Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all the other stuff related to it does not belong to me. Damn.

Ch. 2 Up To the Castle
As the Hogwarts Express slowly pulled into Hogsmeade, Harry, Ron, Hermoine, and Ginny moved towards the exit of the train. The group pushed its way through the bustling students, but as the foursome was split up when a third years cat went insane when a filibuster firework exploded.
"Where did Hermione and Ron go," asked Ginny who was having trouble moving through the thick crowd.
"They probably went to get a carriage for themselves," joked Harry as he started to push a path through the students, allowing Ginny to follow in his wake.
"Well we might as well get to the carriages before we're late, I'd hate to miss the sorting again," said Harry.
"Yeah, we'd better. AH!" yelped Ginny as she was roughly hit by a familiar moleskin coat. Instinctively Harry lunged forward and caught Ginny before she hit the ground (a/n: had to have a falling/catching scene).
"Oh sorry there Ginny, didn' see yeh there," apologized Hagrid, "alright there Harry.
"Yeah Hagrid I'm fine."
"Good," replied Hagrid, "I'll see you at the feast. First years this way!"
At this Hagrid rounded up the seemingly tiny first years, including a very odd witch who seemed to be wearing a cape, a bow tie, and of all things a helmet, and led them to the boats that would take them across the lake to the castle to be sorted.
After Hagrid had turned away Harry realized that he was still holding Ginny up in his arms. He was about to release her but looked at her expression. Her brown eyes seemed to have glazed over and she had a bit of a goofy smile on her face as if she were having the most pleasant dream.
"Er. Ginny are you all right?"
"What.eh.er.yeah I'm fine," said Ginny hastily as she stood up and a blush came across her face.
"Are you sure you seemed to have blanked out for a minute,"
"Oh yeah fine.fine, never better," said Ginny as she avoided eye contact with Harry.
"We had better go catch those carriages before they leave us behind," suggested Ginny who still wouldn't look at Harry and quickly made her way towards the thestral guided coaches with Harry following closely behind
'Why was Ginny acting like this?' thought Harry as he and Ginny climbed into one of the last coaches. Surely Ginny still didn't have that little crush on him. Although she did seem to be showing the same signs Harry had noticed during his first couple years in the wizarding world. She was still blushing and determined to look at the thestral leading the coach, although she couldn't see them. Maybe she wasn't completely over him like he had thought. But somehow that didn't seem so bad.

A/N: the next chapter should be up in a couple days. Sorry I couldn't update sooner. I got grounded from all electrical devices for a couple of days.