Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Blah some things are not mine which I borrowed from other author's blah.
Oh yay! Ok I've have three appliers for Beta reader and I already know who I'm gonna pick so don't apply! And the Beta is dun dun dun…I'm not telling you yet but I'll email you about it. I will the next chapter to my Beta and I hope you do a good job! Oh you know what I'll just tell you who I want to be my Beta. But not here it'll be in the comments section below.
A Story of the Year: Oh thanks soo much for volunteering but I already have my Beta! I'm sorry, I'm sure you'll be a great Beta you know!
Bewhiched: English please…
0o0itzNiteLite: I know wasn't it sweet? I felt sorry for Ron though…
jip91: As much as I want to, only one vote each so Pansy is now up to…3 ½ and is in the lead. Ohhh it's going to be close between Luna and Pansy, whos it going to be?
Adainya: I didn't forget you! I deliberately put you last so that I can announce your going to be my BETA! Yay! –Claps- I'll send tomorrow's chapter over when I write it but for this one, I'll try and proof read it.
Demon-Slave92: Oooh I'm glad you like it! Sometimes I wonder if my writing is too descriptive…I like your name, it's really unique. Raceen….hmm, oh I need to know, are you a guy or a girl? Don't worry; I just need it for my story.
Oh and umm heres a hint, the third person in the circle is NOT Ron…ooooh I wonder who it is.
Ron GF Thing
Pansy- 3 ½
Luna- 2
Adainya- 1
Random- 1
Parvati- 0
Lavender- 0
The Next Morning
"Ron, are you alright? You seem distant" asked Hermione worriedly. They were sitting in the Great Hall eating breakfast.
"No I'm not, now shut up and eat your breakfast" Hermione was taken aback; Ron had never used this tone with her before.
Hermione glanced at Harry who shrugged.
"Ron, mate, are you sure you're alright? Do you wanna go and do something after class?" asked Harry.
"NO, just leave me alone" shouted Ron, causing some people to look at him. He stood up and stormed out of the Hall.
"Harry, go with him" said Hermione
"What! Why me?" asked Harry aghast
"Because you're his best mate and it's time for some male bonding" said Hermione Simply.
Harry rolled his eyes, sometimes he wished that his best friend would be a girl so that Hermione would have to do the "bonding".
"GO!" Hermione pushed Harry off the bench and pointed her finger at the door.
"Your best friend needs you right now and you better go and help him!" yelled Hermione.
Harry groans and gets off the floor. He stood up and walked out of the Great Hall. He saw Ron leaning against the wall outside the door. Harry walked up to him.
"Hey Ron, can you tell me what's wrong" said Harry softly
Ron gave him a death glare. Harry flinched; there was something seriously wrong with Ron.
"What's wrong? What do you mean what's wrong? You know I like Hermione and yet you go around and start snogging her" spat Ron, his eyes blazing. He whipped around, his robes flying behind him.
Harry blinked and thought, 'Oooh crap' He ran into the Great Hall and pulled Hermione out. On the way out he heard the Slytherin's cheering.
"Great job Potty, you finally found a girl even if it is Mudblood Granger." Shrieked a Slytherin girl.
Hermione blushed but glared at the Slytherin's. She smiled at them then said audibly, "10 points from Slytherin, for being disrespectful to the Head Girl" That shut them up immediately.
The Gryffindor's laughed loudly and shot 'too bad', looks to the Slytherin table which they replied with scowls and glares.
Harry snickered but continued pulling Hermione out of the Great Hall.
"What is it, Harry? I haven't even finished my breakfast yet and we got charms first period." Whined Hermione
"It's about Ron" said Harry quickly; he pulled her into an empty corridor.
"Oh what wrong" asked Hermione, her brows forming into a frown.
"I-I think he saw us kissing last night" muttered Harry.
Hermione gasped, "He did? Oh no! Doesn't he you know, like me? Oh no Harry what are we gonna do?"
"Oh what do we have here? It seems that you two have the pleasure of angering me by snogging around the place don't you?" sneered a familiar voice. Hermione gasped again and looked behind her.
"Ron! We weren't- we weren't kissing we were just-." Started Hermione
"Oh shut it Granger" said another voice behind Ron.
"Zabini" spat Harry.
"It seems that your ex-best friend here came running to us when you ditched him" laughed Blaise Zabini.
"Ron, what's going on? What are you doing?" said Hermione who seemed to be on the verge of tears.
"Oh be quiet Granger." Snapped Ron, "Your right Blaise she really is a mudblood" (A/N please don't hate me for doing this, I promise he'll be friends with them again I promise!)
Harry, and Hermione gasped, Hermione eyes were now running with tears. Tears were flowing down her cheeks like a rain storm.
Harry pulled out his wand and pointed it at Ron, "Say that again, Weasly and you'll regret it" snarled Harry.
"Harry, what's going on" said a girl's voice behind him.
Harry turned around; Lavender, Parvati, Ginny, and Seamus were staring at them.
"Hermione why are you crying?" asked Lavender as she hurried to Hermione side with Parvati and Ginny at her heels.
"We heard yells Harry, what's going on? Why are you pointing your wand at Ron?" asked Seamus worriedly.
"Ask him" hissed Harry, "Go ahead, Ron say what you just said"
Ron hesitated for a moment before saying, "I said, Granger really is a mudblood"
Immediately four more wands came flying out of pockets. On Ron's side, Blaise and his friends whipped out their wands too. They all held a staring match for a few moments.
"How dare you…" hissed Lavender, her voice full of venom.
Seamus's eyes were blazing with fire as he tried and decide which curse would work best.
Parvati had her wand by her side as she was trying to comfort Hermione and point her wand at Ron at the same time. Hermione had long since collapsed on the floor and was bawling her eyes out. Harry was just mad, no, mad was an understatement.
Ginny was the one who looked like she was about commit murder. Her eyes were blazing and her hair, well it looked like it was blazing too. She stared at Ron with pure hatred, which wasn't very easy to do. Ron recoiled slightly as he saw his former friends' actions.
"You aren't scared are you Weasly" said Blaise beside him.
"N-no. Of course not"
"Good, because if you are then we might just as well leave you here with them" whispered Blaise.
Ron shuddered; he couldn't imagine the sufferings he had to go through if they did leave him.
Suddenly, a bell sounded across the castle causing all the kids to jump. It was time for class. Seamus and Harry shot Ron one last look of pure hatred before going over to Hermione and lifting her up.
Hermione grabbed her bag and let her friends escort her to class. They said goodbye to Ginny and headed to charms.
By second period the story about Ron's behaviour was all over the castle. Gryffindor's were shooting Ron glares, and Slytherin's were smiling and giving him sympathetic looks. Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were doing both, some smiling some glaring.
Ron thought as he walked past a group of Gryffindor, how lucky he is to be living in the prefect common room. He didn't think he could survive being in Gryffindor Tower for one night. There was still one more problem, a big one. Where was he gonna sit at lunch and dinner? If he sat at the Slytherin table Gryffindor's will never ever forgive him, if he sat at the Gryffindor table then Slytherin's will think he's a puny and ditch him.
Ron groaned, Maybe he shouldn't have called Hermione that, maybe he should just go and apologize. He looked around and saw Hermione walking with Harry, Lavender, Parvati, and Seamus. They were all pointedly ignoring him. Here he was, walking by himself and watching his former friends laughing and talking.
"Hey Hermione when's the first Hogsmeade visit?" asked Lavender excitedly, who gave Ron a look and looked at Hermione again.
"Oh I don't know yet, I have to talk to Malfoy about it" answered Hermione, "We're having a prefects meeting tomorrow night though so we'll probably decide tomorrow."
"Oh yay, I can't wait, I really miss Honeydukes sugar quills!" squealed Parvati
Harry and Seamus were busy talking about Quidditch tryouts.
"Harry, when are you hosting the Quidditch tryouts?" asked Seamus
"Hmm, I'm thinking about this weekend, I'll ask McGonagall" said Harry smiling, he too was giving Ron the usual looks and turning back to his friends.
"I want to go for keeper, is that ok Harry?"
"Sure, I don't go for reserved spots for old players anyways" he said looking at Ron with a smirk.
Ron choked; he isn't reserving a spot for him? Ron groans, he might not be able to play Quidditch this year!
They were all walking from History of Magic and heading to the Great Hall for lunch. As Ron entered, he was greeted by many smirks. It seems that he wasn't the only one who thought of the whole where he should sit thing. Hermione and Harry were already seated, talking and laughing. It seems that Seamus took his seat as Harry Potter's best mate.
Ron was really hungry and he wanted to eat as soon as possible, but he didn't know where to sit. Then he had an idea where he could eat and he doesn't have to pick which table to sit at. To the kitchens!
He turned around and marched straight to the kitchens.
It was like this for the next two weeks. He always had to go to the kitchens to get his meals, which the house elves were more then happy to give him.
"Mr. Malfoy and Miss. Granger, good job on your potion." Said Snape, smirking as usual.
Ever since Hermione became Malfoy's partner, Snape had started treating her fairly, well more like he treated the pair fairly.
"Did you hear that, we did a good job!" squealed Hermione
"I know, we always do a good job" said Malfoy, smirking.
The only place where they could actually become civil and not pretend to be it is Potions. At first they were snarling at each other which caused them some points because teachers usually caught them but now, they were at least happy with each other in potions.
"Now for your second potion you have to make, Veritaserum. You have an hour and a half so you'll be fine. I don't expect you to make a strong one, just enough to make someone speak the truth."
They all got to work. Hermione pulled out the ingredients while Malfoy got the Cauldrons.
"Malfoy, can you chop up these dragon scales into dust" she said quietly, you could hear murmurings all over the room; you weren't allowed to talk loud while working.
"Sure, ok I heard you were arguing with Weasly a few weeks ago, are you still pissed at him?" asked Malfoy, while hitting the dragons' scales.
"Of course, I am. He called me a- a mud…you know. Are you done with the scales?" said Hermione while cutting up little twigs.
"Yeah here, wow I didn't really believe when Blaise told me, but who'd thought Weasel would actually call you a mudblood" whispered Malfoy.
"Crush up these mandrakes seeds and throw them in the cauldron, I know me to, and I was soo mad at him"
"But aren't you used to it?" smirked Malfoy.
"Ya but not from my best friend." Snapped Hermione.
"Ok done, what do I do next? Are you gonna forgive him?"
Hermione consulted her book, "Stir it CCW three times then CW five times" (CCWcounter-clock wise)
"Maybe I don't know, there we're done, and I'll go wash the cauldron while you take up a sample"
"Ok"
Hermione went up to the sink and turned up the water. The whole class jumped, surprised at the sound. They glared at her and she just stared innocently at them. She gave them an "I got a halo (the tiara thing that angels have on their heads) on my head" look. She and Malfoy were usually the first to finish.
"You may leave, your homework with be writing a two-foot long essay on the uses and properties of Veritaserum."
They nodded and headed out with their bags. They walked together back to their common room, talking about Ron.
"Well? Are you gonna forgive him?" asked Malfoy as they climbed through the portrait.
"I don't know if he's sincere, yah maybe" answered Hermione.
"Yah well, you know we planned a prefects meeting tonight right?" he reminded her.
"Oh yah…alright I'll meet you here after dinner" She said as she headed to the portrait hole.
"Wait! I'll go with you; I just have to get something." He went into his room and came back out.
They talked all the way to the Great Hall.
"You know, you should go in first. It might be suspicious if I go in with you." said Malfoy.
"Thanks" Hermione smiled at him and walked in.
'Dang she is so hot when she is smiling. Well at least I've got past the first part of my mission. I hope He will be pleased' and Draco walked in.
"It was so worth it. I can't believe he wears pink boxers!" said Seamus, as he stuffed some mash potato in his mouth.
Harry laughed loudly, having Seamus around was even better then Ron! Kind of. They were now a little group, Harry, Seamus, Hermione, Lavender, and Parvati. They went everywhere with each other, since their class schedules were practically the same.
At the Slytherin table…
"Come on Drakie eat your food, then you'll be nice and strong!" said Pansy. Apparently she came skipping out of the infirmary after she healed.
"Pansy, you really need to see a therapist" mumbled Blaise.
"Drakie here let me feed you. You're like a baby these days" whined Pansy, as she grabbed his spoon and scooped up some mash potatoes and stuffed it in Draco's mouth.
He gagged and downed his pumpkin juice.
"Oh heres a napkin sweetie, thanks so much Zabini, you pushed me! Now look what you've done" she snapped at Blaise.
"ME? What the hell did I do, I brushed you arm!" yelled Blaise.
"That made me flinch so then it made Drakie-poo gag! Yelled Pansy
"You know what Pansy, you can just go to hell!" shouted Blaise.
"Drakie, he scares me" whimpered Pansy and she cling to his arm.
He rolled his eyes and said to Blaise, "Don't do that Blaise"
"See, doesn't Drakie love me?" And she started humming something that sounded something uncanny like Hey Ho the Witch is dead.
"Draco, you have got to force her to see a therapist. Well you should go to considering you jumped out a window to avoid her." Sniggered Theodore Nott.
Draco shrugged and looked up to the ceiling. He was surprised to find a full moon in a cloudless sky, considering it was raining this morning.
In Some old Mansion
"Do you think your son can accomplish this task?" hissed a voice
"Of- of course milord, he lives with her after all." Said a man's voice.
"Good, but I will have Zabini's son watch him. Just in case" the voice full of venom.
"Yes, yes master. He will give you a report every week."
"Very well, leave" commanded the voice.
"Yes, master" he kissed his shoes, stood up and left the room.
The person crossed the room and looked at his cracked mirror. Glowing red eyes stared back at him he lifted one finger and touched his pale cheeks. Smirking he looked out the window, the night was calm, the moon was shining. And a beautiful cloudless sky, "Harry Potter, Votre amoureux sera le mien" he whispered.
Immediately clouds drifted over the moon, blocking its beautiful light. Soon after, lightning's streaked across the sky.
This chapter wasn't really that good...well maybe it is i don't know but guess what? I actually proofread YAY i'm soo proud of myself now! Ahhh i only like this chapter's ending. It seems good enough to me. Hope you like it. REVIEW! NO FLAMES! Oh well i gotta go bye bye:)
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