Hermione, You Go Girl!
Disclaimer: I own nothing JKR does. I just use them to past the time.
Summery: Wrote this after I read the quote that Arthur Levine said a few weeks ago before HBP came out. Has a bit of fluff at the end and a little angst at the beginning. But it's the good kind of angst. This is something that I would have liked to see in HBP but did not. I can still hold out hope for the 7th book.
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Harry walked into the Gryffindor common room to the sound of his best friends yelling. This had been happening more and more lately. Harry wasn't entirely sure why either.
He was tired from his lesson with Dumbledore and really didn't want to have to deal with this. But as he could see from the stares of his fellow house mates it looked like he was going to have to pull them apart.
But he never got the chance. As he stepped further in the room Hermione's voice was cut off by Ron pushing his lips on hers.
Harry watched for a moment as his best friends kiss. But the moment was cut short when Hermione physically pushed Ron off of her. Then she did something that he had only seen her do once before.
She smacked Ron. Hard.
The sound of her hand hitting his cheek resounded through the room. No one moved. Not even Harry.
"How dare you." Hermione snarled.
"Hermione…I…I thought…"
"NO YOU DIDN"T THINK! What makes you think that while you are yelling at me about how stupid S.P.E.W is, and how it will never work, I would want to kiss you! Ron do you have any idea what you where just saying to me? Do you?"
When Ron failed to answer Hermione let out a growl that would make Lupin proud. As quickly as Hermione had been furious she became very sad.
Ron seemed to see this as well.
"Hermione…" Ron said as he made a move toward her.
"Stay away from me Ron." Her voice was shaky. "I have to go."
Hermione quickly moved through the common room toward the portrait hole. When she saw Harry standing there, he could have sworn he saw her eyes get teary.
Hermione brushed past him quickly and went out to the corridors. It was only then did it seem that Ron saw Harry.
"Harry mate- .."
Harry shook his head. "Not now Ron."
Harry then too left the common room. He had to find Hermione he knew that. She had seemed to be so upset when she left before him.
As he thought for a moment he had a feeling where she might go. Quickly he made his was through the castle to the main doors.
After a quick walk to the Whomping Willow, he found a branch and poked the knot at the base of the tree. He quickly made his way into the tunnel and ran the distance to the trap door, already open in the floor above him.
That was the clue he needed to know that she had come here. Whenever he left he made sure to close the door.
Harry made his way up to the one spot in the house that was clean and almost like new. Harry had cleaned the top bedroom at the beginning of their sixth year. He wanted a place that he could go to think.
Hermione was the only other person who knew about it. He had been gone all day and she had taken out the map to find him. Apparently he had worried her to death or that's what he think she said, she had been yelling at the time.
Harry stood at the bedroom door for a moment watching Hermione's back hiccup as she cried into the pillow. She looked so small to Harry at that moment, not like the strong woman he knew she was.
He made his way over to her and knelt down on the floor so he was at the same level she was.
"Hey are you ok?" Harry asked as he brushed some hair away from her face.
Hermione sniffled. "Why'd he have to go and do something like that Harry? I know he's had somewhat of a crush on me but I thought he would have gotten the fact that I don't feel the same way."
Harry tried not to let on that he had no idea that Ron had a crush on Hermione. But when the thought about it he could see it.
"Don't worry about it Hermione. Everything will work out."
"Oh Harry this changes everything. All of this happened in front of the entire common room. Everyone will be talking about this. It'll be all over the castle by tomorrow. Oh God then when Malfoy gets a hold of this. Can't wait to see what creative names he comes up for me with this."
"Don't you worry about any of them, I'll protect you Hermione."
Hermione smiled slightly. "You always do don't you?"
"I always will."
Hermione took Harry's hand in hers. "Why don't you lay down you look tired."
"That may be because I am." Harry said as he climbed over her in the bed.
"I hate that you have to work this hard."
Harry said nothing at first. "Tell me about your favorite memory from your childhood, before you came here."
"Why do you want to know?"
"Because I do and because I don't have any. And I want to know these things about you."
Hermione smiled before starting to tell Harry stories of her childhood. Some made Harry laugh, others made him sad that he never had those.
They stayed like that for some time before they both fell asleep.
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