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"He did what?"

" He saved our lives"

Ron stared at her, was she lying? He had never heard Hermione tell him a outright lie, if she didn't want to tell him something she just wouldn't tell him.

"What happened when I was knocked out"

Hermione took a deep breath and looked him in the eye.

"When you got hit by that last curse that Wormtail threw at you , you went down pretty bad, you banged your head , I was cornered then Malfoy turned up, Malfoy senior that is, he started spouting out how he was hoping that it was going to be him that got to finish the two of us off, the mud blood and the blood traitor"

Hermione's hands were shaking as she relived the memory.

"He raised his wand to us the caracticus curse on the two of us , I just remember thinking this is it this is the last time I'm ever going to see Ron, this is the last person I'm ever going to see, I had no chance of fighting the curse, not by myself. But I wasn't going to stand by and watch him kill you I had to fight, just as he shouted the curse I shouted the counter curse, but I wasn't the only one, Draco had been watching his dad from the rubble, the strength of the two counter curses together made the affects rebound on Malfoy. It wasn't nice to watch, but Draco did. Soon after that Fred turned up and so did a few other death eaters, me and Draco dragged you to one side, and we kept on fighting, in the end when it came down to it Draco was on our side."

Ron stared at her his mouth slightly open…

"it's true Fred seen the whole thing he told me about it in the hospital" said Ginny as she passed a cup of tea to her brother who was completely oblivious to the fact that his sister was in the room.

"but why ? Malfoy hates us …"

"That's what I said to him, later when we were on our way to the hospital, I asked him why he helped us , why help us when you hate us?,."

" What did he say?"

"He said it was a choice he had to make, one his dad had made easy enough for him." she sighed, "it's true though everything comes down to choices, I'm just glad that for once Draco made his own choice."

Ron sat staring at the table for a bit, so Draco had saved his life, he owed him, it was wizarding bond, he didn't want to be in dept to Malfoy, that thought was soon drowned out of his head as he began thinking about what hermione had said. 'I just remember thinking this is the last time I'm ever going to see Ron' the last time she was ever going to see him , not Harry not Ginny, him. He looked up at her she was staring absentmindedly out of the window.

"Harry tell hermione about the letters you got this morning" said Ginny trying to change the atmosphere of the room.

Mr Weasley had come home and gone to bed, Charlie had soon followed but sat on the big red sofa in the living room poring over paper work, occasionally he would offer advice to hermione who was loosing spectacularly at wizarding chess to Ron . Harry and Ginny sat talking about Harry's choices and which team he would be best to play for. To which Charlie started remaining about his day's as seeker, they sat listening to Charlie for quite some time. So late in to the night in fact that when hermione checked her watch it was way past midnight. When she pointed this out to Ron he looked at her weird.

"Can I stop here?" she asked him.

"And their was me thinking that it was only Harry that asked stupid questions" said Ron.

Hermione smiled at him.

" That's a yes then?"

"Yeah, you can stop in my room since I'm stranded on the ground floor" he shrugged.

"You sure?"

"Yeah , Ginny will lend you something to sleep in I'm sure, you might want to watch out for the fish tank though I haven't had a chance to get up their and clean it yet I'm not sure what's going to be living in their."

"We'll as long as it's not anything to nasty" she said sighing, " I suppose I can deal with it"

"Not anything nasty? Are you talking about my brothers hygiene habits?" asked Charlie stretching .

"Yeah Charlie that was what we were talking about" said Ron rolling his eyes.

"We'll I think I'm off to bed, oh yeah before I forget Hermione." he said looking at her , she smiled at him, she had come to the conclusion that their was defiantly something in the water at the burrow that made all the Weasley man look so good. " dad set up a port key so you can get this lot to hogwarts tomorrow, seeing as non of them have passed their apparition test."

"That's not fair I was unconscious for three weeks it's not my fault I missed it" said Ron trying to defend himself.

"trying to defeat the dark lord?" offered Harry.

"not old enough" said Ginny smiling " so you can't hold that against me." despite the fact that she came of age this year.

Hermione laughed as she watched Ginny pretend to act young and innocent.

Charlie laughed, Charles laugh was deep and rough like Ron's.

"We'll I'll see you in the morning then."

They said their good nights to Charlie, Ron yawning as he did so.

" You need to go to bed to" said Hermione almost scalding him.

" Yes miss" he said looking her in the eye, he kept eye contact for a bit, Hermione's insides did that squirm that she always felt these days. She felt something move across her hand.

"Hello Crookshanks " said Ron looking down at the big ginger cat. " you been chasing gnomes?" he asked him.

Hermione picked her cat up and hugged it.

"Hermione has a thing for ugly ginger creatures" they heard Harry whisper to Ginny who started giggling like mad.

" I heard that" said hermione looking across at Harry.

" you were supposed to" he said raising an eyebrow at her in a knowing way.

"we'll I'm going to take my ugly ginger creature to bed if you don't mind" she said standing up and holding Crookshanks tighter. " Ginny can I borrow some p.j's?"

" thanks for that Harry" said Ron glaring at his so called best friend.

"just getting a bit of my own back , remember what you were like with Cho?"

Ron made a hand gesture that would make his mother turn in her grave.

" I was fifteen Harry"

"but it's not nice is it, being embarrassed in front of someone you like"

" no it's not your right."

A look of triumph crossed Harry's face.

" so you admit it finally.."

Ron looked away from him, it wasn't that he didn't want to tell Harry, it was more the fact that he didn't want Harry and Ginny interfering, and he knew they would.

Hermione looked around Ron's room , the fish tank was empty which meant either someone had come cleaned it for him, or whatever had bread in their had escaped an was likely to pounce on her at any given moment , hermione hoped it was the first one.

Ron's room had under gone quite a large transformation since the last time she had been in it, the quidditch posters had been reduced to just three, sill all the cannons because that would never change, but around the room now were books on subjects that they would study if they wanted to become aurors, scabbers old cage was full of white mice and to Hermione's surprise the room was clean. Crookshanks jumped from her arms and curled up on Ron's bed.

" guess you feel at home around him then" she said sitting down on the bed next to Crookshanks and stroking him behind the ears. He purred lightly.

It wasn't that she was tired, it was more that Harry had embarrassed her, why did he have to do that?

It wasn't as if she pointed out the fact that he liked Ginny at every given moment and teased them.

They were adults, we'll her and Ron were, apparently Harry was taking the fact that he wasn't 18 yet very seriously indeed.

"why are men weird?" she asked Crookshanks as she got changed in to the red p.j's that Ginny had given her. She lay back on Ron's bed and looked at the clock that was on his tattered and beaten bed side cabinet. A picture of the three of them standing by the fountain in the yard at hogwarts looked back at her from beside the clock . She couldn't remember it being taken. She watched the figures Harry rested casually on the fountain his robes almost hanging in to the water . He was laughing at something as the snow fell around them, but what Harry was laughing at didn't interest her, she was busy looking at her and Ron. Ron kept taking her by the hand and wrapping his arms around her.

Hermione had seen something like this happen only once before, pictures usually move that wasn't anything new but they normally just wave to the viewer, or carry out the actions that the subject was doing at the time, the only time hermione had seen the subject do anything totally different was in the picture of Harry and Lockhart where Harry was trying to escape from the frame, could it be that some times photos show what the people were thinking at the time, as well as there actions? And if so did this prove that Ron still liked her?

Her head hurt.

Give her advanced arithmansy over this any day.