Chapter 8: Harry finds out
Hermione walked into her Arithmancy class late. And everything seemed to be normal until later that day when Harry started to get suspicious about who that girl was.
When she walked into the Astronomy classroom they were put into pairs and surprisingly enough Hermione was paired up with Harry where he began to question her about Collette. "So, have you me this new girl that Ron is sort of seeing?" Hermione shook her head as if she knew nothing about it. "Did you even know that he was seeing someone?" Again she shook her head as if she didn't even care about his social life.
But Harry didn't stop there he kept questioning her until she got annoyed. "Look Harry! In case you were wondering I don't really care about Ron's knew found social life. I think it's really great that he found someone he really likes and why do you keep bothering me about this issue? It's almost like you don't like the fact that he's seeing someone."
"It's not that Hermione! It's just that this girl looks so familiar."
"So don't come and complain to me." Hermione said matter of factly.
"Ok, fine but you know she does look a lot like you!" Harry said trying hard not to quit now that he was ahead.
Hermione sighed, "She can't possibly look like me. She's probably much prettier than me. And besides it's not possible for me to have a twin around here, especially if you know I'm an only child."
"Look! I know that you are Collette! And frankly I think it's really mean to do that to get Ron's attention. You do know you'll have to tell him eventually right?" Hermione nodded and continued work on their project.
Every time Hermione glimpsed Ron in the hall, he'd be surrounded by people. She wanted to get him alone so that she could tell him but it was just so hard with all those ears around.
It's been an entire week and already Ron hadn't spoken a word about Collette to Hermione or Harry. And Hermione wondered if he had forgotten all about Collette until she finally decided to take some action and become Collette again.
She found Ron in the library working on what looked like to be his Transfiguration homework on turning a small book into a rather large dictionary. All he's managed to do was keep it where it was.
"Are you having some problems? She asked sitting down next to him her face screwed up with concern."
Ron jumped and said very quickly, "No! I'm fine thank you!"
Collette just smiled at this! "You know I can help you if you'd like! I know a lot about this stuff!"
Ron blushed and nodded eager to have her help. She took out her wand and muttered a simple easy going spell. "See it's all in the wrist." She motioned for him to go on.
He was able to do it on the first try. The light book instantly turned into a heavy dictionary. He was too excited to speak. Until Hermione asked him a question that he was dreading.
"So you were going to tell me about this girl that you like!"
Ron didn't reply immediately trying to choose his words carefully so that he didn't hurt Collette's feelings. "I did like my bestfriend! I always thought she was beautiful even if she didn't. She was perfect in every way. I mean she had looks, smarts, she was outgoing, and funny. But the thing is I was always getting into an argument with her. Especially about a bonehead called Viktor Krum. Of course I always thought Hermione was to good for him. But I also had a suspicion that they liked each other and I must say I was quite jealous of their relationship. I didn't even know if they were really going out but in my heart I hoped that Hermione was able to see what was right in front of her."
Hermione's face lit up as he kept talking. She was so happy. Ron really did like her but why couldn't he just tell her that he liked her in the first place. Was he afraid of rejection? That she wouldn't like him the same way? That's not true Hermione liked Ron for a long time. It was just that he was an arrogant prat and sometimes she wanted nothing to do with him because of all the things he would say about Viktor Krum.
"So why didn't you tell her how you felt?"
"Because why would she like me? I mean really she had much better things to do than be crushing on me. I mean wouldn't you?" Asked Ron.
"You know I could have been doing some much better things but then I wouldn't get to know you know would I?"
These words hit Ron. He leaned in intending to kiss her but instead she turned away and got up from the table. "I have to go." She said now standing up and heading for the door to the library.
What is it with girl's? Ron asked himself just standing up himself and he too left the library.
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