Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters. I wish I do, but alas, I don't. That lucky woman that is richer than the Queen owns them. I wouldn't have it the other way. Nu uh. =D.
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Chapter 1: It's Obvious.
"So you like him then?" I asked my best female friend, Hermione Granger. I saw her blush slightly and slowly nod her head.
"Yes Ginny, I like him. I can't believe I do, but I do." She said, looking at me.
"This is so cool! I knew that you liked him!" I said resisting the urge to get up from my spot and run around like an idiot, shouting it out to the world.
"What do you mean 'you knew'?" she asked carefully.
"Oh, isn't it obvious? You and Ron are meant to be together!" I said clapping my hands together gleefully. Hermione offered a small smile in return. This worried me, shouldn't she be a little happier. I voiced this concern to her and she sighed.
"Oh I don't know Ginny. He's just...What am I going to do now? I can't tell him!" she shrieked slightly.
"Why ever not? He'd love to know." I said plucking up a blade of grass and proceeded to shred it into pieces.
"He what? No he wouldn't he'd probably laugh in my face!" she said, burying her face in her hands for a few seconds.
"Trust me 'Mione, he won't." I could tell her this on good authority. Ron and I have a very close relationship. We are almost best friends. Of course, not when we are at Hogwarts, we tend to annoy each other. But when we are at home at the Burrow in the holidays, we talk about everything and anything together. This summer it had been about Hermione. Ron had finally admitted to me that he thought of 'Mione as quite a bit more than a friend. Of course, I had been going insane all year having to keep it to myself but I figured that if I hinted to Hermione that Ron liked her then she would talk to him and they would sort out their feelings for one another.
"How do you know?" she said narrowing her eyes at me suspiciously.
"I have my sources." I said, winking at her and laughing at the annoyed look on her face.
"So, next subject. Anything that's happening at school this year that you can tell me about?" I asked her putting on my famous puppy eyes expression; I knew that she would tell me, she told me anything when I did that.
"No. Sorry Ginny but I can't disclose that information to you or to anyone." She said, getting back into her slightly bossy Hermione mode.
"Or not." I thought, rolling my eyes.
"Ok, so oh yeah I just remembered—" I said before I was suddenly hit from behind with a heavy object. The heavy object turning out to be…
"Harry Potter! Did you have to do that?" I yelled, shocked beyond belief.
"Sorry, Ron pushed me." he said meekly, pointing over his shoulder with his thumb and lo and behold, stood my brother grinning stupidly. I looked to Hermione, expecting to see her with a disgusted look on her face but she was busily rummaging through her school bag. I grinned and turned back to the boys.
"Yeah well, both of you, control the urge to land on me next time thank you very much." I said grumpily, rubbing my shoulder where Harry had kneed me.
"Sorry Gin," he said sitting down on the grass beside me. "Want me to kiss it better?" he said wiggling his eyebrows. I raised my eyebrow and smiled at him saucily.
"Sure." I said, taking my robes slowly off of my shoulders, in a kind of exaggerated strip tease. Needless to say he went bright red.
"Ahh…uh…I…um." He muttered, looking anywhere but at me.
"That's what I thought." I said, pulling my robes back onto my shoulder. Hermione was laughing and Ron looked like he wanted to smack Harry upside the head. I rolled my eyes and directed my attention to Ron.
"I was just being stupid Ron, get over it." I said, leaning back on the soft grass on my arms. Ron relaxed after the explanation and plopped down next to Hermione who seemed to have forgotten that he was there and jumped a little as his arm brushed against hers. I held back my laughter and looked towards Hagrid's cabin. He seemed to be out, the big door was shut and I couldn't hear Fang or see any movement from within.
I stretched and lay down on my back, content to lie in the warm sun for as long as I was allowed. After a few minutes I decided that I needed a pillow, I tried putting my arms under my head but that didn't work so I sighed, annoyed and began to take my cloak off, to use it as a pillow but Harry beat me to it.
"Here, use mine. I'm hot, I don't need to wear it." He said handing it over. I was surprised but held it in as I thanked him. It was much more comfortable that mine would have been as mine was second hand and didn't exactly have much warmth left in it. Harry's however was incredibly soft. I put my head on it and was immediately comfortable. But the way I was lying, I couldn't see the exchanges happening between Ron and Hermione and I wanted too, I wanted to see what she would do about what we had talked about, so I changed position to lying on my stomach, with Harry's cloak under my chin.
Ron was sitting with his arms and legs spread out, obviously comfortable and oblivious to Hermione's uncomfortableness. I rolled my eyes, thinking that no one had seen and was nudged in the side suddenly by Harry.
"Hi." I said simply, turning to look at him and seeing that he was sitting the same way that I was.
"Hi. What was the eye roll for?" he asked frowning. I looked towards the couple in front of us and his eyes followed to where I was looking and realization dawned on his face.
"Say no more." He said rolling his eyes, much in the same way that I had done. I stifled a giggle and motioned to him to stand up. He did so, shoving his hands into his pockets. By this time, Ron was talking to Hermione about the detention he had managed to get in Divination because he fell asleep, normally Hermione would have been frowning and telling him to pay attention in class but I noticed that she was actually giggling.
"Harry and I are going to go for a walk." I said, interrupting their conversation. Ron waved his hand at us carelessly and continued to make Hermione giggle. I looked at Harry and he spoke.
"We'll just go over here and snog then shall we? Ok? Good and you two stay here and do the same."
I giggled when they didn't say and thing and Harry rolled his eyes and linked arms with me and we walked off towards the lake.
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"Those two are unbelievable." I said, shaking my head slowly and Harry laughed. He sat down on the edge of the lake and I followed suit.
"Yeah, but I guess that's what makes them Ron and Hermione." He said shrugging.
"Them being unbelievable?" I asked him, confused.
"Yeah, well I don't know. Ron is funnier than anyone else I've ever met, aside from you of course, but he needs a little control in his life. Hermione is his control. Whereas Hermione is sometimes a little too controlled and needs a little disarray in her life and Ron is her disarray." He said, although he had practiced it.
"You've thought that out." I said to him, surprised.
"Yeah well when you live with Ron each night mumbling about how 'insufferable' Hermione is, you tend to come to your own understanding of their relationship." He said shrugging again.
"Their non-existent relationship you mean?" I asked him, smiling.
"Well, I don't think that it is going to be non-existent for much longer." He said, turning and pointing to where Ron and Hermione were still enthralled in their own little world.
"Does that bother you?" I asked him, indicating the couple. He looked at me strangely.
"What do you mean?" he asked frowning.
"Just that they are so wrapped up in themselves that they don't see you?" to my surprise he laughed.
"No way! That way I know that they won't be worrying about me!" he said, laughter dying away.
"Do they have something to be worrying about?" I asked him, watching his face closely. He fidgeted and shook his head.
"Are you sure?" I asked him, not believing him. He sighed and looked at me. Frustrated.
"Not you too! That's part of the reason why I love hanging out with you Gin! You don't fuss over me like I'm a little kid that can't do anything for myself. I respect you for that." He said quietly. I blushed modestly and threw a stone into the lake and it skipped across the surface.
"Sorry. I promise to not do it again. From now on, you are just Harry, Harry that I barely give a stuff about that can get himself into trouble for all I care." I said, throwing another rock. He laughed.
"That's what I want!" he said, laughing softly to himself.
"I was joking." I said to him, pushing him slightly. He pushed back and we sat in silence for a few minutes.
Suddenly he stood up. "I've got a lot of homework that I really need to do. As much as I'd love to stay out here with you, I better go do it." He said, sending me an apologetic smile. I returned his smile and I stood up.
"Want some company? I don't think those two will be in for a while." I said gesturing to my brother and best friend. He laughed and held out his arm.
"Sure."
We walked back to the castle with arms linked and made it up to the common room without running into anyone to slow us down. Thank goodness because I had just remembered a Charms assignment that was due the next day that I hadn't even started.
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"Urgh." I grunted as I set down my Quill on the table. Harry looked up suddenly, obviously startled by my sudden noise. I looked at him apologetically and he smiled.
"Sorry, just glad that I've finished." I said rolling up the piece of parchment that had my essay on it.
"Lucky you. I'm going to be here for another hour or so." He said, removing his glasses and rubbing his eyes. I stood up from my seat and walked around the table to where he was seated and sat next to him. Looking at the Divination book that he was holding lightly.
"This? Oh this is easy! I'll do it for you." I said to him as I took his Quill from his hand.
"What? I can't let you do my homework!" He said scandalized.
"Why? It's fun. I did Fred and Georges in their Seventh year." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"But do you know what you are doing?" He said eyeing me sceptically.
"Of course not. No one knows what they are doing when it comes to Divination." I said before scribbling down a sentence that would be sure to please Professor Trelawney.
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A/N: Well guys and girls, I hope that you liked that. Please say you liked it! I have another seventeen chapters to come! You better have liked it lol. It took me a long time to get motivated to write this so it better have been worth it!
~Nesserz.
P.S. The Author's Notes will get longer the more reviews I get lol. Not that that is a good thing or anything…just review, make the old girl happy lol. =D.
