Chapter 3- Starting Anew

Harry placed the last bludger into its straps and closed the box in which held the school's Quidditch balls. Ron, Alicia, Angelina, Fred, George, and Katie had already left practice, and Britany had been there to watch. She had gotten very fond of Ron. Harry though, felt the need to fly around for a while, just to clear his head. So many things were happening, and Voldemort was getting more and more active. It didn't help that blundering Fudge was still denying that he was back, so no official Ministry help was given. Harry pulled his Firebolt into the air, flying vertically upwards. What if his broom stalled? What if he went too high and lost oxygen? What if he fell and wouldn't be able to save himself? What if . . . he was still worrying. Flying usually helped him calm his nerves, but nowadays, sometimes it didn't work. The only thing he could do was get back on the ground. Harry landed and changed back into his normal school clothes as slowly as he could. He put his Firebolt Two-Thousand over his shoulder, an birthday gift from Sirius and walked up to the castle. When he got to the front door he looked back at Hagrid's cabin, it had been empty all year, and it was almost Halloween, well actually it was Halloween. Harry thought to himself, yes it was the thirty first, so today he went to Godric's Hollow. Ever since that July Ron, Harry and Hermione went to Godric's Hollow, and they made a pact to do so ever month with a thirty-first in it.

Harry opened the doors of the castle and started grudgingly climbing the path to Gryffindor Tower, as he neared a corner by the kitchens he heard a few voices,

"Just leave me alone Malfoy!" Harry recognized the voice, but he couldn't pinpoint who it was at first. It was muffled a little.

"Aww the poor itty, bitty Weasley is crying for her mother, hey guys, let's show the Weasel what we do with cry babies." Malfoy said. Harry had hurried around the corner just in time to see Crabbe and Goyle advancing on Ginny Weasley. She was curled up in the fetal position against a wall, and Draco was holding a stack of her papers, and her wand. Harry pulled out his wand quickly and pointed it at Goyle,

"Ingestcargo!" he yelled, he pointed the wand at Crabbe and yelled the same spell. Then Harry pointed the wand at either of them again, yelling,'

"Impacio!" A beam of orange light hit both of them and sent them flying down the hallway, painfully into a wall. Draco's face had been drained of all color, and he was slowly retreating at the murderous glare Harry was giving him.

"Here's your stuff dumb Weasley!" he spat and threw Ginny's stuff at her and tried to walk away gracefully,

"No you don't. " Harry said, "B-V-Owelcia" He screamed, and Malfoy was hit in the back with a red beam of light.

"Go." Harry whispered, enunciating the one syllable word very carefully. Malfoy looked as if he had just sat on a hot steam poker and ran away.

Harry ran over to Ginny and helped her up, she wiped a tear from her flushed cheeks.

"Thanks." She said timidly, not looking Harry in the face.

"No problem, those guys are always taking it a step too far."

"Yeah, what did you do to them?" Ginny asked, picking her stuff up and looking Harry directly in his eyes. It was at that moment that Harry saw what Ron meant when he aid Ginny had the worst Weasley temper, and what he meant when he said that Ginny kept the twins in check. There was something about her eyes, they were huge, and a bright Carmel color. But they were powerful, like they made you feel so strong, and at the same time so very weak. It was a feeling Harry had never felt before.

"Harry?" Ginny asked again, Harry had just realized he must have been staring at her for about a minute.

"Oh, yeah, what was that?" He said, finally comprehending reality.

"What did you do to them?"

"Oh, well I just hit Crabbe and Goyle with a slug vomiting spell, and I hit Malfoy with a spell that makes him have diarrhea every time somebody says a vowel." Ginny laughed, a very hardy laugh at that. It wasn't fake, but wasn't outrageous, and he noticed the way her hair gently waved back and forth. He red hair at that, it was long without any split ends like Hermione's. It was straight too, about shoulder length.

"We're here." Ginny said, stopping. Harry looked up, and realized they were in front of the Fat Lady. For some odd reason though Harry didn't want his time with Ginny to end, I mean it was the first time they had ever talked, no matter how little of a conversation it was, any other time she would blush at him and rush out of his way,

"Um, Umm, I'm not going in." He blurted out, searching for a reason to stay out here, talking to her."

"What?"

"Yeah, well if I go in there, people are going to be in there, I mean, Hermione will be sulking, and Ron and Britany will be snogging. Lavender and Parvati will be using their inner eye and throwing weird glances at me, Neville will be asking for help, Colin and Dennis will be bugging me, Dean-"

"I get it Potter." Ginny said, "But then what are you going to do?"

Harry reached in his bag and pulled out two spare pieces of parchment, He threw them to the ground and pointed at them, saying a few words Ginny didn't understand they turned into two great big lounge chairs. Harry jumped into one and patted the other,

"Are you going to join me?" Ginny smiled and blushed at the same time,

"Okay."

A/N Okay. At first this chapter and the other H/G chapter was one, but now I have decided to split them up into two different chapters, addin a R/H chapter inbetween I hope you guys think it's a good idea, plus, while some stuff in the next chapter is happening, stuff in this one is too. bye