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"Good afternoon class, now today we will be transfiguring the animals before you, in to the animals your partner has. It is quite a simple task, unless you're not concentrating Mr. Potter." Professor MgGonagall sighed.
"Sorry Professor." Harry mumbled slightly blushing, he was thinking about Ginny again. He really had upset her, the way she had yelled yesterday proved that. Right now she would be in double Potions with Snape. He would like to bet Snape was giving her hell, he'd have so much more information to tease her with, and it was all his, Harry's fault.
Why had he been so selfish? She was right he didn't really need to get back at Lavender, but then if this was true why did he ask Ginny to pose as his girlfriend.
'Well Potter' his head screamed at him, 'I would have thought you would of worked that one out by now. All of those feelings you have for her.' Okay well maybe just a tiny little bit of him wanted to hurt Lavender like she had him, but the rest wanted Ginny as his girlfriend. She had been a good sport throughout the bet, and yet he'd still managed to take it too far. He wished he had lost now, for all he would be doing was 2 weeks of extra homework. That he could handle, his love life he couldn't.
"Ron are you going to kill me now?" Harry asked once they had started work, Ron looked sympathetically at him, something which Harry didn't expect,
"No mate. We need to talk later though; maybe we can try and get you back in Ginny's good books." Ron smiled at Harry as Hermione smiled sweetly at Ron, she was glad he wasn't going to flip at him.
After Transfiguration they had a free lesson, Professor Sprout was ill so all they had to do was finish her essay on 'giant crushing plants'. Harry left Ron and Hermione in the courtyard and decided to head for the Library. He went via the Potions classroom; he quickly glanced in to see Ginny sat at the back of the room, slowly mixing the potion in her cauldron. She seemed to be somewhere else hardly listening to Snape criticising her work. At the pit of his stomach he felt guilt, and in his heart sadness.
She had stood by him through so much, made sure that he never kept anything bottled up. Made him talk when he didn't really want to and listened to every single word that left his mouth. She laughed at all of his corny jokes, and then always told them to all of her friends from her year. She never hesitated to hug him when he was down, and wouldn't give up until there was a smile back on his face.
She went to every Quidditch match to support him and Ron, snuck down in to the kitchens with him at 1:00am for a midnight snack. She let him beat her at chess, and had even learnt not to flinch when people said Voldemort, so that they could have a normal conversation about him.
Harry thought of how much Ginny had grown over the last couple of years. She was now a sweet, funny, caring and understanding young woman. Even after the whole ordeal with Tom Riddle from 1st year it never seemed to get her down anymore. And if it did they would discuss it until she felt better.
Not many people saw Harry for Harry, but Ginny certainly did. She took away all of the fame along with the scar and cared for him, and his crazy rule- breaking ways. She has even attempted on many occasions to flatten his un- ruly hair.
He caught himself staring in to the class room; no one had seemed to notice him except for Ginny. She was looking at him with so much pain in her eyes that he had to look away. He continued to walk down the corridor and let out a heavy sigh, what had he done?
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"Miss Weasley you clearly weren't paying attention, 50 points from Gryffindor. Also I think a detention, you'll never pass your exams in the summer, not that I was going to hold much hope for you anyway." Snape had a very horrible smile on his face.
"You know what sir; I don't really care what you hopes are for me. The only thing I will say though is you and the rest of the Professors have got your priorities all mixed up."
"And what exactly do you mean by that?" Snape's face was getting frightenly closer to Ginny.
"What I mean by it is Malfoy breaks a nail and the whole world has to stop, and yet when I get attacked and badly beaten none of you seem to care. Where were you all? Not even Professor Dumbledore wanted to see me after what happened. They left me for dead and none of you cared." Ginny was going to yell again. Snape walked away to his desk, wrote something on a piece of paper and then returned to Ginny.
"Take this to the Headmaster." He handed her the note and then continued to walk round the class. Ginny was quite shocked she had expected more detentions but not this. It was like Snape was sending her to tell Dumbledore what happened, and what they would do about it. Either Snape wanted revenge on Pansy, or he really just wanted Ginny in more trouble. She gathered her things, muttered a goodbye to Colin and set off for the Headmasters office.
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Harry entered the library to find Ron and Hermione sat at the back. He must have been staring at Ginny for longer than he realised. He walked over to them and sat opposite them.
"Harry where have you been?" Hermione asked,
"I went for a little walk via the Dungeons." He admitted, Hermione and Ron looked at one another and slightly nodded.
"Harry we have some explaining to do." Ron began, Harry looked confused,
"Why would you two need to explain anything?"
"Well you see mate, we've not been entirely innocent during all of this. Also we've hardly been very supportive of you. I mean you don't ever complain about us being together, or being left on your own. We owe you an apology." Ron sighed.
"Why? You've done nothing wrong. And the only reason I'm supportive of you both is because you belong with one another, and I want to make sure nothing gets in the way of that."
"Harry we knew about the bet. I overheard you talking about it. We decided to just play along with you and have some fun of our own whilst doing so. But things started getting tense between you and Ginny and we decided to stop winding you up. Nearly everyone knew that you weren't together, except for Parvati and Lavender. Were so sorry Harry." Hermione apologised.
"Hang on if you knew we weren't really together than why did you and your brothers threaten me?" Harry asked, trying to take this all in,
"It was to get a little revenge for betting on your two best-friends, you would of got a talk like that anyway if you really were dating. You were so frightened by all of us, and I also noticed that you were being extra nice to Ginny when I was around." Ron explained.
"I should of guessed. I've been so stupid you know guys. You don't need to apologise for getting me back, I deserved it. At first it was cool because Lavender was really annoyed, but then the whole game changed I started falling for Ginny and caring less about what Lavender thought. I've really messed everything up between me and Ginny; I don't know what to do." Harry let out a long, slow sigh.
"Harry you do know how she feels about you?" Hermione wondered,
"Yeah I kinda guessed after yesterday's big performance, which I may add made me feel about an inch tall!" Harry shook his head.
"I think that was the whole idea mate." Ron answered.
"Things kinda went down hill from the night she was out in that storm we had. I never found out the real reason why she was out there, crying." Harry frowned,
"I do, she was crying because of me. We had quite a big argument in the common room. I told her everything that we've just told you, she got angry and we argued quite bad. I tried to make her realise that the only reason she was continuing the bet was because she cared for you so much. She tried to cover it up though, we yelled at one another bad and then she disappeared through the portrait hole. The next day though she was fine with me, I think it would of looked to suspicious if we weren't talking." Hermione took a breath.
Harry answered to Hermione, "She was about to tell me but then Dumbledore arrived and we had to drop it. You do know that we kissed properly, outside of the bet. It was me who started it but then I heard this nagging in my head, it sounded strangely like Fred saying 'she's our baby sister, Ron's younger sister'. I wanted to go and drown in the lake after that. The only thing that really confused me though was when she got beaten up, she came straight to me. We were doing fine and then 'BAM' she snaps for everyone to see."
"Look haven't I warned you about her temper." Ron grinned.
"She needs time to cool, she has had a pretty rough week, and she needed to let off a little steam. I think the best thing you can do with Ginny now is find her and apologise. At least then if she's still angry you will have explained." Ron sounded sincere.
"Can I ask you two something?" Ron and Hermione both nodded.
"Why are you both being so nice to me? I bet on y0ur relationship, I caused a massive argument between you and Ginny." He said looking at Hermione,
"Broke nearly every single rule you and your brothers set." He turned to Ron.
"I cause your sister to go mad and shout in front of everyone, and yet you two are the last two people I would have expected to be talking to me." Harry sighed again.
"You want to know why we are here talking to you?" Hermione questioned,
"It's because you could murder someone tomorrow and we'd still be here for you. We'd stick by you through anything, even though you can be a bit of a plonker at times. Were your best friends Harry, not your enemies." For the first time he realised that no matter how many times he worried he'd be left alone, or feel like the third wheel he wouldn't need to. Ron and Hermione hadn't changed one bit towards him, and he was stupid enough to think they would. He did what he never had done before; he hugged both of them showing maturity was growing quite nicely between them.
********************************************************** Okay I'm really proud of this chapter; let me know what you think? Thanks once again for all of your brilliant reviews, love you guys. Okay next chapter Ginny talks to Dumbledore and Harry makes a mend. Could possibly be my last chapter? Until next time.
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"Good afternoon class, now today we will be transfiguring the animals before you, in to the animals your partner has. It is quite a simple task, unless you're not concentrating Mr. Potter." Professor MgGonagall sighed.
"Sorry Professor." Harry mumbled slightly blushing, he was thinking about Ginny again. He really had upset her, the way she had yelled yesterday proved that. Right now she would be in double Potions with Snape. He would like to bet Snape was giving her hell, he'd have so much more information to tease her with, and it was all his, Harry's fault.
Why had he been so selfish? She was right he didn't really need to get back at Lavender, but then if this was true why did he ask Ginny to pose as his girlfriend.
'Well Potter' his head screamed at him, 'I would have thought you would of worked that one out by now. All of those feelings you have for her.' Okay well maybe just a tiny little bit of him wanted to hurt Lavender like she had him, but the rest wanted Ginny as his girlfriend. She had been a good sport throughout the bet, and yet he'd still managed to take it too far. He wished he had lost now, for all he would be doing was 2 weeks of extra homework. That he could handle, his love life he couldn't.
"Ron are you going to kill me now?" Harry asked once they had started work, Ron looked sympathetically at him, something which Harry didn't expect,
"No mate. We need to talk later though; maybe we can try and get you back in Ginny's good books." Ron smiled at Harry as Hermione smiled sweetly at Ron, she was glad he wasn't going to flip at him.
After Transfiguration they had a free lesson, Professor Sprout was ill so all they had to do was finish her essay on 'giant crushing plants'. Harry left Ron and Hermione in the courtyard and decided to head for the Library. He went via the Potions classroom; he quickly glanced in to see Ginny sat at the back of the room, slowly mixing the potion in her cauldron. She seemed to be somewhere else hardly listening to Snape criticising her work. At the pit of his stomach he felt guilt, and in his heart sadness.
She had stood by him through so much, made sure that he never kept anything bottled up. Made him talk when he didn't really want to and listened to every single word that left his mouth. She laughed at all of his corny jokes, and then always told them to all of her friends from her year. She never hesitated to hug him when he was down, and wouldn't give up until there was a smile back on his face.
She went to every Quidditch match to support him and Ron, snuck down in to the kitchens with him at 1:00am for a midnight snack. She let him beat her at chess, and had even learnt not to flinch when people said Voldemort, so that they could have a normal conversation about him.
Harry thought of how much Ginny had grown over the last couple of years. She was now a sweet, funny, caring and understanding young woman. Even after the whole ordeal with Tom Riddle from 1st year it never seemed to get her down anymore. And if it did they would discuss it until she felt better.
Not many people saw Harry for Harry, but Ginny certainly did. She took away all of the fame along with the scar and cared for him, and his crazy rule- breaking ways. She has even attempted on many occasions to flatten his un- ruly hair.
He caught himself staring in to the class room; no one had seemed to notice him except for Ginny. She was looking at him with so much pain in her eyes that he had to look away. He continued to walk down the corridor and let out a heavy sigh, what had he done?
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"Miss Weasley you clearly weren't paying attention, 50 points from Gryffindor. Also I think a detention, you'll never pass your exams in the summer, not that I was going to hold much hope for you anyway." Snape had a very horrible smile on his face.
"You know what sir; I don't really care what you hopes are for me. The only thing I will say though is you and the rest of the Professors have got your priorities all mixed up."
"And what exactly do you mean by that?" Snape's face was getting frightenly closer to Ginny.
"What I mean by it is Malfoy breaks a nail and the whole world has to stop, and yet when I get attacked and badly beaten none of you seem to care. Where were you all? Not even Professor Dumbledore wanted to see me after what happened. They left me for dead and none of you cared." Ginny was going to yell again. Snape walked away to his desk, wrote something on a piece of paper and then returned to Ginny.
"Take this to the Headmaster." He handed her the note and then continued to walk round the class. Ginny was quite shocked she had expected more detentions but not this. It was like Snape was sending her to tell Dumbledore what happened, and what they would do about it. Either Snape wanted revenge on Pansy, or he really just wanted Ginny in more trouble. She gathered her things, muttered a goodbye to Colin and set off for the Headmasters office.
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Harry entered the library to find Ron and Hermione sat at the back. He must have been staring at Ginny for longer than he realised. He walked over to them and sat opposite them.
"Harry where have you been?" Hermione asked,
"I went for a little walk via the Dungeons." He admitted, Hermione and Ron looked at one another and slightly nodded.
"Harry we have some explaining to do." Ron began, Harry looked confused,
"Why would you two need to explain anything?"
"Well you see mate, we've not been entirely innocent during all of this. Also we've hardly been very supportive of you. I mean you don't ever complain about us being together, or being left on your own. We owe you an apology." Ron sighed.
"Why? You've done nothing wrong. And the only reason I'm supportive of you both is because you belong with one another, and I want to make sure nothing gets in the way of that."
"Harry we knew about the bet. I overheard you talking about it. We decided to just play along with you and have some fun of our own whilst doing so. But things started getting tense between you and Ginny and we decided to stop winding you up. Nearly everyone knew that you weren't together, except for Parvati and Lavender. Were so sorry Harry." Hermione apologised.
"Hang on if you knew we weren't really together than why did you and your brothers threaten me?" Harry asked, trying to take this all in,
"It was to get a little revenge for betting on your two best-friends, you would of got a talk like that anyway if you really were dating. You were so frightened by all of us, and I also noticed that you were being extra nice to Ginny when I was around." Ron explained.
"I should of guessed. I've been so stupid you know guys. You don't need to apologise for getting me back, I deserved it. At first it was cool because Lavender was really annoyed, but then the whole game changed I started falling for Ginny and caring less about what Lavender thought. I've really messed everything up between me and Ginny; I don't know what to do." Harry let out a long, slow sigh.
"Harry you do know how she feels about you?" Hermione wondered,
"Yeah I kinda guessed after yesterday's big performance, which I may add made me feel about an inch tall!" Harry shook his head.
"I think that was the whole idea mate." Ron answered.
"Things kinda went down hill from the night she was out in that storm we had. I never found out the real reason why she was out there, crying." Harry frowned,
"I do, she was crying because of me. We had quite a big argument in the common room. I told her everything that we've just told you, she got angry and we argued quite bad. I tried to make her realise that the only reason she was continuing the bet was because she cared for you so much. She tried to cover it up though, we yelled at one another bad and then she disappeared through the portrait hole. The next day though she was fine with me, I think it would of looked to suspicious if we weren't talking." Hermione took a breath.
Harry answered to Hermione, "She was about to tell me but then Dumbledore arrived and we had to drop it. You do know that we kissed properly, outside of the bet. It was me who started it but then I heard this nagging in my head, it sounded strangely like Fred saying 'she's our baby sister, Ron's younger sister'. I wanted to go and drown in the lake after that. The only thing that really confused me though was when she got beaten up, she came straight to me. We were doing fine and then 'BAM' she snaps for everyone to see."
"Look haven't I warned you about her temper." Ron grinned.
"She needs time to cool, she has had a pretty rough week, and she needed to let off a little steam. I think the best thing you can do with Ginny now is find her and apologise. At least then if she's still angry you will have explained." Ron sounded sincere.
"Can I ask you two something?" Ron and Hermione both nodded.
"Why are you both being so nice to me? I bet on y0ur relationship, I caused a massive argument between you and Ginny." He said looking at Hermione,
"Broke nearly every single rule you and your brothers set." He turned to Ron.
"I cause your sister to go mad and shout in front of everyone, and yet you two are the last two people I would have expected to be talking to me." Harry sighed again.
"You want to know why we are here talking to you?" Hermione questioned,
"It's because you could murder someone tomorrow and we'd still be here for you. We'd stick by you through anything, even though you can be a bit of a plonker at times. Were your best friends Harry, not your enemies." For the first time he realised that no matter how many times he worried he'd be left alone, or feel like the third wheel he wouldn't need to. Ron and Hermione hadn't changed one bit towards him, and he was stupid enough to think they would. He did what he never had done before; he hugged both of them showing maturity was growing quite nicely between them.
********************************************************** Okay I'm really proud of this chapter; let me know what you think? Thanks once again for all of your brilliant reviews, love you guys. Okay next chapter Ginny talks to Dumbledore and Harry makes a mend. Could possibly be my last chapter? Until next time.
