The Past Years.
The girl's dormitory was silent except for the faint hooting of owls coming from the window. Ginny lay awake in her bed, after midnight, thinking about her past with Harry. She had liked him since she saw him at King's Cross Station, six years ago. Ginny had heard tales of the Boy Who Lived for as long as she could remember. He had saved lives, won the Triwizard Tournament, and faced Voldemort. In Ginny's first year, Harry had saved Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets. She had put all her faith into Tom Riddle's diary, and Harry came to the rescue, saving her just in time. Harry had never blamed her for petrifying so many people. He knew what it was like to be manipulated by Voldemort.
Though she had always shown that she fancied Harry, she feared that he had never thought of her as anything more than as a sister. In fact, he had never really shown an interest in her before. During the Triwizard Tournament, he asked Cho Chang to the Yule Ball. Cho was pretty and athletic, but awfully weepy, Ginny thought. Cho had turned him down to the Yule Ball, but last year Cho and Harry had a brief romance until Cho became jealous of Hermione and Harry's friendship.
Hermione and Harry were always together. Harry was always talking to Hermione, or in the library, studying with her. Now that she thought about it, Harry wasrushing off to meet her after he talked to Ginny. It was a common rumour among the students that Hermione and Harry liked each other, after the article Rita Skeeter wrote about them. Ginny knew better, though. Hermione had told her that she had feelings for Ron and that Harry was like a brother to her. Hermione had also given her loads of advice on how to act around Harry. Ginny had started to be more outgoing around Harry, which he obviously liked.
Although Harry told her that he liked her, she still had her doubts about Harry's feelings for her. Why would like Ginny now when all the other girls at Hogwarts would sell their soul to go out with him? Ginny had overheard Romilda Vane talking about slipping him a love potion when she was passing by her on the way to Divination. Even some of the Slytherin girls had begun to take to him. She felt a surge of annoyance at the other girls who would stoop so low to get Harry to like them.
Ginny put these thoughts out of her head and closed her eyes.
"Harry likes me,"she thought. "Breaking up with Dean will be more than worth it."