Chapter 19

                                    

                                          
Elaine's POV: 
                          
With Fred upset with me for having to be friendly towards Draco, he spent the rest of the night shut-up in his dorm.  "He'll get over it," George told me...but I wasn't so sure.  He was mad at me, but it wasn't even my fault...it was Dumbledore's.  
                          
That night, Fred was still up in his room, but I still hung around the common room incase he decided to come downstairs and talk to me. Soon enough, it was 1am and it was just Harry and I left in the common room.  I decided to ask him about the task Dumbledore gave him (to collect a memory from Professor Slughorn).  "So have you gotten any closer to getting the memory?" I asked Harry quietly; just in case someone came into the common room.  "Nope," he said, sounding very disappointed in himself.  He then pulled out his map, showing me Slughorn's name on it.  "He's awake," Harry said, pointing to the moving name tag.  "Fancy a walk to his office?  Maybe I can help...he seems to like me in class," I offered.  Harry agreed and went upstairs to grab his invisibility cloak.  As I waited for him, I heard Harry call my name from his room.  "Is everything okay?" I called up towards his dorm.  "Elaine?  Could you come up here...now," Harry called back.  
                          
I climbed the stairs and entered the room.  Ron was wide awake and upright in his bed.  "What's wrong?" I asked Harry.  "Where is she?" Ron demanded and stumbled over towards me.  "Ron?  Where's who?" I asked, holding out my arms so he wouldn't fall right into me.  That's when I noticed his eyes were glazed over and unfocused.  "Uh...Harry," I said as I looked behind Ron and saw Harry shuffling through his things.  "It's beautiful isn't it...the moon," Ron said as he stumbled towards the window sill.  "Divine," Harry said.  He had clearly was figuring something out as he examined a card that was on his bed.  "Have ourselves a bit of a late night snack, did we?" Harry said as he tossed a heart-shaped box in my direction.  "It was on your bed, the box.  I thought I'd try one," Ron explained in a dreamy voice.  "Or twenty," I laughed, showing him the empty box.  "I can't stop thinking about her, Elaine," Ron said as he got really close to my face.  I quickly pushed him back onto his bed.  "Honestly, ya know, I reckoned she was starting to annoy you," I said, folding my arms in front of me.  "She could never annoy me!  I think I love her!" Ron said, jumping back to his feet.  It was obvious the chocolate Ron ate had something in it.  "Well...brilliant," I said, confused.  "Do you think she knows I exist?" Ron asked, now cuddling a pillow.  "I bloody well hope so...she's been snogging you for three months," I snapped.  At this point, I made my way over to Harry.  The card he was holding was from Romilda Vane, a fifth year.  "Snogging?  Who are you talking about?" Ron snapped back at me.  It had clicked in Harry and I's mind at the same time.  He was under a love potion.  "Who are you talking about?" Harry asked, just to be sure he was under a love potion.  "Romilda of course...Romilda Vane," Ron said with a goofy smile.  "Take him to Slughorn's office.  Talk to him while you're there," I said, whispering in Harry's ear so he couldn't hear.  
                          
Harry and I then turned to Ron.  "Come on Ron...um...Harry's gonna take you to see Romilda," I said as I took Ron's hand.  Harry led the way to the common room as Ron continued to trip and sway on every step.  As we walked through the common room, Lavender had walked in through the portrait hole.  "Won-Won!" she squealed.   I was about to explain to her what was going on, but Ron spoke instead.  "I'm going to see Romilda!" he shouted, causing Lavender to shriek and burst into tears.  She ran up to our dorm before she could say anything to her. 
                          
Seconds after the portrait hole had closed behind Harry and Ron, Hermione came down the stairs.  She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and sat on the couch next to me in front of the fire.  "What's going on?  Lavender just came up to the room crying," Hermione asked as she yawned.  I then explained what had happened and we decided to wait up until they came back.  Luckily for us, Harry left his map for us so we could see where they were in the castle.