A.N. I haven't done any fanfic for a while, so I thought I should try again. This is just how I imagine, or tell myself what happened after the Battle of Hogwarts. I don't know how many of you will agree, but I hope you like it!
The war had finished a couple of days ago. Ginny had not been able to sleep well after the events of the 2nd of May. Some good things, some bad things, but she had also been thinking. She looked down towards the lake from her perch in the shade of the castle. Loads of people were wandering around by the lake. It was a beautiful day, but no one really wanted to enjoy it. She glanced down to wear Hermione and Ron sat arm in arm against a tree, and sighed. They were lucky, she thought. She glanced further along the lake, where Harry was sitting, and surrounding him, was a bunch of girls. They were treating him like they had in her fith year, though she had tried to ignore it, as she had been going out with Dean at the time. Now she really did mind. She did not know whether or not Harry liked being surrounded by the girls or not. If he was anything like Ron had been in his sixth year, he would be having the time of his life. But from her perch above, she had no way of knowing.
She got her wand out of her pocket, and started fiddling with it absent mindedly. as she thought about him, and the girls surrounding him. She hoped that when she was younger, she had not acted in quite an obsessed way as these girls were doing now. Some of them were quite scary in some ways, and Ginny was pleased to see that Harry was definatly keeping his distance from those girls.
"We were going out before the war," she muttered, "So don't see why he would not fancy me now, just because the wars over. We only broke up because he wanted to keep me safe." Ginny glared down at the girls and then started tracing things in the air with her wand. "He can't prefer those girls to me!"
"I'm pretty certain he doesn't." unaware that she had been talking out loud, Ginny jumped at the sound of Luna's voice.
"How do you know who I'm talking about?" Ginny demanded, before realising that it was a stupid question.
"Well," started Luna "I have been your friend for quite a while now, and then," said Luna, pointing, "There's that." Ginny looked at where Luna was pointing, then flushed bright red. Where Ginny had been tracing words and letters with her wand earlier, she had accidently made the grass go a darker green, making what she had been tracing rather obvious on the ground. "H+G" and "Harry" were doodled quite a few times across the grass in front of her.
"OK," Ginny admitted, "That does give it away. So, what makes you so certain that he prefers me?" she asked Luna.
"Well, Harry looks at all people differently, depending on how much he likes them, really, or how fond he is of them, how much he detests them." Luna started, "Those girls, you can tell from his expression that they creep him out a bit, and you can see in his eyes that he is constantly looking for an escape route." Ginny nodded, a hopeful feeling rising in her chest. "Then his friends, which he looks at with a certain kindness, and you can see a fondness for them in his eyes. For example, he'll look at me and Hermione like that." Luna added, "and them, when he looks at you, you can see fondness, softness, kindness, you name it, some kind of affection, when he looks at you, it's there." She concluded.
Ginny paused for a while, absorbing all this information, excited, but trying not to show it, in case Luna had missed something. Shoe thought for a while, then asked,
"How did you know all of that just by looking?" Luna pondered this question for a moment or two, before responding.
"Well, I guess I just look more or harder than others, and pick up on things that other people miss." she replied simply. Ginny thought about this answer, and then realised that it was true.
"So why won't he come and talk to me?" questioned Ginny.
"He can't escape those girls." pointed out Luna, "They seem to know his every move, and there are enough of them to keep tabs on where he is." Luna paused, before continuing, "They haven't been able to do it over the past year, so I guess they're making up for lost stalking time.
Harry, down by the lake was surrounded by didn't want to be, nore could he escape them. He was looking around for one of the only girls he wanted to see. There were only three girls he felt he could talk to normally, with them treating him normally, but he had only seen two since the end of the battle. Hermione, he knew, was by the lake with Ron, and he had spoken to Luna earlier that day. He was scouring the grounds for a glimps of long red hair. Looking around, he could see no sign of Ginny, she was no where near the shore of the lake. for the first time he looked up behind him, into the shade of the castle. He saw some long blond hair, and to his delight, he saw a glipms of long red hair next to her. Quick as a flash, he threw on his invisibility cloak, so that none of the girls could follow him, and made his way towards Luna and Ginny.
