Sunday came and the night fell upon Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Ron lay in his bed still not awake, Harry was sitting in a chair beside him thinking. Harry looked down at the end of the bed where Hermione was asleep. She was leaning over the bed sleeping, still sitting in the chair.
"Is he awake yet?" Harry turned to see Riley and Draco entering the room.
"No," Harry responded in a whisper, "Well if it isn't Malfoy. What are you doing here?"
"Riley made me come up. I have no idea why…" Malfoy said. Riley glared at him and elbowed him in the stomach.
"I thought you asked to be able to see him," Harry asked him looking at Riley, who was smiling.
"I didn't," Malfoy said, and he too looked right at Riley.
"Why are you two staring at me?" she asked. Then she realized.
"Yes I told Dumbledore that Draco wanted to be able to see Ron," she said.
As Riley sat down, Harry looked up at Malfoy. He was looking at Ron. Obviously, they both were thinking the very same thing. Why would Riley want Draco Malfoy to be able to visit Ron Weasley?
"Well I'm going to go get some tea," Riley said getting up, "Come with me Draco, and Harry we are going to have to wake her up." She looked down at the sleeping Hermione and then walked out the door, followed by Malfoy.
Harry had just realized all the cards Ron had gotten from the Gryffindors. Neville Longbottom had given him a box of chocolate frogs and Kylie had given him a card that smelled like lilies, and when you opened it a whole bouquet of flowers pops out at you. Harry heard a noise and looked down at Ron, who was now stirring.
"Ron?" Harry asked thickly. Ron's eyes opened and he just lied there for a moment without speaking.
"Harry," Ron said sitting up, a really concerned look crossed his face.
"Where's Hermione? Where's Lina? Is Hermione okay?" Ron yelled at Harry looking around wildly.
"Hermione is fine Ron, thanks to you," Harry told him.
"Where is she?" Ron asked. Harry pointed to Hermione, who was still fast asleep at the foot of the bed. Ron smiled and suddenly fell backward holding his head.
"Oh! My head hurts," Ron yelled, lying his head back down.
"Well you did fall backward on your head, Hermione was very scared when you were knocked out. We had to like pull her away…" Harry stopped when he saw Hermione start to wake. She stretched and the moment she saw Ron was awake, she started yelling. She ran up to Ron, tears in her eyes, and threw her arms around his neck.
"Ron, are you okay? Does your head hurt? Do you remember me? Do you remember what happened? Ron can you hear me?" she yelled still hugging Ron tightly.
"Um… Hermione…do you mind?" Ron asked, looking terrified. Hermione immediately let go of him and stared at him as though he was about to break. Just then Riley and Draco returned holding four cups of tea. Hagrid came in after them, followed by Dumbledore.
"Ron! You're awake," Riley screamed and also came up and hugged Ron. Hermione told her that Ron's head hurt and that you can't squeeze him too tight. Ron looked at her and then at Harry, looking very confused. Draco also didn't like Riley hugging Ron and pulled her off of him. Dumbledore looked amused at this, and walked to the side of Ron's bed.
"How are you doing Ron?" he asked, smiling.
"Fine, but my head hurts a bit," Ron said. At those words Hermione edged forward toward the bed. Ron saw this and laughed.
"Hermione I told you I'm fine," Ron told her, "But I don't know why I'm here. What happened?" Ron looked over at Draco and looked over at Harry.
"And why is Draco Malfoy here?"
"Um… he asked to be here," Harry answered. Ron looked back over at Draco.
"Why?" Ron asked Malfoy.
"I don't know, ask her," Draco said pointing at Riley. Riley elbowed him once again.
"Ron," Dumbledore said, "Do you want me to tell you what happened?" Ron nodded enthusiastically.
"Well, I should tell you first how it started. Miss Granger and Lina Black had a fight about Harry," Harry thought he saw Dumbledore grin for a second, " Lina kicked Hermione in the shins and you ran out to block Hermione from being hit again. You ran in front of her and you got kicked and punched, before Lina even noticed it was you, not Hermione. When you got punched you fell backward and hit your head pretty hard on the edge of the table. You got hit so hard that you have been knocked out for almost two days. Your friends here even skipped a trip to Hogsmeade, just to stay with you. In other words it could have been Hermione lying in this bed if it hadn't been for you and Riley." Dumbledore smiled, and then turned and walked out the door. Harry looked at Ron, who was staring at the door with confusion written all over his face.
"Well, that was a bit of a shock," Ron said rubbing his head.
"Where did Riley go?" Malfoy said. They looked around and Riley was nowhere to be seen. She returned after about ten minutes later, but had to go again because Madam Pomfrey was shooing them all out.
"Mr. Weasley needs his rest. Ron have some chocolate." She said, rather loudly. They all went to bed.
Ron didn't return to classes until after lunch on Monday. Since he had lost some of his memory, he didn't remember some of the things in his classes so they all had review lessons. The bad part was that Ron remembered that he and Hermione had been in a fight. He still didn't look her in the eye and wouldn't talk to her. This made Hermione rather lazy. She wasn't answering as many questions in class as she used to. One day in Potions they had to pick partners. Snape had forbidden him to work with Riley, Ron, Hermione, and Neville. Snape seemed very happy and thought he was making Harry miserable but something extraordinary happened.
"Hey Potter! Work with me," Draco Malfoy yelled over the noise of the busy classroom. Harry looked at Riley and she nodded. He walked over to where Malfoy sat and sat down next to him. Snape was frowning as the class went on, and Malfoy and Harry were getting along. Nobody was as surprised as Harry.