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A Harry Potter Misadventure

Hermione and Ron finally found Harry sitting in the Great Hall, most of an hour early for dinner. The dark-haired wizard was sitting, clearly dazed, but also seemingly bemused by his experience.

"There you are, Mate," Ron said sliding onto the bench to Harry's right.

Hermione took her place on his left. "Have you spoken with Daphne?" she asked hesitantly.

"We heard she's gonna break it off with you," Ron said before he received the furious glare from Hermione.

"We weren't going to bring that up, Ronald," she spat.

"Oh, I knew," Harry laughed weakly. "Whatever we had, Daphne and I have always been honest with each other."

"Who did she throw you over for, Harry," Ron asked. "We can find him and explain where he went wrong poaching your bird."

"Ronald!" Hermione scolded again.

"It's a lad thing, Hermione," Ron sniffed, "You wouldn't understand."

"I wouldn't understand?" she shouted, rising to her feet.

"Calm down, both of you." Harry laughed while shaking his head. "It IS a lad thing, Hermione, and you don't understand."

"Ha!" Ron crowed in victory.

"And you don't understand either, Ron. I already told you that Daphne and I were always honest with each other," Harry stopped and smiled at the glass of water that appeared in front of him. "Thank you, Dobby," he said as he lifted the glass to his lips for a sip. "Daphne introduced me to her new friend."

"Who?" his two friends chorused.

"Ginny," he sighed.

"Ginny?" Hermione echoed.

"Our Ginny?" Ron demanded.

"Yeah," Harry nodded, "So, we aren't going to 'explain where she went wrong', Ron. Ginny can be scary."

"Ginny likes girls?" Ron asked in a daze.

"It seems that she and Daphne had a fight over something stupid, probably me, and they both discovered they like girls..." again, Harry took on an expression of bemusement, "or at least each other. They decided to experiment a bit to see if it was real."

"Experiment a bit?" Hermione asked.

"Okay, experiment a whole lot," Harry sighed with a smile.

"Mum is going to go mental," Ron predicted.

"They explained that they were going to be exclusive, but Daphne felt bad about ending it with me and insisted on getting me a gift." He pulled up his left sleeve to display his new watch.

"Oh, my," Hermione said as she took hold of Harry's left arm and pulled it toward her. "This is amazing, Harry, this is quite an extravagant gift."

"You don't seem thrilled, Mate," Ron observed. "I mean I've never been much of a watch man, but that's a brilliant watch."

"Oh, no, don't get me wrong," Harry said, "It's a lovely watch, but she misunderstood me."

"Misunderstood you?" Hermione asked. "How do you mean?"

"Well, there I was, losing a girlfriend and a girl who might have been if I played my cards right, they were telling me about their relationship, and Daphne asked if there was anything I wanted."

"Yeah?" Ron asked.

"She completely misunderstood me when I said 'I wanna watch.'"

A/N: A joke so old, it's probably fossilized.