Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and if you see anything that you own. I don't own that either. If I did own Harry Potter however I would be in Hawaii right now sipping on a cocktail on the beach getting a tan. Which never seems to happen.
A/N: This is my first official fic and it is G/D so if you don't like that I will do other pairings just not same gender pairings (I wouldn't know how to write stuff like that). Harry won't exactly be the bad guy and Dean … Dean will just be a lovesick puppy. If you find any mistakes please point it out because I am very lazy when it comes to Grammar. Flamers are welcome but nothing to harsh please. If you have any great ideas for this story please let me know.
Chapter One: Devious plan gone wrong!
Ginny glared at the roses on her bed, they were the second lot of roses from the same guy in a mere 24 hours. She was pissed. Most girls would have been delighted and have already been planning there wedding after the first lot of roses. Ginny wasn't like most girls however, (You have probably already guessed that but I'll tell you anyway, just encase you are the rare breed of species that are exceptionally thick) she hated guys like Dean who only wanted her for her body. (There's a guy like that at my swimming club except he would go after any female doesn't matter how old, ugly or stupid as long as their female. Quite disturbing actually. I think he's trying to prove to everyone that he isn't gay 'cause we all think he is, anyway you aren't reading this to hear about gay guys that swim) She was beautiful and she knew it. It was the only quality that she didn't need any reassurance about, but she didn't care about guys (except for Harry) they were a waste of time. She sneezed, and went back to glaring at the roses accusingly. Why did she have to be allergic to roses? Of all the flowers the Gods could have chose they had to choose roses. She had explained to Dean (in a very simple manner) about her situation (being allergic to roses) but he refused to believe that it was possible for anyone to be allergic to roses so he sent her another lot.
You see it all started that fateful day (the train trip home from her 4th year at Hogwarts) when she had announced to the whole carriage (that just happened to contain Ron, Hermione and Harry) that she was going out with Dean 'So not true! I mean who would go out with that git? Hello! He reads Witch weekly' She had only said it to annoy Ron and make Harry jealous but as usual, like all of her other devious plans, it backfired! It did make Ron annoyed though and … angry, furious, upset, angry, confused, angry, unhappy, angry, unsettled, angry, disappointed, angry, about read to explode and extremely angry to the point of irrationality (not like that's anything unusual for Ron)! It didn't make Harry jealous though Or at least I don't think so he had looked pretty amused at Ron's outburst. Ginny thought back to the train trip, Harry had been sitting in his little corner smirking the whole trip and had even made a comment about how happy he was for Ginny. Maybe… just Maybe he thought I actually like Dean and only said it because he wants me to be happy and didn't want to upset me by saying he liked me. A smile appeared on her face as she lay on her bed next to the roses staring at the ceiling. Yeah. That's the reason he was acting happy. Now that I think about he looked to happy to be real. Fake Happy. She smiled a smile that you saw only to often on teenage girls that were hopelessly in love. She was sure that Ron wouldn't let Harry off so easy as he did to Dean if Harry asked her out, but in the end it would all be for the best.
Ron had sent a Howler to Dean as soon as he got home saying only God knows what, but Dean being Dean had somehow taken that as an invitation to ask her out and was now bugging her non stop. He had sent her a total of 108 letters, 16 boxes of chocolate, (half of which she had sent to Keira, her best friend who had thought the whole confuddlement extremely funny) 9 singing cards, (bad memories) 5 bracelets and now he had topped all of that off with two lots of roses and it was still one week into the holidays. Very disturbing. She was still lying on her bed in her underwear (pink bra with matching nickers that said private property on the posterior) contemplating what to do with Dean when Harry, Ron and Hermione burst in ever so politely (sarcastic). She glared at them.
"Have you ever heard of knocking!" she snapped getting up off her bed and grabbing a shirt and was now pulling it over her head.
"Have you ever heard of wearing clothes!" Ron growled turning Harry around roughly (causing him to be slammed into the door)
"Oh shush Ronald." Hermione said walking over to the flowers, "Who are they from?
"Dean."
"That's the second lot!" Ron cried throwing his arms up in distress
"You don't know that for sure Ron." Hermione scolded, "This could be the same bunch. And quite frankly I find it sweet!"
Ron gagged, "SWEET? It's bloody ridiculous! The guy is like a stalker. Every bloody minute there's another owl tapping on the window, And it is driving me INSANE!" He was now sitting on Ginny's bed with his head in his hands moaning, "AND it is too the second lot 'cause I burnt the first bloody lot!"
Ginny rolled her eyes, "Why did youse all burst in for anyway? Surely not to complain about Dean!"
"You burnt the first bunch?" Hermione screamed ignoring Ginny's question, "Do know how much that would have hurt Ginny's feelings?"
"Of course not!" he snapped, "I mean I do but I didn't burn her flowers, they had some charm on them I ended up shredding them in Fred and Georges muggle shredder. That's how I nearly cut my finger off"
"THAT!" Hermione screamed, "Is even worse. I pity the girl who goes out with you next. They will be scarred for the rest of their life."
At this statement Ginny nearly fell off her bed she was laughing that hard, "You two," she said between gasps of air, "Crack me up!"
Both Hermione and Ron ignored her and continued their argument that didn't look like it was going to end for a while. She put her new muggle skinny legs and cons on grabbed Harry by the arm who was still facing the wall and dragged him out of her bedroom.
"Thought we better get out before it turned into a snogging session or something. That would not have been pretty."
Harry laughed not moving his arm, which was still linked with hers, "So are you really going out with Dean."
Ginny looked at him. He actually looked like he wanted to know and wasn't just saying that for conversation sake. 'Should I tell him ……Ummm ……Oh what the heck,' "Can you keep a secret?" he nodded and put his hand on his heart which coincidently pulled Ginny closer to him, "I'm not, I only said that to make Ron mad." 'And to make you jealous' but she didn't say that she didn't want to ruin anything that they had built up over the last year by confessing she still had feelings for him
He laughed again and shook his head, "What am I going to do with you?"
"Nothing Harry 'cause you love me just the way I am." She punched him in the arm and giggled. Harry however looked like he had just been told he had to marry Professor Umbridge … horrified, "Harry I was kidding." She said even though her heart had broken into tiny little pieces so small a molecule wouldn't even be able to see them, "You know… ha ha ha … joke."
"Oh right …" he laughed, "Sorry." They were interrupted by a scream from the bottom of the stairs.
"GINNY!" It was Keira looking as gorgeous as ever
"OH MY GOD!" she screamed grabbing the girl in a breath wrenching hug, "How long are you staying here?"
"Only a week." She said, "But Mum said that you could stay at my place for the rest of the holidays if that's alright with you. We probably would end up going to my Dads house though cause his place is way cooler." Keira was a tall girl (like Ginny) and extremely athletic, (like Ginny) she had long black wavy hair and slightly tan skin with a few freckles scattered across her nose and the top of her cheeks. Her best feature however were her eyes that were actually all purple (did have white on the outside, otherwise that would look really weird) and had no black pupal just a darker shade of purple and that was the first thing most people commented on including Ginny. Whose first sentence to Keira was, 'your eyes are really weird! Are they cursed?' And they had been inseparable since. Keira like Ginny was extremely attractive but in a cheeky way, she was always grinning like she had just dyed Snape's hair hot pink (which the two did in their 3rd year)! The two together spelt trouble and when joined with Fred and George…well lets just say … "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! AHHH! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" They were mischief-makers (if you hadn't already guessed) and like other mischief-makers they were extremely smart! (You'd have to be smart to come up with all those pranks) In fact the two were so smart that, along with Colin (their other best friend) they had been moved up to 6th year. It had caused quite a stir when the owl arrived to inform Ginny (among everyone).
FLASHBACK"Owl results are coming today!" Hermione squealed jumping around excitedly hugging anyone in arms reach
"Already?" Ron groaned, "It's only (yawn) the fourth (yawn) day of holiday's."
"Mmmm. I don't want to be bothered with School crap already!" Ginny said making a face out of her egg and sausage
"GINNY!" her Mother shrieked, "Don't swear! That's worse than your brother!"
"Bullshit." She mumbled under her breath
"GINNY!" her Mother shrieked again
"What." She snapped
"Your letter." She said pointing at the golden letter that had unfortunately landed in the middle of her breakfast, "Open it! I've never seen one like that before."
Ginny grabbed the letter of her breakfast and wiped it on her jeans, "Ginny! I just washed those!" she ignored her Mum and opened the letter.
To Miss Weasley,
We are pleased to inform you that all of your test results were 100 correct! Because of this outstanding achievement in your test and your advanced knowledge of your subjects that you have shown during class we have agreed that it would be in your best interest to move up to 6th year. We are also pleased to inform you that you will be made a Gryffindor Senior Prefect (head Gryffindor prefect) along with Justin Wilson a 7th year. This is an extreme privilege and we advise you not to abuse it or we will be forced to take away your badge. We usually don't give out Senior Prefect badges to 5th years (now 6th year) but in your case we would be anything but wise not to.
Enclosed we have two permission slips to be filled out and sent back by Monday next week and your new book list.
Yours Sincerely,
Professor McGonagall
'Oooooh, won't Hermione be livid' she thought chucking her book list in the middle of the table along with everyone elses, 'I got Senior Prefect and she didn't. She will have PMS personality for weeks'
"Ginny I think they've made a mistake." Her mother said reading through her books, "It sais here sixth year and …oh dear you need dress robes too" her mother looked at her father with a worried look on her face completely forgotten about the fact that her only daughter had been made Senior prefect and was now in sixth year. But Ginny was used to that now, her Mother got excited the first two times when she got 100 in all of her tests but now her Mother would be worried if that didn't happen. In fact everyone had become accustomed to the fact that she was genius, everyone except Ron who had refused to believe that his little sister was smart and always tried to help her with her homework. Which would only lead to a straight T for troll!
"Sixth year?" Hermione squeaked, "Don't worry Ginny. I'm sure it was only a mistake. They won't expect you to learn 6th year stuff yet."
Ginny rolled her eyes and raised an eyebrow at Hermione, "Who's saying I'm worried in fact I'm quite excited about joining the sixth years." She said much to Hermiones dismay
"Gin. I wouldn't get your hopes up." Ron said putting his hand on Ginny's as if he was about to say that the love of her life (Harry) had died, "It might only be a mistake."
"Pftt." She said waving her hand in his face, she grabbed the letter and was about to give it to Ron but Hermione snatched it off her
Hermione's face went form the usual 'I know everything' look to jaw dropped completely dumbfounded. It didn't look natural, "That's great Ginny! Really great." She said shakily, "I'm really happy for you."
Ginny suddenly found herself feeling extremely guilty, Hermione studied day and night and hardly ever broke a rule and here Ginny was never even bothered to study at all and broke pretty much every rule there was to break with Senior Prefect privileges and had been moved up a class. Ron and Harry were now reading the letter except Ron looked confused and Harry looked happy.
"Isn't that great." He said putting an arm around her and hugging her, "It will be complete with you in our class now."
She suddenly felt like giggling but shook that feeling off as two owls had landed on her breakfast…again! She grabbed the letters shoving Harry's hand off her shoulder so she could read the letter without him seeing. She didn't want him reading her letters, there might be something about him in them. And we couldn't have ickle Harry get scarred by reading a horny letter all about him, now could we. She guessed the peach coloured envelope was from Keira because she was sure Colin wasn't gay.
gin gin,
r u movin up to 6th yr to? 'cause if I am than u definitely r. soz about the grammar but I'm in a hurray an mums in 1 of her moods again!
lov ya lotz
keira
Short and sweet was Keira's style. She always had to much to say to fit in a letter so she usually just let it all come out when they got together, which was always full of laughter. When the two were in one of there hyperactive moods Colin usually sat in his little corner rolling his eyes and reading. Colin was the only one of the three that studied and strange as it seems he was the least bright of the three.
Dear Ginny,
I was moved up to 6th year and I'm guessing that Keira and you are as well. I'm actually worried about Kiz. She doesn't seem as bright as she usually does. I was talking to her on flow the other day and (believe it or not) it was me doing all the talking. She just said her Mum was in a mood again, and I believe that but I know there's more to it. She's going over to your house in a few days so try and find out what's bothering her. Please.
Colin END FLASH BACK"Hey Keira." Harry said nodding at the girl walking past the two into the kitchen
As soon as he was out of hearing distance Keira grabbed Ginny shoved her into the lounge room chair, "We are going to get you two together this year if it's the last thing we do. And if that means no pranks then no pranks it is and if that means no studying then …" she looked at Ginny trying her best to look serious but couldn't hold it for long before cracking a smile and practically screamed "THEN I'M ALL FOR IT!"
Ginny laughed jumping up and grabbing Keira by the arms trying to calm her down, "He doesn't like me."
"Bullshit … if he doesn't like you then why was he holding you so close before?" she asked, "Hmmm?" she nodded trying to do her not s successful genius look, "What have you got to say to that?"
Ginny was about to reply but Hermione came in and announced that it was time for lunch practically shoving them into the kitchen. Keira smirked at Ginny and waggled her eyebrows and through in a head indication. Ginny laughed at her friend's not so subtle hints. No she mouthed causing Keira to crack up laughing. Ginny avoided eye contact with Harry and Keira for the rest of lunch. Harry because she knew she would start blushing and didn't want him to think of her as the shy and timid little girl she used to be. Keira because Keira would do something that would make Ginny do or say something she would regret.
"Is it alright if Gin comes and stays with me for the rest of the holidays? Mrs Weasley?" she heard Keira asking her mother
"Of course dear. That sounds lovely. I'll give Ginny some money and you two can buy your dress robes together." Her Mother replied packing up the dishes
"What!?!?!? Dress Robes!" Ron spluttered grabbing hold of the table for moral support. He looked around the room horrified most likely hoping Fred and George would jump up screaming 'April fools day', "Why would we need Dress Robes?"
"Yes. There's going to be a ball this year." Hermione said actually looking excited about something that wasn't schoolwork, "It sounds so fun. Don't you agree Ginny?"
Ginny rolled her eyes. She had never been a fan of balls. Ever since her date with Neville she had never looked upon balls in the same way, "Oh yes … sounds like heaps of fun." She shuddered at the thought
"Don't you like balls Gin?" Harry asked surprised
Ginny was about to reply but Keira got in first, "She would if she went with the right person." She said raising her eyes but no one except Ginny got the hint
"Keira." Ginny said warningly but as usual Keira took no notice
"The chemistry and passion was never really in the relationship with Neville." She said very dramatically, "If you know what I mean. I think she needs someone a little more daring, way more handsome, No offence to Neville or anything but he aint the best looker round the shop. Eh. Actually to be completely honest I think the guy for Ginny…."
"For Gods sake Keira would you just shut up!" she snapped, "No one wants to hear you rant on about something that has nothing to do with anything!"
Keira glared at her, "Well. I think the ball should be heaps of fun." Keira ignoring Ginny, "As long as Ginny doesn't go it should be a huge success." Harry laughed which only made Ginny's mood worse hence the punch she gave to Keira was a lot harder "Actually. I heard from my many 'contacts' that there's gonna be a few muggle bands and obviously the theme is muggle so we can get it down like the muggles do!" she said rubbing her arm
"Muggle theme?!"
"Yeah. You know Muggles … the people who cant do magic." Keira said
"The ones who think pulling a rabbit from a hat, that was actually already in the hat, is magic!" Ginny said doing an act of a muggle magician
Harry laughed at her and put one of his arms over her shoulder pulling her into a side hug. She could feel butterflies in her stomach doing back sault after back sault and she knew that she was probably grinning from ear to ear now. Keira raised her eyebrows questioningly but said nothing. Both Ron and Harry were oblivious to everything … not that Ginny minded. She would be mortified if Ron found out and if Harry knew that would be the end of their friendship … or whatever it was that they had.
She sighed and pulled out from under Harry's strong grip. Who was she kidding? She didn't have a hope in hell of getting the boy who just would not die. He had half the Hogwarts population chasing after him. Actually probably only the Gryffindor girls cause the rest were chasing after Draco fricken Malfoy. What they saw in him she had absolutely no idea. She made some excuse to go to bed early but everyone seemed to be having to much fun to care. For some reason she just wasn't as hipped as before. The things pondering do to you.
OK … well that is the end of the good chapter 1!!! LOLI hope you enjoyed it … it should get a little bit more exciting soon
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