Golden | h.p

48| And you didn't tell me?!

"I have to admit, I thought I was going to miss that last one" Ron gloated to his friends later that night while they were all in the common room reading different things. "Good to see your confidence and ego has gone up since earlier today, Ronnie" Diana joked. "Hope Cormac's not taking it too hard. He's got a bit of a thing for you, Ana" Ron told her.

Harry rolled his eyes at the mention of Cormac. "He's vile" Diana stated clearly. "Besides he thinks he's all that. It's infuriating" Diana muttered. Harry had placed his hand on Diana's thigh as he continued reading. 

Hermione noticed this and her eyes instantly beamed. "Diana Aubrey Bennett" Hermione said as she placed the newspaper down. "Wait, did you two..." Hermione said slowly and pointed from Diana to Harry. 

"You two made up?" Ron asked as he followed along with what Hermione was saying. "And you didn't tell me?!" Hermione asked in a jokingly offended way. "A little more than just make up" Harry mumbled, to which Ron gasped "how dare you two keep secrets from us". 

"We didn't think we were obligated to say anything" Diana shrugged, but Ron and Hermione knew she was joking. "Of course you are both obligated. We're your best friends!" Hermione said as she threw a pillow at both of them and then sat back down.

"Do any of you know this spell?" Harry changed the subject as he showed his book to Hermione, then Diana, and lastly Ron. "Sectumsempra? No, I haven't" Hermione said as she didn't like the idea of Harry having that book.

"If you had a shred of self respect you would turn that book in" Hermione advised. "Not bloody likely. He's top of the class. Even better than you two" Ron told the girls, Hermione shook her head slightly and scoffed. "Slughorn thinks he's a genius" Ron said. Hermione full blown glared at him.

"I'd like to know who's that book was" Hermione said and reached over to grab the book but Harry abruptly stood up. "No" Harry said simply, "no? Why not?" Hermione asked. "The binding is fragile" Harry lied.

"The binding is fragile?" Diana repeated in confusion. Hermione nodded subtly to Diana, who casted a similar spell to Accio but it was the Bennett witch equivalent. "Hey!" Harry groaned as Diana opened the book.  "Who's the Halfblood Prince?" Diana asked, "who?" Hermione asked confused as if she hadn't heard Diana.

"That's what it says. 'This book is property of the Half Blood Prince' " Diana said, Harry didn't say anything and neither did Hermione. Ron had looked as if he were watching an episode of Friends in real life. 

Diana tossed Harry the book back and Harry walked up to his dormitory. Ron was debating whether or not to follow after him but got a little distracted when he saw Lavender Brown smiling at him, to which he responded by smiling awkwardly.

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"Have you finished the Potions assignment?" Diana asked Harry, the two had been working on homework while Hermione and Ron were in the library. Harry turned from her to the Half Blood Prince's book, "that's right, I forgot to have the magical cheat sheet for Potions" Diana said. 

"You can use it if you want" Harry said and handed her the book. "I'd rather not. If I really do need help then you can teach me but I don't want to use it unless it's a hundred percent nes-" she was cut of when Harry started kissing her.

She pulled away and said, "we are in the common room". He rolled his eyes, "so?" he asked. "So, what if someone walks in? We don't want another incident like Ginny's the other day" Diana reminded him. "I could care less" Harry told her as he crashed his lips onto hers again, this time she didn't stop him.

Things escalated rather quickly between the two of them and had stopped so that if they did what they wanted to do next, they couldn't be walked in on. 

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"Harry" Ron knocked on the door of the dormitory. "Unlock the door" Ron whined as he continued knocking. "Invisique" Diana mumbled and had turned herself invisible and stayed as quiet as Harry opened the door and let Ron in.

"Your hair's a mess... Where you sleeping or something?" Ron asked as he noticed Harry's hair and clothes were a mess as if he were in a hurry to get out of there.

"I was trying to, yes, but you kept knocking so loudly that I barley could" Harry lied. "Sorry about that, mate. Hermione and I wanted to know if you and Diana wanted to go visit Hagrid's" Ron said. "No, thank you" Harry said. "Alright... have you seen Diana? I would have assumed she was with you" Ron said as he looked around the room. 

"I think she went to the Astronomy Tower to read" Harry lied. "You think?" Ron asked. "She's my girlfriend, yes, but I don't have to keep tabs on her whereabouts" Harry told Ron. "Right, right. So, I guess, I'll see you later. Have fun... sleeping" Ron said slowly as he stepped outside of the room and shut the door behind him.

"Well?" Hermione asked Ron. "He was sleeping and says Diana's most likely at the Astronomy Tower" Ron told Hermione as they walked down the stairs and to the common room. "It's eight thirty. Why would he be sleeping?" Hermione asked, mainly herself. 

Ron shrugged and then plopped himself down on the couch and pulled out 'The Outsiders'  that Diana had let him borrow. "Where did you get that book?" Hermione asked. "Diana is letting me borrow it. I got bored and asked her if she had any books that wouldn't bore me to death" Ron told her.

Something about the fact that Ron would only read what Diana gave him made her feel a slight hint of jealously but she but put past her. "Have you watched the movie?" Hermione asked. "There's a movie of this book?" Ron asked, to which Hermione nodded. "I'll have to watch it soon" Ron shrugged and continued reading.

"It's a Hogsmeade weekend. We should go together, if you want to" Hermione said. Ron looked up from his book. "Obviously I want to. We can talk to Diana and Harry about it tomorrow" Ron said, not realizing what Hermione meant.

A/N- It's a slightly shorter chapter, but I hoped you liked it nonetheless. Sorry I didn't write that scene, but I am horrible at writing that kind of thing. But this was a little fun, easy chapter while I work on an edit for Candice King's birthday. If you want to see the edit it'll be posted on both my instagram and tiktok, which is; @bennettwifey (if you want to see the final edit).