-Chapter 10: Reasonable and Logical-

Ginny went to the Burrow Wednesday for dinner with her parents and Ron. All through dinner Ginny was waiting for Ron to explode but he kept his mouth shut. It wasn't until they were having tea in the sitting room that the subject of Hermione even came up.

"So, Ginny, how are Harry and Luna doing?" Molly asked.

"They're doing really good. I mostly just do the cooking and I'll watch the twins while Luna takes a nap in the afternoons. They're still getting up through the night a little but not as often."

"Good to hear. And…Friday night dinners? How are they?" Arthur asked.

"You can say her name, Dad. Hermione is fine. If things weren't okay between us then we wouldn't have been together last Friday. We're friends, that's it."

"We're just worried about you, Ginny," Molly said, "We don't want you to get hurt again. We hate to see you heartbroken."

"Mum, I am almost twenty-four years old. I think I can handle myself and like I said, we're just friends."

"Yeah but you never know when she could up and leave again," Ron said.

"She won't do that, Ron. She has Lennox and she wants him to grow up here."

"She left you though! She said loved you and she left you so who says she won't just dump the kid off with her parents and leave again?!"

Ginny stood up, brandished her wand and aimed it at Ron's head.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you for that, Ronald!" Ginny shouted. Arthur started to move towards Ginny. "Back off, Dad. This is between me and Ron." Arthur backed away.

"Well first of all Gin, you'd go to Azkaban for sure," Ron said calmly.

"Not good enough."

"So you're just friends, huh? No feelings for her anymore at all?"

"That's not the point, Ron! You can't say things like that about someone!"

"If you felt nothing for her then you would just tell me to shut up or maybe a Bat-Bogey Hex but you wouldn't threaten to kill me." Ron stood up, Ginny kept her wand aimed at him. "Listen, I said what I did to prove a point. You still love her, Ginny. Those girls you brought home for dinner, you never looked at any of them like you looked at her. I told you I thought one of them was a money-hungry slut and all you did was give me a black eye. Now, because this is about Hermione, you're willing to kill your own brother."

Ginny lowered her wand. She was shocked that Ron actually sounded like he knew what he was talking about and that he was so observant.

"Ginny," Molly said, "is there any truth to that?"

"I…I don't know."

"You don't know or you don't want to say it?" Arthur asked.

"I can't say it," Ginny said quietly, "I don't want my heart broken again. I…I wouldn't survive it."

"Have you talked to her?" Molly sat Ginny back down on the couch and wrapped an arm around her.

"It's only been a little over a month since I first saw her. I can't jeopardize things. For once, I have to think like Hermione. I have to be reasonable and logical, not emotional and irrational."

"Have you talked about it at all though? Did you tell her about the misunderstanding?" Ron asked as he sat back down in his chair.

"Yeah. She apologized, it was very sincere. We agreed that we wouldn't change how our lives turned out because of it though. She loves Lennox and I love playing Quidditch. I think the best course of action right now would just be to keep things the way they are."

"I think you're right, dear. But how long can you do that?" Molly asked, concerned.

"Until I snap. I go up to the Yorkshire stadium to start off the season at the end of September but I have to go for a week in the beginning of August because I've got to be there for trials."

"Are you going to try for England again?" Ron asked, a little bit excitedly. The World Cup was going to be held again the next year.

"I don't know. I want to because I don't know how many more years I will get the chance but at the same time practicing for the World Cup is way more intense than regional."

"Is Hermione influencing any of that decision?" asked Molly.

"I don't know. Maybe a little."

"You can't do that, Ginny. You have to do what you think is best for you," Molly hugged Ginny tight.

"I know I do, Mum. Oh, and Ron," Ginny flicked her wand at him and he started screaming as bogies the size of bats came out of his nose and attacked his face, "that was for what you said even though it was only to get a rise out of me."