isn't it romantic | r. weasley

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the following morning, after a bath, lily walked into the dining hall with talia, who was going on and on about a prank simon did on her that she didn't like.

as they walked, the loud voice of umbridge grabbed her attention.

she stopped her tracks and looked up at her and mcgonagall.

"pardon me, professor, but what exactly are you insinuating?"

"i am merely requesting that when it comes to my students you conform with the prescribed disciplinary practices." by then ron, harry and hermione left the hall to listen in on the teachers.

"did you tell?" lily asked harry, barely even a whisper.

"i didn't. did you?"

"no way."

"so silly of me, but it sounds as if you're questioning my authority in my own classroom... minerva," she smirked, stepping on another to appear higher.

"not at all, dolores, merely your medieval methods," she sassed, also taking a step higher.

"i am sorry dear. but to question my practices is to question the ministry."

"damn right," mumbled ernie, who stood behind lily and talia.

"and by extension, the minister himself," she continued, making lily roll her eyes. "i am a tolerant woman but the one thing i will not stand for is disloyalty."

"disloyalty?"

she took another step, and looked down at the students.

"things at hogwarts are far worse than i feared. cornelius will want to take immediate action."

lily scoffed and walked away, completely ignoring ron.

he wasn't gonna have any of it, so he grabbed her wrist and made her turn to him.

"morning?"

"morning.." she mumbled, pulling her hand.

"what's up?"

"nothing. umbridge just bothers me. i-i'll see you later," she tried to dismiss herself.

"are we studying tonight?"

lily shook her head. "detention."

ron frowned, so he turned to hermione for advice.

"she's ignoring me."

"umbridge so early in the morning must've ruined her mood. don't overthink it."

he sighed and turned to see her smiling with her fellow hufflepuffs.

hermione noticed he was still frowning and tried to cheer him up. "relax, she probably just want's to secure her spot as prefect and passing owls."

"yeah, right."

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later that day, ron hesitated but eventually asked hermione what class lily had last.

he wasn't surprised to find out it was double herbology. he stood outside of madame sprouts office greenhouse and waited. ron heard the two of them speaking so he simply paced around.

"i'll be back soon," she announced, rushing out and bumping into ron.

"oh god! i'm so sorry!" she said until she looked up to meet with ron's blue eyes. "oh? ron? what're you doing here?"

"looking for you. you've been ignoring me all day," he furrowed his eyebrows.

"sorry ron, i'm a bit busy right now," she motioned down to her body. she had taken off her robe, along with her vest, simply in her dress shirt and undone tie. she had no tights, like their usual uniform, instead she wore thigh high socks with garters peaking out of her skirt. ron looked up at her and blushed.

"where you going?"

"to the lake. right now is the perfect time to collect gillyweed," she informed.

"i'll come with."

"fine."

ron followed lily down to the lake and watched as she took of her shoes and stepped into the water.

"so, why did you come looking for me?"

"you've been ignoring me. it's quite embarrassing for me."

"i thought you would've caught on. i needed space," she said sadly.

"lily," he frowned.

she turned back to him and smiled through her obvious sadness, "aren't you coming in?"

"you're mad! i just wanted to talk to you."

"come on ron! the waters warm," she teased.

"bloody hell! as if i'm going in there," he looked at her and stood on the shore.

"fine," she frowned, but then reached for his hand and within a second, he had been pulled in my lily, falling into the water. ron, refusing to let go of lilys hand, found himself on his back in the shallow shore with lily fallen on top of him.

"lily," he whined. ron wipe his eyes to find her laughing uncontrollably.

he felt something in his stomach, tingling, but he couldn't tell what, just from being her wide smile and closed eyes.

"this is so fun!" she suddenly exclaimed, getting real close to his face that had become starstruck. he was mere centimeters from her and froze up.

"no fraternizing in the lake! detention to both of you!" yelled umbridge, making lily flinch and scurry to her feet.

"you can't do that!" she yelled, heating up out of frustration.

"yes i ca-"

"no, you cannot. i will sort punishment as she is under my house. thank you dolores but i can take it from here," madame sprout said, coming towards lily and ron. with a nasty snare, professor umbridge left the scene.

"lily dear, i told you to collect not swim with it," madame sprout teased as she helped the wet hufflepuff out of the water, ron getting up on his own.

"sorry, i have it collected though, just got a bit distracted."

"i can see that. mr. weasley, please keep your distractions towards my star pupil at a minimum," she joked with a wink.

ron stiffened and nearly shouted, "yes madame!"

professor sprout took the gillyweed and left the two.

"what're you so stiff for? she's only joking!"

"how can you read that a joking?"

an/ if you're actually reading this hi i updated the cast entirely