Summer Love - Ron Weasley

37 - Broken Noses

Harry, Hermione, Ron, and I are all sitting in a compartment together on the Hogwarts Express. I decide to stretch my legs and walk through the train.

I stop when I see Ginny talking to Dean in the walkway. I see Luna coming down the isle and I smile. She stops in front of Dean and Ginny and smiles.

"He's lovely. They've been known to sing on Boxing Day, you know?" Luna tells Ginny, referring to Ginny's pygmy puff.

Ginny thanks her with a smile.

"Quibbler?" Luna offers Ginny a magazine.

"Sure." Ginny says and takes it.

She examines the cover and crinkles her eyebrows together.

"What's a wrackspurt?" Ginny questions, looking at Luna.

"They're invisible creatures. They float in your ears and make your brain go fuzzy." Luna explains.

Luna continues through the train, offering everyone a magazine. I go back to the my compartment and walk in on a conversation. None of them notice my return.

"So, what was Crabbe doing with that weird looking cabinet? And who were all those people?" Ron queries.

"Don't you see? It was a ceremony. An initiation." Harry replies, looking up at Ron.

"Stop it, Harry. I know where you're going with this." Hermione says, looking up from her book.

"It's happened. He's one of them." Harry adds.

"One of what?" Ron asks, his eyebrows creasing.

"Harry is under the impression that Vincent Crabbe is now a Death Eater." I state, startling the trio.

"Fucking hell, Elena. Don't do that." Ron groans.

"Sorry." I mumble.

"Anyways, Harry, you're barking. What would You-Know-Who want with someone like Crabbe?" Ron turns his attention back to Harry.

"Well what was he doing in Borgins and Burke's? Browsing for furniture?" Harry sarcastically remarks.

"It's a creepy shop. He's a creepy bloke." Ron replies.

"His father is a Death Eater. It makes sense." Harry looks up at me.

"My father's a Death Eater. Doesn't mean I'm running to the Dark Lord with open arms." I state sarcastically with a chuckle.

"Hermione saw it with her own eyes!" Harry scoffs.

"I told you. I don't know what I saw." Hermione chimes in.

There's a weird silence in the compartment for a few seconds.

"I need some air." Harry finally says, getting up to leave the compartment.

He takes his invisibility cloak, brushes past me, and leaves.

"I'm going to go check on him." I leave out the door.

"Harry, wait up!" I exclaim.

He tries to hide his invisibility cloak and I scoff.

"Oi, piss off. I already know what you're about to do." I state.

"Well, I don't want you to be in there with me." he tells me.

"I can distract them while you sneak in." I assure him.

He thinks about it for a moment before nodding to me.

We walk towards the back of train and we get to the Slytherin compartment. I see Draco and I smile.