Butterbeer, Broomsticks & Nargles

Forest of Dean

***Hermione Granger*** 

"You can't pretend like nothing happened." I snap, standing up and pushing the quilt off of my legs. Harry walks over " I'm not trying to Hermione.. it's just easier then excepting the fact that what we did was wrong.. and he can't hear about the other thing,  I mean both of the things we did were wrong." He looks away and fiddles with a button on his jumper. 

"Well.. that's the last time,..- " I hear Ron's footsteps and quickly change tactic ..-" I offer to cut your hair if that's what you mean Harry." I glare at him and cross my arms, for a best friend he can be very irritating at times. "Mione" He sighs and walks over to me, placing his arm on my back "now who's pretending like nothing happened?" 

"what happened?" Ron walks into the tent spluttering through mouthfalls of yet another chocolate muffin. I push away from Harry anxious for Ron not to see the closeness of our arms or the awkwardness between us. " AND how many of those have you eaten today??" I snap at him, furious partly with his greedyness and also with his untimely entrance. 

"Urm.. three.. god blimey you sound more like my Mother every day." He laughs, and bites into the muffin again, then looks at Harry and chuckles "ok so what did I miss.. has she been starved of a library for too long or ---" 

"WE left everyone behind!!" I stamp my feet hard on the carpet " Ginny.. Neville..Luna.. Dean.. Seamus... Fred...George..-"

Ron throws the muffin aside "DONT YOU THINK I KNOW THAT??? care to mention any more members of my family that I left to fight the death eaters?? We agreed that getting Harry to safety was our priority. Harry has always been our priority." He goes red in the face and avoids looking at me or Harry who is now shifting awkwardly by the entrance of the tent. 

Harry turns and forces himself to look at us both - "I'm sorry to both of you, for everything that's happened for all the danger I put you and your families in for the last six years, I never asked for any of this, I just wanted a simple life like everyone else.. I didnt ask you to come with me -- I didnt ask for the K--" he glances at me then looks away "I didnt ask for the urm death eaters to chase me either but I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry and well I couldnt do any of this without you.. you are my best friends" 

Tears form in my eyes, why did this all have to get so complicated? What happened before we apparated that night maybe Harry was right, Ron doesnt need to know, maybe it's better if we pretend that - that part of the evening, the conversation that followed never happened... 

** THANK YOU so much for reading! please leave your comments below and any feedback you might have. I hope you are enjoying it so far! I've put a bit of a twist on the Deathly Hallows and you will be able to read a lot more about what happened at Hogwarts while the golden trio were searching for Horcruxes **