"So what exactly do you think is their problem?" Ginny asked as her and Harry walked slowly down an empty hallway, practically shoulder-to-shoulder as they went to find Ron and Hermione.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked as he kept his eyes on the destination in front of him.
"Well, I said that I think they might be trying to impress one another, but what do you think?" Said Ginny.
"Like I said... I think they just might be having an off day," Harry shrugged.
"Harry, do you honestly think that they would be acting totally different from themselves on an off day? Hermione forgetting to triple check her homework is an off day ... uhh, Ron forgetting Quidditch practices is an off day... But do you honestly think Hermione forgetting the whole assignment together is just an off day?" Ginny said very quickly as if she was trying to show Harry his own stupidity.
"Well if you put it that way..." Harry began before he was interrupted.
"And they just so happened to get detention with Ron being the one complaining and Hermione not... that's just a little too off..." Ginny said shaking her head.
"I know it's just..." Harry tried to finish before Ginny interrupted him again.
"They seemed fine last night... I mean, they were fighting and then...uh, Ron stormed up to the common room and then so did Hermione... and hmmm. I can't think of anything that would have been irregular," Ginny muttered, completely ignoring Harry.
"Ginny..." Harry started.
"Wait a second... didn't Ron ask you if the punch tasted funny," Ginny said, tapping her chin.
"GINNY!" Harry yelled.
"What is it Harry!" Ginny said stopping dead in her tracks and spinning towards him.
"Isn't that Ron and Parvati..."? Harry asked as he peered at two people talking on the other side of the corridor. Harry and Ginny began to slowly walk towards them and quickly hid behind a corner to watch.
"So, what do you say Ron? Will you go to the ball with me?" Parvati said, twirling a strand of her hair.
"What does she think she's doing!" Ginny said very loudly as Harry put his hand over her mouth to silence her.
"Will you shush, they might hear us," Harry hissed at her.
"Sorry," Ginny whispered to him once he released his hand. She laughed nervously. "I guess I just got carried away."
"No way" Hermione sneered as she shook her head at Parvati.
"What?" Harry and Ginny both gaped.
"Wha?" Parvati's jaw dropped.
"I wouldn't go with you if you were the last girl on the earth! You're a snobby, self-centered, arrogant, bitch!" Hermione yelled at her, crossing her arms rather proud of herself.
Although "Ron" made Harry very proud for calling Parvati that, he couldn't understand why he had said no. "What was that all about?" Ginny mumbled to Harry as they watched what would happen next.
"I can't believe you! Uh, you are the most dense loser I've ever met, Ronald Weasley!" Parvati yelled as she stormed away, her face beet red with anger.
"I have no idea..." Harry muttered with his jaw still hanging open.
"What's all the commotion out here?" Ron said to Hermione as he stepped out of the hospital wing. "Who was yelling?"
"Parvati," Hermione said simply, smirking slyly as she watched Parvati disappear down the other corridor. ((The one that Harry and Ginny weren't hiding at))
"Why was she screaming?" Ron asked with a furrowed brow.
"Cause I called her a self-centered arrogant bitch for asking "me", " Hermione made quotations with her fingers. "To go to the ball with her."
"YOU DID WHAT!" Ron yelled.
"You heard me," Hermione snapped.
"HOW COULD YOU!" Ron groaned.
Harry and Ginny looked at each other with very confused faces when they saw "Hermione" yelling at "Ron" when she usually would have said oh well and would have told Ron off for using bad language.
"Now you have to go apologize to her and tell her it was all a misunderstanding!" Ron yelled to her.
"No.... YOU have to go apologize to her... you were the one that she heard it from!" Hermione sneered, folding her arms across her chest.
"Yeah but you were the one that said it!" Ron yelled.
"What?!" Harry and Ginny both muttered with confusion as they kept watching.
"Grr, you can really be a humungous pain in the ass, Hermione, you know that!!" Ron yelled again as Hermione just sat there.
"Hermione?" Harry gaped as Ginny's eyes widened.
"Well you're the one that's so caught up on other people's looks and how they act and, grr, I'm going to bed!" Hermione yelled as she stormed off to the Gryffindor Common room.
"FINE! I HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE TIME AT YOUR QUIDDITCH GAME TOMORROW!" Ron yelled after her.
"OH DON'T WORRY, I WILL!" Hermione yelled back as she disappeared the same way Parvati had gone, not looking back.
Ron scrunched up his nose and walked after her to the Gryffindor common room, staying as far behind her as possible.
"Whoa..." Ginny breathed out, rubbing her forehead.
"Are you as confused as I am...?" Harry said in a dazed expression.
"Probably even more..." Ginny nodded slowly.
"I know how you said that they changed personalities just to impress one another but I think it's a little more then that..." Harry said.
"Yeah..." Ginny said, now rubbing her eyes.
"I think we should just sleep on it... it's almost past curfew and we have a Quidditch game tomorrow..." Harry said quietly.
"Right..." Ginny nodded slowly again as they walked back to the common room.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
After apologizing to Parvati about sixteen times as soon as Ron had gotten up to the common room, saying that "Ron" didn't really mean it and that he was having a bad day, Parvati had finally stopped crying and Ron could actually get some sleep. He woke up around 8:00 from the sun seeping through the window again, the warmth hitting him on his face. Before he opened his eyes he began to say in his mind: "Please let me be back to normal, please let me be back to normal..." He squinted an eye opened and saw a strand of chocolate brown hair in his face. He groaned and pushed the covers off of him, showing that he had not changed out of the clothes he was wearing the day before. The night before he didn't really feel like taking so much time to get dressed while closing his eyes. He may act like a pervert, but he would never do anything disgusting.
He didn't bother to comb Hermione's tangled hair or bother to do anything except walk out of the girl's dormitory that was already empty. It seemed that everyone was either down at the Great Hall eating breakfast or if they were on the Quidditch team, getting ready for the game. He sighed dully as he remembered that he wasn't the one that was going to play, he would be the one that would be stuck inside planning the stupid ball for the next day.
He pushed through the door out of the Gryffindor common room and was stopped by the Fat Lady. "Hermione dear, you look absolutely dreadful!... I mean..."
"Sod off," Ron snapped as he trudged down the stairs to the Great Hall where he was stopped again.
"Hermione!" Squealed Lavender Brown as she and Parvati walked up the stairs, Lavender grabbing Ron by the sleeve.
"You look dreadful! You can't go to the Quidditch game looking like that!" Parvati said, obviously in a better mood then the day before.
"I'm not going to the Quidditch game; I'm going to plan the sodding ball..." Ron mumbled.
"Well that gives you more of a reason..." Lavender said as she and Parvati both sighed dreamily.
"Why?" Hermione asked, squinting her eyes.
"Because of Ernie Macmillan..." They both said at the same time, still in a dreamy voice that reminded Ron of every time that Luna Lovegood spoke.
"He's so handsome, and strong, and brave..." Parvati said, giggling, obviously over Ron now. "And not to mention nice..." The last thing made Ron frown, noticing Parvati's cold tone.
"So come on, you can't go looking like that! You look like a strangled rodent!" Lavender said before catching herself and laughing nervously. "No offense of course." She said as Parvati and Lavender both led her back into the common room to get Ron made-up.
~*~*~*~*~
"So are you ready team?" Harry who had become the Quidditch captain in his 6th year yelled in a proud voice to the Gryffindor team who were huddled together by the pitch, Hermione sitting farther away from them looking quite pale, not sure what she was actually doing.
-I've seen Ron and Harry play millions of times, how hard can it be...- She kept telling herself. The team cheered as Hermione just sat there, wondering what part of the game this was.
"THEN LETS GET OUT THERE!" Harry said to the team as he opened the door to the pitch and motioning for them all to leave. Hermione sat in the same spot, not moving which Harry and Ginny both noticed. Ginny, who had become a Chaser since Alicia, Katie, and Angelina, had left spoke first.
"What's wrong Ron, you looked so ghostly..." She muttered to Hermione. Ginny looked over at Harry with a bitten lip, wondering if this was another sign.
Hermione shook out of it and stood up. "Uh, nothing, just a little nerve."
"Well snap out of it, mate, we've got a game to win!" Harry said, slapping Hermione on the back, which practically pushed her out the door.
"Ron hasn't been nervous before a game since his fifth year." Ginny whispered to Harry as he nodded.
"I know... that's clue number two..." Harry said quietly back as they walked out onto the pitch. The bleachers were packed full of cheering people as Hermione slowly swung her leg over Ron's broom. She grabbed onto the handle tightly as pushed off the ground gently, squinting her eyes closed as she felt herself rise into the air.
"I did it..." Hermione said proudly to herself, having not been on a broom for the past few years. She opened her eyes slightly and saw that she was only about 5 feet off the ground and groaned.
"Ron... you're going to have to come up higher then that," Harry called from about 20 feet above her.
Hermione gulped and closed her eyes again, sinking back down to the ground and pushing her feet on it as hard as she could.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"There!" Lavender said smiling as she ran a brush through "Hermione's" hair one last time before setting it back down on a dresser.
Ron looked into a mirror and gaped. He felt his heart race as he looked at it as though it was Hermione staring at him instead of his own reflection. Hermione's long light coffee brown hair had been brushed out smoothly and there was only a little bit of makeup on her face. Ron felt like he couldn't breathe... the same way he usually felt when he saw Hermione. But this was different, this time it was himself. "Thanks you guys..." Ron choked out, holding his stomach from his insides twisting up.
"No problem" Lavender shrugged.
"Yeah, no problem. Now excuse us, we have to go to a Quidditch game... good luck with the ball thing." They said, waving before exiting the dormitory.
Ron looked at the reflection in the mirror and felt a lump come to his throat. He realized that even though he had gotten into so many arguments with the real Hermione the past day, he couldn't help but still love her. It wasn't seeing his reflection of Hermione with makeup on that made him remember why he loved her, he hated the makeup on Hermione's face... it reminded him of Parvati and Lavender. It was the remembrance of how the true Hermione looked, and how she acted, not in Ron's body, but in her own and how she acted like an individual person. How she would help them study and would always come to his and Harry's Quidditch practices...
Ron's eyes widened when he remembered Quidditch. "Hermione..." He choked out as he dashed out of the dormitory and out of the common room. "She could be hurt... she could have gotten killed... oh god, what have I done" Ron said to himself in a panicky voice as he raced down the hall, totally forgetting that he was supposed to be at a meeting for the ball. But when he heard a voice coming from behind him, he stopped dead in his tracks with a horrified look.
"Herm-own-ninny!" Called a deep, smooth voice from behind Ron. He gaped and spun around and saw none other then Viktor Krum.
((A/N: Okay, okay, I'm sorry but I did lie twice in the last chapter. I said I was going to post this chapter on Wednesday and today is indeed Thursday, and the second thing is that I said there wasn't going to be a cliffhanger. But then I realized that basically every ending for this chapter I wrote was a bigger and bigger cliffhanger then the last. So I chose this ending to the chapter just because at least you know who it is instead of saying "But when he heard a voice coming from behind him, he stopped dead in his tracks with a horrified look" and then ending there *shrugs* I hope you all really liked this chapter!! And I'm estimating probably three more chapters to go till the end. Read and Review!!!
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"What do you mean?" Harry asked as he kept his eyes on the destination in front of him.
"Well, I said that I think they might be trying to impress one another, but what do you think?" Said Ginny.
"Like I said... I think they just might be having an off day," Harry shrugged.
"Harry, do you honestly think that they would be acting totally different from themselves on an off day? Hermione forgetting to triple check her homework is an off day ... uhh, Ron forgetting Quidditch practices is an off day... But do you honestly think Hermione forgetting the whole assignment together is just an off day?" Ginny said very quickly as if she was trying to show Harry his own stupidity.
"Well if you put it that way..." Harry began before he was interrupted.
"And they just so happened to get detention with Ron being the one complaining and Hermione not... that's just a little too off..." Ginny said shaking her head.
"I know it's just..." Harry tried to finish before Ginny interrupted him again.
"They seemed fine last night... I mean, they were fighting and then...uh, Ron stormed up to the common room and then so did Hermione... and hmmm. I can't think of anything that would have been irregular," Ginny muttered, completely ignoring Harry.
"Ginny..." Harry started.
"Wait a second... didn't Ron ask you if the punch tasted funny," Ginny said, tapping her chin.
"GINNY!" Harry yelled.
"What is it Harry!" Ginny said stopping dead in her tracks and spinning towards him.
"Isn't that Ron and Parvati..."? Harry asked as he peered at two people talking on the other side of the corridor. Harry and Ginny began to slowly walk towards them and quickly hid behind a corner to watch.
"So, what do you say Ron? Will you go to the ball with me?" Parvati said, twirling a strand of her hair.
"What does she think she's doing!" Ginny said very loudly as Harry put his hand over her mouth to silence her.
"Will you shush, they might hear us," Harry hissed at her.
"Sorry," Ginny whispered to him once he released his hand. She laughed nervously. "I guess I just got carried away."
"No way" Hermione sneered as she shook her head at Parvati.
"What?" Harry and Ginny both gaped.
"Wha?" Parvati's jaw dropped.
"I wouldn't go with you if you were the last girl on the earth! You're a snobby, self-centered, arrogant, bitch!" Hermione yelled at her, crossing her arms rather proud of herself.
Although "Ron" made Harry very proud for calling Parvati that, he couldn't understand why he had said no. "What was that all about?" Ginny mumbled to Harry as they watched what would happen next.
"I can't believe you! Uh, you are the most dense loser I've ever met, Ronald Weasley!" Parvati yelled as she stormed away, her face beet red with anger.
"I have no idea..." Harry muttered with his jaw still hanging open.
"What's all the commotion out here?" Ron said to Hermione as he stepped out of the hospital wing. "Who was yelling?"
"Parvati," Hermione said simply, smirking slyly as she watched Parvati disappear down the other corridor. ((The one that Harry and Ginny weren't hiding at))
"Why was she screaming?" Ron asked with a furrowed brow.
"Cause I called her a self-centered arrogant bitch for asking "me", " Hermione made quotations with her fingers. "To go to the ball with her."
"YOU DID WHAT!" Ron yelled.
"You heard me," Hermione snapped.
"HOW COULD YOU!" Ron groaned.
Harry and Ginny looked at each other with very confused faces when they saw "Hermione" yelling at "Ron" when she usually would have said oh well and would have told Ron off for using bad language.
"Now you have to go apologize to her and tell her it was all a misunderstanding!" Ron yelled to her.
"No.... YOU have to go apologize to her... you were the one that she heard it from!" Hermione sneered, folding her arms across her chest.
"Yeah but you were the one that said it!" Ron yelled.
"What?!" Harry and Ginny both muttered with confusion as they kept watching.
"Grr, you can really be a humungous pain in the ass, Hermione, you know that!!" Ron yelled again as Hermione just sat there.
"Hermione?" Harry gaped as Ginny's eyes widened.
"Well you're the one that's so caught up on other people's looks and how they act and, grr, I'm going to bed!" Hermione yelled as she stormed off to the Gryffindor Common room.
"FINE! I HOPE YOU HAVE A NICE TIME AT YOUR QUIDDITCH GAME TOMORROW!" Ron yelled after her.
"OH DON'T WORRY, I WILL!" Hermione yelled back as she disappeared the same way Parvati had gone, not looking back.
Ron scrunched up his nose and walked after her to the Gryffindor common room, staying as far behind her as possible.
"Whoa..." Ginny breathed out, rubbing her forehead.
"Are you as confused as I am...?" Harry said in a dazed expression.
"Probably even more..." Ginny nodded slowly.
"I know how you said that they changed personalities just to impress one another but I think it's a little more then that..." Harry said.
"Yeah..." Ginny said, now rubbing her eyes.
"I think we should just sleep on it... it's almost past curfew and we have a Quidditch game tomorrow..." Harry said quietly.
"Right..." Ginny nodded slowly again as they walked back to the common room.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
After apologizing to Parvati about sixteen times as soon as Ron had gotten up to the common room, saying that "Ron" didn't really mean it and that he was having a bad day, Parvati had finally stopped crying and Ron could actually get some sleep. He woke up around 8:00 from the sun seeping through the window again, the warmth hitting him on his face. Before he opened his eyes he began to say in his mind: "Please let me be back to normal, please let me be back to normal..." He squinted an eye opened and saw a strand of chocolate brown hair in his face. He groaned and pushed the covers off of him, showing that he had not changed out of the clothes he was wearing the day before. The night before he didn't really feel like taking so much time to get dressed while closing his eyes. He may act like a pervert, but he would never do anything disgusting.
He didn't bother to comb Hermione's tangled hair or bother to do anything except walk out of the girl's dormitory that was already empty. It seemed that everyone was either down at the Great Hall eating breakfast or if they were on the Quidditch team, getting ready for the game. He sighed dully as he remembered that he wasn't the one that was going to play, he would be the one that would be stuck inside planning the stupid ball for the next day.
He pushed through the door out of the Gryffindor common room and was stopped by the Fat Lady. "Hermione dear, you look absolutely dreadful!... I mean..."
"Sod off," Ron snapped as he trudged down the stairs to the Great Hall where he was stopped again.
"Hermione!" Squealed Lavender Brown as she and Parvati walked up the stairs, Lavender grabbing Ron by the sleeve.
"You look dreadful! You can't go to the Quidditch game looking like that!" Parvati said, obviously in a better mood then the day before.
"I'm not going to the Quidditch game; I'm going to plan the sodding ball..." Ron mumbled.
"Well that gives you more of a reason..." Lavender said as she and Parvati both sighed dreamily.
"Why?" Hermione asked, squinting her eyes.
"Because of Ernie Macmillan..." They both said at the same time, still in a dreamy voice that reminded Ron of every time that Luna Lovegood spoke.
"He's so handsome, and strong, and brave..." Parvati said, giggling, obviously over Ron now. "And not to mention nice..." The last thing made Ron frown, noticing Parvati's cold tone.
"So come on, you can't go looking like that! You look like a strangled rodent!" Lavender said before catching herself and laughing nervously. "No offense of course." She said as Parvati and Lavender both led her back into the common room to get Ron made-up.
~*~*~*~*~
"So are you ready team?" Harry who had become the Quidditch captain in his 6th year yelled in a proud voice to the Gryffindor team who were huddled together by the pitch, Hermione sitting farther away from them looking quite pale, not sure what she was actually doing.
-I've seen Ron and Harry play millions of times, how hard can it be...- She kept telling herself. The team cheered as Hermione just sat there, wondering what part of the game this was.
"THEN LETS GET OUT THERE!" Harry said to the team as he opened the door to the pitch and motioning for them all to leave. Hermione sat in the same spot, not moving which Harry and Ginny both noticed. Ginny, who had become a Chaser since Alicia, Katie, and Angelina, had left spoke first.
"What's wrong Ron, you looked so ghostly..." She muttered to Hermione. Ginny looked over at Harry with a bitten lip, wondering if this was another sign.
Hermione shook out of it and stood up. "Uh, nothing, just a little nerve."
"Well snap out of it, mate, we've got a game to win!" Harry said, slapping Hermione on the back, which practically pushed her out the door.
"Ron hasn't been nervous before a game since his fifth year." Ginny whispered to Harry as he nodded.
"I know... that's clue number two..." Harry said quietly back as they walked out onto the pitch. The bleachers were packed full of cheering people as Hermione slowly swung her leg over Ron's broom. She grabbed onto the handle tightly as pushed off the ground gently, squinting her eyes closed as she felt herself rise into the air.
"I did it..." Hermione said proudly to herself, having not been on a broom for the past few years. She opened her eyes slightly and saw that she was only about 5 feet off the ground and groaned.
"Ron... you're going to have to come up higher then that," Harry called from about 20 feet above her.
Hermione gulped and closed her eyes again, sinking back down to the ground and pushing her feet on it as hard as she could.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"There!" Lavender said smiling as she ran a brush through "Hermione's" hair one last time before setting it back down on a dresser.
Ron looked into a mirror and gaped. He felt his heart race as he looked at it as though it was Hermione staring at him instead of his own reflection. Hermione's long light coffee brown hair had been brushed out smoothly and there was only a little bit of makeup on her face. Ron felt like he couldn't breathe... the same way he usually felt when he saw Hermione. But this was different, this time it was himself. "Thanks you guys..." Ron choked out, holding his stomach from his insides twisting up.
"No problem" Lavender shrugged.
"Yeah, no problem. Now excuse us, we have to go to a Quidditch game... good luck with the ball thing." They said, waving before exiting the dormitory.
Ron looked at the reflection in the mirror and felt a lump come to his throat. He realized that even though he had gotten into so many arguments with the real Hermione the past day, he couldn't help but still love her. It wasn't seeing his reflection of Hermione with makeup on that made him remember why he loved her, he hated the makeup on Hermione's face... it reminded him of Parvati and Lavender. It was the remembrance of how the true Hermione looked, and how she acted, not in Ron's body, but in her own and how she acted like an individual person. How she would help them study and would always come to his and Harry's Quidditch practices...
Ron's eyes widened when he remembered Quidditch. "Hermione..." He choked out as he dashed out of the dormitory and out of the common room. "She could be hurt... she could have gotten killed... oh god, what have I done" Ron said to himself in a panicky voice as he raced down the hall, totally forgetting that he was supposed to be at a meeting for the ball. But when he heard a voice coming from behind him, he stopped dead in his tracks with a horrified look.
"Herm-own-ninny!" Called a deep, smooth voice from behind Ron. He gaped and spun around and saw none other then Viktor Krum.
((A/N: Okay, okay, I'm sorry but I did lie twice in the last chapter. I said I was going to post this chapter on Wednesday and today is indeed Thursday, and the second thing is that I said there wasn't going to be a cliffhanger. But then I realized that basically every ending for this chapter I wrote was a bigger and bigger cliffhanger then the last. So I chose this ending to the chapter just because at least you know who it is instead of saying "But when he heard a voice coming from behind him, he stopped dead in his tracks with a horrified look" and then ending there *shrugs* I hope you all really liked this chapter!! And I'm estimating probably three more chapters to go till the end. Read and Review!!!
Thanks all of my reviewers!!!:
Lenitie the HP Maniac
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pan weasley kent
BIGHARRYFAN
Shania Maxwell
Ingenious
QuistisTrepe1402