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This chapter will start off the PoA timeline! Now, let's get on with a story!
Disclaimer:
Hemione: Ron?
Ron: What?
Hermoine: Does Bloom own anything from the Harry Potter series?
Ron: Nope.. Have you gone mental, Hermione?
Hermoine: *Facepalms* /).-
Warning: Swearing and a bit of gore!
Chapter 10 ~ The News
Ron and his family were at the Leaky Cauldron. They had just returned from their brilliant vacation in Egypt, returning with memorable souvenirs from the place.
"Mum, Hermione wants to come over today. Her parents are allowing her to stay over for the rest of the summer!" Ron said to his mom genuinely happy.
"Actually, your father is picking her up with Ginny, as of right now." She replied, while setting up the large dining table. Ron smiled by the news and saw Pigwidgeon flying towards him, but landed roughly knocking turn the vase full of flowers. With Ron's flexes, he caught the vase from falling just in time.
"Nice flexes, Ronnie. Looks like there are benefits in being a werewolf, eh?" His mother whispered with a smile. He simply nodded his head and saw that it was The Daily Prophet. In big bold words it said:
FENRIR GREYBACK
STRIKES
He continued reading the newspaper.
The werewolf escapist from Azkaban, Fenrir Greyback, attacked a worker from the Ministry Magic. The wizard's name will not be identified for the sake of his safety. The victim said, "Fenrir, he was telling me something, to tell the whole wizarding world. He said to me, 'The werewolf with fur red as blood will rise.' He said the person will go berserk killing students from Hogwarts!"
Ron gulped at the news and dropped the newspaper, unable to continue reading it.
"It was him, wasn't it.." Ron turned around to face his mother with concerned in her eyes. His eyes turned dull a bit. "He's the one who put his curse upon me.." Ron pointed at the moving pictures with a muscular man showing off his sharp yellow teeth growling. The worried mother nodded her head in response, while setting the food on the table. "Am I going to turn out like that? A vicious cold blooded murderer, infecting innocent children?" The red haired boy said in a strained voice.
"Oh, Ronnie."She went up to hug her youngest son. "You choose who you want to be. You can't let some stupid curse control your life." She briefly stopped and took a deep breath. "You're the one who controls the decisions you make. Not me, not Harry, not Hermione, you." She said and kissed her son on the his freckled cheek.
"Thanks mum.." Ron mumbled trying to smile, but failed. He was about to go back to his room to ponder about the recent news, until he heard footsteps approaching him and his mom. That scent was all too familiar. The smell of vanilla with coconut. It was her!
"Good afternoon, Mrs. Weasley!" Hermione said happily and they both hugged. She was wearing a bun to keep her wild bushy hair in place. Boy, she was beautiful to Ron. Too perfect in fact. She had grown even beautiful over the summer. He couldn't stop staring or looking like he was drooling.
"Ron!" Hermione exclaimed happily, taking her hands to his. They both blushed by the greeting and quickly looked away, from each other. The two parents seemed to notice their little affair and grinned happily. Ginny rolled her eyes, while smiling and coughed out to break to awkward silence. "Now children, why don't we eat now!" The mom finally said to them with a smile.
After she announced it, the clan of Weasleys can rushing in. Percy, the twins and Ginny made it to the table. Ron sat next to Hermione, being forced because that was the only vacant seat. He was now sitting in between Hermione and Fred. He sniffed his noses in the air to find chicken wings steaming it's smell into the room. Ron's stomach growled loudly, and Hermione chuckled at it. Ron's ears turned pink briefly and dug in.
He ate with one wing at his left and one wing to his right. It was humanly impossible to eat as fast as Ron ate. He bit and bit into his food, while Hermione ate a single wing as if she was in a restaurant. Hermione was finally getting irritated by Ron's table manners. "Ronald, slow down!" Hermione whispered harshly to him. He just looked at her and shrugged his shoulders, as if nothing happened. He proceeded to eat like a pig.
"I agree with Hermione." Ginny said to Ron. He looked at the two girls and his eyes narrowed. Ron rolled his eyes and shunned them. "Good job, Ronniekins!" Fred teased him and chuckled. After dinner, Ron went to take a seat at a couch, Hermione followed him with The Daily Prophet in her hands. She sat near Ron, as she read a newspaper. Her eyes widened in shock with worry.
"Fenrir Greyback! He's that werewolf that infects children to become lycans." She said to Ron. He tried to ignore her but he couldn't. "Ron, this is serious! He's saying a werewolf will go berserk killing students from Hogwarts." Hermione started panicking.
'At least she doesn't know that murderer, will be me.' Ron thought as his eyes turned a darker shade. "Ron, you think the werewolf is a student in Hogwarts?" She asked the red haired boy interrupting his deep thoughts. "I'm not sure.." He briskly said.
Hermione's left brow went down, confused why Ron was acting moody all of a sudden. "Ron, did I say something?" She questioned him. He just shrugged not wanting her to meet his dark blue eyes. "I want a verbal answer, Ronald.." Hermione said getting annoyed by his sudden mood change. "No.." Ron replied grumpily, and he stood up. Before Ron could leave to his room, Hermione grabbed him by the wrist.
"Come on, Ron! Tell me, did I do anything wrong? If I did, I want to apologize. No need to be a moody about it." She asked as her tone softened. "Now's not the great time to talk, Hermione.." Ron rushed up the steps leaving Hermione all by herself, thinking why Ron was acting like that.
Midnight..
Hermione went to go check on Ron, just to see if he was alright.. She slowly made the door ajar and took a little peak of Ron's room. She saw him shaking and thrashing around in his bed.
"No… Run.. Go away.." Ron mumbled out loud.
RON'S DREAMSCAPE
*This is a kinda gory scene featuring blood. You can skip part this if you don't wish to proceed*
Her face was as pale as snow. Her body started to tremble in fear, in the sight of her friend. Her beautiful locks fell in a disarranged place. She put her left hand over her wide opened jaw. Pools of tears formed around her dark chocolate brown eyes. Her pupils seemed to shrink by the thing or person in front of her.
"N-no.." Hermione whimpered as tears were streaming down her face. She started to step back as the mysterious figure approached her. "Please, don't do this.." She stumbled upon her foot as she was backing away.
The creature swiped it's sharp claws at her stomach. "AHHHH!" Hermione screamed in pain as she gagged up her blood. She looked down to see the warm red liquid soaking in her clothes. She gasped for air, but instead of air, she swallowed her own blood. She fell on the floor, hopeless. She took her last glance at the shadowed figure, as her eyes turned grey.
End of dream
"HERMIONE!" Ron bellowed as he woke up from his horrific nightmare. His mother came barging into his room, it seemed that she was the only one to hear him yell out terrified. She closed and locked the door. She put a silencing charm as well. "Ronnie, what happened?" She asked him as he started to pant and sweat, as flashes of his nightmares flashed before him.
He looked up to face the worried red haired mother. "Her-Hermione.. Is she alright..?" Ron said, as he started to uncontrollably tremble.
"Ron, tell me all about your dream. Just spit it out and you'll feel more relieved, trust me." She said to her son. He took a deep breath.
"H-Hermione was trying to get away from this thing, but failed. I-I s-saw her died on the gr-ground.. Sh-she was bleeding and ev-everything. Her eyes lost it's color, it was completely gr-grey." Ron paused briefly taking in another breath. "What was really twisted about the nightmare was that, I felt like I was the one who did it to her."
His mother gave him a nice warm hug. "You'd never kill anyone.. Sometimes, dreams can come true, but that's what the muggles say." The mother replied to him in a soft tone.
"I'm 100% sure, that Hermione is here safe and sound." She heard her son making his first werewolf sound in his human form.
It was a puppy wincing in pain or sorrow.
"I'm just hoping, someday, the both of them will know who I truly am and they'll accept me." The red haired boy said looking out to see the sun rising.
The groggy red haired boy went down stairs to be greeted with the scent of bacon with scrambled eggs and a croissant. He sat down staring at his food. He then, heard footsteps approaching to the vacant seat next to him.
"Morning, Ron." Hermione greeted him with a smile and went to get a bowl of milk and cereal. She started to eat slowly, while observing him.
'That's weird, why isn't he eating?' Hermione thought to herself. 10 minutes have passed and Ron hasn't moved a single muscle. She didn't even think that he'd blink yet.
AHHH!
Her scream.. He could still hear it. He was having a controversy if whether or not that was her real scream. It was, it would've made him even more miserable. The images of Hermione's dead body kept on flashing in his mind at a violent rate.
Hermione had enough of his unusual behavior, and she decided to make a move. "Oi! Ronald!" Hermione waved her hand in front of Ron's face. Without warning, Ron grabbed onto her wrist very tightly, making her hand almost completely white.
"Ow!" Hermione yelped at his sudden reflexes. Ron woke up from his trance and saw he was hurting Hermione.
"Bloody hell, sorry.." He quickly let go of Hermione's wrist and she retreated it back to her. She rubbed where he grabbed her and winced in pain a bit, hoping Ron didn't hear her, but he did.
"I'm sorry, Hermione.. I just-" Ron couldn't finish his apologize, because of a certain brunette fuming at him. Quite literally.
"Ronald Weasley!" She shrieked at him. "Why are you acting like this? What happened? Just tell me!" Hermione practically yelled at his face.
"I'll bloody tell you, alright.." He said darkly. "You have no right to know any of my fucking business, Hermoine Granger. If you bother to ask me again, I'll give you the cold shoulder. Understand?" Ron didn't know what was coming out from his mouth. He just said it.
Hermione looked at him with daggers. She narrowed her eyes at the sight of the insecure red haired boy, known as the secretive Ron Weasley.
"I saw you thrashing around in your bed. I also, heard you.." Hermione said to him. She regretted what she had just said. "You fucking stalker!" Ron hissed at her.
"You don't understand, Ron!" She said trying not the scream at the top of her lungs. At the same time, she tried fighting back her tears. They wanted to fall so badly, but Hermione didn't allow it.
"I think I perfectly understand the whole situation here! You're a bloody fucking stalker. If I catch you ever doing that again, I swear I'll put a hex on you" Ron retorted, his ears were now scarlet. His hands were in his pocket now. He was shaking in angry, the more he looked at his bushy brunette haired girl friend.
"I was worried about you, so I checked on you! I took a peek to see if you were alright, but you weren't. You were practically mumbling things I couldn't understand. You were in a state of nightmare, and I didn't know what was happening to you. If I woke you up, I knew you would just yell at me to get out. So, I went to get your mother to sort out to complications. She told me to get some rest, but I couldn't." Hermione paused to take a deep breath. She was still facing Ron's crystal blue orbs, that was filled with guilt.
"Do you know why?" Hermione asked him, not expecting any answer. "It's because I was worried about you! That's why! I almost cried myself to sleep.. I didn't know what was happening to you, and I didn't know what to do." She wiped her single tear coming from her right eye. "Yes.. I, the Hermione Granger, did not know what to."
Ron stopped looking at her and suddenly became interested in his shoes. Hermione knew she had just shut him up. Ron felt his chest becoming more constricted as if a snake was strangling him, as a pang of guilt ran through him.
'I'm such an arsehole!' Ron inwardly yelled at himself. Hermione went off up the stairs, but stopped midway.
"I just wanted to help you, Ron.. I did." She said in a soft tone and disappeared back to her room.
"Peter, how do I get to him?" A man with a deep husky mincing voice said to the odd looking rat. "Hurt, Hermione.." It snotted. "Her? How pathetic.." The werewolf grumbled. The werewolf's name was non other than, Fenrir Greyback.
"He fancies her. He probably already found his mate and that's her." The rat said, as it groomed it's face.
"Of course.. The Dark Lord would love to have him as part his army, if he was still alive. Ronald suppose to be the strongest werewolf out there." Fenrir said.
"Oh really? How?" The puny rat wanted more answers.
"Ronald is not an ordinary boy, well obviously. There's something in him, something primal. I want to awaken that part of him, so he can be unstoppable." He replied with a mischievous smirk.
"Brilliant.." The rat commented.
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