Chapter 9
Ron ran down the stairs pulling Ginny by the arm and stormed up the Girls' dormitory.
"Good-bye Harry!" Ginny yelled being whisked away from him.
When Ron and Ginny got up to her dormitory all the fourth year girls, saw Ron dragging poor Ginny up to her room. "OUT ALL OF YOU!" Looking at Ron as if he was a mad man.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" Ginny screamed at him.
"WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING, MORE LIKE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! First, go get that silly make-over. Second, you cut your hair. Third, you start hanging out with Harry, a lot. I should have caught on! Fourth, you agree to go to the ball with him! Fifth, YOU KISS HIM! Now, you use those words to me! HOW DARE YOU!"
"YOU'RE TELLING ME 'HOW DARE YOU'? OH, NO MY BROTHER! HOW DARE YOU! I'VE FINALLY GROWING UP! I FINALLY FIND SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT ME AND YOU DRAG ME OFF LIKE SOMEKIND OF STEPCHILD! THEN YOU TELL ALL MY ROOMMATES TO GET OUT! THEN YOU SCREAM AT ME LIKE A CRAZY MAN! SO I TELL YOU HOW DARE YOU!" With that Ginny pushed Ron out of her bedroom and shut the door in his face. Ginny soon changed into her pajamas, closed the draperies around her four poster bed, and cried herself to sleep out of embarrassment.
The next morning a girl in her dormitory, Bridget Dunn, came up to Ginny's bed to wake her up.
"Please, Bridget, just leave me alone! Harry will never talk to me again, as I have a mad man for my brother."
"Maybe."
"Oh, gee thanks!" Ginny threw herself back into her pillow.
"But, if Harry Potter is never going to talk to you again, then who's the guy that's been knocking on our door every five minutes for the last hour asking for you?" Ginny opened the curtains with a hope of a smile. To see Bridget smiling and shaking her head Ginny got dressed to met Harry downstairs. When Ginny got down there Harry nor Ron were downstairs. Only Hermione and she looked exhausted.
"What's wrong 'Mione?" Ginny asked, and Hermione jumped at the mention of being addressed to giving Ginny a big sigh.
"Before I start, Harry said that these were for you." Hermione pulled out a beautiful bouquet of red roses. "The boys'."
"Oh, NO! What did Ron do now?"
"Are you sure you'll be able to hear this?" Ginny gulped, "Yes."
"Well, when Ron got back to his dormitory, Harry wasn't there. Harry had left with the invisibility cloak. So by the time Harry got back Ron was sleeping. This morning Ron yelled at Harry in front of the entire common room." Ginny fell on the sofa on the verge of crying. "That's not the worst of it. Ron told Harry to break it off with you, or else. Harry said he cared for you and he wasn't going to get rid of you and Ron punched Harry in the face. They got into a terrible fight, until I split it up."
"OH MY! Please tell me your just picking on me."
"I wish I was."
"What did Fred and George say?"
"They told Ron to lay off that you and Harry were finally happy, and Harry was probably the only guy that they could ever trust to be around you. But, Ron kept ranting and raving."
Ginny sniffled, "Well, you know what has to happen right?" A tear shivered down her face.
"NO! Ginny you can't. You've been in love with Harry since my first year!"
"I can't help it. I can't come between Harry and Ron and no matter how much Harry means to me. I h-have t-too. I can't come between best friends." Ginny broke down and Hermione put her arm around Ginny to let her grieve about losing the one guy she'd ever truly loved.
"Ron! Ron! Will you please, let me explain!" Harry said running after his best friend of five years.
"Fine, do the best you can, cradle rocker." Ron said sourly, standing right outside the Fat Lady and she seemed very interested in this argument.
"Cradle Rocker? Ginny's only six months younger than me. Ginny's a wonderful girl…"
"Don't you know that I'm aware of how wonderful Ginny is! Ginny's my baby sister! I don't want anyone to hurt her! Especially you!" Ron screamed.
"AND WHY ME?" Harry was really starting to get tired of Ron's tantrum.
"Because, Ginny is second best. Ginny always be second best."
"SECOND BEST! WHAT THE HELL? WHERE DO YOU GET THIS SHIT?"
"Cho! You know, everyone knows you that you are in love with the lovely Cho Chang! I don't want my baby sister to be second best to Cho Chang! Harry, you know that if Cho ever got over the whole Cedric thing, you'd be all over her in a heartbeat. And totally forget my poor little sister! So save Ginny the pain now! STAY AWAY FROM HER!" Ron exasperated.
Harry grabbed Ron's shoulder to make sure Ron understood all of what he was saying, "Look, I don't care about Cho anymore, we're only friends! I have some really strong feelings for Ginny. I can't help it, and we've all known for a while that Ginny fancies me. You know I'd never do anything wrong to Ginny or with her."
"I don't care! Leave her alone!"
"But, Ron…"
"No, Harry." Ginny just stepped up it was obvious that she'd heard the whole conversation. "I'm sorry H-h-Harry. B-but, we can't d-do this anym-ore. R-Ron doesn't w-want m-me with you, and that's it. B-but I'll always k-keep you in m-my h-h-heart." She kissed Harry on the cheek, and ran into Gryffindor Tower bawling.
"NOW SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE! YOU'VE BROKEN HER HEART!" Hermione was screaming at the top of her lungs at Ron. Hermione would probably be tearing his eyes out if it wasn't for Fred and George. One holding her right arm, the other on the left. "Okay. Fred, George. You can let go of me I won't attack Ron."
"Don't know. Maybe we should let her tear him apart." Fred said.
"Let's see what she does." George said and the twins let Hermione go.
Hermione just put her finger in Ron's face and told him exactly what she felt. "Your sister bought a dress to match perfectly with her hair so that it didn't clash, as so many colors clash with red hair. Did you hear me? Perfectly matched! That's hard to do! As Ginny said 'So maybe one day Harry will see me the way I see him.' But, now a dress didn't depend on if Harry fancied her or not. Now, Ginny has all the love she could get out of him, yes she got it without getting hurt. One kiss, just one kiss and you turn into a madman. You've hurt Ginny, more than any guy could ever do. What the hell are you going to do when Ginny gets married? Kill every guy so Ginny never gets married. So Ginny never has a Honeymoon? I've got on answer for you Ronald Weasley, since Ginny now doesn't have a date to the Ball neither do YOU! I'll be in Ginny's room comforting her. Good luck. Good riddance!" With that Hermione stormed off to comfort Ginny.
"Harry, I…"
"Don't talk to me Ron, I've had enough."
Harry went upstairs to his dormitory, got a quill, ink, parchment, and wrote:
My dearest Ginny,
I'm very sorry your brother is embarrassing you like this, we could still go. Let Ron try and hit me, I really don't care. I want to be with you at the dance and I couldn't imagine being with anyone else. Hermione's now not going with Ron and I know this isn't the longest letter. But I had to let you know how I felt, please forgive me for this.
With love,
Harry
With a tap of his wand and Harry saying 'Ginny Pronto!' It was sent straight to the pillow on Ginny's bed.
"What's that Ginny?" Hermione asked.
"Note from Harry," Ginny sniffled out. "You want to read it with me?"
"If you don't mind."
They read the note together. Afterwards, Hermione started jumping like a Mexican Jumping Bean.
"Okay. This is what you've got to do. You've got to get Harry to come up before he leaves for the dance….."
Dearest Harry,
Hermione and I have talked, you should still go to the dance. I'll be fine, I promise. I'm going to just re-due my hair that night. Hermione is still going to go with Ron. I'll try and show up, but I can't guarantee anything. I really wanted to go with you. Just promise me one thing come up to my dorm before you leave so I can see how amazing you would of looked on my arm.
Always yours,
Ginny
"Harry Pronto!"
Harry smiled to see that Ginny had already responded back. 'NO! I will not go without her.' Harry marched out of his dormitory and up to the Girls' Dormitory to walk into Ginny's room.
"Ginny there is no way in bloody hell I'm going without you."
"Harry just do it, for me, please."
"Fine, but I'm going alone."
"Okay," Ginny said smiling with and Hermione had been right, Harry shouldn't have to suffer just because of her idiotic brother.
Three days later…
Hermione finally decided to talk to Ron, "What did I do now?" Ron asked, as Hermione approached him.
"You don't have a new date, yet do you?"
"Um, no. Why?" Ron said with a grin upon his face.
"You are taking me."
"What about Ginny."
"Ginny told me to go."
"Is Harry staying?" Ron asked suspecting something.
"No, Ginny told Harry to go and have a nice time."
"Okay."
"Ron?"
"Hmm?"
"You should really apologize to Ginny."
"I know."
The night of the dance, Ginny had helped Hermione get ready. Hermione looked incredible as the girls had charmed Hermione's hair to lie flat. Ginny fixed Hermione's hair in an up do, where Hermione was starting to look like a princess. Hermione's dress looked like it came from Shakespeare's time, it was purple and Hermione looked tremendous. This was going to be the best masquerade ball ever and it was too bad that Ginny wouldn't be able to go with Harry.
"I just wish you were going," Hermione said sadly. "You could at least get to dance with Harry."
"Hermione's right," Bridget Dunn spoke up as Bridget was dressed as a fairy, her date was going to be Ernie McMillian from Hufflepuff.
"I'll be okay by myself, don't want to temp myself. The both of you have fun tonight." Ginny said walking downstairs to the common room, but she wouldn't have to walk very far as Harry as at Ginny's bedroom door.
"Harry!" Ginny threw her arms around him.
"I still wish you could come. Why are you even listening to that fool?"
"Are you still not talking to him?"
"Right you are."
Ginny shrugged her shoulders, "Well, have fun. I'm just going to finish a Potion assignments."
"Before I leave, these are for you." Harry handed Ginny two dozen rose that changed colors. Ginny hugged Harry good-bye.
The dance was a blast! Ron and Hermione were enjoying themselves a little too much. McGonagall had to keep telling the act like there's an watermelon between the two of them. Pavarti and Seamus went together, Lavender with Dean, Fred went with Angelina, and George with Katie. Even Malfoy had a date, Pansy Parkinson from Slytherin, again. Harry felt like he was the only person without a date. The only two people he didn't see there was….Ginny, of course. And believe it or not…Cho.
Harry went over to the drink table and got himself a drink. It hadn't been spiked yet, 'The Weasley twins were losing their touch', Harry thought with a chuckle. Harry sat down at a table against the wall by himself. Harry had dressed up like Zorro, a Muggle character from a Muggle television show. All of a sudden, Hedwig flew inside and landed with a note to Harry.
Your eyes the finest shade of green,
I would never want to see them on the side of mean.
Look for me tonight,
As I sent this note by your owl by flight.
I'll give you a clue the color you'll want to be seen,
Will be my dress, the shade of brilliant green.
Just then Harry felt a tap on his shoulder, and there was a girl in a dress identical to Hermione's except it was hunter brilliant green, just like the note said.
"Who are you?" The mystery girl shook her head and took Harry's hand to dance with him as she led Harry out to the dance floor for some slow dancing.
Harry tried to figure out who this mystery girl was, but she had a mask over her face and her hair all pulled up into a bun with a brilliant green lace over it. The Great Hall was much too dark to make out the color of her eyes or hair color. But when she laughed, that laugh…Harry knew it instantly. It was so light and special. The D.J. announced that after this dance, the unmasking would begin. The song started and the mystery girl put her head on Harry's shoulder. 'Just my luck, if Ron looks over here,' Harry thought to himself.
"Um, do you want to leave?" Harry asked the mystery girl and she nodded her head yes. The mystery girl then slipped a brilliant green cloak over her and bewitched something over here hair so when they got into the light Harry couldn't recognize her. The mystery girl smiled and kissed his lips sweetly, giggled and ran up the stairs. 'Was that who I thought it was…no way.'