Hey y'all! I am so sorry how long this took, I got writers block againbut I finally sat in front of my computer longenough that it went away! cheersAnywho ) on with the story!
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"Ron, do you think that Hermione's been acting kind of strange lately?" Harry asked one day on their way down to the Quidditch field, holding on to their brooms. A week had passed since Hermione had seen her reflection leave her in the mirror and the two of her friends were wondering what was up.
"Yeah, it's weird." Ron said looking confused. "She hasn't been acting like herself lately at all. You know yesterday she asked me for my homework." Harry stopped abruptly and turned toward Ron with a puzzled expression on his face.
"She did what?" He said very loud and surprised.
"Yeah, I know!" Ron threw his arms up into air. "Since when does she not do her homework?"
When Harry and Ron were flying around the Quidditch Pitch throwing a quaffle back and forth to each other. The whole time Ron was thinking about Hermione and how she's changed over the past week. He didn't know what everyone else thought, but Hermione seemed to be changing into Ron. She liked Quidditch, she hasn't been doing her homework, which is something anyone would have ever expected to see, and she was sleeping during History of Magic. He really wanted to know what was happening to his Hermione. But even though she was different lately, he had to admit it was nice not to be arguing about things all the time.
A few minutes passed and Ron couldn't stop thinking about her. He was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't see Harry pass the quaffle back to him. "Ron, look out!" he heard Harry call and he snapped back to reality, but before he could have time to act, it hit him quite hard in the stomach and nearly knocked him off his broom.
"Oooh" Harry said as he flew over to see is he was okay. "Are you alright?" Ron nodded, coughing and grabbing his stomach, desperately trying to hold on to his broom.
Harry was patting Ron on the back when he saw a glint of shiny red hair in the corner of his eye.
"Hey guys!" Ginny said coming to a halt in front of them and then noticing Ron said sounding worried, "What happened?"
"Ron didn't see the quaffle when I threw it to him." Harry said when Ron still couldn't seem to talk from gasping for air. "And well …" He looked over at him.
"Oh." Ginny said in response and then added. "I bet he was thinking of Hermione again." A smile rose onto both her and Harry's face and they both began to laugh when Ron looked up. His cheeks were either red for lack of oxygen or he was severely blushing. They could both tell that he liked her; in fact the only person who couldn't tell was Hermione.
"You know last time--" Ginny continued slightly chuckling. "Last time he totally spaced out like that he walked all the way outside and fell into the lake!" By now they were both full out laughing when Ron regained his composure.
"I wasn't thinking about Hermione!" He burst out, the tips of his ears turning a dark crimson.
"Sure you weren't Ron." Ginny said, her face pink from laughing. "What were you thinking of then?"
Ron just sat there for a moment speechless. "W-well, you know." He threw his right hand up in the air. "Just stuff." Harry and Ginny once again began to laugh and Ron just flew down and walked off the field, until he could no longer hear their laughs in the distance. 'Is it really that obvious?' He thought to himself making his way up to the common room to see something he really didn't want to see.
Ron walked into the room and dropped his broom, his mouth hanging open. There she was, Hermione, his best friend, the one girl he's loved for as long as he could remember, kissing Seamus on the couch in front of the fireplace. He felt his face go white when she looked up to see where the noise came from, and then he was filled with many emotions. He felt like his heart had been ripped out and being stepped on, but at the same time had a desire to smash in Seamus's face. Apparently he got the feeling that Ron was going to kill him and ran for his life up to their dormitory to put a shield charm around his bed, afraid of being hexed into last week while he was sleeping.
"Oh, hi Ron." Hermione said dryly and got up to go to bed, but before she reached the staircase turned around and looked at him. "Oh yeah, when you finish your Transfiguration essay can you tell me?" And before he could say a thing she said, "Thanks so much, Ron! See ya." Hermione turned around and lightly ran up the stone steps, her shoes clopping on their cold stone surface.
Ron was frozen in his place. He couldn't believe what had just happened. This definitely wasn't his day. First he gets hit with a quaffle, then gets made fun of, and to top it off, his felt like he was just torn into pieces. He drudged over to his favorite armchair by the fire and buried his head into his hands, the horrible event he just witnessed replaying in his head. The only words he managed to get out were, "This can't be happening."
In the Mirror
Hermione looked up. "No, no, no! This can't be happening!" She pounded on the glass, with some hope that it would give and she could get through, but it was no use. The portal was sealed and Hermione had no idea how to re-open it.
A week came and went very slowly for Hermione. For days she had put up with Harry and she really didn't care if her reflection liked him, she was ending it as soon as she could, just so she could get away from him.
"Hey Hermione!" A voice called from behind her. "Aren't you coming?" It was Lavender.
"What? Going where?"
"You know we have practice today! Come on and get ready, or you'll be late!" Lavender said holding her broom and walked out of the portrait hole, on her way to the Quidditch Pitch for practice.
"Oh my gosh. No, not Quidditch! I couldn't fly if my life depended on it!" Hermione grew very worried and felt like she was having a panic attack. When she started to hyperventilate, she put her head between her legs and took a deep breath, just when Ron came down the stairs from his dorm.
"Hermione, Are you okay?" He said sounding worried rushing over to her and taking a seat beside her.
"No- not good." Ron stood up and pulled Hermione with him.
"Your going to the hospital wing." They both walked toward the portrait and ran into Harry.
"Hey, Harry, I'm taking Hermione down to the hospital wing, she doesn't feel well, since your going down to the pitch, tell them she won't be there." Harry nodded and walked down the corridor. Ron tightened his grip around Hermione's shoulder and they continued walking.
"Smart thing you did taking her down here, Mr. Weasley. She doesn't look good at all." She walked to a cupboard and took out a small light green bottle of potion. "Take this and rest here, for at least 20 minutes, and you'll be fine." And walked away but then turned around, "Oh and Mr. Weasley." He looked up at her. "Do make sure she doesn't get extremely upset or stressed out."
It was quiet for a while, until Ron spoke up. "You know it's like you're a totally different person lately." He said smiling at her, with the same smile she fell in love with. "Usually your never upset or worried about anything."
"Well, I haven't been feeling like myself lately." She sighed and looked down at her hands. Even though this Ron is completely opposite of the Ron she knew, she still couldn't help at being shy around him.
As they were walking up the common room they saw holding something in his hand and whispering quietly in a nearby corner.
"What's Harry doing?" Hermione asked Ron pointing over by the corner. Ron looked up.
"Oh, probably just talking to Sirius." Hermione's heart skipped a beat. Sirius is alive? She thought to herself astounded. Then it came to her, she didn't realize how she didn't think of it before. Harry always carried his two-way mirror around with him, she always figured that maybe Harry thought Sirius would miraculously show up and connect him. If I could only get that mirror, then I could contact Harry and find a way to get out of here.
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