Harry's Torment
Harry
trudged down the stairs to breakfast. So this is how Ron felt, he thought
resentfully. Ron and Lavender were already at breakfast. They
weren't a proper couple yet, but from the way they were flirting it wouldn't be
long before they were. George and Hermione were sitting together, just as
sickly as ever. Don't those two ever fight? Harry asked himself, then he
realised that he and Ginny had been the same. It was something he had
come to realise in the last couple of days since Ginny had broken up with
him. They had never argued, never had a difference of opinion. Some
might say that was a blessing but Harry had come to realise that it was those
differences that put the fire into a relationship and he and Ginny had had no
spark.
Harry
sat down at the table next to Ron. Ron was startled by Harry's sudden
appearance. "Harry! Uh, look, don't look over at the Slytherin table,
okay?" Ron said quickly. Of course Harry instantly looked up and over at
the Slytherin table. Harry was unable to believe what he was
seeing. His mouth fell open in shock and he felt like he was
drowning. Sitting over at the Slytherin table, next to the milky white
head of Malfoy was….Ginny? Yes, it was the unmistakable Weasley red hair that
gave her away. Harry couldn't believe she was sitting there, with him.
He didn't want to watch but was unable to take his eyes off the unlikely
couple. They were laughing and talking together but when Malfoy's lips
touched Ginny's, Harry saw red. He jumped up and marched over there,
oblivious to Ron and Hermione's protests.
Harry
jerked Malfoy away from Ginny. Harry's face was red with rage. "Get your hands off her, Malfoy!"
Malfoy
disdainfully pulled himself out of Harry's grip. "Watch it, Potter, these are silk robes. Virginia is here
of her own free will." Malfoy turned back around to his breakfast leaving
Harry standing there, rage still clearly evident on his face.
"Is this true, Ginny? Do you want to be
with Malfoy?" Harry's tone plainly showed his disbelief.
"I
prefer Virginia actually. And yes, I love Draco and I want to be here,"
she said defiantly. Draco turned to face Virginia when he heard her say
she loved him. He couldn't believe it. He cupped her face in his
hands, "I love you too, Virginia, so much," he said before he kissed her
gently.
Harry
couldn't believe it. He took a couple of steps back and then turned and
ran back up to the Gryffindor common room. Ron and Hermione left the
table then too and hurried up to the common room to talk to Harry.
The
rest of the Gryffindor's were just as stunned at Ginny's, sorry Virginia's,
defection. She hadn't really joined Slytherin, but eating with them was
just as bad as far as they were concerned.
~*~
Virginia
(as she demanded everyone now call her) was a little upset at the treatment she
was getting from the other Gryffindor's. They had been ignoring her ever
since the breakfast incident this morning. She wasn't as upset about it
as she normally would be but that was because she had Draco. No one else
might understand it or even like it but she was happy, really happy, for the
first time in, well she couldn't remember how long. The only thing she
regretted was how much she had hurt Harry in the process. Virginia
started walking faster. It was late at night and she had crept out of the
Gryffindor rooms and was heading to a rendezvous with Draco in an empty
classroom. Knowing her luck she'd get caught by Filch. Suddenly she
felt a hand over her mouth and an arm around her waist and she was being pulled
backwards into a dark room. Virginia started to struggle, feeling more
than a little terrified. "Shhh, it's me," Draco whispered in her
ear. Virginia stopped fighting and relaxed against him. She turned
around and his arms held her close to him. She smiled up at him and ran
her hands up his arms and into his hair. They kissed like they hadn't
seen each other in weeks, when in reality it had only been since dinner when
Virginia sat with the Slytherin's again, just like she did at lunchtime.
Draco's arms tightened around her as his hands roved over her body. He
had been surprised that under her shapeless robes she had an incredible
body. He pulled Virginia back with him, further into the classroom and
away from the door. They sank down to the floor, unable to tear
themselves away from each other….
~*~
It
was early in the morning and Ron was lying in bed, still asleep. He felt
something tickling his nose, and he sleepily swatted it away with one hand and
snuggled down to continue sleeping. He felt it on his ear this time and
it walked across his face. Walked? Thought Ron. He jumped up
and out of bed, suddenly very awake. He looked down on his bed to see a
huge spider crawling around on his sheets. Ron backed away from the bed
screaming and fell onto Harry's bed. Harry sat up and tried to see what
all the noise was about. All the boys in the room had pulled back the
curtains from around the beds to see which girl had snuck into the room and
started screaming. They started laughing when they realised it was
Ron. Harry looked over at Ron's bed and saw the spider there. He
looked at it more closely, there was something odd here. He got up and
poked the spider. It fell onto it's back, it's legs wriggling in the
air. Harry let out a laugh as he saw the Zonko's brand name stamped into
its plastic stomach. Ron was still screaming and staring in horror as
Harry tried to explain that it wasn't real. Harry soon realised that as
long as the spider was visible he would get no sense out of Ron. He
quickly pulled the bed covers over the spider and saw Ron visibly calm
down. He wasn't totally calm but at least he had stopped screaming.
"It's
a fake," Harry explained, "It's from Zonko's." Ron's face changed from a
look of terror to a look of rage.
"Fred
and George!" he managed to get out before racing out of the room and into the
common room with Harry at his heels both of them unaware that they were just
wearing boxers.
In
the common room, George and Hermione were sitting on the couch snuggled up
together whispering quietly to each other. Ron suddenly burst into the
room and charged over to them.
"George!
How could you? You know how much I hate spiders!" he yelled in anger.
Hermione
pulled away from George in shock, "You didn't buy that spider at Zonko's did
you?"
George
looked at her in confusion but then remembered the incident a couple of weeks
ago in Hogsmeade, "NO! No! I swear I didn't!" He turned to Ron, "I
promise you Ron, I didn't put a spider anywhere near you."
Fred
entered the room and started laughing, "Ron, Harry, did you forget something
this morning?" he said pointing at their lack of attire.
Ron
was still too mad to notice, he turned around and went after Fred, "It was you
wasn't it! You put a spider in my bed!"
Fred
tried to look innocent but failed miserably, "alright, alright, I surrender!"
he mocked and without showing a trace of remorse he turned and left through the
portrait hole to go get breakfast.
Hermione
was thinking hard, "But Fred didn't go to Hogsmeade that weekend. George,
did you give him a spider?"
George
looked offended, "I gave him a gift, can I be held responsible for what he did
with it?" Hermione, Harry and Ron looked stunned.
"You
know what Fred is like. You knew he couldn't resist something like
that. I can't believe you did that to your own brother," Hermione said
sadly as she stood up. She walked over to a table, picked up her books
and left the common room. George swore. Ron and Harry looked at him
in surprise.
"Thanks
a lot Ron. Now she's mad at me." George stood up and went to argue
with his twin over his use of George's gift. As the rest of the
Gryffindor's started coming down for breakfast, they started laughing at the
two boys standing in their boxers still.
~*~
Harry
was starting to come to terms with his break up with Ginny and could see that
it was probably for the best. If she wanted someone like Draco, then they
obviously wanted different things. Ron and Lavender had been getting
closer. Harry took great pride in his friend's happiness. For once
Ron had something that Harry didn't and he knew that Ron would never say
anything, but he knew that Ron was secretly pleased to be one up on him after
so many years of being Harry's shadow. Harry was staring into space,
thinking, during History of Magic, luckily it wasn't Potions or it would have
been obvious he wasn't paying attention. However their ghostly professor
never asked for a response so they could get away with daydreaming. Harry
wondered if he'd ever find anyone else. He had liked the feeling of being
with Ginny. She had made him feel whole again. She filled the space
in his heart that that been left by the death of his parents. He wished
he could find someone else like that but he didn't think there would be anyone
else like that at Hogwart's.
To
be continued…..
