I changed the chapter title from 'In Which We Use a Weird Phrase' after a tip off :) and i hope you like this one better, i realise the last one was... weird... anways:

A/N: Guess what? I'm still alive! I am soo sorry I abandoned you guys for so long, I promised myself I wouldn't do that, but… here we are. I've been busy with school lately and we'll be lucky if I manage to post one a week for now, but the Christmas holidays will probably allow me to post chapters daily, unless I get a job… unlikely. Anyways, I'm working offline right now so have no reviews or anything, so if I do something wrong, I'm sorry. Also because I don't have the reviews I can't do any personal thank you's just now, although I reeaallyyyy do need to thank HB17RJO (Yes, I actually remembered how to write your 'name'!) because of an incredibly long review, seriously, I'm still amazed. Anyways, on with the chapter, feel free to tell me if I have any mistakes of any kind… it's been a while!

Oh.. and uh, I just realized I promised the first reviewer of the last chapter a prize, but I don't know what I planned to give them or who that was. We'll focus on that next chapter, and if anyone has ideas let me know. I'm a bit dim…

Disclaimer: Um, yeah, don't own Harry Potter. If I ever do, I'll let you know…

OMG I'm such a long A/N-er I'm really sorry you guys! ào (Does that look like a person or what? :D)

Chapter 8

Everyone looked kind of shocked at the sudden transition between Ron and Hermione. Even Harry would never be used to the joint mood swings the two went through. Dean, who was flipping through a football magazine looked up long enough to frown and remind Hermione that Ron still needed his dare. He was normally on good terms with Ron, but, after all, it was Ron's sister who had forced him to out himself, and so far, this was the easiest form of revenge.

'So… this is all very sweet and all'- cue MAJOR blushes from both Ron and Hermione- 'But shouldn't we get on with the dare? I mean, you resolved the fight didn't you?' This was pointed out by Dean. Hermione smiled a little scarily and nodded at Ron.

'Ron, Ron, Ron… will it be truth or dare?'

Ron looked like he wanted to restart the argument, but eventually decided that it really wasn't worth risking losing his newfound position with Hermione.

'Dare' he sighed, smiling nervously at Hermione. Someone clearly wanted to get on someone's good side…

Hermione sort of looked a bit indifferent by now, it was getting pretty late and arguing with Ron did that to people.

'Uh…'

At this point, Seamus and Luna returned!

'Oi! You still not done with that dare yet, Hermione? How slow d'you wanna be, mate?'

Hermione looked a little disgruntled at being called mate, but smiled at Seamus anyway. He was still wearing the dress… Luna was wearing the shirt Seamus had been wearing before, and both were practically glowing. Hermione really couldn't be bothered with doing Ron's dare so graciously gave it back to Seamus, who looked slightly disbelieving at the amount of time it had taken her to actually get up to the daring.

*The happy little Irish fellow* grinned at Ron and declared that Ron's dare was to propose a declaration of love to none other than Hermione Granger. Ron groaned and turned to Hermione.

'Why do all of my dares involve declarations of love?' he whined at her, and she shrugged looking thoughtful.

'Down on one knee, Ronniekins J' Harry smiled at Ron who did so with a glare at his best mate.

'Uh… I love you?' Ron turned bright red, while Hermione appeared to transform into a lovely, wistful tomato. Luna clapped and cheered but everyone else frowned at Ron.

'Ron. That is NOT good enough. We have been waiting for this for a while. Make it worth the wait!' Ginny snapped.

Ron looked utterly bemused. Why had they been waiting for this? What WAS this? Him making a fool of himself? Hermione turning into a walking tomato? Whatever, best to get it over with, she would believe him when he told her he didn't mean it. Then, Ron remembered his other dare. No she wouldn't, he had been totally set up! After thinking about it for about two seconds, Ron had realised that, yes, he was in love with Hermione, yes, he wanted to say sorry and of course he knew that telling her both these things was the right thing to do. Ron smiled. Two dares down in one go! He would do both now without her realising it, and could tell her later that he didn't mean it!

Of course, being Ron, this could not have gone down without much stuttering and turning-red-ness, but when that was all over, it made a pretty decent speech. And way to believable to just brush off as a dare.

'Hermione, you are so beautiful, and smart and funny and I am a jealous, overbearing fool who cant keep his mouth shut. You have interests and passions and feelings, and I have the emotional range of a teaspoon. God only knows why you would ever like me, but God also knows that I am in love with you, despite the fact that we are way to different, at least your differences are for the best.'

The speech hadn't been at all awkward until this point, when Ron actually looked like he was going to puke. He shook his head, realising that he had lost control of himself and with an almost pained expression he added,

'And I love you… Um, blah, blah, blah.' The last muttered bit caused Hermione's face to fall and everyone else to look completely annoyed at Ron. It had been going so well until then!

If Ron could have kicked himself just then he would have. He had completely lost control of his emotions, but now his dares were both over, surely he could relax now!

Hermione was shocked. Ron had sounded like he meant it all! Up until the last bit, he had had a completely sincere look on his face. She had fallen for it completely. If she could have kicked herself she would have.

With much muttering, the room began to right itself. The group had pretty much all stood up in anticipation of the big moment. Except for Seamus and Luna, of course, who were having their own big moment. Needless to say, the Ron/Hermione moment interested pretty much everyone, whereas after the initial shock, they were all pretty over Seamus and Luna's newfound love. After so much hardship at school, it took a lot to get this group excited!

(*A/N: Is that a little TOO weird for you? I just really wanted to describe Seamus… lemme know?*)

Ahhh, fluff… sorry, but it had to happen, I hope you liked it Ok.

OK… so did anyone like/dislike/have no feelings whatsoever about Ron's little thought passage. I really did try to bring some character into it, and I wanted to explain the other dare a bit more, since some people didn't seem to get it… Anyways, I didn't like this chapter so much, and I know it could have been better. Speaking of better, I really need a beta… anyone know a good one? If you want to beta this story, please let me know… as long as you won't delete my A/N's, they are MINE. Yeah I know they're long… anyways, farewell my friends, I might just be off to write another chapter write now!

R&R? Greatly appreciated and you know I R&R right back atcha when you do… J

I just realised.. I could totally finish it here, what do you think? I'll leave it here in less a couple of people tell me to continue so go on! Let me know?

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