Chapter two
'You know I want to change, I'm trying to work on what animal I want to change into.'
'Something different or like your patronus?' Neville asked as he pulled some food towards him.
'Different, I did think of Sirius and his dog, but decided I want a complete change from anything in my passed, start fresh as they say.'
'Are you going to eat?' Ron nodded towards the food as he shovelled some into his mouth.
'Just waiting for Kreacher, I told him at five thirty.'
'Why do you keep doing that? There is nothing wrong with this food,' Hermione huffed.
'I do not want to find myself in love with some babbling girl. So many are still trying to find a way to slip me a potion they're even asking Kreacher to do it for them, he won't because I ordered him not to listen to anyone but me. The headmaster gave me permission since he does know what is going on and being said.'
'I wish you would free him,' Hermione scolded.
'No, he asked me not to and if you think about this logically Hermione, something you like to do, Kreacher only works for me, not Hogwarts. So he does less now than ever before, plus he decided to fight when he didn't have to, this is my way of thanking him. He wants to stay with me so I'm allowing him too.'
'I still don't like it, but I was asked to give you this,' Hermione held out a small folded piece of lilac paper. Harry stared at the paper then pointed his wand at it, casting a non-verbal revealing spell, 'What are you doing?'
'I also heard about certain charmed objects that are coated in a love potion, like that one is. Do you really take me for an idiot Hermione, but tell Ginny if she does it again I might hex her until she's bald and her hair will never grow back,' Harry picked up his book, 'I'm going to the kitchens,' Harry turned and left the hall but did not go to the kitchens, he went straight to a secret door on the seventh floor which allowed him straight into his lovers room, then he called Kreacher to bring him his dinner. He could not understand why Hermione and Ron are so adamant that he get back with Ginny, even with what Hermione said, they should know that Harry and Ginny have nothing in common. If Harry was honest and not gay, he wouldn't go for Ginny anyway. She was okay to look at, but nothing spectacular. But it was her personality that turned Harry off, she was one of those girls that want to snog in front of others. When they dated before Harry felt like she was trying to claim him. She had to kiss him in front of other and always had to be touching him. Those thoughts made him shudder, now he was glad he didn't have to pretend anymore. He thought maybe he should just tell them the truth, but Harry was sick of everything he does finding its way onto the front page of the papers. This time Harry was not revealing anything that way nothing can be printed about him.
The headmaster had cast a non-verbal enhanced hearing charm, 'I told Ginny if Harry found out he wouldn't be happy with her, but I never realised he knew that spell. It seems he's been studying a lot of charms while he stayed here,' Hermione sighed, 'he spells his curtains around his bed so we have no idea what he's doing, unless he is sleeping.'
'Let's just give him time, he'll realise the truth sooner or later. But I better warn Ginny to back off, at least for now,' Ron said.
'He doesn't like her, he's told her and told both of you, can't you just give Harry a break,' Neville said before leaving his dinner and the table.
'We have to get Harry to see Ginny in a different way. The thing is, he's not taking notice of any girl and we know he's been asked out by a lot.'
'That was mum and Ginny's biggest concern, that Harry would start dating all these other girls that keep throwing themselves at him. Those two never stop though, suggestions on what we can do to get Harry to marry Ginny. Mum is still working on wedding plans. I think she should stop for a while.'
'You're mum and Ginny is determined to have Harry marry Ginny before this year is out. Maybe at the Burrow over Christmas will be the time to slip him the potion.'
'All we can do is try but with Ginny trying this,' Ron nodded towards the now discarded lilac note, 'he won't trust anything, not even mum's cooking. You wouldn't believe what I've been hearing in the boys bathrooms though. It seems some boys have overheard some girls talking about how to get Harry, but now they keep saying they will be his harem and do anything he wants if he would just notice them. They have been going into details about what they want to do, head jobs, blow jobs, anything he wants. I was coming out of the bathroom the other day and one girl was waiting for Harry so I left, but stopped just around the corner and heard her say she would do anything he wanted, sexually, but he turned her down. What is it with Harry, he's getting offers of sex all the time and saying no. You don't think something's wrong with him do you because that could stuff up Ginny's plans on getting pregnant?'
'Maybe there is something, there were times he faced Voldemort when we weren't there and Harry never went into details about what happened, we just know he was hurt. So yes, maybe he did receive some type of injury that means he can't get it up. If Ginny can't fall pregnant nor get him to marry her then we can never get into his vaults. I knew becoming his friends years ago would backfire on us. We've done everything so he would trust us, we even lost blood for him, but now, I just don't know. I'm just glad he never figured out all the times we manipulated him, it was lucky that Dumbledore didn't either.'
'Most of them were harmless Hermione, just subtle suggestions which had him agreeing with us. If he ever found out that you nudged Sirius into that spell from Bellatrix I think he would have killed us. I had never seen Harry so angry before, I thought he was going to leave, which meant he would have left Voldemort to take over.'
'He was determined to avenge his parents, so I don't think he would have let that happen and he was still trusting us at the time. That following year is when he dated Ginny and I thought he finally saw her as a girl and not just you're sister, Sirius wasn't around to talk him out of it. I think that's why he took so long to notice her; she was your little sister. If Snape hadn't killed Dumbledore I believe we could have talked Harry into marrying Ginny before we left. Since he broke up with her your parents had no choice but to deny her request to go with us. Harry didn't even want us with him so he wouldn't have let Ginny. We have to end up related to him; it's the only way we will continue to be noticed. These last few months here I've seen a shift, people are noticing that Harry doesn't spend as much time with us as he used to.'
'We should not have spoken in front of Neville but at least we didn't say we're trying to give him a love potion. But we've tried to get Neville to see that Harry is just scared to love, after Sirius and at first he believed us, now he doesn't. I'm wondering if Harry has told Neville something he never told us that's why he's stopped believing us. We better go tell Ginny to back off, try to just be friends so he will relax and hopefully we can get that potion into him.'
'What if nothing works though Ron, we'll just be known as people that helped, not the friends of the saviour or the family. He was supposed to be our security for the future, that's the only reason we put up with him all these years.'
'We can't give up Hermione, sooner or later we will get Ginny and Harry together. Now let's go before Ginny tries something and Harry just loses his temper with her and she does end up bald for good. If Harry knows more spells I bet he knows how to do that as well, he does tend to tell the truth,' Ron took Hermione's hand and the walked out of the great hall, the headmaster cancelled the spell before leaving the staff table ready to have a very painful and difficult conversation with Harry Potter.
