Juliet didn't feel as though it was right to sit with the trio, giving them their own space. She'd taken a seat with Angelina and Fred, offering the pair a small smile. She caught Cho's eye before looking away quickly, not looking in her direction again

"Um, hi." Hermione spoke relatively awkwardly as she stood to her feet, "So, you all know why we're here. We need a teacher. A proper teacher. One who's had real experience defending themselves against the Dark Arts."

"Why?" Ernie spoke up from next to Ginny.

"Why?" Ron asked in disbelief his way, "Because You Know Who's back you tosspop."

Juliet cracked a grin at Ron's words, watching him closely and hating herself for doing so in such a serious moment.

"So he says." Ernie said with a shrug and a knowing look toward Harry who seemed to glow in the darker room, the window colors shining in on his already pale skin.

"So Dumbledore says." Hermione corrected him.

"So Dumbledore says because he says." Ernie said again as if Harry wasn't in the room, annoying Juliet as she huffed.

"He had a name." Juliet argued loudly to get the younger Hufflepuffs attention, "You soggybottom."

Ron was the one to grin at her words now, seeing as though he'd either rubbed off on her or vise versa.

"If Potter could tell us more about how Diggory got killed..." he trailed off. Juliets smile fell as she avoided eye contact with anyone, especially Harry who looked to her immediately. George reached around his twin to hold Juliets shoulder.

"I'm not gonna talk about Cedric so if that's why you're here you might as well clear out now." Harry finally spoke up as he rose to his feet in anger, Juliet thanked him internal for doing so, "Come on, Hermione. Let's just go, they're just here because they think i'm some sort of freak."

"Is it true you can produce the patronus charm?" Lunas gentle and smoothly voice was heard behind Juliet, causing Harry to pause and stare her way.

"Yes." Hermione answered her confidently, "I've seen it."

"Blimey Harry, I didn't know you could do that." Dean Thomas said with admiration and shock dancing within his chocolate eyes.

"A-And he killed a basilisk, with a sword in Dumbledores office." Neville added in confidently from behind Ginny as people turned to stare his way.

"Third year he fought off about a hundred dementors at once." Ron said with a impressed expression across his soft features.

"And last year he really did fight off You Know Who." Hermione finished the chain of Harry's praise with a deep breath. She met Juliets eye who gave her a small nod, a proud grin.

"Wait." Harry said quickly as he stopped anyone else from going on, "Look, it all sounded great when you say it like that. But, the truth is most of that was just luck. I didn't know what I was doing half the time, I nearly always had help."

"He's just being modest." Hermione cut the Potter boy off quickly with a shake of her head, her curls bouncing slightly as she did so.

"No, Hermione, I'm not." Harry spoke sternly toward her, "Facing this stuff in real life is not like school. In school if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow. But, out there , when you're a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die-"

Juliet messed with Cedrics gloves around her hands, wishing he'd been here with her.

"You don't know what that's like." Harry spoke as he looked around the room, Juliet avoided his gaze.

"You're right Harry, we don't." Hermione spoke alongside her best friend, Ron watched Juliet stare at her hands that for once were covered in yarn rather than lace, "Thats why we need your help. Because if we're gonna have any chance in beating..."

Juliet watched Hermione as she inhaled, "Voldemort."

The Hufflepuff chocked slightly at her words as Ron watched with a odd look, George and Fred hit Juliet on the back as she came back.

"He's really back?" Collin asked in a low voice, looking at Harry who nodded his way.

"Proud of you." Juliet said as she leaned over to kiss Harry's forehead after signing her name. Ron grinned up at her when she kissed his forehead as well before doing the same to Hermione. Ron left his friends and took Juliets hand, walking out of the watercloset like room toward the slightly crowded rest of Hogsmeade.

"Two pumpkin juices." Ron told the kind lady behind the bar before remembering, "One with extra cinnamon."

"I'm proud of Harry, figured he'd crumble like a broken door but he held his game." Juliet spoke as she lead Ron toward the far corner, letting him sit before she sat in his lap.

"Yeah, figured the much." Ron agreed as he grinned up at her, "You okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" Juliet asked with a half grin, pressing her gloved hands on his face as he leaned onto one.

"I know you don't really like listening to people talk about him. First Umbridge, then that tosspop, and Harry all in one day." Ron spoke slightly concerned for Juliets sake, running his thumb across her thigh.

"I'm fine." Juliet grinned down at him, leaning to press a gentle kiss to his lips before pulling away, "Though is do anything to ripe Umbridges eyes out, slam my heel into her nose, anything."

"Anything." Ron agreed with her words, giving the woman a smile as she set the pumpkin juice before the two, Juliet thanked her before looked to Ron quickly.

"I've felt like i've been here before." she said suddenly with a odd expression.

"You come to Hogsmeade all the time." Ron giggled slightly as he grabbed the hot mug.

"No, this moment, like deja vu or something." Juliet said as Ron flushed slightly and set the mug down. He never once told Juliet he use to dream of her before he even knew her, no matter how close the pair were, it was too embarrassing and he didn't want to come off creepy.

"Mom says she wants you to come for Christmas." Ron changed the subject as Juliet leaned back onto him, sliding her body down slightly to be closer, "Says Nate can come too, and his girlfriend and baby... it'll be born by then, right?"

"Yeah, just a few weeks." Juliet said as she grinned at the thought, "It's a girl you know."

"Any names picked out?" Ron asked curiously, thinking about how the stone like cousin Juliet had as a father.

"They aren't sure yet, apparently his girlfriends having second thoughts or something." Juliet said with a worried expression, "She says she doesn't want the baby or Nate anymore."

"She'll be born in what? Two bloody weeks?" Ron asked with a odd expression.

"Yeah, that's what I said." Juliet spoke as she rubbed the side of Ron's face, the yarn tickling him slightly, "Nate things shes gonna leave them when the babies born."

Ron looked up at worried, kissing her shoulder.

"Nate can do it, he's in his last year at Oxford, he'll graduate and be able to afford it." Juliet tried to reassure herself as she looked back at Ron, "I'll make sure we're there at christmas."

"Good." the redhead boy grinned at his girlfriend, "I want us to spend it together, now they we've been together for nearly a bloody a year."

"Blimey, yeah, just a few days." Juliet grinned as Ron giggled and pull her upwards more toward him, "Hopefully neither of us fall off the astronomy tower or drink a deadly potion before then."

"Hilarious." Ron spoke unamused at her words, grabbing his mug.

"I thought so to." Juliet agreed with a laugh, grabbing her own mug and clinking it with him before drinking the comforting, warm liquid.

•

kylie speaks

i feel like
we don't get
enough of
wesliet just
being a normal
relationship, so
here y'all go.
also, christmas with
this cuties? i'm
so excited for that
chapter soon.