The Love Guru
By Lily Orange
A/N: Thanks for the response to the last chapter - you're all amazing! Proper thanks to everybody is at the bottom :) I hope you're all having an amazing weekend!!
You know I said I might post the first chapter of a new story to be continued in the summer? Well I'm going to post it in about 10 minutes :) so please give it a read! Thank you, I hope you like this chapter and please review!
Chapter Four
Why The Bloody Hippogriff Would You Let Sirius Go The Cinema?
"Why did we have to bring Sirius?" Harry moaned to Ron as they wandered through the doors of the nearby cinema at Ottery St. Catchpole.
"Dunno," Ron said stubbornly – he was in a bad mood after he had watched Hermione coo over large posters of Leonardo diWhatever-his-name-is that were plastered up on the brickwork of the cinema building outside.
"This is so exciting!" Sirius said elatedly. Harry rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"Calm down," Ginny warned him, "try to look normal. Now, who wants to come and buy the tickets with me?"
"How about I go?" Hermione suggested.
"Can I come too? Pretty please? Oh pretty please with a hippogriff on top?" Sirius begged, kneeling down on the floor in front of Ginny.
"Get up!" Ginny smiled. "If you behave you can."
"It's like looking after a small child," Harry whined.
"Well hello there," Sirius said in his most charming voice to a passing woman.
"Yeah, a small child who is obsessed with women," Fred commented in amusement.
"Talking of women," George said, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively. The rest of the assembled group followed his gaze, to where two teenaged twin girls were standing. They were probably about eighteen, both with long dark hair, wearing summer dresses and heeled wedge sandals.
"Ready Fred?" George grinned.
"Ready George!" Fred replied.
"Bottoms up!" they said in unison before quickly crossing the cinema foyer to introduce themselves to the good-looking twin girls, who immediately began to laugh at what the two flame-haired boys were saying.
"This is going to be a fun experience," Ron muttered as Fred and George were whisked off into the cinema by the girls, grinning inanely at each other. "Smug idiots."
"Sorry?" Hermione said as she and Ginny rejoined the group – Sirius still working his charm on the ticket lady.
"Oh, er, nothing!!" Ron said brightly, his cheeks tinged pink. Ron had recognised (quite a few times actually) that Hermione was looking especially pretty today. She had, under the direction of Ginny, tamed her hair and had made it fall into soft brown curls, cascading down her back like a chocolate waterfall. As it was the height of summer, she was wearing a t-shirt and a summery skirt with ballet pumps – and, although what she was wearing was rather plain, he thought she looked nice.
It was nothing compared to the thoughts that were racing through Harry's mind, though, as they pushed open the doors to get through to the food court part of the cinema. In his opinion, Ginny looked like a flame-haired goddess – her hair was straight and she was wearing shorts and a vest top with an emerald green cardigan – a goddess he couldn't seem to pluck up the courage to tell her he liked her.
More than liked, actually. But he didn't want to scare her.
"Where's your date?" Ron hollered at Sirius, who had followed them through with a glum expression on his face, clutching the orange ticket in his left hand.
"I tried to invite her to come and watch the film – but she doesn't get off work till eleven," he replied forlornly.
"Well, that does make sense, Sirius, seeing as she was the ticket lady," Harry sniggered. Sirius just raised an eyebrow and looked pointedly at Ginny, who was examining the ice cream stand intensely.
"Oh my Merlin – they have an ICE CREAM machine!" Ginny gasped, pointing at a silver cube with a tap on the front, surrounded by different sauces and toppings for the ice cream.
"Such a thing exists?" Sirius said in shock, all thought of the ticket lady out of his head. "It must have been invented by the Gods..."
"You know, it doesn't produce ice cream telepathically," Hermione prompted them, and suddenly Ginny and Sirius sprinted over to the ice cream machine, nearly knocking over a small child in the process.
"I knew this wasn't a good idea..." Ron shuddered as Ginny whacked Sirius over the head with an empty ice cream bowl, and he threw a handful of jelly babies in her face.
"Ron, we're prefects, we should intervene!" Hermione said urgently. Ron burst out laughing, clutching his sides. "What?" she asked indignantly.
"It's – the – summer – holidays! – We – don't – have – to – prefect – in – the – HOLIDAYS!" Ron gasped between guffaws. Hermione frowned at him before stalking over to separate the sugar-fuelled brawl that was unfolding right before their eyes.
"Merlin, that cannot be good..." Harry observed as Ginny began squirting strawberry sauce in Sirius' hair, and he began to howl.
"Excuse me," a very stern voice cut through their thoughts, "are you with those three?"
The two boys turned to see a disgruntled looking man, wearing a badge that declared him to be Dave Churchill, Manager of the Cinema. He had a scratchy-looking face, as if he hadn't shaved for a couple of days, and he was slightly overweight. He made quite a comical figure.
"Nope," Harry answered quickly.
"Never seen them before in my life," Ron continued, adding a smile. The manager seemed satisfied before walking purposefully over to where Hermione was desperately trying to stop the ice cream machine from spewing out vanilla everywhere, seeing as Sirius had jammed the handle down.
"I think we should go," Harry said, and they quietly attempted to slip away without being seen by their friends, who were trying, along with the cinema manager, to fix the jammed ice cream machine, attempted being the operative word.
They thought they had gotten away with it as they approached the ticket barrier. To be honest, there was no reason why they shouldn't. Albeit mainly because of Harry's invisibility cloak, they were both experts of sneaking out of places. They just had to employ the same sort of technique, being quiet and tiptoeing away, and hopefully–
"RONALD WEASLEY!"
Ron cursed under his breath as he turned round to view the spectacle him and Harry had hoped to leave behind them. Both Hermione and Ginny, staring at them with indignant looks on their faces, hands on hips and frowning, in a 'where-do-you-think-you're-going' sort of way. Sirius, however, was perfectly happy consuming all the ice cream he had managed to collect in three hundred and twelve mini cones, which the exasperated manager had let him keep (it saved on the cleaning up) free of charge.
Their faces were thunderous – clearly they wanted Ron and Harry to help them get Sirius away from the empty ice cream machine (empty after he had eaten it all) and somehow get him into Screen 2. It was a seemingly impossible task – but fortunately they were rescued by the arrival of a short-skirted, generous-boobed, blonde-haired and high-heeled woman who sauntered past them, swinging her hips like there was no tomorrow.
Like a dog tempted by a juicy bone, Sirius immediately jumped up from under the ice cream chute, where he was licking off the remnants of the cold and sweet dessert, and scampered off after her.
"That is the second woman he's tried to sink his teeth into this evening!" Hermione said in disbelief, not uncrossing her arms.
"Yeah, but she's a bit of alright," Ron snorted, running his hand through his fluorescent red hair.
"Shut up, Ronald," Hermione said in disgust, stalking off towards the door of the cinema.
"You are one great big idiot," Ginny observed serenely before turning away from her red-faced brother and to his delicious emerald-eyed best friend, "Harry, shall we go and watch the film?"
"Sounds like a good idea," Harry agreed brightly, mentally thanking his lucky stars that Ginny had suggested such an idea. He couldn't get over how stunning she was... her glossy hair, the colour of a hibiscus flower... her toffee, caramel-swirl eyes that enticed you like a grindylow at the bottom of a lake. She was perfection itself, in his eyes.
They slid into two seats near to where Fred and George were ardently snogging the pretty twins they had met earlier – regardless of the fact the film hadn't even started yet.
"Delightful – they're almost in sync!" Ginny commented.
The trailers for new films were almost over – Harry could discern Ron's voice whispering profuse apologies to an irritated Hermione. He grinned, before focussing on the picture materializing on the huge cinema screen.
"Whoa, I wonder if McGonagall knows how to do that!" a familiar voice gabbled excitedly right behind Harry and Ginny.
"Yer wha'?" a female voice followed.
Harry silently prayed that it wasn't who he thought – or rather, knew, it was. His prayers were evidently not answered when he was tapped on the shoulder.
He reluctantly turned to look behind.
"Hello!" Sirius beamed at him cheerily.
"Goodbye," Harry replied, making Ginny laugh.
"How rude!" Sirius growled vociferously.
"Be quiet!" his bodacious female companion ordered.
"You!" Sirius responded childishly, sticking out his tongue as if he was six, not thirty-six.
"Oh my gosh," she uttered before scooting up a few seats away from Sirius.
"Such a shame," Ginny said sympathetically, before exploding into fits of giggles, just as men began to shoot at each other on screen.
"Well they aren't being very friendly – and what's that they're banging at each other?" Sirius yelled. Harry rolled his eyes – something he kept doing throughout the whole film.
When Romeo was pining for Rosaline, Sirius commented, "What's he moping around like a sad old weirdo for?"
When Romeo and Juliet kissed for the first time at the party, he said, "Well they didn't waste time!"
When Juliet drank the potion, he bellowed: "NO! It was probably concocted by Snivellus! He's trying to POISON youuuuuu!"
To which an old lady threw a bucket of popcorn at his head – and, for an eighty-two-year-old, she had an exceptional aim.
"I think I am concussed!" he declared, before eating the popcorn that had fallen in his lap.
And when it was nearly at the end, when Romeo was weeping over Juliet's seemingly lifeless body, Sirius hissed in Harry's ear, "Put your arm around her!"
Ginny was quietly weeping – although normally she tough, she was letting the film get to her. To be fair, it was very emotional. Her head was alarmingly close to Harry's shoulder... it was so tempting – but he just couldn't do it.
"Merlin, if you won't do it, I'll do it for you!" Sirius whispered and leaned back in his chair, kicking Harry's arm rather violently. Then, as Harry obstinately refused to move, Sirius hooked his foot through the crook of Harry's elbow and yanked his arm up and dropped it...
Right on top of Ginny's head.
"Ow!" she cursed. She then turned to look at Harry, who was about to open his mouth to apologise, but when his eyes locked with Ginny's – it was if time had stopped. Everything else was going on... the crunching of popcorn, the happenings of the film, the snogging in the back row... except for them, it was magically paused.
"OH MY MERLIN – just kiss her!" Sirius interrupted.
"Way to ruin the moment," Harry muttered in annoyance.
"I'm willing to comply with his request," Ginny smiled impishly. Harry raised his eyebrows, but the moment had returned.
It was as if a raging inferno was blazing as they kissed – releasing pent-up feelings that had been suppressed for far too long. They felt like they were dancing in the moonlight together – the film had been completely forgotten.
It was utterly perfect.
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