The Island Chapter Seven: Chess

You know I actually have a piece of paper by the computer so I can keep Ron and Harry's scores? OK, interesting author trivia aside, just a quickie, so please R&R.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Is that clear? JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books. Not me.


Hermione was pondering over her chart. Harry had six. Ron had none. What did that show?

"Harry's for me," she whispered, "So far, anyway."

She stuffed it in her pocket and joined Harry and Ron. They were playing chess

"Harry, what's that?" she asked, pointing at a small piece that looked like a pawn with red hair.

"That's a Rawn," Harry explained.

"Oh. OK. Yeah."

"At the moment, Ron's beating me," Harry sighed, "As usual. Have you ever beaten him, Hermione?"

"No. Never."

"Neither have I. Let's team up."

So they did.

Tick tock tick tock tick tock...

"YES!" Harry yelled, leaping into the air, "We won!"

"Whoooooooooo!" Hermione jumped up with him, dancing about like a dancing Hermione. She quickly scribbled a mark under Harry's name.

"What's that?" Harry asked.

"Oh, just a - score chart. Two thousand and sixteen to Ron, one to us." Hermione hid the chart quickly, terrified Harry had seen what it was really keeping score of.

"Wow! Cool, I hope we get some more soon then!"

"Wait a moment!" Ron began suspiciously, eyeing Hermione's pocket.

"What?" Hermione froze in midair. Ron knew. He'd seen. Or guessed. But it didn't matter. He knew. It was ruined.

"I've beaten you two thousand and seventeen times!"

"Oh, I'm sorry Ron! Of course you have," Hermione pretended to add another win.

"That's better," Ron smiled.

Hermione fell to the ground and bit her lip. That had been close. They could never discover what she was up to or it would be ruined...

Or would it? At this rate, she didn't think she'd need the whole week at all. By the end of tomorrow, she should be able to come to a conclusion. Well, she'd better be able to. She couldn't stand keeping it a secret any more...


AN: More veeeerrrrry soon because now I know where this is going! Only a few more chapters, maybe three or four. See you soon1