"It's been 5 days Ron, five days! If he doesn't wake up soon his heart will shut down"
"Giving up on him already Hermione?"
"No.. you just have to think this through we've tried everything. Either he'll wake up, or he won't. Either way we really need your help Ron, stop mooning around and do something!"
"That's easy enough for you to say!"
"No, it's not Ron... he's my friend too and I'll miss him just as much as you will if he doesn't get better. But I have enough sense to be out actualy doing something, Harry wouldn't want you wasting time over him just waiting for him to, to.."
"Look Hermione, while you're waiting for Harry to kick the bucket why don't you just go away? You have a passion for being useful and lecturing people, how about you go put yourself to use and lecture some one else?"
Harry heard clomping footsteps as some one left and stuggled to open his eye lids, finaly he did and tried to sit up blinking and looking around.
"Harry!"
He turned and looked into Hermione's tear stained face.
"Oh Harry, you're allright! We were so woried about you!"
Ron ran back into the room "Harry!" He blinked as if to make sure what he was seeing was real.
"Blimey Harry, you sure had us worried" He said with a grin clapping Harry on the back.
Harry winced, normaly he wouldn't have noticed but today that hurt! "Ron, be careful!" Hermione cautioned "He's got to get well and smacking him isn't going to help"
Ron glared at her and opened his mouth to retort, not wanting to get caught in one of their quarrels Harry cut in.
"What happened?" He asked quickly "How did I get here? And were is Mr. Weasly?"
Ron and Hermione looked at each other for a moment as if deciding how to respond.
"Harry... exactly what did you see before you passed out?" Hermione asked twisting her hair around her finger as she always did when nervous.
Harry thought about it for a minute... "Last thing I remember is two of them pulling out wands, one of them yelling for me to go and the other for me to stay"
Hermione let out a sigh of relief. "Well, then why don't you take a nap and get feeling a little better and we can discuss it when you're awake again?" She said brightly
"Yeah, uh.. that sounds good to me too" Ron said turning to leave with her.
Harry glared at them "That is just plain stupid!" he snapped "I've been sleeping for FIVE DAYS! I'm not going back to sleep until you tell me what happened!"
They exchanged another one of their worried looks. "Well I supose we should tell him, he does deserve to know." She said slowly
"Yeah, but does he need to know now? Mum clearly said we were not to say a word until he was fully recovered..." Ron said trailing off
"Know what?" Harry demanded
"Well Harry... after you pased out, well um Mr. Weasely.. he well.. he um" Hermione began
"Dad.. is.. um" Ron began again
"Is WHAT?" Harry asked impatiently
"He's" They both began, then stopped waiting for the other to continue.
"He uh... he's um, he's um.." Ron tried again
"He's dead" said another voice flatly from the door.
Both Hermione and Ron spun to face the door wands out...