Don't Cry Mione!

Title: Don’t Cry Mione!

Content: PG-13

Description: Ron and Ginny are jealous of Harry and Hermione's sudden affection for each other, because Ron likes Hermione and Ginny likes Harry. They come up with a plan that makes Hermione miserable. Guess who comforts her?!

Genre: Romance/Horror

Disclaimer: I own nothing and I never said I did, so don’t try to sue me, and even if you do, I haven’t got any money anyway.

A/N: Once again this is a response to a challenge in the H/Hr Forum; this one was the idea of HermioneFanatic84.

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Ron was annoyed, very annoyed, once again he was sitting in the Gryffindor common room with his little sister Ginny, because he couldn’t bear to see his Hermione with someone else. Especially as that someone else was supposed to be his best friend!
Yes, that’s right the famous Harry Potter, once again has put Ron in his massive shadow! Usually this doesn’t bother him much, but when Hermione knows that he, Ron, likes her she still has the audacity to hang around with Harry every spare second of the day, despite knowing that Ginny likes him!
That’s another thing, Ginny likes Harry and he knows it but still he hangs around with Hermione all the time!!!
Then it strook (A/N Sp?) him.
“Hey, sis?” He called
“Wha’?” She answered depressively
“Are you fed up with sittin’ ‘round all day?”
“Uhh…. Now that you mention it, yeah.”
“You feel like getting them back?”
“Who?”
“Who do you think you great prat!?”
“Hey! I’m depressed here, in case you didn’t notice.”
“And why are you depressed my little sister?”
“Because Harry’s spending all of is time with Hermione and not me.” She said quietly.
“So, you wanna get ‘em back?”
“What do you mean?”
“Oh come on Gin, even you aren’t thick enough to not know what I’m talking about.”
She thought about it for a while then
“Ohhhh.” She thought about it for a bit more then “Yeah, they deserve to know how we feel!”
“Right so here’s what I’m thinking” He leant in closer to Ginny so he could talk to her without being over heard.

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“Harry!” Hermione squealed, as he grabbed her around the waist and bought her crashing to the ground around the lake, and sat on top of her.
“What?” He said trying to sound innocent.
“You know very well what!”
“No, but enlighten me.”
Hermione looked at him sternly
“First of all you pulled my book out of my hands.” Harry nodded “Then you ran away when I chased you to get it.”
“Yeah, I remember that.”
“Then you lead me out here and hid from me.”
Harry nodded again.
“Then you floored me and sat on top of me so I can’t get up, and all my robes are getting soking wet!!!”
“Ooooh, poor you!”
“Yes, poor me. Now get off me.”
“No.”
“Yes”
“No”
“Yes”
“No”
“Harry!”
“I’m not getting off you until you make me.” He said with a mischievous glint in his eye.
“And how am I supposed to make you?”
“You’re a clever witch, you’ll figure it out. Until you do however, I will wait right here.”
Hermione looked into Harry’s emerald green eyes searching for the answer. She could see that he was smiling and so the answer must be simple.
She thought about it for a while, and then it came to her, use his advantage against him.
She took hold of his arms and rolled over making her sit on top of him.
Harry looked impressed
“Well done ‘Mione, I didn’t think you’d figure it out.”
“Well you said it yourself, I’m a clever witch.”
“That you are.”
Hermione got off Harry and offered him her hand, which he accepted and she pulled him to his feet.
“I’m starving, what time is it?” he asked
Hermione looked at her watch.
“Uhhh…. Quarter past one.”
“Dinner I think, you comin’?”
“Yeah.”
They turned and headed to the castle together.

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Ron saw Harry and Hermione enter the hall together, again, and nudged Ginny to let her know that it was time to put their plan into action.
“Ready?”
“Yep.”
“Right, go. Don’t forget act normal.”
“I know!”
Harry and Hermione sat opposite Ron and Ginny.
“Hi guys, how was your morning?” Harry asked politely
“Pretty productive actually, yours?”
“Oh you know what it’s like with ‘Mione. Studying until your head falls off!”
Hermione hit Harry on the arm.
“You can’t have been studying all this time?”
“Nah, I wouldn’t let her.” Harry smiled “We went on a walk around the lake.”
“You like those walks don’t ya?” Ginny said trying to keep the bitterness in her voice down to a minimum.
“Yeah, they let me forget the things goin’ on in my life that bug me.”
“What about Hermione?”
“What about her?”
“What does she help you do?” Ron asked his bitterness clearly evident. Harry frowned.
“Ron are you OK mate?”
“Fine,” He said shortly, Ginny hit him under the table and he turned much cooler. “So what does she do then?”
Harry looked sideways at Hermione and smiled, “She helps me relax.” He said sweetly.
Both Ron and Ginny rolled their eyes, which both Harry and Hermione missed because they were too busy looking at each other.
Ron gave Ginny the signal because he couldn’t bear to see it anymore.
She nodded got up and left the hall without Harry or Hermione noticing.
Ron shook his head, “You wait you two, you just wait.” He muttered under his breath.

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Harry felt something hard hit his head and turned back towards Ron who tried to make it look like he didn’t just throw a chicken leg at Harry’s head.
Harry was just about to say something when an owl came swooping into the great hall.
“Post? It’s a bit late isn’t it? I wonder who it’s for.” Harry asked no one in particular.
Ron tried to hide the evil grin that had appeared on his face by stuffing another piece of Cornish pasty in his mouth.
The owl circled the hall a few times before dropping the letter it was carrying straight into Hermione’s lap.
Harry looked at her quizzically. She saw this and shrugged at him.
She opened the letter and was surprised to see it constructed entirely out of newspaper headings and printed letters.

HermiONe

I’Ve BeEn WaTcHing YoU FOR SoMeTIme NoW And I THInk iT’S TiMe To ExACt My ReENge
FoR WHAt YoU HAVe DoNE To HARRY POTTER, BE WARned I Am WATchinG YOU And I WILL GIVe YoU WhaT YoU DesErVE. YOUr BOYfrienD Can’T SavE You NoW.
YoU WiLL Be AlonE OnE Of TheSe DaY’s And I WILL KILL YoU, ThE FirSt CHANce I GeT.
I KnoW WherE YoU SleeP!
???

Harry looked at her shocked face, and he looked visibly worried.
“’Moine, what was all that about?”
“I don’t know Harry.” She said, her voice shaking. Harry placed a gentle hand on her shaking arm.
“Don’t worry ‘Mione, one of us will be with you 24/7. This sicko, will never have a chance to hurt you. Right Ron?”
Harry obvious worry for Hermione annoyed Ron even more and he was coming up with an idea to scare her even more.
“Right” He said non-the less.
“Oh, I’m gonna kill that Rita Skeeter woman, this is all her fault! Writing those things in the Daily prophet about us. Wait ‘till I get my hands on her I’ll…” He trailed off as Ginny came and sat back in her earlier vacated seat.
“Ahhh, I feel better for that.” She said Ron new what her words meant.
She looked around and said “Who Died?”
“Bad choice of words Gin” Ron said with a slight smile

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Three days later and Harry hadn’t left Hermione’s side since the day the letter came, he stayed close to her every second of the day, even during the night. They had taken to sleeping in the Common room together as they couldn’t both sleep in the same dorm.
“Damn, it backfired!” Ron exclaimed as Harry and Hermione headed off to the library together again.
“She’s spending more bloody time with him now than she did before.”
“Yeah, great foolproof plan Ron!” Ginny said angrily.
“Hey, don’t blame me, you didn’t come up with anything did you?”
“Well if you’d have given me the chance to think about it I might have!”
“Well, there’s no point arguing over it now is there? We’ll just have to think of something else.”

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Harry was sitting close to Hermione in the library when he heard the unmistakable sound of wings heading towards them.
“Oh no, not now!” He whispered as a small owl fluttered straight in front of Hermione. She didn’t notice it at first as she was so immersed in her book, Harry tried to grab the owl out of sight when Hermione looked up and saw it in front of her.
She looked at it fearfully swallowed hard, and reached for it.
“No ‘Mione, don’t read it.”
“I have to Harry.” She opened the letter and read.

HeLlO HeRMi
I CaN SeE YoU! YoU LooK PrETtY. YoU’Re WiTh YouR BOYfRiEnd AGAIN!
ONE oF ThesE DayS I’Ll GeT YoU, I PromIsE!
???

Hermione’s eyes had filled while she read the letter. Tears were spilling down her face and splashing on the book in front of her.
Harry didn’t read the letter, he didn’t want to, instead he got up out of his seat and went over to Hermione and held her in his arms.
“Don’t cry ‘Mione. It’s OK, I’ll never leave your side. I’ll protect you I promise.” Harry had unknowingly repeated the words in the letter, which made Hermione cry even more.
“Shhhh, It’s alright, everything’s going to be OK.” He stroked her hair trying to comfort.
“How Harry? Someone’s tr- trying to k-kill me! Why would anyone want to kill me Harry? Am I that much of a horrible person?”
“No!” He said sharply “Hermione, look at me.” He put his hand under Hermione’s chin and lifted her head to look into his eyes. He took her hand in his.
“You are the most amazing person I know. You are so kind, thoughtful, brave, clever and you’re so beautiful! I’ll never let anyone hurt you ever. Do you believe me ‘Mione?”
She nodded and held tighter onto Harry’s hand.
Neither of them noticed Ginny standing looking at them form one of the isles of books.
“I’m just so scared Harry. I can’t go anywhere without looking over my shoulder. I’m so lucky to have you, Ron and Ginny looking out for me. You’re all the best friends I could possibly ask for.”
A wave of guilt swept over Ginny, Hermione and Harry hadn’t been neglecting Ron and Ginny. They’d been neglecting them!
“Oh god Hermione I’m so sorry.” She whispered and turned to tell Ron to stop and how much of a couple of prats they’d been.
Harry still held Hermione in his arms as she cried into his chest.

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“Ron?” Ginny said as she caught sight of her brother.
“Gin, did it work?”
“Unfortunately yes.”
“What do you mean unfortunately?”
“I mean we’ve been such idiots!”
“What why?”
“Harry and Hermione have been spending so much time with each other because we neglected them” She said quietly
“Wh- How?”
“We’ve been so caught up in being jealous of them, we haven’t spoken to them properly for ages. We’ve just been hating them.”
“Oh god Gin, you’re right.” He said sitting down “Is Hermione all right?”
“Surprisingly, no. How on earth must she be feeling? We made her think someone was trying to kill her!”
“Gin, I feel awful!”
“Me too”

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