Chapter 7
Later on, the party guests slowly fizzled out to a low number. Ron was still asleep in the conservatory, now covered in party food, curtsey of Fred and George, who arrived later. Most of the guests that were left were all sat in Draco's splendid living room, laughing and joking about the old days at Hogwarts.
"Time just seems to fly by, doesn't it, Ginny?" said Harry, after offering Ginny a bowl of snacks, which she took politely.
"Yeah it does. It seems like only yesterday you were graduating from Hogwarts. I watched you throw your purple hat into the crowd. Did you know I was the one who caught it?" asked Ginny.
Her and Harry had been sitting together for most of the night, and were really getting on well. They seemed to understand each other, and Harry felt like he didn't have to pretend when talking to her, although he still felt seventeen when doing so. Not that that was bad.
"Well I do now I do, don't I?" he laughed and they caught each other's eye. "Ginny, I wanted to ask you something."
Ginny looked back at him and raised her eyebrow and said " Ok, fire away. Just not about stuff at Hogwarts, alright?"
"Well it's sort of to do with that, but I wanted to ask was would you consider coming for dinner, maybe at my house. You can say no, I won't be offended, but I think the intention of Ron was to get us two, you know-"
"No I don't know, really. But I can sort of guess. He wanted to set us up, am I right? Because if he has then he's really out of line!" said Ginny, looking slightly annoyed.
"Well isn't that a good thing, Ginny. I mean, we're here, talking, getting on so well and you haven't blushed in the last hour like you did before. I never forgot y-"
"Harry, please can we stop this, before someone, i.e. me, gets hurt and mixed up. Please drop this act, because I know that you only have eyes for that other one, Cho, was it?"
"Ginny, come on! Cho Chang and me are history; I thought you knew that?" said Harry, looking slightly put out.
"Oh Harry, you know I've always liked you, I can't deny it now. I just thought that she was the love of your life, that's all, " said Ginny. "I'm sorry, I guess I was wrong by the look on your face right now!"
Harry and Ginny carried on in this thread for quite some time and kept on talking late on into the night, and early morning. They finally fell asleep at about 5 o' clock, curled up together on a sofa in the corner of the room. Hermione spotted them at about 6am and covered them in a blanket.
An hour later, Harry woke up to find Ginny resting her head on his shoulder, cuddled up. She was smiling in her sleep and Harry thought her so beautiful, how could he have ever thought Cho had been the love of his life. Big mistake. Harry didn't know that much about love, he had only been out with Cho, he would've married her but well you know the story. At that moment Harry couldn't think of anyone else he'd rather be with in the whole world. He went back to sleep thinking of how he was going to tell her she was the one.