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Chapter 10: Sawyer's revenge

The next day Harry felt as though he were on cloud nine; he had apologised to Ginny and now they were going to the ball together. But the best thing had to be the look on Sawyers face when Ginny turned him down, now all he had to do was catch the Snitch before him on Saturday and he was quite sure Sawyer would bust out crying.

Harry and Ginny weren't officially going out but Harry decided that if all went well at the ball he would ask her properly to be his girlfriend. Ron kept throwing him strange looks through out day; wondering what was making his best friend so happy. This was Harry's biggest problem when it came to Ginny; neither of them had dared mention it to Ron yet that they were going to the ball together. Harry felt guilty whenever he looked at Ron and decided he would have to have a chat with him that night and break the news gently. Unbeknown to Harry though somebody else was going to beat him to it…

"I'm going to the toilet Harry; I'll meet up with you in Charms." Ron said before walking in to the boy's toilets.

"Okay see you in a minute." Harry called back. Ron used the toilet then washed his hands, just as he was about to leave Sawyer walked in to the bathroom with a large smirk on his face.

"Ah Weasley, I wish to ave' a word wiz' you." He said.

"What about? I've got to get to Charms and to be quite honest with you Sawyer I don't like you." Ron replied bluntly.

"Oh you might like me a little more once you ave' eard' what I ave' to zay'." Sawyer grinned.

"I doubt it but go ahead." Ron couldn't help but feel intrigued what would Sawyer want to tell him of all people?

"Well I think it would interest you to know that your best friend iz' going out behind your back wiz' your sister."

"What? No there not they would have told me." Ron said.

"Oh really well last night your zister' and I were walking back from ze' library and Potter turned up. I asked her to ze' ball and she refused only to then accept Potter's offer of going wiz' him. After I left they stood in ze' corridor for a good 10 minutes kissing." Sawyer explained with a satisfied smile.

"You know if your lying, I'll hex you into next week." Ron said as his face turned a violet shade of red.

"Oh I am not lying Weasley, though zis' is not the only time I ave' seen them togezer'. On my first night here they were out walking ze' corridors together and when I ran into them they looked very close then too." Sawyer replied.

"Why are you telling me this?" Ron demanded.

"Because Ron…iz' that your name?" Sawyer asked. Ron didn't reply to this.

"Well Ron your best friend screwed me over last night and now I wish to screw im' over." Sawyer said maliciously before striding out of the bathroom and leaving Ron livid.

When Ron walked into the Charms class room 5 minutes later he walked straight past Harry and sat at the back alone. Harry looked around at him confused; wondering what was wrong. As soon as the class was over Harry had to catch up with Ron in the corridor as Ron had left extremely quick once again ignoring Harry.

"RON…RON…HEY WAIT UP." Harry yelled but Ron only quickened his pace to avoid Harry.

"RON." Harry shouted again. He ran through a group of 1st years and eventually caught up with him.

"Ron what's wrong?" Harry asked out of breath. Ron stopped so suddenly that Harry took three whole steps before realising he had stopped. Harry turned to look at Ron and asked again,

"Ron what's wrong?"

"How could you Harry. You've been sneaking around behind my back with my sister." Ron snapped. Harry's face dropped and suddenly he began to worry.

"Who told you?" He asked.

"Oh so you're not going to deny it, you are seeing her." Ron said with a mad laugh.

"Well were not going out Ron, I asked her to the ball that's it." Harry explained. "And if you must know I was going to tell you tonight."

"Well it's a little late for that now. And you've not just asked to the ball you've been snogging her every chance you get when I'm not around." Ron said, his voice getting louder.

"Ron you're taking this all wrong, I was going to tell you tonight. We've not been sneaking around behind your back…it just kind of happened." Harry finished feebly.

"You know what Harry I don't want to know, all I do know is that you've been unloyal to me. I had to hear it from Sawyer of all people." Harry never got the chance to reply, Ron stormed off at a faster pace then he had been walking before. Defeated Harry set off slowly and decided he better find and warn Ginny about what had just happened.

"Hey you…what's up?" Ginny asked concerned at the look on Harry's face.

"We need to talk, some where private." Harry said. Ginny stood and followed Harry out of the Great Hall and out into the grounds.

"Harry what's happened? You're scaring me." Ginny said as Harry stopped to look at her.

"Ron knows." He said.

"Knows?" Ginny said confused, "Knows about what?"

"Us Ginny, Sawyer told him that I asked you to the ball last night. He also told him that we kissed which means Sawyer didn't leave us alone like we thought he had." Harry explained.

"The git." Ginny said colour rushing to her face.

"I know, I reckon Sawyers trying to disrupt us all before the match. And he's probably trying to get back at me for asking you out too; and then you saying yes to me." Harry said.

"I wasn't talking about Sawyer, I was talking about Ron. He's had a go at you hasn't he." Ginny said causing Harry to replay the words back in his head again of what she had just said.

"Erm… I thought we were agreeing that Sawyer is the git." Harry asked confused.

"Oh he is and we'll get him back for what he's done but what I'm saying is Ron's taken a mardy hasn't he. How dare he." Ginny scowled.

"Wait I don't understand." Harry said not following her.

"How dare he fall out with you when we were going to tell him at some point anyway? Were not going out properly were just going to the ball together and from what I remember he tried to get you to take me to the Yule ball. I mean yes we've kissed but that's none of his business anyway. I didn't get all protective and annoyed when he started going out with Hermione." Ginny said.

"I know but I just think he's upset cos Sawyer told him first and not us." Harry explained.

"Well I'm going to talk to him right now." Ginny said. "Come on." And with that she grabbed Harry's hand and marched him straight up to the common room.

When they reached the common room they found Ron alone and sulking in the arm chair by the fire.

"Ron we need to talk to you." Ginny said standing before him, Ron didn't look up however.

"Ron you can't ignore us." Ginny demanded.

"Yes I can if I want." Ron snapped still not looking at them.

"Ron I'm sorry you had to find out from Sawyer that Harry and I are going to the ball together. Harry has just told me that he was going to tell you tonight, make sure you were alright with it." Ginny said kneeling before him. "We weren't going to hide it from you and yes Harry and I have also kissed but were not going out, were just taking things slowly okay."

"You could have told me last night." Ron replied finally looking at his sister.

"Ron you were fast off mate when I came up to bed." Harry said from his seat on the sofa.

"That's not the point Harry; you also had this morning to tell me too." Ron said standing suddenly.

"How long has this been going on for?" He asked.

"A couple of days." Ginny said now standing too.

"Does Hermione know what's going on between you?" Ron asked avoiding both of their eyes.

"No Ron, she doesn't." Ginny said.

"Well I least I've still got someone I can trust then." He snapped before disappearing up to the boy's dormitory. Ginny went to follow him but Harry stopped her.

"Gin, leave him. He's just upset and probably missing Hermione too." Harry reasoned.

"But why can't he accept it and be happy for us." She sighed.

"Because this is how Ron reacts. Yell first then listen." Harry replied causing Ginny to smile.

"I guess you won't be taking me to the ball now then?" She asked.

"What makes you think that, of course I am. We still have two days to work on your brother, I'm taking you Ginny Weasley whether you like it or not." Harry smiled.

"Well good because I wouldn't of taken no for an answer anyway." She said before kissing quickly on the lips.

"Okay I'm going to write to Hermione and explain what's happened, she'll want to know." Ginny said. "So I'll see you later on."

"Okay look forward to it." Harry said before kissing her one last time on the lips and watching her head off up the stairs.

So this is the 10th chapter, I know I said this one was the match but I remembered I wanted to cause a rift before the match. The next chapter is definitely the match. Hope you like? Thank you for all the great reviews xxxx