A/N: I am so sorry this has taken along time, but my computer is acting weird and I'm hoping that it will stop soon! But of course it's all worth it in the end. I want to write this story as much as you like reading it. I love reviews, keep em comin. I'm gonna shoot for over 3000 words this chapter!

This is 7 and a half pages in Word! Wow! Just to let you know that a lot of this chapter doesn't take place at the Weasley's!

Chapter 3: A Night At The Weasley's
Harry opened his eyes and glanced around for his clock till he remembered that he was in his living room. Yawning, he padded into the kitchen and glanced at the clock in there. It was 3 am. He groaned inwardly and went down the hall to his room where he would be more comfortable. He walked in and saw April Gwellan's picture on his nightstand. He picked it up, anger rising in his chest as he looked at her face. He raised his arm to smash it against the wall, but thought better of it, he didn't want to wake his mom. He'd smash it later, to maybe he'd make some copy's of it and then he and his mom could have a "Crush April Gwellan Party." Harry smiled at the thought and tossed the picture carelessly onto his bedroom floor. He crawled into his bed and quickly fell asleep.

When Harry opened his eyes again his clock read 8:23. Good enough, Harry thought, why should I try to sleep for another 40 minutes when I know that i won't? Harry sat up and yawned. He searched for something to throw over his pajamas and went to the kitchen. His mother was of course already up, she was in the process of making breakfast. She looked rather surprised to see Harry up forty minutes early.

"Harry! Why are you up? I usually don't expect you in here till at least nine-fifteen!"

"Sorry mum, I didn't sleep too well last night." Harry mumbled

"Oh, I see…" Lily trailed off.

Lily and Harry ate breakfast silently till Harry remembered about April's picture. "Mum, I'm sure you noticed I fell asleep last night in the living room," Harry began, his mother nodded. "Well I woke about three a.m. and walked to my room and I saw Ap- her picture. I thought I, well you actually, could help me make copies of her picture and then we could do all kind of… things to them"

Lily's face lit up when Harry finished. A devilish smile crossed her face and she quickly cleared the table with a flick of her wand. She rushed out of the room and returned with April's picture and a very large bin. She tossed the picture in the bin and swished her wand. The bin filled with April's pictures. On the table appeared a variety of things that could be used to destroy the pictures. And identical grin was now on Harry's face so that he and his mother's faces matched (of course the identical green eyes didn't help). After they had destroyed about half the pictures Harry decided that he wanted to call Hermione and tell her what happened. Lily nodded as she slipped a photo out of it's frame, picked up her a lighter that she had conjured up for Harry to use and set the picture on fire, she gleefully laughed as she consented to letting Harry use the phone. Harry got up out of his seat and walked to the phone, which was in the hall. Course Lily had placed charms on it so that you could take the thing anywhere in the house, even though it wasn't cordless. Harry took it to his room and looked up Hermione's phone number. He would have liked to call Ron, but he knew that Ron wouldn't pick up the phone and it'd be ages because he knew that everyone would want to talk to him. Molly Weasley loved it when Harry was over, that may be partly because whenever he was over the twins seemed to settle down a little. They were wild and usually experimented with joke items in their room. When they had first entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry their mother had high expectations of the twins now she realized as they had just left school, that they were going to do what they wanted when they wanted, they must have gotten that from her. Ginny and Harry were really good friends, maybe not as much as Harry was with Hermione or Ron, but they were great friends. Ginny listened with rapt attention whenever Harry needed someone to talk with that wasn't Ron or Hermione, or when neither of them was around, now that they were a item. It had probably been a good thing that April had been in Ravenclaw, if she had seen Harry talking to Ginny and Hermione, she most likely would have had a fit.

Harry finally located where he had put Hermione's number and dialed it. He waited patiently while it rang. Hopefully she was at her house and not snogging with Ron at the Burrow. Luck was on Harry's side, Hermione picked up in the 5th ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey Hermione, it's Harry."

"Harry! Hi! So how did it go with April yesterday?"

"Not good."

"What happened?"

"Well, you thought April was pretty nice right? Thoughtful, sweet, caring, and honest, right?"

"Yeah, why? What has that got to with anything?"

"A lot," Harry started to explain. "She came over and introduced herself to mum, and then when mum asked her to tell about herself, she said she was cleverest girl in our year, and we all know you are. Then she was saying how she done all of the most important research for the Sorcerer's Stone bit. She was telling all out blunt lies, mum didn't fall for it."

"Wow, so then what did you do?"

"Mum cut her off in the middle of the Sorcerer's Stone and said she needed to make lunch, I think she just wanted her out of there and she knew I wanted to talk to the, um, er never mind 'bout that." Harry started to trail off as Hermione collapsed into giggles on the other line. She knew that if Lily heard Harry cuss he'd most likely be in trouble even if it was about April.

"Okay, so she sent you away, how did you confront her?"

"She asked me if I thought my mum was being rude and I asked why she lied, she said she wanted to impress mum." Harry snorted, bringing another bout of giggles from Hermione. He continued to go through all the way till his mom burning April's photo just before he called Hermione.

"So now you're single again… A lot of girl at school are going to be happy to hear that," Hermione teased.

"Shut up!"

"Come on Harry, you know as well as I go that any girl would trip over herself if you'd just notice them."

"Only because I'm famous with this da…rn scar."

"Well, probably some but you're good looking. Um, don't tell Ron I said that."

Harry laughed and was about to tell Hermione something when he heard his mom laugh evilly. "Harry, what was that?" Hermione asked a note of confusion creeping into her voice.

"Umm, I think I shall go find out, hold on for a few."

Lily was having a blast with April's photo's. She was glad Harry had thought to do this, it was making her day, in fact it was the most fun she had had in a long time.

"Mum? What did you do?"

"Oh, I constructed a bomb and blew up about 5 pictures at once, you should have been here."

"O…K…" Harry backed out not sure what to do. His mom sure was having fun with April. Harry went back to the phone and told Hermione what happened. Before she could reply Lily yelled that Harry had been on the phone long enough and that he could talk to Hermione tomorrow. Harry reluctantly put the phone down and went back to the kitchen, which he saw his mom had cleaned up. In the time he had talked to Hermione, Lily had destroyed all the pictures. Harry laughed as he sat down.

"Oh, did you want to destroy some more?"

"No, I'm fine."

"Okay, now, go clean your room." Lily told Harry, as soon as he left she rushed to the phone that Harry had put back in the hall and took it to the kitchen. Before she made the call she placed silencing charms around the room. Then she finally dialed the number.

"Hello?"

"Hello, may I speak to Molly?"

"Oh, hi Ms. Potter, sure let me go get Mum." Lily tried to place who was speaking, she knew it wasn't Ron, but before she could Molly came to the phone. Lily knew she had to make it brief, Molly hated the phone, and it sort of confused her too.

"Hello, Lily?"

"Molly, hi."

"So, what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, you know that Harry's birthday is coming up next week right?"

"Yes, are you're planning something?"

"Well, I've been trying, but it's hard when he's in the house constantly, an you take him for a day, I mean let him sleepover there for a night?"

"Sure! Do you need help? I could come over for a few hours."

"That would be great! Oh, can you have Ron ask Harry, I don't want to make it look suspicious with me telling Harry he has to go over there. Have him call in a few minutes I have to put the phone back and take the charms off the kitchen."

"I see, I'll have Ginny go get him. There's something else I want to talk to you about, but I'll wait a few minutes. Bye Lil!"

"Bye Mol."

Lily quickly banished the phone back to it's table and took the charms off the kitchen. She cleaned up the kitchen with a flick of her wand and sat down at the table and started to read the Daily Prophet. A few moments later the phone rang. Lily took as much time as she dared, she didn't usually hurry to the phone and so she couldn't this time.

"Potter residence."

"Hi Mrs. Potter, can I talk ta Harry?" came Ron's voice. Lily knew Molly had told him why to call.

"Hey Ron, give me a second." Lily put the phone down and walked to Harry's room. "Har, Ron's on the phone."

"Ron? I thought he didn't like the telephone, I know he doesn't get how to dial yet still."

"I don't know, maybe Arthur dialed for him."

"Maybe," Harry replied as he walked to the phone.

"Harry, mum keeps annoying us over here. Save us the aggravation and say yes." Harry laughed. Figures he thought, Ron forgot to ask the question.

"Say yes to what?" Harry asked half laughing still.

"Oh! Sorry mate, Mum wants ya to come over for the night. She's been bugging the crap out of me and Ginny."

"Let me ask, hold on."

"I keep having to hold," Ron complained.

"Mum, can I go over to the Weasley's for the night?"

"Hmm… and leave me all alone after that incident with that … do you mind if I call her a bitch?" Lily asked, doing her best not to laugh. Harry laughed back.

"I don't care what you call her, but I just wanna know can I go to Ron's?"

"Okay, okay, you can go. It gives me great chance to bring home a stranger!"

Harry rolled his eyes and turned back to the phone. Lily walked away laughing, she knew Harry was laughing on the inside. A few minutes later she could hear Harry packing a small bag to take over there. Lily picked up the Daily Prophet again and hid her smile in her mug. Harry walked in and sat his bag next to the fireplace. Lily looked up and smiled, Harry gave her a hug and a kiss then picked up his bag again and went through the Floo Network to The Burrow. Lily sighed this was going to be a long night.

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Harry finally arrived at The Burrow to be smothered in hugs by Mrs. Weasley, Ron, Ginny, and Mr. Weasley. Fred and George were no where to be seen and Percy didn't live there anymore. Each Weasley had flaming red hair, and the four in the kitchen all smiled at him.

"Harry! Good to see ya!" Fred and George were falling down the stairs, actually they were only pretending to fall just to make the family laugh, Harry included.

"Mate, you might wanna move, Hermione's coming over too, should be coming any minute." Harry grinned and moved just in time, Hermione came out covered in soot. Mrs. Weasley made a fuss over both her and Harry as she brushed the soot off their clothes. Hermione had more soot as Lily cleaned the fireplace regularly. Harry, Hermione, Ginny and Ron went to Ron's room to discuss April.

"I always thought you could do better than that!" Ron exclaimed after Harry had told what happened to Ginny and Ron. Harry noticed Ginny seemed a lot happier with him when he was telling the story. When Harry had come in he couldn't help but notice how pretty Ginny looked in her sundress. He had always thought her to be pretty, but maybe he hadn't noticed just how gorgeous Ginny really was because of April.

"Won't Luna just go ecstatic when she hears this," Ginny put in.

"What do you mean? And who's Luna?" Harry asked confused.

"Oh, well she's liked you ever since she saw you on the train. She's a Ravenclaw, she's in my year. I think she's friends with April, or was," Ginny replied, half giggling.

"Oh, I remember her, wasn't she always ogling Harry from around corners and trying to catch any glimpse of him?" Hermione asked. Ginny nodded, still laughing.

"So you mean she's like a stalker?" Harry asked half laughing.

"Like she's not your only one! Half the girls in the school probably stop when they see you, I know that I was walking behind you and April one day with Hermione and we saw a fleet of girls disappear when you were walking down the hall. And there's always at least 5 girls following you down the hall." Ron quipped. Harry laughed at how blind he had been since he had been dating April, not to mention the whole Ginny thing. He still couldn't get over how beautiful she had become since he had actually looked at her. He kept forcing himself not to keep glancing over at her.

They talked until Mrs. Weasley came to get them for dinner. Harry had always loved Molly's cooking. He filled his plate and then started eating glancing at the table every now and then. Ginny had been placed across from him, it was difficult just to glance when he wasn't talking to her. He had to switch between everybody as they all wanted to talk to him. Ron to his left rolled his eyes whenever his father asked about muggle things. Hermione and Ginny were sitting by each other kicked him every time. Harry had to stifle a laugh before he answered Mr. Weasley.

After dinner Molly had cleared the table and everyone went their own ways. Harry saw Ron head off to the Weasley's orchard, and then a couple of minutes later Harry saw Hermione go the same way. He bit back a laugh, as if that wasn't obvious. Fred and George had gone off to the field not far from the house, Harry had a feeling they were testing something. Mr. Weasley went to his shed and Harry could now hear a small tinkering sound coming from it. Harry was sitting in a rectangular piece of wood between two willows.

Harry sat there for awhile enjoying the slight breeze that made the night air not seem so warm. He was about to go get his book that he had brought when he saw movement in the corner of his eye. Thinking it was Ron and/or Hermione he focused his attention on it. To his surprise it was Ginny. Her dress fluttered softly in the wind, her hair was off her face as it was blowing back behind her, her bracelet she was wearing sparkled in the moonlight. She was a vision of beauty and Harry hadn't seen it all these years. He sat there mesmerized by her, not believing that he hadn't seem this in the 4 years she had been at Hogwarts. Even in his third year when he had saved her from the Chamber of Secrets and Tom Riddle, he hadn't even noticed her beauty then. But as she stood there all the times he had ever talked to her washed over him and he had been blindsided by some other girl to notice Ginny, Ron's little sister. Harry stood up and started to walk over to her. About five feet from her, Ginny heard him and turned, a smile played in her lips. Her coffee brown eyes were dazzling in the moonlight. As Harry reached her, a smile lit up her face.

"Ginny, I wanted to tell you something."

Ginny looked up at him her eyes full of hope and love, was this the moment she had been waiting for?

A/N: hehe! Think I left a cliffie! Time to celebrate! Ginny's entering the picture! Now I might just decide to be evil and wait a bit to put the 4th up! J/k!

I have to write it still. I write this chapter by chapter. There are some things that I know will happen but other than that, nothing is for sure, so of you have an idea you want in here, email me and I'll be sure to look at it, just make sure you put in the subject something about mugglenet or this story! I won't tell you if I use your idea it'll just appear and I'll give you proper credit at the end of the chapter.

O I know that if I don't put this here, I'll got complaints, Harry saved Ginny in 3rd year, IN MY STORY! Remember it's Alternate Universe!

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Summary: Ginny reflects on what Harry tells her and remembers his reaction when he found out that devastating news in her 3rd year.

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