A couple days had passed since Ron had run away from the breakfast table. Today was the day that Ron had decided he would talk to Hermione. He found her sitting in the library after the last class of the day.

"Hey Hermione," Ron greeted. He sat down next to her.

"Hi Ron!" Hermione said, happy to see him.

"Look, can we go somewhere else? I need to talk to you," Ron whispered.

"Sure, where did you have in mind?" she asked.

"I was hoping we could go for a walk on the grounds," Ron said.

"Yeah, sure," Hermione replied. She got up from her seat and checked out a couple books from Madam Pince. Hermione caught up to Ron who was waiting for her by the entrance. She grabbed his hand and made her way with Ron to the grounds in silence.

They were silent for a while until they got to the path around the lake. Ron had been thinking of how he wanted to say what he wanted to say and make it nice too. He didn't want Hermione getting upset; he just wanted her to understand what he was going through. And Hermione squeezing his hand every once in a while wasn't helping him concentrate.

"Hermione," Ron started.

"Yea?" she asked.

Ron paused. "I think we need to break up."

Hermione stopped dead in her tracks. She wasn't expecting this. Her mouth became dry and she didn't know what to say. "Oh?" she managed to say.

Ron stopped as well and turned around to face her. He hoped this wouldn't happen. "Yeah. I think it would be best," he replied.

"And why would you think that?" Hermione said defensively.

"Well, I…" Ron started, but he didn't know how to continue without hurting her feelings. "It's just, I think I have feelings for someone else. I guess I just don't feel the same way about you as I did before. I still want to be friends of course, I could never lose you Hermione, but I just don't think we were meant to be together."

Hermione sniffled and then asked, "So who's the new girl you like?" She was hoping it wasn't anyone she had to deal with like Luna.

"That's the other thing I needed to talk to you about. Can we go somewhere more private?" Ron asked.

"More private Ron? No one's going to be listening to our conversation unless they are 10 feet or less away!" Hermione replied. To this, Ron looked around and realized no one was around and that it was probably about dinnertime.

"Alright, fine," Ron said, "But you have to promise me you wont tell them or anyone! And you have to understand that I am having a lot of trouble with it."

"Oh come on Ron!" Hermione yelled. "How can something like this be hard? You either like someone or you don't and they either like you back or they don't! And they'll most likely find out in time, Ron."

She was right, but he would never admit it. "Its hard alright?" he sighed, "Are you promising me these things or not?"

Hermione, annoyed that Ron was making such a big deal out of this, promised that she wouldn't tell a soul who it was.

Ron looked around once more and replied with, "First of all Hermione, if only it were some bird." Ron ignored her gasp, trying to get it out as fast as possible, "I fancy Harry alright?" he said.

"Stop joking with me," was all Hermione could think to say.

"I'm not joking Hermione, this is embarrassing enough as it is!" Ron yelled.

Hermione's jaw dropped but she quickly pulled it back up. "Ron," she said.

"What?" Ron asked miserably.

Hermione clapped her hands together and said, "This is wonderful!"

"This is, what? Wonderful? What do you mean?" Ron asked. He wasn't expecting this.

"Oh, er, nothing. Just ignore me. Look, Ron, just tell Harry how you feel. Its better to just get it out and not keep it bottled up inside." She replied.

Hermione never knew that Ron liked Harry. But she found it a nice surprise considering that Ron had just dumped her. Hermione had known since fifth year that Harry liked Ron. Harry had told her in private one day when Ron was busy with a detention given by Filch for squeaking shoes. She had always hoped that Harry would tell Ron, but knowing Harry, it just wasn't the kind of thing he could do. Ron, who was oblivious to the fact that Harry liked him, still had a little bit of the guts to let Harry know how he felt.

"I'll keep that in mind," Ron sighed.

"Really Ron," Hermione said, "It's important."

"Alright! Alright. I'll do it, just give me some time. Trust me, you'll know once I've done it when you hear Harry screaming bloody murder."

Ron walked off towards the castle for dinner while a broadly grinning Hermione stood behind him, excited for what might happen next.