Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and all of the series. It's owned by J.K Rowling... (T-T) I adore her though.
This is my first Harry Potter fanfic. And feeling the air of Halloween (actually, there's no Halloween in my country but I really like festivals in and out side my country ) I suddenly decided to create one. Hope you like it.
Warning: It will be Ron/Harry slash. If you don't like that pairing, stop it right now. And don't sue me! and also don't forget to review.
Halloween Propose, Chapter 1
By green-mermaid
Wind blew quietly, facing bare skins and making a chilly weather. Leaves had fallen from the tree to the ground, making such a beautiful color to the dull ground. Red and orange filled the road and garden of Hogwarts. Though it's chilly outside, the Hogwarts students chose to do their activity outside, enjoying the view of Fall Season. Some took a seat near the lake, playing with geese on the lake. Some sat below a tree, enjoying the calmness the plant had given.
Harry Potter, the boy who survived, sat on the garden bench. His hair was messy as usual. After all, he, himself, couldn't make it tidy. He read his Transfiguration book with an annoyed face. In front of him, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his best friends, had grudges to each other, which made him couldn't get his concentration.
He sighed, knowing that everything he had tried to get his concentration was failed. He decided to move his attention from the book to both of his friends.
"No! No! Absolutely no, Hermione! How many times should I tell you? I won't do that!" Ron determined his friend.
"Aww... Ron! Come on! Don't you always wanna feel to be the main role on a drama? This is your chance!" Hermione said enthusiastically.
"What are you two debating about?" Harry asked, didn't get the idea of this grudge.
"Harry, please help me to ask Ron to play on the Halloween Drama!" Hermione moved her attention to Harry.
"Don't get to her sweet words, Harry. I beg you!" Ron looked dreadfully to Harry.
"Ahh... I see... the one that Professor McGonagall told about last week, isn't it? Why Ron? I think to act as a prince isn't bad enough."
Ron and Hermione looked him, silence. Ron coughed, returning Hermione's conscious back. "Well... Harry... the role isn't prince, but princess." Ron blushed.
"WHAT!" Harry's eyes widen. He didn't believe what he had just heard.
After an hour without a good result, Hermione decided to go to the Library. She had lost her time just to ask Ron about it and it came to nothing! (Ron asked her to do his home works as an exchange but Hermione refused it "What! No way! Home work is something you..." Harry and Ron quickly cut her off "I've got it").
Finding his 'peace' back, Harry opened his Transfiguration book again. Ron sighed hardly; making Harry moved his attention to him. "Why can't they choose a girl to play that role! Bloody Hell! And why it was me!" Ron complained.
Harry quiet, imagining Ron with a dress and a wig that cover his head. He chuckled for himself. Notice his best mate strange manner, Ron raised his tone a bit, "What do you imagine about!"
"No... I just think... that it will be interesting seeing you with dress and..." Harry began to laugh.
"Stop it!" Ron raised his tone an octave. He leaned forward, placing his own chin to the wood table.
"Sorry... but why does everyone choose you?" Harry swept his eyes from tear.
"Last week..." Ron recalled his memory back.
.: flashback :.
"Children... listen up! Our school decided to have a Halloween Festival this year. Each dormitory will present a drama. And of course, the points you get will be added to the dorm's point. Now, who interested to participate on it?" McGonagall entered the Gryffindor common room.
"I don't want to participate on it." Ron whispered to Hermione, considering Hermione always hated festivals and parties.
"How about you, Harry?" Hermione asked the raven-haired boy.
The boy looked up from the photo album of his parents, "I won't participate. I will have quite strict exercise of quidditch that month. I don't think I can manage my time."
Hermione replied him back with an "Hmm... I see."
"Who still want to apply?" Professor McGonagall asked to confirm once more, making sure she didn't miss a person to participate on the drama.
"We'd gladly apply!" Hermione raised her hand. Her other hand held Ron's hand and raise it to the air.
"Well... well... Ms Granger and Mr Weasley, I don't expect you will apply for this. Glad to see both of you enthusiastic about this. Please sign here..." Professor McGonagall looked at them from her glasses.
Ron slowly turned his face to the smartest girl of Hogwarts awfully. "Hermione... what are you doing?"
"Applying you... what else?" Hermione smiled meaningfully.
"No... I mean... I've told ya... I don't want to participate on this!" Ron exclaimed. He lowered his voice but his hand signed the applying paper.
"This is gonna be interesting. Don't you think so?" Hermione smiled together with Ginny. Ginny replied her with a yes answer.
"This is insane! This is nightmare..." Ron shook his head.
.: end of flashback :.
"So?" Harry placed his hand on his own chin; waiting to Ron continued his story."We had a gathering the next day, talking about the scenario, the duties, and so on. I didn't pay attention much on it. Instead, I did sleep." Ron sighed.
"And then...?" Harry asked.
"Looks like nobody want to be the princess. They said that it will be a hard role. So, Hermione looked at me sleeping and recommended me. Everyone find that amusing though so they agree to it."
"That's your fault then! Why don't you decline it then?"
"I told you... I fell asleep." Ron grumbled.
"Sorry... I forgot. Anyway, one thing you could learn from here is 'Don't fell asleep at meetings' "Harry chuckled. He gathered his book and grabbed his cloak.
"Yeah, you're right." Ron sighed, didn't remove his chin from the table.
"Come on! It's almost sun set. It's beginning to get cold." Harry stood up, waiting for his best mate to do the same.
Moving slowly, Ron finally managed his body to stand up. "Haah...why me?" He squeaked. Harry chuckled.
"You know... it's very interesting." Harry lowered his voice.
"Cut it out! Let's go." Ron waved his hand lazily.
"Will you? Please?" Ginny Weasley, the little sister of Ronald Weasley, clasped her hands together. Her eyes showed her expression much. She faced his brother with puppy eyes.
Harry and Ron looked at her, moving their attention from the magic chess. Ron sighed. Harry looked up from the board, smiling to himself.
"Ron... you really have many fans today." Harry chuckled.
"Yeah... and both of them asking the same thing to me! Harry, could you tell me how many people ask me about this?"
Harry recalled his memory back from the morning of that day, "Let's see... Fred and George, Dean, Seamus, and not to forget Neville talked about it when we woke up this morning. After that, Hermione on the garden after the afternoon snack. And then when we go back from the garden, we did meet Professor McGonagall, Alicia, Luna Lovegood, Lee, and others from the Gryffindor. And now, you, Ginny" Harry pointed at her.
"Now...stop it." Ron reminded him.
"See! Brother... everybody has their fate on ya!" Ginny exclaimed, opened wide her hands.
"No! No! No! I said to all of ya...There's no way I would do it!" Ron raised his tone. Unfortunately, the Gryffindor common room was on their silent mode so that everyone could hear his sentence. Harry sighed and shook his head. 'This gonna be long...'
After finishing his own sentence of declining the role, everybody on the common room gathered around him, goading him to take the role. "Ron, you will do it, won't you?"
Harry tidied up the chess and went down the stairs to the boys' room. Ron shouted at him. "Harry! You won't leave me alone here, will ya?" He quickly got out from the crowd and pursued him.
"Wait! Ron! We haven't finished talking about this!" Ginny whined from his back, which was ignored by Ron.
"What happened to everybody around me? Sheesh!" Ron slumped to his own bed without getting change first.
Harry released his cloak and put it aside. He watched the red haired boy, sitting on his own bed which was next to Ron's bed. He faced Ron without saying anything. Ron, feeling Harry's eyes on him, turned his head and met the emerald eyes.
I don't notice how beautiful that eyes for ages! Ron quickly shooed that thought away from his brain. "What!" He snapped.
"If I ask you to take that role, will you take it?"
Ron hung his head. He drooped on his head to his pillow. "Harry, please. Don't do that to me..."
"But... Ron... I mean... Merlin! Ron, it just a drama. And Hermione writes the script. She can't be writing such a bad scenario! Can't you do it for Gryffindor, for our friends?"
Ron grumbled. "Yeah... you care for Hermione, for our friends, for Gryffindor. But you don't care about my feelings. I mean... how about my feelings towards the one that I love! Seeing me in..."
Harry's eyes widen. Ron quickly shut his mouth with his own hands.
"What? The one that you love? You just said it, Ron!" Harry shifted to Ron's bed.
"You don't hear it! No! You do not hear anything!" Ron blushed as red as tomato.
"Look at you, Ron! You're blushing! So, this girl means very special to you! This is a surprise! You never told me anything! Who is she? Is she in the same dorm with us or not?"
"Forget it! Just... just... forget it!" Ron avoided Harry's eyes.
"Hey... come on! Being in love in someone isn't embarrassing at all. You can tell me everything, mate! Who is she, Ron? Is she Hermione? Or maybe Luna? Come on!" Harry traced Ron's eyes.
"Just... just forget it! My love won't be returned. Just stop talking about this, okay?" Ron rose from his pose, sitting cross-legged on his bed.
Harry smiled to himself. "I understand. But what if that someone you love asks you to play that role?"
Ron remained unmoved. "I guess... I will play it." Ron cupped his chin with his knees.
Harry's heart twitched. Ron really likes that girl, doesn't he? That he would do everything that that girl asks him to do. He refused Ginny, Hermione, and the other. Not to forget, me. But for this girl, he will do that role?
"What happened, Harry?" Ron asked his best mate, making Harry back to the reality.
"Ahh? No... nothing." He gave his fake smile.
Ron watched him carefully but then shrugged his shoulder. "Today is such a nightmare for me. I don't know whether I've fallen asleep and dreamt about this or I still lived in reality." Ron sighed.
Harry stood up from Ron's bed and got change. He didn't say a single word, making his best mate confused about his sudden manner.
"Are you okay, Harry? You don't seem okay." Ron gawked at him.
"Hmm? Yes? Of course I'm okay." He crawled to his own bed. Dean, Seamus, and Neville joined them later.
"Ron... are you sure you're not going to take that role?" Dean teased him.
"How many times should I tell you? Sheesh!" Ron pulled his blanket to his chin.
"That's a pity. Harry... Are you asleep yet?" Seamus changed the topic.
Harry didn't reply him. Instead he shifted his position, facing his curtain. Accepting the silence as an answer, Seamus shrugged off.
Neville looked at Harry. "Wow... Harry is such a fast-asleep. I thought he needs much more time to fell asleep."
"Yeah... considering he always sneaks around at night. Remember when he sneaked out to save the philosopher stone (book 1) with you, Ron?" Dean added.
"I remembered it." Ron sighed. 'Not only that time, he does it until now' Ron thought.
Harry, on the other hand, wasn't sleeping that time. He just didn't want to get another conversation with Ron for that day. And, acting as if he had slept is the answer. Dean switched off the main lamp and silence filled the room. What could be heard was just everyone's steady breath.
Harry swayed his blanket and watched Ron's sleeping face on the bed beside him. He sighed. 'I don't know whether I don't feel content talking to him because he had a secret from me or whether because something else. I mean... after I thought about it, Ron never kept a secret from me. And he also knew all of my secrets. Well... almost all. I know that he fancied Hermione at our fourth year. But, it's obvious for me to know. At least, he acted like that so that I know it. But this time, he did seal it very well. I can't even know a bit about this girl nor notice it before. I don't even have an idea who she is.' Harry watched Ron carefully. He breathed steadily upside down. Harry sighed and decided to sleep.
"I shouldn't think about it much." He talked to himself quietly and went to his sleep.
Wah... I finished my first chapter... how was it? I know that I'm very lack of grammar. Bear with me T-T. You may tell me that, but please on the polite manner. I'm quite sensitive person. Please tell me about this story whether you like it or not. Have a nice day!