Chapter 16

When Gwynny awoke, she was once again in the Hospital Wing. Ron and Hermione were asleep at the foot of her bed, their chairs pushed together, and Hermione's head was leaning on Ron's shoulder. Harry sat beside her, looking at her in concern.

"Are you ok?" He whispered, being careful not to awaken Ron or Hermione.

"Fine." Gwynny said, nodding.

"What happened?"

"I have no idea." Gwynny said, shaking her head in confusion, "I've just been feeling ill, is all, and I guess it took its toll."

"Well, I'm glad you're alright." Harry paused, as if trying to gather his courage. "Ginny, over the past year, I've begun to see you in a different light. I know that you couldn't possibly still have a crush on me after so long, but I just wanted to tell you…well, I really, really like you."

"Harry, I like you a lot too." Gwynny said softly, saying exactly what she knew her mother would say in such a circumstance.

"Really?" He grinned. "Oh, that's wonderful." His head began to descend, and Gwynny's eyes widened in horror. Sweet Merlin, he's going to kiss me!

~*~

Kati and Danni browsed the aisles in Dervish and Banges.

"No!" Danni muttered, throwing the candle she'd picked up back onto the shelf, "This is all wrong!"

"What's the matter?" Kati asked, looking up from the rows of potions ingredients. She mightn't like Potions very much, but she found the ingredients very interesting to look at for some reason.

"None of these candles are what we need for the incantation! They're either the right scent, wrong colour, right colour, wrong scent, or they're the right scent and colour, but the wrong size!"

"Well, why don't you just use magic to change that?" Kati asked, frowning.

"It doesn't work that way. You know what this means, don't you?"

"No, what?" Kati asked cluelessly. Danni's eyes twinkled.

"We're going to Muggle London."

~*~

Ginny frowned, and looked at the picture that had caused Kati to look so shocked.

"How odd." She muttered. The girl in the photo had brilliant green eyes, but the writing underneath clearly said 'Ginny Weasley'. "I wonder." She took out her most recent photo of Gwynny, and held it next to the picture of 'Ginny' just as she suspected, they were identical, except the picture of 'Ginny' looked older and more mature. She stood up, and ran for the door, "HARRY!"

~*~

"Where do we go from here?" Kati asked, as they hopped off the train. They'd gotten in to town just in time to catch the Platform 6 and 2/3rds into Greenwich Station, and they had to catch another train to get to London.

"Well," Danni consulted the map. "If we run really, really fast, we might be in time for the 11 o'clock train to Upper London Station. If not, we might as well walk, because we're screwed until tomorrow."

"Let's go then!" Kati said, and they took off running, just managing to get on the train in time. Kati took her Dad's invisibility cloak out of her bag; she was quite the pickpocket, and threw it over both of them, so the ticket collector didn't see that they were on the train without tickets.

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"Ok, we need to find a store called…The Rainbow Moon." Danni said, consulting a small muggle notebook. She crossed off some lines of notes, which obviously contained the way to get to London.

"You're well prepared." She remarked, as Danni took out some muggle money and began to count it.

"I always have at least 200 pounds in case of emergencies, and I was pretty sure we weren't going to find what we needed in Dervish and Banges."

"Is that it?" Kati asked, pointing to a small shop hidden in a side street.

"Yes, it is!" Danni exclaimed, throwing her arms around Kati.

"Get a room, freaks." A beautiful blonde their age sneered, as she walked past.

"Yeah, lemons." Smirked her brunette friend.

"Oh my god, Dan, they think we're lesbians." Kati giggled.

"I do believe you're right, Kat. What losers." Danni agreed loudly, as the two girls hurried along, abashed.

"Ok, what now?" Kati asked, watching the girls hurry away.

"Duh! Let's go and get the candles and things." Danni said, grinning. Kati laughed, and looped one arm over Danni's shoulder.

~*~

Gwynny turned her head, so Harry ended up kissing her cheek instead. Harry leant back, looking hurt.

"What's wrong?" He asked. "I thought you said you liked me."

"Harry." Gwynny sighed, "I'm going against everything Dumbledore says here, but I have to tell you…

~Preview for Chapter 17~

"Whoa!" Kati exclaimed. Danni watched in horror, as Kati tipped to the side, and all the boxes fell over. She fell to the floor and hit her head.

"Kati?" Danni cried in alarm, as blood seeped from a cut on Kati's head.

Uh oh…Gwynny's gonna tell Harry…she'll change history! I guess that's why they invented obliviate…