Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal
By: Rachelfan5000
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Chapter 19 - From What Ginny says
Harry and Ginny broke apart rather violently. Ginny turned beetroot and Harry was pretty sure he looked the same. Harry looked at the floor in embarrassment and he saw Ginny disguising her face out of the corner of his eye.
Ron seemed to be towering over him, Ron being so tall and Harry quite short. Hermione was standing behind Ron, Harry couldn't see her face but during his gaze at the floor he noticed she was wearing some rather pretty and not too difficult to walk in shoes. Beside him he realised Roxie was making fake sick noises, ("Yuk - eeeeewwww.")
"Erm," it appeared Ron didn't know how to phrase the situation and was rather slow, lost and confused in the emotions swirling around the hall at that very moment, "why are you snogging my little sister?" Ginny stiffened angrily at the word 'little.'
"Why were you snogging Hermione that time in Hogsmeade?" Ginny said quickly and cleverly. Ron went bright red. Harry could see Hermione turning to help Neville, who'd just fallen over his date for the six-billionth time in a row.
"You saw that?!" Ron asked, looking horrified, as if Ginny had turned into the biggest, meanest spider in the universe.
"You bet I did - I ran all the way back to Hogwarts, met Professor McGonagall who told me about being the team Keeper, she noticed I was in a rush and told me to speak about Quidditch with Harry, but the whole time I was thinking about the whole, rather scary, situation," Ginny said, then she shivered.
"Look, Ron, Ginny and me…um…well -" Harry said slowly, Hermione cut him off.
"Harry and Ginny have been together since the end of October," Hermione informed Ron. It was Harry's turn to be confused.
"How did you-" Harry began. For not the first time, Hermione started before Harry finished his sentence.
"A little blabber told me," Hermione said, eyeing Franscesca, who noticed everyone looking at her, she self-consciously tried to smooth down her short blonde hair and she turned a pale pink.
Ginny looked as though she was about to murder Franscesca. Harry saw Franscesca gulp, before turning to her date and dancing violently, waving her arms around like a loony.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Ron seemed insulted, as he looked between his best friend and sister.
"Looks like Frankie did it for us, anyway, you never breathed a word about you and Hermione," Ginny mumbled, rubbing her eyes, "it's getting late, Harry, dya wanna call it a night?"
Harry nodded. Eager to get out of the way of the many still-staring (although a few couples were still dancing,) students. He took Ginny's hand and they left the hall for the common room. As they left Harry could've sworn he'd heard Roxie say something like:
"Them two…they're always like that."
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"What is it?" Harry asked, holding up the chain that Ginny had got him for Christmas, he had taken it off on a couch in the Common Room. Which was empty because of everyone at the Ball, it turned out Ron and Hermione had decided to stay for the remainder of the ball instead of take off after Harry and Ginny. Harry was glad.
"Haven't you guessed?" asked Ginny, sounding disappointed.
"Was I supposed to?" Harry questioned. Ginny shrugged.
"Nah - guess not, anyways," she held up a delicate chain necklace that was resting on her own neck, Harry noticed it had a little heart shape with a keyhole in the middle hanging from the necklace. "I don't know what they're called, but it'll enable us to know when the other is in danger, or hurt and injured." Harry smiled, trust Ginny to come up with something like this. He caught a glimpse of the heart that swung on Ginny's necklace, he noticed some words engraved on the back in very small letters.
"Hey - What does it say on the back?" Harry asked, indicating the heart. Ginny's face turned a bright pink, but she held it up and read aloud:
"Whoever owns the key is the only one who can open up my heart," she mumbled, without looking up at Harry. Who realised why his chain had a key on the end. He nodded at her.
"So, you knew that Ron and Hermione were…er…going out?" Harry questioned Ginny, who nodded in answer.
"For ages…anyway, it was getting pretty obvious they liked each other last year, well, remember that day I got on the Quidditch team, it was a Hogsmeade day, I never, er, told you what happened before then," Ginny said, with an expression of disgust at her later words.
"I see," said Harry, not knowing what else to say.
"I was with Rach and Frankie that day, Rach had just started going out with that Ravenclaw chaser and Frankie was fussing that she needed new everything to impress him. I got bored and wandered off, and, well, I stumbled across my brother and Hermione…er…snogging." Ginny continued, Harry felt a sudden urge to laugh out loud. But Ginny had more of her story.
"The sight was, well, sickening, I don't think they noticed me, but I ran all the way back to Hogwarts and grabbed my broom, I thought a quick fly around the grounds would make me feel a little less ill. However, then Professor McGonagall came out from nowhere, said…" Ginny paused and blushed, "anyway, then I came back to the tower and met you. But I happen to know Hermione and Ron had probably been making out all over the castle ever since."
Ginny's big brown eyes looked up at Harry, they both turned away in order to stop themselves from laughing too loudly.
"I think everyone's coming back from the Yule Ball now," Harry said, as echoing footsteps ventured nearer and nearer to the portrait of the fat lady, who was probably expecting them any moment.
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Hey I'm carrying on with the story even after Ootp -- and I know this chapter wasn't very good. But at least Ginny explained about R/Hr. Anyway, I've been working on this story too long to just quit now. So I'll post this tomorrow and all you darlings out there: REVIEW!
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