Disclaimer alrighty. I think I've said this before… in fact, I know I've said this before. Juliette and the plot are mine. The rest is the creation of JKR's.
Unrequited Hate
Chapter Four
The next day, Ron and Pansy effectively avoided looking at each other and running into one another in the halls. Juliette and Harry both noticed, but neither said anything. At lunch Juliette ate a small portion quickly and then left for the library.
When she got there, she saw Harry sitting at a table in the back and walked over to him. Thankfully the table was partially in the shadows so there would be less chance of them being seen together. In addition, the library was mostly empty; after all, it was lunch time on a Saturday.
Juliette sat down in the chair next to Harry, and he looked up from the book he was reading. They looked at each other for a moment before he asked, "What do you think?"
"She's not gona do anything about it. Not that I expected her to, but I just wanted to make sure," she said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Same with Ron. Any ideas about what we could do about it?" he asked.
Juliette bit her lower lip, and looked out the window with a look of concentration on her face. "We could lock them in broom closet."
Harry laughed and Juliette smiled. "Hey, it would work," she said with a grin.
"They would just open it and run away and never even look at each other again," Harry told her.
Both were silent for a moment. Then Harry muttered, "I wonder if there's some way to make the door not open until they kissed or something…"
"That would be great," Juliette said with a smirk. She got up from the table and walked over to a bookshelf.
Harry looked around before getting up and following her. "What are you doing?" he whispered to her.
"Looking for something," she whispered back. Her eyes locked onto a book and she stood on her tiptoes to reach it - and failed. She looked at it for a moment more and then gave a small jump in an attempt to get the book. Her hand brushed the spine but she couldn't get it. She let out a sigh of frustration and pouted a tiny bit.
Harry chuckled and reached up and took the book she had been reaching for and pulled it off the shelf. He looked down at her as he handed it to her. Emerald eyes locked with cerulean, and neither moved for a moment. Then Juliette reluctantly said, "Thank you."
Harry grinned and said teasingly, "A Slytherin thanking a Gryffindor - alert the Daily Prophet, it's a miracle."
"Shut up," she said with a tiny smile and hit him in the stomach as she walked back to the table.
She sat down at the table and opened the book. She began reading and Harry sat down next to her, attempting to read as well, but found that her hair was in the way of him reading. He sighed and pulled to book towards him, his hand covering hers as he did so.
Juliette looked over at him. He wasn't paying attention to her, just reading the book. She rolled her eyes and continued reading.
A few minutes later Harry looked at his watch and said quietly, "Shit."
Juliette looked at him. "What?" she whispered.
"I have Quidditch practice. I'll see you later," he told her before getting up and walking out of the library. Juliette sat there for a few more minutes before getting up as well. She checked out the book (Handy Little Matchmaking Charms) and walked down to the Slytherin common room.
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The next Potions class the class took notes the entire lesson. Half an hour in, Juliette passed a tiny slip of paper to Harry, who was sitting next to her.
Look at Draco and Hermione.
Harry gave her an odd look, even though she didn't see it. But he did as she said and casually glanced over at the table where the aforementioned duo was seated. What he saw surprised him - the two were taking notes diligently, but that wasn't unusual. What was unusual was that their arms were touching as they wrote - and neither had done anything to stop the contact.
Harry went back to writing, but it wasn't his Potions notes. Instead, he was writing back to Juliette.
What the hell? They're acting almost like Ron and Pansy.
I noticed.
Great. I'm gona have to talk to her about that.
It was then that Snape dismissed the class. Juliette crumpled up the note and dropped it in her bag along with her quill.
The two parted ways, Juliette walking with Draco, Pansy and Blaise to the dungeons and Harry with Hermione and Ron to Gryffindor tower. Hermione wouldn't say anything when Harry confronted her, and Juliette had no better luck when she talked to Draco.
The day after the Potions lessons was the Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw Quidditch match. Pansy and Juliette sat in the stands with Millicent Bulstrode. Draco and Blaise were sitting with Theodore Nott, and, as always, Draco was accompanied by Crabbe and Goyle. Millicent was chattering away, but Pansy wasn't really listening. Instead, her eyes were following a certain red-headed Keeper as he played. She noticed how he was constantly shaking his head to get his hair out of his eyes.
Pansy was brought out of her reverie by a sharp poke in the ribs. She looked over at Juliette with a glare, but was greeted with a look that clearly said, 'Stop staring. Someone is going to notice.' Pansy rolled her eyes but turned and attempted to listen to Millicent's gossip - half of which Pansy knew to be complete bullshit. But then Millicent said something that most definitely got Pansy's attention.
"And supposedly Weasel is going to ask Granger out sometime soon. Oh, and that reminds me, Weaselette is apparently dating that Finnegan kid…" Millicent babbled.
"Isn't Finnegan your Potions partner?" Juliette asked.
And the two continued to talk, but once again, Pansy tuned out. She looked back up at Ron, who was flying in front of the goalposts. She had felt her heart drop at Millicent's news, but as she thought about it, the more it was painfully obvious. She wouldn't, couldn't cry. She was a fucking Slytherin. If she was going to let this get to her (which it was going to, she knew) it couldn't be now. It would have to wait. It was soon after that she heard cheers from the red and gold stands, and assumed that Gryffindor had won. She risked one more look at Ron, and saw him being hugged by Hermione. And then Ron looked over at her. The two locked eyes for a moment, then Pansy broke the gaze and walked away from the pitch with Juliette.
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Ron always felt pumped before a Quidditch match. He was excited as he took his place in front of the goalposts. Things were going well for Gryffindor and the Quaffle was at the other end of the pitch, so he glanced at the Slytherin stands. It wasn't that full, but he saw a head of curly blonde hair that he would know anywhere. He smiled to himself and looked back to the Chasers, and concentrated on the game once more.
He heard cheers and excited screams from the red and gold stands - they had won. He smiled and flew down, and was immediately bombarded with praise, and was tackled-hugged by Hermione. It was then that he looked up and locked eyes with Pansy. She held his gaze for a moment, then turned away and walked off the pitch with a girl he recognized as Harry's Potions partner, Juliette Avery. With an inaudible sigh he turned around to be congratulated by his house once more.
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a/n: now, is that better? Longer, isn't it? Hope I made you all happy… anywho. I promised it would be up by the fourteenth, and here it is around 1:30am on the thirteenth. Oketays. Yea. That's all.
Steelo - yes, there is going to be Draco Hermione in this story… but you probly figured that out lol. And as always, thank you!
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a/n2: if anyone who is reading this also has read my story Broken Inside… I made a mistake in my outline and had to change some stuff in chapter three… so before you read chapter fifteen of it, make sure to go back and reread chapter three.
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