"Seriously? Well why didn't you say so?"
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"I TRIED!" Hermione yelled, exasperated. "But you just kept going on about how stupid I thought you were, which is so completely un true, that I never had the CHANCE to try and correct you."
"Hermione?" He said softly.
"What?"
"Why are you crying?"
"I'm not crying."
Ron just looked down at her in concern, and she brought her bleeding hand up to her cheek.
"Look what you've done!" Hermione yelled at him. "I'm crying and it's all your fault."
Ron rolled his eyes. "Oh, yeah, it's all MY fault isn't it? Just because you decided to be all girly and emotional it's all MY fault!
"Yes it is! If you hadn't started this whole fight then you would not be yelling at me and I would not be crying!"
"Well it's not MY fault you called me stupid!"
"I DIDN'T!"
"Stop changing the bloody subject!"
And then Hermione started to laugh. "You're impossible, you know that right?"
Ron raised his eyebrows. "Haven't we been here before?"
Hermione shook her head at him and wiped the tears away, leaving a mud streak across her cheek.
"You want to go for a walk?"
Ron shrugged. "Sure, whatever."
"You're not mad at me are you?" Hermione asked in concern.
"You? Never. Well, not at the moment anyway," and he smiled down at her, and Hermione was sure her heart skipped a beat.
"Well good. Because we need a new plan to get Harry out of Privet Drive, the Dursley's said they wanted him in all summer. He recons they are punishing him for when Dumbledore came to visit them last year. And that time when your dad blew up their living room."
Ron grinned. "I'll never forget the look on Harry's face when his cousin's tong swelled up thanks to those tong tong toffees. Pure delight."
"That's mean! That's poor boy!"
"Hermione, he isn't poor he's a horrible pig," Ron said rolling his eyes.
"Humans have feelings you know! Even the most horrible ones!"
Ron turned to face her. "This doesn't have anything to do with spew does it?"
"IT'S S.P.E.W!" Hermione yelled at him.
"STOP CHANGING THE BLOODY SUBJECT!"
And this time they both laughed, and walked off into the forest hand in hand, discussing possible escape plans.
