My Head On Your Shoulder

Part 14

Knock knock

"Who is it?" Professor Slughorn asks looking through his door

"Sir....It's Ron, I wouldn't bother you if it wasn't of the most importance"

"Yes. Come in" He opens the door

"Now what seems to be the problem?" He asks as I grabbed Ron's arm and pulled him to the couch.

"Ron was hit by a very powerful love potion"

"Harry I would assume you know how to solve this problem?" He asks getting all of his materials

He immediately stopped when Ron walked up to him and gave him a hug from behind.

"I thought this should take the job of a professional. I don't want to make any mistakes" I tell him as i took Ron back to the couch

"Where is Romilda?" Ron complains

"Ron we will go see her soon" I tell him

"Sir I did want to apolgize for earlier. I had no right bringing up the past like that. I'm truly sorry" I apologized

"Water under the bridge. Now Mr. Weasley needs to drink this and everything should be fine" He walks over to Ron with a cup of orange liquid

"What is this?" Ron asks in a dreamy tone

"If you drink it, i will take you to see Romilda" I tell him

Quickly he drank it all. He stares off in space for a moment, eventually he starts looking around. He looked at Slughorn then at me.

"What happened?"

"Love potion. And a pretty strong one at that" I tell him

"You need a pick me up. Drink some of this, it was going to be a gift but I'm sure we would have better use for it" I see Slughorn grab a bottle and pour the red liquid into 3 glasses, He hands one to both of us.

Ron instantly drinks his. After a few seconds I see him fall to the ground with foam coming out of his mouth.

"Ron! What happened to him!" I fell next to him

I looked towards Slughorn who seems to not be doing anything. I got up and looked through all of his drawers looking for it. If i remembered the book correctly, i had to find a bezor to counteract the poison. Finally I found a bezor. I grabbed it and shoved it down his throat in the hopes that he will swallow it. After a minute, i saw him starting to breathe. Thank Merlin.

"These people are trying to kill me" Ron says lifting his head up but quickly laying it back down.

I fell back against the couch still reeling from the experience. I looked at professor Slughorn to see the confusion written on his face. What happened?

The next morning....

Ron was taken to the hospital and I have been here waiting all morning.

"Mr.Potter, great job saving his life. Slughorn ought to be proud" Mcgonagall tells me

Dumbledore and Snape walked in behind her and so did Hermione.

"Harry I just found out. Is he going to be okay?" Hermione walks past them and takes a seat next to me.

"Yeah. Lucky I got bezor in him in time"

"I am so proud of you Harry" She admires happily

"We agree his actions were heroic but why were they needed in the first place?" Mcgonagall asks Dumbledore

"Horace you say this was a gift? Who was this gift for?" Dumbledore asks Slughorn

"I intended to give to you, sir"

I looked towards Hermione who is probably thinking the same thing as me. Someone is seriously trying to kill professor Dumbledore.

"Ronnikens! Where is he?" I heard the loud high pitched sound coming towards us, it could only be Lavender.

"Has he been asking for me?" She asks

"Obviously not since he is clearly unconscious" Hermione replies in a rude tone

"What are you even doing here? You two haven't talked properly in weeks. I doubt he would even want you here!" Lavender yells, i could see the guilt written on Hermione's face after she says that.

"I am his friend none the less. What about you?"

"I am his girlfriend!" Lavender yells

I looked at Ron who begins moving a bit. I heard the faint sound coming from him like he was trying to speak.

"See! He wants me" Lavender pushes past Hermione and grabs his hands

"H...Her...Hermione" He whispers eyes still closed, he must be barely awake.

Next thing I saw was Lavender running out of the room crying. The professors soon left us be, probably not wanting to deal with teen drama. Hermione seemed surprised when Ron said her name, but then again Ron does love her.

"Harry it means nothing. I don't even like Ron anymore....I am completely over him. Honestly Ron is just a brother to me now....i promise" She says quietly, it was like she read my mind

"I wasn't going to say anything" I tell her

"I know what you were thinking and I know how you felt"

Things between us has been changing. We have been flirting alot and kissing. I think we like each other....well I like her alot. Our relationship has developed into something nore than a friendship. At least we both acknowledged it.

"We should go. We have to go to class" I tell her

She turns away from him and grabs my hand. We walked to potions together.

The next day....

Hermione's pov

I got up bright and early this morning. I got dressed and headed down to the common room to read awhile before breakfast.

To my surprise Harry is already down here.

"Harry? What are you doing up so early?" I asked taking a seat next to him

"Couldn't sleep. I couldn't get what happened to Ron out of my head. I mean what poison could have made him collapse?"

"No clue. But at least you saved his life. He better owe you big when he gets out of the hospital wing"

"Yeah. So what are you doing up so early?" He asks me

"I wanted to wake up early and get some reading done. Plus I needed to review my potions homework" I tell him, he just started to laugh

"Hermione. You are at the top of the class. I'm sure whatever you turn in will be perfect"

"Well maybe i wanted to do as good as you"

"But I have a book with all the answers" He has a point, well at least he acknowledged what he was doing is wrong

"Still. Your learning and that's a good thing. Sure i rather have you learn without the book but at least I won't be the only one ahead of the class" I am immensely proud of him for doing as well as me, it takes quite alot of skill

I started looking over my homework but something distracted me. I glanced over at Harry and he was staring at me, i saw his cheeks turn red when he realized i was looking back at him. Soon we both got up and went to breakfast.

Later that day....

I was on my way to the great hall to study since we had no more classes. I decided to read for awhile, but then Ginny walked over to me.

"Hey Hermione. Everyone is gryffindor decided to have a little party tonight. We will be playing truth or dare, dancing, and there will be fire whiskey involved. What do you think?" She asks me

"Sounds like fun. Does Harry know?"

"Yeah. He asked the same thing about you"

People have known me to be an uptight bookworm. Maybe this party wouldn't be such a bad thing? If Harry agreed to it maybe it was a good idea.

"I will be there" I tell her