The next few days were tough on everyone, Ron was moping around and it was starting to get on everyone's nerves. People were sympathetic with him to begin with but now it was really annoying, the constant crying and moaning, the smell. Ron had refused to shower, he was still in the same clothes that he was wearing the night he had tried to get Hermione back.
"That is it!" yelled Harry, "I am not putting up with it any longer, you are getting washed, changed and you are actually going to go to a class today. I cannot fake you being ill any longer, the professors are now wondering why you are not in the hospital wing." Harry pulled Ron out of his bed and dragged him out of the dorm and into the common room. Everyone turned to look as they came in, people were sniggering behind their hands at Ron.
"Yeah it is soooo funny." Harry shouted at them, "Someone get me Hermione." Harry pushed Ron onto the couch as he waited for Hermione to appear.
Hermione was sat at the window in her dorm. She was struggling with the guilt of what she had put Ron through, but didn't she deserve to be happy. Her thoughts were interrupted by the door being thrown open and a terrified looking first year came bursting in.
"H..Harry Potter wants to see you." she stammered and stepped out of the way as Hermione rushed out of the door, panicking in case anything serious had happened to Ron, she hadn't seen him for a few days after all.
Hermione reached the common room to see Harry standing in front of her with his hands on his hips and a scowl on his face.
"Fix him!" he demanded. "I don't care what sort of transformation you are going through, fix him!"
Hermione approached Ron with caution, the smell hit her almost instantly, she tried not to let it show and sat down on the couch beside him.
"Ronald." she called softly. Ron turned his head slightly to face her. "This is not good for either of us."
"You broke my heart."
"I didn't mean to break your heart, it broke my heart too. I am just a different person now." Hermione stood up and waved her wand casting a cleansing spell on Ron. " Just look after him." she muttered to Harry as she walked back up to the dorm.