A/N: Thank you so much to everyone for reading my fanfiction! This is actually my very first fanfic, so please forgive me if it's not the star quality that you're used to.

Disclaimer: So I've been comparing this OC character I made (before the HP books came out) with Colin Creevey and it seems sadly that they are not identical….*sigh* guess I can't claim rights to him!

J.K.R owns the world, characters, and pretty much everything in this fanfiction. The only thing I claim the right to is the owl Pips whom I made up for this story.

Days until the costume party: Two

An Excited Photographer

The sun was just rising over the tallest spires of Hogwarts when, through an open window, a tawny owl named Pips flew. In his claws he grasped a letter. Swooping down quickly over his master's bed, he let it drop from his claws, and without so much as a hoot, flew back out the window.

Colin Creevey awoke with a yell and slapped a hand over his eye. His blond hair was sticking out at angles and his covers twisted like a tornado around his legs.

"Bloody Hell!" Sitting up and kicking his covers back, Colin glared around the room, looking for the bloke who just poked him in the eye. His moment shifted the letter, which had been lodged in a cover wrinkle, and it fell to the floor with a quiet rustle.

Colin, who was just about to accuse one of his housemates, stopped when the flash of movement caught his eye.

"Hm?" Colin peered over the side of his bed at the letter, reaching down he snatched it up and examined it.

"Burrow" he read quietly, his brow furrowing in thought, now where had he heard that name. Suddenly it hit him.

"Weasley!" Colin tore the letter open excitedly and removed it contents. Unfolding the letter, he read it quickly.

"It's and invitation!" he said gleefully to himself. Across from him one of his housemates piped up curiously.

"Who from?"

Colin grinned and waved the letter like a banner.

"It's from the Weasleys!" He scanned the invitation again.

"For a costume party!"

His housemate snorted.

"And you plan on going?"

Colin lowered the parchment looking confused.

"Yeah…why wouldn't I?"

His housemate rolled his eyes.

"Oh haven't you been listening to the talk? Rumor has it that Potter is dating the Weasley girl, and don't pretend that's not the only reason you're so excited about going."

Colin's face paled.

"N-no…I haven't been listening really."

He looked so heartbroken that his housemate took pity on him and tried to cheer him up.

"Hey maybe I'm wrong okay?"

The look on Colin's face was a doubtful one.

His housemate shrugged.

"Could be just that, a rumor right?"

Colin nodded and tried to look nonchalant, but his insides were churning and he ended up looking pained.

"Yeah maybe."

Colin walked into the Great Hall just a few minutes before breakfast ended. Usually he was there even before the food had appeared on the plates, but today he just couldn't seem to call up his normal energetic attitude. No one noticed him as he sat down and began to pick glumly at his fried potatoes. He didn't even manage to fork up a mouthful before the food disappeared, signaling that the meal was over.

Colin got up slowly from the Gryffindor table and shouldered his book bag, unaware of the light brown eyes that had watched him since he came in. Doesn't matter, he thought as he turned and made his way to the exit. I couldn't eat anyway.

Behind him, the sound of hurried footfalls sounded. Colin moved to the side, expecting whoever it was to run past.

"Colin!"

He glanced over his shoulder and stopped in his tracks. Running towards him, with a worried look on her face was the source of all his heartache.

"Ginny." He turned towards her as she came to a stop beside him, her hands on her hips.

"Colin" she reached up and turned down one side of his collar, Colin swore he felt his heart skip a beat.

"You didn't eat anything for breakfast." Reaching out she pressed a roll with jelly on it into his hand. Colin looked down as their hands touched, feeling a blush creep up into his cheeks. He looked up and smiled slightly.

"Yeah" he shrugged "slept to late."

Ginny narrowed her eyes

"You don't look so great Colin" her hand came up and she pressed it to his forehead.

"Do you feel ill at all?"

Colin could feel his breath hitch in his chest; get it together Creevey he thought, she's taken. He reached up and brushed her hand away gently

"I'm alright Ginny" he shrugged again.

"Just a little tired, you know how those O.W. L. S. get to you."

Ginny nodded slowly and stared at his face.

"Yeah Harry gets the same way, but I don't feel sorry for him, he spends way too much of his time messing around with Cho to really get his homework done." Colin's jaw dropped open as Ginny's words registered in his mind which might have took some explaining, but luckily she chose that moment to look down at his chest.
"I don't see your camera with you today" she said, her eyes on the place where his old camera usually hung.

"I don't think I've ever seen you without it." Colin took the moment that her eyes were off his face to let his feelings show; a look that suggested Christmas was coming early and he was getting everything he wanted broke out on his face. Harry's with Cho? So the rumor wasn't true! He just managed to compose himself before she looked up again. Ginny nodded to his hand.

"Do you think that roll will be enough to hold you until lunch? If not I've also got an apple in my bag somewhere." She began to open her bag but then stopped when she saw that Colin was shaking his head.

"No that's okay" he patted his stomach

"gorged myself last night so I'm good." Colin grinned, a little of his energetic self coming back and stuffed half the roll in his mouth. Ginny wrinkled her nose and tried to look disgusted.

"Boys are such pigs."

Colin nodded enthusiastically and said around the roll

"And girls are sugar and spice and everything nice how unfair is that?"

Ginny laughed, her brown eyes twinkling in a way that reminded Colin of a certain Headmaster, just then Colin's stomach gave a thunderous growl. Ginny glanced at his stomach with a raised eyebrow.

"Sure you don't want that apple?" She said, pulling it out and waving it enticingly in front of his nose. Colin reached up and took it sheepishly.

"I guess I probably should." He shined it on his shirt and took a bite.

"Come on" Colin hitched his bag higher up on his shoulder and started walking out of the great hall.

"Class is starting soon and I doubt Professor Snape will forgive us from being late on account of a missed breakfast."

Ginny nodded and kept pace beside him.

"Do you think you have the potion figured out yet?"

Colin's scowled in answer and she sighed.

"Let's go through it again."

When Colin walked into the boys dormitory that night he couldn't resist doing a little jig as he threw his bag onto his bed. His housemate, who was already sitting on his own bed with his homework spread out around him, looked up in surprise.

"What's got you so jolly?" He scooped up his papers into an untidy stack and set them on his nightstand. Colin grinned and undid his tie, throwing in on the floor.

"Guess what?" He said whipping off his cloak and tossing it over his shoulder. The cloak's sleeve caught his housemate's stack of papers and they went flying around the room. Scowling, his housemate slid off his bed and began to crawl around on the floor, picking up the now totally disorganized stack of homework.

"What?" He lay down on his stomach and slid under his bed to retrieve his charms paper. Colin's face appeared upside down on the other side of the bed, causing his friend to curse quietly.

"She ISN'T dating Potter!" His housemate sneezed and the parchment flew into Colin's face.

"Well isn't that nice." His housemate reached out and snatched the paper off him, and then began to push himself back out. Colin scrambled up so that he was standing on his housemates bed.

"What's got you so huffy?" Colin watched as housemate frowned at him, brushing the dust bunnies out of his hair where they were trying to nest. They fell to the floor and crawled back under the bed, making little whispering sounds.

"Did you happen to notice that you just knocked my homework all over the tower?" His friend was scowling at him. Colin frowned.

"Oh sorry..." But then his smile came back full force.

"But did you hear what I said? Ginny's not dating Harry! Harry's still going out with Cho Chang!" Colin grinned and jumped off his housemate's bed. His housemate decided that since Colin wasn't paying any attention anyway, there was no reason to be mad at him and let a grin break over his face.

"Well that's brilliant Colin! Looks like you'll have a chance at her after!" Colin blushed.

"Yeah I guess so, that is, if she's willing to let me have a chance with her." Colin looked down at the mess of papers on the floor and bent down to help pick them up.

"Sorry about the mess mate." His housemate shrugged.

"That's alright; at least you're helping me pick it up." They continued with this task in silence for a moment. Colin grabbed the last paper and straightened.

"Do you think she'll, you know, give me a chance?" His housemate straightened up as well and looked him in the eye. Colin looked back, his sky blue eyes filled with hope.

"I don't know mate." His housemate shook his head. Colin's shoulders fell and he stared at the floor. His housemate walked forward.

"But I do know one thing" Colin felt a hand land on his shoulder and looked back up, his messy blond hair falling into his eyes. His friend was looking at him, his face serious.

"She'd be a fool not to."

A/N: So that's the end of that chapter. I hope you all liked it! Forgive me if I made a lot of grammar mistakes XP I read it over a few times but I'm bound to have missed one (who knows, I might have even made a mistake in this A/N). So please leave a review and tell me what you think, this is my first fanfiction so all helpful criticism is greatly appreciated.

Thanks go to my brother who is my beta of sorts :]