Harry had just finished the pastry when Hermione entered his room a few minutes later. "What did you get angry about?" She asked after the hug and kiss. She'd felt the anger but had been busy seeing her parents off.
"What else? Ron," Harry replied and quickly told her what had happened.
"You shouldn't have," Hermione chided him. "You should have ignored him."
"No one is going to insult you," Harry said determinedly. "Not Ron, not Draco, no one."
"You can't hex everyone who calls me a name," Hermione argued. "But thank you. Sirius was a hit with my parents as Padfoot," She went on to explain how Sirius had fooled her father. "I ended up telling them more things. When we go over this evening, we're going to get a lot of questions I think."
Harry shrugged. "Whatever you want."
"What I want is another evening and night in the Room of Requirements with my husband," Hermione replied.
"We could see if Dobby and Winky could take us?"
Hermione sighed. "No...we might run right into Dumbledore and even your cloak wouldn't work against him. If not him, then one of the elves or portraits. We can't take that chance."
"Then how about we go back out to eat soon? We still owe that squib...uh..."
"Maria?"
"Maria...yeah. We owe her our autographs."
"True," Hermione agreed. "At least she was wrong, or at least her roommate was," Hermione had not been on the cover of Witch Weekly this week. "Though since that was one was already written, it very well might be this week."
"Skeeter will be at the trials tomorrow. We'll talk to her then," Harry suggested. "I'm sure she'll want to ask about my reactions to the trials. I'll make it conditional on her letting you see any articles going in Witch Weekly. I don't think we can stop it altogether though. Even if Skeeter didn't write something, someone else would."
"True," Hermione agreed as she sat down on Harry's bed. "Did you have any plans today?"
"We could go visit Luna and Neville?"
"Not today," Hermione replied. "I think the whole matter of Dumbledore and McGonagall is still too much up in the air. Either of them might stop by and we need to be here or at least at my house so we can get back quickly if they do."
"Studying then?"
Hermione smiled at her husband. "We can take breaks every so often, so you can be properly rewarded."
"This is the rune for shield right?" Harry asked a few hours later. He and Hermione had been studying with intervals of 'rewards' for most of the morning.
"No that is protect," Hermione replied as she looked at where he was pointing.
"What's the difference?" Harry asked.
"The protect rune is more general. You can protect anything, while shield is more defined in safeguarding a person," Hermione explained.
At that moment, Harry's stomach let out a growl.
"Maybe I need to be shielded from that monster," Hermione smirked.
Harry shrugged. "I'm hungry."
Hermione looked at her watch. "It is past lunchtime. I can dash back to my place and make us something, or at least have Winky and Dobby do it."
"No...let's go downstairs and see what's up," Harry replied. "I want to know what happened after I left this morning."
"Are you sure?"
"It's Sirius' house," Harry said. "Why would we be afraid to go out?"
They heard voices as they descended the steps that led to the kitchen. It was obvious that Arthur and Molly were having an argument.
"Stop, I want to hear what they're saying," Harry said to Hermione.
"It's the only way Molly," Mr. Weasley was saying.
"We can't. We can't just leave Harry unprotected. Dumbledore needs us to be here," Molly replied.
"What are we going to do about Ron and Ginny if we don't? Keep them locked in their rooms? You saw what happened this morning. I'm truly afraid that one of them is going to say the wrong thing and we're not going to be there."
"It will," Harry agreed to his wife. "Wonder what Arthur is wanting to do?"
"Nonsense," Molly replied. "They were best friends. Surely Harry and Hermione will get over it soon. You heard Dumbledore; if Harry and Hermione had just been forthcoming about their marriage, none of this would have happened. Ginny would have turned her interest elsewhere and Ron would have been delighted for them."
Only a firm grip on his arm and a "Harry No!" from Hermione kept Harry from entering the kitchen and telling Molly what he'd be delighted in seeing.
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