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Hermione Granger ([info]cerebralwitch) wrote in [info]wished,
@ 2010-04-30 21:29:00

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Entry tags:!1998: 04, !incomplete, hermione granger, ron weasley

Who: Hermione and Ron
What: Talking about her research
Where: Her room at Shell Cottage
When: Tonight
Rating/Warning: Plotty


Hermione stared at the notes again and shook her head, then tossed the notebook down in favor of grabbing something to tie her hair back with so she was at least presentable. It took Ron longer than she'd thought it would, though, and so by the time that he came in she was already back on her bed, sitting with the notebook propped up in her lap, and the text Dumbledore had given her hovering at eye level so that she could double check passages.

It made sense that they would be the things they were looking for - they had the cup now, and what was left? Just the diadem. Well, and Nagini - but they all knew where the snake would be, at its master's side, so the diadem really was all that was left. And what better place for Ravenclaw to have hidden it away? But the same could have been true of the cup, and that was in a vault belonging to the Lestranges of all people. Hermione almost hoped she was paranoid again, reading too much of what she wanted into this, and that Ron would tell her so. Because going back to Hogwarts now - with Harry - was far more dangerous than facing that dragon had been.


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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 02:37 am UTC (link)
Ron wasn't too eager to hear any news these days - and if it was something Hermione thought was important, she was usually right, and that usually meant they were in for more excitement than he really cared for. Still, the dread wasn't overwhelming. It was hard to find time alone around here, with anyone.

He slipped inside and sat at the foot of the foot of the bed, nudging the hovering book a few inches to the side - Dumbledore's, of course. He couldn't help but glance down at the notebook. Another theory, probably, and he hadn't even really recovered from the last one. "Hey," he said, trying not to sound too hopeful. He steeled himself. "Something big, is it?"

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 02:40 am UTC (link)
Hermione had been looking so intently at the few passages she'd scribbled this afternoon that she honestly hadn't heard him come in, and when he spoke she jumped a bit - then sighed, blushing, and nodded. "I think so," She said, and then before he can ask she said in a rush, "The last horcrux is it Hogwarts."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 02:47 am UTC (link)
"You need a break," he said immediately, shutting the floating book midair and directing it down towards the bed. She was too engrossed by half in all this stuff. He stared almost wearily at the blankets as he let it turn over in his mind, and then finally looked up at her with a somewhat uncertain expression.

"That's a problem. We can't all go back there - not Harry, I mean, that'd be loony." But he was a little surprised to discover that he wanted to. "Do you know where it is?"

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 02:55 am UTC (link)
"No idea," she said quickly, waving away the idea that she needed a break and reaching for the book he'd closed, opening it instinctively back to the exact page it had been open to before. Her hands knew the book too well.

"That's just it, Ron. I think we have to go back, all of us, especially Harry. I don't think we'd be able to find it without him."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 03:01 am UTC (link)
Ron pulled the book firmly into his lap. She could at least take a breather while she was talking to him. It wasn't like they got to do it all that often, not like this. "Look, I think someone should go back. Someone should have done already, actually. But they want Harry there, don't they? And if they catch him, it's over." He wasn't at all sure that he knew everything about Hogwarts that Harry did, but ... really, was it that hard to believe? "I'll bet it's near impossible to sneak in there even when You-Know-Who's lackeys aren't waiting to snag you the moment you set foot inside."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 03:04 am UTC (link)
Hermione glared at him for a moment as he took the the book, but for now she let him keep it. She didn't need to see it to know exactly what was there, anyway. She saw the passages in her sleep.

When he was done talking though, the look had changed from a glare to a look that had always meant the same thing - that he was being thick and missing something that was obvious. "Ron. After we find the diadem, Harry's got to be caught, doesn't he? Because after that, all that's left is..." Nagini, and then Voldemort himself.

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 03:12 am UTC (link)
Ron looked back stubbornly. He wasn't giving any ground where books were concerned, and as for Harry ... "Why does he have to be caught? He's got to get in close, yeah,but - he's done it before, hasn't he? On his own terms."

Except he hadn't, really. It had always been a trap or a trick. The thought of him getting caught on purpose, though, was too much. It made him feel strangely frustrated. "That can't be the only way it works out. There's too many of them at Hogwarts."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 03:14 am UTC (link)
Hermione looked away, back to her journal like that would make it any easier to say, but she didn't have an answer. "It doesn't really matter how many of them there are, You Know Who wants Harry for himself, none of the others would really touch him until He came to ... finish the job."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 03:23 am UTC (link)
"... Yeah." He watched her carefully. She was right about that much - still, they'd hunted down all these damned horcruxes, so shouldn't they be able to find Voldemort himself when the time came? Of course, it would be much easier - faster, at least - to lay the bait.

Bait was a really awful word, and the thought made him feel a touch sick. He reached over for her hand, not least to pull it away from her notebook. "Don't suppose we'll have a chance to stop and chat with anyone," he muttered. Whoever ended up going. He still didn't see why Harry had to be around to have a go at the diadem - surely they could get that out of the way for him first.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 03:26 am UTC (link)
Hermione let him take her hand, and squeezed his fingers, but then rolled her eyes at the question. "Ron, we'd be lucky if were were able to find it, destroy it, and get out ourselves.... " Especially since she didn't have the slightest idea where to start looking. Maybe if they asked the DA... but no, they couldn't do that, and the DA had their own problems with teachers torturing students.

"I know I sound like a ... nihilist, or something. But I don't see any other way."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 03:33 am UTC (link)
"I know, I know. Always so bloody touch-and-go. But it would be nice to take a few of them out, too." He could think of one or two in particular he'd like to see removed. "And you're all right. You're the only reason we've found any of this stuff at all. If you think that's the way, it probably is."

That didn't mean he had to like it, of course. "But you could think on it a few more days, couldn't you?" he asked, squeezing her hand in return and laying the book on neutral territory, on the bed. "Just in case?"

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 03:36 am UTC (link)
"I haven't been thinking about anything else, Ron." She said sourly, even though it wasn't exactly true - she'd been thinking about too many things. About whether or not she needed to write a will, and about Ron and that night they'd laughed and felt free because of the potions the twins had sent them. She thought about her parents, too, and the charms on them, and wondered if they'd hold well. If something did happen to her, she'd need them to...

"I wasn't planning on telling Harry, not yet. But if things get any worse at Hogwarts... well, it might be better to go sooner. Before anyone there is... " Killed, she thought to herself, but finished with, "Hurt. More than they have been."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 03:45 am UTC (link)
"Killed, more like," he said, because he'd thought it more than enough times to make it a near certainty in his own head. "With those maniacs at the helm."

He was quiet for a while. She was right, again, that it was better to do it sooner. And he didn't mind the thought of him, or even her, going as soon as the next morning. But the closer it came to the end, the fewer small hurdles there were to clear before they came to the day they'd know who had actually won, the less he enjoyed the thought of moving things along. "If things get worse, then," he said at last. Of course they would.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 03:48 am UTC (link)
That if hung there between them, because both of them knew it was a joke, a lie. Things would get worse, were getting worse every day, every hour for the people trapped at Hogwarts with the Death Eaters.

But they both already knew it, and it wouldn't do any good at all to say it. Suddenly, Hermione didn't really have the energy to say it, either, and so she squeezed his hand again and nodded like she was agreeing. "We'll see." And she knew she'd tell Harry soon, but they could give it a few more days to breathe, and maybe she'd be wrong.

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 03:52 am UTC (link)
"Yes, we will." He'd gotten pretty good at putting inevitabilities aside, recently - there were so many of them to dodge - and he tried to do it now, clearing away the things that there was no sense in worrying over to make room for anything else. His attempt to change the subject seemed to come off a little clumsy, though: "Meantime - Luna's not driving you batty, is she?" he asked, mostly looking down at her hand in his. "She at least takes her mouse out to talk to it?"

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-01 03:54 am UTC (link)
Suddenly, though, Hermione was glad for anything that wasn't how she knew she'd have to tell her best friend that it was time to walk in to meet his final battle, his ultimate enemy, and that they had to do it blind and unprepared...

"No, it's been great, actually. She seems to know when to distract me." It would be nicer if it was Ron, or Harry, someone less perplexing and illogical, but Hermione was growing rather fond of Luna.

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-01 04:05 am UTC (link)
"Yeah? That must be nice," he said, working up a smile as he tugged playfully at her hand and pushed the book further out of the way (without quite committing the sacrilege of shoving it onto the floor). "Not that Harry's not great about being distracting. Especially around two in the morning when he really starts to snore. He's a miserable snorer, you know," he lied. "Wicked distracting."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-03 03:17 am UTC (link)
Hermione rolled her eyes, but there was almost the edge of a smile on her mouth. At least Ron was trying, and that was something, even if she knew she wouldn't stop thinking about runes. She dreamt about those sodding runes.

"I do know, actually. I did share a tent with the two of you."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-05 01:39 am UTC (link)
"Well, you never got the brunt of it, I'm sure," he muttered, before moving on from slandering Harry - he picked up the book and leaned close across her to set it on the side table. He put his arm around her shoulders and tugged her against him, as though to keep her out of arm's reach of it. "Nice not to have to listen for wild animals anymore, anyhow."

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-05 01:48 am UTC (link)
"I don't know, it started to be comforting after a bit," Hermione was just contradicting to be contradictory, though, and she smiled up at him, tiredly, then let him tug her away from her book, happy enough for now to lean in against his side, her head on his shoulder.

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-05 01:57 am UTC (link)
"If you say so. I think the ocean makes for better background noise, really. Less chance of getting trampled, or eaten." He smiled back at her, thought it threatened to pull into something like a grin. "It's the little things, after all." He leaned back against the headboard, hoping that was all right. A little rest sounded just about perfect right now.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-05 02:08 am UTC (link)
Hermione felt him lie back, and she should have pulled away - knew she should have, really - but instead she went with him, turned so that she was half laying against his side, and her head could stay on his shoulder - one arm sliding across his chest. "No, only the risk here of someone pushing you off the edge of the cliff. Or of your own falling.... I think you might fare better in the forest, really."

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-09 04:24 pm UTC (link)
"I'm not that much of a klutz," Ron complained, resting his hand on her arm and smiling down towards the foot of the bed, suddenly very reluctant to move at all, lest he dislodge her. "There's plenty to trip over in the forest, anyway. And who, exactly, do you suspect of wanting to push me off a cliff? I haven't stepped on any toes in weeks." Not that that ever lasted very long.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-12 02:59 am UTC (link)
"That you noticed," Hermione said, in that way meant to make him think about it, but then she smiled and stared down at his hand on her arm for a minute before she sighed, soft, and relaxed back against him even more. If they weren't going to tell Harry, there was no use dwelling on it tonight.

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-12 03:07 am UTC (link)
Ron gave her a skeptical look, even as he began working his way back over the past few days for any sign he might have offended her (because really, who else did he care that much about offending) - but she wasn't kicking him out now, and so he wouldn't worry on it. "Someone would have said something," he said confidently. He put a careful arm around her shoulders. "No one around here walks around with anything on their chest." Well, not many people.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-12 03:13 am UTC (link)
"How could we? Everything's on our shoulders." Hermione smirked just a bit at the joke, though, and then looked up at him from her place on his shoulder. He was just... close. And for once, that didn't make her feel anxious, or nervous. He was comfortable, and warm, and how many more of these good moments would they have left?

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-12 04:00 am UTC (link)
Ron rolled his eyes, smiling slightly. It didn't feel as though he had quite as much on his shoulders at the moment, and he knew why. It wasn't so much of a mystery to him anymore. She could make him feel better even sitting on some muddy rock out in the freezing middle of nowhere. "I suppose if someone pushed me off a cliff, it'd all fall off, would it?" Much easier to stay inside, even with all the extra baggage.

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[info]cerebralwitch
2010-05-21 12:42 am UTC (link)
"You're so thick, you might bounce," Hermione smirked a little against his shoulder, saying it, and then looked up at him - and she wasn't sure what it was that came over her, because she always let him kiss first, the few times it had happened it had seemed almost accidental when she thought about it later, but this time she felt herself moving up - surging, really - and her mouth covered his awkwardly without much warning.

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[info]geroffme
2010-05-22 11:41 pm UTC (link)
"Nice," Ron said with a quiet scoff, letting his fingers play up a little from her shoulder into her hair. He was feeling a bit thick. It wasn't that retorts ever really came to him quickly enough, but he was having a particularly hard time thinking of what to say now. There was something about feeling her weight against him that was very distracting, in a reassuring sort of way.

Then she saved him the effort, which, he thought, was only fair since it was her fault he didn't know what to say to begin with. He gave a start, but recovered quickly. His hand pushed further into her hair and he twisted a little onto his side to put his arm over her waist, wedging his shoulder uncomfortably up against the headboard; he hardly noticed. He wouldn't have moved even if he had, wouldn't have done anything to change it.

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