R/H Fanfic!

[Corinna Turner]

I'm really sorry it took me so long, I have more now!

October, 9th 1996
I can’t believe it! McGonagall told us we would have to go to a Halloween ball, very much like the Yule Ball in our fourth year, but this time there is no Victor to ask Hermione before I do. But I don’t have enough courage to ask her, what if she says no? That would destroy our friendship. But if I wait as long as the last time shell go with someone else again. How the hell should I tell her that I want to geo to the ball with her? She would never want to go out with an idiot like me, especially not after I just behaved like a prat and hurt her so much. I’ll end up going there with someone I hardly know again, if I’m lucky or I’ll have to go there alone. I don’t think Padma would go to a ball with me ever again. I wish I could just stay up here in the common room and not go there at all, but McGonagall said we had to go. I can already hear Malfoy: “Look, Weasley couldn’t get someone to go to the ball with him! Though I didn’t expect anything different. Clever girls we have at this school!”
Even if I would have the courage to ask her, certainly not in the next 23 days and that’s all the time we got! Why couldn’t McGonagall have told us earlier?

This is my chance to ask Ron out! We’ll have a Halloween ball and everyone in the years 4-7 has to attend. Ron’s not going to ask me anyway, cause even if he liked me he would never dare to ask. I just hope he’s not going to reject me, but I can’t let this opportunity pass. I just have to risk it. If I wait to long he’ll ask someone else. I’m really afraid that when I ask him he’ll just say yes so that he doesn’t have to go there alone, but actually doesn’t go there with me, cause he likes me.
Ginny asked me who she should go with, cause she didn’t want to go with Neville again and I told her she should ask Harry. Then she quickly changed the topic and asked who I wanted to go with. She didn’t want to believe me, when I said, that I didn’t know yet, so I had to admit that I want to go with Ron. She only said what I was thinking, that if I wanted to go with him I had to ask him, cause he would never ask me.
So I think I’ll ask him next week after our chess lesson. If he says no I can run off and hide till the next morning. I so hope he’s going to say yes!!!!

October, 14th 1996

Luna asked me today, if I wanted to go to the ball with her and I was so surprised that I said yes. I was too afraid to ask Hermione and now I have at least someone to go to the ball with and I don’t have to go alone. Going with Luna wouldn’t be that bad, but during the chess lesson Hermione asked me! She really asked me, but I couldn’t say yes, as I already told Luna I would go with her.
We were playing chess and Hermione had a great chance of winning because she had taken my queen with her knight. The game continued for a long time and Hermione ‘s chances became better, because in the end I only had my king left. Then she finally checkmated my king with her castle. Then she accused me of letting her win. When I had finally convinced her that she had won out of pure talent, she said that it was only because I was such a good teacher, And then she asked me to go to the ball with her and I had to say no because of Luna. Couldn’t Hermione have asked me a few hours earlier? I would have said yes then. I told her that I was already going with Luna and she just said “Alright” and that she was happy that I had found someone, but I could tell that she was disappointed. Why did I have to say yes to Luna? Why? Hermione wanted to go to the ball with me and I rejected her! I’m such a bloody idiot!

I asked Ron today! I really asked him and he said no! He said he was going with Luna, that she had asked him. So I just said I was happy for him and left the room. Of course it is right of him to say that he can’t go with me because Luna asked first, but why did he say yes to her? I mean why does he want to go with Luna? If it was Lavender or Parvati I might be able to understand him, but Luna! Of all the girls in Hogwarts. That was sooo embarrassing. If I’d known that Luna was going with him I’d never have asked. I couldn’t help it, I just started to cry. I was running through the castle without an aim. In the Charms corridor I ran into something solid and staggered backwards. I had run directly into Draco Malfoy. He was starting to yell at me about paying more attention and how I could dare to run into a pureblood, me as a mudblood, when I suddenly heard Harry’s voice: “Leave her alone, Malfoy!” They started fighting until McGonagall came along the corridor. They stopped immediately and Draco hurried off. I thanked Harry and then he asked me to go to the ball with him and I said yes. I felt a bit guilty because I still wanted to go with Ron, but I was so happy that Harry had asked me that I said yes. We walked back to the common room, but Ron wasn’t there anymore and I was quite happy about that.

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[Corinna Turner]

If anyone's still reading this, I wrote a bit more. Don't expect it to be good, I ran out of ideas.

October,16th 1996

Hermione deleted our chess lesson. She said she had too much homework to do. But it’s impossible, because even I have already done my homework. I guess she’s just trying to avoid me, because of the ball and the fact that I go with Luna. I tried to ask her, if she found another one to go with and she muttered something about having to go to the library. I think she is not going with anyone at the moment. I asked Harry who he is going to the ball with and he said I didn’t want to know. So I told him that I wanted to know and this went on for about half an hour. I even told him that Luna asked me and I said yes, but he wouldn’t tell me. Then he finally shouted a last “Ron, you don’t want to know!” And left the room to go to the library. God, why does everyone think this library is so good. I mean all that you can find there are books. I can understand Hermione, she can’t live without books, but what got into Harry to go there in his free time as well?

I feel so guilty. A few days ago, I told Ginny to ask Harry to go to the ball with her and now I’m going with Harry myself. Ginny came to me today, crying, telling me that she had asked Harry and that he had told her he would already go with someone else, but he didn’t tell her whom, however hard she tried to get him to tell her. I tried to comfort her, but I couldn’t. She cursed “that girl, whoever she is” all the time. And I felt so guilty. I couldn’t take it anymore and told her it was all my fault. But she believed I meant the fact that I told her to ask Harry and she assured me that it wasn’t my fault and that it had been her own decision to ask him. I wanted to shout, to tell her everything, that it was indeed my fault, but at that moment Parvati and Lavender got into the dormitory and I couldn’t speak a word with Ginny without the two hearing it. So I decided it would be better to tell her later. And as soon as the two had entered the dormitory she quietly walked out muttering something about going to bed, even though it was only 5 pm. It’s all my fault!!!! I shouldn’t have said yes to Harry, I just shouldn’t have.


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