BE GONE

Chapter 3

"So, do you think I should ask her out?" Seamus asked everyone at the table.

Everyone was sitting in the Great Hall, enjoying their first meal of the day. Minus Ron, the three other friends were enjoying it with several of their Gryffindor's friends. Harry was really worried about his best friend, but whenever he brought up the subject, everyone just thought it was a phase that would past, but he felt there was more.

"Well… " He went on.

At that question, all the girls just stared at one another and then looked down.

"I guess it's a no." He sighed as the other boys laughed.

"It's not that, Seamus." Hermione started then looked at the others in hope that someone would take over.

"It's just that she's not the kind of girl to let guys get close to her really easily." Livia then added.

"And you have to know that she's kind of good at letting down guys pretty badly and..." Diane Lohr then said.

"Seamus, if you want a good advice, hear me out." Fred grinned interrupting the girls. "If you don't take chances, you'll never know. I asked Dahlee out and everyone had tried to talk to me out of it because you know, she's a Slytherin."

"Not to mention she's Draco best friend." George, his twin stated.

"Right, but any how, we're now dating and it's going great." Fred then finished. "So my advice, go for it and see what's going to happen."

Fred and George were also Ron's older brothers who came back to Hogwarts after dropping out a few years ago. Ron had told Harry he suspected that his mother sent them back just to check on him and Ginny, his little sister.

Seamus looked at the girls once more. It was not that he didn't trust Fred, but the girls knew more about being a girl than him.

"I guess he's kind of right." Diane then exclaimed. "But just be careful though."

George sent a smile as a thank you to his girlfriend. Him and Diane were not dating since a long time, but he was really falling hard for her.

Anyhow, it was enough for Seamus, who simply ran off towards the Ravenclaw's table as new subjects were brought up at the table. After breakfast, everyone just sat there waiting to go to their first class.

"Where's Ron?" Hermione suddenly asked.

"Beats me. Once again, he blew off breakfast. I'm telling you guys, he's avoiding me." Harry sighed as the name of his best friend was mentionned.

"Maybe he has other things on his mind." Livia tried to cheer him up. "You know that sometimes, you need some alone time yourself, honey."

She was right, but he just felt something bigger was going with Ron, but since he barely had any chances of talking to him, he didn't know what it was.

"Listen to your girlfriend, Harry… " Hermione started once more, but stopped as she saw Ron running towards them, grinning like never before.

"You guys!" He exclaimed. "We're going to Hogmead next weekend. Man, I can't wait."

"Since when are you that excited about going there?" Harry asked him.

"I -- I always been excited about going there." He replied hesitantly. "Well, we better get go to class now."

And with that, he ran off the Great Hall. Harry gave a quick kiss to Livia and followed his best friend. This needed to be stop.

"Ronald Weasley, stop right now!" Harry shouted.

He never actually used Ron's full name before, but he wanted to get his attention and indeed, it had worked since his best friend stopped in his track.

"What is it, Harry?" He asked annoyed. "We're going to be late."

"So maybe we will, but we're going to talk first." Harry retorted. "What's going on with you? Why are you avoiding me?"

Ron sighed and just let himself slid down on the wall and finally sat on the ground. Harry followed not too long after.

"I'm not really avoiding you, Harry." Ron started. "I just keep trying thinking about things that happened over the summer and since I didn't tell anyone, I just didn't want to be bothered with it."

"Why couldn't you tell me what happened? Is it bad?" Harry questionned him.

"No. I wouldn't call it bad, but it just how it all went down that kind of leaves me clueless." Ron explained.

"Well, you can tell me and maybe I could be of any help." Harry tried to pushed him to talk to him.

"I guess I could or else I'll have Hermione on my tail trying to help me out and I'm not sure her comments will do me any good." Ron laughed as Harry did.

"So… what happened?"