Disclaimer: JKR is the owner of Harry Potter and not me. I only own about 8 of the characters in this story...yeah. Oh, and the song hermione sings is from the musical wicked which belongs to Wicked LLC.
Discoveries, letters, and Mrs.Weasley's advice
Ginny Weasley walked out into the corridor and looked around. She spotted Harry looking out over the balcony , and heard Ron head down the stairs. She walked towards Harry and stopped at the entrance to the balcony. Harry didn't notice her, he was too busy looking out over the grounds with the ominiculars he had bought at the quidditch world cup. She took a few tentative steps towards him. He put down the ominoculars and said, in a rather worried tone
"Any luck Ron?"
Ginny smiled, knowing what she always said when someone mistook her for her brother.
"I'm not sure, I can go and ask him if you like though."
Harry froze. He couldn't believe his ears, was Ginny right there?
"who's there?"
"turn around and find out!"
Harry whirled around and saw her standing there. He had a huge smile on his face and then he hurried his pace and took her in his arms. She smiled at him , then she kissed him. He wasn't about to argue with her, so he kissed back. Ginny was so glad that she was going out with a really good kisser. Their kisses got more and more passionate. The two of them looked at eachother and smiled.
"Where were you? I was so worried!"
Ginny looked around.
"I'll tell you, but nobody can be around, follow me."
She led him towards the secret room. Before she said the password, harry grabbed her by the hand, looking confused.
"What about class?"
"McGonagall's stuck in her cat form until further notice, some seventh year put something into her pumpkin juice this morning."
Harry stifled a laugh.Ginny went up to the tapestry and whispered the password, revealing the door. Harry did a double take, he hadn't noticed that door before. Ginny pulled open the door and went to sit on the couch. Harry followed, shutting the door behind him.
"What is this place?"
"Oh, hermione and found it! We did change the password though. i suspect it was once a teachers lounge of some sort."
"so, where were you love?" Harry asked holding Ginny's hand tightly.
Ginny looked down. "Well, i had another nightmare.. so I needed some alone time. Parvati was really bugging me so i went outside and hung out in the Quidditch stands for a while. Then Ron came and found me, and brought be back here."
"Another one?"
"yes" Ginny's reply was barely a whisper, harry had to really lean in close to hear her.
"oh... gin, don't pay attention to the nightmares, I love you, and hermione and ron do too. you will be fine."
At that harry kissed her again, but this time it was full of love, and ginny returned his kiss with the same passion. Pretty soon, both of them were only in their underclothes, and were kissing madly on the couch.
"should...we...maybe go back?" Ginny asked cautiosly.
"I guess so, they'll send another search party out if we don't."
The two of them put their clothes back on, and walked hand in hand back to the common room. There was a buzz of excited in the air as the two entered the portrait hole.
"Didja hear? They are going to have a talent show at hogwarts!" hermione squealed as the two of them stepped into the room.
"uhhh...mione? Why are you so excited?" Ginny said, wondering what her friend was smoking.
"I can finally sing the song i've wanted to sing for AGES! i have always liked this musical, since I was about nine, and i wanted to sing a song from it! And, no, it isn't Phantom of the opera."
"Well, sing it for us then...but first..what is it about?" Ron asked, looking very curious.
" Well, its called Wicked and it's about the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. A muggle man in America wrote a book about it! The song I am going to sing is called The Wizard and I, which Elphaba sings at her first day of college at Shiz University. You'll love it, I'm sure!" Hermione smiled and then she took a few steps back.
Before anyone could say anything, Hermione started to sing, and she had a GREAT voice!
Did that really just happen?
have I acctually understood?
this weird quirk i have tried
to suppress or hide
Is a talent that could
Help me meet the Wizard
If I make good
so i'll make good...
when I meet the Wizard
Once I prove my worth
And when I meet the Wizard
What I've waited for since- since birth!
And with all his wizard wisdom
By my looks he won't be blinded
Do you think the Wizard is dumb?
or like munchkins, so small minded?
No! he'll say to me :
"i see who you truly are
A girl on whom I can rely"
And thats how we'll begin
The Wizard and I
Once I'm with the Wizard
My whole life will change
'Cuz once you're with the Wizard
no one thinks you're strange!
No father is not proud of you
no sister acts ashamed
and all of Oz has to love you
when by the Wizard, you're acclaimed
And this gift- or this curse
i have inside
Maybe at last i'll know why
wheb we are hand in hand
the Wizard and I
And one day he'll a say to me "Elphaba
A girl who is so superior
shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
have a matching exterior?
And since folks here to an ubsurd degree
seem fixated on your verdigris
would it be alright by you
if I de-greenify you?"
And though of course thats not important to me
"all right, why not?" I'll reply
Oh what a pair we'll be
The wizard and i
Yes what a pair we'll be
The Wizard and...
Unlimited!
My future is unlimited
And I just had a vision
almost like a prophecy
i know- it sounds truly crazy
and true, the vision's hazy
but i swear, someday there'll be
a celebration throughout Oz
Thats all to do with me!
And I'll stand there with the wizard
felling things I've never felt
And though I'd never show it
I'll be so happy I could melt!
And so it will be
for the rest of my life
and i'll want nothing else till I die
held in such high esteem
when people see me they will scream
for half of Oz's fav'rite team
The wizard
And I!
Hermione looked around her. What she saw shocked her. People in the common room looked hurt, angry, or confused. Only one person was clapping, a first year, who was wearing a Wicked tee-shirt while she was having her break.Hermione found it too hard to resist the urge to cry. She burst into tears and ran as fast as she could out of the portrait whole and down the stairs. She ran until she found herself under the willow by the lake. The willow had been her favorite hiding spot in first year. She guessed that she would never have to worry about it turning into another whomping willow. She got underneath it and buried her face in her arms. She cried and cried, she didn't notice the rain that was raging in it's own torrential fury right outside of the willow's branches. She didn't feel the raindrops fall on her through the small open spaces. She had figured out at the very end of her song that the song was really sterotypical and that she shouldn't be singing about a wicked witch at all. She tried to stop crying for a moment, but the vision of Ron's and Ginny's angry faces kept popping back up. She wondered if they were looking for her, she didn't think they would, she deseved to be out alone, and in a torrential downpour.
Ron had been mad at Hermione before, but this time he was raging mad. He couldn't understand why she would sing a song like that! Wizards and Witches weren't like that at all! He couldn't think that this 'Wizard of Oz' was very good at all. The first year happily filled him in on the rest of the play. With every scene description, Ron got madder and madder. He had yelled until he was hoarse, but no one seemed to care. They either felt the same way, or, like Ginny, fell into fits of angry tears and went to their rooms. Harry was the only one who was really on hermione's side. he had tried to make ron understand, but the stubborn redhead wouldn't listen. Finally, harry came from the window and tapped on Ron's shoulder. Ron, who had been staring into the fireplace.
"Ron, it is an absoloute DOWNPOUR outside! Go get your girlfriend! Bring her some warm clothes! Something! She shouldn't be staying out there! She could get pnumonia!"
Ron shrugged and looked at his hands "She deserves it- you heard about what she was singing! That whole musical is so...oh! She makes me so bloody angry with her muggle crap like this!"
Harry was shocked to hear Ron insult Hermione. Well, sure, he had heard Ron insult her before- but not like this.
"Ron! listen to yourself! you love hermione! next thing I know you'll be calling her...well, what Malfoy calls her!"
Ron wouldn't answer, so harry grabbed hermione's puffy red coat that she left on her chair and headed outside.
Harry had a pretty good idea where she was. He had discovered her hiding place inadvertantly in the fourth year, while he was thinking about the second task, trying to find something to help him breathe underwater. As he approached the willow, he heard a soft sniffeling noise coming from it. He got closer and silently moved some branches aside. he saw to his horror, that hermione was curled into the fetal position and was crying like there was no tomorow. He burst through the banches and rushed to her side. She looked up at him, her eyes very very red and puffy. He put his arm arond her and healped her to her feet. She was pretty unsteady, but she made it up. She was soaked to the bone. Harry helped her to put on her coat. She sniffed and hugged him.
"Thank You Harry. I must look...well, nevermind."
" You look fine, dont' take this the wrong way, but your jacket matches your eyes."
Hemione laughed, but it was more like a cough. She sneezed and then whispered
"I think that i'm sick." She sneezed a few more times in quick succsession. Harry smiled and looked at her. On their way back up, they stopped to see Madame Pomfrey, who took one look at Hermione and gave her a large dose of her pepper-up potion. Hermione was smoking by the ears. Harry stifled a laugh and then, becuase he couldn't help it, he added.
" Ron's ears looked like that about 20 minutes after you left."
Hermione gasped, she must have forgotten about Ron for a minute.
"Oh Harry! he must be soo mad! I..I can't face him!" She started to turn around, but harry put an arm out and stopped her.
"'mione, I know that Ron helped cause the crying, I am going to leave it to him to make you happy again."
Hermione rubbed her eyes and put on the hood of her coat.
They entered into a empty room, well, Ron was still staring at the fire, but it seemed like there was an empty room. Hermione sighed. Harry put a hand on her shoulder and pushed her in Ron's direction. He headed up to the boy's dormitory. Hermione took a few tentative steps toward him and then she was right behind him. She slowly leaned down, smelling in the good clean smell of his hair. She quickly kissed the top of his head and then ducked down as Ron turned around, Ron looked around, and then sighed.
" God I am a freakin' idiot!" he said, before mumbling something incoherant.
Hermione stood up again and then slowly made her way to where Ron was sitting, head in hands. She quietly sat down and placed one of her hands softly on his knee. Ron lifted his head up. Hermione took one look at his face and shrank back.
"R..Ron...I ...Are you...Are you alright?" She asked tentatively.
Ron grimaced and turned away. Hermione wasn't about to give in.
"Ron, tell me what's the matter!"
"You know Bloody well what the matter is!"
"Don't swear ron!"
"I can swear whenever I BLODDY feel like it!"
" Please tell me! i'm not leaving until you tell me!"
" fine, if that really what you think of witchery and wizardy?"
" wha- NO! Ron, did you think...oh Ron, Its just a musical!"
" But why did you choose to sing that song at a school for MAGIC?"
" Beacuse I love that song! I've told you that!"
" really?"
"YES!"
"I DON'T BELIVE YOU!"
"ROn , dont' shout!"
"wHO'S SHOUTING!"
"you are you bigheaded idiot!"
" DON'T GO CALLING ME AN IDIOT!"
"I CAN CALL YOU WHATEVER TO...ICKLE RONNIEKINS!"
" YOU ...YOU...I HATE YOU!"
"FINE! BE THAT WAY!"
" YOU KNOW WHAT HERMIONE, I THINK I WILL!"
with that Ron stomped off up the stairs in a huff, leaving a rather mad hermione in the common room all alone.She looked around, and grabbed up her diary, which was in the pocket of her coat, which was flung on the floor. She went to her and Ginny's secret room. She turned on the lights and sat down on the couch. She opened the diary and started to write in it.
October 15th
Diary,
Today was an eventful day at hogwarts. Someone got it so McGonagall got stuck in her cat form and Ginny went missing for a while. I guess I went missing too...I sang a song from Wicked and Ron got so mad at me for it! I mean, yes the musical kinda demeans witches and wizards, but I dont' think that he had to get angry at me! I thought that he understood that i will never forget the part of me that likes muggle things! I wish that I could just go back in time so that i could fix all of this mess.Ron and I had a massive fight and so now i don't know if he will ever talk to me again! i have never seen him this angry! I hope that he sees my point of view eventually. I do love him so...yeah. Well, i hear someone coming- i'd better put down my gell pen, it's not very witchy.
love,
Mione
Hermione quickly hid her diary and her pen. She stood up and turned out the light. She hopped behind the couch and watched the door open. She saw a bit of flaming red hair and stood up, thinking it was Ginny.
"Hermione? What are you doing in the dark?"
"R..Ron?" Hermione asked tentatively, not wanting to get into another fight.
" yeah, geez, i feel so bad 'mione. i love you ,and I didn't show it back there."
Hermione sucked in her breath and ran to Ron. She wrapped him in a tight hug and smiled. She looked up into his face, and saw that he too was smiling.
" 'Mione, do you forgive me? I really do love you, ya know."
" I know, and i love you too Ron, I never meant to insult anyone. I was just missing home and all my music. I can't listen to it here, because no one listens to what I listen to, and I am not a huge Weird Sister's fan at all."
Ron bent down and kissed her. She sighed and leaned into him. She loved the freshly washed smell of his clothes, they smelled of his soap and his cologne. She smiled and then she stepped back and looked at Ron. He was always so...so... good looking. Hermione had known it forever, but he always seemed to look better after they made up from a fight. She turned on the lamp and sat back down on the couch. Ron sat down and put his arm around her. hermione reached down, under the couch and pulled out a big green book. The cover had the words "wicked the grimmerie" printed on it. hermione opened it up to the marked page and silently read the lyrics to some song. Ron grabbed the book, and realzing that the song Hermione sang was from this muscial, Run tossed it onto the desk. He didn't really feel like looking at it right now. Hemione crossed her arms and huffed in mock anger.
"What on earth was that for Ronald?"
"Don't call me that 'Mione."
" fine."
hermione sat up a little and kissed him softly. She glanced at her watch, and seeing that it was way past curfew, stood up. She headed for the door, opened it a crack and quickly shut it.
"Filch is out there, just sitting in front of the Fat Lady's portrait! We're gonna have to stay in here!"
"Is this a...bad thing?" Ron asked, smiling.
" depends...what do you think?"
Ron smilied again, and then he magicked a big blanket out of mid air. he tossed it on the couch and then went over to the empty fireplace. He lit a fire and then went back to sit on the couch. Hermione smiled and went to join Ron on the couch.
"Ron, what are you thinking about doing?"
" ummm...a lot of ...umm... snogging?"
Hermione smiled and willingly kissed ron. As the kisses got more and more wild, Hermione found that her shirt had somehow gotten flung off. She kept kissing ron, tugging at his shirt, trying to get it off. Ron quickly took it off and tossed it aside. Hermione put her hands on his chest and leanded into him. Ron leaned her head into his chest and sighed, it felt so good to have her there, against him. He turned her around and undid her bra clasp. hermione let the bra fall without seeming to notice. She could never be embarrased in front of Ron, she knew that no matter what she looked like, he would always love her. As she sat on his lap later, she felt so loved and safe. She fell asleep in his arms, her head tucked into the corner between his chest and his shoulder.
The next morning Dawn appeared, fresh and rosy fingered, to awaken the two teenagers, both of whom were asleep, Ron snoring slightly. Hermione put her clothes back on and ron slipped his shirt over his head. The two of them headed out of the room and climbed back into gryffindor tower. They found only neville, asleep on the couch , in the common room. Hermione went up to the girl's dormitory and quietly got her things for the day ready. She knew that something exciting was going to happen today.