Harry potter and the heir's staff
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Chapter 4
"So you mean I am the Heir from Merlin's side!"
"Yes Harry you are" Dumbledore replied
"So that must mean that you are related" Hermione suddenly gasped at her own assumption.
"I believe that miss Granger has once again proved that she is the smartest witch of her age" Dumbledore replied, his eyes looking at Harry and twinkling madly
"Harry" Dumbledore continued "I am your grandfather"
"Y-y-you are?" Asked Harry a few minutes later, still shocked from this sudden revelation
"Yes Harry I am, and before you say anything else I wish to remind you that I had no choice but to not tell you about this
And as I have already explained to you the spell that was placed upon me I hope that you can understand that if it had been up to me I would have never let you go to live with the Durslys" Dumbledore finished, looking at Harry with a mixture of sadness for the things that he had to go through when he was young and hope that he would accept him as his family.
Harry then did something that none of the people in the room expected from him,
He began to cry as he ran and gave his newly discovered grandfather a bear hug.
When Hermione looked upon her Headmaster, tears threatening to spill from her eyes she saw for the first time in her life, that as Harry and him were hugging, that Albus Dumbledore, the greatest wizard in the world was crying also.
After a few minutes of crying together Harry broke the hug and returned to look at Hermione, the minute that she saw the smile on his face her heart melted and she gave him a smile in return to let him know that everything is going to be ok.
Just as he looked back to his grandfather a sudden idea came to his mind, and he knew that right now would be the best time to execute it, "grandfather?" he asked the long bearded man sitting next to him.
"Yes Harry?" he answered, the feeling of joy evident in his voice
"Can I tell Hermione about the…. You know, what you told me after Sirius…. You know?"
"Yes Harry, actually I think that it is a good idea so your girlfriend would not accuse you of lying and keeping things from her…" he finished with a chuckle
"Harry what is this all about?" asked a bewildered Hermione
But before he could answer her Dumbledore stood up and spoke
"Well I will leave you two to talk this through while I will go and inform the other occupants of this house about our new-found connection".
He than exited the room and closed the door after him before Harry could utter a single word in his direction
"Harry, talk to me. What is it?" asked Hermione after her Headmaster left the room.
"Ok. Here goes…
Remember the prophecy that was destroyed last moth at the department of mysteries?"
"Yes, but it was destroyed so I don't see what this has to do with anything"
"Well that Orb that was destroyed was only a record of the prophecy, the real one was told to Dumbledore, and after he Portkey-ed me to his office he told me what it said.
Hermione's eyes grew wide and she could only nod to him to continue from shock
"Well I won tell you the real thing just what it said ok?"
Again she nodded.
"It said that the one that can kill Voldemort will be born at the end of July to a pair of parents who defied him three times.
Now according to this line It could have been either me or Neville, but than it said that the Dark lord will mark him as his equal". He lifted the part of his hair hiding his scar and pointed at it.
Hermione was too shocked from what she was hearing that she could not even blink, Harry, with a sad expression on his face took it as a sign to continue and give the "final blow" that he knew will crush the one that he loved so much.
"But you see it also said that the one will have power that the dark lore will not know about and that one must kill the other because neither could live if the other survives, so in a nutshell its either I kill him or he kills me."
After hearing this Hermione could not hold her emotions in any longer, and she lunched at Harry enveloping him in a bear hug and started sobbing on his chest while he held her close to him.
After a few minutes. Hermione's sobbing subsided and she turned her eyes to lock with Harry's and when she spoke her voice trembled.
"Harry I can't lose you, If you died I wouldn't know what to do, I just love you so much"
He stroke her hair with his one hand and wiped away her tears with his other hand and when he spoke his voice was a soft and soothing one that threw away all of her worries out of the window.
"Hermione listen to me, this is something that I have already started to do this summer, and I am going to kill him.
Hermione, I will never leave you because I just love you too much to know that I will do everything in my power to make sure that you will never cry again in sadness, and if me dying will cause you to cry like that and suffer than I regret to tell you that I am not going anywhere. In fact you are stuck with me Miss Granger." He finished planting a soft kiss on her lips.
"I wont have it any other way" she answered and returned the kiss only this time with more passion then he had never felt before. After they went up for air Hermione spoke again with a tone of conviction to her voice "Just so you know when the time comes I am going to fight alongside with you, and there is nothing that you can say or do to make me back down from my decision."
He chuckled slightly as he continued to hold her in his arms and to look in her eyes
"As much as I don't like it, I knew that you were going to say that and after thinking about it there is only one thing I can say about it"
"Oh yeah! What exactly can that be Mr. Potter?" she asked in mock anger
"That I wont have it any other way" he smirked, and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
A few minutes later Harry and Hermione went up to the drawing room where the rest were sitting, but upon scanning the crowd quickly Harry and Hermione saw that Ron was not there, but as soon as they were spotted but Molly and the rest of the Weasley clan there was nothing that they could do about it for the were bombarded with question regarding their newfound relationship and the great news that Dumbledore was actually Harry's Grandfather.
"When did it start?"
"Why did he tell you now?"
"Isn't that cool?"
All Harry did was take a dip breath and, after a slight squeeze to Hermione's Hand, as if to tell her 'Get ready'
He bellowed "QUITE! Hermione and I will have no problem to answer all of your question if you all would be so kind as to just SHUT UP!".
This immediately shushed everybody there and Harry and Hermione simply made their way over to the couch and sat down, holding hands and facing everybody there.
"Ok so what do you want to know?" asked Harry
After half an hour of retelling them exactly what happened since Hermione came to spend the summer with Harry, Harry suddenly jumped up in his chair as the memory of a certain red-head who was not present in the room with them, he didn't waste any time and voiced his concerns.
"Hey, where is Ron by the way?"
To Harry's and Hermione's shock at the mere mentionning of the name the entire Weasley Family the sat in front of the couple shuddered and suddenly found various parts of the wall very interesting.
"What happened!" asked Harry and Hermione together as worry started to fill them
There was a very silent minute until finally Mrs. Weasley answered them.
"w…well you see Harry, after we left the kitchen so Dumbledore could have his talk with you Ron became very quite, well that is until Albus came In here and announced your wonderful news, and that was when Ron just blew up and stormed out of the room, Mad-Eye says he is upstairs in your room"
"He what?" asked Harry still in shock after hearing his best-friends actions
"Well I better go talk to him" said Harry with a sigh as he rose up from the couch and gave Hermione a quick kiss on the chick before heading towards the door.
Just as he was about to exit the room he heard Hermione calling from behind
"Harry"
"Yes 'mione?" he said as he turned back to face her
"Good luck" she answered him back
"Thank you" he said with a smile as he exited the door and started making his way up to his room.
Upon reaching his and Ron's room upstairs he took a few calming breathes, just like he used to do for his occlumency exercises and pushed the door slowly only to reveal the room enveloped in darkness, he slowly made his way towards Ron's bed, but suddenly he saw from the corner of his eye a fist make his way to Harry's face but before he had a chance to move the fist collided with his face only to release a loud,
CRAK!
Harry slowly staggered to his side, and his eyes widened in shock as he fell to his bed and his eyes rested upon the angry face of none other then Ron Weasley.
"RON WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Harry bellowed as he grabbed his face with his left hand
"WHATS THE WRONG WITH ME!" screamed Ron back at Harry "YOU HAVE QUITE SOME NEREVE ASKING ME THAT AFTER YOU GO AND TAKE MY GIRL AWAY FROM ME. YOU STILL HAVE THE GUTS TO EVEN LOOK ME IN THE EYE!"
If you said that Harry was shocked that would have been an understatement, he was stunned speechless from his best friends words, until he quickly regained his bearings and jumped up from the bed, his fists clenched and his face red with anger
"YOU'RE GIRL, SINCE WHEN EXACTLY HAS HERMIONE BEEN YOUR GIRL! AND ANOTHER THING HERMIONE IS NOT A THING THAT YOU HAVE, SHE IS A PERSON WITH FEELINGS IN CASE YOU HAVE NOTICED"
"HARRY!" screamed Hermione from the door after rushing upstairs
"'Mione, can you please stay there for a few minutes, by just looking at two people at once my head starts to spin, ok?"
Asked Harry In a soothing voice in order to calm Hermione's obvious nerves after hearing the screams from the drawing room one floor below
"Ok Harry if you are sure, but I am staying here" she said in a firm voice after which she shot a cold look at Ron, who was eyeing them both as if they have just slapped him In the face.
"OH, SO YOU HAVE A NICKNAME FOR HER NOW DO YOU, YOU MAKE ME SICK WITH ALL THE ATTENTION YOU'RE GETTING FROM EVERYBODY, ALWAYS THE BETTER ONE, YOU HAVE THE MONEY, THE FAME AND NOW YOU HAVE THE GIRL AND THE FATHER FIGURE IN THE SHAPE OF THE MOST POWERFUL WIZARD ON THE PLANET, YOU MAKE ME SICK TO MY STOMACHE" screamed Ron back at Harry, completely ignoring Hermione, standing only 3 f't away from him
"I WHAT?" growled Harry back at him "JUST TO REMAINED YOU RON, I ONLY GOT ALL THIS FAME AND FORTUNE BECAUSE THE MOST DARK WIZARD OF ALL TIMES HAS KILLED MY PARENTS AND SIRIUS, AND YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THAT I WOULD GIVE ALL THE GOLD IN THE WORLD JUST TO HAVE THEM BACK.
AND NOW ABOUT HERMIONE, I ALREDY TOLD YOU, HERMIONE IS NOT AN OBJECT THAT YOU HAVE, SHE IS A HUMAN BEING WITH FEELINGS, AND I FOR ONE FELL PRIVALEGED JUST TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM WITH HER"
"WELL YOU KNOW HARRY" Ron said, not shouting anymore but with a tone that clearly said that what was about to come out from his mouth was Definitely not good "I FOR ONE REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR PARENTS DYING, IN THE END YOU STILL GOT THE MONEY WHICH YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ANYWAY, AND ABOUT YOUR LIITLE DOGGY FRIEND YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT HE IS DEAD ONLY BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR 'HERO COMPLEX' AS YOUR GIRLFRIEND CLEARLY SAID LAST YEAR"
When Ron was finished, Harry just stood there mouthed open, gaping at his best friend but when a silent tear slipped down on his chick he knew that he will not be able to keep his emotions inside this time so he did the only thing he could do at the moment and that was running outside of the room and locking himself in the bathroom where he dropped down on the floor, his back leaning against the door, and the tears just came on their own, only this time with no desire to stop them.
back in Harry's room
Hermione was shocked, to say the least at Ron's outburst and after Harry ran out of the room she experienced for the first time in a long time a very strong feeling of disgust that, in the past only Malfoy could cause and she could never understand how Ron became like that.
So she did the only thing that she could think of at that time.
SLAP! She slapped Ron across his face so hard that she was sure that a hand mark was going to stay there for a good few hours.
"RONALD WEASLY, she bellowed before storming out in search for Harry. "YOU ARE THE MOST JEALOUS, STUPID EGOMANIAC ASS THAT I HAVE HAD THE DISPLSURE TO MEET, AND UNTIL YOU APOLOGIZE TO HARRY DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT LOOKING AT ME, I AM ABSOLUTLY DISGUSTED BY YOU !" she finished in a huff.
But just as she was about to turn around and leave the room she heard Ron laugh out loud. But his voice was different than his own and to her shock his eyes where in the shape of slits like that of a snake and their color was burning red.
Without much thought she wiped her wand, pointed it at Ron that now had a horrified look on his face and before he could do anything muttered "stupefy".
After she checked that Ron was indeed unconscious on the ground she raised her wand again only this time pointed him to her throat and muttered "sonorous" so she can call out the rest of the people in the house.
"EVERYBODY GET UP HERE NOW, TO HARRY'S ROOM!.
She quickly muttered the incantation to end the spell and looked towards the door and soon enough half of the order was standing there looking shocked to see Hermione standing over Ron's unconscious figure holding her hand.
"Hermione, what happened here, where is Harry?" asked Mrs. Weasley in rapid succession.
Hermione was soon to explain, not wanting to wait any longer than she had to in order to go and get Harry,
"look Mrs. Weasley, I am sorry that I had to do that" she said pointing towards Ron. "to him but there is something that you should know, after Harry ran out of the room because all the things the Ron said to him, I yelled back at Ron but than he laughed at me in a strange voice and his eyes looked like they were the eyes of a snake, AND they were red!"
She finished, and in turn looked at all the people that stood there in the room.
Mad-Eye Moody was quick on the return.
"Molly go to the kitchen and floo Dumbledore here now, this is a grave matter that he must be informed of immidiatlly.
She only nodded and ran out of the room back to the kitchen's fireplace.
"Look", said Hermione as she turned to face Mad-Eye, "do you mind watching over him so he doesn't go anywhere I want to go and find Harry" she finished with a pleading look on her face.
"Of course not Hermione" answered Tonks and looked at Mad-Eye to ask him something, but he obviously already knew what she was going to ask, so he simply turned and faced Hermione and growled "He is in the Bathroom".
Without even bothering to thank them Hermione ran past them and headed for the bathroom across the hall.
back in the bathroom
Harry just sat there crying for himself and thinking "why did he say those things to me? did he really mean them, that he doesn't care about my parents and that its my fault that sirius is dead, no! It can't be there has to be some kind of explanation to all of this…."
Knock, knock, Knock
"Harry are you there, we need to talk it's about Ron" Hermione said
Hermione stood there waiting for 5 minutes before the bathroom door opened slightly and she squeezed herself inside only to find Harry sitting on the floor with red puffy eyes.
"What did he do?" asked Harry in a cold voice.
But before Hermione answered him she just went over and sat on his lap and gave him a big kiss on the mouth
"You know", she said once they came up for air "those were really nice things that you said about me back there". She smiled
"Well, lets just hope that next time I will be able to tell them to you personally and not in a situation like that" he blushed and gave her a big hug,
"You said we needed to talk about Ron?" he asked a minute after
"Yes, well you see, that wasn't Ron"
"what, what do you mean that wasn't Ron?" he asked with a voice full with confusion
"After you left I kind of yelled at him and slapped him but all he did was laugh and his eyes became slits like a snake's with red pupils inside, so I just stunned him and called the order"
After she said this Harry just looked at her with an expression full of pride and awe
"Voldemort" was all he said before he gave her a big kiss on the lips and hugged her stronger
"You know I am the luckiest guy around here?" he asked after the kiss
"Oh and why is that Mr. Potter?" she asked back
"Well for one thing I have a beautiful witch that I love sitting in my lap, and the for the other thing I just found out the my Best friend that said all those things wasn't actually my best friend but Voldemort"
"Oh Harry I just love you so much, you know that don't you? and that I wont let anything get in between us"
"Of course I know that, and it is exactly what I was going to say"
"I love you"
"I love you too Harry"
They sat there for another hour just holding each other and enjoying the quite that they knew was soon to end.
After a few more minutes they made their way outside of the bathroom to go and check up on Ron and talk with professor Dumbledore about what could be done in order to prevent any such thing from ever happening again.
A few minutes later Harry and Hermione came through the kitchen door to find Dumbledore sitting at the table, sipping on a cup of tea with a sad triumphant look on his face and his eyes were sparkling like mad
Harry was the first to speak.
"G-grandpa" this is so weird he thought to himself "what happened to Ron?"
Dumbledore spun around to face them as if only now realizing that they had entered the room,
"Ah, Harry as it might seem to you that what happened to Ron is a bad thing let me first assure you that it is not serious and can be treated properly with a few occlumency lessons, but on the other note I can tell you that what had happened here today was a very important win for the good side." He took another sip from his tea. "It seems as though Voldemort has given up on trying to access your mind, seeing as he thought you were dead, he severed his mind link with you on his side which means that it will take him a long time until he can reconstruct it, so in the mean time he chose to possess your friends so he would still be able to try and learn the order's secretes through them" at this Dumbledore chuckled softly
"Tell me Harry, did you feel your scar hurt in anyway since you came back from Privet Drive?"
"Err…, actually no sir"
"very good" Dumbledore than leaned back in his chair and intertwined his fingers and sat there deep in thought for a few minutes before he sat back straight again.
"Excuse me professor" asked Hermione, "but what does all this mean, Do…does it mean that Voldemort will try to possess me as well?"
"Well now that you mention it Miss Granger, yes, but not to worry as of tomorrow you three will begin occlumency training with me so we can prevent that, and Harry since you already have the basics I think you can start also with legillimancy"
After a few more minutes of thought Dumbledore rose from his chair and took his watch from his pocket, strangely enough for Harry the watch had no numbers, it only showed stars and planets, but according to Dumbledore it also told the time.
"Well it is late enough and tomorrow you have a big day, it would be best if you two went to sleep, as Mr. Weasley has been given a dreamless sleep potion that should last him until noon tomorrow if not more, now I will bid you farewell as my old bones are starting to demand sleep also, and right now I am thinking in the same line as them, so good night to you two and sleep well" he finished and headed for the door, only to be stopped by Harry, who in turn threw his arms around the hold man and said "good night grandpa" and released the hug.
Dumbledore smiled like a boy at his very first quidditch match.
"Good night professor" said Hermione with a smile.
"Good night Miss Granger".
Dumbledore stepped through the door and headed for the master bedroom at no.12 Grimmuald place.
As Harry and Hermione made their way towards their rooms to sleep they finally realized how tired they actually were do to the ordeal that they went through tonight. And together, quite unconsciously they both fell down on the same bed where sleep enveloped themselves immediately.
The next morning Harry opened his eyes, and in a second was attacked by a strange feeling in his neck.
At first he panicked for he didn't know what the strange feeling was, but after a few seconds, when the memories of yesterday came back to him he understood completely what it was.
Hermione.
He figured that she wasn't aware to the fact that he was awake, and so he decided that it was time to have a little fun.
Quick as a flash he span around to face her, grabbed her arms and started tickling her all over.
"Harry!...stop…..no….Harry!…."
But to his dismay Hermione managed to subdue him after a few minutes (he let her more likely)
And she jumped on top of him.
"I got you now, Mr. Potter"
"What are you going to do about it?" he asked her with a mischievous smile on his face "well Miss Granger, What are you going to do about it?"
"Well I have a few things in mind, but mainly I just want to do this…"
And before he even had the time to open his mouth it was assaulted by hers in a fierce kiss.
After they both went up for air Harry spoke up first
"You know, love, I can wake up like that every morning" he smiled at her and her heart melted
She climbed down from him and lay beside him before she spoke
"Me too, but right now we need to get dressed and go down for some breakfast, this morning exercise sure is tiring"
And she jumped off the bed and ran to the shower before he could do anything.
After they both had finished their shower and came downstairs, a strong smell of eggs and bacon assaulted their noses and when they entered the kitchen Mrs. Weasley was standing near the stove cooking and Professor Dumbledore was sitting in a chair by the table sipping a cup of tea and reading the Daily Prophet
"Good morning" they chorused together
"Good morning dears" replied Mrs. Weasley
"Good morning Harry, Miss Granger, I assume you two had a good nights rest?" asked professor Dumbledore
"Yes sir" they replied as one "how is Ron?" asked Harry
"Mr. Weasley is still asleep, but actually I wanted to talk to you about him and you lessons today.
As I told you last night what happened to Mr. Weasley is maybe not a good thing in the short run but in the long run it shows us that Voldemort is quite desperate to find the contents of the prophecy.
Now I must warn you that when Mr. Weasley wakes up he will have a kind of amnesia and he will not remember anything from the time that Voldemort started possessing him, and also he will have a difficult time remembering things that you tell him, so you may have to repeat yourself more then a few times". He sighed and took another sip from his tea.
"Albus, is there a way to prevent this from happening again?" asked Molly with concern
"Actually there is Molly, you see the only way for Voldemort to be able to posses another person's mind is through a mind link, and since Harry is the only one who has a mind link with Voldemort he was the only one that Voldemort could posses through the link, but the scar's after affect of the attack from the brains on Mr. Weasley it created a one ended mind link that searched for another mind to link itself to, and it so happens that it connected with Harry's mind link and through his Voldemort was able to posses Ron. But now after Voldemort severed his connection with Harry we have the opportunity to destroy Ron's link as well and restore everything to how it was before.
"So how are we going to do that professor?" Asked Hermione
"Just as I explained to you last night miss Granger, with lessons in occlumency"
At the mention of occlumency lessons again Harry shuddered all over, as memories of his past lessons with snape resurfaced in his mind again.
Dumbledore saw the way Harry responded at the mention of the lessons again and was quick to come up with a solution
"Don't worry Harry, this time the lessons will not be with professor snape, they will be with me"
"Really?" asked Harry, relived.
"Yes Harry"
"Wow professor, are you sure that you will have the time to teach the three of us?... Err I mean you must be very busy and all with the order and all of that." Said Hermione.
"Not to worry Miss Granger, let me assure you that I have enough time to spend a few hours a day in vacation time with my grandson and his friends, especially for an important cause such as this" replied Dumbledore with a twinkle in his eyes.
Suddenly Harry's eyes widened and he gasped.
"Harry, what is it?" Asked a worried Hermione
"I just realized that Voldemort saw me through Ron's eyes, so he knows that I am not in fact dead. And on top of all that he must have learned a load of secrets from the order while here"
Hermione was about to say something before Dumbledore cut her off.
"Not to worry Harry, Because of Miss. Granger's quick thinking I was able to obliviate Voldemort from everything that he saw here. Well except from that fact that he saw you alive because I have already received a report from Severus that all the death eaters know it".
Harry and Hermione both looked as if a great weight has been lifted from them and they were relieved to hear it
"Now Harry, Hermione why don't you two go upstairs and see if Mr. Weasley is awake so we may begin today's session".
Said the professor.
"Ok professor"
"Sure Grandpa"
After they both left the kitchen Albus turned back to the paper.
After a while he muttered, mainly to himself "It pains me to think of the things that they will have to go through at such a young age".
An half an hour later Harry and Hermione managed to wake Ron up.
"Ron…." Harry whispered
"Ron, wake up will you?" Hermione almost yelled
After a few minutes of unsuccessful attempts at waking Ron up Harry suddenly came up with an idea, He put his hand on Hermione's shoulder to signal her to hold on for a minute, he slowly raised his palm to hover a few inches above Ron's face and thought what incantation would be the most appropriate for the situation, among one of his thoughts was to shoot Ron with a jet of water, so after deciding that what he was going to do he opened his mouth to speak the incantation but before he even had the chance a stream of water came out from the middle of his hand and splashed all over Ron's face.
Harry's and Hermione's eyes widened in shock but before they could reflect upon what had just happened Ron jumped straight in the bed.
"Where is the fire?"
"What happened?"
"Where am I?"
What day is it?" he asked in rapid succession.
Harry and Hermione both snickered at their friend's outburst
"Ron Relax" Harry started. "You are at Grimmuald place, and it is the 1st of August".
The shock on Ron's face after hearing this was so funny that for the first time in his life Harry wished that Collin Creevy would have been here with his camera to take Ron's picture.
"What? Where have I been all this time?"
"Well" Hermione said. "I think you better sit down for this Ron"….
And like that for almost Half an hour Harry and Hermione sat there and explained to Ron the exact same thing that Dumbledore explained to them yesterday including the fact that Dumbledore was in fact Harry's grandfather and they also finally had the chance to officially tell Ron about them as a couple, and to their shock, he took it ok saying he expected it all along, and he even added that he was beginning to like Luna ever since they returned from the Department of mysteries. But in the end Ron still had a hard time understanding all of it (typical Ron).
"Wait, so you are telling me that because of those brains You-Know-Who was able to posses me?" asked Ron for the 3rd time
"Yes Ron, we told you so two times already that is why you have to take occlumency lessons with us from Harry's Grandfather" Hermione finished with a smile. She turned to Harry "you know it is still weird to call him like that"
"I know" he replied and gave her a kiss on the nose
Another minute went by and then Ron again asked,
"Hey! You never told me that Harry had a Grandfather" he finished with a pout
"We just did Ron, but Dumbledore did say that you will have a hard time remembering things for a few days. I my self only discovered last night while you were possessed so I'll just say it again, it's Dumbledore" said Harry as Hermione snuggled into his chest
Ron was speechless.
"Ron?" asked Harry "say something"
"W…What? He stammered "Oh yes well congratulations mate, you deserve it that's for sure"
"Well Ron" Hermione joined the conversation "your mother asked as to go and get you from bed not just because we need to train but also because your breakfast is getting cold" she finished with a smile because the minutes that she said the 'b' word Ron jumped out of bed and an towards the bathroom yelling as he go "I'll meet you downstairs"
Harry and Hermione just looked at each other with big grins on their faces before bursting with laughter
"You know" Harry said as they both stopped laughing "you truly are the smartest witch of our age"
"So that's what you see in me?" asked Hermione in mock anger "just a little book worm that will give you my notes all year?"
"What?" asked Harry with a hand on his chest to show that he was shocked "how can you think that of me 'mione?
Ok, I'll admit you are very smart but that is not the only reason I love you" he finished with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Yes? So what are the other reasons Mr. Potter?" she asked
"Well for starters I think that you are the most beautiful witch in the whole of Hogwarts, after that you are one of my best friends, you are good-hearted, you are always looking for ways to help others, and that is just a small portion of the things that I love about you"
As Harry was saying all this Hermione in the mean time melted inside, and her knees started to give away until she couldn't take it anymore and she just jumped on top of Harry and gave him a kiss that he will never forget.
a/n: ok! here it is another chapter done, look i know that Ron's reaction after he woke up was a little dissapointing but it will only get clearer later on in the story so bare with me