Confusion and Hate

By SuperGirl

A/N: Thanks for the reviews I know this isn't as crazy as Harry as a Panty theft another story of mine, this is more of a mushy thing ;) HUGS SG- I'm trying to do my best here with my schedule I know how it is when you want to find out what happens next any ideas shout it out in the reviews- HUGS

It had been one of those days for Ronald. He was always jealous of Harry Potter this was a final straw for the red-headed wonder. He sat in the back seat of Harry's aunts old BMW waiting for the Great Harry Potter to come with Hermione from the library to be the hero of the day, it wasn't him to go get her, but Harry. He was beginning to despise this Potter as well, she was too much like Harry. She was the famous Witch Hunter always in the Daily Prophet , they made her out to be like bat-man in away the vengeance of the night.

He had a frown on his face and hated these cars, he hates this place with muggles and hated the fact this witch preferred to live as one then to be a wizard. What was wrong with being a wizard anyways? He hated everything at that moment and wanted to take it out of something, he had so much anger built up he was going to snap. Unfortunately for Ron he had chosen Juliette Potter to take it out, his lesson to be learned was not pretty to say the least.

He hated being here especially with what he knew would happen now with Harry Potter, of course the Hero gets the girl. And Ron with no one to be his, it wasn't fair he was the sidekick left with the left-overs. It's how happily ever after ends, but not for Ronald. Time and time again his so-called friend was always ahead of him and he was more of a wizard then Harry, so he thought. "Stop kicking my seat!" yelled an angry woman in the front seat. Ronald glared at her. "What is your deal?" she spat at him turning in her seat to the back. He didn't answer just looked at her and snorted.

"Fine be an ingrate." She said lowering her eyes. Ronald snorted at her. "Your both freaks." He muttered softly. Juliette looked at Ronald as if she could kill him with her eyes. "What was that… I am not in the mood!" Ronald turned his head to the window. "So Weasley is mad at Harold huh? And you think you can call me names?" she figured this would be a way to see how short his fuse was and put him in his place something probably never done. He turned slowly at her and grumbled something unclear to understand back at her. "What was that?" she repeated.

"You Potters are all freaks!" he yelled sitting up. "THAT IS WHAT I BLOODY SAID! Look at you, some kind of great Witch hunter, you're a freak with one blue eye and one brown eye how messed up are your genetics! Your chose to live with Muggles how pathetic are you! You live all alone at your age with your precious DOG! You have no one and you can't blame anyone either. You're a horrible Aunt as well, you only thought of your self and now you have some kind of change of heart, come out from no where and help Harry. And look at Harry he is so perfect isn't he? Well he is NOT!" he yelled.

The next thing surprised Ronald and any pedestrian walking by the car or person looking at the car for that matter. She turned in the seat and reached back and pulled Ron forward by his shirt collar. "Do no dare talk about my family that way! I will and can hurt you just because you're their friend doesn't mean I am yours. You do not know what I have been through in my life. You have never had to kill people you grew up with. It is not easy being a Potter when you are hunted down for game to be killed because of your name. I rather live in a world where I am not a side show for being one of the last Potters who lived. I do not need the attention, I didn't need it either being a Witch Hunter either! All I want is Harold to be just Harold, not someone in the spotlight, he deserves to have a normal life. None of us Potters ever chose this life! We never had a bloody chance to! He didn't chose this life." Ronald swallowed he didn't expect she would fight him back.

She kept pulling Ron forward to the front of the car with her hands, he tried to get away grabbing her hands with no success of her letting go of him, even as he dug his fingernails into her flesh, but as much as he pulled the more he was being chocked, he could hear the strings the held his hem together on his shirt snap at the pull. "I will not allow your behavior in my home or in my car. GOT IT?" Ron was red at this point and nodded. "I will not tolerate jealousy with especially what he is planning on doing. Would you ever sacrifice your life? He has not had the childhood he deserves." she paused and could see the fear in Ron's face he gulped a bit scared not to say anything, tears formed in his eyes. "It is judgmental wizards like you that gave any wizard a bad name. He considers you his best friend I don't know why." She let go causing Ron to chock he grabbed his neck.

"I don't have to have you in my home either, I'm sure you mother love to hear about your attitude." Ron shook his head and looked at the library. "Besides from what I know you treated her like crap." Ron turned and looked at her with the same pissed off look he had.

"You don't know nothing, your the aunt who ran away on Harry. Your should have been the one raising him! You know nothing about what we have been through or what has gone on between Hermione and me." Juliette snorted at him and laughed a bit. This made Ron even madder and he kicked her chair again. He still was struggling with her chock hold on him.

"First." She said calmly and sweetly. "I do not know why you're a brat, secondly Hermione and I did talk and she has only thought of you as a friend especially they way you acted towards her, and from what I have seen from the past few days, I can only pity you. You are the worst wizard of the group. You would be first taken down, killed off you would be bait. You have no natural gift you are the laziest boy ever!" Ronald said nothing; she could see she hit a point that made Ronald mad at her hate her perhaps. "What could you do?" she asked coldly. She turned back around and faced the window ignoring him.

"You had an affair with Sirius didn't you?" Ronald spat. Juliette blinked looking at him.

"Where the bloody hell did that come from, are you mental as well?" Ronald snorted. "Explain Gabriel then." She laughed at Ron. "She is my dog you block. What you think I would transfigure a child into a dog? You're a crack. And that is your come back? I have had it with you!" She turned to Ronald in the back pinched her index finger and her thumb together and snapped the two fingers, which was strange most people snap the ring finger with the thumb, but this action caused Ron to not be able to move his mouth. "You be good I will unfreeze your mouth or you calm down."

Harry and Hermione were still sitting in the library in an embrace. "Hermione." He whispered. "We need to go okay." She nodded not wanting to let go. "Hermione, I am not going anywhere." he said softly, this caused Hermione to sob and hold on tighter. "No, Harry… I am so- scared." she cried in his over sized shirt. Harry patted her on the back trying to comfort her. "Harry I am so, so scared I can't sleep, I can't eat thinking about it. I don't want you to fight-" She lost it at that point and Harry couldn't make out what she was saying it was mixed up in her sobs and cries.

Harry stood up guiding her with him. "We need to leave here Hermione, I know my destiny is not the best one, I didn't chose this destiny, but I will not leave you okay." Hermione didn't say anything she just hung on to Harry and walked out of the library slowly. "Come on chin up Ms. Granger." he said laughing a tad. She smiled some still with tears. "We'll have fun here in the muggle world and destroy that figurine tonight okay?" she nodded and they stopped at the old BMW at the end of the stairs there was Ron not looking good he had a scowl on his face. Harry sighed and opened up the front door for Hermione. She looked at Harry strangely and sat down and then he closed the door smiling at her and walked to the back of the car to sit by Ron.

Harry gasped when he seen Ron's face up close. "Blimy!" Harry said. Ron lowered his eye brows and crossed his arms. "What did you do?" Harry asked his aunt she turned a looked at Harry innocent. "What Harold, love?" Harry laughed at Ron. "What did you do." Ron didn't respond to Harry's question. Juliette laughed a bit.

"Funny Story Harold."

"Go on." he responded.

"He wouldn't shut up and kept kicking my chair."

"So you stop him from talking?" asked Hermione giving Ron a disgusted look.

"That and he claimed I had an affair with Sirius and had a love child and turned it into a dog, also he said something inappropriate about my different colored eyes insulted my family, and you dear." she said looking at Harry. "Off we go." she said. The car ride home was moments back and forth of Harry and Hermione giggling Ron was cooled off a bit, but it would take a bit more before the effects wore off.

At the Potter estate...

Ron finally cooled off but was still upset and decided he was going back to the guest room and not to deal with them rest of the morning. He was also upset since his mother was probably going to send him a holler letter latter that day. Soon as they got back from collecting Hermione, Juliette had Harry send a letter to Ron's mother about his behavior earlier that day. Ron decided he wanted some time alone and excused himself, mostly to not see Hermione or Harry talking and flirting in front of him, he was ill thinking about it. He had seen enough with her hugging on Harry all the time. Hermione with Harry, didn't seem right he was always getting the shaft.

Meanwhile Harry was going through the house looking for his Aunt he has so many questions for her. He ended up finding her in the back yard on a lawn chair sitting down. It was then Harry seen his aunt's Chocolate Yorkshire Terrier small as they come with a big round belly. "Who's this?" he asked.

His aunt looked up from a book she was reading while sitting in the sun. "That is my dog." she replied turning a page. 'She's too much like Hermione' thought Harry a bit creped out at the moment. "I meant, what is there name, the Dog." he asked. His aunt pushed up a pair of sunglasses and sat her book down. "That is Gabriel, before you ask, she is a dog not some love child transfigured into a four pound dog." Harry laughed a bit. "I don't know about Ron he is something else." she smiled at Harry some.

"This is Gabriel, Sirius sent her to me two years ago through Dumbledore. I haven't actually been near him for sixteen years since your first birthday party. He sent this to me for some odd reason, maybe he thought I was lonely. Or he wanted me to take care of this dog for him, I think he knew he was going to die."

"Did you know Sirius well?" asked Harry

"He was the one holding the scissors that cut my hair off when I was a child."

"I want to know everything about my mom and dad." said Harry, "I just don't remember anything about them I wished I could. You're the last relative I have left."

"And the third cousin twice removed, Steve." she replied.

"Who?" he asked

"The guy who was hit by lighting, no worries he's in a Looney bin. He was normal once. Let's see here Well your Grandfather was older when James and I was born. He was surprised James was born then eleven years I came bouncing around. Wizards live longer then normal muggles, Dumbledore was in his 160's when he was killed."

"We have a tragic family huh?" asked Harry who sat down in the grass by his aunt's chair.

"We do, but were strong the Potters. We have no choice but to be strong."

"Has it always been like this in the wizard world?" Harry asked, "With the wars."

"No, before it was muggles killing witches we worried about, now for years its been more excepted still some don't except us." said Juliette in deep thought. "I see some of your grandfather in you, he was the best father, he would of loved you Harold. I feel really bad not being there for you growing up, your aunt Petunia did write to me after I finished school you were eight years old then. I am just so mad at everything that happened. Our parents died, your parents, friends of the family, innocent people died for caring about the family and us. I will do my best to help you get ready for what is to come."

Harry smiled some and looked down in deep thought. Gabriel decided to come up and bother Harry on the ground. "She's fat isn't she?" asked Juliette. Harry laughed some. "She over eats all the time." Harry was grinning and his aunt and was petting the dog. "Hermione's cat has been kept away with that dog around, I think he thinks the dog is a giant rat or something, hopefully your owl will not think the same." Harry smiled some and sat up some.

"I'm going to check on Hermione." he said looking at his aunt. She nodded and pulled her sun glasses back on. "You need to just be Harold today, let's not be the boy who lived, go have fun and not think about what is to come. Be happy today spend the day with your friends." Harry smiled, it was the first time in a long time anyone wanted him not to think about what he was destined to do. He ran off to the house with the short fat Yorkie fallowing him on his heels.

Harry walked into the living room and see Hermione sitting down reading. Gabriel fallowed him still right under his feet. "Lets go somewhere Hermione." he said startling her. She smiled at and put her book down. "Where Harry?" she asked him. "Anywhere, let's take Juliette's advice and go be us no worries today." she smiled some at Harry and got up and hugged him.

"Just go rub it in my face!" yelled a voice from the stairs, it was Ron looking at them below him. Harry and Hermione looked a Ron strangely. The dog yapped at Ron with a very high pitched bark not quiet dog like and growled at Ron. "Rub what?" asked Harry. Ron took several steps down the stairs he was red in his face he lost his temper again. "Your two are together and you just want to rub it in my face. You just love hurting me don't you two!" Hermione turned red herself. The dog ran up to the bottom step and barked at Ron then ran and hid behind Harry.

"Ron, Harry and I aren't together, together." she said Harry looked a bit embarrassed. "Well, he hasn't asked me." she said looking at Ron. "Neither have you Ron, so you have no reason to keep blowing up. Be civil! We are friends and we don't need to fight now do we?" Ron still looked unhappy at them both Hermione stood with her arms crossed. Ron looked guilty at that moment what he said. "And if we were, what then would you do Ron? I mean if we were in love?"

Ron didn't say anything just looked. "I do like Harry, and I like you, but I don't like when your ugly Ron!" He nodded and looked at Harry who was petting the dog. "I- I can't help it Hermione." Ron finally said. "I just can't!" Ron's hands went into fist and he turned to the wall and hit it. "I am jealous of what you two have had. I don't- I think-. I might be in love with you Hermione." Ron yelled out the last part. Harry went pale, Hermione's eyes widen and Ron turned deep red. "The sad part is, I know you don't love me back." Hermione stood there not saying nothing. What could she say? She was unsure of a lot of things at the moment she didn't want to hurt Ron. Yet for the first time nothing came out of her mouth, Harry said nothing either.

Ron let out a sigh and hung his head down and walked up the steps defeated. This was not Ron's best day. He was heart-broken. He was hexed earlier that day, chocked, disappointed and now heartbroken. The walk up the stairs was the longest one for Ronald when he got up to the guest room he collapsed into the bed and laid there not moving. He didn't want to be there no more, he hated this house. He hated this plan they came up with. He just wanted to be alone.

"Ron?" came a voice from the hall way. Ron didn't move he sat there. Harry walked up to the bed and stopped and looked at his friend. "I'm sorry." Harry whispered to him. Ron turned and looked at Harry, he had tears running down. "Why are you sorry Harry? You didn't do anything, you never do." Harry gulped some and closed his eyes trying to think of what to say next to him. "I am sorry I know your mad at me, I don't understand fully why, but Ron- You're my best friend if Hermione means more to you I won't start a relationship with her."

"Harry, don't be a hero. She cares about you more then anything. She loves you." Harry sat there hearing this nodded his head. "It will be hard, but I want her to be happy Harry. I am just tired of coming in last place with everything." Ron buried his hands in his face. "this has been the worst day for me Harry." Ron sat up some and rubbed his eyes. "She just stood there couldn't tell me I was wrong, she said nothing to me she looked guilty. I always thought she would want me." Harry nodded.

"I can't tell Hermione what to do or say or how to feel about me or you. I'm scared to Ron. I am scared to death I will fail everyone. I am scared I will lose you or Hermione. I am scared to death I will not make it to my eighteenth birthday. I do not know what I am suppose to do Ron. I have been to afraid to get to close to Hermione. After 5th year where she almost died when Sirius did I ran from her. I couldn't look at her without crying for the longest time. I was scared if I hugged on her or told her I cared she would be taken away killed. I do know what you are feeling Ron in a way."

"Harry." said Ron unsure what to say next.

"If anything happens I want you to take care of her for me Ron." Ron nodded in responds. "What do we do now?" Harry asked.

"I don't know." Ron replied.