Ginny was bright and happy as she walked down the hall with Felicia to
their first class of the year. She was determined to make a good year out
of this one, and the first day was the right time to start. (She'd thought
about being horrible half and then wonderful the other half. Then she'd
decided to make the best out of her year, and totally.) She even thought
that her life would be good socially, because she was going to tell Harry
about her feelings for him this year. She always held her head high when
she thought about that, and she was doing that just then.
"Somethin' wrong with your head, girl?"
"What? Oh, no, never mind." Ginny felt embarrassed, but that couldn't hold off her happiness. She smiled brightly as they walked into Potions class, and Felicia began to wonder.
"Are you sure? Cause if you haven't noticed, this is Potions class with Slytherin. And Professor Snape? You know, the nasty old hag who is staring at me right now for calling him a hag and he wants to start class so I'm gonna shut up now?"
Ginny just smiled and pretended she never knew Felicity Joshman so that Snape would give her the benefit of the doubt right then. She knew that Snape would never believe that she wanted to 'come clean' and get good grades this year. Snape just raised his eyebrows quizzically at her and gave the class their instructions.
****
Ginny was trying to study hard for the pop quiz she knew there would be in Potions the next day, but all she could think about was stupid Connor and Colin. They were so idiotic! They thought that she would go with them to the dance! Not to mention that Connor was a FIRST year. No fifth year would ever go out with a FIRST year! First years couldn't even GO to the dance! Connor was so oblivious! And then after Connor had reported that she wouldn't go out with him, Colin had the nerve to come storming over and ask WHY? And THEN, after she told him why, he said, "Oh. Then will you go with me?" Ginny was being WAY too nice when she said she'll think about it. Actually, it wasn't a lie. She WAS thinking about it. About how silly he had been! Hmmm. . . . . if Coclear plus Newtious equaled Zotear, and Zotear minus Coclear equals Newtious, then. . . . . Coclear minus Newtious equals Zotear! She had it! If she used Colin to make Harry jealous. . . . but that couldn't be right! If Coclear PLUS Newtious equaled Zotear, then how could Coclear MINUS Newtious equal Zotear? If she used Colin to make Harry jealous, what would happen to the feelings he already had? He did say he really, really, liked her. What if Harry wanted to go with her? No. . . . she was being silly. HARRY go with HER? Never! Or. . . .sometime?
****
'Ok. . . now what do I say, what do I say, what do I say?' Harry paced the common room. 'I HAVE to get her to go with me!' He saw Ginny's face in his head and his mind went wild. He started thinking crazy things, like them falling in love and getting married and. . . . . .he stopped himself. 'What am I thinking? I mean, maybe I think it's true that I love her but, that doesn't mean that it really IS true. UH! Shut up, Potter! I mean, find something to say to her! If you love her, the way to start is ask her to the dance! Hmmm. . who's a good girl I'm friends with who would know what to say? Cho Chang!'
* * * *
Cho's beautiful blonde hair floated down the hall after her, Chinese style, as she liked to call it. She couldn't have felt lazier as she walked to her class. She heard rushing footsteps behind her and smiled. 'Harry.'
"What can I do for you today?" She asked as he caught up with her.
"I'm asking this girl to the dance, you see,-"
"Yes, I thought you would. Ginny, right?"
Sometimes Cho could act so . .. Chinese, I guess. Wise. And then she'd be a normal teenager again, asking about the latest gossip from her friends.
"Uh, right." "You'll be sooooooo cute together! You know, with you being friends with her older brother- Ron, right?- and saving her from that AWFUL snake in her first year, and the way she had that soooooooo cute crush on you last year- it'll be perfect! So now, we need to set up what to say, don't we?"
Harry had stopped half a hallway ago in shock. How could she say all that stuff at lightning speed! It was incredible! Actually, no, it wasn't, but he had to think of something that would make what she just did academically sound. "Uh. . ." He caught up with her. " Yeah, I guess. But it can't be too . . . ."
"Mushy?"
"Yeah."
"Well, how about this: 'Hi Ginny. I just wanted to say hello. I've been thinking lately, and I wanted to know if you would go to the Welcoming Dance with me?'"
"That's perfect!"
"Really?"
"No!"
Cho looked hurt. "What's wrong with it? That's what every girl dreams a guy would say to her. . . . or at least me."
" 'I just wanted to say hello?' That's a total lie! If I'm going to ask her, I want to be honest."
"So how about this: 'Hi, Ginny. I've been thinking lately, and I wanted you know if you would go to the Welcoming Dance with me?"
"That's perfect!"
"Oh, I ain't fallin' for that one again!"
"No, I mean it! Really. . . . I love it! Come on, Cho. . ." Harry's voice trailed off in the distance as Cho walked off, little did Harry know, smiling as her hair floated 'Chinese style' down the hallway.
****
"Hmmm. . . . . . . uh. . . . wolfsbane?"
"Correct as always, Mr. Potter." Snape's icy voice filled the dungeon. "And now a chance for me to be correct."
"Actually, starting a sentence with 'and' isn't grammatically correct," Hermione stated, her hand waving in the air.
Snape glared at her for all of two seconds, then turned to Harry. "You're in love with Miss Weasley, aren't you?"
Everyone gasped and stared at Harry as he turned bright red and nodded. "I love her! I wanna kiss her! I wanna love her! I wanna hold her! I wanna squeeze her!" Harry yelled.
Ginny screamed, sitting up in bed. "Oh my stinking God," she said, not believing what had just happened.
What was she dreaming? 'I'm really going mad, aren't I? Harry saying THAT in Potions class?I'm noty even IN his Potions class! I'm not in any of his classes! Why on bloody earth do I have to go through this?'
She found herself longing for Harry at three in the morning and getting pelted by pillows for screaming. "Fine. If you don't want to help me with my problems, that's fine with me. That's just FINE with me!" She decided she couldn't sleep.
Ginny got in the shower and got dressed in a pair of black, tight jeans and a blue spaghetti-strap tank-top that revealed ½ and inch of her stomach. "Fine. If you wanna let my stomach show, you stupid tank top, fine. But don't blame me when people stare. UGH! How come when all my stuff's in the laundry this is the only thing left? Thank God I have my robes." She HAD to wear those. It's not like she couldn't. Ginny pulled and threw things out of the drawer and onto the floor. AHHH. A nice, black, robe. She pleaded that it would cover the top of her jeans, because the outline of her holey underwear was showing through. "From now on, I am totally making Mum buy me jeans that FIT! And never leaving one black bra in my drawer!" she yelled and got pelted by pillows again. "Sorry," she said as she picked up all the pillows and placed them under now peaceful heads.
She hooked it around her chest and realized that the black showed through her shirt. "Oohh! That freakin' robe better be big!!"
"Somethin' wrong with your head, girl?"
"What? Oh, no, never mind." Ginny felt embarrassed, but that couldn't hold off her happiness. She smiled brightly as they walked into Potions class, and Felicia began to wonder.
"Are you sure? Cause if you haven't noticed, this is Potions class with Slytherin. And Professor Snape? You know, the nasty old hag who is staring at me right now for calling him a hag and he wants to start class so I'm gonna shut up now?"
Ginny just smiled and pretended she never knew Felicity Joshman so that Snape would give her the benefit of the doubt right then. She knew that Snape would never believe that she wanted to 'come clean' and get good grades this year. Snape just raised his eyebrows quizzically at her and gave the class their instructions.
****
Ginny was trying to study hard for the pop quiz she knew there would be in Potions the next day, but all she could think about was stupid Connor and Colin. They were so idiotic! They thought that she would go with them to the dance! Not to mention that Connor was a FIRST year. No fifth year would ever go out with a FIRST year! First years couldn't even GO to the dance! Connor was so oblivious! And then after Connor had reported that she wouldn't go out with him, Colin had the nerve to come storming over and ask WHY? And THEN, after she told him why, he said, "Oh. Then will you go with me?" Ginny was being WAY too nice when she said she'll think about it. Actually, it wasn't a lie. She WAS thinking about it. About how silly he had been! Hmmm. . . . . if Coclear plus Newtious equaled Zotear, and Zotear minus Coclear equals Newtious, then. . . . . Coclear minus Newtious equals Zotear! She had it! If she used Colin to make Harry jealous. . . . but that couldn't be right! If Coclear PLUS Newtious equaled Zotear, then how could Coclear MINUS Newtious equal Zotear? If she used Colin to make Harry jealous, what would happen to the feelings he already had? He did say he really, really, liked her. What if Harry wanted to go with her? No. . . . she was being silly. HARRY go with HER? Never! Or. . . .sometime?
****
'Ok. . . now what do I say, what do I say, what do I say?' Harry paced the common room. 'I HAVE to get her to go with me!' He saw Ginny's face in his head and his mind went wild. He started thinking crazy things, like them falling in love and getting married and. . . . . .he stopped himself. 'What am I thinking? I mean, maybe I think it's true that I love her but, that doesn't mean that it really IS true. UH! Shut up, Potter! I mean, find something to say to her! If you love her, the way to start is ask her to the dance! Hmmm. . who's a good girl I'm friends with who would know what to say? Cho Chang!'
* * * *
Cho's beautiful blonde hair floated down the hall after her, Chinese style, as she liked to call it. She couldn't have felt lazier as she walked to her class. She heard rushing footsteps behind her and smiled. 'Harry.'
"What can I do for you today?" She asked as he caught up with her.
"I'm asking this girl to the dance, you see,-"
"Yes, I thought you would. Ginny, right?"
Sometimes Cho could act so . .. Chinese, I guess. Wise. And then she'd be a normal teenager again, asking about the latest gossip from her friends.
"Uh, right." "You'll be sooooooo cute together! You know, with you being friends with her older brother- Ron, right?- and saving her from that AWFUL snake in her first year, and the way she had that soooooooo cute crush on you last year- it'll be perfect! So now, we need to set up what to say, don't we?"
Harry had stopped half a hallway ago in shock. How could she say all that stuff at lightning speed! It was incredible! Actually, no, it wasn't, but he had to think of something that would make what she just did academically sound. "Uh. . ." He caught up with her. " Yeah, I guess. But it can't be too . . . ."
"Mushy?"
"Yeah."
"Well, how about this: 'Hi Ginny. I just wanted to say hello. I've been thinking lately, and I wanted to know if you would go to the Welcoming Dance with me?'"
"That's perfect!"
"Really?"
"No!"
Cho looked hurt. "What's wrong with it? That's what every girl dreams a guy would say to her. . . . or at least me."
" 'I just wanted to say hello?' That's a total lie! If I'm going to ask her, I want to be honest."
"So how about this: 'Hi, Ginny. I've been thinking lately, and I wanted you know if you would go to the Welcoming Dance with me?"
"That's perfect!"
"Oh, I ain't fallin' for that one again!"
"No, I mean it! Really. . . . I love it! Come on, Cho. . ." Harry's voice trailed off in the distance as Cho walked off, little did Harry know, smiling as her hair floated 'Chinese style' down the hallway.
****
"Hmmm. . . . . . . uh. . . . wolfsbane?"
"Correct as always, Mr. Potter." Snape's icy voice filled the dungeon. "And now a chance for me to be correct."
"Actually, starting a sentence with 'and' isn't grammatically correct," Hermione stated, her hand waving in the air.
Snape glared at her for all of two seconds, then turned to Harry. "You're in love with Miss Weasley, aren't you?"
Everyone gasped and stared at Harry as he turned bright red and nodded. "I love her! I wanna kiss her! I wanna love her! I wanna hold her! I wanna squeeze her!" Harry yelled.
Ginny screamed, sitting up in bed. "Oh my stinking God," she said, not believing what had just happened.
What was she dreaming? 'I'm really going mad, aren't I? Harry saying THAT in Potions class?I'm noty even IN his Potions class! I'm not in any of his classes! Why on bloody earth do I have to go through this?'
She found herself longing for Harry at three in the morning and getting pelted by pillows for screaming. "Fine. If you don't want to help me with my problems, that's fine with me. That's just FINE with me!" She decided she couldn't sleep.
Ginny got in the shower and got dressed in a pair of black, tight jeans and a blue spaghetti-strap tank-top that revealed ½ and inch of her stomach. "Fine. If you wanna let my stomach show, you stupid tank top, fine. But don't blame me when people stare. UGH! How come when all my stuff's in the laundry this is the only thing left? Thank God I have my robes." She HAD to wear those. It's not like she couldn't. Ginny pulled and threw things out of the drawer and onto the floor. AHHH. A nice, black, robe. She pleaded that it would cover the top of her jeans, because the outline of her holey underwear was showing through. "From now on, I am totally making Mum buy me jeans that FIT! And never leaving one black bra in my drawer!" she yelled and got pelted by pillows again. "Sorry," she said as she picked up all the pillows and placed them under now peaceful heads.
She hooked it around her chest and realized that the black showed through her shirt. "Oohh! That freakin' robe better be big!!"