An unwilling damsel by Joy

A/N: You had your nice sweet happy ending chapter... Now hold on because the roller-coaster is set to get underway.

A/N2: As a reminder I mentioned in the paragraph before I ever began the story in my version the stairs don't slide. Just give me this liberty okay?

A/N3: I'm glad everyone was okay with the possessive teasing by Harry. I always found the whole 'mine' thing endearing probably because my husband does it. Hint for the future: the 'Property of...' concept will be revisited.

For the love of a sister

7.

Harry found Ron in the corner of the common room scribbling in a journal Hermione had given him to keep track of his thoughts. "Ron..." he called quietly.

"Hiya Harry. Why do you have your dad's cloak out?" Ron replied.

Harry wrinkled his brow, "You trust me, don't you Ron?"

"With my life, on more than one occasion."

Harry shook his head, "No... I don't mean on a big level 'life and death' stuff. I mean on the day to day, do you see me as a 'good person' type trust?"

Ron looked and his friend queerly, "What's this all about?"

"Ginny."

"Ginny?"

Harry nodded.

"My baby sister that me and my five older brothers will skin you alive and feed you your stones if you hurt her, baby sister," he clarified.

"That would be the one."

"The Ginny that you have walked to class everyday for four months?"

Harry sighed, "Yes Ron...Look, I like her...a lot. We've always gotten on so well that it took a bit to figure it out, but I really like her. I have always defended her and protected her. I just want to continue to do that, just on a more exclusive scale."

"In other words with kissing and mood lighting," Ron said neutrally.

The matter would have been left there had the red-haired boy remained his normally oblivious self and not looked at the cloak in Harry's hand putting 2 and 2 together. Ron grabbed him by the throat, "Please tell me that cloak being out has nothing to do with Ginny."

"I can't." Harry expected some anger about them getting together but he had the feeling that this was going to come to blows...and he wasn't about to hit back.

"Harry!"

"Before you beat on my face let me explain."

"You have three minutes."

Harry groaned, "Yesterday Ginny pointed out how close you and Hermione had become and I felt like a third wheel. She suggested I find a fourth, leaned up, kissed me then scurried away. I racked my brain all day about it deciding that Ginny must have been feeling sorry for me. She wouldn't have done it then left if it had meant more... I wanted it to mean more. I don't know when that happened...I really don't. The more I thought the angrier I got, because I didn't want pity. I never found a time or a place that was just us until Ginny went into the dormitory. Once I was sure it was just us I let myself be seen and we talked it through."

"You have less than a minute to say something that won't end up with you bloody," Ron snarled.

Harry took a deep breath, "On the souls of my parents, there were a couple of kisses and that's all. I did nothing I would be ashamed for you to have seen. I mean she's my girlfriend. But her honor is safe Ron. I wouldn't do that to her or you... You're my best friend."

"You're not just with her 'cause you want someone to snog?" the red head accused, now sporting an entirely different view on the relationship. One minute before his best friend and little sister going out was semi-okay, but now Harry was a player.

"Ron!"

"No...I'm serious Harry. You have your own little fan club of girls that worship you that would gladly fill the position. So if that's all you want- leave off my sister!"

Harry's heart sank, "No, Ron. You obviously don't trust me."

"Not when you come sneaking around the dorm in that cloak to catch my sister in her bedroom, I don't."

Fred and George noticed the two arguing in the corner, as did Hermione and Ginny from the stairs. "What's going on?" Fred asked.

"Never seen you chums have a row," George commented.

"Go on Harry. Explain it to my brothers the beaters why you have your invisibility cloak out," Ron fussed.

Hermione gave an accusing glare to Ginny who tried to look pitiful.

"Well I..." Harry began suddenly realizing that his chosen girlfriend had three of her six big brothers in their dorm at the present moment.

"Harry?" George and Fred said in one voice.

Ginny backbone began to show in that moment as she strode angrily to her brothers and stood in front of Ron. "Don't do this Ron or I shall be forced to bring up what other things might have happened of late!" she glared.

Ron sucked a deep breath and grit his teeth. "Why's it have to be you? Why can't he debauch someone I don't care about?" he grumbled.

Harry looked like he had been physically struck- in near tears. How could my best friend think me such a wanker?

"Ronald Weasley, you take that back this instant," Hermione demanded suddenly appearing in the fray.

"Why? He's the best at everything. Has a legion of admirers. Why am I not allowed to wish that he wouldn't pick my sister to experiment on?" Fred and George looked confusedly at each other than back to Harry who had vanished. "See- he knows I'm right so he's hiding."

Ginny was so angry her face was completely red. "For your information Ronald Weasley I kissed Harry not the other way around. Harry has been nothing but a gentleman."

Ron grit his teeth again, "Then why was he in your room?"

The twins turned to their baby sister. "Because he wanted to talk to me without everybody listening in out here."

"Bet that's not all he wanted."

"What the bloody hell is wrong with you!?" Hermione fussed thumping Ron's ear.

Ron stared at her. First off Hermione never swore. Secondly she looked like she was going to slug him and thirdly his little sister looked heartbroken.

"He left," she whispered beginning to cry softly. "I was going to get to be his girlfriend. He wanted that. I wanted that...and now we won't. You took that from me. Why did you take that from me?"

Ron looked to his brothers for support. "Sorry Ron," said Fred.

George replied, "Don't look at us."

"No better guy around"

"Been waiting for this to happen."

Fred shrugged his shoulders, "We don't think he'd hurt her."

George tilted his head, "Loves you too much to do something like that."

A/N: Wheeee... Wasn't that a fun dip? Oh wait...Ron and Harry have to make up now right? Just take it as it comes 'cause from here out things will just jerk about a bit. I will always warn you before a major dip in emotions if I can.

A/N2: NEXT CHAPTER- We get our first glimpse of what happened with Ginny. This is a warning.

I will REVIEW so Joy will tell me what happened to Ginny. Say it with me. I will REVIEW so Joy will tell me what happened to Ginny. Good. Now deep breaths until tomorrow.