions, after Snape had dismissed the class, Ron walked up beside her

"Hey Hermione" he said cautiously, "I'm really sorry about before... I mean thing that you and Malfoy were...well... you know... I don't know what I was thinking! Can you forgive me?"

"Of Course" she replied smiling sweetly.

"Well see you at dinner then" said Ron, now grinning.

"Sure" she replied, and as she said it, she looked over Ron's shoulder. What she saw puzzled her. Draco was looking at Ron with an expression caught between relief and contempt. "Mad" she thought to herself, before heading off towards the library for her tutoring session with Malfoy.

"See you and Weasley are buddies again." Draco said as she set her books down.

"Yes, and no thanks to you!"

"What do you think we were talking about in Potions? I can assure you it wasn't Quidditch."

"Oh Draco did you...?"

"Hold on, don't get the wrong idea now. I didn't do it for you" he said quickly, "Like I said before, I couldn't have the school think I was going soft over a mudblood, now could I?"

"Well that door swings both ways hun."

"Whatever just drop it."

"But you were the one..."

"Drop It!", she knew by his tone he meant it.

"Fine, fine. How is your Arithmancy coming along?"

"Quite well actually." then he smirked playfully, "No thanks to you."

"Ok, I get the point, does this mean you won't be needing my help any more?"

"I wish but no, I still need help with...", and they went on to discuss and do their Arithmancy assignment.

When they were finished and had packed away their things, Hermione turned towards Draco and said, "I'm sorry about what I said to you yesterday. I had no right to say that, even if it was to you." He looked at her with one of his eyebrows raised as if he was trying to find some motive behind what she was saying. Hermione doubted whether anyone had ever really apologized to him before.

After a pause he said, "Like it mattered", brushing her off. Hermione just shrugged. She picked up her things and left feeling that somehow, she had a better understanding of him.
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