"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T GO TO HOGSMEADE?" shouted an irate Harry.
"The High Inquisitor has been going through your files and found that the wanted criminal Sirius Black was the one who signed your permission slip. For your own safety she has generously destroyed it." Filch said, grinning wickedly.
Harry was left speechless, what could he do?
He could see that Cho, who had gone through before him, was getting slightly impatient.
"Are you coming or not Harry?" she called out, a trace of anger in her voice.
"Umm, I'm sorry Cho but I guess we'll have to do this some other time. Umbridge has stopped me from going to Hogsmeade," he complained, walking over to her.
"WHAT? If I'd have known 'The Boy Who Lived' would stand ME up, then I would have chosen someone with more than just a famous name!" screamed Cho angrily.
This riled Harry's anger no end. "Fine, if that's the way you want it! I don't know what I ever saw in you."
"Fine, there's plenty of guys out there who would kill for the chance to go to Hogsmeade with me!"
Harry couldn't believe that he'd been so taken in by the older girl. He wished he could have a girlfriend who understood him, who knew him, somebody who would support him in all his trials. For some reason Ginny Weasley popped into his head, he quickly snuffed that idea, Ginny was probably the friend that understood him the most, she was funny and smart, but she had a boyfriend and six elder brothers, and besides, she was over him he thought glumly.
He was just about to leave for Gryffindor tower when he saw Cho run into someone's welcoming arms down the path towards Hogsmeade. That person was none other than Michael Corner, Ginny's boyfriend. He proceeded to kiss Cho hungrily on the lips. Harry had had enough and stormed past them, heading for the Quidditch pitch where the Gryffindor team were practicing.
Picking up a broom, from the broom shed, Harry took off in search of Ginny. She needed to know about her supposed boyfriend's activities. Seeing her swoop and dive around the pitch was amazing. 'She really is a great flier' Harry thought as he speeded after her.
Just then one of the new beaters hit a bludger towards her. Ginny, concentrating on finding the snitch, didn't notice the bludger heading towards her.
"Ginny!" Harry called out to her. She looked around, finally noticing the bludger heading straight for her head. With a curse she twisted to the side, the bludger missing her by inches. However, as she did so, she lost her grip on her broom. She was tumbling towards the ground screaming.
Harry saw this and, still speeding towards her, he reached out to grab her. He caught her around the waist and she clung on to him for dear life. The only problem now was that their combined weight was too heavy for the rickety old school broom Harry had been riding. They glided steeply down towards the ground. Harry was able to pull the broom up a bit but it was still a bumpy landing. He and Ginny rolled off together onto the grass of the pitch, Harry ending up lying closely on top of her.
Harry stared into her chocolate brown eyes for what seemed like an eternity. He hadn't noticed how much she had grown in recent months, and now pressed against her he felt as though electric currents were running through his body.
Obviously Ginny could too, because she blushed but tried to move closer to him anyway. She licked her lips almost seductively.
Harry leaned in and captured her lips with his own. Ginny growled and rapped her arms around his neck pulling him even closer.
Harry left her mouth moving down her neck, trailing kisses as he went.
"Oh! Harry! Oh Harry please st-stop!" Ginny tried to say. "Harry I have a boyfriend."
"Not any more. He's off snogging Cho."
"What! Oh Harry!" Ginny exclaimed before Harry started kissing her neck once again.
"Is this the year that every guy at Hogwarts takes advantage of my little sister?" cried Ron angrily, swooping down towards them.
"Oh shut up Ron," said Ginny pointing her wand at her brother. With a flick of her wand, two beater's bats materialised on either side of Ron. The bats then proceeded to hit giant bludger shaped bogies at Ron, covering him from head to foot in mucus.
With that done Harry grabbed Ron's broom from him and lifted Ginny onto it. Seating himself behind her, he pulled her back towards him, his arms around her waist. Ginny blushed again but she was smiling.
They zoomed off towards the castle, ignoring Angelina's shouts, and landed on a stone balcony neither had noticed before, at the top of Gryffindor tower. Opening the doors into the rooms beyond, Harry and Ginny gasped.
The room they had entered was the largest bedroom either had ever seen. It was decorated in Gryffindor colours, and there was a massive four posted bed. Ginny wasted no time in pulling Harry towards it.
"Shouldn't we find out whose room this is before we go about using it?" Harry asked half-heartedly.
" Well according to 'Hogwarts a History' there are a set of hidden rooms in Gryffindor tower which belonged to Gryffindor himself. Only people considered worthy are permitted access." Ginny explained, again tugging Harry towards the bed. "Come on, I've waited too long for this Mr Potter."
"W-Wait Ginny, are you sure we should do this? Were not married, what will your family say?"
"Well," said Ginny, "I do know of one way we can get married, it's an ancient Celtic ceremony that I was reading about recently. We need a ring each, and also some sort of fabric to bind our bodies together." She looked around the room expectantly.
"Aha! Here we are," Ginny said as she ran over to a dressing table with some jewellery boxes stacked on top. "Perfect," she said as she opened two ring boxes. She opened a nearby drawer and pulled out a very long white silk scarf. "That'll do," she said, examining it.
Once she was back at the bed she told Harry what they had to do. "We need to be naked, facing each other, with the scarf wrapped around us, then we both say 'Imbolc' and put the rings on each other's fingers.
"OK," said Harry, leaning in to kiss her again. He then started to pull off her Quidditch robes as she did the same with his school ones. They continued to strip until they were naked. Feeling the other's eyes on them they both blushed slightly.
Harry pulled Ginny to him. He kissed her deeply, both of them feeling each other's bodies react to their closeness.
Ginny took the scarf and, using her wand, she wrapped it tightly around them both. "Imbolc," they both incanted, placing the rings on each other's ring fingers. Their world exploded in light.