Let The Truth Be Told

Chapter 11

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"What's wrong with you?" Ginny yelled while running out of the room.

"Yeah, what's going on?" Lavender added running out after Ginny dropping the letters on the ground.

Hermione ran to the door and immediately closed it. She ran over to her bed just as Harry was crawling out from under it.

"That was close!" Harry whispered.

"I know! Now how are we going to get you out of here?" Hermione said as she desperately looked around the room.

"Are you THAT ashamed of me?" Harry asked making a sad puppy face.

"Oh, honestly, Harry," she said as she turned to face him. "You know I love you," she kissed him quickly on the lips before returning to searching for an escape route for Harry. Her eyes stopped at the window. She turned to look at Harry again and he immediately understood what she was thinking.

"Are you crazy!? I know it'd be bad if they found me in your dormitory, but you want to kill me now?" Harry said in a low voice.

"Your broom! Isn't it still here from last night..." Hermione paused. She was blushing at the thought of him accidentally falling on top of him the night before.

"Oh yeah! I completely forgot," Harry lied as he was blushing at the same thought.
Hermione dashed over to the window to open it.

"Hermione!" She turned around. "My broom is gone!"

"That's not possible...it was here last night!"

"Ron is such an idiot," it was Lavender's voice coming back up the stairs.

"Tell me about it," added Ginny. "At least you don't have to live with him."

The two of them giggled.

"Oh not again!" said Harry while rolling his eyes. He dove, once again, under the bed.
Hermione twirled around to see Ginny and Lavender walking in still giggling madly.

"What happened with Ron?" Hermione asked.

"He was trying to summon Harry's Firebolt and it hit him in the face just like it did in the first year," Ginny said.

Harry accidentally laughed at this remark and immediately held his breath.

"How did you know about that?" Hermione asked trying to keep the girls' attention away from her bed, her eyes wide with shock.

"Don't you remember the train ride here this year when we were discussing how Ron was an idiot?" Ginny asked.

"Oh yeah... but don't we always discuss Ron's incompetence?" Hermione joked. The three girls dissolved in a fit of giggles.

"We were thinking that maybe we should all go to Hogsmeade or something since we're all stuck here," Ginny said, once they sobered.

"Hey that's a great idea! Nothing like a warm butterbeer to warm one to the bones," Lavender added.

"That's not a half bad idea. When Ron, Harry and I would stay, we'd always do something like that. It was nice to have the school practically to us. I mean it was only natural that we avoided the dungeons unless absolutely necessary. I remember this one time when Harry..." Hermione trailed off, reminiscing.

"So where IS Harry?" asked Lavender walking toward Hermione's bed looking like she intended to sit down.