The Black/Lupin/Potter Living Room

While Harry was alone in his room Sirius, Remus, and Ron are in the living room talking and having a good time. The conversation is about how Harry and Hermione need to get their acts together and confess how much they love each other. Everyone knows their soul mates, it's about time they figured it out too.

"I mean seriously. When are those two going to realize they are meant to be? That they're soul mates. They need to get their acts together. Everyone has someone. All the Weasley's having significant others. You have Luna, Ron. Remus you Tonks. Even I have someone. Emilia Granger. Her and Hermione's brother Mercutio even has someone, Cira Lovegood, and he is the biggest geek I have met in my life." Sirius said while taking a swing of fire whiskey. He was getting a little disposed of himself.

"Emilia, Mercutio, and Hermione? Somebody's parents liked Shakespeare," Remus laughed.

"You should see them at school. Always staring at each other and secret looks and everything. Even the way Harry talks about her. Like she was some sort of goddess. Even I'm not that sickening about Luna and she's my girlfriend! At least I hope I'm not that sickening."

"Don't worry. Harry is like James. He'll get some of the Gryffindor courage and tell her how he feels by the time you stay at Hogwarts ends. You just wait and see." Remus stated as Sirius and Ron laughed.

While the trio was laughing they stopped when they saw Hedwig fly by the window.

"Who could Harry possibly be delivering a letter to this time of night?" Sirius questioned.

"Oh no...that stupid prat," Ron whispered out in shock. He couldn't believe he actually did it.

"Oh now what? And why is my Godson a stupid prat?"

"You don't want to know..."

"Now we want to know even more. What the bloody hell did he do," Remus replied.

"He just made the stupidest mistake of his life."

"What? Damn it Ron tell me what he did." Sirius yelled losing his patience.

"Well it started at the end of fifth year when Hermione was hit with the curse and passed out. He was so scared that he was going to loose her he didn't know what he was going to do." Ron swallowed and continued, "Yesterday he got a letter from Cho Chang asking him to be her boyfriend and Harry said he was going to except even though he's in love with Hermione. Why? To save her from You-Know-Who. He thinks if he ignores her next year and gets with Cho he'll be protecting her from him. That his love for her is putting her in danger and he's giving up everything he had for her to save her. He thinks she could never love he loves her and wants her to forget about him. He wants to make her hate him. He say's abandoning her and hurting her is the only way to save her." Ron explained and sighed while running his hand through his hair. Sirius and Remus stared at him in disbelief, Sirius was the first to speak.

"Is he bloody mad? What the hell is he doing? He's making the worse mistake of his entire life. Cho is just using him for his fame. He and everyone knows it...and he...I guess he is using her too. To keep Hermione safe as he puts it. Why do the Potter men have to be so bloody idiotic? Why? See James, see what you left me with? Why couldn't he have gotten Lily's brains?"

"Calm down Sirius. There is nothing we can do now. He already did it. There's no turning back time now. Ron why didn't you tell us?"

"I didn't think he was stupid enough to actually do it."

"What I don't understand is how he thinks Hermione is going to be safer without him. Seriously what the bloody hell is going on in that boy's head. He's gone mental he has. She's already in grave danger because she's a muggle born and because she is or was his friend." Sirius yelled..

"Now calm down Sirius. I don't think Harry will go through with it in the end. He loves her too much." Remus said trying to calm him down before Harry heard him, but little did he know Harry was in a dead sleep having dreams about Hermione.

"Ha! Remus that's a good one! You and I both know from previous experience howdim wittedthe Potter men are. I was just hoping that it wouldn't be passed on from James to Harry, but now I know it has. Even James never did anything this stupid. I'm not letting him do this. I'm going to fix this right now."

"Sirius you have to let Harry do this. It may be the worst mistake of his life, but you have to let him figure it out on his own. He'll figure out his choice was wrong in due time and fix it. I ahve faith in him.Harry's a smart kid, I mean what he's doing right now is not giving him any IQ points, but in the end he'll do what's right," Remus reasoned.

In response Sirius sighed and say's, "I know. I hope you're right Remus. But why now of all times? Why not before?"

"He's been having nightmares about her. About her dying. I see him thrash about in his sleep screaming out her name. Then he wakes up in a cold sweat and starts to cry. It started after the incident last year and have been getting worse. He told me he couldn't bare it if she died. That he'd feel so guilty and would die himself. That he loves her too much to live without her." Ron explained to him. The three of them sat in silence for a while before heading to bed.

When Ron enters the room he sees Harry in a deep sleep. His puffy eyes and red face immediately give away that he had been crying. Ron sighs and sees Harry's clutching something for dear life. He looks over to the desk and sees the picture of Hermione missing and shakes his head in response. He continues to get ready for bed and as he lay's done, before he falls to sleep he say's to Harry's sleeping figure,

"I know you are not going to change your mind and that you're making the worse mistake of your life, but don't let things get to out of hand. I have dreams too and I know you abandoning Hermione is going to some serious consquences for both of you, especially her. That losing her best friend and the man she's been in love with for the past five years she is going to ultimitely going to lose herself. I'm going to try my best not to let that happen seeing as she is my best friend too, but I'm not you and I fear it is going to happen anyway."