A/N: So I have a couple questions for my loyal readers.
I'm thinking about doing a Sequel to That Will Show Them. Maybe make the one shot into a two. If you haven't read it, it's on my profile (It's about showing her brothers she's just as good as them)
I'm finishing To Make Life More Complicated at the moment so what would your final requests be. What do you really want to see happen in the story? (It's my time travel story)
Lastly, in my story Independent, I have the main storyline down I just want to see if the storyline is something you all would like. PM me if you want to hear what I'm hoping to have in the story and if you want to give your opinions.
Thank you to everyone who has been patient with me. High School is tough, especially right now with my midterms coming up.
The door clicked behind him. He took a deep breath, looking at the ceiling.
"So, what happened?" Ron's voice broke through the sudden silence. Harry opened his eyes and looked at his best friend who was sitting on the edge of his bed. Harry glanced around at Seamus, Neville, and then Dean.
"Um, nothing too interesting." He said walking over to his bed and pulling out his trunk from under it.
"Nothing too interesting? You didn't talk about anything of importance?" Ron asked swinging his legs over to the side where Harry was at.
"Well, we talked about a few things." Harry replied, as he rummaged through the opened box.
"So, are you two dating or not?" Ron asked, finally impatient with his best mate's slyness. Harry glanced again at Dean, who was lying on his bed 'reading' a copy of 'Which Broomstick?'
Harry looked over his shoulder at Ron and gave him a slight nod, watching his best mate carefully.
"Oh." Ron said shortly before diverting his eyes to the ground in front of him. Harry noticed Dean visibly tighten in the corner of his eye.
"Well, congrats, mate. Scoring a girl like Ginny is pretty impressive." Seamus said clapping Harry on the back before walking toward the bathroom.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Ron asked defensively. Seamus stopped in his tracks and looked at Ron with a slight smirk.
"Look, Ginny and I are friends and I didn't mean that as a bad thing. But, Ginny is a kind of rebel in more than one ways. It makes sense that Harry would be attracted to her." Seamus said walking backwards into the bathroom.
"Ginny's a rebel?" Neville asked confused. Harry shrugged and Ron kept his eyes on the closed bathroom door.
Silence fell over the dorm and everyone knew why. Tension between Ron and Harry was going strong but not as strong as the tension radiating from the silent Dean. Seamus had come out of the bathroom and had resorted to sitting on his bed, leaning against the headboard with his arms crossed.
"So, the match went well, yeah?" Seamus started a subject, looking around the room. The only response from his fellow dorm mates were slight nods and awkward smiles.
"Katie Bell was going great for most of it. I'm sure it was hard for her to come back after what happened." Neville said, messing with the curtains on one of the posts in his bed. Harry closed his trunk with a few things in hand and sat down on the bed.
"You were doing pretty well yourself, Ron." Seamus chimed in. Ron looked up at him with a cold face.
"How is Ginny rebellious in more ways than one?" Seamus' smile disappeared and was replaced with a confused, misbelieving look. Harry looked up at Seamus as well with curiosity about his new girlfriend.
"You don't know?" Seamus asked glancing from Ron to Harry to Neville, "She doesn't care what people think about her, she's a fierce competitor on the Quidditch Pitch, she has quite the temper, and she's skipped at least ten classes in the last three months."
"Ginny's skipped classes?" Ron asked dumbstruck.
"Yeah. She does it quite a lot. When she doesn't have her homework finished, when she doesn't feel up to it, when she would rather spend time with D—I mean, when she'd rather spend time with her friends." Harry's eyebrows furrowed, not entirely sure about what Seamus was saying. Sure; Ginny seemed like quite the character but Harry wouldn't call her rebellious by any stretch. But what would he know; according to her they barely knew each other.
All of the sudden, Dean closed his Which Broomstick and threw it across the room at a wall.
"What's got your wand in a knot?" Ron asked defensively.
"I would appreciate if you lot would shut up about my ex-girlfriend." Dean said sending an extra long glare at Harry.
"Well, it's not our fault that you two broke up, mate. Plus, it wasn't like you two were going to last much longer anyway." Seamus said, summoning the magazine from the ground.
"Shut it, Seamus. It doesn't matter if my relationship with Ginny was going down the tubes; I still had one with her and it ended. And it's very irritating to hear my friends talk about her while I'm around."
"Dean, you two broke up a good three weeks ago. If Ginny wants to date Harry, I think you shouldn't be so annoyed about it." Ron said standing up from his bed, "Plus, did you think I liked hearing you and my friends talking about how good of a kisser my sister was? So, I think you should shut it."
Dean kept his stance in front of Ron and then looked at Harry.
"What happened to the guy code?"
"Guy code?" Harry asked confused.
"You're not supposed to go after your mate's ex-girlfriends or crushes."
"I'm sorry, mate, you may believe in all that, but I can't say the same. I like Ginny, and I have for a long while."
"That's a load of rubbish. Last time I checked, you were fawning after Cho." Dean said, "Don't look at me like that, we all knew."
"I have liked her for a while. Since the end of last year, but then she announced she was dating you so I kept my distance."
"Still, Ginny was off limits for you and anyone in this room."
"So? Ginny was off limits for you; she was my sister! But that didn't stop you." Ron said, "If you're not following the guy code than why should we?"
Dean opened his mouth to say something then closed it. Understanding that Ron was the right one in the current situation.
"I'm going for a walk." Dean said picking up a jacket from that was hanging over the edge of his bed.
Everyone watched as he left the room, slamming the door behind him. Now all the attention was on Ron and Harry.
"Do you approve or don't you? Because as much as I like Ginny, our friendship is a whole lot more valuable." Harry finally broke the silence. Ron gave his best friend a long stare and then sighed.
"Do I really have a choice? Because I know that if I say 'no,' you two will date anyway." Harry furrowed his eyebrows.
"So is that a yes?"
"That's a yes. But, don't think I won't be watching you two. I'm drawing lines. No going out after dark. In other words, once the sun sets you are in my view s"o I can be sure that there won't be any funny business going on. There are boundaries about how far you're allowed to go with her. I'm sure you can guess where the limit is."
"You're going to tell Ginny all of this too, right? I don't want her to think that this is all my personal choice."
"She'd probably hurt Harry if you don't, Ron." Seamus said smiling in his own Irish way.
"Thanks for your input, Seamus." Ron replied sarcastically.
"My pleasure, mate."
