A/N: Thanks to my ONE REVIEW.sniff.tear.sniff haha. I'm going to keep
going since I don't give up easily. Please review you guys.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters or any of this. It's like barbie dolls, millions of people have the same toy but do totally different things with it. Weird analogy.
"Every Day Is A Winding Road" Chapter 1, Too Early But Not Too Late A Harry Potter fan fiction by ShortNSweet
BAM!
"OUCH!" Harry Potter abruptly sat up in bed after something hit him in the head. He looked over at his night stand to see a dark brown owl perched on his lamp. Peering around to find the offending object the owl must have dropped on him Harry discovered a letter on the not used pillow beside him. He ripped it open and found:
Dear Mr. Potter, The minister of magic, Sirius Black requests it of you to be in his office at 8 A.M. this morning. We thank you for your patience.
Mrs. Rita Lowdes
Harry looked over at his clock and groaned. It was 7 A.M. He dragged himself into bed and over to the shower. Ever since Sirius' name had been cleared and he had become minister of magic Harry had debated whether this was a good or bad thing. Harry worked right next to Sirius as chairman of the Order Of the Phoenix, which had been established in Harry's 5th year by Dumbledore. It was a business that gathered together the best aurors in the world to be on call at any time if there was any sign of dark magic. Since Voldemort's defeat 3 years earlier, there wasn't much need for the order, but Sirius still dragged Harry into his office almost every day to do various things for him. While Harry loved to see his godfather, he hated waking up in the mornings.
An hour later Harry found himself walking into the modest ministry of magic building. He smiled at a few people who looked admiringly at him as he passed them on his was to Sirius' office. He never completely adjusted to his fame. He stepped into Sirius' office, where Sirius himself was sitting at his desk writing on a piece of parchment. Harry fell down into one of the chairs across from Sirius' desk.
"You can't write me your OWN letters?"
Sirius smiled, but didn't look up from what he was writing, "Mrs. Lowdes needed something to do, so I let her send you the letter. Plus, " he looked up and grinned devilishly at Harry, "it's nice to have power."
Harry laughed out loud. Sirius never lost his sense of humor. Through everything that had happened, he was still a Marauder and Harry loved him for not loosing that. "So what, pray tell, am I doing in your office at this ungodly hour?"
Sirius finished writing his letter and handed it to the owl patiently waiting beside him which took off immediately. He folded his hands and looked seriously across the desk at his godson. "Harry, you know I care for you just like a son."
Harry squirmed uncomfortably, "yes."
"And I'm here to look out for your well being."
"Why do I have the feeling that I'm going to greatly dislike what I'm about to hear."
"Why don't you date?"
Harry's head snapped up. Off all questions this was the one he least expected to hear. "Er.I."
"Harry I feel it's time for you to find someone."
Harry put his head in his hands. This was not the way to start a day.
*
"Ouch!" Ginny looked up at the shelf above her that was now empty of books, all of which had just fallen on her. She groaned. Shelving new arrivals was the worst part of her job. Not only was it horribly boring, but horrible difficult to find room on the already jammed shelves. Ginny looked around to make sure no one was around and pulled her wand out of her sweater. "Pidanta" she whispered pointing at the books on the floor, which flew up to the shelf in their proper order. Ginny smiled. She was only allowed to do magic at the bookstore for emergency purposes. Her boss, Lana Defala felt it unnecessary to disturb customers. Ginny had debated with her many times that it wouldn't disturb a witch or wizard to see magic being done, but it was a losing battle for Ginny. She sighed as she looked at her cart full of new books just itching to be shelved. She wheeled it into the next aisle and got up on the step ladder and had just started shelving when she heard, "Ginny?".
Ginny turned at looked down and fell off the ladder in shock, but was caught by strong arms wrapped around her. Harry Potter set her up straight and looked into her eyes with his bright green ones.
"Are you alright? I didn't mean to frighten you."
"Oh! No! I'm fine. You didn't frighten me."
He smiled "alright then. I didn't know you worked here"
She avoided looking into his eyes and tried to keep herself calm. How was it that after 13 years of knowing Harry Potter she could still turn into a puddle of nothing when he looked at her? "What are YOU doing here?" she asked him, avoiding talking about her job.
"I don't know. I guess I'm getting away? Hogsmeade seemed the perfect place to do so, so here I am. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, just browsing I guess."
"What are you getting away from?"
Harry looked a bit uncomfortable at her question and she immediately said "oh you don't have to tell me anything. I was just being nosy. It happens after being cooped up in a shop for hours at a time."
He laughed and she couldn't help but notice his perfect smile. She was slightly reminded of Gilderoy Lockhart, her Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in 1st year. He had a movie star's smile, only Harry's was nicer and friendlier and less cocky.
"Why don't you get out then? When's your lunch break, we should have lunch. You and I haven't talked a lot in quite awhile."
She looked up at him, surprising herself, "well you've been busy what with everything that's happened". Harry was always flying all over the place to talk about his defeat against Voldemort. He was a celebrity everywhere he went.
Harry frowned "Unfortunately I have been lately. I haven't had a lot of time for.other things as Sirius kindly pointed out to me this morning" his frown got a little deeper, "but I'm doing things for me now. So.lunch?"
Ginny felt very confused by this invitation. Was this a date, or a friendly lunch? She pushed away all thoughts of it being a date. She was crazy. Harry Potter could have anyone in the whole world. Why would he pick her?
*
Harry sat outside of Dickens and Reed waiting for Ginny to collect her things and come out. He didn't know what possessed him to ask Ginny to lunch, but something had and he was glad that he did. Sirius had inspired in this morning to get out there, and begin dating. He didn't tell Sirius that, he would never admit to Sirius being right. He gave him loads of excuses, women wanted him for the wrong reason, he had no time.the list went on. Sirius came back with answers to all of these and Harry got tired of arguing with him and left.
Harry would go to Hogsmeade sometimes and just walk around. Sometimes he would stop in on George and Fred Weasley who now owned Zonko's joke store, and would constantly stock it with new things for Harry to test.
Sometimes he would go to the 3 Broomsticks where he was always running into old friends that were fun to talk to.until talk turned to the war, a subject Harry did not like to discuss. The war had changed everyone's lives and made everyone more happy and comfortable, but for Harry it had become out of control. Newspapers printing things about him, people following him.he never got used to it and knew he never would. Fame was one thing Harry Potter didn't want.
But whenever he felt the absolute stress of everything in his life come tumbling down on him, he would go to Dickens and Reed. He had lied to Ginny, he did know she worked there. He would use his invisibility cloak and watch her. She was so beautiful and graceful. He didn't know when his feelings for her had come into play. They had always been friends at Hogwarts, but when Harry had left and begun his pursuit towards defeating Voldemort, there had been no time for friends. They would all have been in danger, so Harry pushed everyone away. It wasn't a happy time but it was over now and things had gone back to normal.
Ginny stepped out of the shop and Harry caught his breath looking at her. She was absolutely beautiful. As he got up and smiled at her, he couldn't help but think that maybe Sirius was right.
A/N: Now it's not that hard, go to the little purple button down there and PLEASE REVIEW!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters or any of this. It's like barbie dolls, millions of people have the same toy but do totally different things with it. Weird analogy.
"Every Day Is A Winding Road" Chapter 1, Too Early But Not Too Late A Harry Potter fan fiction by ShortNSweet
BAM!
"OUCH!" Harry Potter abruptly sat up in bed after something hit him in the head. He looked over at his night stand to see a dark brown owl perched on his lamp. Peering around to find the offending object the owl must have dropped on him Harry discovered a letter on the not used pillow beside him. He ripped it open and found:
Dear Mr. Potter, The minister of magic, Sirius Black requests it of you to be in his office at 8 A.M. this morning. We thank you for your patience.
Mrs. Rita Lowdes
Harry looked over at his clock and groaned. It was 7 A.M. He dragged himself into bed and over to the shower. Ever since Sirius' name had been cleared and he had become minister of magic Harry had debated whether this was a good or bad thing. Harry worked right next to Sirius as chairman of the Order Of the Phoenix, which had been established in Harry's 5th year by Dumbledore. It was a business that gathered together the best aurors in the world to be on call at any time if there was any sign of dark magic. Since Voldemort's defeat 3 years earlier, there wasn't much need for the order, but Sirius still dragged Harry into his office almost every day to do various things for him. While Harry loved to see his godfather, he hated waking up in the mornings.
An hour later Harry found himself walking into the modest ministry of magic building. He smiled at a few people who looked admiringly at him as he passed them on his was to Sirius' office. He never completely adjusted to his fame. He stepped into Sirius' office, where Sirius himself was sitting at his desk writing on a piece of parchment. Harry fell down into one of the chairs across from Sirius' desk.
"You can't write me your OWN letters?"
Sirius smiled, but didn't look up from what he was writing, "Mrs. Lowdes needed something to do, so I let her send you the letter. Plus, " he looked up and grinned devilishly at Harry, "it's nice to have power."
Harry laughed out loud. Sirius never lost his sense of humor. Through everything that had happened, he was still a Marauder and Harry loved him for not loosing that. "So what, pray tell, am I doing in your office at this ungodly hour?"
Sirius finished writing his letter and handed it to the owl patiently waiting beside him which took off immediately. He folded his hands and looked seriously across the desk at his godson. "Harry, you know I care for you just like a son."
Harry squirmed uncomfortably, "yes."
"And I'm here to look out for your well being."
"Why do I have the feeling that I'm going to greatly dislike what I'm about to hear."
"Why don't you date?"
Harry's head snapped up. Off all questions this was the one he least expected to hear. "Er.I."
"Harry I feel it's time for you to find someone."
Harry put his head in his hands. This was not the way to start a day.
*
"Ouch!" Ginny looked up at the shelf above her that was now empty of books, all of which had just fallen on her. She groaned. Shelving new arrivals was the worst part of her job. Not only was it horribly boring, but horrible difficult to find room on the already jammed shelves. Ginny looked around to make sure no one was around and pulled her wand out of her sweater. "Pidanta" she whispered pointing at the books on the floor, which flew up to the shelf in their proper order. Ginny smiled. She was only allowed to do magic at the bookstore for emergency purposes. Her boss, Lana Defala felt it unnecessary to disturb customers. Ginny had debated with her many times that it wouldn't disturb a witch or wizard to see magic being done, but it was a losing battle for Ginny. She sighed as she looked at her cart full of new books just itching to be shelved. She wheeled it into the next aisle and got up on the step ladder and had just started shelving when she heard, "Ginny?".
Ginny turned at looked down and fell off the ladder in shock, but was caught by strong arms wrapped around her. Harry Potter set her up straight and looked into her eyes with his bright green ones.
"Are you alright? I didn't mean to frighten you."
"Oh! No! I'm fine. You didn't frighten me."
He smiled "alright then. I didn't know you worked here"
She avoided looking into his eyes and tried to keep herself calm. How was it that after 13 years of knowing Harry Potter she could still turn into a puddle of nothing when he looked at her? "What are YOU doing here?" she asked him, avoiding talking about her job.
"I don't know. I guess I'm getting away? Hogsmeade seemed the perfect place to do so, so here I am. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, just browsing I guess."
"What are you getting away from?"
Harry looked a bit uncomfortable at her question and she immediately said "oh you don't have to tell me anything. I was just being nosy. It happens after being cooped up in a shop for hours at a time."
He laughed and she couldn't help but notice his perfect smile. She was slightly reminded of Gilderoy Lockhart, her Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in 1st year. He had a movie star's smile, only Harry's was nicer and friendlier and less cocky.
"Why don't you get out then? When's your lunch break, we should have lunch. You and I haven't talked a lot in quite awhile."
She looked up at him, surprising herself, "well you've been busy what with everything that's happened". Harry was always flying all over the place to talk about his defeat against Voldemort. He was a celebrity everywhere he went.
Harry frowned "Unfortunately I have been lately. I haven't had a lot of time for.other things as Sirius kindly pointed out to me this morning" his frown got a little deeper, "but I'm doing things for me now. So.lunch?"
Ginny felt very confused by this invitation. Was this a date, or a friendly lunch? She pushed away all thoughts of it being a date. She was crazy. Harry Potter could have anyone in the whole world. Why would he pick her?
*
Harry sat outside of Dickens and Reed waiting for Ginny to collect her things and come out. He didn't know what possessed him to ask Ginny to lunch, but something had and he was glad that he did. Sirius had inspired in this morning to get out there, and begin dating. He didn't tell Sirius that, he would never admit to Sirius being right. He gave him loads of excuses, women wanted him for the wrong reason, he had no time.the list went on. Sirius came back with answers to all of these and Harry got tired of arguing with him and left.
Harry would go to Hogsmeade sometimes and just walk around. Sometimes he would stop in on George and Fred Weasley who now owned Zonko's joke store, and would constantly stock it with new things for Harry to test.
Sometimes he would go to the 3 Broomsticks where he was always running into old friends that were fun to talk to.until talk turned to the war, a subject Harry did not like to discuss. The war had changed everyone's lives and made everyone more happy and comfortable, but for Harry it had become out of control. Newspapers printing things about him, people following him.he never got used to it and knew he never would. Fame was one thing Harry Potter didn't want.
But whenever he felt the absolute stress of everything in his life come tumbling down on him, he would go to Dickens and Reed. He had lied to Ginny, he did know she worked there. He would use his invisibility cloak and watch her. She was so beautiful and graceful. He didn't know when his feelings for her had come into play. They had always been friends at Hogwarts, but when Harry had left and begun his pursuit towards defeating Voldemort, there had been no time for friends. They would all have been in danger, so Harry pushed everyone away. It wasn't a happy time but it was over now and things had gone back to normal.
Ginny stepped out of the shop and Harry caught his breath looking at her. She was absolutely beautiful. As he got up and smiled at her, he couldn't help but think that maybe Sirius was right.
A/N: Now it's not that hard, go to the little purple button down there and PLEASE REVIEW!!!