Ginny was currently reading a book on defensive magic she'd found in the Potter library, since she thought it would be best to always be prepared, when there was a knock on her door.

"It's open." Ginny called.

The door opened to reveal her all time crush, Harry Potter.

"Hey Harry." Ginny said, trying to sound normal.

"Hey Ginny, what's that you're reading?" Harry asked, trying to keep himself from chickening out of what he was about to do.

"Just some book on defense stuff. You okay?" Ginny asked, noticing that Harry seemed more nervous than usual.

"Yeah, just nervous about this whole war thing." Harry said.

"I suppose there is a lot of pressure on you to win this." Ginny said, though she was fairly certain that the war wasn't the reason Harry was so nervous now.

In fact, now that she really thought about it, Harry had seemed kind of distant to her the past few weeks, like he was afraid of her.

"Harry, is everything okay?" Ginny asked him again.

"Yeah, but Ginny, I feel like I owe you an explanation about why I've been so distant to you lately." Harry said.

"That would be nice. I keep feeling like you don't want to spend time with me." Ginny said.

"No, it's not that. It's the opposite in fact. Ginny, I like spending time with you. A lot in fact." Harry said.

"Then why do you keep trying to avoid me?" Ginny asked

"Because I know that over the past year or so, we've become really good friends and I didn't want to risk saying anything stupid that could ruin that." Harry said.

Ginny smiled for now she was pretty sure she knew where this was going and she wasn't going to say anything to stop it.

"So, is there anything possibly stupid you'd like to say to me now?" Ginny asked, not willing to make this easy for him.

Harry laughed and said "Well, that depends. I was going see if you wanted to go out with me."

Ginny smiled at him and said "Yes, I would love to go out with you."

"Great, though I'm not sure what to do for a date. The only time I ever went out with a girl was at the Yule Ball and as you can remember, I made an all-out fool of myself." Harry said.

"Well maybe you could give me a private seeking lesson tomorrow night." Ginny said, thinking that maybe they should just start slow.

Harry nodded and then said "So, would you like to curse your brothers outside for eavesdropping or would you like me to do it?"

Ginny laughed, Merlin how Harry loved that laugh, and said "My brothers, my right to curse them. They're already afraid I might use my signature bat bogey hex on them and I think I'm going to go and make their fears a reality.

"Have fun and make sure you don't call of the hex until you see the whites of their eyes." Harry said.

Ginny nodded and ran outside to where Fred, George and Ron were already running with looks of terror on their faces.


Harry and Ginny's parents didn't appear to have any problems with their relationship, as long as they were out of each other's bedrooms before curfew.

Harry had also gotten a good laugh out of watching Fred and George bow at his dad and Sirius's feet and say "We're not worthy," when they were told that Harry's dad was Prongs and Sirius was Padfoot.

James had also agreed to invest in Fred and George's joke shop, on the condition that he and his family received free products from the shop after it opened, since he was happy to aid a new era of mischief makers, though he wouldn't tell them how to create more marauder's maps, since besides his son Harry, the map was his greatest creation ever.


But eventually, August came to an end and before they knew it, September 1st had arrived.

Harry had already put all of his books, clothes, cauldron and everything else into his trunk besides his firebolt, which he was placing in his trunk now and had brought Hedwig down from the castle owlery and put her in her cage.

When he came downstairs to the front door, he found Fred, George, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were all packed up and ready to go. Ron's owl Pigwidgeon and Lightning (the owl Harry had gotten Ginny for her 14th birthday yesterday) were also both in cages and Hermione's cat Crookshanks was in his wicker basket on top of all the trunks.

"So how are we getting to Kings Cross?" Harry asked.

"The ministry has sent 2 cars for us to take." His father replied.

"Excellent." Ron said.


In the first car was Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione in the back and Sirius sitting next to the driver and Fred, George and the rest of the adults were in the other car.

Harry and Ginny spent most of the ride with Harry's arm around Ginny's shoulder and Ginny's head up against his chest.

At the sight of this, Ron mimed gagging to Hermione, who just rolled her eyes at how immature Ron could be.

"You know, just because you can't get a girlfriend doesn't me you can insult guys who do." Harry said.

"Or their girlfriends, who just happens to be your sister in this case." Ginny said without shifting in her position at all.

Ron looked like he couldn't care less about what Harry and Ginny were saying.


When they crossed the barrier onto Platform 9¾, Harry hugged his parents and Sirius goodbye before turning to Ginny.

"I promise that after Hermione and I get our instructions from the prefect's carriage, I'll meet you in a compartment." Harry said.

"You'd better for your own good." Ginny said with a smile.

Harry laughed as he and Hermione headed up to the front of the train before Ginny went with Ron to find their own compartment.