Chapter 3- Day Spa

Ron and Harry were eating breakfast, waiting to be able to 'comfort' the other two from the guys that they had tried to frame as the jerks. Ron was still half asleep when Hermione burst through the doors. "Her-mo-ninny?!" she shouted.Ron looked back at her, his eyes gone wide, and his throat suddenly dry. "Her-mo-ninny?!" she repeated when Ron didn't answer.

"Oh, er- did Viktor write to you?" he asked standing up. "Because you know, I'm okay with that if he did," Ron added for good measure.

"Just because he can't pronounce my name doesn't mean he can't spell it!" Hermione said, making Ron realize that she wasn't buying it before leaving the dining room just as abruptly.

"I'm just going to-" Ron started to say, pointing toward the direction Hermione had stormed away in.

Harry was left with Ginny, who aimed the balled up letter she had received right for his head. "Hey! What was that for?"

"How stupid do you think we are?" Ginny asked. "Don't you think we'd recognize Pig?"

"He sent—I mean, I don't know what you're talking about," Harry tried to cover up. Ron said he had the owl thing taken care of, but apparently Ron was more clueless than Harry had suspected.

"You don't know what I'm talking about? Now you're really treating me like I'm naïve!" Ginny shouted and was about to turn and go, but Harry grabbed her arm.

"No don't! I'm sorry, we just didn't—"

"Think?" Ginny supplied.

"No, we were just—"

"Considering your own feelings? Hoping that we wouldn't figure it out? What Harry?" Ginny cut him off with.

Harry looked down at the table and tried to answer. "We just don't want to lose you," Harry said sincerely.

"Don't you trust us?" Ginny asked, making Harry think about it in a way he hadn't before. "Do you really think I would do that to you? And Hermione's crazy about Ron if he'd just get his head out of his ar—"

"Fine," Harry said. "But that doesn't mean we like you writing your letters."

"We don't care if you like it," Ginny informed him. "Now let me go save my pathetic brother before Hermione decides to hex him into oblivion," she said, looking at her arm which Harry was still holding.

When Ginny had left the room Harry sat down in front of his oatmeal, and sulked.

After Ginny had saved Ron from the wrath of his desired girlfriend, the girls went into Ginny's room to have a nice long cool down. "I just can't fathom," Hermione said, not knowing how to state the thought.

"I know," Ginny added knowing what was going on in Hermione's mind.

"I mean, what could they have…"

"I know."

"They are so completely…"

"I know," Ginny said this time in disbelief with Hermione. "They're such airheads really!"

Hermione sat on her bed and put her face into her hands, muffling a whimper of frustration. "Just one date! One bloody date!"

"Well, he's definitely rubbing off on you… that's a good sign," Ginny encouraged.

"That's the last thing I need is for him to rub off!" Hermione said, not realizing Ginny just meant in the language. "Then neither of us will ever be able to spit out what we want." Just as Hermione finished this, a lovely almost silver owl came in through the window. "Oh great, you'd think they'd learn the first time."

Ginny scoffed. "At least they're persistent," she said sarcastically.

When Hermione opened the letter for the kicks, though, it was something completely unexpected. "It's for you," she said, handing the letter over.

Dear Ms. Weasley,

You have won a free day of beauty at the esteemed Which Witch Salon and Day Spa. You and two guests will spend the entire day being pampered by the best witches and wizards in this industry. Please reply immediately.

Congratulations,

Claudia Phelps

"Who's it from?" Hermione asked, a look of confusion on her face.

"I don't know," Ginny said. "Probably one of those Witch Weekly things I've written in to."

"Do you think we should?" Hermione asked.

"Anything to get away from them," Ginny answered, already making her way to ask Molly.

After talking Molly into being the third person to get a spa day, the girls were off. "Now don't you boys make a mess here," Molly said, Harry and Ron being left alone. "If anything goes wrong, floo your father, and he should be home for lunch today."

When the door shut, Ron lounged himself on the couch. "Great… we haven't even gotten to talk to them and they're off where Merlin only knows what kind of guys they're going to run into," Ron mumbled.

"Ron… they're going to a spa… I don't think we have to worry about any of the guys there," Harry pointed out, the fact that Ginny said he ought to trust her still floating around in the back of his mind somewhere. "Besides, if you hadn't sent Pig maybe we wouldn't be in this mess."

"You wrote a letter too!"

"It was your idea!"

"That doesn't mean—"

"Oh, you'll never get anywhere with that kind of arguing," a nasally American voice said from the kitchen.

"Wahah!" Harry exclaimed and jumped from the couch a bit. "Who are you?"

The woman with her brown hair twisted into an elegant French twist was sitting on the couch drinking tea out of one of Molly's cups. "Her name is Claudia Phelps," Ron answered for her.

"That's right, and I'm here to help," Claudia said directly. "Really, you two are hopeless, but I suppose this means they're trusting me more," she said cheerfully.

"Help with what?" Harry asked Ron instead of the strange woman.

"With your girl problems, of course," Claudia stated, rolling her eyes.

Harry wasn't entirely comfortable with anyone knowing what they had tried to pull, and was feeling a bit of a blush coming to his cheeks at the thought. Ron, who still found this to be odd, but knew that his mum had given up on trying to help him, and so decided to accept her help. "What did you need us to do?"

"Well, first we have to talk about this problem you two have with butting in with their other relationships," Claudia said, setting the tea cup down on the table.

A/N: Okay… had to end it there! Sorry it's so short again, but I'm trying to get past a bout of nasty writer's block, which I've run into on everything at this point! Hope you liked this chapter, and in case I haven't given a good image of Claudia… image Karen from Will and Grace (played by Megan Mallally) and that's what I had in mind for Claudia.

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