"What was it that you wanted to ask me about, Professor?" she asked, stepping up to his desk.

"Ah, yes," he said. "You see, I have this student that needs tutoring. And, as you're my best student-" she turned magenta- "I was hoping you would be up to the challenge."

"Oh, I'd love too, Professor!" she replied breathlessly.

"Okay, Ginny. You two will be meeting up here tonight after dinner. Does that work for you?"

"I don't have anything planned," she answered, and hurried out the door to catch up with her friend Jewel.

"So what did Professor Flitwick want to ask you?" inquired Jewel.

"He's having me tutor somebody tonight," Ginny said.

"And of course he picked you! His best student, I'm sure," beamed Jewel.

"Oh, I'm not so sure about that," blushed Ginny. "Maybe he just thought I would be the most suitable tutor. But I must admit that Charms has to be my favorite class. It all just seems to come so easily."

Chatting, the two friends continued down the hall to their next class.

~*~
"Sorry, Hermi, but we can't get together tonight," Harry told his girlfriend that day at lunch. "I've got tutoring, remember?" From down the table, Ron snickered.

"That's too bad, sweetums," Hermione lamented, shooting a nasty look in Ron's direction. "I suppose we'll have to make our plans for some other night."

"Well, it wouldn't have been much of a night anyway," said Harry. "It would've had to have been cut short by Quidditch practice. Speaking of Quidditch, I'm gonna have to go tell Dan and Samantha that I'm not gonna be there tonight." Dan was the back-up Seeker, and Samantha was the second in command, so she would take the place of the captain in his absence.

Hermione drummed her fingers on the table absent-mindedly, looking down at Harry. After waiting for a few minutes Hermione saw that he was still talking animatedly to Samantha and Dan, and she got up from the table and left the Hall for class without him.

~*~
"No time to talk I gotta eat fast!" said Harry as soon as he sat down next to Hermione at dinner.

"You have all of dinner until you have to leave," said Hermione coaxingly. "Take your time."

"'O, oo on't unerstan," he tried to tell her while chewing, splattering her with food.

"No, you don't understand," he tried again after swallowing. "If I'm even a minute late, I'm gonna be in big trouble."

"So you don't even have enough time for me?" she asked, disappointed.

"I'm sorry," he told her, leaning over to kiss her hastily right before he shoved the rest of his food in his mouth, and hurried on out to run up to the Charms classroom.

~*~
"I'll talk to you guys later, okay?" said Ginny as she got up from the dinner table. "I'm not sure how long this is going to take, so don't look for me at any special time."

"Okay, I'll see you tonight," Jewel said, scooting over to talk to her other friends after Ginny left to head upstairs to Professor Flitwick's class for her tutoring job.

~*~
"Am I on time, Professor?" asked Harry anxiously as he run in through the doorway.

"Yes, Harry," said Flitwick, getting up from his seat at his desk. "Early, even. Go sit over at that table there until your tutor arrives."

Walking over to the table Flitwick indicated, Harry grabbed a chair from one of the desks and sat down.

I wonder who my tutor's going to be, he thought as he sat there. I hope it isn't some mega-geek who thinks that tutoring is cool. He abandoned his thoughts long enough to check his watch, which read six o'clock.

Where are they? thought Harry impatiently. He looked over to the door and was surprised to see somebody standing at Professor Flitwick's desk.

Ginny Weasley.

~*~
"I'm sorry if I'm a bit late, Professor," apologized Ginny as she stepped inside silently.

"Oh, no, you're just on time," he told her. "I'm very glad that you could make it. Here's the stuff that you'll be going over tonight." He handed her a few books that had some pages marked in them.

"Okay, it looks fine," she said.

"Now you two will be working over there," he said, pointing to the corner where Harry was sitting. "So if you'll come with me, you can meet him now."

Ginny nervously followed Flitwick across the room to where somebody was sitting at the table in the corner.

"Meet your tutor," Flitwick told the young man, who looked up at once. Ginny's eyes widened.

It was Harry Potter.

~*~
The two stared at each other in silence for a moment.

"You know each other?" inquired Flitwick.

"Ron," they both said in unison, nodding.

"What an unexpected surprise! Well, you have quite a bit to cover in the next two hours, so I'll let you get to work. If you need anything, I'll be in Professor McGonagall's office at a meeting." The minuscule wizard smiled at them, and promptly left the room.

The silence was deafening as Ginny pulled over a chair from one of the desks and laid the books down on the table.

"So," said Harry. "What are we gonna be working on today?"

"Er....quite a few things, it looks like," Ginny answered, examining the work that Flitwick had left for them. "So how about we start with.....the first one." Don't be stupid! Ginny told herslef. Of course you're going to start with the first one.

"That sounds good to me," agreed Harry.

Opening the book, Ginny flipped to the first indicated page, which went over the basics in beauty charms, obviously a review from the previous year.

"Beauty charms are easy," she told him. "Just--just hold your wand, like this-" she took her wand between her index and middle finger- "and say the charm right before you flick the bottom of it with your thumb." She demonstrated by whispering a few well-chosen words, and, as she lightly hit the lower end of her wand, sparks flew out of it and ricocheted off of the walls of the classroom.

"Pretty impressive," said Harry. "I'm sure Hermione could do something like that."

"Wh-" Ginny started to ask, but then remembered that Hermione was now Harry's girlfriend. "Well, if I could do it, so could you. Try it," she urged.

"Okay," he said, taking his wand between his fingers clumsily.

"Here, more like this," corrected Ginny, moving his middle finger further down and his thumb more to the right.

"Now what do I say?" he asked, leaning over to look at the list of charms in the book. "Lessee......Retter Flubby!" The particular spell that he had chosen sent butterflies fluttering out of his wand.

"Good job!" she praised him. "I think you've pretty much gotten this one, so why don't we move on to the next?" Checking the sheet of pages, she flipped to the next one on the list, covering quite a few different kinds of charms.

Before she knew it, the two hours were up as the clock struck eight.

"I guess that mean's our time's up for today," said Harry, starting to get up.

"Yes, well I suppose you can leave now. I still have to write a note for Flitwick, you know, to tell him how much we went over."

"It's okay, I can wait, since we're going to the same place and everything."

"Just a moment." Ginny jotted down a few more things on the piece of parchment, and set it down on the professor's desk as she left.

"It's too bad you had to miss Quidditch practice," said Ginny, trying to start something of a conversation because, however uncomfortable she felt talking to him, it was always worse when the were together in silence.

"Yeah, but there was no talking Flitwick out of it," Harry replied.

"The team has been doing fantastic so far, so I don't think one missed practice should be much of a problem."

"I guess so." Harry stopped at the portrait to say the password. "So......I'll see you later," he told Ginny as they stepped inside.

"Yeah....." Ginny trailed off, and headed over to the girls' dorms.

"Oh my gosh, Jewel!" exclaimed Ginny as soon as she stepped foot in the room. "You won't guess who I was tutoring! Harry Potter! I hope I didn't sound too stupid. I imagine he thought I was a total fool."

Back in the common room, Harry went up to join Hermione in the soft love seat by the fire.

"So who was your tutor?" asked Hermione, scooting over to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"You'll never guess who!" Harry told her. "Ginny Weasley!"

~*~
"So I trust your tutoring went well?" asked Flitwick later that week when Ginny was back in his class.

"Certainly, professor," she informed him. "We went over everything that you had left for us, and I think he understood most of it."

"That's nice to hear, because I was hoping you'd be up to it again next week."

Another tutoring session with Harry? thought Ginny nervously, but she agreed to do it.

~*~
"I heard that you did well at your tutoring, Harry," Professor Flitwick commented the following Friday.

"Yeah, we did pretty well," agreed Harry.

"I hope that you enjoyed it, because you'll be meeting again."

"Not Thursday!" wailed Harry. "I can't miss another practice!"

"No, it's scheduled for Monday," Flitwick reassured him. "And I'm expecting you to be there at the same time as last."

I don't know if I can stand to learn about Charms for two extra hours a week, thought Harry disappointedly, but he agreed to do it. Besides, he had no other choice.



A/N Well, I suppose you all were thinking that I would just write one of those stories where Harry falls head-over-heels in love with Ginny when he sees what a young woman she's grown into, and dumps his girlfriend just to be with her. Well guess what. I didn't. I hate those stories. They're so boring and pointless. The plot is very bland. So hopefully this one is more enjoyable as it has more twists and turns than that. And there'll be probably around a half of a dozen more parts in this series. And I can tell you one thing. Harry won't be together with hermione for much longer. Maaaaaybe all of the next part. Maybe. I doubt it, tho. Depends on what sort of mood I'm in.