A/N I so love Harry and Ginny! Especially during the time when Ginny's the one who suffered unrequited love and Harry didn't realize it. I'm open to suggestions!( What do you want to see etc. ) Hope you'll like it! This time, I'll let Harry suffer because of Ginny as the story develops, for a change. :)

Chapter 1: The Break-up

Harry Potter was sitting by the window of Gryffindor boys' dormitory. It was a Saturday morning and the other Gryffindors had gone down to the Great Hall for breakfast, including his friends Neville, Dean and Seamus, all were in Harry's year. They didn't ask Harry to come down with them – or maybe they did, he's just wasn't listening. Now that he remembered, Ron Weasley, his best friend, did ask him to come down for breakfast, but he told him he wasn't hungry, which wasn't true, well at least, that time he had asked Harry.

He heard his stomach made a funny sound and suddenly thought of the dishes that were now being served at the Great Hall. He imagined his best friends Ron and Hermione Granger having a nice chat at the Gryffindor table, what with them getting together just last week. He was so happy for them both when they told Harry. Even Cho Chang congratulated them when he told her the news. Cho.

Cho was Harry's girlfriend. At least she was his girlfriend until yesterday when she told Harry that she wanted to break up with him.

"It's not you. It's me," Cho had said when Harry didn't say anything.

"Don't give me that crap Cho. Just tell me the truth. Why are you breaking up with me?" Harry demanded.

"Harry, I know this will sound stupid but I think you don't love me anymore!" Cho said and Harry saw a tear trickled down her face. "I mean, we don't really spend that much time together now like we used to before. You were always with your friends. With Ron and Hermione I understand, but with Ginny? Harry, you know she fancies you!"

"So you're breaking up with me because I'm friends with Ginny? You sure know that Ginny's Ron's sister don't you?" Harry asked, can't quite believe that this was happening.

"I know Harry I know! That's why I was uneasy! Ginny Weasley fancies you! The whole school knows that! And because she happened to be your best friend's sister she thinks she's got advantage of getting close to you! I mean, you practically lived with them last summer, didn't you? You probably spent time with her more than you spent time with me and that's…. that's…. not right!" As Cho was saying these, tears won't stop falling from her face.

Harry can't quite believe what he heard. He didn't know that Cho was jealous of Ginny. He felt proud but at the same time annoyed. It's her that he liked so why would she be jealous of some other girl just because he's friends with them?

"Listen, Cho. Ginny is just my friend," Harry emphasized the word friend. "You can't expect me not to be friends with her when as you said I live with them! And for your information, Ginny and I were never alone. We were always with Ron, with Hermione, with Luna, with Neville! Now that I think of it, why were you not jealous of Hermione and Luna? Why is it just Ginny? Well I'm closer to Hermione more than I am with Ginny and Luna-"

"You don't understand!" Cho was shouting now. "I know Hermione is with Ron and Luna… I know you don't like Luna. But Ginny, she is different. Ginny is different."

Harry banged his fist against the windowsill. It hurt. But that was nothing compared to what he's already feeling right now. He couldn't quite remember how their conversation ended. He just remembered walking straight to the dormitory, jumped on his bed without talking to anyone, not even to Ron and Hermione. How could Cho possibly break-up with him because of Ginny? Ginny is different. How was Ginny different? Harry felt annoyed at the fact that it was because of Ginny that he's hurting right now; it was because of her that Cho left him.

He heard his stomach growled again. He changed his clothes and decided to go down and have some breakfast. While on his way, he's still trying to think of how Cho said that Ginny was different and how she wanted him to end his friendship with Ginny. That was stupid, Harry thought to himself.

The Great Hall was packed with students having their breakfast. They all looked cheerful and happy; the exact opposite of what he was feeling right now. He spotted Ron and Hermione at the Gryffindor table and started walking towards them. He can feel the eyes of other students from the other houses looking at him as he walked. He knew this had nothing to do with being The Boy Who Lived but rather because of being The Boy Who Got Dumped.

"Here," Hermione passed him a plate of bacon and eggs as he sat down. "Eat up."

"Thanks. So, the whole school knows it now, I expect?" Harry can't help but to insert sarcasm into his voice.

"Well, you can't expect them not to know, can you? You're popular and so is Cho. This is news to them," Ron said eyeing Harry's reaction.

"Yeah, well I thought it would be nice if they stop staring at me like that. It feels like Heir of Slytherin all over again. Don't they have anything to talk about except me?" Harry asked annoyed.

"There is," Ginny Weasley had arrived and flopped down at the sit next to Ron. "Me."

Harry looked at Ginny. She looked like something's bothering her and Harry didn't need to ask what it was. Surely, not only the news about his break-up with Cho reached her but also the reason for it. Strange though as it may seem, but it isn't uncomfortable to talk about these things even though Ginny is around.

"Well, yeah," Harry heard Hermione saying. "I think it was really stupid for her to break up with Harry because of—". She looked at Harry.

"What were they've been saying about you anyway?" Ron asked Ginny.

"Oh nothing offensive. They were just saying that I was a bitch who tried to get hooked up with Harry. One version even had me kissing Harry in front of Cho," Ginny said as if this was just some gossip she picked up somewhere.

"It doesn't bother you though, does it?" Ron asked.

"No," Ginny replied. "But I must admit it got me into thinking."

"Thinking? About what?" Hermione inquired.

"About what I am supposed to do now. So Harry, what do we do now? Do we stay friends? Or do we not?" Ginny asked Harry with a straight face.

Harry couldn't tell if this was a joke or a serious question. Maybe it was indeed a serious question because the three of them seemed to be waiting for his response. Harry found himself smiling even though he thinks this was a serious matter; and suddenly, all four of them were laughing. The topic about Harry and Cho breaking up was replaced by Ginny telling them something funny about the other comments she's been hearing.

The Gryffindor Quidditch team had been called for practice. The first Quidditch match of the season will be held two weeks from now and Angelina Johnson, the new Gryffindor captain, was determined to win the match.

"We need to practice. And hard," Angelina was saying as they changed into their robes. "The first match would be with Ravenclaw. I heard they've got new Beaters and Chasers and I've heard they're really good. But I think we still have the unbeatable beaters"

"C'mon Angelina! You're embarrassing us," Fred Weasley said but with a wide grin on his face.

"We can't be confident though. There may be new strategies that they've developed and mastered over summer so we need to match that. Only this time, we'll be playing the opening game so we won't be able to see how they'll play. We'll rely on our own strategies and skills," Angelina said.

As they walked into the Quidditch pitch, Harry was getting nervous but he didn't know why. Their first match will be against Ravenclaw. Cho was Ravenclaw's seeker and he was Gryffindor's. They had to play and see each other two weeks from now. Harry didn't know what made him more nervous; the pressure to win the first match or to play against Cho after their break-up. He was still hurt about what happened and he had no idea what could be worse when he came face-to-face with the very reason for his hurting. He suddenly wondered if Cho had been feeling the same way he did when she found out that it will be Ravenclaw against Gryffindor two weeks from now.

Harry did well during their practice that afternoon and even on their practices that happened on the afternoons that followed that. Angelina was quite confident that they will put up a good fight against Ravenclaw. He too, was sure he will do well, if that only means to catch the snitch, and not to face Cho.

Two weeks later, it was time for the match.