It was a cold Sunday morning in the surrounding land of the Burrow. Everything was silent, just the sounds of the animals waking up. It was about 6:30 am, Molly Weasley got up to make breakfast for her husband Arthur, even though it was weekend he still had to go to the ministry of magic. He was on a case, and had to leave early, the others would not be up at least for 3 hours. "I won't be back until 11 pm and even that would be early." he said to his wife, he kissed her good bye and disparated to the ministry.
About 3 hours later
A teenager with curly black hair walks down the stairs of the Burrow. Harry Potter was awake before the others he smelled fresh made eggs and bacon, and roasted toast. Molly greeted him with a friendly: "Good morning Harry, i didn't think you would be up this early after you arrived so late yesterday. Did you sleep in Ron's room?", he shook his head and answered: "no, Hermione slept in my bed, so i went in Ginny's room where she normally slept." Miss Weasley smiled and said "good, but you surely asked for permission?" she said with an humorous undertone. Harry replied with a smile "of course not miss Weasley, i am the famous Harry Potter why would I think about asking a girl to sleep in the same room as her?!". Harry turned around and started walking back up the stairs, as miss Weasley said to him: "Could you please wake up the rest and say them that breakfast is ready?", Harry answered: "Sure miss Weasley".
Harry knockt on the door of Ron's room and yelled: "Wake up in there, breakfast is ready!". As a response he heard yawning from a very familiar voice, and a couple of seconds later a boy who was about one foot lager than harry, He had Red hair and a couple of freckles in his face, opened the door with a grin on his face and said: "Harry mate, when did you arrive?" (hugs him), "yesterday evening!", out of the back of Ron's room Hermione's voice yelled: "did you just say Harry?", Hermione jumped out of, confusingly, Ron's bed and ran over to Harry to hug him. She saw Harry's look on his face and she blushed, but harry didn't say anything and just winks at them both and walked over to Ginny's room to wake her up.
Ginny was still sleeping and the window that Harry forgot to close, which he opened last night because it was so warm in Ginny's room that he was sweating, was still open the wind blows through her in the sun golden red glowing hair.
Harry, Ron and Hermione are going to Hogwarts the sixth time now and Ginny, who was one year younger than the others, the fifth time, and never in those five years Harry was so attracted by Ginny then this year, maybe because he wasn't sure if he felt more like a seventh brother or like a friend to her. But none the less Harry was still looking at Ginny like he never seen her before, she changed so mutch since he last seen her, even though he was beautiful last year, Harry didn't seem to have noticed how mutch of a woman she had became. He still remembers her as a small girl standing next to here mother in Kings Cross wishing him luck as he straight up runs through a solid brick wall
just to end up at platform 9 ¾ to enter the 'Hogwarts Express', but now there is nothing left of that small girl with barely enough self-esteem to talk to him.
He must have been standing there for at least 5 minutes because Hermione was coughing behind him and giggling but Harry straight up ignored her and starts walking to Ginny to gently wake her up.
Last night it was very dark in her room, so they couldn't see each other. Ginny probably even thought that he was Hermione because she didn't seem to be very awake because right after she said "sure..." she started sleeping again.
She was pleasantly surprised as she saw Harry's face, "Harry?, what are you doing here? When did you arrive?" Ginny asked surprised, Harry answered: "I am here because Professor Dumbledore send me here because i still can't go to Grimmauld place and Sirius because of the ministry! And i got here yesterday evening and i slept in Hermione's bed, right over there even though you didn't ask that question!".
Ginny smiled and said: "who said you can use here bed?", "you did, you probably don't remember because you were just awake to say 'sure' but you still said yes" Harry said with a friendly voice but with a small devilish grin.
Ginny laught at Harry's expression and got ready to stand up.
Harry just wished he could laid down besides her and cuddle with her, but not only was she not his girlfriend, she as well got a boyfriend. Dean Thomas. Harry wasn't angry at Dean because he was dating her, but he was angry for losing Ginny to Dean. If he would have known about his feelings sooner he could have got her in his third or fourth year and they would be together right now, but back then he thought about her more like as a sister.
Ginny glanced at Harry for a couple of seconds, Harry had a very dreamy look on his face while looking at her.
She smiled and said: "Harry i need to dress could you please wait outside."
Harry slightly shook his head as if he was day dreaming and said: "oh of course I'm sorry."
and blushed a bit before closing the door behind him.
She heard him walking down the stairs, she was a bit surprised what just happened, did he just blush because i was talking to him? She thought to her self.
About five minutes later she walked downstairs and seat down next to Harry who suddenly got very silent and looked down at his breakfast. Ginny looked a bit worried over to Hermione, who saw the look on her face and knew what to do. "Harry?" she asked "Hmm?" he answered still not looking up "How about we all go out to the Diagon alley and get our new school supplies?" she said. Harry looked finally up at Hermione "why? Its still about 3 weeks until the new year, and we still didn't get our letters!" he said. "but we can't just sit here the entire day! We should do something outside it's beautiful weather!" she meant.
Ron finally came to Hermione's help and said: "Harry we could play Quiditch or we could just go to Diagon alley anyways, i need a new robe and I want to go to the new shop near Gringots!".
Harry thought a bit and said "well then you guys don't need me there, ill stay here and get all my stuff out of my bag's".
After a couple of attempts to convince Harry to go with them Ron said: "Harry can i talk to you
before we leave?","yeah sure, whatever!" he replayed.
They walked up the stairs in to Ron's room. "what is happening with you Harry? You seemed so unconcentrated at the breakfast!?" Ron said to him "it's... it's nothing i swear..." he says and sighed.
He just wanted to lay down for a bit and hope that he could calm down at least enough for the others to not notice.
Ron shook his head and said "maybe you should talk to Hermione maybe she can help you!"
Even tough it was more to himself then to Harry, Harry thought it can't hurt to talk to here. It would be better then talking to Ron about his feeling for Ginny. Hermione always supported him on those kind of problems. In his fifth year she Supported him and Cho Chang a Ravenclaw girl who revealed the information of the DA because of the Veritaserum in a cup of tea that Professor Umbridge gave her. Short after that Harry broke up with her.
If someone could help him calm down and clear up enough to act normal again than it was Hermione.
Harry sat down on his old Bed where he used to sleep before Hermione came this year and just made it her bed. Harry didn't mind. The only thing he did mind was the Problem of sleeping nearly next to Ginny. I never had a problem with that, so Hermione probably thought it was okay for him, and it was... until he saw her this morning, laying in her bed like a young Goddess or even a veela.
Just by thinking of her hair red golden glowing hair and her beautiful face he starts of thinking about what he has done, he just wanted to turn back in time to get together with Ginny before she started dating Michael Corner.
Hermione and Ginny where alone downstairs they heard the two boys walk upstairs and close the door behind them. Hermione whispered to Ginny "what happened? Why was he so silent and just ignored you?" as much as she would love to know Ginny could not answer Hermione's question.
Hermione said "Harry was just standing there for like three or even four minutes and just staring at you and daydreaming." she laught and looked to Ginny, who wasn't laughing or smiling and just staring into oblivion.
Hermione quickly stopped laughing and tried to act serious "that would explain why he blushed as i said to him that i need to change and asked him to leave" Ginny added.
"Well I'm not an Auror but i think he is in love with you Ginny" she said with a devilish smile on here face. Ginny blushed "do you really think so?" as she said it they booth heard Ron's door open and steps down the stairs.
Ron came down and said turned to Hermione "maybe you should go upstairs and check on him."
Hermione nodded and got up.
She closed the door behind her and sat down next to Harry, he just looked down at the floor and said nothing. He kind of remembered her of Ginny and how she acted around Harry until the was in the fourth grade and she told her to try to move on, but she knew that she to this day didn't even think about giving her hopes up on Harry.
"Harry?... are... are you alright?" she asked, secretly hoping he would say no because that would mean he would open to her.
He shook his head and a tear rolled down his cheek, "do you wanna talk about it?" she carefully asked. He nodded but stayed silent, she took him in her arms and said "whats wrong?", "it's Ginny... i think i love her but... i... i don't want to interfere between her and Dean... you always helped me with those problems... what should i do? Dose she even still love me?" Harry cried. Hermione was silent just hugging Harry, she consoled him and said to him "you should try and talk to her... she was extremely confused... she thought you had something, and I am am pretty sure she still loves you but you kept her waiting so she started searching for someone who could love her as much as she did you, she found that someone in Dean Thomas... but she still can't get over you... but let her space... even if she dose still love you she is still together with him." he looked at her if she just took a heavy weight off him. He had to hide his true feelings from her he thought, it was the only idea not to hurt her and him. He would have to watch her with Dean without being able to tell her what he really feels about her. He was so deep in his own thoughts that he didn't realize that Hermione left and went back down the stairs.
Harry felt strange he tried earlier to act normal in Ginny's presence but he failed he didn't know how to hide them for an entire school year, if he wouldn't tell her she probably would live with Dean for the rest of her live but he couldn't just go to her and kiss her even if he would loved to, if he would reveal his true feelings for then not yet he probably wouldn't survive the pain he would feel if she would reject him because of Dean Thomas but if he wouldn't say anything to her than she just keep on dating him and maybe even marry him if she loves him more than Harry.
The only way was to talk to Ginny just like Hermione said and to hope that deep down in her she still would love him. If not then he would try to get over the fact what a giant idiot he had been to leave Ginny waiting for so long and then hoping she would just leave her current Boyfriend just to be with him. He punched himself for being so stupid and thinking about his feelings for Ginny even though Voldemort was still out there and killing innocent Muggel and Mages, he punched himself for being so egoistic towards Ron, Hermione but especially Ginny. He was being unfair towards them and they didn't deserve this. Ginny was waiting since the second year of his school life and he punched her away. No wonder that she was tired of waiting three years of being seen as a friend or even more like a sister by the boy who she loved.
If Hermione didn't tell Ginny about their conversation she probably will feel a similar way he hoped and layed down to relax a bit.
He woke up in his bed in Ginny's room, it was very windy outside the sun was going down and the shadows where getting longer.
He didn't know how long he did sleep but it was evening and he felt better then ever before, as if somebody gave him a potion which would make him feel as if he was in heaven. He stood up and walked down the stairs. One the clock harry saw Molly and Arthur where away, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and harry where the only one in the Burrow. which normally means they where either playing Quiditch or hanging around somewhere in the house. He looked and saw that they weren't at the Quiditch Pitch so he got back inside and went into Ron's room.
Hermione and Ginny sat at her bed and looked into nothingness, Ron who sat there the entire time waiting for something to happen. Outside they heard footsteps and the door slowly swung open.
Hermione didn't tell Ginny about Harry's feelings for her, she might be Ginny's friend, but she and Ron where Harry's best friends. She didn't even tell Ron about it, which probably was for the better, she knew Ron's temper and she didn't want' to fall in Harry's back but she still wanted to tell Ginny if Harry was to scared. She was tired after all the years Harry finally was ready to love Ginny and she won't let them lose their chance because of fear.
End of Chapter One.
