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Chapter Six : Last minute plans

After dumping Ron on his bed, Harry went back to the common room.

Herm asked, "Where's Ron?"

"He's not feeling too good right now", said Harry with a rather tipsy smile

Ten minutes later, on hearing hurried footsteps outside the Gryffindor tower, everyone rushed back to bed. Hermione muttered "Scourgify" to clear the room of all their party debris.

The next morning, Ron woke up with a very bad headache.

"Ughhh… did I get drunk last night…..." and after realizing that it was an obvious question …" or rather did I do anything stupid last night?"

"You were about to …. " , said Harry , "….but now you should be thanking me on bended knee coz I saved you the embarrassment of making a fool of yourself in front of her."

Ron tried to throw two pillows at his head but aaaagh his head exploded with pain.

With much coaxing and cursing, Harry finally dragged Ron to the breakfast table, where half of the seventh years were sporting looks similar to Ron's. With one of Herm's Quick-hangover-fix potions they were ready to attend classes.

Herm was glad McGonagall didn't say anything about the party. Of course she hadn't actually seen it, but as a teacher she was intuitive enough .Anyone would be if they saw the whole class yawning in tandem.

In the evening, after a very long and boring day of classes, everyone headed out to the grounds. The guys went off to Quidditch practice and the rest went to watch them.

The first match of the season was scheduled for next Saturday and Ron was going crazy.

"Work hard! Practice more and more…..blah…..blah" No one really cared to listen to him though.

The next week just flew by and finally the great day of the match had arrived. Gryffindor v/s Slytherin. Ron kept telling his team to be calm etc but he was far from calm himself.

The match was great!. Obviously Gryffindor won. Slytherin was smashed to pulp. They lost by almost 200 points. Of course this also meant eventual loss of Gryffindor house points in the next few Potions classes but that didn't amount to much.

But even after a victory they weren't allowed to celebrate. That was because Ron wanted them to practice even more for the forthcoming matches. Madman! Fanatic! and such vocabulary was going through the other team members' minds.

The next morning was just like a typical lazy Sunday morning. Some people woke up so late they were just in time for lunch. Actually most of these people were the Quidditch team members…coz of their tiring day.

At lunchtime , Harry finally got hold of Ginny.

"Where were you ? I haven't seen you around for two days! …."

"Umm.. actually I had just…." , started Ginny but she stopped again seeing that he wasn't really interested in an explanation. She and a friend had just gone to visit St Mungo's to do a little research for a school project.

They were sitting in a nice spot at the end of the table and catching up and giggling…no wait only Harry was giggling…that was because Ginny was tickling him. This brought many evil 'I hate you Ginny' glances from the girls. What they wouldn't do for such close physical contact with THE Harry Potter

After lunch, Harry and Ron went up to their dorm to get their homework stuff. Just as they entered, Ron suddenly stopped and stared wide eyed at the calendar in front of him. He just realized that it would be Hermione's birthday in a few days and they hadn't planned anything.. no gifts.. no party …aaaagh.

Harry and he decided to go to Hogsmeade that evening. Later when Herm was in the library, they gathered all their friends together to plan the surprise party. After making a sketchy plan they left .


Author Notes :

Okay … I finally finished the last of my entrances last Saturday! dances around the room But I couldn't get down to writing coz I was out celebrating with my friends.

I'm having a little writers block. Gimme some suggestions please.

I have a very bad feeling about this chapter. I forced myself to write it so it hasn't really come out good .Sorry for the disappointment Please review anyways ! I wanna hear ALL that you have to say.

Rupertsgellynpenguin : thanks .glad you liked it! Actually the schoolwork isn't that hard , it's the extra work we have to do for entrance exams to colleges etc etc that's hard.

KHdreamer : well the sixth one's here.

Chantelleme : thank god! You finally registered. Do write a fic soon.

Hermionegarner : We completely agree on that Ron and the guitar thing! Yay! I LOVE Ron too. And by the way I like long reviews , so keep reviewing .

FairyPrincess : I speak English or Hindi at home. My native language is supposed to be Telugu but I can't speak/read/write in it coz I never had the exposure to it.What about you? Where in India do you live? As for me, at present I'm in Hyderabad but we are moving to Bombay soon...Well enough about me! ...I hope you like this chappie!