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Title: Window shopping

Chapter 3: Ginger

Notes: Oh a Ron-point-of-view? Whatever possessed me to write this? Quite a few people have written what they thought was going on in other characters heads when they were sorted and I knew this chapter had to be a Ron one but I wouldn't to even subconsciously copy anyone else(the original title is loosely translated as 'song') so I was going to do something about Christmas Carols. But this is August. So why not make that sort of thing wait? I'm calling this 'Ginger'. And it's in Hermione's POV SPOILERS for the OOTP and GOF

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Hermione had always rushed to defend him. It wasn't his fault that he was naturally a bit wild. More often than not he suffered from it more than others. All things considered he was actually quite smart but nobody ever gave him credit for that.

Everyone forgot about what happened with the ruddy colored animal and Sirius. 'No...credit was given to him.' She recalled mentally with a small roll of her eyes.

Hermione stirred and the furry bundle in her lap mewed in protest as she looked up from her work in the Prefect's common room.

Across the room Ron was gesturing with enthusiasm as he related , once again, his activities in the Quidditch match to another 5th year prefect Justin Finch-Fletchly.

Justin looked as though he'd rather be plucking a Hippogriff. ' Perhaps too much credit.' She thought dryly. She slid her books with practiced ease into her bag and headed for the couch in front of the empty fireplace.

Crookshanks followed her with a jerky grace. It was a bit difficult to be graceful when you had such an odd frame.

There was a loud crashing sound and everyone in the common room turned towards the poor visiting second year.

Ron had tripped over the poor boy. "RON!" Hermione bellowed , dropping her books on the sofa. He carefully de-tangled himself from the 2nd year. "It was a ACCIDENT!" he bellowed back.

The second year whimper. He turned towards the frightened and pudgy boy. "It was a accident... Oi you all right there?" he asked a bit ...gruffly. The poor child whimpered again.

Hermione was there in a flash calming down the Ravenclaw prefect who was the older sister to the whimpering little boy.

Then she nearly hauled Ron over to the sofa. ' Yes it's still hard for both of them to be graceful.' She thought to herself sourly.

Ron moved her bag and picked up Crookshanks who gave a testy growl of protest.

"Maybe it's best to stay here where you won't mangle anymore second years." She said not trying at all to hide the amusement in her voice.

Ron didn't know if he should loudly proclaim his innocence in the matter or nto test his good fortune at not being lectured. He opted for the former.

"This is a prefects dorm those twonky little gremlins shouldn't even be in here!" he said.

Hermione sent him a disbelieving look as she pulled her Ginger colored Tabby into her lap.

She started to stroke it as Ron went silent.

"Twonky?" she asked.

Crookshanks growled at being ignoed after she stopped her stroking. She shushed him and planted a brief kiss on the top of his head.

' If only I could that silencing tactic on another demanding redhead.' she thought.

"Honestly Hermione the way you fawn over that animal is disgusting sometimes." Ron said making a face as if he was trying to dislodge a hairball.

"Funny..." Hermione trailed off.

Ron raised his eyebrows.

"How's that?" he asked.

' some people say the same thing about you.'

Ron's eyes widened. "Eh?" Hermione's cheeks turned pink.

Hermione realized for one very long moment that she'd said that aloud.

"I said we'd better go meet Harry." She said briskly.

Ron jumped up. "Right, well see you there." He said heading for the portrait hole.

"Right." Hermione said pushing Crookshanks off her lap. The cat looked at her for a moment fore jumping to the floor.

' Did he just roll his eyes?' she thought as Crookshanks walked away.

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a/n: Okay I was having one of my 'obsessive clue seeking' moments when I re-read POA it was how Ron and Harry Reacted to Crookshanks and how Crookshanks and Ron have many things in common. Hair color for one. I also wanted to say there are some people who meet at a young age and love each other for the rest of their lives. Then there are people like Ron and Hermy who meet and start loving each other without knowing and when they do know, they're both not nearly mature enough for that sort of commitment. Or even mature enough to admit their feelings. I think the people like Ron and Hermy are much more interesting

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