A New Life

Chapter Ten

Ron and Hermione

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"What do you mean your in love with my sister, you haven't been dating that long." Ron finally said after few moments of silence.

"Well, no but honestly I think I have felt this way for a long time." Harry shrugged and started to pull his night things from his dresser.

"What exactly did you two do tonight?" Ron asked a little nervously for fear of the answer.

"Nothing, we just talked and fell asleep, that's why we lost track of time. What did you and Hermione do tonight?" Harry asked back.

Ron turned several shades of Red then turned his back on Harry. "We just, um…we…"

Ron mumbled something so low Harry couldn't hear it, but he had a shrewd idea of what he was saying. "You guys didn't stay at the Burrow all night did you?"

"Well, no, we came back here and had dinner." Ron said still blushing.

"That's it, just dinner?" Harry asked smiling. He was standing still holding open his dresser drawer watching Ron who was now putting on his night shirt.

"Well no…" Ron said softly still not looking at Harry.

"Are you going to tell me or am I going to have ask Hermione?" Harry said smiling.

"Fine I'll tell you! We had sex alright! Are you happy now?" Ron said rather quickly and angrily.

Harry's simile grew from ear to ear and Ron finally turned to look at him. "So, how was it?" Harry busted out laughing. He couldn't help it, seeing how nervous Ron was just made the whole situation even funnier.

"I don't find it all that funny you know." Ron said trying to resist a smile. "But if you think I'm giving you details your wrong. That's none of your business."

"Alright, don't get upset. I think it's great; frankly I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner." Harry said.

"Yeah, so am I." Ron mumbled. "But you have completely changed the subject, what are you up to with my Sister?"

"Look I didn't mean anything by it, I just… I guess I sort of wanted your approval if I decide to get more serious with Ginny." It was now Harry's turn to start blushing.

"What do you mean by serious? I really think you guys should date longer before you do anything." Ron said eyeing Harry.

"I know, and trust me were not ready for that yet, at least I don't think we are." Harry said, his mind suddenly reeling with thoughts. Would Ginny want to do that? They had only been dating for about a week but he did love her, he knew he did but he wasn't real sure how she felt.

"Look Ron, I haven't even told Ginny how I feel, please don't mess anything up for me, I want to tell her myself." Harry said, he was thinking out loud.

"You don't have to worry about that, I wouldn't ever say anything like that to my sister." Ron said looking slightly disgusted.

"Right." Harry said as he pulled back his covers and slipped into bed. "Oh, I almost forgot, you want to come to practice with me in the morning, Ragmar said it was okay."

Ron pulled back his covers and slid into bed too, "I wish I could mate but I start work with Fred and George tomorrow."

"Oh yeah, good luck with that. Good night." Harry said.

"Yeah, good night Harry."

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"Harry, pay attention!" Called out the loud booming voice of his Quidditch manager. "What are you thinking about boy?"

"Sorry Ragmar." Harry replied.

Ragmar Dorkins had just blown his whistle causing the team to stop in midair. Harry had now let the Snitch escape three times in a row. Ragmar, the team manager did not look pleased. He was now mounting his broom to come and join the team in the air.

"I don't know why you're so distracted today, but you better get over it, whatever it is. Our next game is in a few days and we need our seeker to be in top shape" Ragmar said when he reached Harry and was so close to his face he could have kissed him.

Harry backed away from him slightly, "I'm sorry, it won't happen again."

"Damn right it won't!" Ragmar replied and he blew his whistle once more. "Alright now, let's go we are still working on the Cleaver confusion move." Ragmar said as he headed back to the ground.

Harry flew high into the sky and continued his search for the snitch. He was determined to not loose his concentration again. But the only thing on his mind today was Ginny, his confession to Ron the night before still fresh in his mind and all he wanted to do was go home and tell Ginny. It was taking everything he had to even stay on his broom; his heart was just not into practice today.

And finally to Harry's immense relief the snitch flew into sight and Harry took off after it. Once Harry was in pursuit of the snitch another member of his team took off after it too, this was to give Harry practice of going against another Seeker. His teammate named Charles McKeon who was normally a beater was now close behind him. Charles caught up to Harry and they were now neck and neck. Suddenly the snitch turned and headed for the stands. Charles had to pull up in order to avoid a collision but Harry kept on, he pressed his fingers around the snitch and pulled up not a moment to soon, one more second and he would have crunched into the stands.

A few of his team members clapped supportively, some merely just grumbled "Good Job." The Cannons seemed to be warming up to Harry, most of them anyway. Harry couldn't help but feel annoyed at a few of them, mainly the Keeper, Glogmore. He had a real problem with Harry and tried to trip him as they walked into the locker room after practice. But Harry was too quick for him as he just jumped over the broom that Glogmore tried to smack the back of Harry's knees with.

Ragmar gave the team a small pep-talk before he dismissed the team to leave for the day. Harry's heart jumped as Ragmar released him and he grabbed his bag, headed out of the locker rooms and disapparated home.

Harry arrived in his bedroom, dropped off his bag, changed out of his training clothes and headed out into the living room. Ginny and Hermione were sitting on the couch talking happily about something and both seemed surprised to see Harry.

"You know, we should make it a rule that none of us are allowed to apparate inside of the apartment, that you must do it outside and come through the front door." Hermione said sounding slightly annoyed.

"Well, at least I entered my own bedroom." Harry said hoping this would sound polite.

"Yeah, I guess you're not as bad as Ron." Hermione said.

"So how was practice?" Ginny asked. "Are they being nicer to you?"

"Umm, yeah. Hey listen Ginny; can I have a word with you?" Harry said nervously.

"Actually, I promised Mum that I would meet her for lunch like ten minutes ago, can we talk later?" Ginny said looking sorry.

"Oh, yeah sure Ginny. Tell your Mom I said hello." Harry said trying to not look disappointed.

Ginny winked at Hermione as she stood up to leave. "We will talk later Hermione. I got to get over to The Club so I can floo to the Burrow, man I can't wait until I'm seventeen." Ginny walked to the front door and left.

"Okay, what was that all about, what are you two up too?" Harry asked as he headed over the couch and set down beside Hermione.

Hermione blushed, "That is none of your business Harry."

Harry knew instantly they must have been talking about last night and what happened between her and Ron. "It's okay Hermione, I already know."

Hermione looked horrified; she instantly jumped up from the couch and started pacing the room. "I'm going to kill him; I can't believe he told you Harry." She stopped and looked at Harry. "Wait, what exactly do you know?"

It was Harry's turn to start blushing; this was not something he felt comfortable talking about with Hermione. "Umm, well…Ron told me that you two…umm…you know…"

Hermione turned away from Harry once more, walked over to her ugly pink chair, picked up a sleeping Crookshanks and sat down, placing her cat back onto her lap. "Well, he really shouldn't have told you that."

"It's okay, you told Ginny right?" Harry asked.

"Well yeah, but that's different." Hermione replied.

"How is that different? That's what friends do, they tell each other things. And I think Ron felt like he wanted to tell me because I told him that I…" Harry stopped, he wasn't real sure if he wanted Hermione to know that he was going to tell Ginny that he loved her.

"That you what Harry?" Hermione asked eagerly.

"You can't tell Ginny because I want to tell her, but I'm going to tell her that I love her. And I bought her a promise ring, I didn't tell Ron that part." Harry said.

Hermione looked as though Christmas had come early. Her eyes grew and a large grin spread across her face. "Oh, Harry that's wonderful. Ginny will be so thrilled! When are you doing it?"

"Well, I was hoping she wasn't busytoday and I was going to see if she wanted to go for a walk."

"Oh, no…you have to make a big deal out of this; you need to plan a special evening. Oh, I could help you!" Hermione said eagerly.

Before Harry knew it Hermione was planning an extravagant meal, complete with floating candles, soft music and horrid flower arrangements. Harry just sat and listened as Hermione wrote out detailed instructions onto a large roll of parchment. You would have thought Harry just asked her to plan a wedding.

Harry smiled at Hermione as he thought "What have I gotten myself into?"