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Tweak says, "Möh!"

Ronald B. Weasley (geroffme) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-07-18 22:48:00

Entry tags:

!incomplete, hermione granger, ron weasley

Who: Ron & Hermione
What: Post-Quidditch confusion
When: After the Bulgaria-Ireland game
Where: Hermione's flat
Warnings/Rating: TBA

The sound of the crowd was still ringing in Ron's ears when they arrived once again at Hermione's flat, and he thought he felt a little hoarse - but it was really nothing like the energy he'd felt after walking away from any other game, win or lose. It hadn't lasted all that long, for one thing - and then, the final applause had faded into a stadium full of confused muttering, and he'd left without knowing quite what to think. It had been a pretty fantastic game, even if Bulgaria's defense really ought to be lined up and marched home, but - well, what sort of an ending was that? "I mean - you've got some sort of book on this kind of thing, right?" he asked, continuing his useless barrage of questions. This was a rules question. Hermione was great at rules. Always had been.

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cerebralwitch
2010-07-19 03:28 am UTC (link)

"A book on Quidditch rules?" Hermione said, again, because he'd asked her at least three times on the way out of the stadium if she knew what the rules were for this sort of thing. "I've got a copy of Quidditch Through the Ages," she offered, turning to one of the living room bookshelves as she shrugged out of her jacket and looking for the thin green book. "I think you left it here, actually."

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geroffme
2010-07-19 03:45 am UTC (link)

"Well, it's not in there," he said, a little disappointed. "I'd know it, if it were in there. Never mind." He tried to drag his attention from the scoreboard floating in his mind to the here and now, and had a little success, at least. He grinned, looking up at her, rather than down at his shoes, for the first time since they'd left. "That was fantastic - I mean, what the hell - but we were there! That's history. I don't know what they're going to do about it." He stopped short of saying he wished they still had access to the library, because it was possible that Hermione would find a way.

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cerebralwitch
2010-07-19 03:57 am UTC (link)

Hermione found herself laughing, and then stepping out of her shoes and going to put them by the door. "Do you think it was? A Quidditch first, I mean. After so many hundred years, and that's never happened?" That, at least, would make it more interesting. Hermione hadn't yet admitted that she really hadn't been paying that much attention to the game after the first few minutes.

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	geroffme 2010-07-19 04:06 am UTC (link)
	"Exactly. I'd have to check to be sure - you can bet someone will - but I'd never heard of anything like that before." Ron took a seat on the sofa, still looking a little dazed. "It's always something with Krum, isn't it? Weird, quiet sort of chap on the ground, but you can always count on him for drama. Fantastic," he said again, looking a bit dazed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cerebralwitch 2010-07-19 04:10 am UTC (link)
	Hermione smiled to herself, still sure she couldn't tell Ron that it was Viktor who'd given her the tickets, but happy as she went to go and sit beside him on the sofa anyway, turning so that she was facing him a bit. "Well, it was a good game, anyway? Even if they're not sure who won, exactly." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2010-07-19 04:23 am UTC (link)

Ron put his arm around her, laughing a little. "Yeah, it was a good game - a little ridiculous, the way Ireland kept running them through, but there's nothing wrong with that really. It's just great to watch them play, they're all amazing, most of them anyway." He paused. "Are you getting any more tickets? Not that this wasn't amazing, but - you haven't got some great, secret source, have you?" He grinned. "I hadn't started thinking about who to beg yet, but maybe Ginny ..."

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cerebralwitch
2010-07-27 12:11 am UTC (link)

"It really did seem as if Ireland had it, until Viktor..." Hermione trailed off then too, because what she was saying and his question coincided a little too much wth what she'd rather avoid telling him.

"I'm sure Ginny could get you tickets too, Ron. She is your sister." And if he interpreted that 'too' to mean Ginny had gotten her the tickets, that was his own fault.

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geroffme
2010-07-28 12:17 am UTC (link)

"That's what I mean - drama. He knows how to end things, always has. For all of his -" Ron cut off as an idea flashed through his head - it wasn't like they didn't know anyone on the Bulgarian team who was always so happy to help, was it? - but he dismissed it for the moment, continuing in a slightly more subdued tone. "... For all his flaws, that is. Good showman. Yeah, I should ask her, she probably could." He looked at her sidelong. "To the England matches, anyway."

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	cerebralwitch 2010-07-28 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Hermione looked at him carefully when he pointed out the England bit, then rolled her eyes and gave him a sigh that was supposed to ward off comment. "Alright, Ron. Does it really matter that Viktor gave me the tickets?" Because he'd already guessed, obviously. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2010-07-28 12:34 am UTC (link)

The conformation was unpleasant, if not really a surprise, and for a moment he wasn't quite sure what to do with it. It mattered because it was annoying, but it wasn't like there was any iron-clad reason he could trot out. "No," he said, a little more defensively than was probably warranted. "I just don't know why he wants to." ... Maybe that wasn't the best way to say it. "Aside from being friends and all, I mean." Doesn't he have other friends? he managed to keep himself from asking.

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	cerebralwitch 2010-07-28 12:37 am UTC (link)
	Hermione's eyes narrowed a bit. "Why exactly would he need more of a reason than that? It isn't as if he has family here, and most of the other Order members who are remotely close to his age are either playing Quidditch, or able to get their own." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2010-07-28 12:58 am UTC (link)

"You don't think his family comes up to see him play in the bloody World Cup?" That wasn't really the point, though, and he wasn't going to win going off on tangents. "I just mean it's a little strange he'd give them to you, you know, considering." It would have made much more sense, Ron decided, if Krum had sent them to him. That would have been the sensible thing to do.

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	cerebralwitch 2010-07-28 01:04 am UTC (link)
	"Considering what? That I've been friends with him for nearly ten years?" Hermione crossed her arms over her chest, a sure sign she was preparing for a good row. "Or considering the fact that we had one date, eight years ago, and you're still fixated on it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2010-07-28 01:53 am UTC (link)

"I am not fixated! It just seems like the sort of thing a person ought to remember, you know, when he's -" Ron bit his tongue. He could see Hermione entrenching herself, and they'd covered this ground before - and even if he was pretty sure he'd won (he couldn't quite recall), it never ended that well. "Look," he began again, trying for a more reasonable tone. "It doesn't matter. It's fine. It's just he doesn't really seem to think about it, you know."

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	cerebralwitch 2010-07-28 02:00 am UTC (link)
	"Because there's nothing to think about," Hermione added, and her chin lifted a bit, like she was challenging him. "Did you enjoy the game less because you knew he gave me the tickets? It isn't as if I'd ever take anyone else." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geroffme 2010-07-28 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Ron decided not to point out that he hadn't known, because he really should have. "It was a great game," he said, trying to be conciliatory. "And I know you wouldn't - that is, I'm glad, I-" He couldn't think of how to end that and make it sound good. He abandoned it. "It's not like he doesn't know how I feel about it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cerebralwitch 2010-07-28 02:21 am UTC (link)
	"He also knows quite well that it isn't his fault if you're jealous." Hermione retorted, but she could recognize he was trying, and that did count for something. "It was his idea that I take you, you know." She said a bit softer, as if that would help something. She hoped it would, at least. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	geroffme 2010-07-28 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Ron went a little red, at that. "I'm not jealous! It's just irritating, that's all! Be sure to thank him for me," he said with a bit of a huff, knowing it wasn't quite the tack to take. But the thought of Viktor magnanimously suggesting that Hermione take him to the game really was not helping matters. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cerebralwitch 2010-08-03 01:13 am UTC (link)
	Hermione rolled her eyes at that, obviously not thinking for a moment that he had a grasp on what he was feeling, because it was perfectly obvious that he was jealous. Of a date that had happened years ago, and hadn't been all that impressive to begin with. "He's a friend, Ron. You know that's all. Friends give gifts. The tickets were a gift." (Reply to this) (Parent)