I know what you guys are thinking: What happened to Viktor? He was such a main character and now we have barely heard from him! Well, believe me, I didn't totally forget about him!
Hermione's Pov
The next morning I woke up at 6 and could not go back to bed, so I dragged myself to my dresser and pulled out a pair of light wash jeans and a green knit sweater. I put the mass of thick, curly hair in a tight high pony tail and I put on some furry boots. As it was really cold outside, I decided to stay in the castle for a while, going to the kitchen and getting hot chocolate and wandering around the school. After I downed my hot chocolate and I decided that I couldn't just hide any longer, I decided to go and find Krum.
To be honest, it really isn't hard to find him because he is usually either on the quidditch field or walking around the Hogwarts Campus, desperate to get some deserved fresh air rather than the stuffy and crowded space of the rather large Bulgarian boat docked in the lake. I knew right away that he would be in the quidditch field though because I had heard someone saying that he trains in the morning over on the field. I took a deep breathe before entering the coliseum style field. At first I thought he was playing with somone because after he would hit the quaffle, it would return to him a short amount of time later.
I had a loss of words, so I silently walked into the bottom row stands and sat there until he saw me. He hopped on his broom and flew over to me as soon as he caught my eye. "Hey Hermione." Viktor said in his strong but familiar accent. I saw in his face that he was almost shamed because he had noticed I had been avoiding him. Wow, so much guilt in such a small amount of time. "Viktor, I want you to know that I have been really busy recently, which is why I haven't been able to really talk much." After I could tell his hopes were raised a little I added,"I was positively not ignoring you." I smiled warmly at him, trying to look sincere as possible. He smiled his big toothy smile and started to laugh as he looped his arm through mine and sat next to me, setting his Firebolt broom gently down next to him on the stands. "Good, because I was begginning to worry."
At around 8am when I felt that we had a quality discussion and he didn't think I was avoiding him for any reason, even though I had been, I left to go to breakfast. By the time I arrived in the grand hall, I literally squeezed my way through all the people and found my spot next to Harry and Ginny. "Where were you 'Mione? When I woke up this morning you weren't in your bed? And I even woke up at 7 this morning which is really early for me!" I smiled and told her I had "been around", a statement that I felt made me seem sophisticated and silly at the same time. Wow, I have too much time on my hands. "Well I'm glad you're here now. I hear Dumblrdore has an announcement to make." Shortly after he said that,Dumbledore stood up and everyone was silenced, even the giggles of the fancy little french girls who never seemed to calm themselves. "Today, I am proud to announce the Junior Quidditch World Cup." After a few minutes of the talking that errupted as he said Quidditch, he was able to continue. "This is where we invite schools over and we have a 'world cup' of our own at our field. This is a yearly event that takes place in different arenas every year. Last time it was at the Pheonix school of witchcraft in Arizona, the United States." Most people started to chatter amongst themselves once again, for most of them had this idea that people from "the states" were like, super cool or something, which I don't understand seeing that at least 3/4 of our school has never been to America. "We are inviting not only the school of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, but also the following schools: Pheonix of Arizona, Salem Witches Institute of New York, Mahoutokoro of Japan, and the Brazalian School of Witchcraft. They will all be here throughout February to the end of March. Please, be on your best behavior during those months and do not tarnish the Hogwarts name."
The rest of the day was extremely boring in comparrison. I took a jog, talked to Harry and Ginny about my situation, and studied. Not much different from a regular school day.
The whole day I only heard stuff about the schools that were coming to Hogwarts. It was annoying at first, but after a while it got interesting to listen into other peoples conversations about the topic. Again, it had been a pretty awkward day with Ron always being around me. For some reason, I feel like he regrets kissing me, and I ma thankful for even the slightest hope that he would take it back if he could. As I tucked myself into bed that night, I decided that the next day after classes, I would confront Ron about the situation at hand.