Like, wear just a top and wrap a similar jumper around your waist, because no-one saw what you were wearing under the jumper anyway. But you also need a similar skirt and stuff.'

'I don't have things that are that similar, but it'll take too long to dry everything off' Ginny complained.

'Well the third option is to tell everyone' Harry told her

'What if we tell Hermione? Only Hermione?' Ginny suggested 'I'm sure she knows some spell that means you get dry faster'

'She does' Harry told her, 'she used it the other day, but how would we tell Hermione without getting the others attention too?'

'Send an owl?' Ginny suggested still dripping wet

'Hedwig is still at the burrow and we'd have to get one from the Owlery anyway'

'Ooh I know!' Ginny said sneezing again 'have you got parchment?'

'Uhh, only if there's some in that pocket' Harry said pointing at the ones on the jumper. 'But I have no ink'

'Oh… well I'm freezing, we'll figure out a way on the way to the common room' Ginny said disappointed.

'we'll go up into my dorm, its always warm up there and it means I can bring Hermione to you rather than telling her to meet YOU in your dorm, which would raise suspicion' Harry said

'But my brothers could follow' Ginny said.

'Well stay under the cloak until we're back, and we've locked the door.' Harry suggested.

'Okay' Ginny agreed, Harry handed her the cloak and she covered herself in the mysterious material.

Once in the Gryffindor tower Harry clambered through the portrait hole with the invisible Ginny. He counted his room mates in the common room and signalled Ginny to go upstairs. He spotted Hermione.

'Hermione, can I talk to you?' he asked

'Sure Harry' she agreed leaving the others. 'What's up?'

'Not here.' Harry told her walking towards the staircases.

Once they were in the supposedly empty dormitory he closed and locked the door behind them.

'This cant be good. Last time I was locked in a room I got a concussion.'

'Don't worry, I'm not a Slytherin' Harry told her 'Ginny?' Ginny appeared in the far corner still soaked though no longer dripping.

'What are you wearing?' she asked

'HEY!' Harry protested 'that's MY jumper!'

'Ooh sorry' Hermione grinned apologetically 'why are you so wet?'

'I fell in the lake' Ginny said sorrowfully

'How FAR in?' Hermione said shocked

'About 5 to 10 metres' Ginny told her, Hermione looked astounded

'How on earth did you FALL that far in?' she asked 'it's only 1 or 2 metres for about a 10 minute swim from the shore.

'We weren't at the shore' Harry cut in 'we were on my broom'

'What?' Hermione asked 'how could you be so stupid? The lake is really dangerous'

'Look, Hermione, Do you have a spell so Ginny can dry off quickly?'

'Well… yeah.' she began 'but it won't take away the smell of lake water'

'Well, Ginny can have a wash quickly then, tell us the spell and you can go if you like'

'Fine, Ron's waiting for me, it's Evaporanumatus, what should I tell Ron if he asks?' Hermione wrote down the spell and directions to do it on a spare piece of parchment and gave it to Harry.

'Uhh…' Ginny and Harry chorused

'Just tell him it doesn't matter, we'll make something up later' Harry told her

'Or make something up and make sure to tell us what it was later before we talk to him' Ginny added

Hermione nodded and unlocked the door to leave.

'Do you want to use our shower?' he offered. Ginny paused for a second

'Alright' she said looking slightly embarrassed. Harry directed her towards the bathroom and she shuffled towards it eventually reaching the door and shutting it quickly and locking it from the opposite side. Harry laid on his bed, wondering what to do while waiting for her.

x.X.x With Ginny x.X.x

5 minutes Later Ginny finished in the shower and took her clothes out of the sink where she had left them soaking in some bubble bath water. She rung them out making them slightly more wrinkled than before and with difficulty slipped the clothes back on hoping she'd be a lot more comfortable in a moment when Harry performs the spell Hermione gave him. She pushed open the bathroom door slowly and dripping wet again stepped into Harry's dormitory. She spotted Harry lying on his bed but he didn't appear to have noticed her coming in. She walked over to him and looked at him.

x.X.x Ginny's P.O.V x.X.x

Harry was asleep, I hadn't been that long in the shower but he must have gotten bored. He was smiling in his sleep and I wondered what he was dreaming about. I almost never wanted to wake him, after all he had said he got up earlier than the rest of us, but I knew we never had much time. I reached slowly to shake his arm and wake up when a bang came at the door. Harry's eyes shot open and he saw me standing above him, he smiled at me but looked towards the door.

'Hello? Who's in there? Why's the door locked? Harry?' Ron's voice came from the other side. I stood shocked over Harry. He rummaged around his bed sheets for the spell Hermione gave him, finding it just in time to cast the spell on me. Thankfully he pulled off the spell easily with Hermione's clear instructions.

'Alohmora' Ron's voice said from the other side of the door 'alohoomora, alohomora' the door clicked alerting us to the unlocking. 'Ahh I love charms' Ron said opening the door, still staring at the lock. He looked up at us and his jaw dropped. I realised how odd it must have looked to him. Harry's wand pointing at me as he sat on his bed with me standing so close to him. I pushed Harry's hand holding his wand down to his side quickly but realising this brought me closer to Harry I stepped back quickly.

'BLOODY HELL!' Ron yelled 'WHY ARE YOU TWO IN HERE WITH THE DOOR LOCKED?' I had no idea how to reply, and clearly neither did Harry as he began mumbling beside me.

'Uh… umm… We were… um' he said

'Harry shut up you're making it worse.' I scolded. I felt my face get warm and knew I was blushing, making it look even worse to Ron, his face turned red in anger and I knew if we had an excuse we had to make it now. Something suddenly sprung to mind.

'Ron. Calm down.' I began 'I can explain' though I was still fixing up a plan in my mind.

'Go on then' he said still angry

'I… came up to borrow something.' I told him quickly 'Harry was in the shower, look at the bathroom, all that steam, he only just came out. But we can't find the book I came up to borrow.'

'Yeah I was going to summon it' Harry agreed, 'but it's not working' Ron looked suspiciously at me for a while. I tried to look as innocent as possible

'Well, what book did you want?' he asked

'Umm… quidditch' I said as it popped into my mind 'umm… Harry said he had a broom care book, from Hermione last year'

'Why do you want that?' Ron asked 'you don't even have a broom'

'It's got some cool stuff in the back' I said, hoping there was something in the back.

'Oh, alright' Ron said 'well I think I saw it under your bed mate' I let out my breath quietly looking towards Harry who was still red in the cheeks; we had gotten away with it.

'But why was the door locked?' Ron asked, I went to talk again but only managed to inhale before realising I had nothing to say, my breath caught in my throat as Harry filled the silence

'Ginny must have shut the door too hard' He told Ron 'you know how that door locks itself.'

'Oh, right' Ron said. 'But you never opened it'

'He was concentrating on summoning the book' I said quickly, everyone fell quiet and I realised I was still standing there and could now leave. I dived under Harry's bed and grabbed the book, stood up and left the room. At the same time, calling back to Harry I'd give it back later.

x.X.x Normal P.O.V x.X.x

Ron stared at Harry who still looked red. He moved out of the way for Ginny to pass but kept his eyes fixed on Harry. He looked different somehow. He shut the door behind Ginny. He looked Harry up and down, he had a pair of slightly creased trousers and t-shirt on and his bed hair was back when it had been neat this morning.

'okay Harry, what REALLY happened?' Ron said suddenly infuriated again as he noticed and put these things together.

'What? Nothing happened, we told you what happened' Harry argued

'then why is your hair all messy?'

'I had a shower, I haven't sorted it yet' Harry said

'no that's the hair you get when you're in bed, NOT in the shower'

'well when I haven't sorted it by the time it's dry I get the same hair.' Harry made up

'what about your creased clothes?' Ron questioned.

'I hadn't hung them up properly' Harry told him

'liar' Ron accused

'I am not!' Harry argued

'are'

'not!' Harry said, as Ron went to open his mouth again Harry added 'if I'm lying what do you think happened Ron?'

'oh you do NOT want to go there'

'I don't want to be called a liar!'

'well you are!'

'I'M NOT!'

'HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THEN?'

'I ALREADY HAVE! WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?'

'you don't want to ask him that, Harry' a girl's voice said from the doorway. Ron leapt out of the way and opened the door. Hermione and Ginny were standing outside

'stop listening to our conversations' Ron told Ginny angrily

'yeah you're not talking ABOUT me then?' Ginny said just as annoyed

'of course we are!' Ron shouted 'but you are too young to hear this!'

'WHAT?' Harry said, 'WE weren't saying anything like that, and Ginny and I weren't DOING anything like that'

'oh I'm not old enough to hear something, even though I'm supposedly old enough to do what you're just TALKING about?' Ginny argued, aggravated

'everyone calm down!' Hermione said sharply everyone fell silent at her order 'Ron I don't know HOW you're getting THEM ideas in your head, but I was up here, and I KNOW they weren't doing… what you're thinking'

'but they wont tell me the tru-' Ron complained

'Ron, they don't have to tell you everything, if they've told you something that you don't believe, pretend to believe them' Hermione pleaded 'to keep us all friends' she widened her eyes and stared at him, willing her eyes to dry out and to start to water but they didn't and she had to keep his eye contact for as long as he'd keep hers. Eventually Ron looked away

'fine. But I'm going to find out eventually. Somehow' he warned them. He went to leave the room 'Ginny, you're leaving too' he ordered pushing her out of the door.

'DON'T PUSH ME!' she shouted at him 'you can't order me to leave!'

'I just did' Ron said now forcing her down the stairs 'you're not allowed up here anymore'

'I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT!' Ginny screamed at him, finally breaking away and dashing up the girl's staircase. Ron looked around the common room at the staring faces.

x.X.x With Harry & Hermione x.X.x

Hermione looked uncomfortable, along with Harry.

'thanks' Harry said breaking the tension slightly

'don't mention it. But I wouldn't suggest being alone with Ginny for a long while' Hermione advised

'I don't think we will be anyway' Harry said

'I better go check on Ginny, they're causing a racket' Hermione said. Harry nodded and Hermione left shutting the door behind her. Harry couldn't stop himself from kicking his bedside cabinet.

Hermione went down into the common room, she spotted Ron leaving through the portrait hole and continued upstairs to Ginny's dormitory. She knocked on the door and opened it.

'hey' she said to Ginny.

'hi' Ginny said from the window.

'Ron got you a bit worked up?' Hermione asked

'yeah' Ginny said 'who is he to make assumptions like that about Harry and I?'