The Map Never Lies
by Kokiri Hidorina
To my reviewers:
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Authors Notes: Hello and welcome to the tenth chapter. Finally. I don't know how many chapters this will have but hopefully not too many over twenty. Well, Happy Easter! I don't own Harry Potter!
NOTE: Oh and a teeny little note, Harry is out of the Hospital Wing and back on his feet!
The Map Never Lies
Chapter 10: Getting In And Out Of Trouble
The next day, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were heading off to the Great Hall. Harry and Ginny were hand in hand, while Ron and Hermione walked beside each other silently, avoiding the eyes of Harry and Ginny, who were eyeing them curiously, wondering what was going on and wondering why they weren't fighting every time they looked at each other.
When the four of them entered the Great Hall, all became silent. The four of them rolled their eyes. They were used to this treatment. It had been in the Daily Prophet for months that Ginny and Harry were officially together, and people had been talking about it for weeks.
They sat down at their respective seats in the Great Hall at the Gryffindor table, and waited patiently for the noise to return. After what seemed for ten long minutes it did. Why did people have to look at them like that? The only reason they were famous anyway was because they were friends with Harry. They didn't want the fame anyway, and neither did Harry. The public did it to annoy them, probably.
Harry and Ginny were still hand in hand, and they looked at the staff table. Half of the table seemed to be staring right at them, which made them feel uncomfortable... and when they looked at Lily and James, James was smirking and Lily was shaking her head and sighing, making both teens grin wildly.
"So Harry, what do you have first class?"Ginny asked after a quick kiss, making most Gryffindor boys grin like mad, making Harry and Ginny roll their eyes.
"Herbology. You?"
"History of Magic."
"I envy you."
"Why?"
"Because I can fall asleep in History Of Magic, I can't in Herbology."
Ginny laughed. "I find it interesting."
Ron's eyes widened. "NO! I don't want another Hermione as a sister!"
Harry and Ginny burst out laughing, and Hermione blushed and hit Ron in the head, causing them to laugh harder. Nothing could possibly ruin this day, not even the Dursleys, who didn't seem to be in their seats yet. Well, Petunia and Dudley were, the oaf was probably still locked in the room.
After the feast, Harry and Ginny walked out of the Hall with Hermione and Ron, when they heard yelling. They looked to where they heard it coming from, and saw Vernon!
"How did he get out of that room?"Harry whispered. "I thought Mum and Dad locked it."
"Maybe he got help,"Hermione said.
Nobody was around them, and before Ginny could shield Harry, Vernon grabbed him by the neck and pulled him up. Hermione, Ron and Ginny watched, horrorstruck, wondering what he was going to do.
"You…little…freak!"Vernon exclaimed, clenching his hand tightly around Harry's throat, making him cough and struggle for air.
Just as Ron was about to pull his wand out on Vernon, Harry let out a scream and that alerted some of the people in the Great Hall. James, Remus and Sirius came out at the speed of light, and what they saw, made their blood boil. Sirius got his wand out and yelled "Expelliarmus!", causing Vernon to fall to the floor and release his grip on Harry, who was panting hard and was just about to fall, if James hadn't caught him first.
"Are you all right?"James asked, worried.
"I-I think…so,"Harry whispered, coughing, rubbing his throat where bruises were forming.
"Come on, I'll take you to the Hospital Wing,"James said, picking him up gently and carrying him to the Infirmary, Sirius and Remus behind him.
After they left, Ron rested a hand on Ginny's shoulder. "Are you all right?"
"I…I couldn't save him,"she cried. Ron hugged her and she cried in his chest. Hermione watched closely.
"I hope Harry's all right,"Hermione whispered.
Ron nodded. "Me too,"when he looked at Ginny, she was asleep. He picked her up and walked towards the Gryffindor Common Room. "I'll ask Dumbledore if she can skip classes today. She's been pretty stressed."
Hermione nodded. "What ever happened to…mmhp!"
"Mione?"when he turned around, he saw Vernon holding Hermione in his grasp, who was squirming and trying to breathe. "HERMIONE!"
"If you don't tell me where Potter is, the girl dies,"Vernon growled.
Suddenly, Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore came out of the Great Hall, and Ron couldn't have been more grateful.
McGonagall looked at Vernon, apalled and shocked. "What are you doing to my students? Expelliarmus!"
Vernon fell to the floor and Hermione ran over to Ron, crying.
"Ron…"
"Shh…"
"Mr Weasley, Miss Granger, are you two all right?"McGonagall asked, walking over to them, concerned.
"Fine, Professor,"Ron replied. "Just a little…shaken."
Professor McGonagall nodded. "You two don't have to attend classes if you do not wish, but you will have to get caught up tomorrow. Young Miss Weasley does not have to attend classes if she wishes as well. You have been under alot of stress, and I'll give you some time to recover."
"Thank you, Professor."
McGonagall and Dumbledore nodded and walked off, but not without McGonagall throwing a concerned look in their direction.
"What did we do with Ginny?"Hermione asked.
"I laid her on the floor…here I'll get her, you can walk, right, Mione?"Ron whispered.
"Yeah, you can get her, Ron, I'll be fine."
"Okay."
With that, they headed up to the common room. Once inside, they had layed Ginny in Ron's bed because boys were not allowed in girls dormitories and they wanted to keep a close eye on her. Hermione broke the silence.
"What about Harry? I think his throat was severely damaged…what if something happened to his voice or something?"she asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, Mione,"Ron whispered. "You are stressing yourself too much."
Hermione sighed. "Why are you whispering, Ron?"
"I don't know."
"Oh…okay…"
"McGonagall was rather…out of character today, wasn't she?"Hermione asked.
Ron laughed. "Not too much, especially when she saw Vernon. But I think that was because we are her students."
Hermione nodded. "She looked ready to hit us if we got into more trouble."
"Oh so now you make the jokes,"Ron said, making Hermione laugh.
"Do you have any idea what we could do?"
"Maybe stay here until Ginny wakes up, and then if she wants we can go and visit Harry,"Ron suggested.
"Good idea, Ron."
"…"
Hermione pulled out a calender. "September 21, 1996…Ron has an idea for once."
"HEY!"Ron exclaimed, making her giggle.
"Well you know, it is something to write about, I mean come on, since when have you had a great idea?"Hermione asked.
"Always."
"Name one."
"…Well…I can't really think of one just like that, Hermione!"Ron exclaimed, making Hermione giggle.
"So you never had a good idea?"
"Not really, no."
Hermione giggled more.
"What'll we do now?"she asked.
"Well, I guess we'll just wait for Ginny to wake up, I really don't want to leave her alone with Vernon on the loose…and since Dudley is in Gryffindor he probably knows the password to our dormitory,"Ron explained.
Hermione took out her journal again. "September 21, 1996, Ron starts to think…"she was about to finish when Ron started trying to get the journal away from her. She began giggling again. "RON! Give it back!"
"No, you keep insulting me in it, so I won't have it!"
After a while with Hermione struggling to retrieve her stolen journal, they had fallen off the bed they were on and onto the floor. Hermione had fallen after Ron so he had caught her before she hit the ground. You can only imagine what position they were in now.
"Ron…"
They shared a kiss.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!"
TBC…
Authors Notes: I know, I'm mean to you all! laughs I left you at a cliffhanger. Guess who was saying that at the end of the chapter? If you guess right, the next chapter will be dedicated to you, and I will say so on the next chapter, whenever I decide to write it. REVIEW PLEASE!
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Sometime through the week or Friday April 8th
Later days!