This is a H/G story with some R/H maybe if the author can write it in.
Disclaimer; If I owned Harry Potter would I be writing in here?
Chapter Seven m- Detention
They hid in a crevice in the wall and they both sat down.
"Harry, you have to concentrate and hold your mind with mine, you'll be able to read his mind too." Harry gasped as he felt his mind and Ginny's connect. She smiled and closed her eyes, so did Harry.
"Relax," Harry felt his and Ginny's mind fly through the air, searching every atom. The air was coloured, purple shapes appeared occasionally. These were people's minds he realised, one glowed red; Ron's. They entered his mind easily and Harry felt the swirls and colours make sense, they were feelings and thoughts. Harry felt slightly guilty at prying into his friends mind but Ginny urged him to look at something. He looked; an aqua colour swirled with orange. Hermione; sexy, funny, smart Harry read trying not to giggle. A rushing suddenly filled his head and he landed with a bump into his own mind. Harry opened his eyes and his mouth opened and shut several times. Ginny merely giggled, Harry started to laugh.
"My brother thinks Hermione is sexy!" she managed to say through giggles. It's now or never Harry thought, he opened his mouth but was interrupted,
"Oh my gosh, Harry look at the time. We're going to be late!" Harry had divination in the north tower so he ran all the way. Greet so it's never' he thought bitterly as he ran full pelt along the corridor.
"Stop and fight you scurvy braggart!" The completely mental knight in one of the portraits yelled at Harry. Harry had first met Sir Cadegan in his third year, and the knight had got on everyone's nerves. Harry ignore him and as he reached the corridor the silvery ladder that allowed him to get up to the room descended.
"Ah Mr Potter, nice to see you." Professor Trelawny greeted Harry in her usual misty voice and pointed to the seat next to Ron. Harry sat down,
"Where the hell did you disappear to?" Ron hissed,
"Now class, we are going to discover the mystic realms of the mind." Harry's head perked up a bit.
"Now who's mind shall I read?" Harry knew what was coming, "How about you, Mr Potter?" Harry nodded and Ron rolled his eyes. Trelawny's hands raised to her temples and hummed slightly. Harry's eyebrows raised, that wasn't how Ginny did it. He felt the familiar feeling of someone touching his mind but he wasn't sure he wanted Trelawny to be in there. Without thinking he sent a shock down the line that Trelawny was using, she gasped and the link was severed. Trelawny fell into a chair breathing deeply, Harry looked embarrassed.
"Turn to page 76 in the books and read through, when you finish attempt to read your partners mind. The instructions are in the book." Trelawny lay back and closed her eyes.
"Harry what happened?" Harry shrugged his shoulders and put on, what he hoped, was a puzzled face. Ron wasn't entirely convinced,
"Maybe she 'saw' your death" said Ron sarcastically.
"Maybe" said Harry. "The book says you should concentrate on a picture and the other person is supposed to go into a trance and try to read what the other person is thinking."
"Ok, I'll think of something and you tell me what it is"
"Yeah" Harry felt his mind reach out and touch Ron's again. He didn't understand, had Ginny past on her gift? Harry retracted his mind and then reached out again. A clear image of Hermione came through and Harry snorted, the image dissolved as Ron said
"What?"
"What's going on with you and Hermione then Ron?"
"Me and Hermione, nothing!"
"Ron, I see the looks you give her, and the ones that she gives you"
"I do not give... She, she gives me looks?" Ron asked hopefully, his ears a delightfully pink colour. The rest of the lesson Ron quizzed Harry about Hermione and Harry tried to avoid reading anyone's minds. Next was potions, Harry and Ron walked down to the dungeons in a surprisingly good mood.
"10 points from Gryffindor Potter, Weasley. Your late."
Harry and Ron slowly walked to their stations and sat down next to Hermione not saying anything, their good moods rapidly vanishing.
"Today we will be brewing vanishing potions. These are not to be used outside this room until you are a licensed wizard and even then there are strict rules. The potions must be brewed carefully as they can have diverse side effects." Ron, Harry and Hermione worked on the same table. Harry was shredding his Yollykip stem his mind was on other things and his knife slipped.
"OW!" Harry's knife slit the top of his middle finger and he sucked it vigorously.
"Come here" Hermione took out her wand and said "Hevlus" The cut healed over instantly.
"Thanks Hermione" He turned and Ron was standing there throwing daggers at Harry,
"Sorry" Harry mouthed.
"Five minutes left before we test the potions" Snape yelled. Harry muttered the incantations over his potion, he was slightly worried; it wasn't as thick as Hermione's. Ron was in worst trouble his appeared to be bubbling.
"Now everyone take a spoonful and feed it to the person working next to you. Harry looked dubiously at Ron's potion and saw the look of terror on Hermione's face; she was working next to Neville. Harry took a sip of Ron's potion and Ron took Harry's. Harry's stomach twisted and Harry fell sideways knocking over his cauldron. Ron, meanwhile was grinning insanely and giggling at Harry. Snape shouted for silence and waved his wand, the pain in Harry's stomach subsided and the grin vanished from Ron's face.
"Detention Potter, look what you've done to the floor!"" Where Ron's potion had leaked over the floor the stone was cracking and dissolving, Harry wondered briefly what his stomach looked like.
"Stay after class to receive it." The rest of the class reappeared including Hermione, Neville had amazingly got his potion right.
"I can't believe you have to clean the dungeon floor, without magic!" Ron exclaimed in the Great hall at lunch.
"I know Snape is really getting vicious" At this point Ginny and her friend walked in, Ginny looked slightly annoyed.
"Ginny what's the matter?" Hermione asked.
"That Git Snape gave me a detention! I have to clean the dungeon floor, without magic!"
"Harry got detention as well." Ron said in a slightly less than friendly voice.
"Really, why?"
"Ron poisoned me!"
"Hey!" Harry looked at Ron and he added, "Well not on purpose!"
"Right, I burnt the table!"
"Gin, what did you do to me!"
"Excuse me?"
"I can read minds now!"
"Really? cool!" Harry laughed, Ron looked up and Harry shut his mouth.
"We've got defence now haven't we?" Ginny broke the silence,
"Yeah, wonder what Lupin's got lined up for us" Hermione added glancing sideways at Ron, he gave up and said,
"We should go now if we want to get good seats." The four got up and walked the distance to the Defence room, it was unlocked so they walked in.
"Hello Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny; my star fifth year" Ron swelled proudly and Ginny blushed. Harry looked around the classroom and was surprised to see no covered cage.
"Professor I have a question. I don't see any cages"
"That's not a question" Hermione pointed out.
"Fine," Harry pouted, He's so adorable Ginny thought and then cursed under he breath. "Why don't I see any cages? Better?"
"Much"
"We are studying an animal that is to big and too dangerous to bring into the class room today. Ron your afraid of spiders right?" Ron nodded apprehensively,
"Hmm, try this." Lupin brandished his wand, "This will temporarily get rid of your Agoraphobia. Nomacrom!"
"So what are we studying?" Asked Hermione
"Well you'll just have to..."
"Acromantula" Ginny interrupted, Lupin looked mildly surprised while Harry sat down heavily, there was a colony of Acromantula living in the forbidden forest and they had nearly killed Harry and Ron when they were in their second year.
"How did you know?"
"Well you said it was too big and dangerous to bring into the classroom. The Acromantula can grow up to 20 feet and has a danger rating of 5X. You also asked Ron about his fear of spiders and got rid of it, so it'd be logical to assume that the animal would be some kind of spider." Ginny replied, the other three looked shocked,
"Way to go Gin!"
"That's why she's in this class" Lupin laughed as the rest of the class came in. The four took positions at the front. Lupin taught them about the Acromantula using stories of his encounter with them and slide pictures. He then set homework to write an essay on what to do if you encounter these beasts. Harry was thinking, all you needed was a blue Ford Anglia running wild to come and rescue you, he wondered if Lupin would accept that; probably not.
After dinner Ron played Harry at wizard chess and Ron won far too many times; his head was now getting very big. Then the four played exploding snap until 9:00, when Ginny and Harry had to go to their detentions.
"Good luck!" Hermione shouted after them,
"And don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Ron added.
"Think that was addressed to me" Harry laughed as they walked down to the dungeons.
"Yeah, Ron plays that 'over protective brother' card a bit too strongly."
"He's just worried about you, thinks I'm going to lead you into danger"
"I can look after myself. Besides it's not like we're in love or anything."
Harry laughed and so did Ginny although both were thinking to same thing, 'unfortunately'. Harry knocked on Snape's office door,
"Come in" snarled the greasy man within,
"Into the breach, dear son" Ginny sighed,
"Eh?"
"Never mind" she added as they entered the fire lit office. Snape did his usual 'bad Gryffindor' talk and explained their punishment. They had to scrub the floor without magic until midnight, and if they didn't do it well enough they'd have to clean it again tomorrow.
"He's such a..." Harry said a word that made Ginny say
"Harry!" They got down on their knee's, picking up the scrubbing brushes and began to scrub the flag stones. After about an hour they had got halfway across the room, Ginny suddenly threw down her brush and crossed her arms.
"Gin?"
"My knuckles hurt" She held out her hand for Harry to see, her knuckles were red where she'd scraped them along the floor.
"Here" He took her hand, ignoring the tingles, and took out his wand getting ready to perform the healing spell.
"What is going on here!" Snape's voice echoed around the dungeon, the two jumped apart.
"Harry was just healing my knuckles, I scraped them." Ginny gabbled, Snape sighed and performed the spell, Ginny's knuckles healed instantly.
"Thank you, Professor"
"Back to work, I'll be around at midnight to see how much, or how little, you have done."
They got back to work but Harry could hear a funny noise, he looked up and realised it was coming from Ginny.
"Gin are you humming?"
"Yes"
"What are you humming?"
"'Hero' it's by a muggle singer called Enrique something-or-other."
"Well sing it louder so I can hear it." Ginny began to sing softly, clearly embarrassed, but she was a good singer and she knew it.
Would you dance, if I asked you to dance,
Would you run, and never look back,
Would you cry if you saw me crying,
Would you save my soul tonight.
Would you tremble if I touched your lip,
Would you laugh, oh please tell this,
Would you die for the one you love,
Hold me in your arms tonight.
I can be your Hero baby....
!
The time passed quickly, they cleaned while Ginny sang and by the time Snape came to get them they had cleaned the whole floor and he, reluctantly, let them go. They walked in silence back to the common room when Harry said,
"Dammit Gin"
"What?" Ginny surprised at Harry's sudden outburst,
"You got me singing that song now"
"Serves you right! 'Lupin rules'" Ginny announced the password to the fat lady and the portrait swung open.
"Do we have DADA tomorrow?"
"No" Ginny yawned and turned to go up to her dorm
"Ginny?"
She sighed rather obviously, turned around and rolled her eyes saying
"Yes?" she sounded annoyed,
"What I say!" Harry asked indignantly
"Night Harry"
"Night Gin"
Disclaimer; If I owned Harry Potter would I be writing in here?
Chapter Seven m- Detention
They hid in a crevice in the wall and they both sat down.
"Harry, you have to concentrate and hold your mind with mine, you'll be able to read his mind too." Harry gasped as he felt his mind and Ginny's connect. She smiled and closed her eyes, so did Harry.
"Relax," Harry felt his and Ginny's mind fly through the air, searching every atom. The air was coloured, purple shapes appeared occasionally. These were people's minds he realised, one glowed red; Ron's. They entered his mind easily and Harry felt the swirls and colours make sense, they were feelings and thoughts. Harry felt slightly guilty at prying into his friends mind but Ginny urged him to look at something. He looked; an aqua colour swirled with orange. Hermione; sexy, funny, smart Harry read trying not to giggle. A rushing suddenly filled his head and he landed with a bump into his own mind. Harry opened his eyes and his mouth opened and shut several times. Ginny merely giggled, Harry started to laugh.
"My brother thinks Hermione is sexy!" she managed to say through giggles. It's now or never Harry thought, he opened his mouth but was interrupted,
"Oh my gosh, Harry look at the time. We're going to be late!" Harry had divination in the north tower so he ran all the way. Greet so it's never' he thought bitterly as he ran full pelt along the corridor.
"Stop and fight you scurvy braggart!" The completely mental knight in one of the portraits yelled at Harry. Harry had first met Sir Cadegan in his third year, and the knight had got on everyone's nerves. Harry ignore him and as he reached the corridor the silvery ladder that allowed him to get up to the room descended.
"Ah Mr Potter, nice to see you." Professor Trelawny greeted Harry in her usual misty voice and pointed to the seat next to Ron. Harry sat down,
"Where the hell did you disappear to?" Ron hissed,
"Now class, we are going to discover the mystic realms of the mind." Harry's head perked up a bit.
"Now who's mind shall I read?" Harry knew what was coming, "How about you, Mr Potter?" Harry nodded and Ron rolled his eyes. Trelawny's hands raised to her temples and hummed slightly. Harry's eyebrows raised, that wasn't how Ginny did it. He felt the familiar feeling of someone touching his mind but he wasn't sure he wanted Trelawny to be in there. Without thinking he sent a shock down the line that Trelawny was using, she gasped and the link was severed. Trelawny fell into a chair breathing deeply, Harry looked embarrassed.
"Turn to page 76 in the books and read through, when you finish attempt to read your partners mind. The instructions are in the book." Trelawny lay back and closed her eyes.
"Harry what happened?" Harry shrugged his shoulders and put on, what he hoped, was a puzzled face. Ron wasn't entirely convinced,
"Maybe she 'saw' your death" said Ron sarcastically.
"Maybe" said Harry. "The book says you should concentrate on a picture and the other person is supposed to go into a trance and try to read what the other person is thinking."
"Ok, I'll think of something and you tell me what it is"
"Yeah" Harry felt his mind reach out and touch Ron's again. He didn't understand, had Ginny past on her gift? Harry retracted his mind and then reached out again. A clear image of Hermione came through and Harry snorted, the image dissolved as Ron said
"What?"
"What's going on with you and Hermione then Ron?"
"Me and Hermione, nothing!"
"Ron, I see the looks you give her, and the ones that she gives you"
"I do not give... She, she gives me looks?" Ron asked hopefully, his ears a delightfully pink colour. The rest of the lesson Ron quizzed Harry about Hermione and Harry tried to avoid reading anyone's minds. Next was potions, Harry and Ron walked down to the dungeons in a surprisingly good mood.
"10 points from Gryffindor Potter, Weasley. Your late."
Harry and Ron slowly walked to their stations and sat down next to Hermione not saying anything, their good moods rapidly vanishing.
"Today we will be brewing vanishing potions. These are not to be used outside this room until you are a licensed wizard and even then there are strict rules. The potions must be brewed carefully as they can have diverse side effects." Ron, Harry and Hermione worked on the same table. Harry was shredding his Yollykip stem his mind was on other things and his knife slipped.
"OW!" Harry's knife slit the top of his middle finger and he sucked it vigorously.
"Come here" Hermione took out her wand and said "Hevlus" The cut healed over instantly.
"Thanks Hermione" He turned and Ron was standing there throwing daggers at Harry,
"Sorry" Harry mouthed.
"Five minutes left before we test the potions" Snape yelled. Harry muttered the incantations over his potion, he was slightly worried; it wasn't as thick as Hermione's. Ron was in worst trouble his appeared to be bubbling.
"Now everyone take a spoonful and feed it to the person working next to you. Harry looked dubiously at Ron's potion and saw the look of terror on Hermione's face; she was working next to Neville. Harry took a sip of Ron's potion and Ron took Harry's. Harry's stomach twisted and Harry fell sideways knocking over his cauldron. Ron, meanwhile was grinning insanely and giggling at Harry. Snape shouted for silence and waved his wand, the pain in Harry's stomach subsided and the grin vanished from Ron's face.
"Detention Potter, look what you've done to the floor!"" Where Ron's potion had leaked over the floor the stone was cracking and dissolving, Harry wondered briefly what his stomach looked like.
"Stay after class to receive it." The rest of the class reappeared including Hermione, Neville had amazingly got his potion right.
"I can't believe you have to clean the dungeon floor, without magic!" Ron exclaimed in the Great hall at lunch.
"I know Snape is really getting vicious" At this point Ginny and her friend walked in, Ginny looked slightly annoyed.
"Ginny what's the matter?" Hermione asked.
"That Git Snape gave me a detention! I have to clean the dungeon floor, without magic!"
"Harry got detention as well." Ron said in a slightly less than friendly voice.
"Really, why?"
"Ron poisoned me!"
"Hey!" Harry looked at Ron and he added, "Well not on purpose!"
"Right, I burnt the table!"
"Gin, what did you do to me!"
"Excuse me?"
"I can read minds now!"
"Really? cool!" Harry laughed, Ron looked up and Harry shut his mouth.
"We've got defence now haven't we?" Ginny broke the silence,
"Yeah, wonder what Lupin's got lined up for us" Hermione added glancing sideways at Ron, he gave up and said,
"We should go now if we want to get good seats." The four got up and walked the distance to the Defence room, it was unlocked so they walked in.
"Hello Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny; my star fifth year" Ron swelled proudly and Ginny blushed. Harry looked around the classroom and was surprised to see no covered cage.
"Professor I have a question. I don't see any cages"
"That's not a question" Hermione pointed out.
"Fine," Harry pouted, He's so adorable Ginny thought and then cursed under he breath. "Why don't I see any cages? Better?"
"Much"
"We are studying an animal that is to big and too dangerous to bring into the class room today. Ron your afraid of spiders right?" Ron nodded apprehensively,
"Hmm, try this." Lupin brandished his wand, "This will temporarily get rid of your Agoraphobia. Nomacrom!"
"So what are we studying?" Asked Hermione
"Well you'll just have to..."
"Acromantula" Ginny interrupted, Lupin looked mildly surprised while Harry sat down heavily, there was a colony of Acromantula living in the forbidden forest and they had nearly killed Harry and Ron when they were in their second year.
"How did you know?"
"Well you said it was too big and dangerous to bring into the classroom. The Acromantula can grow up to 20 feet and has a danger rating of 5X. You also asked Ron about his fear of spiders and got rid of it, so it'd be logical to assume that the animal would be some kind of spider." Ginny replied, the other three looked shocked,
"Way to go Gin!"
"That's why she's in this class" Lupin laughed as the rest of the class came in. The four took positions at the front. Lupin taught them about the Acromantula using stories of his encounter with them and slide pictures. He then set homework to write an essay on what to do if you encounter these beasts. Harry was thinking, all you needed was a blue Ford Anglia running wild to come and rescue you, he wondered if Lupin would accept that; probably not.
After dinner Ron played Harry at wizard chess and Ron won far too many times; his head was now getting very big. Then the four played exploding snap until 9:00, when Ginny and Harry had to go to their detentions.
"Good luck!" Hermione shouted after them,
"And don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Ron added.
"Think that was addressed to me" Harry laughed as they walked down to the dungeons.
"Yeah, Ron plays that 'over protective brother' card a bit too strongly."
"He's just worried about you, thinks I'm going to lead you into danger"
"I can look after myself. Besides it's not like we're in love or anything."
Harry laughed and so did Ginny although both were thinking to same thing, 'unfortunately'. Harry knocked on Snape's office door,
"Come in" snarled the greasy man within,
"Into the breach, dear son" Ginny sighed,
"Eh?"
"Never mind" she added as they entered the fire lit office. Snape did his usual 'bad Gryffindor' talk and explained their punishment. They had to scrub the floor without magic until midnight, and if they didn't do it well enough they'd have to clean it again tomorrow.
"He's such a..." Harry said a word that made Ginny say
"Harry!" They got down on their knee's, picking up the scrubbing brushes and began to scrub the flag stones. After about an hour they had got halfway across the room, Ginny suddenly threw down her brush and crossed her arms.
"Gin?"
"My knuckles hurt" She held out her hand for Harry to see, her knuckles were red where she'd scraped them along the floor.
"Here" He took her hand, ignoring the tingles, and took out his wand getting ready to perform the healing spell.
"What is going on here!" Snape's voice echoed around the dungeon, the two jumped apart.
"Harry was just healing my knuckles, I scraped them." Ginny gabbled, Snape sighed and performed the spell, Ginny's knuckles healed instantly.
"Thank you, Professor"
"Back to work, I'll be around at midnight to see how much, or how little, you have done."
They got back to work but Harry could hear a funny noise, he looked up and realised it was coming from Ginny.
"Gin are you humming?"
"Yes"
"What are you humming?"
"'Hero' it's by a muggle singer called Enrique something-or-other."
"Well sing it louder so I can hear it." Ginny began to sing softly, clearly embarrassed, but she was a good singer and she knew it.
Would you dance, if I asked you to dance,
Would you run, and never look back,
Would you cry if you saw me crying,
Would you save my soul tonight.
Would you tremble if I touched your lip,
Would you laugh, oh please tell this,
Would you die for the one you love,
Hold me in your arms tonight.
I can be your Hero baby....
!
The time passed quickly, they cleaned while Ginny sang and by the time Snape came to get them they had cleaned the whole floor and he, reluctantly, let them go. They walked in silence back to the common room when Harry said,
"Dammit Gin"
"What?" Ginny surprised at Harry's sudden outburst,
"You got me singing that song now"
"Serves you right! 'Lupin rules'" Ginny announced the password to the fat lady and the portrait swung open.
"Do we have DADA tomorrow?"
"No" Ginny yawned and turned to go up to her dorm
"Ginny?"
She sighed rather obviously, turned around and rolled her eyes saying
"Yes?" she sounded annoyed,
"What I say!" Harry asked indignantly
"Night Harry"
"Night Gin"