Meant To Be: Part Four

A/N As usual, thanks to everyone so much for reviewing, I especially love it that I am getting reviews from people whose stories I love! This part will be longer I promise, sorry that I didn't put it up on Friday, fanfiction.net wouldn't let me on. As usaul if you haven't read the three parts before this please do or you wont really understand, and please read and review!


*What am I doing?* Harry pulled his arms away from Ginny's waist as fast as he could, and Ginny immediately jumped out of his lap, her face the color of a bright red tomato.
"I-I'm so sorry I wasn't paying attention...I didn't see you sitting there..." Ginny stammered, trying to apologize. Harry was mortified. She had made it clear that she didn't like him, so what was he doing encouraging her to sit on his lap?
"That's ok, I'm sorry about...well you know, I just wasn't thinking..."
"That's fine, don't worry about it." They both looked down at the floor, each feeling more embarresed than they had ever felt before.
"So, what are you doing down here so late at night?" Harry finally decided to break the silence.
"Just thinking. What about you?"
"The same I guess." He paused. "What are you thinking about?" Ginny's cheeks turned the color of her hair, and she quickly turned her face away from his.
"Nothing, just, you know, some stuff, you wouldn't be interested..." She mumbled, playing with her robes. *Stop acting like and idiot!* She scolded herself. *He's going to think you're a lovesick fool again!*
"Oh, well yeah, me too." Harry looked down at his hands. He had hoped she had been thinking about him. She was probably thinking about Colin. Ginny frowned. He was probably thinking about who he was going to ask to the dance now that he was free of her.
"Well, I guess I'll go up to bed now, you know, I don't want to be too tired tommorow. Good night Harry."
"Good night Ginny." He said softly to her retreating back.
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"Quiet please, everyone, I have an announcment!" Dumbledore stood up at the teachers table the next morning, banging on the table to get everyone's attention. "Quiet please!"All the students stopped talking and looked up at Dumbledore attentively. "I have an announcement to make about the Back To School dance, which all of you know is tommorow." The entire hall burst into excited chatter. "Please, be quiet, or you wont be able to hear the announcment! We have decided to have the dance in the theme of a Muggle Homcoming dance. Because of this, if you choose too, we will be having a trip into London tonight by way of a portkey so you can purchase Muggle dresses and suits.You will all need to wear Muggle clothes for the trip into London. Those of you who don't want to purchase Muggle clothes can just wear your regular dress robes. Thank you." The entire hall burst into loud talking the minute Dumbledore finished talking. But a certain section of the Gryffndor table sat looking quietly rejected.
"There's no way my parents will send me money for a dress, they're having a hard time right now. I guess I'll just wear my regular dress robes." Hermione said quietly.
"That's ok Hermione, I'll be wearing my regular dress robes too. There's no way my parents are going to be able to afford to buy me a new dress. And Ron'll be wearing his dress robes too, right Ron?"
"Hmm? Oh, right, I'll be wearing my dress robes too. I have to go talk to Dumbledore." Ron jumped up from the table, leaving everyone sitting there astonished, looking after him. They watched as he talked animatedly to Dumbledore for a couple of minutes. The Dumbledore smiled at him and nodded, and Ron ran out of the great hall.
"I wonder what Ron's up to? Well we better get to class." Ginny stood up and the rest followed suit. But to Harry's surprise, Ron wasn't in any of their classes that day. When he got back to the Gryffndor commons room, Ron was sitting there by the fire, resting his feet up on a stool.
"Ron! Where have you been all day? I've been looking everywhere for you!"
"Oh, um, Dumbledore gave me permission to work on a special project all day. Are you going to London Harry?"
"Yeah, I guess I will. Why?"
"Well, I think I might go too. I've never seen Muggle London before."
"Oh, well we better go on down to Hagrid's hut, the portkey will be leaving soon. I'll let you borrow a pair of jeans and a tee-shirt."
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"All right everyone, gather round and listen carefully to my instructions. Our first stop will be Gringotts. There you will be able to get your money out of your accounts and change it into Muggle money. Then we will be going into London. You may not, under any circumstance, perform magic once we are in Muggle London. We are a group on students from a boarding school in Bath. Can everyone remember that?" All the students nodded. "Ok then, lets go, please put your hand on on of these portkeys." He gestured at a pile of old baseball hats. Everyone scrambled to get a place on one of the hats, and within minutes they were in Gringotts.
After going down to the vault and changing his money, Harry met up with Ron again.
"So you want to look around together?"
"Um actually, I kind of want to look around by myself for a while. Is that OK?" Ron looked at Harry doubtfully, and Harry frowned.
"Yeah, sure that's fine." Harry wondered why Ron didn't want to look around with him. Was he mad at him for some reason?
"Ok, I'll see you later Harry!" And Ron dissapeared into Muggle London.
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"Hi, can I help you?" Ron looked up in surprise as a cheerful sales girl approached him.
"Umm, yeah, I'm from a boarding school in Bath, we took a trip into London to buy clothes for our Homecoming dance. Anyway, I want to buy a dress for my date, could you help me find one?" Ron was thankful for the sales girl, other wise he would have had no idea how to pick a dress for Hermione. He had worked all day in the Three Broomsticks waiting tables for Madame Rosmerta so that he would have enough money to buy her a dress.
"Oh, well that's wonderful! Aren't you just the sweetest thing? Now, do you know what size she is? What color is her hair? Her eyes?"
"Um, I'm not sure what size she is.." Ron began gesturing with his hands and describing Hermione to the sales girl. And then they began the daunting test of finding the perfect dress.
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Harry had been wandering around Muggle stores for the last two hours. He was used to the Muggle world and so he didn't find it particularly exciting, and he had found his suit in the first shop he'd gone into. He decided to go into a woman's clothing store just to look around.
"Can I help you with anything?" A sales girl walked up to him and asked.
"No thanks, I'm just looking around."
"All right then." She wandered off to find another customer to help. Harry wandered around the store, looking at all the beautiful dresses. A dress on a manequin caught his eye, and Harry walked over to it. It was gorgeous. It was a green sleeveless dress, with a red rose wrapped around the hem. The two straps that held the dress up also were made to look like roses.
"That would look beautiful on Ginny." Harry said to himself sadly.
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The next day, the proffesors basically gave up teaching. It was no use to try and make the students focus, they were all thinking excitedly about the dance. Later that day Ginny returned to her dormitory, weary from pretending to be excited all day. The truth was she wasn't excited, she wanted to go with Harry, and she knew that the entire night was going to be torture, watching him dance with other girls.
She pushed open the door to her commons room, ready to begin putting on her dress robes and messing with her hair. That was another thing she wasn't looking forward to, wearing dress robes while everyone else was wearing gorgeous Muggle dresses. Speaking of which, she saw that one of her roomates had left their dress on her bed. Ginny walked over to move it, when she realized that there was a card on it that said "Ginny". Bewildered, she picked it up and read the inside. "Ginny," it said, "I hope you have a wonderful night. From someone who cares."
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Ron grinned as Hermione, walked down the steps from her dormitory, looking beautiful in her dress robes.
"I don't think you should wear those Hermione."
"And why not? They're perfectly nice dress robes, what's wrong with them?"
"Well nothings wrong with them, except for they look silly when you could be wearing this." He pulled a beautiful red dress from behind his back, and Hermione gasped. "The sales lady thought it would match your eyes." He looked at her with a huge grin on his face.
"OH RON!" Hermione yelled, and hugged him with all her might.
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Harry sighed as he watched Ginny walk down the stairs in the dress he had bought her. She looked beautiful beyond belief. The green of the dress went perfectly with her hair, and the red roses complemented her skin tone. He felt something twist inside him as he watched her walk over to Colin and take his arm. He tore his eyes away from her to watch Lavender walk towards him, already talking a mile a minute with Padma about something she had seen in the stars. In the corner of the room George Weasley was talking with his date Casey. Harry sighed again as he heard Ginny laugh at something Colin had said. On the other side of the room he saw Hermione hugging Ron wildly. Everyone seemed to be excited and having fun but him. Lavender walked over to him, giggling as she saw him look her way. It was going to be a long night.


A/N Sorry about the bad spelling my word proccesors broken so I had to write this on Note Pad. The next part will be out soon, please read and review, it encourages me!