Harry had come back that night to find Ron asleep on what appeared to be his divination homework. He grabbed the homework from under him and put it on his bedside table. That's when he spotted what was written on it.
One of Ron's predictions had been Harry and Malfoy will stay with each other and I will live a miserable life.
Harry realized that he had probably been spending all his time with Draco recently and no time with Ron or Hermione. He thought this was probably what was upsetting Ron.
Draco obviously hadn't shown up by the Room of Requirement that night. Harry gave up after an hour and had headed down to the Great Hall to eat where he found Draco sitting at the Slytherin table. Draco had spotted him and waved over at him. Harry had walked over and kissed him on the cheek. That was his way to say he forgave him for not showing up - even though Draco knew nothing about the note.
Hermione, who had been watching them from behind, made a noise of disgust and walked out of the Great Hall and onto the grounds.
But that was a week ago. Now it was a Hogsmeade weekend and Harry and Ron had only seen each other during classes. Otherwise, Harry was with Draco and Ron was moping around the castle.
Hermione did everything she could to bring his spirits up but nothing worked.
Harry had a date with Draco in Hogsmeade so Ron was going alone with Hermione.
"I still haven't come up with another idea," Ron said as they walked down the path towards Hogsmeade.
"Well maybe I can help out," Hermione replied.
"I need something creative. Something that will really show him how I feel," Ron said.
Hermione walked in silence for a while, thinking. "Well Valentine's day is coming up next week. You could do something for him then," she suggested.
"Hermione! You're brilliant!" Ron exclaimed. He grabbed her hand and led her towards Honeydukes.
He let go of Hermione and walked over to the boxes of chocolates. Hermione slowly followed behind him. "Which one do you think you should get?" she asked him.
"Whichever one I can afford," he replied. Luckily, he had been saving up his money recently so he could at least afford something nice, even if it wouldn't be something as nice as Draco would get Harry.
Ron scanned the shelves. He didn't want the ones with the love potion in them. If he wanted Harry to love him, he at least wanted it to be true. He didn't want the ones that turned your mouth different colors or the ones with nasty fillings. So he settled for a medium sized heart shaped box of a variety of chocolates. They were said on the label to be from the second best chocolate factory in the world. 'What's the first?' Ron asked himself.
He shrugged and grabbed a box off the shelf and walked over to the counter. "That'll be eleven sickles and six knuts," the lady at the counter said.
Ron, without any hesitation, pulled the money out of his pocket and handed it over. "Is this for a nice little witch?" the lady asked.
"Yea, sure," Ron replied rather quickly.
For no extra charge, the lady put a red bow around the box and said, "You're going to make someone very happy this Valentine's day."
"Er, thanks," Ron replied and made his way out of the store with Hermione.