~Chapter 7: Never letting go~
I'll wait if that's what it takes
It was the last day of Christmas break and the Hogwarts Express already arrived around an hour ago. People are walking in through the Castle's doors and luggages filled the back stairs.
Those who stayed during the holiday were in their dormitory, preparing for their welcome-back feast. Wearing their black robes back, boys and girls lazily hanging out.
"So... how's you and Katie?" Neville winked at Harry, as Harry blushed.
"We're good." He said. "I made her an origami once a day, and I can't believe we've only been together for 2 weeks."
"Origami?" Ron sat up on his bed. "what is that?"
"It's this paper folding thing. You can make a rose, a ribbon, and stuffs like that from papers." Harry closed his robe and brushed his hair, letting his front hair fall naturally.
"wow!" Neville sounded impressed. "Sounds like you and Katie are going good."
"She's perfect." He smiled. "Just amazing."
"Thanks god I've made the two of you a pair in the game on the party." Neville winked.
"I owe you one, Neville." Harry pat Neville on the shoulder.
The boys then hurried up and prepare themselves.
"Harry." Ron suddenly break the silence.
"Hum?" Harry stopped and looked at him.
"Is Hermione angry because i'm with Lavender?"
Both Neville and Harry stopped from whatever they are doing and looked at Ron attentively. Everyone knows that you can't compare Hermione to Lavender. If anyone should choose, 100% votes would go to Hermione. This whole Hermione-Ron-Lavender only known by Harry, unless Neville notice the changes in Hermione that is, which he probably does, being growing up with his grandmother and everything. Neville understands girls more than any other boys.
"Do I love Lavender?" Ron asked absentmindedly.
Harry stopped for awhile. "I didn't know the answer to that one, Ron. About Hermione though, you two should talk it out." Harry smiled.
Neville uneasily tried to let the matter go into Ron's hand. "Maybe what you feel is right. Just follow your heart. That works for my grandmother. When i feel unease, i know i may have done something wrong to her, and it's usually right."
Harry doesn't know how Neville's grandmother would be alike to Hermione's matter, but this may as well be true.
On the other side of Griffindor tower, the girls were preparing themselves, brushing their hair, wearing their robes and for Katie and Romilda, putting on some make-up. Ginny hurriedly brush her hair and wear her robe. She doesn't need any make-up. The only thing she ever uses is sun-screen and lip-gloss. She got used to the taste since Dean adores lip-gloss during their snogging session. She walked out of the room and went out to the veranda. The weather was still cold, but it's getting warmer.
Romilda got out and stood next to Ginny. "So... how's you?" She winked. Romilda can be nice when she wants to, although whatever information she got would probably get leak to other people.
"Okay. Nothing really up anyway." Ginny let a white vapour coming out of her mouth as she speaks.
"Yeah. Oh, well. So what you think of Harry and Katie?"
Gosh. Do we really need to talk about them? Ginny shrugged. "They make a great couple." She stopped for awhile before continuing. "Harry is happy. So is Katie. They could last for a long time."
"Yeah. Well, I don't think Katie is happy." Romilda laughed almost in an evil way.
WHAT? "what do you mean?"
"We all know there's no way Katie is over Cormac, right?" Romilda gestured her eyebrows as if Ginny knows that. No. Ginny doesn't know. "Well, anyway. Katie told me. She doesn't want to hurt Harry. Harry is just well... I don't know... too in love with Katie? It turns Katie off, perhaps. Harry always want to be with Katie. The past 2 weeks they'd been everywhere together, eating together, hanging out together, but not talking. The only time they ever talk is through Wesbook or Protean Charm. You know I've been with them the whole time, since you and Hermione hit off together with your studies..." She mocked Ginny then laughed lightly as if it is no big deal between Harry and Katie.
Ginny kept quite. "So what will she do?"
"Break up? what else? She just couldn't say it. It's annoying." Romilda let out a big sigh.
"Since when does she feel this way?" Ginny looked down to her feet. Harry. Harry is happy. But... Katie isn't. This doesn't work, doesn't it?
"The first week..." Romilda huffed and a white vapour coming out of her mouth. "Nice." She laughed.
Ginny kept quite while Romilda busying herself by huffing out white vapours out of her mouth. Isn't Romilda just dumb?
"I'm going." Ginny walked back into the room and out of the room, turning to Hermione's room she wondered, does she need to tell Hermione? No, this is between Harry and Katie. This has nothing to do with Hermione or herself.
Ginny and Hermione walked into the great hall, where snow were falling from the ceiling. Outside the great hall, a big christmas tree filled with gifts were still there. They looked around the griffindor's table. There's no way Hermione sat next to Ron which means there will be no Harry. Safe. Hermione however sat next to Cormac McLaggen.
"Hey." Hermione threw back her curly hair. "Do you mind?" She smiled, trying to be flirty, which somehow always worked.
"No. No. Of course not." Cormac laughed lightly getting up and helped Hermione sitting down. Ginny slided next to Hermione.
Cormac's friends laughed and try to make some conversation with the two girls. Ginny's eyes however were stuck to the Great Hall's door, Romilda walked in with her supermodel-style while Katie and Harry walked next to each other. Occasionally Harry whispered something to Katie and Katie made a giggle. Ginny couldn't stop thinking about what Romilda has told her.
Few minutes later Neville and Luna walked in, seemingly serious talking about some random herbs and this weird creature which related to that herbs. Behind them, Lavender glided in Ron's arm, her head were on his shoulder, flirty.
Ginny looked down to the table, trying to forget everything.
Dumbledore got up of his chair and shut the whole great hall up by opening up the whole speech using his wine glass and a spoon.
*cling* *cling* *cling*
"Here's another semester in hogwart! To all the seniors, N.E.W.T is coming and i hope all of you have prepared for that. For the year 5, O.W.L is around the corner. Please check on your teachers about your weak subjects." Dumbledore announced while everyone groaning loudly. "Without hesitating, let's start our feast!"He clapped his hands twice and food prepared on the table.
"Harry." Luna called in slowly. "Where's Hermione?" Her tuneful voice filled with wonder.
Harry looked around and caught the glimpse of Hermione next to Ginny and Cormac. "There she is. Next to Cormac."
Katie looked up to where Hermione was, next to Cormac. Could it be? No. Hermione likes Ron. Katie settled down. But Katie likes Cormac, and here she is next to Harry, together. That makes the two of them, isn't it?
Harry looked at Katie lovingly, as always, "Hey." He whispered. "You okay?" He asked followed by Katie's nod and giggling smile. "Here. Eat more Fries." He smiled putting on another big spoonful of fries.
"Ha ha. No. No. I don't want to be fat."
"I'm feeding you, you will not be fat." Harry joked then. "You're my wife, and you're perfect in every way."
wife? Okay. This jokes get a little corny and carried away. (Sorry for making Harry super Corny here. :D)
Ginny was walking up to the griffindor tower when she found herself next to Dean, waiting for the flying staircases to come.
"Hey." Dean smiled. His tall body has always been so muscular and being next to him used to be so... well, not anymore for Ginny.
"yeah." Ginny gestured that she has seen him, but not looking into his eyes.
"How's holiday?"
"Ok. I'm staying here."
"Oh." Dean nodded, showing he understands then he two of them falls onto silence and walked together to the griffindor tower. Boy, does Ginny hates this awkwardness.
As soon as the fat lady allowed them in, Ginny do power walking to her room. She couldn't believe how boring it is to be with Dean. Why did she even be together with him? She never know.
The first thing that happen when Ginny walked into the room was Romilda, 'shushing' her.
"Shush!" She said, putting her index finger on her lips.
What on earth is going on?
Alicia rolled her eyes, annoyed, while folding all of her clothes out of her luggage.
"Katie is talking to Harry through Protean Charm. She's breaking up with him!" Romilda whispered in excitement. "Her first breakup! oh my... I'm so excited."
Alicia grabbed Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans package and offered some to Ginny. Ginny sat on Alicia's bed and grabbed some Beans. Chocolate taste. Not bad.
Katie walked into the room from the veranda as soon as her protean charm called finished.
"So...?" Romilda asked. "Tell me all about it."
Katie stopped for awhile. "Well... I told him I don't know him and it's better if we were just friends."
"and...?" Romilda impatiently pushed Katie to talk.
"He said Ok." Katie ended.
"WHAT?!" Romilda stormed. "just Okay?"
Harry said just okay? Ginny wondered.
"Yeah." Katie showed a disappointed expression.
Alicia ate a handful of beans while watching Romilda and Katie discussing about Harry's possible next act until she got choked by 'vomit' flavour of the bean and ran out of the room to vomit herself.
Ginny woke up early the next morning when all the others still fall asleep. She felt calmer, perhaps because she knows that Katie doesn't like Harry back and they don't match with each other? Perhaps.
She changed her PJ's to robes and went to the bathroom to wash herself and brush her teeth. She sprayed a little perfume that Hermione gave her as Christmast present, and gloss her lips. She grabbed her books and walked out of the tower while all the others still asleep.
She went to the great hall which filled with less people, usually couples who want to spend their time together. She used to do that with Dean. She saw Harry ate a bowl of cereal on the griffindor's table, alone.
Ginny slided in front of Harry, grabbing her own cereal. "Hey." She greeted. "Morning."
"Morning." He smiled.
"Are you okay?" Ginny asked , wondering if it's okay to talk about it.
"You are in her room. Of course you know what happened." He shrugged.
"I'm sorry." Ginny stopped before continue eating her cereal.
"It's okay. She was right i was a little bit carried away. We didn't know each other."
Ginny stopped eating. She hates seeing Harry like this.
"I just thought she will be the girl I got married with, you know? With the N.E.W.T coming up, I'll be living back with Sirius. It's nice to have a girl i could plan my future with after this whole N.E.W.T thing finished."
Harry lived with her Aunt's in the muggle world all this time until he met Sirius and finally felt belong to someone's house. Of course Wesley's house has always been open to him, but he knows he wants to have a family on his own. His parents were dating in their Year 6 and 7, until they finally married few years after they graduated from Hogwarts. They were each other's first love.
"Yeah," Ginny commented. "It would be nice."
"Ah. It's okay. I'm not letting her go." Harry smiled.
Wait, what? "Hum?" Ginny looked at his eyes, puzzled.
"I'm not letting her go." Harry repeated. "I want to show her that I like her. I'll wait if that's what it takes. My dad waited for my mother."
Ginny kept quite. There's a big squeeze in her stomach. She knows Harry. Harry isn't a person who easily give up. Just like the way he doesn't give up towards Cho Chang or Voldemort or the time when he was dying to save her from the Chamber of Secret. For Katie... she's a person who couldn't decide for herself. If Harry fights for her, she may as well fall back for him again.
Rule #7: Get REAL! All that glitters aren't gold. Nothing can be so perfect. Trust me, those lovey-dovey couples out there try to get their way out to be single. When something is TOO PERFECT, find what's wrong with it. Now, That's REALITY.
