The Potter Twins

Chapter 4: Girl Troubles

On the train back to school, we separated again. Boys in one compartment and girls in the other. Ginny and Hermione filled me in on the attack on the Burrow and Ginny told us both about he almost kiss with my brother. While we got off the train, Hermione pulled me behind everyone to talk. "What happened over break with you? You seem different." 

"Draco and I spend the break together." I whispered to her, making sure no one was near us to hear.

She gasped and grabbed my arm. "He said it, didn't he?" Before I could answer, she squealed and hugged me. "Oh, Haley!" 

"I think you're more excited about it then I am." I said, laughing at her reaction. 

She playfully pushed me. "Hey! My love life's going nowhere. I'm living vicariously through you." 

I decided to spent some time just me and Harry. We hadn't spend much brother sister time together that didn't involve almost getting killed. We walked around the grounds after dinner and just talked. He told me what he knew about our parents. I told him about my life before he found me. We decided how to get the memory Dumbedore needed from Slughorn and what it could possibly be. He wanted to see me the map Remus had given him in his three year, because I didn't believe he had one. When we got to the room, we saw Ron sitting on the floor staring out the window. 

"Ron?" 

He stood and looked at us, with googly eyes. "I think I'm in love, Harry." He said. He was clutching a candy box to his chest like a five year clutches a teddy bear. 

"Really? I thought you were annoyed by her?" I asked, looking at Harry. 

Ron looked angry and threw the box at me. "Don't say that! I love her!" 

I held my hands up. "Okay, I'm sorry." Then he grabbed my arm. 

"Can you introduce me?" I looked over at Harry. He looked around the room and picked up a card that was on his bed, showing it to me. 

"Sure, Ron. I can introduce you to Romilda." I took his hand off my arm and led him out with Harry. We walked to Slughorn's office and Harry knocked on his door.

Slughorn opened it only enough to see Harry. "Sorry to bother you, sir. But I have a situation." Slughorn stepped out of his office and over to me and Ron.

"What's wrong with him?" 

"A love potion. A very strong one at that." I told him and he helped me get Ron inside. Harry kept him in his seat.

"I thought you could have whipped up this cure, just as easily as me, Miss Potter." 

I smiled at him. "I suppose, sir. But I thought it required a more practice hand." He nodded in agreement and gave Ron the cure. He took a sip and it took effect almost immediately. Ron looked so confused and said he felt a little sick. So Slughorn opened a special bottle of Butterbeer that he said he had been saved for something else but that this seemed fitting. He poured each of us a glass and Ron downed the liquid then toppled over. Harry rushed over to his friend and yelled at the professor to do something, but Slughorn was shocked at what had happened. I ran over to his suitcase of potions' supplies and found the Bezoar stone. I read somewhere that it cured most poisons and shoved it in Ron's mouth.

After a minute, he started to breath, sat up and looked at Harry. "These girls are gonna kill me, Harry." And then he passed out. 

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The next morning Ginny, Hermione, Harry and I all waited in the hospital wing for Ron to wake up. Madame Pomfrey gave him a tonic to get the rest of the poison out of his system which put him to sleep. Dumbledore, Snape and Slughorn talked to me and Harry about what happened.