"Come on Potter, is that the best you can do?" Ginny asked smirking as her boyfriend tried and failed to get yet another quaffle past Ron
"Well, I'm not usually a chaser am I?" Harry bit back scrunching his nose in frustration. Ginny thought if he kept it up she might just fall off her broom laughing
"I know that, but you have played the game before right? Three hoops, Two bludgers-"
"Ginnn" Harry whined as he threw a quaffle so hard it went sailing through the air at breakneck speeds, still missing the goal
"Oh if Professor Mcgonagall could see her star player now" She replied in mock disgrace
"I'm a star SEEKER! I bet I could still beat you to the snitch as you beat me at chasing!"
"Challenge accepted," Ginny said smugly. She knew she would take great enjoyment at beating his arse, then going inside for Hot Chocolate and marshmallows as she could feel her fingers freezing to the broom.
Harry nodded confidently trying to hide his very mixed feelings. On one hand, he'd take great pride in beating Ginny and then going inside and watching the fire. On the other hand, Ginny was ferociously competitive so she'd try everything in her power to try and make sure that he wouldn't win. Accepting his fate he waited for Ron to return with something charmed somewhat snitch like. Ron returned a few minutes later with the majority of the family. Only Molly was missing but he assumed she was either cooking or reading. Ron was holding something that looked remarkably like a golden snitch, which was twitching in his hand. Harry and Ginny stooped down on their brooms to see that Ron was holding the toy snitch George had developed for toddlers. Ron had noticed his eyebrow raised and explained.
"Hermione and I put some extra charms on it to make it fly faster and further"
Ginny dropped onto the floor and asked him "What does the winner get?"
"I don't know? Um how about the other person has to do whatever they say for a day"
'Hmmm, I do like that idea" she replied, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively prompting her brothers to make loud gagging sounds and Hermione to look unimpressed with a trace of a blush. Harry reached out his arm and Ginny shook it
"Best seeker wins." Harry declared
"Yep and I know exactly what I want you to do". After more eye rolls and gagging Ron had released snitch and they were off.
Harry began his usual technique of circling the area like a bird while Ginny was remaining stagnant by one of the makeshift goalposts scanning regimentally at the field occasionally moving up his height to try and put him off or even nudging his broom with hers. The air was starting to drop even colder and Harry was beginning to lose feeling in his feet when he saw it about forty feet below him. Harry knew he'd have to be fast if he had any hopes of getting it before Ginny as his technique had a fatal flaw which was that it was incredibly easy to tell if he'd spotted it.
With a split second of preparedness Harry dove for the tiny golden ball. He saw out of the corner of his eye Ginny diving too and tried to speed up. Harry could feel the fake Weasley snow start to cluster on him as he approached the ground and began to reach out for it. As soon as the cool metal was in his hand he sighed audibly and pulled back up to see his girlfriend looking slightly annoyed. When they both had their feet on the ground Harry turned to her smugly and said
"It was your idea"
"I know."She sighed
"And I won"
"Yes you did"
"Which means you have to do everything I say for the entirety of tomorrow"
"Can we start now?"She whined knowing that at least she'd have an afternoon free tomorrow
"Nope!All of tomorrow." After Ginny grumbled some more he said
"Oh come on love I'm not Mcgonagall's favourite for nothing. Now let's get some Hot Chocolate!" Ginny elbowed him in the ribs in reply
"Git" she sighed before following him back into the crooked house.
The next morning she woke up to an empty bed and Harry's trunk looking neatly packed. If she was honest she was expecting him to make her pack his trunk as they went back to Hogwarts in two days and he always put it off as long as possible. She was more than slightly suspicious when she walked downstairs to see him helping her mum with breakfast, even making her pancakes the way she liked them. She sat in her seat and looked at him distrustfully. Maybe he had forgotten? But that was incredibly unlikely as Harry would never not take advantage of an opportunity like this. But he seemed to be remarkably calm and didn't look like he was plotting anything so when her mother turned around and gasped she immediately glared at him.
"Oh, Ginny what's happened to your hair?" She stood up to look at her reflection in a pan to see her hair changing colours every ten seconds or so.
"Harry, This was not part of the deal," Ginny stated through gritted teeth
"Perhaps not but forbidding you to get rid of it is"
"Harry."
"I also forbid you from hexing any of the people currently in this household including me."
"You're no fun" Ginny whined
"Other than that I gift you free will'
"Oh, a woman being given free will as a gift. What is this the 1910's?" She replied sarcastically "Also free will?Fully?"Harry nodded hesitantly
"I mean yeah?"
"You're so going to live to regret that," Ginny replied smugly, leading him back up the stairs. Ron and Hermione were coming down them and she lightly shoved them aside continuing to drag Harry up the stairs. When Ron opened his mouth to protest Ginny loudly bellowed with her hair a fluorescent green "MOVE.PAYBACK ABOUT TO COMMENCE".While stomping loudly. Ron's face twisted in disgust and Hermione rolled her eyes as Ginny door slammed and they heard the silencing charms being mumbled.
"Gross."Ron sighed before hurrying down to breakfast
"Where did Harry and Ginny go?"Molly asked when Ron and Hermione came through the door. Ron just grumbled under his breath and started to chew on some fried bread so Hermione answered for him
"They'll be preoccupied for a while" before joining Ron at the table. Molly sighed and mumbled something before walking to the stairs and calling for George. George apparated down with a pop and looked at Molly expectantly
"I give you full permission to prank Ginny and Harry when they emerge from her bedroom. Please make it as embarrassing as possible" George grinned evilly and took off back up the stairs. 45 minutes later shrieks and swearing was heard up the stairs and two people dowsed head to toe in sparkling pink slime which seemed to b giving them polka dots the more it was adhering to their skin.
"What the hell was that?" Ginny yelled storming down the stairs with an equally annoyed Harry following. George was the only one who responded
"It was payback for knowing what you two were doing just above our heads." Seeing the rest of the group nod Ginny raised her wand and everyone simultaneously remembered why pranking Ginny was a bad idea
"Run." She stated before diving after a fleeing George.
Harry was left looking at the rest of the group in dismay then went back upstairs to shower.
"Never a dull moment" Harry murmured as he stepped into the stream of water.
Well, it's been a minute. I had a minor writer's block and I ended up deleting one of the chapters I was yet to publish. I know how I'm going to end the school year but obviously, I have to get there first. I want to have the school year over by May-June time. But we'll see. Happy reading.