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Chapter 7: Uh oh.

Ron looked at Hermione, Hermione looked at Ginny, Ginny looked at Harry, and Harry looked at Ron. All of them wore different expressions.
Both Weasleys had a surprised face, while Harry and Hermione both wore expressions that clearly said, "We are in for it."
Ron followed Hermione's eyes to Ginny and his face grew pale, but Ginny could see that his ears were burning. Ron said, in a deadly whisper that made Hermione shudder, "Did all of you have something to do with this?" He brandished the paper, and Harry nodded. Ginny, however, became very defiant.
"It was for your own good! Ron, we didn't want you to be with that. slut!" Ginny looked to Harry and Hermione for help, but they still stood gaping at her.
"Don't call Lorie a slut! If you were half as decent as her, you might know that's not polite to mess around in other people's business!" Ron yelled, almost jumping with fury.
Harry was the first to wake up from his trance-like state. "Ron, be quite. You'll wake you parent's up!" Harry hissed. However, it did no good. Ron continued to rant and rave about how is privacy didn't matter to his friends or his family, and how Harry obviously didn't know that his parents were deep sleepers.
Ginny turned to Hermione. "Can't you make him shut up? Mum and dad will kill us if they find out that we're all up here!"
Hermione reached into her pocket for her wand; it was gone. "I've lost my wand! And besides, we're not aloud to do magic outside of school!" As Ginny and Hermione watched, helplessly, Harry tried to put his hand over Ron's mouth to stifle the noise that was roaring through it. Ron was much too strong, though, and Harry barely managed to stay on his feet.
"We seriously are in trouble," he gasped.

Ron was furious! His privacy, the only thing he had been hoping for this summer, was being ignored by the people he trusted most. He would never forgive them for this!
He heard someone tell him to be quiet, but he could not be quiet. When he started to have a life that set him apart from Harry, Harry became jealous and tried to ruin it for him. He had half a mind to go back to Lorie's house and get her back just to spite Harry!

"Hermione, we have to make him shut up," Ginny cried desperately. "Isn't there any other way besides magic?"
"How should I know?" Hermione asked frantically.
"You're the smart one!"
"As far as I know, there is no book about how to keep a very angry and loud Ron from yelling.
Harry staggered over to them, sporting a busted lip and a large bruise. "Do you guys have a plan?"
Ron turned towards them and began yelling about his privacy and how people could not accept that someone had actually liked him for once.
"Ron, please be quiet," pleaded Hermione.
"I will not be quiet, Hermione! I trusted you," shouted Ron, rounding on Hermione.
"Hermione, please make him be quiet!" hissed Ginny into Hermione's ear.
Hermione's cogs and gears began to turn. The noise Ron was making was coming through his mouth (obviously), and she needed to block that noise. Harry had tried and had suffered the consequences. There was only one thing to do.
As Ron took a step toward her, still bellowing, she took a deep breath and...

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