Chapter 21 –

Harry made his way to his bed, everything went preciously how he predicted it would. No sooner than he had sat on his bed an annoying and fuming red head burst in.

"You just had to do it didn't you?!" He shouted

"Perhaps you could be more specific with what I had to do" Harry suggested

"You couldn't let me have my moment of fame, you had to have it as well, don't you have enough already?!"

"Listen to me you incompetent idiotic imbecilic" Harry spoke slowly "in case it missed your large ears, I didn't enter my name, I swore on my magic in front of everyone saying I didn't. I notice your brain shuts off when you're angry so I'll explain it to you in simple terms, if I wanted to take the fame from you then I would have entered my name and stopped you from entering.

I'm more of a victim than you, I have to compete in a deadly tournament I didn't want to enter and if I win I get just more of what I've already got." Before Ron could say anything the rest of the dorm mates came in.

"Alright Harry?" Neville asked

"Alright mate" Harry responded "I'm just going to sleep if you lot don't mind" Harry drew his curtains and placed his charms, he went to sleep soundly, not knowing that Ron had electrocuted himself again by touching the curtains. The next day Harry woke up and did his workout, he and Ginny hung out for a bit before they made their way to the quidditch pitch where they met Victor Krum.

He had spent the previous hour telling Ginny how he was tired of Ron's complaining and put him in the tournament to shut him up and perhaps open his eyes to the fact that achievements are earned, unsurprisingly she understood. In fact she was all for it, if Ron wasn't related to her then she would have probably killed him herself. They noticed that a lot of girls and the entire Gryffindor quidditch team were in the stands.

"Hello" Harry greeted him "I hope you don't mind, but I brought my girlfriend along. She wanted to fly with us and she is quite talented"

"It's no problem" Krum looked at Ginny "Victor Krum, your name is?"

"Ginny Weasley" Ginny politely replied "I see you and Harry both have Firebolts"

"Yes" Krum nodded "they are very good broom, excellent for Seekers. I see you are using a Nimbus"

"Nimbus 2000" Ginny smiled "it was Harrys old broom, he gave it to me after his godfather gave him the Firebolt for his birthday."

"Hey" Ron shouted as he walked up to them "hi guys?"

"What are you doing here?" Ginny asked

"I'm going to play quidditch with Victor"

"I did not invite you" Victor replied "I invited Harry"

"What about Ginny?"

"I invited her" Harry responded "we asked Victor and he was okay with it." Ron looked at Ginny and noticed the broom in her hand, he looked back and forth between it and his old shooting star.

"Where did you get a nimbus?!"

"It's Harrys old one, Harry gave it to me for my last birthday"

"You can't have that!"

"Why not?" Harry asked "I didn't need it and I didn't spend money on it, and it was a birthday gift"

"She's a girl!" Ron shouted "you can't give her a broom like that, you should be telling her to learn how to cook not fly." Ginny was not surprised by her brothers words, her mother had raised her children to believe that girls should just be housewives and nothing more.

The rest of her brothers never believed that, it's why she was particularly fond of Bill, he was the first one to tell her she could be anything she wanted. With that being said she was still furious, even Krum was furious, Harry had to actually grab her hand to control himself. It was also to calm Ginny but mostly himself. Unfortunately for Ron, the crowd in the stands did not have the same level of restraint.

"YOU WHAT?!" Angelina shouted while the rest of the girls began cursing.

"Half of the quidditch team is made up of girls" Fred pointed out

"Yeah you prat" George shouted "Can't believe we're related to you"

"Hey Victor" Harry whispered "perhaps we should go and fly at the lake and leave this prat alone?"

"I agree" Victor eyed Ron "let us go".

Everyone left, leaving Ron alone in the quidditch pitch. They headed to the lake, where Krum and Harry had a one on one match to see who could get the snitch first. Krum was pleasantly surprised by Harry, not many people could challenge him, even professional players.

It was a tough game as the two kept intercepting and blocking the other, and Ginny flew around doing the same to the both of them but eventually Harry won. Victor was gracious in his defeat and congratulated Harry, he was surprised by how humble Harry was in his victory, he insisted that it was a very close match. Victor then showed everyone his Wronski feint, he asked Harry to show him a trick and watched in anticipation of what Harry was going to do.

"You're going to do the dive aren't you?" Ginny asked

"I'm going to do the dive" Harry nodded before he flew off

"Vat is the dive?" Krum asked

"Watch" Was Ginny's reply

Harry took his broom and flew up as fast as he could and as high as he could, everyone stared, wondering what he was going to do. Once his broom could reach no higher, Harry jumped up off the broom. Gasps came from the crowd below, Harry and the broom fell down from the air. Krum was about to fly up after him, until he saw Ginny's smirk, he looked at Harry and saw he wasn't flailing or panicking.

Harry enjoyed the air in his face, but decided he'd better focus. He pushed himself back to his broom, but instead of mounting it he adopted his 'broom boarding' standing stance. His left foot was on the back of the broom whilst his right was just under the front. Harry could feel the broom speeding up, he increased the speed as much as he could.

The other students looked horrified as it appeared that Harry was about to land in the lake, at the very last possible moment, Harry pulled his right foot and the head of the broom up as he pushed his left foot and the back of the broom down. He changed directions and thankfully ended up going sideways instead of crashing straight into the lake. His broom did skim the water but luckily that was it, he flew over to everyone and flipped off of his broom, he caught it as it fell down.

Ginny looked amused along with the rest of the quidditch team, the girls looked at Harry with wonder and awe, Krum looked amazed.

"You are amazing!" Krum exclaimed, it wasn't often that the man showed emotion but he couldn't help it "I've never seen flying like that, have you considered playing professionally?"

"Maybe in the future" Harry shrugged "I love Quidditch with a passion but I have important things I need to do before I even consider playing" He gave Ginny a knowing look, before he and Krum discussed Quidditch for the next hour.

Ginny joined in the conversation as well, along with the quidditch team. She was a bit annoyed when she noticed all the girls staring at Harry, she knew there was no chance of him cheating on her but she couldn't help it, it was almost a territorial feeling. The quidditch team came to her rescues by standing in-between Harry and the girls.

The next day Harry and Ginny sat at the Gryffindor table for breakfast, Krum and Fleur joined them. Ron fortunately took the hint that he wasn't wanted and sat on the opposite end of the table. Krum was enjoying his conversation with Harry, he found Harry to be very interesting, he was young but skilled and he knew how Krum felt about quidditch and fame. Fleur was also of a similar opinion, Harry looked at her as if she was a person and not a piece of meat, he also seemed trustable not to do anything with an evil intent.

"Who is that girl?" Krum asked when he noticed Hermione sit next to Ron

"Hermione Granger" Ginny growled

"You do not like her?" Fleur asked

"No I don't" Ginny violently stabbed her food "when she's not failing to get us in trouble she tries to steal Harry from me, even when Harry made it clear that he doesn't like her. She always talks to us as if we should listen to her every word, like she's better than us. You know she actually told people that Harry needed her because she's the self-proclaimed 'smartest witch in her year'.

She's not even that, I beat her in every class and so does Harry, she also keeps trying to tell us what to do. She tried to force Harry to get rid of his house elves even though they're happy and love working for Harry, she actually pestered us so much that the teachers had to tell her to stay away.

That's not even the worst part, she keeps trying to get with Harry even though I'm here, I see her constantly batting her eyes at him and trying to talk to him"

"Sweet-heart" Harry placed a hand on hers "you're ranting"

"Sorry" Ginny apologized "she just gets on my nerves"

"Is she really that bad?" Victor looked disappointed

"Victor" Ginny spoke softly "when she's not trying to shout at me and Harry for doing something she doesn't approve of then she's trying to make him like her. This is our fourth year and she still won't leave us alone"

"Girls accuse me of trying to steal their boyfriends" Fleur spoke "you are saying she is actually trying to do that"

"Yes" Ginny nodded "she's obsessed, what makes it worse is I think my brother likes her but she's too busy looking at Harry to notice."

"This brother of yours" Fleur spoke "are you sure you are related? Besides the hair I see no similarity, you are kind and understanding yet he is for lack of better words an arse"

"I've wondered about that as well" Harry chuckled "next to me I have red headed perfection, over there is a red headed idiot"

"I think it's because of my family and his own stupidity and insecurity's" Ginny explained "all of my brothers have made names for themselves doing something or another, the twins are known as the fun loving pranksters. My brother Percy was the prefect, head boy and now works at the ministry, my brother Charlie was the quidditch team Capitan who now works with dragons in Romania. Then there's my oldest and favorite brother Bill"

"You'd like him" Harry commented, although he was looking at Fleur when he said that

"He was Head boy in school" Ginny continued "then he moved to Egypt to be a curse breaker for Gringotts, when my brother sees them he gets annoyed at how they've all made names for themselves but he hasn't. Then there's me and I'm the only girl so I already stood out even before I became the best witch in my year. What he fails to realise is we've put effort into achieving our goals, he's just hoping everything gets handed to him.

That's why he's so jealous of me and Harry, he thinks that everything was handed to us. Like I had any choice in if I was a girl or not, not like Harry had any choice in getting attacked when he was a baby. He thinks the teachers do us favours because we're Harry potter and his girlfriend, he either doesn't realise or believe that we had to earn everything. My dad's alright"

"One of, in not the, nicest person I've ever met" Harry added

"I'll tell him you said that" Ginny smiled "the problem is that he doesn't make a lot of money which has left Ron wanting preciously that, the second problem is because he's nice he gets rolled over by my mum. My mum…well she seems nice enough but some of her beliefs are a bit old fashioned"

"Old fashioned?" Krum prompted

"Well for one she believes all girls should be good little house wives, she's hoping that I get married and settle down with kids then spend the rest of my life cleaning and cooking. She discourages me from being anything else, like the only thing I'm good for is producing babies"

"That is horrible" Fleur hissed

"I know" Ginny nodded "if it wasn't for Harry I'd go crazy, he very supportive and told me I could be anything I want"

"As long as you don't die at the end of the day and are happy, then I'm happy" Harry replied "I trust you to know what you can and can't do, and I trust you to have reasonable goals"

"Thank you sweetie" Ginny smiled before continuing "my mother is nowhere near as supportive, she is such a control freak and everything has to be the way she wants. Everyone apart from Ron is getting a bit tired of it, and dad can't really stand up to her. She went into a two hour long lecture when the twins said they wanted to open a prank shop, she constantly argues with Bill and Charlie about their jobs and you should have seen her when Percy wanted to move out.

I think because he was the sort of 'perfect' son she wanted she was very upset when he refused to listen to her and stay at home, she also constantly goes at Bill for his look"

"Look?" Fleur asked

"Well Bill wears a dragon teeth earing he likes and he has long hair that he puts into a ponytail, mother is always telling him to cut it and remove the earing, even though it's obvious he doesn't want to. Oh and she's always going at him and Charlie for not getting married yet, as if it was stupid that they didn't want to get married. You would have thought that three out of seven children leaving as soon as they were capable would have clued her in that she was doing something wrong.

Me and the twins are leaving as soon as we can, Ron however looks up to mother and has inherited her old fashioned views."

"Speaking of your mother" Harry directed everyone's attention to an owl that dropped a red envelope at Ron's lap "show time! Ladies and gentlemen I invite you to watch the dreaded 'Molly Weasley howler' rip apart her cub without concern or restraint" The howler drifted into the air and the show began.

"RONALD BILLIUS WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU ENTER THE TOURNAMENT WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?! YOU'RE PUTTING YOUR LIFE IN DANGER FOR A FEW GLLEONS AND A LINE DEDICATED TO YOURSELF IN A BOOK! HOW YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD SURVIVE THIS TOURNAMENT WHEN YOU GO THROUGH CLASSES LIKE A MUGGLEBORN WHO HAD JUST LEARNT MAGIC, I'LL NEVER KNOW! I'M ALSO TOLD THAT YOU'VE ATTACKED HARRY THREE TIMES! THREE! IF YOU DO IT ONCE MORE THAN I PERMIT HARRY TO HURT YOU AS MUCH AS HE WANTS! YOU HAD BETTER HOPE THAT YOU DON'T SURVIVE THIS TOURNAMENT BECAUSE IF YOU DO THEN I WILL LAY YOU OVER MY KNEE AND GIVE YOU THE WORST SPANKING YOU'VE EVER RECEIVED! IT'LL MAKE THE ONE FROM BEFORE THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTED LOOK LIKE NOTHING!"

The letter burst into flames, Hermione looked embarrassed as she was sitting next to Ron, who looked more pink than anything at this point. The entire hall burst into laughter, Ron had actually ran out of the hall. Hermione looked around until she had seen Krum and Fleur fight a losing battle not to laugh, Ginny looked as if she would die if she couldn't stop laughing. Hermione noticed she couldn't see Harry, she stood up when she noticed that Harry had actually fallen on the floor laughing. Hermione huffed and walked off.

Dumbledore entered the hall and was wondering what was going on, nearly everyone was laughing and Professor Flitwick had actually fallen off his chair. He noticed the other head of houses covering their mouths and Harry Potter lying on the floor. He then noticed the howler remains at the end of one of the tables.

"Molly bloody Weasley" He sighed

Soon Harry and Ginny had left the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey warned them if they ever come in and complain about a busted gut from laughing again, she'd give them real reason to come to the hospital wing. They had potions when Colin told Harry he had to attend a wand weighing ceremony; Harry was excused when he made his way to the room. He greeted Fleur and Victor and ignored Ron when he noticed a woman in the corner with a camera man. After the ceremony was done the woman approached them.

"Hello" She greeted "I am Rita Skeeter from the daily prophet, I'm sure you've heard of me"

"Not really" Ron shrugged, Rita just glared at him.

"I have" Harry spoke, in truth he didn't like this woman but he thought it would be better to use her for now. If needs be he could get rid of her later "you were one of the reporters at my godfathers trial, I'm familiar with your work. Or at least everything you've done from the trial onwards and a few of your older pieces, I do find your ministry articles to be quite fascinating."

"Pleasure to meet a fan" She smiled, Harry was going to neither confirm nor deny that. Krum and Fleur seemed to understand what he was doing, Ron just glared at him.

"Perhaps a quick interview Mr Potter" Rita looked hopeful

"No, or at least not yet" Harry replied "perhaps after the tournament but for now I'm very busy, training, classes and trying to work out how I'm in this tournament"

"What do you mean?" Rita asked

"Now Harry" Dumbledore came over

"Well Miss Skeeter" Harry replied, ignoring Dumbledore "I didn't willingly enter this tournament and I actually went so far as to swear on my magic in front of the school to say I didn't. However I am still being forced to compete and nobody has worked out how my name was put in, I think it's rather stupid that I'm forced to compete. I mean at the start the goblet spat out a piece of parchment that said 'your mum', Dumbledore read it out loud but I don't see his mother competing with me"

"Harry" Dumbledore spoke "my mother is dead"

"So is mine, people die, no need to cry about it" Harry smiled, Rita looked gleeful and Dumbledore looked as if he was using all means possibly available to control himself. "You see Miss Skeeter" Harry continued "I am constantly wondering how an underage student is forced to compete in a deadly tournament whilst he is in what is supposedly 'the safest place on earth'."

"Forget Potter" Ron spat "if you want to talk to a real champion then you can talk to me, I'll give you a private interview and everything." Rita looked at him, Harry and the other two champions recognised the look, it was the look of a predator sizing up her pray.

"Why of course" Rita spoke in a sweet voice "why don't you follow me and I'll conduct a private interview? " She led Ron off and the others just smirked, as they left the room.

"Guys" Harry spoke "I need you to come with me, I need to tell you something in private."

Harry met up with Hagrid that evening, he told him all about how he had to try and retrieve an from a dragon for the first task. Harry wasn't worried, he knew at least ten ways off the tip of his head but he was going to go for the most impressive. Harry had told Fleur and Krum all about fake Mad-eye and his plan to get him into the tournament, he had the heads of houses back him up. Fleur and Victor agreed to let him win, they were forced to compete by their school leaders anyway and they had heard what Harry was capable of doing.

They knew that despite his younger age, he was still probably the most dangerous competitor there. They had agreed to go about the first two tasks as normal but then let Harry win the third. Soon came the day of the first task, the champions had gathered in the tent when they were given their assigned dragon. Ron got the weakest and grinned at the fact, he looked gleeful when he saw Harry get the horntail.

"So Potter" Ron smiled "you like horntails so much, I wonder how much you'd like them after the task"

"Probably just as much" Harry shrugged "the dragon didn't ask to be here, it was forced and it's just trying to protect its eggs. I don't blame it in all honesty, I mean how would you like it if i placed you in front of a whole stadium of people while someone tries to steal what is essentially your family?"

"You're mental" Ron brushed past him as he went to try and make small talk with the other champions, who just ignored him. Soon the adults left and the champion waited to be called. Victor and Fleur looked nervous, and mentally went over their strategies. Harry was talking with Ginny once she arrived. Ron felt pretty confident, if his brother Charlie could handle dragons then so could he, he was going to enjoy winning this task and watching Potter fail. First Fleur was called; Harry and Krum wished her luck as she left. Then came Krum's turn, Harry wished him luck as well and he left.

"Alright Harry" Ginny spoke "which strategy are you going to go with?"

"Well I'm going to go with the second one we came up with, I figure that it would get me the most points and a bigger impact"

"Like it'd matter" Ron drawled "you won't beat me"

"Ron" Ginny sighed "do you even have a strategy?"

"Like I'd need one, it's just a dragon, Charlie deals with them all the time"

"I can tell" Harry spoke "you know how I can tell, the burn marks on his arm"

"Ron" Ginny interrupted before Ron could say anything else "you do realise that when Charlie deals with dragons it's with at least three other dragon handlers?"

"Yeah but that's just extra precautions, like you'd need more than one person for an over grown lizard. If Potter can handle that horntail then I can handle my dragon"

"You're comparing a dragon that was a baby and basically thought that Harry was his dad to a massive fully grown and extra protective mother dragon" Ginny spoke slowly, before Ron could answer he was sent out, they heard the announcements of his arrival.

"Ten" Harry began counting "nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one" A girlish scream was heard from the stadium.

"He lasted longer than I thought he would" Ginny commented "about five seconds longer, but still." She wrapped Harry in a hug and gave him a departing kiss "give them hell and a reason to be scared of you."

"I will" Harry kissed her back before she left to take her seat, she sat with Luna and Neville, and looked on in anticipation. Harry had told her to save a seat next to herself, she didn't know why but she did.

When he entered the stadium he saw, the dragon at the other end of the arena, the crowd was deafening. He saw the judges looking particularly interested. He started by covering himself in a spell to prevent himself from getting burnt, he stepped out and the dragon instantly shot a burst of flame at him. The crowd became silent, soon Harry emerged from the flames, completely in harmed.

The dragon prepared to fire again, Harry summoned a boulder, it flew to him. Mid-flight Harry transfigured it into a tall shield, he caught it and slammed it to the ground. The flames hit the shield, once the dragon had finished Harry tossed the shield aside and raised his wand. The crowd gulped as flames erupted from Harrys wand and produced a flame tornado that covered him and everything in a meter radius from him.

Harry became unseen as he was currently inside the massive flame tornado, the next thing the crowd saw was Harry running out of the flames followed by….Harry and…..another Harry. At least ten Harry's emerged from the tornado and began running around and jumping to distract the dragon, Ginny saw Harry's Firebolt fly towards the tornado as did the judges.

The broom entered the tornado, several seconds later Harry shot out whilst riding that broom and the tornado disappeared. Harry flew as high as he could, once he reached the peak he jumped off his broom and cast a charm on it to make it fall slower. He removed the top half of his clothes mid-air as he fell down, using transfiguration he gave himself a skin membrane connecting from his elbows to his hips, much like a gliding squirrel. He also transfigured a tail to help him steer.

He dropped down at an incredible speed, as he neared he extended his arms and began gliding, the dragon was too distracted with the fake Potters to notice, one of them had managed to get it to raise it's head. Harry glided down and flew just under the dragon, picking up the egg with his feet, unknown to the large reptile. Harry flew right into the stands where he managed to land on the rail in front of Ginny, he removed the transfigured body parts and caught his broom, he tossed the egg to Neville and shrunk the broom before putting it in his pocket.

Everyone, especially the girls looked at Harry in amazement, some because of the task and others just because of his body, some both and Ginny was definitely in the 'both' column. Harry hopped off the rail and sat next to her, in the empty seat. Ginny needed all her will power not to snog Harry right there and then, she couldn't however resist the opportunity to rub her hand up and down his chest, an act which caused many people to be jealous.

"Hi" Harry whispered

"Hi" Ginny just about managed "I know you work out and everything but I can't find a single bit of fat on you, are you pure muscle?"

"Well I had to look good for my future wife don't I?" Harry breathed into her ear, causing shivers to go down her body.

"Well" Bagman eventually found his voice "it seems that the youngest champion has the fastest and most impressive time"

"Mr Potter" Dumbledore spoke "please make your way back to the tent with the other champions"

"Fine" Harry mumbled, he stood up along with Ginny, when he noticed the dragon looked very upset, Harry took the egg from Neville "meet me in the tent" he whispered to Ginny. Harry hopped down and jumped back into the arena, much to everyone's shock and surprise. The dragon saw him and prepared to fire a blast.

'Stop mighty dragon' Harry hissed in parsletounge and the dragon did, Harry knew the dragon could understand parsletounge but he didn't use it before as asking it wouldn't have provided an interesting show.

'You speak to me?' The Dragon asked

'Yes' Harry nodded 'I apologise for my actions against you, to harm you or your eggs was not my intent. You see much like you I am forced to be here, forced to be put on show for these people. I had no choice but to compete, I did things this way as I believed that putting on a show would satisfy them and impress upon how dangerous I could be.

This egg is not your egg, look closely at it mighty dragon, the egg was placed with you by the people who forced me to compete. I was tasked with retrieving the egg, I hope you forgive me and as a gesture to you I'll ask the red-headed handler Charlie to provide you with extra food and i provide some know to show I am not being deceitful'.

The arena was silent as people saw Harry talk to the dragon, naturally they didn't understand a word of it but it was still shocking. They were even more shocked when the wild and dangerous horntail rubbed its head against Harry and allowed him to pet it. They stayed like that for a minute until a few house elves brought some meat for the dragon. Harry said his goodbye's and left.

Soon Harry returned to the tent with his discarded clothes in one hand and his egg in the other, upon entering he put both down on the table just as Ginny flung herself at him. She wrapped him in a hug that was a little longer than most hugs, after finishing the hug, Harry noticed she still had one hand around him. That particular hand was rubbing his back, not like he'd complain. The other champions made their ways over to him.

Krum shook his hand and patted him on the back, Fleur gave him a hug, Harry noticed that her hug was pretty long as well.

"Fleur" Ginny spoke in an amused tone "he's still my boyfriend" Fleur blushed as she let go, she looked positively embarrassed. Even more so when her hand touched Harrys chest and she had to pull it back.

"Are you sure you're not Veela?" Fleur joked

"I was until I saw the crowd's reaction" Harry played along

"Either way I am not sharing" Ginny smiled

"Why have you got no shirt?!" Ron demanded to know. Harry looked him up and down, he saw that Ron's entire left arm was bandaged along with his right ankle.

"I took it off so I could transfigure myself some wings to help get the egg" Harry explained "what about you? Why do you look like I beat you up again?" At that moment Madam Pomfrey hustled in.

"That's because he went out there and got burned immediately" She answered on Ron's behalf as she began looking over Harry "he tried a few stunning spells and when they didn't work he threw a rock at it and it burnt his arm, he then fell back and sprained his ankle." The other champions and Ginny were doing their best not to laugh.

"Hey!" Ron shouted "what happened to patient privacy?"

"Ron the whole school saw" Ginny pointed out "if she didn't tell Harry then somebody else would have? Besides you kind of deserve this, one for being stupid enough to think you can handle a dragon with simple stunning spells when their hides can pretty much stand any curse except the unforgivables and for thinking dragons were easy to deal with just because Charlie deals with them. You know Charlie's better at magic than you and you've seen his burns and me and him both told you it takes at least four wizards to contain a dragon."

"She makes a valid point" Pomfrey commented "alright Potter, you're unharmed but please put your shirt back on before you get a cold." Pomfrey left the tent

"Harry" Ginny spoke as her right hand was moving up and down Harry's abs "do you think you could stay shirtless for just a minute more?"

"Yes please" Rita entered the tent with a camera man who took a few photos, of the champions "these are brilliant, I just wanted to let you all know that my next article should be out by tomorrow" With that she left.

"I'll stay shirtless for five more minutes but I'm staying here" Harry offered

"Deal" Ginny sighed as she continued to rub Harry's stomach, Victor looked amused and walked off. Fleur looked quite jealous and Ron was fuming.

"Stop rubbing his stomach!"

"Ron" Ginny answered with an absent minded voice as she was too busy focusing on Harry "with abs like these you can't expect me not to touch them"

"I know" Fleur sighed "I can't even see any fat on him at all"

"Join in if you want" Ginny replied

"Would that be acceptable Harry?" Fleur asked

"As long as you limit yourself to just touching I think we'll be fine" Fleur slowly joined Ginny in rubbing Harry's stomach and chest "you know Harry, I think you really are Veela"

"Come on!" Ron exclaimed "he's not even that good looking"

"Thank god you think that" Harry smiled "if you thought I was good looking then I'd probably have nightmares"

"Ron" Ginny spoke but her eyes weren't leaving Harry "the fact that all the girls in the stadium were looking at Harry and the fact that me and Fleur can't seem to stop suggests you're wrong. Frankly if Harry didn't insist on waiting until marriage I would shag him right now" Ron looked disgusted

"And I'd do the same if he wasn't with you" Fleur commented "it's funny really, I find one boy that's acceptable for me and he's already taken"

"Sorry" Ginny replied "but if you'd like I could introduce you to Bill, he's no Harry but then again no one is. But trust me when I say he's a really nice guy. I can't say much for his body, you'd have to find that out yourself"

"Alright girls as nice as this has been I'm going to my clothes back on before I get a cold"

"Please no!" Ginny mock begged

"Sorry but I'm not going to have Madam Pomfrey say 'I told you so', she'd never let me hear the end of it" Harry leaned in and whispered in Ginny's "besides if all goes to plan then we'll be married before the final task." Ginny's eyes widened as she looked at Harry, he nodded before retrieving his clothes and putting them back on.

Once Harry and Ginny reached the common room they were bombarded with cheers and screams, it turns out the twins had a party ready. Fortunately Ron couldn't attend as he was in hospital, Harry and Ginny were pleasantly surprised when a picture of shirtless Harry was plastered on one of the walls.

"Really?" Harry chuckled

"Well it gives me to look at when you're not here" Ginny joked

The party raged on, butter bear was handed out, the punch was spiked, games were played, Harry was congratulated many times and a lot of the talk was based on Harry's impressive performance or the impressive visual image he gave everyone. One highlight was when random people were asked to dance in the middle of the common room.

The twins began tap dancing, Seamus did an Irish jig, Neville and Ginny did ball room dancing and then Harry took the stage. He showed off his skills with impressive dancing and included the odd flip or two. At the end Harry was getting complemented even more. Eventually Harry and Ginny sat together in a chair in one corner of the room, by which Harry sat in the chair and Ginny sat in Harry's lap. The two talked for a bit.

Hermione was about to walk up to the two when she suddenly felt itchy, really itchy, unbelievably itchy. She ran upstairs to stop making a spectacle of herself. The twins smirked, they were going to help keep her away from Harry and Ginny whenever possible, this time they didn't go big as they didn't want to draw attention away from Harry. By the time the party had finished everyone went to sleep, Ron had to stay in the hospital wing overnight but he was the only Gryffindor complaining about that.

Harry slept soundly that night, he felt over joyed, not only was his plan working so far but everyone else seemed to like him even more and he made trustable allies with Fleur and Victor. The fact that he was getting married to Ginny soon overwhelmed him but he couldn't stop thinking about it. Part of him wanted her to stay away so she wasn't in danger, but he realised that she'd be in danger whether she was with him or not as her family were well known supporters of Dumbledore. For the most part he was grinning with excitement and had to actually take a sleeping potion just to go to sleep.

Ginny wasn't doing any better, a part of her realised that she would be soon accomplishing a child hood dream and marrying Harry potter, however she told that part to shut up. She wasn't marrying the boy-who-lived, she was marrying Harry. Kind, sweet, loyal and loving Harry. She loved him more than when she dreamt about him from the stories, she could recall her first meeting with him perfectly.

He opened her eyes to the horror and beauty of the world and made her see her family in their true lights, he taught her who she could trust and taught her what real love was. Not only has he given her an opportunity to get away from her mother and be something more than just a housewife, he also made her feel more special than anyone else, even Bill, could. The fact that Harry claimed she was his sole reason for living made Ginny feel two different things, first hatred for Dumbledore, the Dursley's and voldermort for everything they've done to him.

But she also felt happy, Harry loved her for who she was and not just because she was a good looking girl, something he regularly told her. But because he loved the person that she was, in truth she felt the same for Harry. The fact that he was good looking was just a brilliant bonus, she also needed a potion to get to sleep that night.

"Ginny Potter" She giggled before she descended into her sleep.