CHAPTER FOUR

When the feast was over and everyone had gone back to their common rooms, Harry, Ron and Hermione gathered together in the comfy chairs in front of the fire. "Hermione, why is it important that we help Malfoy?" Ron asked, "I mean, we aren't even friends with him, we have NEVER been friends with him."

"Something has obviously psychologically scared him, to be having an affair with an apple, we need to figure out what it is so we can help him get past it and have an affair with a girl, maybe Ginny," Hermione said.

Ron looked outraged, "Why my sister, that filthy basted isn't going any near my sister!" Ron yelled.

"Calm your farm Ron, he will be a new man when we have finished with him," Hermione said.

"What exactly are we going to do to him? Brain wash him? Oh yeah, sure, let's go hug dragons while we're at it," Ron said outraged.

"No, I don't mean brain wash him at all Ron, I just mean, make him talk to us, get right to the problem," Hermione said calmly.

"Yeah, how do you propose doing that? Give him veritaserum?" Ron asked.

"No, Ron that's illegal we need him to trust us, make him feel like he can talk to us. I mean, what's the worst he can do to us? What's the worst he can say?"

"Well, I'm not too sure the worst he can say, but the worst he can do to us, that's a whole other conversation which I don't feel like having right now," Ron said.

"Well, if you don't want to help us, fine, don't Harry and I will do it, won't we Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Well, Hermione, Ron, he, does, he, kind of, he-" Harry started.

"Oh, spit it out Harry," Hermione interrupted him.

"Hermione, Ron kind of does have a point, I mean, what makes you think he is going to trust us like that," he clicked his fingers, "We have been enemies since the day we started at Hogwarts, I don't think anything is going to be able to change that."

"Fine, don't help me, Luna will help me," Hermione said as she stormed off.

"Sometimes I really don't know what I see in that girl, I really wonder sometimes," Ron said quietly as he and Harry started towards the staircase that takes them up to their dormitories.

The next day at breakfast, Hermione didn't sit with Ron and Harry, she instead sat at the Ravenclaw table with Luna. "I wonder what she's doing," Ron said to Harry.

"Probably planning some sort of intervention for Malfoy," Harry replied. "You know Ron; I think Hermione actually does have a point."

"WHAT!" Ron yelled, "Last night you said that I had a point, and now you are saying that she has a point."

"Ron, listen to me, I think maybe Malfoy does have some serious issues, and something really does have to happen." Harry said.

"Fine, go play intervention with Malfoy, Luna and Hermione, see if I care!" Ron yelled and stormed off.