So, here is Chapter 4! Thanks you so much to all of those who have reviewed or put me as a favorite! You guys rock!
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During this whole little powwow downstairs Ginny was up in her room, lying on her bed, with tears streaming down her face. Oh yes, she was happy that Harry was back, there was no question about that, but it was also because he was back that she was so miserable. Ginny heard a quite knock on the door and his voice, "Ginny, can I come in."
"Of course Harry," she said wiping her eyes, "the door's unlocked." He entered and immediately came over and kissed her. Oh how wonderful it felt! She had never felt this happy for the past ten years, and yet it was all so horrible at the same time. "I missed you down stairs," Harry said as he finally broke the kiss and put his arm around her waist, "you're the person I most wanted to see when I got back."
"I missed you too Harry," she said trying to keep her composure. Oh why did he have to be so perfect! His gorgeous green eyes seamed to Ginny to look down in her very soul and his smile, oh his smile made Ginny just melt inside. Why did he come back?! Her sorrow must have shown in her face for the next thing Harry said to her was, "Ginny, are you okay?" Now was the time, she had to tell him. "Harry, there's something I need to tell you…" she couldn't do it; she couldn't hurt him, "I'm engaged." He just smiled at her, why did he have to smile, "Of course you are, we got engaged 10 years ago."
"No Harry, I mean I'm engaged to someone else." He still had that gorgeous smile on his face until the impact of what Ginny said to him hit him like a ton of bricks. Why did she have to hurt him, why?! He took his arm away from her waist and Ginny grabbed frantically and held his hand, "Harry I…" He held up his other hand, "Who?" was the only thing he said to her. "His name is James Walker…he's a muggle."
"How long?"
"I met him abut 5 years after you 'died' at a party. We started dating and we got engaged a month ago. The wedding is in 5 more months." He finally turned and looked her in the face, "Does he know you're a witch?"
"Yes," said Ginny indignantly, "I told him the moment he asked me to marry him." They sat in an uncomfortable silence for five minutes before Ginny finally spoke up, "Harry listen, I really love you…"
"Then merry me Ginny like we planned 10 years ago! If you love me… be my wife!" Harry was shouting at her.
"…But James has a special place in my heart, and I just can't do that to him!" she finished
"You knew we were engaged! Why did you get engaged again?"
"BECAUSE I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!" Ginny cried in exasperation, crumbling to the floor with tears streaming down her cheek. Harry immediately saw he had made a mistake, "Listen Ginny I…"
"GO! JUST GO!" she cried pointing to the door. She heard it open then shut, and she knew her true love was gone forever.
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Down stairs Hermione and Ron heard a bunch of shouting and then Ginny sobbing. Seconds later they heard foot steps on the stairs and Harry wized past them grabbing his coat and heading out the door. Hermione looked at Ron, "So, you think she's told him?"
"No," Ron replied sarcastically, "I think their just yelling at each other for fun." Ron had to quickly jump out of the way as Hermione swatted at him, grinning. They sat in silence for a few minutes listening to Ginny's cries and them Hermione gave Ron the look that plainly said, "Well he's your best friend. Go talk to him." Ron suddenly became very interested in his shoes, but no one can withstand Hermione for long, and soon he just got up, grabbed his coat, and walked out the door. Hermione grinned and then went up stairs to comfort the distraught Ginny.
She was engaged! Harry thought those words with open contempt. She was engaged…to a muggle. He just couldn't believe that he, the great Harry Potter, had lost the love of his life to a muggle. He had bean able to defeat numbers of death eaters, a basilisk, dementors, and even Lord Voldemort, but he hadn't bean able to beat a muggle when it came to winning Ginny's affections. Harry heard panting and foot steps behind him, but he didn't turn around. It was probably just some dog any ways. "Hey mate, wait up!" It was Ron! Harry turned around and waited for his best friend to catch up with him. When he did they kept on walking in an awkward silence. Finally Ron spoke up, "So…I take it she's told you then."
"Yep," was Harry's cold reply. "You really can't blame her mate."
"Oh yeah, give me one reason why I can't."
"Because, she thought you were dead. You can't really blame her for moving on with her life."
"Oh yes I can. She could've waited. She knows better than to believe any thing Rita Skeeter and that stupid quill of hers writes."
"She did wait Harry! When the announcement came out in the paper that you were dead she didn't believe it. She still wore her ring and went around as if nothing was wrong and you would walk in that door any second. 'Rita Skeeter wrote it anyways,' she said, 'and you just can't trust her.' Two years later the announcement came out that the Death Eaters were gone and she was so happy! She couldn't wait to be your wife. She waited 6 months hoping you would come. One day she went out for a walk and when she came back she took off the ring and hid it in a box in her closet. That's when we knew that it was all over. Ginny had given up." Harry just kept walking in dead silence, not saying a word, so Ron went on, "She was miserable that year. Nothing could make her cheer up. She met James and she started to be a bit happier, but not nearly as happy as she was with you."
"Your point?" Harry said, throwing Ron a disbelieving glance. "My point," Ron replied, annoyed, "is that she's CRAZY about you. She loves you more than life it's self. She would never want to try and hurt you. She'd do anything for you!"
"Not everything apparently," said Harry coldly. "Hey, give her a break okay. Let her get used to the idea of you being back and she'll tell that James what's-his-name that she doesn't love him."
"I hope your right Ron."
"Hey, have I ever steered you wrong?"
"Well, there was that one time…" Harry said grinning. Ron slapped him in the arm and the two friends turned around and walked home.
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Hermione walked up the stairs to Ginny's room and heard heart-wrenching sobs coming from behind the door. She knocked quietly. "Go away Harry! I never want to see you again!" was the shouted reply. "Ginny, it's me, Hermione. Let me in."
"No, I don't want to see anyone, just go away!" There was a loud pop and quick as a wink Hermione was sitting next to Ginny's sobbing form on the bed. "Rats," Ginny said, "I forgot you could do that." Than all at once Ginny lost it again getting Hermione's shoulder all wet. Hermione, the mother that she was, just sat there stroking Ginny's head and saying things like "There, there," and "It will be all right." After Ginny had calmed down enough to talk Hermione asked, "So you told Harry about James didn't you."
"Yes, and he totally blew up at me. I thought he would get mad, but not like that."
"Well Ginny, you have to remember that, one, Harry had never had the best temper in the world and, two, that you mean the world to him. He was going to be a little more than a bit upset. I mean, he'd do anything for you, even die so that you could be saved."
"I know he loves me…and I love him!" Ginny said sending a fresh spray of tears down her already wet cheeks. After a while Hermione broke the silence by asking,"
"Do you love James as much as you love Harry?"
"Well…no, but I'm fond of him and…"
"That doesn't matter Ginny. If you love Harry you should marry him and not James. Who you marry is who you spend the rest of your life with, and you would have a pretty pathetic life if you didn't marry the man you love."
"That's easy for you to say, you don't have to choose."
"Your right. I don't… but you do. My advice would be to marry the man you love no matter what. I mean, I'm fond of Victor Krum, but I love your brother, and that is who I married."
"But I don't want to hurt James…"
"Than marry him."
"But I don't want to hurt Harry even more."
"Than marry him."
"I'm so confused!" Ginny ended. She then flopped on her bed sending a fresh wave of tears down her face. "Why me!" she though as she cried herself to sleep.
