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Turmoil at Hogwarts



Chapter 11-Finding Aidan



"Are you guys ready?" Ginny asked her two freinds.

"Umm, yes, I think so," Susan said.

"Great! Let's go!" Ginny replied.

The three Hogwarts students walked down the street to the bus stop where Ginny and Draco had sat and waited only a few days before.

"Well, this is the bus stop," Ginny said, "The bus should be here any minutes now."

"The three friends chatted excitedly while they were waiting for the bus. After about five minutes of waiting the bus pulled up. They walked up the stairs of the bus and sat in about the middle section of the bus. Lavender and Susan sat in one seat and Ginny sat across from them in another. A grumpy looking woman sat in front of them and two boys that looked about seventeen years of age sat two seats behind the girls.

Lavender whispered, "Do you see those boys behind us?"

"Yes, I see them. They are pretty good-looking, but they don't compare to Aidan and the boys that you'll be meeting tonight," Ginny said in a teasing voice.

"Really? So all of the other boys in the pub are as good-looking as Aidan?" Susan asked curiously.

"Well, I was kind of paying attention to Aidan for the most part,' Ginny said but she remembered that she had been thinking more about Draco than she had about Aidan.

Lavender said something, but her words were just a blur to Ginny because she was to busy thinking about that night at the Irish pub.

"Uh, what?" Ginny asked.

"Honestly Ginny. Weren't you listening to a word I said," Lavender asked irritably.

"Uh," Ginny started to say.

"Oh, just leave her alone Lav, you know she was just busy thinking about Aidan," Susan said.

The three Hogwarts students talked the rest of the bus ride so it went by very quickly. After a little while Ginny looked out the window and said, "Come on, we've got to get off the bus now. There is the store that we bought our Christmas decorations!"

They got off the bus and walked a little way down the street. Lavender said, "Gee, I sure am hungry. Do you think that we could get something to eat now?"

"Don't you want to go shopping first?" Ginny asked her.

"No," Lavender said, "Good-looking Irish boys are way more important than shopping."

"Okay, come on then," Ginny said and the girls walked down the street to the small Irish pub. When they entered the pub Ginny didn't see Aidan but she did see Mr. Riley.

"Hello, Mr. Riley," Ginny said to him.

"Well hello, young Ginny! You're a beautiful sight, and who are these lass's?" Mr. Riley asked.

These are my friends Lavender Brown and Susan Bones," Ginny said.

"Nice to meet you Lavender and Susan," Mr. Riley said, "Now if you'll excuse me I have to go find my son. He said that if I ever saw this pretty young red head, I was to go and get him right away," Mr. Riley winked at the girls and started walking out the door but he called over his shoulder, "Now don't you girls be going anywhere, I'll be right back!"

The three girls sat on barstools at the bar and the same pretty black haired girl took their order. They talked excitedly for a few minutes and then Mr. Riley and Aidan burst through the door.

"Hi, Aidan!" Ginny called from the back of the pub.

Aidan quickly walked over to where she was sitting, when he reached her he said, "Hello Ginny. I was hoping I'd get to see you again," and then picked her right up off of the barstool and gave her a big hug.

When he set her back down on the ground Ginny said, "Well, Aidan, it's nice to see you too." Lavender and Susan were trying to hide their laughter because of the scene but they were failing miserably. They thought that Aidan was very cute and they were quite impressed by his strength.

"Who are these girls, Ginny? Are they your friends?" Aidan asked when he finally noticed that they were sitting next to Ginny.

"Yes, they are. This is Lavender Brown and this is Susan Bones," Ginny said pointing to each of her friends as she said their names.

"Nice to meet you," Aidan told them. "My friends Shawn and Patrick are supposed to meet me here soon. Would you like to meet them?"

"Of course," Lavender said with a giggle.

Then Susan said, "We'd love to meet them.

"So, what have you been doing since the last time I saw you?" Aidan asked Ginny.

"Nothing too special, we spent a lot of time decorating our house for Christmas," Ginny said.

"Oh," Aidan said and he was about to say more when the front door opened again, "Look there's my friends Shawn and Patrick," he said. "Shawn! Patrick! We're back here!"

The two boys walked back to the bar. They sat beside Lavender and Susan and one of them said, "Hello girls. I'm Patrick and this is my friend Shawn."

Susan and Lavender each said hello to them. On the other side of Lavender where Aidan was sitting he was talking to Ginny, "I think that my friends like your friends."

"Why do you say that?" Ginny asked.

"Because they haven't said a word to me since they saw your friends when they walked in," Aidan replied with a laugh.

"I'm sure that Lavender and Susan are excited about seeing some different guys. For the past week they've only seen Draco, you know the boy who was with me last time, and Seamus, Lee, and Terry." Ginny said.

"I take it that you don't like those boys very much," Aidan said.

"Well, Seamus and Terry are okay, but Lee is always trying to hit on me and Draco is, well, he's himself. He's the most arrogant person I know," Ginny said.

"Yes, I remember him," Aidan said with a scowl on his face.

They sat silently for a little while and then the waitress came by with the girls food. She asked Aidan, Patrick and Shawn, "Would you boys like anything?"

The boys ordered and everyone resumed their talking. They talked throughout the meal and when they were done eating Aidan asked, "So, what are you girls doing today?"

"We thought we might go shopping for a while," Susan said.

Shawn looked at her and said, "Well, we can go with you."

"That sounds great!" Lavender said excitedly.

When the six teenagers left, Ginny noticed that Lavender had her eyes on Patrick and Susan had her eyes on Shawn. Ginny was glad that they had found someone that they liked.

At first they stayed in one big group but after a while everyone wanted to break up into smaller groups.

Lavender asked, "Do you mind if Patrick and I go off by ourselves for a while?"

Ginny said, "Okay, we'll meet you back at the pub at four o'clock"

"See you later!" Susan called as she left with Shawn.

"Well, where do you want to go now?" Aidan asked Ginny.

"Uh, I don't know. I've got to find presents for my family," Ginny said.

"What would they like?" Aidan asked.

"Well, my brother Fred and George are big practical jokers." Ginny said.

"There is a joke store a couple of blocks from here," Aidan said, "Do you want me to take you there?"

"Sure," Ginny said. She had decided to buy her family muggle things for their present because she didn't know if there was a place like Diagon Alley in Dublin.

"So, Ginny. Tell me about your family," Aidan said.

"Well, I'm the youngest child. I have six older brothers and no sisters. My brothers Ron, George, and Fred go to school with me, but my other three brothers are out of school," Ginny replied.

"Oh, what do your brothers do for a living?" Aidan asked.

Ginny panicked a little when he asked this question but she soon composed herself and said, "My brother Bill works at a bank, Charlie woks with animals, and Percy works in an office in London. Now tell me about your family, Aidan."

"Well, you know my father. My mother stays home and takes care of the house. I have a younger brother named Brendon and a younger sister named Adelia," Aidan said. "Oh, Look! There's the joke shop."

They walked into the little shop and spent almost an hour in it. When they finally left, Ginny had presents for not only Fred and George but also Ron and Harry.

When Ginny mentions that she was getting a present for Harry Aidan asked, "Who is Harry?"

Ginny gently explained, "Harry is my brother Ron's best friend. He spends so much time at our house that I think of him as a brother. Ron's other best friend is Hermione, we're really close, she's almost like my sister. I want to get her present next."

Aidan said, "Okay, what would yo like to get her?"

"Umm," Ginny said thinking hard. Then she remembered when Hermione had been dressed up at the Yule Ball last year, "I think I want to get her some kind of jewelry."

Aidan lead her to a store that sold jewelry. She bought Hermione a necklace that had a sparkly star for a charm.

"It's almost 4:00, we should go to the pub now," Ginny said.

"But you don't have all of your shopping done yet," Aidan protested.

"I only needed to get presents for Fred, George, and Hermione," Ginny said.

"Why," Aidan asked.

"Because I'll be seeing them in less than a week. We are going to be leaving Dublin in a couple of days to go to America. We won a trip to go skiing in Colorado," Ginny explained, "But I'll still have two weeks to spend in Ireland once we get back."

"That's good. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to see you again," Aidan said and then held her hands and looked down into her eyes. "Because I really like you Ginny."

"I like you too, Aidan. It's just that I'm leaving Ireland on the 22nd," Ginny said.

"Shh, Ginny. Don't worry about that. Just think about right now. We're together at least for a little while," Aidan said and pulled her close to him in a gently hug.

Ginny couldn't help thinking that it didn't feel as nice being in Aidan's arms as it did being in Draco's. Ginny tried to push that thought out of her mind and enjoy being with Aidan. She said, "Okay Aidan, I'll only think about what is happening right now. I won't worry about the future."

Aidan then kissed her. It felt nice to Ginny but she didn't feel any of the wonderful sensations she felt when she kissed Draco.

"Come on Gin, we better get going or else we'll be late," Aidan said after they broke from the kiss. When they arrived at the pub Susan, Shawn, Lavneder, and Patrick were waiting for them. The three girls then said goodbye to the boys, but not before they planned to meet again on January 8th, which was the day after they got back from Colorado.

On the ride back to the house Ginny was unusually quiet. The other two girls talked excitedly about their day, but Ginny didn't say much. Finally Lavender asked, "What's wrong, Ginny? Didn't you have a good time with Aidan?"

"Oh, yes. I had a great time with him," Ginny said smiling a little bit.

"Can't you see that she is busy daydreaming about Aidan? Leave her be, Lavender," Susan said.

"Sorry, Ginny. I didn't mean to disturb you," Lavender teased.

"That's okay Lav, just don't let it happen again," Ginny said, but she was really thinking about how she wasn't dreaming about Aidan, she was really dreaming about Draco.

When the three girls got back to the house, they went and sat in the chairs by the fire where they always sat and talked which the others referred to as "The Gossip Room". After a little while of talking Ginny grew tired of sitting and decided that she wanted to go up to her room. She said goodbye to her friends and walked up the stairs. She was about to open the door to her bedroom when she heard a angry voice behind her say, "Where were you at today?"

A/N-Sorry about the cliffhanger, okay, maybe I'm not that sorry. I tried to make this chapter a lot longer. I spent a long, long time writing it. We had two snow days this week (We had like 8 inches of snow) so I finally had time to write. I am planning on uploading one or two more stories this weekend. I'll probably put up The Diary of Dean Thomas, and I have another D/G fic that I haven't named yet. I also uploaded a Percy/Hermione fic last week. I would love it if people would review some of my other stories. Please, Please, Please, Please Please? Thanks for Reading this chapter, please review!



Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter!



Lily, I know, I think I'm having way to much fun with this love triangle. Oh, well. I think I'm glad they aren't going to Hawaii, everything happens in Hawaii, I was thinking of making them go someplace boring, like, i don't know, Kansas. But I figured that would be too mean.



Katie, Thanks, for the encouragement. I like Colorado better than Hawaii too. Don't worry about the spelling, the only reason I know how to spell it is because I have spell check. I'll work on putting more Draco in. Don't worry.



FireLily55, Sorry to leave you hanging. I know it took too long to update, sorry. Here's the next chap, what do you think?



Mionee, I was hoping that you'd like that they get to go with Hermione and Fred's group. I know you love H/G but would you like to hear about H/F instead? Or maybe Fred and Alicia? Hmm, I have lots of things I can do with the other group. This could be interesting! What do you think I should do?



Dorthey Star, I'm sure Tennessee is better than Kansas. You get to go skiing soon? That's not fair. They will end up together again in chapter number, did you think I was actually going to tell you? I haven't even written the next chapter yet, so I don't really know.



DarkIllusion, well, I'm glad my story did something good for you even if it left your butt hurting. I updated, it wasn't exactly soon, but I tried.



Jilly-Anne, I didn't give you tons of Irish boys, but I did give you two. I'll let you imagine what they looked like. You mean you actually gave their pictures back? I wouldn't have, I would have kept them. I wish I had some Irish boys in my class. That's just not fair that you have hot irish boys and I don't. But, I guess life's not fair sometimes.



Satans Little Princess, yah I couldn't resist. I also couldn't resist on this chapter, I'm enjoying this cliff hanger deal. I'm thinking I'll put more of Lee in the next chapter. Do you think that's a good idea?



Marissa, you'll find out what happens soon enough, just be patient. I'll try and update soon so that you can find out what's going to happen.



SilverWolf, I emailed you today. Be sure to check your mail. When am I going to get to read the next chapter of Darkstar. (Note to everybody who is reading this, read Silver's fic Darkstar, it's awesome).



Summer, yes, Colorado is better than a microwave. I thought about putting that in somewhere but I decided against it. You have such a graphic mind. You really hate Lee don't ya! I'll see what I can do. Aidan, bad vibes... hmm, interesting. They are going to meet again you know. Thanks for wishing me luck with softball, it starts at the end of the month. I hope we have a better season this year, we were like 5-16 or something like that last year.



Cthottie482, I picked Colorado because it's someplace I've actually been, and I love skiing and I wish that I was going this year for spring break.



Anastacy, yes, I know there's a lot of Gryffindors in Ginny's group, I didn't want to make up new characters to put in the groups and J.K. Rowling mentions Gryffindors more than any other group, so there's lots of Gryffindors. Thanks giving me the word Scarlet Woman, I'll use that next time!



Sarah Mckatie, I emailed you, but I talked to your sister like three different times. She said that you share an email address. I'd still love to hear some of your suggestions.



Misty, what do you think of the new characters? I didn't focus much on them this chapter, but I'm thinking about doing more with them later.



Animequeen26, of course I'll email you when I update this. I'm going to right after I post this. I have the same problem about starting new fics and never finishing them.



Sam, I'm glad you like my story. I updated, so what do you think?



KarateChick, thanks for reviewing all of my fics. I really appreciate it. Do you have the next chapter of Angel Perfect up? Yup, I live in Kansas, it kind of sucks. What's Georgia like?