A Letter to Hermione

Letter to Hermione.

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This chapters musical inspiration is I heard it through the grapevine by the fabulous Marvin Gaye.

Hermione walked briskly up to the fifth floor where the cafe and gift shop were situated, she noticed that it was fairly busy considering how late in the evening it was but still it was none of her business if people want to spend their evenings in the hospital gift shop, quickly grabbing a copy of Quidditch monthly for Ron she made her way over to the sweet section and began picking up one of each of Ron's favorite sweets when a conversation near by caught her attention.

"Have you read the special edition of the Daily Prophet yet Martha?"

"No, why what's happened?"

"Apparently, a major quidditch star got caught having sex in the toilet of some restaurant".

"Noo! But why is that a scandal? if they're just spicing up their sex life, good on them I say, I only wish my Jack was that adventurous. I'm lucky if he remembers more than the usual twist, twist, rub, thrust once, twice, three times, grunt and rollover."

The two gossiping witches cackled loudly, even Hermione had to hide a smile behind the magazine in her arms because that described Ron's usual sexual technique unless she took charge and told him exactly what she wanted, but she didn't do it that often because Ron tended to get sulky and went about it grudgingly.

"Ha! I should be so lucky, my Henry spends more time in his potting shed than he does with me. No the reason it made the Prophet is because he was playing away from home with some bimbo, oh look here comes one of the Prophets barn owls with the papers now, lets get one and we can have a good giggle on our break later."

Hermione felt her blood run cold as she saw the headline 'RON WEASLEY IN SEX SCANDAL' as if on autopilot she went and picked up a copy and paid for it along with her other items at the till.

"It's his poor girlfriend I feel sorry for, that'll be fifteen sickles and thirty seven knuts please" the young witch behind the counter said.

"I'm sorry, what was that again about his girlfriend?" she asked as she handed the money over.

The witch looked around to make sure her supervisor wasn't watching and leaned in conspiratorially "My friend Suzie who works behind the bar in the Dancing Cauldron said that he goes there quite regularly and he's always copping a feel of her bum whenever she collects glasses, she also said that he's slept with a couple of the other bar staff, Suzie said she wouldn't touch him with a barge pole as she has a phobia about ginger pubes"

"Hermione, thank Merlin I've found you" a familiar voice said.

Turning round Hermione saw the welcome figure of Harry striding towards her, as he got closer she saw the grim determined look in his eye and the angry set of his shoulders and realized that he knew about Ron already and had been trying to warn her about Ron earlier, he put his arms around her and gave her a bear hug.

"I'm sorry Sweetie, I only found out earlier because I'm an Auror, as soon as I knew anything for definite I flooed straight over to warn you, guess I didn't do a very good job did I?" he said in a low voice.

She gave him a weak smile and picked up her shopping "It was nice talking with you.." she peered at the girl's name badge "Misty, it was most informative, Harry I just need to drop these items off and then I could really do with a drinking companion."

They walked in silence back to Ron's room as Harry put his hand out to open the door she stopped him "It's okay Harry, I need to do this on my own I want to see if he confesses or whether I have to drag the truth out of him".

Harry was uncertain that it was a good idea to let her go in on her own, but when he saw the steely look in her eye he agreed "If you need me at any time just call for me and I'll be right there okay".

Nodding she pasted a wide fake smile on her face and entered her soon to be ex boyfriends room.

She walked over to the bed and handed Ron his magazine and sweets, trying to hide her disgust at the speed at which he ripped open the box of chocolate frogs.

"Fanks Mione, you're the befst" he said through a mouth stuffed with chocolate.

As she sat on the edge of his bed and watched him gorge himself like a pig at trough, she wondered why didn't she feel more anger towards him, sure she felt hurt and betrayed but did she feel like her world was going to end? No, if anything if she was truly honest with herself she felt relief, deciding to take the bull by the horns she confronted Ron.

"So Ron tell me about your managers niece, what's she like?" she asked feigning interest.

"Errm, there's not much to say, although we did go to school with her, do you remember Lavender Brown?" he said nervously wondering where this questioning was going, surely if Hermione knew she wouldn't be this calm, would she?.

Hermione gave him a tight smile "How could I forget Lavender, you used to date her, you took her to Franco's didn't you?" Ron nodded growing paler by the minute.

"Look Ron, lets not beat around the bush I know all about your little escapades tonight" she flung the Daily Prophet on the bed.

"I..I..I, it meant nothing to me Hermione, she just threw herself at me, it's you I love please don't leave me" he blurted out.

"Just stop Ron, we both know that tonight wasn't the first time you've fooled around and if we stayed together you would do it again, so I think it's for the best if we broke up, if you like you can tell the public that we broke up a couple of days ago to lesson your shame, but for those that know us they need to be told the truth". Tears were rolling down her face.

"I'm sorry Mione, I never meant to hurt you, I guess we just drifted apart over the years" Ron reached over and grasped her hand "I love you my little bookworm, but I think we both knew deep down that we weren't right for each other"

There was a knock on the door and Harry stuck his head round "Hermione there's a hoard of angry Weasleys on their way up to speak with Ron".

She stood up "When this is all over I'd like us to still be friends, but for now it's best if you stay quite a bit away from me, just because I haven't hexed your nuts off doesn't mean I won't".

She walked over to the door "I'll have my stuff moved out of our flat by the weekend, Goodbye Ron" and with that she opened the door and joined Harry in the hallway.

Harry took one look at her tear stained face and struggled to contain his anger "Are you okay sweetie?" when she gave a small nod he glared through the open doorway at Ron, he handed her a round door knob "It's an emergency portkey, it goes straight to my apartment so you don't have to face anyone just yet and I'll meet you there in Five mins okay"

"Thanks Harry, you're a star" she activated the portkey and vanished with a pop.

Harry saw Molly Weasley come round the corner at the bottom of the corridor and closed the door behind him "One last thing Ron, before I leave you in the capable hands of your mother"

'SMACK' Harry's fist connected with Ron's jaw "That's for being an arse and making Hermione cry" and left the room just as Molly and Arthur entered.

Molly looked from Harry to Ron whose jaw was rapidly swelling "I don't blame you Harry, please tell Hermione that she is welcome at the Burrow whenever she wants, and even if she's not with Ron she's still classed as one of the family"

"Thanks Molly I'll tell her, Arthur I'll see you at the ministry tomorrow for Kingley's meeting" as he walked down the corridor he smiled when he heard Molly start shouting about Ron's in ability to keep it in his pants and how he'd never find a witch as good as Hermione.

A/N:Now I know you all expected Hermione to rip Ron's head off and to be honest so did I, but the more I tried to write that the more she resisted, but not to worry my blood thirsty readers there is more to come, be warned she is not going to go home and jump straight into bed with Severus because that is unrealistic

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