Chapter 1

11:57 the clock read when Harry glanced at it while he was placing his clothes and Hogwarts robes in his trunk. "Only three more minutes." Harry thought, as he grabbed Quidditch through the Ages and threw it into his trunk. He walked over to his bed, bent down and lifted the loose floorboard under his bed. He removed food, inkbottles, quills and such then threw them in his trunk. He grabbed his Fire Bolt and threw it in his trunk as well. He glanced at the clock again; it read 11:59. "Only one more minute, one short minute." Harry whispered to himself. He grabbed his wand and stuffed it in his pocket.

He thought for a moment about if he'd put everything in his trunk he needed. Then he remembered he needed money to get the new books he needed for his upcoming sixth year at Hogwarts. He quickly grabbed a medium size sack full of Galleons and tossed it into his trunk. He glanced at the clock again it read 12:00. Finally he was sixteen. When he was done packing his trunk he crawled into bed and fell asleep.

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The next morning at breakfast, Harry ate his two slices of toast as fast as he could. "What are you in a rush for?" Uncle Vernon snarled at Harry. "To get as far away from here as I can." Harry mumbled under his breath. "What?" Said Uncle Vernon. "Nothing." Replied Harry

Harry heard a honk outside that he recognized. He left the kitchen and didn't bother to shut the door. He opened the front door and had a foot outside when he heard Uncle Vernon say, "Where do you think your going?" "I think I'm leaving. Duh." "NO YOU'RE NOT!" Yelled Uncle Vernon. "Bye." Harry said as he ran outside and got in the car with Ron and Hermione.

"Hi Harry." Ron and Hermione both said at the same time. "Hi" said Harry shutting the car door. "How are you?" Said Ron "Good, I guess but I'm starving." Said Harry "Mum will fix you something good." Ron said as he was staring at Hermione. "What?" Said Hermione. "Well you just look really…" Ron trailed off. Harry didn't understand why Ron didn't finish his sentence. He finally said "nothing."

Ron then stared out the window. Harry saw Hermione was staring out the same window Ron was. Nobody said anything for a while. Then Harry realized Hermione wasn't staring out the window she was staring at Ron. Ron didn't seem to notice.

They finally arrived at the Burrow. Harry carried his trunk up to Ron's room. He unpacked, and then went downstairs. Mrs. Weasley fixed Harry something to eat. When he was done he was about to go upstairs to talk to Ron and Hermione When Mrs. Weasley told him that to go outside to open his birthday presents. He was headed outside when he heard Ginny say, "Happy Birthday Harry." Harry turned around and said, "Tha…" Harry's jaw dropped, Harry remembered the end of his fifth year what Ginny had looked like, but now she had grown more, developed more womanly curves, and was ten times prettier. Harry just noticed that when the sun shines on her hair instead of it being burning red it shines all different shades of red. "What?" Ginny said with a confused look on her face. Harry didn't say anything "what ever!" Ginny said as she walked past him. Harry's eyes followed her out side. "Blimey!" Harry said to himself.

Harry walked outside and walked over to Ron and said, "Your sister has really gotten beautiful". "She has?" Ron said, as he looked over at Ginny. "Yes", Harry said, also starring at Ginny. "Go tell her." Ron said, as he stopped staring at Ginny and started staring at Hermione. "No way!" Said Harry, who looked at Ron as if he was a get. "At least give it a try" said Ron, who was still staring at Hermione. "Ok I will but I…" Harry trailed off. Then Ron said, "You don't have to right now, first open your presents then tell her, Ok?" "Ok." Said Harry.

After Harry was finished opening his presents he walked over to Ginny. "Ginny, could I talk to you alone please?" Said Harry "Yeah" Ginny said with a confused look. He led her over to the side of the house where he was out of earshot. Harry didn't say anything for a moment. "Why was he so nervous, why was this so hard, he was always able to talk to her before, why not now? "Ginny I think you're really beautiful." Harry finally said as he felt his face start to burn. "Thank you, I think you're really handsome too." Ginny said, and Harry saw her blush too. "That's all I wanted to say." Said Harry. "Ok" said Ginny then she walked back over to Hermione.

Harry smiled and walked over to Ron and told him what he said to her. "At least she knows." Ron said as they went inside. "Yeah" Harry said as they were headed to Ron's room. "I think she still likes you", said Ron, while Harry looked at the book Hermione gave him for his birthday called Defense Against the Dark Arts: Spells and Jinxes. Harry said nothing. The only thing he had on his mind was Ginny.