Capacity
(Is it possible for a brain to run out of space for information?)
The number of reviews was really a surprise . . . (yawns) Anyway, Emily, here's the second drabble, which is actually like a drabble times three. (300 words, mate!)
disclaimer: Hogwarts, Ron, Quidditch, Hermione, Harry, Horcruxes, and anything else you recognise are not mine, and you never heard me insinuate that they were, comprende?
warning: really really shippy, but I just couldn't help myself.
"You can't Apparate or Disapparate on the Hogwarts grounds," Ron said, and paused. In that pause, he looked at my face as he would at a Quidditch match, deeply concentrating, trying to figure out something very important. I tried not to let everything show.
"Ah, right," I said as lightly as I could, watching Harry attempt to skip rocks on whatever quaint little body of water we were presently resting next to. Maybe I knew the name of it, once upon a time.
"Hogwarts, a History," Ron announced, as if he was answering something.
"What?" Mustn't take too much care to sound innocent, Hermione, or you'll give yourself away.
"You didn't bring it."
"You're right." Of course, this did not satisfy him, but he simply moved speechlessly closer to me, and dropped his heavy hand on mine, focused his blue eyes on mine and waited. "It . . . didn't seem very important." He tilted his head and asked me why not. "There are more important things for me to remember now," I whispered to the rock that sails from Harry's hand. It skipped three times and sunk into the water silently.
He waited again, long enough for me to memorize his heartbeat, before he offered a bit of comfort. "You aren't losing your mind."
My "no" was sharp and asked him to prove it. He won't. "Ron, I need to concentrate on Horcruxes right now, I can't think about anything else, especially . . ." I half expected him to blush at my silent pronoun, but he didn't, he just took my hand and held it to his heart, as if by osmosis he was giving me a bit of it.
"Just promise," he said, his voice as heavy as his hand, "that you'll always remember me."
"I will."
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