A/n: ok, this ones a little short, but hey, I'm all for dramatic pauses. And it was all I had done when I checked my email and saw that people love me! So, also, thanks to everyone who gave me reviews. It really made my day. And thanks to Cassie, for her encouragement.
"Harry! Harry, wake up! Ron! You too! Quick!" Hermione's voice sounded tense. For the second time in six hours, Harry felt himself being shaken awake. Groaning, he sat up, and saw Ron undergo the same treatment.
"Wassamatter, 'mione? Classes aren't for another two hours! If you think I'm going to help you study for the charms quiz again, you've another thing coming. Even if it's not early. I dislike my freckles enough without having them dance across my face, and I-"
"No one's even going to classes today, Ron." Hermione said briskly "I've been trying to tell you!" If anything could wake up both Ron and Harry in less than a minute, it was those words. Seamus and Dean clustered around Hermione, who was sitting in the Chair between Ron and Harry's bed, and Neville sat on Harry's trunk. Ron looked stared at Hermione questioningly, and when she nodded, he looked gleefully at Harry.
"Wow! Brilliant! We can have a Gobstone tournament! Or should we play Exploding Snap? Tell you what- let's break up our day. From nine, when we actually wake up, to… oh say ten, we can play Gobstones, then from ten o' five to twelve we can-"
"Don't you even want to know WHY? Just like you, to take a terrible situation, and be totally oblivious to anything but the things that work to your advantage!" She glared at Ron, who started to answer back indignantly. Harry cut him off, not feeling like starting the morning with a fight.
"What, Hermione?" he said loudly, cutting of Ron and Hermione both.
"Well," She whispered dramatically, "Someone has died."