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Chapter 4 Ron
Hermoine felt herself spinning and whirling. Her elbow bumped a wall and she quickly tucked it in. That was one of the things she always forgot to do while using the floo network. She felt herself slowing down until she felt herself jolt and she stumbled out of the fireplace she had landed in.
Hermoine was engulfed with the familiar reception area. The patients, of course, always had some kind of weird disfigurement or sickness, like toilet bowls for feet or sneezing pixies or sprouting tentacles from various areas of the body. All in all, there was something mildly strange about each one.
Hermoine knew that Ron would be on the fourth floor for spell damage as that was the cause for him to be driven to insanity. She climbed the stairwell until she reached a set of double doors with a slightly faded sign hanging above that read 'SPELL DAMAGE'.
Hermoine entered, recognizing many of the patients as many had been placed here once the war had completely and totally ended. She walked by her second year Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and gave him a small smile. He took her hand and turned her to face him.
"Mary-Sue! I haven't seen you in forever, old chap! Come and have a cup of tea with me and we can catch up. Oh, and I'm sure you would want some more autographs!" Lockhart exclaimed flashing a pearly white smile at her.
After the many visits to the ward, Lockhart could still not remember Hermoine's name and started calling her Mary-Sue until he was completely convinced that it was her actual name.
"Not right now, Gilderoy" she said as he released her hand. "I'm going to visit Ron first, but then I'll come back and we'll have a cup ok?"
He seemed to think it over for a moment, frowning slightly. After a couple of minutes had passed, he grinned a very toothy grin and walked away, singing to himself.
She had finally come to the curtains that were pulled all around Ron's bed. She could hear him pacing and muttering to himself at times. Suddenly she heard him shout "LOOK OUT FOR THE GIANT SPIDER!" But this was normal to hear from him as he saw spiders, big and small, at anytime and anywhere.
She opened the curtains and a mass of red hair was swept into her face and arms were thrown around her.
"What took you so long!" he demanded. "I thought you'd be here earlier! You could've scared away the spider that ate my muffin!" he exclaimed pointing to the desk where a whole muffin sat. She patted his back reassuringly as he held her close.
He still had a lot of sanity inside of him, but the healers were trying to come up with a cure so he would no longer see spiders, and they were quite sure that they would crack it by Christmas, which Hermoine was very glad as she would have her best friend back.
Hermoine stayed with Ron for three hours, listening to him talk about the daddy longlegs that had threatened to eat his neighbor if he didn't dance like a ballerina in front of the healers.
Ron, as gangly as he was, still had lost quite a bit of weight. His hair was long and ragged and he looked like Sirius had once looked, except with red hair.
A weeping, and also slightly slim, Mrs. Weasley showed up with her daily home cooked meal for Ron. She hugged Hermoine and sobbed on her shoulder for many minutes until Hermoine declared her promise to tea with Lockhart.
Ron looked slightly jealous but gave her a hug good-bye, kissing her cheek. She could see in his eyes that their old feelings for each other were still there in his eyes, until he saw a spider crawling on her shoulder.
Hermoine stayed for about a half an hour having tea with Lockhart. He gave her another large stack of autographs. She gave him a quick hug good bye and hurried down the stairwell, dropping the autographed photos in a trash can at the bottom. She already had many.
She headed towards the fireplace, taking a handful of floo powder. "Professor Dumbledore's Office" she cried while throwing the powder to the ground, flames licking at her body.
Stumbling into Professor Dumbledore's office, she guessed that she had picked the wrong time to return. Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Snape all sat around a round table all talking in very serious voices.
Their heads all turned as she entered. Professor Dumbledore smiled at her and said "Welcome back Hermoine. I trust you had a pleasant afternoon?"
Hermoine nodded and quickly left, not wanting to interrupt anything else that they were discussing.
She took off at a quick pace down the hallway in search of Ginny. She tied her hair back as it was in her way while popping her head around the library door.
She finally found Ginny and handed her a letter from Mrs. Weasley and one from Ron. She accepted them through teary eyes and walked back to Gryffindor Tower with Collin Creevy.
Hermoine walked slowly back to her common room, waving and smiling to her acquaintances as they passed. She reached the portrait hole and mumbled the password.
Hermoine turned to face the wall and rested her head against it and cried once she had stepped inside. She had so much going on in her life that she didn't know what to do anymore.
She heard the sound of a throat being cleared and turned around to see both Blaise and Draco, sitting on the couch, watching her. Now she'd have to face them both…at the same time.
I'm on a roll with the cliffhangers today haha. As I said above. the more reviews I get, the sooner I'll update (sorry if that sounds greedy, I just want to see how much interest is in this)