My Head On Your Shoulder

Part 13

2 weeks later....

"You could've been killed! They always seem to find you. Don't you get who you are?" She yells as we are walking in the hall

I know Hermione is upset because the daily prophet has been blaming me for what happened at the burrow, but I couldn't help being famous.

"I know who I am and there is nothing i can do about it!" I yelled back, i saw the sadness immediately form in her eyes

"I'm sorry. I just....i hate that they always seem to destroy something or someone i care about. I shouldn't have taken my anger out on you"

"It's alright Harry" She says her smile returning

"I didn't think they would write about it. It happened a couple weeks ago and i was hoping they wouldn't care anymore" I tell her, she pulls me in for a hug, her warmth instantly made me feel better about the situation

"Me too" We continued walking after seperating from each other

As we're walking, Parvati and Padma walks over to us.

"Hey guys. How was your Christmas?" Parvati asks

"It was wonderful. I got to spend it with Harry, Ron, and Ginny. What about you?"

"Fine....Hermione is that a ring!" Parvati asks excitedly noticing the ring on her finger

"It was a Christmas present from Harry" Hermione admits holding her hand out

"Harry....you have wonderful taste in jewlery. I mean it almost looks like an engagement ring" Padma says to me, well I suppose that is a good skill to have.

I didn't want to seem like I was proposing, will everyone think i was proposing?

"It is not a engagement ring. I gave it to her because I thought she would like it, i did not propose to her" I tell them quickly, Hermione's face instantly goes red

"Okay....whatever you say. I wouldn't be surprised. You two are with each other every minute.....well we will catch you guys later" Parvati says as they walked away giggling

"Well that was awkward"

"Yeah. It's fine though. Let's just go to class" Hermione says

We continued walking through the halls to see Ron and Lavender flirting and hugging. Lavender just gave him a love necklace, it had a giant pink heart on it. He looked rather miserable.

"I feel bad for him" Hermione says giggling

"Sure you do. Come on we should head to class" She places her arm in mine and we walked past Ron ignoring the look we were getting.

Potions....

Slughorn was having us write an essay on polyjuice. I knew alot about it already since i learned about it in second year. Hermione and i started laughing as we started thinking of the last time we used polyjuice.

"You grabbed cat hair instead. I mean i didn't think you would turn into a cat" I said trying not to laugh to much

"Neither did I. It wasn't funny. I was coughing up hairballs for a week" She complains, she then starts giggling

The class was just looking at us as we were laughing. Slughorn didn't even notice his class was distracted. I finished writing my essay and turned it in. I said my goodbyes to Hermione as class ended.

After class i decided to go try and talk to Slughorn again. Earlier i watched another memory of Tom Riddle. He was asking Slughorn a question about something he read, but i didn't really get to hear what it was since Slughorn changed the memory. Dumbledore sent me to try and find out what they were talking about. I stayed in his class hoping to get an answer out of him.

"Sir? I wanted to ask you something" I tell him

"What is it my dear boy?"

"I was in the restricted section of the library and i came across something. It was about some rare magic that i imagine you wouldn't ever teach us. Is there such a magic that you can't teach us?"

"This seems like a question professor Snape is more fit to answer" He says kindly, if only he knew the truth why I can't ask Snape about this.

"Snape and i have a complicated relationship....he isn't like you. Snape will just send me to detention and take away points from gryffindor" I tell him

It wasn't that complicated, he just hated me.

"I suppose. I choose to live in the light rather than dark Harry. Snape is quite a dark teacher, No wonder most children are scared of him"

"Is that the same answer you gave Tom riddle when had questions?" He stopped and freezes, he began to look at me in anger

"Dumbledore did this? Did he put you up to this? He did didn't he! That manipulative....!" Slughorn yells before walking out, not even answering my question

Well that turned out well.

I walked out and headed to herbology. I stood next to Hermione and she stared asking me questions about Slughorn.

"So how did it go? Did Slughorn tell you anything?" She asks

"No. The minute I asked him something, he knew Dumbledore had something to do with it. I don't know how I'm going to get anything out of him, i mean he probably won't even talk to me"

"I'm sorry Harry. Don't worry I'm sure Slughorn will just forget about the whole situation. I mean you are his favorite student" She says instantly cheering me up

After classes ended Hermione and I went to our seperate rooms.

I walked in my room to see Ron staring outside. He isn't moving and seems fixated on the moon.

"Ron?"

"Isn't the moon beautiful Harry?" He says in a dreamy tone

"Sure. What have you been eating?" I noticed lots of candy wrappers on my bed

"They were on your bed so I had some....I hope you don't mind" I usually wouldn't but something seems wrong

"I love her Harry" Ron stands up holding a pillow tightly, he has a huge smile on his face

"Really? I thought you would be annoyed by now? I saw her give you that necklace, and you looked miserable" I'm surprised, maybe he had a change of heart about her

I was still a bit confused, he has been acting like she was bothering him.

"How could I be annoyed. Do you think she notices me? I always try to get her attention"

Why wouldn't Lavender notice Ron? All she has done for the past 3 months is snog him every chance she gets. What is going with him?

"You two have been together for 3 months. I would hope so"

"Who are you talking about?" He asks confused

"Lavender of course. Who are you talking about?" I asked him, i thought it was obvious

"Romilda Vane of course. Do you mind intorducing us? I'm sure you know her" He asks grabbing the empty box of chocolates on my bed

I grabbed the box out of his hand and looked inside. It was from the same Romilda Vane who has been trying to slip me a love potion. I looked on my bed to see the card she wrote, Ron must have opened it.

What am I supposed to do if my best friend accidentally got slipped a love potion? Just then I realized what i needed to do.

"Ron how about we go find her right now" I grabbed his shoulder and led him to professor Slughorn's classroom.