A/N: Well I kept my promise! I got 10 reviews so now I am updateing! Thank you all sooo much! It made me really happy to hear that you all liked the first chapter! I am thinking of having this about 30 chapters long, possibly 35. I'm not sure but once I start writing more and more I'll decide. Ok and I am not too sure on how the schedules go I kind of picked it up from the HBP but they will have a free period a day or more and then on Fridays they have elective classes. So please don't kil me if it isn't how it is in the book I wanted to put it my own way. I won't keep you any longer, you can read the next chapter...
One and Only
Chapter Two
The next morning after breakfast McGonagall came around and handed out schedules. Ron looked at his and then compared it to Hermione's.
"Mr. Weasley I would like to see you first thing this morning in my office for a career appointment. Mr. Potter I will see you at eleven and Miss Granger I will meet with you before dinner at five." McGonagall said. Ron sighed he would miss a whole free period for that meeting.
"I have to go to Ancient Runes but I'll meet you in the Head common room during our free period." Hermione said.
"Alright." Ron said. He gave her a kiss and she left for Ancient Runes. Ron walked up the stairs with Harry until they reached McGonagall's office. "Do you want to come see the Head common room after?" Ron asked.
"I was going to meet Ginny after." Harry said. "But you can come if you want."
"Nah, that's ok. I'm going to meet Hermione. I was just wondering if you wanted to come." Ron said.
"Ok, well good luck." Harry said before continuing up the stairs to the Gryffindor common room. Ron walked into McGonagall's office.
"Come in and sit Mr. Weasley." She pointed to a chair by her desk. Ron sat down and put his bag down next to his chair. "So your mother tells me that you no longer wish to be an Auror."
"Yeah. I want to work at the Daily Prophet." Ron said.
"Any particular job?" McGonagall asked.
"Well…uh… I thought that eventually I would like to be editor but I would take any job to start out with." Ron replied.
"That's a very good ambition." McGonagall said. "I was talking to Professor Dumbledore about having our own school paper and he said that if I could find a responsible student to run the paper than we could make it work. I think that you are responsible enough to handle that task. I will need a list of jobs for the paper and I will sought out a some people who I think will work well on the paper."
"Really?" Ron asked. "You want me to be in charge of it?"
"Yes Mr. Weasley. I am intrusting you with an important job and I believe that you can do this. Now I'm sure you know that working at the Prophet will take a lot of responsibility and I think that doing this first will help you to understand what it's like. Your elective periods are to be used for work on the paper. Later in the year I will write to the Prophet and inform them of your progress with the paper. For now you may go but I will need that list by tomorrow morning and by then I will have a place for the paper. Also you will need to name the paper." McGonagall said.
"Name the paper?" Ron asked.
"Yes Mr. Weasley, name the paper. I would like everything tomorrow. Good day." McGonagall turned her attention to some papers on her desk. Ron grabbed his bag and started for the door. Ron happily walked out of McGonagall's office and was being as he walked to the Head Common room. Classes still weren't over so Hermione wasn't there. Ron took out a piece of parchment and wrote: Hogwarts Paper at the top. He bit the end of the quill thinking. Nothing came to mind for the title of the paper so Ron decided to write the jobs of the paper employees first.
Photographer
News Reporters
Quiditch Reporter
Advertisements
Ron bit the end of the quill again. He was trying to think of more jobs that were involved in writing the paper. He looked in his bag to see if there was a copy of the Prophet in there but he didn't have any. Hermione would have a copy if she were there. Ron tried to think again and bit the end of the quill but he ended up biting too hard.
"Ow!" He exclaimed out loud.
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked. She had just came through the portrait hole and threw her bag down on the couch and placed a stack of books down on the desk next to him. She walked behind him and put her hand on his shoulders. "Whatcha doin?" She asked as she looked over his shoulder at the paper.
"I am in charge of the Hogwarts paper and McGonagall has delegated me to making a name for the paper and creating jobs for everyone." Ron said.
"Oh that's great Ron!" Hermione exclaimed as she gave him a big congratulatory kiss. "It'll be perfect for when you are editor of the Prophet!" Ron beamed.
"Yeah it will! I can't wait for you to congratulate me on that." He said with a smirk. Hermione smiled back.
"I'll congratulate you more later." Hermione replied. He winked and turned back to his list.
"You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the Prophet would you?" Ron wondered.
"As a matter of fact –" She walked over to the couch and pulled a rolled up copy of the Prophet out of her bag. "– I do." She tossed it to him.
"Thanks." Ron said as he flipped through the paper.
"Your welcome." She said. Hermione took the stack of books from the desk and sat down on the floor. Ron searched through the Prophet and found nothing more than what he wrote already. He decided to figure out a title. He could not think of anything so he decided to ask Hermione if she had any ideas. Ron turned to her. He laughed when he saw her. She was sprawled on the floor with books surrounding her. All of them were open but she was looking through one and taking down notes and looked deep in thought. Hermione looked up when she heard him laugh. "What?" She wondered as she tucked some stray hair from her face.
"You. You're just so adorable when you're thinking." Ron said. Hermione blushed.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"When you're thinking, you always bite your bottom lip and then tuck your hair behind your ear and then it falls back a few minutes later and you do it again." He said with a smile. Hermione blushed again.
"Well thank you." Hermione replied with a smile. Ron got up and sat next to her among the books.
"What are all of these?" Ron asked eying the books. Hermione looked up from her books again.
"Ancient Rune books." She smiled and looked back down at her books. "I have a lot of homework in Ancient Runes. It's funny how the Professor can go on and on about N.E.W.T.s but still have enough time to give us homework."
"Oh." Ron said. He picked up one of the books and looked at it with a confused expression. He heard Hermione laugh and looked up. "What?" He wondered.
"You're just so adorable when you're confused." Hermione said with a smile playing at her lips. Ron blushed and smiled at her.
"Thanks." Ron said.
"So when are you going to be doing this paper thing? It won't cut into our homework or alone time will it?" Hermione asked.
"No it's during my elective periods." Ron replied.
"Oh." Hermione said. "Where is it going to be?"
"McGonagall said that she would find a place for it to be and tell me tomorrow. I just can't think of a name for the paper." Ron said.
"Well what do you have so far?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing." Ron said. "I can't think of a thing. What about the Hogwarts Paper? It's simple." Hermione raised her eyebrows.
"Well what about the Hogwarts Herald?" Hermione said. "I've heard Herald used for loads of different papers. I guess it could work." Hermione shrugged.
"Yeah. That works." Ron smiled at her. "It's better than the Hogwarts Paper. But thank you." He smiled and leaned over for a kiss. She leaned into it too but pulled away after Ron wanted to deepen the kiss.
"I have to finish this." Hermione said gesturing to her homework. Ron sighed.
"Alright. Continue if you must." Ron said. He stood up and went back to his desk. After he finished making the list of things for the paper he gathered his stuff and went to lay on the couch. Ron watched Hermione write and then look in a book to check facts. All the while she was biting her bottom lip and tucking the hair out of her face. He watched her with a smile on her face. At lunchtime Hermione finally looked up and started to put her stuff away.
"What's wrong?" She asked Ron when she caught him staring.
"Nothing." Ron smiled as he picked up his own things. "Here let me help you with your books. He took the books from her hands and staggered at the weight of them.
"Got it?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah. I've got 'em." He said although he felt as though he might drop them.
"I don't need them right now. We could leave them here." Hermione informed him. Ron dropped all of the books.
"Now you tell me." He said exasperated. Hermione laughed and put all of her books on the desk.
"Come on let's go to lunch." She said and pulled him out of the common room. Downstairs at the table they met up with Harry and Ginny.
"How'd your meeting with McGonagall go?" Harry asked Ron.
"I am in charge of the Hogwarts Herald and she is going to write to the Prophet and everything later on in the year. She said it'll help." Ron said.
"That's great!" Ginny said.
"Yeah it really is!" Harry agreed. "Finally a paper that won't have lies in it!" Harry smiled. "It won't have lies in it right?" He asked as an after thought.
"Nah, it won't be like all of the Rita Skeeter bull." Ron said. "But what about you? How did your meeting go?"
"She said that she'll set up a tryout for me sometime in the year. She says a have a really good chance of making it." Harry responded. Hermione and Ron beamed.
"That's great mate!" Ron said.
"Yeah it is!" Hermione said. Harry beamed at them.
"Thanks!" Harry said. They finished their lunch and went to their first class after lunch, Defense Against the Dark Arts. When they got in the room Tonks was standing at the front of the room with a giant smile on her face. Ron, Harry, and Hermione took the seats in front of the room. When Neville came in he sat next to Harry in the front.
"You were at the Ministry with everyone else a few years ago weren't you?" Tonks asked Neville.
"Uh yes I was." Neville replied.
"I'm sure you'll do very well in this class then." Tonks replied. Neville blushed and looked down at the table. Tonks begun class with a cheerful hello and instructed the class to call her Tonks. She spent a few minutes on the N.E.W.T.s before she started class.
"That was the best class!" Ron exclaimed as they were walking to Charms.
"Yeah it was fun!" Hermione agreed. In Charms they were lectured on the N.E.W.T.s for the whole class. By the time they met Ginny in the Head common room they were tired out.
"At least we don't have homework." Harry said.
"True." Ron said with a smirk. "That was the good thing about having to listen to Flitwick. He didn't have time to give us homework." Harry laughed but Hermione was too absorbed in her work to tell him off. Ron looked down at her with a smile on his face. Harry and Ginny exchanged odd looks. Hermione looked up suddenly.
"I think I'm going to go change before I have to meet McGonagall." Hermione said. She gave Ron a kiss and left. Ron took Hermione's place among the books.
"Uh what are you doing?" Ginny asked.
"Trying to understand what's so fascinating about these books." Ron said.
"Any luck?" Harry asked.
"Nope." Ron said as he slammed a book and put the whole stack of them back on the desk. "We probably should go get changed before dinner too." Ron said.
Ron, Harry, and Ginny sat at the table waiting for Hermione to get back. She rushed into the hall a minute later and took a seat next to Ron. Before they could ask how her meeting went she noticed Ron's shirt.
"Hey you're wearing the shirt I bought you." She pointed to the black shirt with AC-DC written on it in red. He looked down.
"Oh yeah." He said. It just happened to be the first shirt he saw. It was in the pile of other shirts she had gotten him. Most of them were the same way with band names on them.
"So how'd it go?" Harry asked.
"Oh it was great!" Hermione said. "McGonagall said that working at Flourish and Blotts until I get my bookshop up was a good idea. And she also told me all of the stuff I need to know about writing a book and everything."
"So you are writing a book?" Ron asked. Hermione smiled.
"Maybe." She said. Ron sighed; he didn't understand her at times like this.
"You are a really confusing person." Ron told her.
"I know." She smiled.
Harry and Ginny went off to the Gryffindor common room while Ron and Hermione patrolled the hallways for a bit until they went back to their own common room. Ron sat down in one of the chairs by the fire and Hermione went to sit in the one next to it but Ron pulled her onto his lap. She smiled and settled more comfortably on his lap.
"Ron?" She asked.
"Yes?" He wondered. He held her tight on his lap.
"I love you." She smiled. "And I love this being her right now and it's just the two of us in front of the fire." Ron smiled back.
"I love you too." Ron said. "And I love this too because it is just the two of us." Hermione smiled and pressed her lips against Ron's. He smiled into it and kissed her back. They didn't move from that position for a while and when they did it was past 10. They had to stay the night in the common room because they "didn't want to get in trouble"
A/N: Well how was it? Did the schedule confuse you at all? If so please let me know and I will make it more understandable. So please, please, PLEASE review! Love ya! -Kylie
