NOTE: Hi, are you guys still hanging. . I hope so because answers are going to be revealed. In this chapter, watch carefully as a talk from secrets changes quickly I'm really sooooo sorry for not updating; I had a very busy schedule because of school

Chapter 8: Secrets Uncovered

Hermione gasped as the red book quickly disappeared from her hands. She wiped around and came face to face with Lavender Brown.

"Hermione, if you don't stop reading and turn off the light, you will have to sleep outside," she said irritated while holding Lily's journal in her hands with completely no interest in it.

Hermione gave a relieved sigh. "Ok I'll stop now, just give me back the book. I'm sorry if the light disturbed you."

"You should know by now that I can't sleep with a light on," she said handing back the journal.

(Ha-ha…I fooled you there, didn't I? Who did you think it was?).

"Well, goodnight then."

"Goodnight, Hermione. Don't get any ideas about reading."

Hermione just sighed and rest her head on her pillow. That was too close. If she didn't want anyone knowing about the diary, then she should keep take extra precautions. She stuffed the book under her pillow and closed her eyes. "No one will have their hands on that diary apart from me, for a while." What she didn't know was how wrong she was.

The next day in the common room, Hermione found Ron waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs that led to the girl's dormitory. He wore an exasperated expression on his face.

"Harry left without us," he said with an annoyed tone.

"Let's just give him some space, Ron," Hermione replied rummaging through her bag. "Darn, I forgot my ink bottle upstairs. Wait here, Ron, I'll get it." Hermione hastily drop her bag on a couch and ran upstairs. When she came back, she grabbed it and motioned Ron to follow her. As she carefully put her new ink bottle in her bag, Hermione didn't realize that Ron was not following her signals.

"Hermione," Ron called slowly.

"What?" Hermione turned. What she saw made her eyes bulge the size of plates.

In Ron's hand was an old, red book with faint letters on the cover. As quick as lightning, Hermione grabbed Lily Evan's diary from her best friend's hands. It must have fallen out of her bag when she dropped it hastily onto the couch.

"Don't touch this!" Hermione said tensely. "It's m-my diary." Hermione gulped, then went on, "Did you see the name o-on the f-first page?" Hermione was dreading the answer even if she knew that Ron knew it was a rhetorical question.

Ron grabbed the book back and opened it to the first page. He pointed to the name at the corner.

"Diary yes, yours no. Lily Evans? Where did you find this? When did you find this?"

Hermione bit her lip nervously. What was she going to do? How could she be so careless? What if Ron tells Harry? So many questions shot up into Hermione's head that she couldn't answer Ron's simple questions.

"I, erm, I-I well, found i-it, er, you know, w-well-" Hermione stuttered. Since when did Hermione Granger cannot find an answer to questions, especially Ron Weasley's questions? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

"Does Harry know about this?" Ron demanded, searching Hermione's face for an answer.

Hermione gave a loud sigh and pulled Ron down to the couch. She sat down next to him taking a deep breath.

"Is this what you had been reading for the past month? The one you wouldn't let us see?" Ron asked.

Hermione just nodded.

"'Mione, Harry has to find out about this. This is his mum's diary. It's the only memory he has of his parents."

Hermione interrupted him, "Yes, I know. He needs it right now especially after what happened to Sirius." Hermione looked at Ron in the eye.

"You don't know what that diary contains, Ron," she continued. "It contains things about Harry's parents that he might not know about. These things might not be the kind of thoughts he had about how his parents got along. If he knows about it during the state he is in now, who knows what he will do."

"What do you mean, 'Things about Harry's parents he might not know about'? Were they in league with you-know-who or something?"

Hermione rolled her eyes and gave Ron one of her famous looks.

"Of course they are not in league with You-know-who. Were you listening to what I just said? I said how his parents got along. If you want to know what I mean, read the book."

"Nah-ah, I'm not reading someone else's diary, Hermione, even if that someone is dead."

Hermione blushed at this statement. She had been reading the diary for about a month. She had felt guilty at first, but as she continued on, the heavy feeling started to decrease more and more.

"So you are saying that you don't want to show this to Harry?" Ron asked after Hermione's prolonged silence.

"I want to, but not now. When the time is right I will show him what this book contains," Hermione replied.

"It's all up to you, Hermione," Ron agreed unexpectedly.

Usually, Ron was the one who continued and fire up the argument, yet now he was actually agreeing with Hermione. It seemed that he was agreeing to what she was saying without actually seeing proof. Who would have thought Ron Weasley was being mature? Or was he just worried about his best friend and trusting the right thing to do to Hermione? Either wayto Hermione Granger, they both seemed applicable.

"I have no idea what that book contains, and I might not want to know, so whatever you decide, just do it," Ron said.

That explains it.

"We won't show it to him yet," Hermione said, "but someday we will, I promise you."

Ron stood up and shouldered his bag. "I don't know what to do, Hermione. All I know is that I want my old best friend back, even without that book. So are we going to breakfast?"

Hermione sighed. Was she making the right choice about this diary? Will this help Harry or will it make matters worse? Hermione stood up, too.

"There's no time for breakfast," Hermione said, purposely getting the diary out of the conversation. "Let's get straight to class before McGonagall transform us both into newts…or if we want to pass the NEWTS."

From the corner of his eye, Hermione saw Ron rolled his eye and muttered, "Some things never change,"

NOTE: No diary for now, but wait for the second part of "Secrets Uncovered" chapter. Pls. review!