A/N: I dedicate this chapter to Sirius.

Chapter 6 – January

Thursday 1st January

Me and Harry eventually parted lips and I stared at him with my mouth hanging open like a goldfish, then realised how stupid I looked so I quickly closed my mouth. We continued staring at each other, both of us not muttering a word and the only sounds heard were our own breaths and the cheering downstairs.

I decided to break the silence but when I began to say: "Harry…look" Harry said at the same time: "Ginny, look". We both blushed and inclined our heads. "Ginny, I really care about you and I'm going to end it with Cho so we can be together. Is that what you want?" Harry asked his green eyes staring into my hazel ones.

This question swirled in my mind. I thought back to when I started to like him 5 years ago and how I had never imagined to he would ever ask me this question. Years had gone by and my silly, girly crush turned into the real thing… love.

I looked at Harry, my heart was pumping madly in my chest, I could barely get the words out. "Harry, I love you. Of course I want to be with you"

Sunday 4th January

The next few days seemed to be a blur. Everyone had come back from their families, including Cho. I was walking to the common room when I saw Harry usher Cho over to him into an empty classroom. He looked rather tense and worried and I felt a wave of sympathy to him.

A few minutes later, I saw Cho running out of the room with a tear stained face but also looking extremely angry. She glared at me which shocked me slightly. I decided when she had left that I must see Harry.

I went and put my books in my dorm and walked up the staircase to find Harry and opened the 5th year boy's dormitory door. I saw Harry sitting on his bed writing on a piece of parchment. He heard me enter and looked up, smiling warily. "Hi" he said croakily. "Hi" I replied. "What are you writing?" I asked.

"A letter to Sirius, I just needed someone to talk to" Harry replied. "Do you miss him?" I asked. "Yeah, but I hope to be seeing him a lot more often this year" he replied smiling cheerfully.

"How did it go with Cho?" I asked innocently. Harry lowered his head and folded his parchment before he replied. "Terrible. She was so upset that she started screaming at me and threw a book at my arm" Harry said as he lifted up his shirt sleeve to show a nasty purple bruise. "Then she started accusing me of seeing someone else, saying she knew it was you. How she knew I have no idea. I wouldn't put it past her to have planted a camera on me" Harry said. I laughed gently, now understanding why Cho had looked at me like that.

"It doesn't matter now, I have you now" Harry said and he held my hand. The door opened suddenly and me and Harry let go of each others hands. Ron stood there but we realised he had already seen. I thought Ron would yell at me and start hitting Harry but he didn't, he simply said: "About time" and he smiled. We both smiled back and Harry decided to go and post his owl to his godfather.

Monday 5th January

I thought my week would be wonderful now that I was with Harry but it didn't seem like it. Cho still seemed to be blaming me for Harry dumping her and always glared at me when I passed her in the corridors. It was quite upsetting really but I figured it couldn't be any worse than that.

Monday 12th January

Well, it did. All week Cho has been getting worse and worse. Not only does she glare at me, she now trips me up when I pass her and sneer at me and call me a 'slut' and a 'minging ginger freak'.

Wednesday 14th January

It's becoming even worse. I'm frequently called a 'minging ginger freak' every time Cho sees me. I want to tell someone but I know she'll stop soon… she just has to…

Friday 16th January

My friends are beginning to become worried about me. I keep greeting them in lessons looking on the verge of tears because I've just had Cho trip me or insult me. Harry's worried about me as well but I can't tell him, he'd blame himself. It has to get better though, soon enough Cho will realise that what she is doing is wrong and she'll stop. She has to.

Monday 21st January

I…can't…do…this…anymore! I'm sitting on my bed crying. Cho's becoming worse and even more horrible. She's resulted to throwing mud at me and pouring water over my head and pushing me into the dirt and saying it was me. I've become so quiet lately and keep running to and from my lessons to avoid Cho.

I was running from Transfiguration when I tripped up over my shoelaces and landed flat on my face. "Ginny? Are you alright?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw Hermione looking down at me looking worried. She held out her hand and I took it willingly.

"What's wrong Ginny? You've been acting so strange recently, has something happened?" Hermione asked. I couldn't talk, my mouth felt dry and sore. I tried to make out words but I ended up crying long and hard. Hermione hugged me and whispered softly: "It's ok Ginny. I think we need to talk, come with me to the library" Hermione said.

I followed her with a million thoughts going through my mind. 'I couldn't tell her, she'd tell someone or make me tell someone. Like Dumbledore, McGonagall, or even Harry'.  

She led me over to a small, round table and asked me to sit down. I took a deep breath and decided I couldn't keep it to myself anymore, I had to tell someone. So I told her everything. About Cho's glares, insults, pranks, abusive words and how yesterday (it was too painful to write about) that she had actually physically kicked and punched me.

When I had finished my story I started to cry once again and Hermione looked at me sadly, her own tears swelling in her eyes. "It's going to be ok Ginny, I'll help you. But we really need to tell Harry" Hermione said. "No! We can't! Harry would blame himself. We can't tell Harry anything!" I replied fearfully.

"We can't tell Harry what?" said Harry from behind me.

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A/N: Sorry that it was quite short but the next one should be slightly longer. Please Review if you want to read more!