Ginny's Wrath

Ginny's fifth year had been very hectic so far. Most notably was all the extra studying she and her year mates had to do for their upcoming OWL's. This troubled her, not by the fact that she had less time for things like Quidditch, exploding snap or pranking people in the common room. No, the main problem with less free time was less time together with Harry. Their schedules were often so full that they rarely saw each other all day.

Ginny was currently in herbology. Todays lesson was the proper care and handling of the fanged geranium. She had been thinking of a particularly good bit of "studying" together with Harry the other week. They had for once had some free time and had been at their favorite spot, the beach tree by the lake. Harry had told her that he, Hermione and Ron sometimes sat under this tree during the warmer months and studied when it was too hot in the common room.

Ginny was thankful that Hermione and especially Ron were not here right now. She and Harry had started off with kissing and it soon turned into a full on snogging session. Hands were roaming everywhere and Ginny was in heaven. Harry could be so loving and caring, a side that no one usually got to se and she was very happy that she could bring that out in him.

Her dream that she had since she was a little girl had come true. Not because he was "The Boy Who Lived" or even Harry Potter. Over the two previous years she had got to know him and to her he was just Harry. He was her Harry, her sweet, loving and handsome Harry. She let her mind drift and not paying attention, she received a small bite from the fanged flower earning her a reprimand from professor Sprout. Thankfully she did not loose any points.

On her way back to the castle Ginny saw several people whispering and pointing. They seemed to be pointing at her. While this was not new to Ginny she had not seen it in a while. It had been almost routine when she and Harry first got together but that soon died down and everything went back to normal, well as normal as things did at Hogwarts anyway.

She was also constantly being pestered by the other girls with questions about Harry, if he was a good kisser, if he had any tattoos and so forth. She had never liked that part, why could they not just leave him alone? The stares and pointing continued all trough lunch and she had now started to get really irritated but a part of her was at the same time a bit worried. Had something happened? Perhaps to Harry? No, Hermione or Ron would come and find her immediately if that was the case.

It was not until break before history of magic when she heard someone calling for her.

"Ginny! Wait!"

She turned and saw Katie and Demelza running towards her. They were looking exhausted.

"Hey, whats up? I haven't missed a Quidditch practice have I?" she said smiling and mockingly glancing over at her time table.

"We couldn't find you anywhere, we have been trying to find you since before lunch" Katie managed to get out while trying to get her breath back.

"What is the matter, has something happened?" Ginny asked, now feeling a bit more worried.

"Well… Ginny, there is no easy way of saying this, maybe you should sit down?" Demelza said gesturing towards a nearby bench.

"Has something happened to Harry? she said immediately with fear in her voice.

"No, well not quite" Katie continued and she and Demelza told Ginny what they had witnessed and heard. During their story Ginny had turned from white to pale and then to increasingly deeper shades of red. By the time they had finished she was shaking with rage.

"Il teach that git…" she muttered trough clenched teeth. Not even bothering to pick up her bag which she had dropped during Katie's and Demelza's story, she marched off. Katie and Demelza and some of Ginny's friends tried to call after her but they found themselves having to almost run to keep up with her. She almost screamed the password and then entered the Gryffindor common room.

After confronting Harry, Ginny just tried to finish her day without screaming to much and trying very hard to not break stuff when things did not go her way in classes. Ginny kept to herself the rest of the day, arriving just before classes started and then rushing off as soon as they had finished. She was a bit nervous about repercussions, especially the next day at breakfast when she heard that Harry had actually been taken to the hospital wing and had apparently spent the night there as well. In hindsight maybe she had overreacted a little but she was still furious that he could have done anything like that to her. The positive thing was that there were no more stares or whispers. She had show that she was no little girl and that she could take care of herself.

At the end of the next transfiguration class she was approached by professor McGonagall. "She knows, Im screwed" Ginny thought.

"Miss Weasley, I would like to talk to you about what happened in the common room yesterday"

It took all of Ginny's skills and determination to arrange her face into a casual but surprised expression.

"It seems that Mr Potter somehow got injured" When Ginny met her statement with silence she continued; "He claims he fell down the stairs" she said eyeing Ginny carefully. "Do you have anything to add?" she continued.

"Well, he should be more careful then I guess" Ginny stated matter of factly. Professor McGonagall's lips seemed to be drawn out into an even thinner line than Ginny thought were possible. She eyed Ginny carefully for a few moments and then said;

"Very well, you may go Miss Weasley"

It again took her all of her skills to manage not to look confused that she had received absolutely no punishment as she left. "McGonagall must know?" "The whole school seems to know…"

She first saw Harry in the common room that evening. She was standing together with some of her friends when one of them tapped her on the shoulder and gestured towards the door. When she first saw him she could not help herself but found it quite funny, he had his arm in a sling and looked like he had faced about 50 trolls. Then she remembered what had made her do what she did. And who did he think he was? That he could do whatever he wanted simply because he was the chosen one? She felt herself being filled with anger again.

Then she suddenly saw him just fall to pieces in front of her. She had never seen hime like this, like all the fight had gone out of him. He looked scared like she had never seen him before, not even in the chamber when he knew he was dying. He turned and ran from the common room and she wanted to yell for him to stop, that she was sorry, but she could not get out any words. Dimly she was aware that someone ran out of the common room after harry before she collapsed in a chair. Her friends were all over her asking what was wrong, she just brushed them off, not being able to say anything and when she tried to stand she immediately collapsed against someone and they helped her to get to bed.

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Ginny awoke the next morning feeling like an absolute wreck. That night she had some of the worst nightmares she had ever had. It had been the usual dreams of Tom and the chamber but this time there was also dreams about Harry, about him being tortured by her, about his life at the Dursley's and all he had been forced to endure at Hogwarts. Things got even worse after lunch when she was approached by Katie and Demelza explaining Harry's meeting with them.

This left Ginny in emotional turmoil as she started to think about why Harry would ask so detailed questions about something he would know everything about. Could it really be that he was innocent altogether? This thought almost made her loose her breakfast.

"He never calls me Ginny Weasley… Im just Ginny or Gin…" she thought.

And what about this girl? Strange that no one seemed to know who it was. There were quite a lot of students at Hogwarts but everyone kew everybody, even in the other houses. They all had classes together with all of the other houses so it would be near impossible for a girl their age to remain unknown. She was so distracted for the rest of the day that she spilled undiluted bubotuber pus all over her hands in potions. Professor Snape just sneered and took 20 points from Gryffindor before sending a crying Ginny to the hospital wing with arms and hands twice the size they normally was.

After dinner, Ginny was quite upset and just wanted to be alone. Had Harry been innocent? It certainly looked so since he was apparently going out of his way to gather evidence for himself. This combined with what she kew about Harry deep down in her heart made her feel if possible even worse, what had she done? Would he even talk to her after what she had done? She had after all screamed at him to never talk to her again… She gave in to her emotions and just sat by the fire sobbing quietly.

Somehow her plan of being left alone did not work. Ron entered the common room and saw her. When he saw that she was sobbing he immediately approached her and started firing off questions in rapid succession; "Has harry done something?", "Has he hurt you again?", "Where is he?". She could just not deal with him right now. Dear Ronald had never been very good with emotions and she tried to make him leave her alone, when he persisted she just couldn't take it any more and ran for it. She wandered the corridors seemingly forever, confused.

Her mother would know what to do but Ginny could not bare to tell her what had happened. She knew her mother liked Harry like an extra son and would be appalled at both Ginny and Harry for what they had done. Thinking of her mother and her usual remedies for these types of problems she felt she needed some hot chocolate. She went to the kitchens. It was Fred and George who had shown her how to get in during her third year.

On her way back to the common room she was still deep in thought and was wandering around almost absentmindedly. Suddenly she saw the light of a lantern behind her and she froze realizing she should definitely be out this late walking around. She quickened her pace a little but stopped when she heard running footsteps in front of her. She bolted for the nearest door and shut it quietly once she had slipped inside.

"I can't get caught now" she thought. "McGonagall is already suspecting me and I bet she would love to serve me about a weeks detention" she thought. "This is all Harry's fault" and she could feel her anger starting to rise again. She heard the running footsteps come to a stop just outside where she was hiding. Suddenly someone yanked open the door and slipped inside. Thankfully whoever it was were more occupied with looking for their apparent followers over their shoulder or they would have noticed Ginny who now slipped further in to the broom closet and stayed in the shadows.

She realized now that it must be another student. "Perfect, probably some nervous Hufflepuff or a know it all Ravenclaw or merlin forbid a Slytherin" She drew her wand just in case. It had to be a boy and an older one due to the deep breaths he was taking. She thought she could smell something familiar but had not time to figure out where she knew the smell from when the boy suddenly let out a low whisper;

"A fine mess Ron has gotten me into this time. Both my supposed girlfriend and my best mate hate me for something I didn't do"

Her eyes narrowed. That git. She raised her wand and jabbed it sharply at his back.

"Be quiet or I will hex you into the next century!" she hissed at him.

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