If JK was a child, I was just one of her teddybears, wanting to give her a massive HUGG
7. (About Explaining and Rowing)
-An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.-
Buddha
After a goodnight kiss from Dean, Ginny walked up to Ron, who was standing in a corner of the common room.
"Hey."
His head shot up. "Oh, hey," he said, not looking at her, but staring past her to the stairs to the girls' dormitories. "Have you seen Hermione?" he asked.
"No, I think she took the long route to the common room for the first years," Ginny said, noticing Ron looked somewhat shamefaced. "What happened to Harry?"
Ron shifted uncomfortably.
"Er… what d'you mean?"
"Well, for starters, he was late to the feast, and when he did show up he was covered in blood. I think that merits a few questions, don't you?"
"I don't think he wants everyone to know."
"Since when have I become 'everyone'?"
Ron still looked hesitant, but Ginny kept staring. There clearly was something going on with Harry, and as a friend, she was concerned.
"He had a run-in with Malfoy on the train. Or rather," Ron rectified, "he tried to spy on the slimy git after you and Neville saw him disappear under the cloak. But Malfoy noticed and Petrified him, punched him, broke his nose…" Ron shuddered. "Then he covered him in the Invisibility Cloak so no one would find him. But Tonks actually did when she searched the train."
"That bastard! I saw him folding the blinds of the compartment, but I thought it meant nothing!"
Ron smiled wryly.
"Yeah, well, Harry's not totally blameless, you know. He was the one who snuck into a compartment full of Slytherins."
"And that gives them an open invitation to make his face bleed?" she retorted angrily.
Ron shrugged, clearly not in the mood to argue about it.
Ginny sighed.
"I'm going to bed. Tell Hermione I said 'hi' if you see her."
"Er… I don't know if I will wait for her. She might be a bit…tetchy, considering I forgot to help her with the first years."
Ginny grinned. "Knowing Hermione, she can't be angry at you for long, so I wouldn't worry about that."
Ron looked bewildered. "What do you mean?"
Ginny just smiled. "Nothing. Good night."
"Good night, Gin."
When she opened her bedroom, two of the girls in her year weren't there yet: only Evelyn was in the room, folding her clothes, and she could hear Suzie rummaging around in the bathroom.
"Hi," she said to Evelyn.
Evelyn didn't reply, choosing instead to give her a cold look.
A bit shocked by her friend's response, or lack thereof, Ginny tried to make conversation:
"So, what do you think about Snape finally getting what he wants? Defence Against the Dark Arts will probably be difficult this year, won't it?"
"I guess," Evelyn said coldly, but then blurted, "Where were you on the train?"
Ginny quirked an eyebrow. "With that Slughorn bloke, as I told you. Why, did I miss something?"
Evelyn shook her head, still looking irritated. "Only the most boring train ride ever. I wanted to catch up with you, tell each other about our holidays. But instead of that, I had to listen to every blasted thing that happened to Parvati Patil over the past two months."
"I'm sorry, but I didn't know that I would be stuck in that compartment with Slytherins and Harry and Neville."
"Yeah, well, you dumped me with a group of people that I barely knew and don't even want to know, since they apparently bore me to death with their talks about the weather in their second home near the shore."
"Hey, I can't help that they're Dean's friends!"
"No, but you could have thought about it!"
Ginny shook her head. "Look, Evelyn, I'm really sorry you had to sit with them without me, but I didn't ask to go to that thing with Slughorn."
"Yeah, okay, whatever," her friend sighed. A moment later she pulled the curtains closed on her four-poster.
Suzie came in from the bathroom, and shot a questioning glance at Ginny. It wasn't normal for Evelyn to react so strongly about something so small. Ginny shrugged. She really didn't know what was going on with her friend, but at the moment, there didn't seem to be anything she could do about it. Maybe she could find out tomorrow.
Squeej! Another chapter posted!
Don't worry, Evelyn isn't just a bitch or has become a slut over the summer! She has good reasons to act a bit strange! More on that in the next chapters!
Huge thanks to penfriend Lisa!
Okay and one little squeeej-moment for JK and telling everyone that Dumbledore is gay:-) I know that a lot of people might be upset, but I also know that a few of my friends who are gay couldn't be more happy!:D
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