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Hermione Granger (cerebralwitch) wrote in wished,
@ 2009-11-27 21:24:00

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!1997: 11, !incomplete, hermione granger, ron weasley

Who: Hermione and Ron
What: Talking
Where: Forest of Dean
When: Tonight
Rating/Warning: TBA, but Ron will likely blow up...

It had been easier, the last few days. Hermione wasn't sure what it was, but she thought it had something to do with the fact that Harry had taken to taking long walks through the forest. She worried that he wouldn't come back, and so was tracking him when he did with a locator charm, but he always came back and while he was gone - taking the horcrux with him, and often to the lake, she'd noticed - she could breathe easier and didn't feel the need to hex everything that moved. It was a relief, really.

And she'd been toying with the idea of how to tell the boys that Viktor had offered to help. She smiled, thinking about Viktor and his offer. How he'd come back to England for her, or so she imagined, and how he wanted to be involved with the Order. With fighting. It just solidified all the reasons she'd kept writing to him after the Triwizard Tournament. All the reasons she'd held on to that friendship even while things were going badly all around her. That he could make her smile here... well, it was a tribute, really.

She was still smiling a bit when she went out to the fire. They'd moved camps a few nights ago. There were more berries and things here, at least. She wondered where Ron was as she sat down. Perhaps she ought to put tracking charms on him, as well.

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	geroffme 2009-11-28 05:09 am UTC (link)
	"Who?" Ron leaned a little closer, not sure he'd heard right. It sounded like she had said - "Vic -" He nearly choked. "Viktor Krum?" He drew back again, staring down at her. "He wrote to you? What the hell is he writing to you for? What does he want?" His stomach twisted up unpleasantly. He'd probably had too many berries. "How old is he now, anyway?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cerebralwitch 2009-11-28 05:12 am UTC (link)
	Hermione rolled his eyes. "What does his age have to do with anything, Ron?" She asked, then softened her tone and looked at him again, wanting to avoid the choking, unpleasant side of Ron as much as possible. "He wrote me because he was worried. I think a lot of people might be worried about us, Ron, don't you?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2009-11-28 05:22 am UTC (link)

"They certainly should be. We have a lot to worry about." And there were a lot of people they'd be better off not taking help from, weren't there? The phrase fraternizing with the enemy was featuring very prominently in his mind, but he somehow refrained from using it. "I mean, why's he just written to you now? What's he doing?" He knew perfectly well what Krum wasn't doing, having kept, as usual, a dutifully careful eye on the headlines in the Quidditch world, but this, this was too much of a coincidence, wasn't it?

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cerebralwitch
2009-11-28 05:24 am UTC (link)

"Ron, Viktor and I have been writing to each other for years. It isn't as if he just started writing me." Though he hadn't written since the wedding, but that wasn't his fault. Hermione at least kept tabs on what had been happening with her friend, even if she'd had other things to worry about.

"He's back in England. He's working for the Ministry in the transportation department. He wants to help."

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geroffme
2009-11-28 05:32 am UTC (link)

He gaped at her. For years? "You have, have you? Well, that's fantastic. How is Vicky doing? I can't think of any reason why we shouldn't be writing back and forth with a Ministry employee who's decided that he wants to help us. You know, I'll bet there are a lot of other people in the Ministry who are worried about us, too. Maybe we should send them something." He was vaguely aware that he was getting a little out of hand - he sounded just a bit too loud, even in his own ears - but there was no reversing it now.

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cerebralwitch
2009-11-28 05:40 am UTC (link)

Hermione grit her teeth, colour flaring up in her own cheeks. She'd mentioned his name once, that certainly wasn't reason for Ron to fly off in a tiff.

"Yes, Ron, for years. We're friends, remember. And it isn't as if I was making him a map to where we are so that he can send the Ministry for us. He wants to leave us food and other things we can't get while we're out here. Help. He's not trying to sell us to Voldemort! Honestly,don't be daft."

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geroffme
2009-11-28 05:56 am UTC (link)

Ron cringed when she said that name - it did nothing at all to improve his mood. "I'm not being daft, I'm being careful! Even if he really does want to help you," a concession he was only making for the sake of argument, "Do you really trust him not to get - followed, or caught out, or something? I mean, we all saw plenty of him fourth year, and he had a bit more in the way of brawn than brains, didn't he?" He was almost unthinkingly determined not to accept help from Krum - it hardly mattered to him which excuse he chose.

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	cerebralwitch 2009-11-28 06:04 am UTC (link)
	"Viktor is a good friend, and smart enough to - " Hermione stopper herself, because she heard her voice raising and she didn't want to fight with him over Viktor. She didn't know how to avoid it though, if he was going to act like a complete prat. "I trust him. You should too, you know. He's never done anything to you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2009-11-28 05:23 pm UTC (link)

"He's never done anything for me, either. We're not even really talking to Order members, and now you want to bring into the fold some pen pal of yours who spent seven years in the palm of some Death Eater's hand and works for the Ministry? It's not that I don't want to trust him," he said, standing up and trying not to give in to the urge to pace, "But I think you're probably letting your feelings get in the way of the decision, don't you?" Yes, no doubt that was it.

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	cerebralwitch 2009-11-28 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	"My feelings?" Hermione glared incredulously at him. "You can't think I... Ron. He's a friend. Yes I trust him, the same way I would trust... Harry. Or Ginny. I'm not bringing him in to anything. But he made a good point about being more able than others to get us things we might need. He works for the transportation department!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2009-11-29 04:11 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, alright," Ron muttered, crossing his arms over his chest and glaring out into the woods. Never mind that she'd only known Krum a few years, never mind the mountain of perfectly good reasons they ought not to speak to him. "You trust him. The transportation department. Great." The only thing that kept him from shouting again was the way she'd compared him to Harry - as a friend. It appeased him slightly, until he started to really think about it. If she thought about the two of them the same way, Merlin ... As though Harry on his own hadn't been enough to cope with? "You'll do what you want, I guess."

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cerebralwitch
2009-11-29 04:20 am UTC (link)

Hermione watched him, confused. He'd looked for a moment like he was going to be rational about it and not be a complete prat, but now he was glaring at the trees and grumbling.

"Obviously, I won't. It isn't just about me. That's why I brought it up. I think he can help us. If you and Harry don't want me to ask him..."

She'd still write him, but she'd think of something.

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geroffme
2009-11-30 02:20 am UTC (link)

"You know what I want," he snapped. He almost wished he hadn't just rattled off a list of good reasons not to say a single word to the man, because he thought he would have liked to write him and tell him exactly what he thought about working for the transportation department (although part of him recognized immediately that that would be sheer idiocy). "That's not even the kind of help we need anyway, is it? All the food in the world would only help us so much."

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	cerebralwitch 2009-11-30 02:42 am UTC (link)
	"It would help you to stop complaining about berries every time we ate," Hermione pointed out,jumping up from the log she'd been sitting on. "And I don't know what you want, Ron. I don't think you do either. You don't want anyone to help us, but what we're doing isn't working here, and no one is coming up with better ideas. What exactly do you want us to do?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

geroffme
2009-11-30 02:57 am UTC (link)

"I want use to figure this out and go home! Or - stop messing around in the woods like we know what we're doing and find someone who does! If we're going to risk giving ourselves away, it might as well be someone who has a chance of getting us some real help!" He knew what he didn't want, anyway. "It sure as hell isn't working. How long are we going to do it?"

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cerebralwitch
2009-11-30 03:05 am UTC (link)

"Until someone comes up with a better plan!" Hermione yelled back at him, her voice getting away from her. "Or Harry figures out what he wants to do about the horcruxes, or we figure out where the last ones are. And if we're looking for people who have a chance of helping us, why not someone who has access to all the means of magical transportation. Who can help keep us hidden!"

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geroffme
2009-11-30 03:18 am UTC (link)

"I don't know!" Ron shouted, his frustration ready to boil over. "But I don't like him!" It wasn't even something he could really explain, and saying it louder and louder didn't seem to be helping. He had been focused for so long on hoping for the destruction of the locket that he'd almost let himself forget there were who knew how many more of these things to hunt down. The task seemed interminable, and unbearable. "We can find someone else!"

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	cerebralwitch 2009-12-04 03:59 am UTC (link)
	"Sure," Hermione said sarcastically. "I'll just ask all of the other people at the Ministry of Magic that want to help us at the moment. Or any of the other international wizards we know who might have access to things we can't get." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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