Treacherous | Hermione Granger Book II

|48| Chapter Forty-Eight

F O R T Y  E I G H T

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It seemed that Fred and George Weasley had made it their mission to embarrass both Harry and Ginny in the common room later on that evening. Although they hadn't actually witnessed the Valentines song incident, they had been given a detailed account of it, as had the rest of the school. This account was so detailed that they had taken it upon themselves to recite it to the rest of the common room, singing and dancing around the room, much to the amusement of most of the students.

Saffron would have laughed along, but she only had eyes for two people. The first of whom was Harry, who was trying to focus on his Potions homework and trying even harder to block out the twins. The other person was Ginny, who seemed so absent from the situation that it worried Saffron. Everyone presumed that it was her that had sent the Valentine to Harry. If Saffron had that accusation, she would have removed herself from the situation. But Ginny seemed so nonplussed that she didn't seem to even realise what was going on. When Saffron stared at her brown eyes, she noticed a real glazed over expression over them. It almost felt like she was asleep on the inside whilst putting up the pretence of being awake on the outside.

Both Harry and Ginny ultimately had enough. But they expressed that they had had enough in two starkly contrasting manners.

Harry opted for a calm approach. He stood up from the armchair he sat in, gathered up his belongings, placed them in his bag that Hermione had magically fixed for him earlier that afternoon and bid his goodbyes, to a roar of laughter from the majority of the Gryffindors.

"What did he say he's tired?" Fred asked Ron, laughing almost triumphantly. Saffron rolled her eyes in annoyance, watching on as Ron confirmed that that had been Harry's excuse. "Tired my arse! Does he think we're idiots?"

"You are idiots," Melanie Jensen, Maya's friend told Fred loudly, from her seat across the room, with Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinett on either side of her.

"Precisely, Jensen, that's the point," George said to the girl matter-of-factly. "The more people that think you're dumb, the better, I always say,"

All of a sudden, a textbook had been flung across the room, hitting George square in the stomach. Moments later, another one hit Fred. Saffron let out a gasp when she saw that the source of the throws was Ginny. Every inch of the girl's face was beetroot red, and she stood up with her fists clenched, before letting out a hiss:

"Can't you both just shut up! It's not funny, why do you have to be so mean? You're acting like Slytherins, it's . . . it's just cruel!" The common room was dead silent as a side to Ginny that Saffron had never seen before came out. "You both deserve to be in Slytherin because you're nasty, so just leave me alone,"

With that, Ginny seemed to realise that every single person in the common room was watching her eagle-eyed. Fred and George were staring at her as she had turned into a three-headed dog, Ron dropped his quill and Saffron clasped her hand over her mouth. The look of horror on Ginny's face could have made Saffron cry then and there, as Ginny did cry moments later and sprinted up to the common room.

Nobody spoke for a good few moments after that. The silence was broken by Saffron who got up out of her seat, picked up the books Ginny had thrown and packed the girls bag with the utensils she had been using for homework. She then made her way up to the girl's dormitories and it was only then that she heard a rush of chatter amidst the common room.