A/N: Most of this chapter will be the reason Harry did what. As well as Hermione's reaction.
Harry's POV-Next Day
That was not the way it was supposed to happen last night! Bloody Malfoy wasn't supposed to come to her rescue. She shouldn't be alive anymore, not after the hell she put me through over this summer. I know that seems pretty harsh...but it's the truth.
I know for a fact she had been cheating on me for atleast one month over the summer. She calls me crazy..denies it everytime..but I know she did. I spent the summer at the burrow, and a lot of the time-I know..because I've pretended to be asleep and watched her-she'll leave around midnight and won't come back until around 4 AM. What other explanation could there be.
Then she start accusing me of cheating on her. Then again..I was..to get back at her...but she still doesn't know that for sure or who it was. Ginny's different now..worse. I don't know what I saw in her in the first place. I think Malfoy might've seen me at the window..it was my fault she was out there after all. I used my wand to put her journal out there in the first place. She's stubborn so I knew for a fact she would go outside and get it. I just hadn't planned on Malfoy seeing it too.
I suppose I should go up to see her, Hermione came in this morning to tell me what had happened last night and that Ginny was in her room. I'll make a mental note to go later..but I have a feeling Malfoy-if he did see me last night- would've told Ginny by now, what he saw.
Ginny looked over at Draco, she was sitting up in the bed now, he was getting ready to leave for his classes. "Don't do anything stupid in the small ten minutes you're left alone." draco said, but gave her a slight smile.
Ginny rolled her eyes. 'Don't worry I won't. Promise." It was odd, they were getting along pretty well. Draco had told her about all the sketches he's done while she looked through his sketchbook,he's was really good...but no one except Ginny now, knew that. after Draco had left Ginny's thoughts turned to Harry. A ton of questions running through her mind. Why would he do that? Why just watch her, waiting for her to freeze? Why, Why, Why!?
When Hermione came in Ginny was still thinking hard. "Hermione..." she said slowly, turning to look up at her.
"Something wrong Gin?"
"Well...kind of..it's about Harry."
"Oh. I already told him what happened, he'd said he'd visit sometime today."
"That's just it Hermione..Draco told me he saw Harry watching him bring me in from the window. That it looked like he'd been there a long time..as if he was watching me freeze."
Hermione looked at Ginny blankly, then shook her head. "No. Impossible!" She said, mostly to herself. "Harry wouldn't do that Ginny. Malfoy's just filling your head with lies..trying to start up trouble. You shouldn't believe what he says hafl the time." Ginny could hear the faint doubt in Hermione's voice though.
"But Harry changed over the summer...accusing me of cheating on him, when I left so late. You know it was because I had to go to those classes to help me with my potions." Ginny paused and Hermione nodded. "Then I'm almost positive that he cheated on me because I found a pair of panties under his bed that weren't mine." Ginny stopped now, seeing Hermione's face had grown really red. "Hermione..you ok? You're all red.."
Hermione nodded. "Yeah I'm fine." there was a knock at the door and Harry appeared. "I'll leave you two alone." Hemrione said quickly and left.
"How are you feeling?" Harry asked
"Fine, no thanks to you." Ginny said looking right at him.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Harry asked again looking right back at her, a slight glare in his eyes.
"I know you watched me almost freeze to death! You're wishing I wasn't alive right now I bet!" Ginny said angrily
She's on the right track. Harry though and then said aloud "That's not true Ginny. I looked out the window when Malfoy was bringing you inside."
"Liar!" Ginny shouted and her eyes flickered fear for a moment as Harry raised his hand..but just before he was about to strike, Draco walked in.
"Potter." He said with a bored look, but he saw Ginny's eyes looked more than relevied he had walked in.
"Malfoy." Harry looked back at Malfoy, his hand back in his lap now. "Would you mind?"
"Mind if you left? Not at all." Draco smirked.
"I think you've overstayed your welcome." Ginny said. harry glared at her one last time and got up and left.
That Night
"Where's Granger?" Draco asked looking at Ginny as if she was supposed to know.
"You think I know?! I saw her when she left Harry and I alone...I don't know where she went after that."
"Well she should've been back an hour ago." He groaned.
"She seemed pretty nervous. I was telling her about how Harry had changed over the summer..I told her I found a pair of panties under his bed that weren't mine...and she got all red.." Ginny explained, standing slowly.
"Odd. Maybe they were her's." Draco said, half joking half serious as he helped her balance herself.
Ginny looked up at him with worried eyes. "That's what I'm afraid of." she sighed and then went over to the window.
