Repercussions

On the Train
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Hermione only had about twenty minutes to search for Ron before she was interrupted by Ginny, who ran over to her with flushed cheeks and an enormous smile plastering her face.

“Hermione! We need to talk NOW!” Ginny practically jumped on the startled witch as she grabbed her hand and led her to their bedroom. Ginny ran into the room and flung herself on the bed, rolling to her back and letting out a contented sigh. Hermione sat on the edge of her own bed facing the very hyper red head with slight concern on her face.

“Gi-“

“WEDIDIT!” The words erupted from her mouth like they’d been sealed in an airtight container. Hermione just stared at her with wide eyes virtually bursting from her skull.

“You did… it?”

Ginny just nodded breathlessly, the grin reappearing on her face as she jumped up again and dove at Hermione, pulling her into a hug and pushing her flat onto the bed. The girls untangled themselves, staring at the ceiling and laughing. Hermione was happy for her friend because Ginny seemed so ecstatic by the occurrence. She momentarily forgot about Ron in light of the second big affair of the evening.

“Oh Ginny, I can’t believe you had sex! I mean I figured you and Harry were off snogging somewhere, but I never imagined it going that far. Err… you guys seemed so innocent!”

“Oh trust me, Harry is anything but innocent! He claims to only have some prior experience kissing, but he’s like… amazing! He totally took charge just like I like. I hate when guys are all ‘uhh is that ok? You like that? Is that the spot?’ Blah, blah, blah, if they are going to act like that, they should be required to get a tattoo saying ‘BEWARE OF VIRGIN’ across their foreheads. I mean at least if they did that we’d get a warning. But with Harry it was almost like he was the experienced one and I was the virgin.”

Hermione couldn’t really relate, but there were more pressing matters to attend to…

“Wait WHAT? You aren’t a virgin!?”

“Err not exactly…”

“How are you not exactly a virgin!?”

“Well me and Dean tried a couple times. First it wouldn’t go in, then he was too drunk to get it up, then he was getting it up for that Ravenclaw girl with the huge boobs. Needless to say, it didn’t work out.”

“Oh, Gin I can’t believe you never told me! It’s not like I would ever tell anyone, you know that.” Hermione was shocked at the new information and slightly hurt that Ginny didn’t confide in her before.

“I know I should have, and I wanted to! I was scared at first that you would be mad at me because I was so young. Then after I decided I wanted to tell you anyways, I found him cheating on me. I was so upset and embarrassed I just wanted to forget it and pretend it didn’t happen. It’s not that I don’t trust you I swear!”

“It’s okay, I understand why you didn’t want to tell me. That doesn’t matter anymore though. So back to you and Harry… please tell me you used protection!”

Hermione listened attentively to Ginny relive her glorious night in detail, after she was assured that the couple had used contraceptive charms on both of themselves to be extra safe. She wished she had more to say on the subject but she had never gotten passed kissing, unless you counted the time Victor grabbed her breast and she swatted his hand away almost immediately. She had thought kissing was a big deal, but listening to Ginny made her realize that maybe she was just prudish. The girl kept talking about how wonderful it felt and it was starting to depress the inexperienced witch. She feigned a yawn to try to hint to her that she was tired. However, Ginny was way too caught up in her story to notice, but she eventually stopped the conversation anyways to go find Harry.

Hermione got up from the bed and put a few stray articles of clothing into her trunk, contemplating on whether or not she should go talk to Ron. When she couldn’t procrastinate any longer she decided to just grit her teeth and do it. She still hadn’t completely straightened out her feelings for him, so she had no idea what she could even say. She only knew that they did have to talk about what he asked her so things wouldn’t be awkward between them.

She had just reached the door when it opened of its own accord and silhouetted in the frame was none other than the boy she was looking for.

“Sorry to bother you but Harry kicked me out of my room… MY room!”

“No it’s fine I was actually just going to find you, I guess you just made my job much easier. We really should talk, err…want to come in and sit?” She led him in to sit on the edge of the bed with her. He just stared at his palms in his lap looking dejected, so she figured she should start.

“Umm, look… I know we have been friends for so long so I’m sure it was really hard for you to ask me out earlier. I didn’t think it was stupid, and you ran away before I could tell you so well…. If you still want to… I would really like to be your girlfriend.” Hermione’s cheeks were on fire, she couldn’t believe she had been so forward. She hadn’t even figured out if she wanted to date Ron, and here she was telling him she did! She couldn’t undo the words that slipped from her mouth, so she decided to just leave it and see how it progressed.

“That’s great Hermione, of course I still want to. And we can still be friends you know… even if it doesn’t… I mean if we want to we can still be friends.”

“Yeah, we’ll be quite busy this year I expect, but if Ginny and Harry can do it, why can’t we? Err… by ‘do it’ I mean be a couple, not anything bad.”

“Of course that’s what you meant, what else could- Bloody hell! Not my baby sister! Oh Harry’s going to get it!” Ron jumped up and stormed towards the door, but Hermione got in his way and tried to push him back towards the bed.

“Ron just calm down! I didn’t mean anything by that, and you know Harry would never do anything to hurt Ginny.”

For a second it almost looked as if he was going to drop it, until he charged past her with a “We will see about that.” She didn’t know what to do to rectify her mistake. With some quick thinking she spun around and apparated up to Ron’s room with her eyes shut tight, and her hand over them anyways.

“Whatever you guys are doing I would suggest you stop right now, Ron is on his way up.” She heard some quick scrambling, probably for their clothes, and apparated back to her room.

She lay on her bed, so angry with herself for what she had said. She heard some light screaming, nothing too intense, which she took as a good sign. Then someone stomping down the stairs, and finally Ginny was throwing the door open.

“Hermione! What did you say to Ron!?”

“Nothing, I mean I didn’t mean to say anything! Oh Ginny I’m so sorry, he just took something I said the wrong way. Did he catch you guys?”

“Well Harry locked the door to give us more time after you popped up. But obviously he knew something was going on or the damn door wouldn’t have been locked! Thanks a lot… I’m going to bed.”

“I swear I didn’t really tell him, I’m so sorry. I’m sure he’ll be fine. I will talk to him. Umm… He’s my boyfriend now.”

“Good for you two,” Ginny replied, with no real conviction in her voice. Hermione jumped into bed with a “humph” and tried to go to sleep. Since Ginny was already under the covers with her eyes closed, she decided there wasn’t anything else she could say tonight, and just hoped things would be better in the morning.

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Things actually went quite smoothly on the trip to King Cross Station, for the most part anyways. Hermione was still a little nauseous from something she had witnessed when she went downstairs to get a drink. She was still on the steps when she saw Mrs. Weasley pick up a fake wand, watch it explode, and giggle as she picked up what looked like a pair of fluffy pink handcuffs and slip them in her pocket. Hermione quietly retreated up the stairs, as she wasn’t very thirsty anymore.

Ginny wasn’t exactly warm towards her, but she was being civil. She was more worried about the way Ron was acting than anything else. He carried her things to the cars the ministry had provided, and even opened the door for her. This was all well and good except for the fact that he just nervously smiled at her instead of speaking.

On the train Harry, Hermione, and Ron got a compartment to themselves, and were later joined by Neville and a few other members of the D.A. Ginny went off to sit with some of her friends from her own year, after giving Harry a quick peck on the cheek. Ron watched moodily but kept his mouth shut, which was probably not intentional; he might have just gotten his teeth stuck together from grinding them so hard. Neville was in a cheerful and talkative mood, but the rest of the compartments occupants were quickly killing it. Instead of dealing with the awkward silence, Hermione got out her new Expert Ancient Runes book and started reading.

Nothing really exciting happened except for two familiar guests arriving when they were about half way there.

“Professor Lupin, Tonks! What are you doing here?” asked a stunned Harry.

“We are patrolling until we get to the platform, then we will be alternating between guarding Hogwarts and Hogsmead. You’ll get to see a lot of us this year.” With that Tonks winked at the crew and left with Lupin on her tail.

“That’s odd, don’t the Heads and Prefects usually patrol?” Hermione took a brave stab at breaking the silence, but Harry just shrugged, and she rolled her eyes and went back to her book. She actually enjoyed patrolling the past two years, but as a seventh year, she wasn’t really a prefect anymore. Even though ex-prefects were still expected to behave accordingly and were on call for patrolling corridors when they were needed, Hermione kind of missed the authority that came with the little “P” badge.

The mood was finally lifted with the arrival of Luna and Ginny. Luna immediately pulled out what looked like half a pair of binoculars and scanned their compartment. Everyone stared at her with open mouths that were twitching in the corners, until she explained herself that is.

“They’re golopticles, they detect if there are any golgles in the vicinity. Golgles are related to nargles only much worse. They’re the spirits of aliens that can get into your brain and make you want to live on the moon. I can’t see any, but that could be because they’ve already found hosts.” She then looked them over suspiciously, as if expecting one of them to fess up about hosting an alien spirit.

“Erm… Thanks for checking Luna,” Harry choked out. Everyone in the compartment burst out laughing, and they spent the rest of the journey in a much lighter mood.

No one bothered to pay any attention to the events occurring on the rest of the train. They therefore didn’t see a pale blonde boy repeatedly pass by the sliding door, stealing quick glances through the window. Draco couldn’t believe that Hermione had returned to school, and she seemed perfectly nonchalant about the entire situation. Last time he passed by she was even laughing! The nerve of her, enjoying herself after what she had been through, when thinking about their encounter was driving him crazy. In fact, he had thought of nothing else since she had left him. He thought about their intimate time together, about how he couldn’t stand the thought of her with another man, about the fact that because of it he was most likely going to be a father. It was eating him up inside and yet Hermione just seemed to be going about her life as if nothing had happened. It was enough to make him do something completely irrational…






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Emmylovedraco- Thanks for your reviews, I hope I am keeping you interested still.

Citten- Thanks so much for being such a loyal reviewer. You plus the fact that I have a story now and I thrive on reviews have inspired me to go back and review the stories I liked but I never actually left a review for until I started writing. I’m sorry Hermione and won-won did get together in this chapter… I wouldn’t worry though… this is a DM/HG story after all ; )

Ccino- I promise you your questions will be answered, but I don’t want to give anything away. Plus I don’t exactly know where I’m going to take this story yet because I have a couple ideas and I have to pick one. As far as Malfoy killing Dumbledore, I am going for the fact that Snape actually did the killing overshadowing Draco’s almost attempt as far as the student body is concerned. I also hate the way Lucius treats Draco, but I just can’t imagine him being nice so I took it to the other extreme.

Shell Bell- I’m glad you like it so far and that you thought I did ok on the rape scene because that was definitely the hardest part to write and I didn’t know how people would take it. The Baby Project and Venice are some of my favorite stories too! There was one other good one that I can’t think of the name where Hermione and Draco hook up randomly and she gets pregnant and Ron says he will marry her and pretend it’s his, but Ron gets killed. Then Hermione and Draco end up teaching at Hogwarts together and he finds out about his child etc. Anyways it’s a really good story if anyone knows the name of it please let me know, and if you haven’t read it I definitely suggest it. And the story that I thought was good but they haven’t updated in forever was called Adamo Fidelitas, and it stops at pretty much the best part. So no I won’t do that. I hope I will eventually finish this story (God willing) because I really am enjoying writing and getting feedback, which is a strange new feeling for me since I never imagined myself writing for pleasure… EVER.

Linmo- The father will be revealed, I just have to pick who it’s going to be!

To everyone else who reviewed so far thanks SOOOOO much, I’m sorry I didn’t get to address everyone but it’s late and I want to post this before I fall asleep. I am done with school now (YAY!!!!!), but now I just have more hours at work so it didn’t really help me as far as free time goes. But it still feels great to be done for the semester… 2 years down, 2 to go (I hope!). Sorry this chapter is short, but I cut part of it out and made it part of the next chapter. So the next one is started lol and it should be much longer and they will FINALLY be back in school. I definitely didn't intend to drag it out this long, but it should speed up soon once they are back at Hogwarts. Please read and review!