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Chapter Eight

"Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid!" Hermione was saying as I walked into our dormitory.

"You know, I wouldn't have done his homework either." I said reassuringly.

She looked up at me. "That's not why I'm upset."

"I didn't think so. From what I hear you guys are constantly fighting."

"Yes, we are."

"Why? You do know that he's not gonna ever like you if you always disagree with him."

"I know that. It's just sometimes he says the most stupid things. Sometimes it makes him look really cute, but sometimes, like him getting mad at me for not doing his homework it just makes me mad. I guess I overreacted. I should just stay calm and leave the room when he does that."

"Yeah, you should." She glared at me. "What? You said it, I was just agreeing with you. Anyway I don't think you'll believe me, but…. I think Ron likes you."

"We've already been through this. He doesn't." she said dully.

"Listen," I gave her my theory

She thought about it for a minute, then said "No. It's not possible."

"It's not probable. I got that from Pirates of the Caribbean. Have you ever seen that movie? Do you even know what a movie is? Well it's this really cool muggle thing and you can see stuff that's happening but the people can be like back in time, or a long, long way away and it's really cool! But anyway, Pirates of the Caribbean, it's really good. You're probably wondering how I know what a movie is, huh. Well one of my friends is a muggle and he told me about them and took me to see one and…. This isn't the right time to tell you about movies is it?"

"No, it's not."

"Okay Hermione, here's the scoop, I'm like really, really sick of talking about this. You know what I think, so I'll just let you decide what you want to do."

Hermione gave me a pleading look, then gave up.

A week or something had passed since Hermione and I had had our last talk. Hermione seemed perfectly happy and normal, as if nothing was wrong. I was dying to ask her what she was going to do about Ron, so one day…. I did.

"Hermione?"

"Yes?"

"Umm, I hate to bring this up when you're in a good mood, but…." I lowered my voice. "What are you going to do about Ron?"

She smiled. "Nothing." I spilled my milk jug all over the table and looked at her in disgust. She just let out a short laugh.

"But, but, but You can't…. not do anything!"

"Can't I? You told me to decide what I wanted to do myself, and so I did."

"Yeah, but I was sure you would tell him!" I was shocked.

"Well people are wrong sometimes." She replied calmly.

I sighed. "Hemione, don't…."

She interrupted. "No Skylar, you don't. I'm not going to tell him so get over it." There was a silence. Then Hermione said, "We better get to class or we'll be late."

"Fine. Let's go." As I stood up I trod on my robes and fell over. I tried to stop myself from hitting the ground by grabbing onto Harry's robes, who grabbed onto Ron's robes, who grabbed onto Hermione's robes, who grabbed Parvati's robes, who grabbed Lavender's robes, who grabbed Seamus's robes, who grabbed onto Dean's robes, who grabbed onto Neville's robes, who tried to grab onto Katie Bell's robes who jumped out of the way squealing loudly, and all nine of us went tumbling painfully to the ground. Many of us groaned. Parvati Patil squealed, "My hair!"

"Oops!" I moaned. "Sorry everyone!"

It was time for charms again. Harry Ron and Hermione were all sitting together and talking away as usual. But then something happened that was not expected.

"Hermione Granger please come to Professor Dumbledore's office right away." Professor McGonagall's voice rang throughout the halls, and classrooms. Her voice sounded odd, almost sad even. I got a very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. Everybody stopped talking and looked at Hermione. I heard Ron say, "Whoa, Hermione, what did you do to get sent to Dumbledore's office?" He was grinning at her.

"I-I don't know." She stuttered. Harry was looking at her with an expression that was a cross between puzzlement and amusement

"I was only sent to Dumledore's office because I was in trouble once, and that was when people thought I was trying to kill all the muggle-borns." He said. Hermione gulped and stood up, gathered her things and left the room.