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Chapter 4: Out In The Open
I sat down in the middle of the Hogwarts grounds with Hermione. We had arranged to meet Harry and Ron there in ten minutes. They said that they needed to borrow something for us to have a little fun with. I was intrigued to say the least.
I sat with Hermione; talking about how much fun the ball was going to be. What our perfect nights would be like. We hadn't been talking long when I heard laughing and turned around to see Ron walking along bouncing the Quaffle on the ground. I didn't know that the Quaffle could bounce. Ron kicked it in our direction, Hermione shrieked and ducked and I caught it expertly.
I stood up and kicked it back to my brother.
"How'd you manage this?" I asked, amused.
"We have our ways," Harry said, coming up to me. "Who's for a game of soccer?" Harry asked. Ron and I looked at him slightly confused.
"Oh right. I forgot. You have two teams, in this case, me and Ginny, you and Hermione. You have to try to kick the ball through each other's goals. The goals in this case are between those two trees," he said pointing towards two trees by Hagrid's hut. Now, your goals can be." he said looking around.
"Between the rocks by the lake and that tree." Hermione said pointing towards the destination.
"Yeah. What Hermione said." Harry said, grinning for no particular reason.
"So. Shall we play?" I asked, nervous. I had absolutely no idea of what I was supposed to do.
"Yes!" Harry cried before grabbing me by the hand and pulling me towards our goals.
"Harry! I have no idea what to do!" I said whimpering pathetically.
"Just kick the ball away from our goal and your doing fine!" Harry said before running towards Ron laughing his head off.
"Just kick the ball." I murmured to myself concentrating.
I laughed at Ron and Hermione. It was obvious that Hermione knew what to do, but she just didn't want to do it. Every time the ball came near her she covered her eyes and shrank back, letting the ball go into the goals. I felt sorry for her and apparently Ron did too. He jogged over to her each time to see if she was ok. She nodded and as soon as he left she looked at me and fanned herself, indicating that she thought that Ron was hot. I don't even want to go there! Then she would mouth something along the line of.
"I feel so mean!" I just shrugged at her and ran towards the ball as it was nearest me and swerved around Ron and kicked it to Harry who kicked it into the goal.
Harry got a little excited and came running up to me and grabbed me around the waist and swinging me around. I laughed so much that I thought my stomach was going to explode.
"Ease up Potter." I managed to gasp out.
"But I'm having fun." He said pouting at me.
"Almost as bad as the puppy face!" I said pretending to be appalled.
"You know you love it." He winked at me and ran off again.
I was completely shocked. I hadn't expected him to say that! Not at all. Was he right though?
***
I woke up staring at the Canopy of my bed. I knew there was something that I had to do today now what was it? I rolled over and looked at my calendar which had a heart drawn on the date of November 27th. Of course! Today I was Harry's girlfriend. I smirked at the thought and threw off my covers and got dressed in my uniform and pulled on my cloak. I grabbed my books and headed down to the common room.
"Hey gorgeous!" Harry said, looking way too happy for eight o'clock in the morning. I raised an eyebrow at him and he imitated me.
"Shall we go Virginia dear?" he asked as he held out his arm and I took it.
"We shall, but if you ever call me that again, I will be forced to hurt you." I said grinning manically at him.
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"Do you feel weird about doing this Harry?" I asked him as we stood at the foot of the stairs outside of the entrance hall.
"Weird? If you mean weird as in the feeling that I am dating my sister, then yes, but because we're so close in that way, it's not nearly as bad as it would be if it were someone else." He said, giving my hand a gentle squeeze.
I smiled at him; feeling reassured and leant up to peck him on the cheek. He looked at me bewildered.
"Just practising." I said before walking off, him trailing behind me, our hands still linked.
We walked into the Great Hall and soon everyone was looking at us. I mean everyone. TA first it was only a few people then as more people notice, they would nudge the people alongside them and then they would nudge another few people.
Harry looked at me and grinned. I returned the gesture and walked to the Gryffindor table. We sat down next to each other and Harry casually draped his arm around my shoulders. I was getting used to it so it wasn't really anything different for me.
I picked up my goblet and took a swig from it to stop myself from laughing at the look on our fellow Gryffindor's faces. It was priceless. I wish I had thought to bring my camera with me.
"Are you two.?" Seamus asked as Harry spooned up a mouthful of porridge for me. I looked at him and declined it; for fear that I would spit it all over the place in laughter. Harry grinned, seemingly reading my mind.
"Yes Seamus, we are." I told him looking at him and gesturing to Harry's arm around me.
"About time!" Dean said from beside him. Hang on a minute.
"I always knew you two would hook up." Seamus said and looked to Dean. "You owe me a galleon."
"Hey, what other bets have you made about me?" Harry asked smiling. I could tell that he wasn't really upset.
"Oh none about you mate. The other one is about Ron." Ron stopped devouring his plate of food to look up and join in the conversation.
"What about me?" he asked, completely bewildered.
"Oh just how long it would take for you and Hermione to get together." Dean said shrugging.
"I really don't think that that is any of your business." Hermione said, her nose up in the air. She was clearly embarrassed and Ron was turning a magnificent shade of magenta.
"So, how high do the bets go for that?" I asked, taking the focus away from Ron and Hermione's faces.
"Ginny!"
"What? I was just wondering." I said grinning.
I looked at my watch and stood up. I had Potions with Snape that morning. Just what I looked forward too.
"I've got to go, you guys know how Snape is. See you at lunch." I added softly to Harry who stood up and wrapped his arms around me in a hug and bent close to my ear.
"You are a wonderful actress Ginny." He said and grinned.
"And here I was thinking that you were going to whisper sweet nothing's into my ear." I said rolling my eyes and walking away from him.
"I did." He said waving goodbye to me and sitting back down.
I shook my head laughing and walked out of the Hall and ran smack bang into something or someone solid.
"Sorry!" I said, realising that the something was warm and obviously a person.
"Not very chivalrous is he Weasley?" a cold voice asked.
Only two people called me "Weasley" and one of them was still in the Great Hall so it had to be him.
"Malfoy." I said as I stood up and looked at him.
"Weasley." He said rolling his eyes. "I thought we had already established that." He said smirking at me.
I smirked right back at him.
'What do you want?" I asked, impatient.
"I have a proposition for you." He said as I looked at him.
"Really? How lovely for you. If you'll excuse me, I have a class to get to as I'm sure you do too." I thought that would be the last of him but he followed me down the corridor.
"My proposition is that you go to the Christmas Ball with me." he said, looking at me. I nearly fell over again. This time from pure shock.
"Excuse me?" I said, stopping in my tracks to look at him.
"I'm not going to repeat myself Weasel." He said, folding his arms.
"I'm going out with Harry. Obviously you hadn't noticed because if you had, you wouldn't be asking me this." I said folding my arms as well.
"So will you go with me?" he asked apparently choosing to ignore my last comment.
"Are you deaf or just stupid?" I asked him irritated.
His seeker reflexes were so fast that I didn't even have time to flinch. He had me by my hair.
"I am neither. I heard you perfectly well Ginny." He said, pulling on my hair.
"Let her go Malfoy!" I heard a voice echo through the corridor.
Harry and Ron. Thank Merlin. Malfoy let me go and I turned and ran back to my brother and his best friend. I collapsed against Harry sobbing. Malfoy had really scared me. I didn't like to show people that I could be intimidated but some things really frighten a person.
"Hey Gin.Shh. It's ok now." Harry said as he stroked my hair. "Can you tell McGonagall that I'm taking Ginny back to her room? And tell Snape.to hell with Snape. Don't tell him anything." He said to Ron before he guided me back to the Gryffindor common room. We headed towards the Girls' dormitories and Harry gave me a hug and turned to leave.
"Don't go please Harry." I said as I wiped the last few tears from my eyes. He turned around and looked up the stairs.
"I would but I can't get up there remember?" he said looking back at me. Was that all?
"Oh right. Hang on a sec." I went up the stairs and tapped a brick three times with my index finger and motioned for Harry to follow me up. He looked at the stairs carefully and raced up the stairs and stood next to me.
"Clever little witch aren't you?" he asked as he opened the door to the Sixth year's dorms.
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A/N: I'm so happy with the amount of reviews that I've been receiving each chapter. It's really making me feel loved lol.
To the people who reviewed:
Mel B Hey, I'm glad that you like my story and are happy that you like my story. I agree with you, boys are so stupid. I'm good at making the Harry characters appear that way! Lol. Although I think they rock they are still human and need to be stupid some of the time. =)
TheLoneReed Um.what was your review about? I'm a bumma? How do you figure that? I don't know you. Lol. And who is spot?!
And last but not least, to the person who commented on Harry being stupid for too long and about them being impatient, sorry! I've written all the chapters so I won't be able to write a chapter from Harry's point of view, one because it just wouldn't tie in well enough and two.it's already written! Sorry, hope that you can be patient enough to wait for the next twelve chapters. They will all be up soon. I try to update frequently. =)
Again, thank you to those wonderful people who are reading my story and making it a success. Love you all.
~Nesserz.
Chapter 4: Out In The Open
I sat down in the middle of the Hogwarts grounds with Hermione. We had arranged to meet Harry and Ron there in ten minutes. They said that they needed to borrow something for us to have a little fun with. I was intrigued to say the least.
I sat with Hermione; talking about how much fun the ball was going to be. What our perfect nights would be like. We hadn't been talking long when I heard laughing and turned around to see Ron walking along bouncing the Quaffle on the ground. I didn't know that the Quaffle could bounce. Ron kicked it in our direction, Hermione shrieked and ducked and I caught it expertly.
I stood up and kicked it back to my brother.
"How'd you manage this?" I asked, amused.
"We have our ways," Harry said, coming up to me. "Who's for a game of soccer?" Harry asked. Ron and I looked at him slightly confused.
"Oh right. I forgot. You have two teams, in this case, me and Ginny, you and Hermione. You have to try to kick the ball through each other's goals. The goals in this case are between those two trees," he said pointing towards two trees by Hagrid's hut. Now, your goals can be." he said looking around.
"Between the rocks by the lake and that tree." Hermione said pointing towards the destination.
"Yeah. What Hermione said." Harry said, grinning for no particular reason.
"So. Shall we play?" I asked, nervous. I had absolutely no idea of what I was supposed to do.
"Yes!" Harry cried before grabbing me by the hand and pulling me towards our goals.
"Harry! I have no idea what to do!" I said whimpering pathetically.
"Just kick the ball away from our goal and your doing fine!" Harry said before running towards Ron laughing his head off.
"Just kick the ball." I murmured to myself concentrating.
I laughed at Ron and Hermione. It was obvious that Hermione knew what to do, but she just didn't want to do it. Every time the ball came near her she covered her eyes and shrank back, letting the ball go into the goals. I felt sorry for her and apparently Ron did too. He jogged over to her each time to see if she was ok. She nodded and as soon as he left she looked at me and fanned herself, indicating that she thought that Ron was hot. I don't even want to go there! Then she would mouth something along the line of.
"I feel so mean!" I just shrugged at her and ran towards the ball as it was nearest me and swerved around Ron and kicked it to Harry who kicked it into the goal.
Harry got a little excited and came running up to me and grabbed me around the waist and swinging me around. I laughed so much that I thought my stomach was going to explode.
"Ease up Potter." I managed to gasp out.
"But I'm having fun." He said pouting at me.
"Almost as bad as the puppy face!" I said pretending to be appalled.
"You know you love it." He winked at me and ran off again.
I was completely shocked. I hadn't expected him to say that! Not at all. Was he right though?
***
I woke up staring at the Canopy of my bed. I knew there was something that I had to do today now what was it? I rolled over and looked at my calendar which had a heart drawn on the date of November 27th. Of course! Today I was Harry's girlfriend. I smirked at the thought and threw off my covers and got dressed in my uniform and pulled on my cloak. I grabbed my books and headed down to the common room.
"Hey gorgeous!" Harry said, looking way too happy for eight o'clock in the morning. I raised an eyebrow at him and he imitated me.
"Shall we go Virginia dear?" he asked as he held out his arm and I took it.
"We shall, but if you ever call me that again, I will be forced to hurt you." I said grinning manically at him.
***
"Do you feel weird about doing this Harry?" I asked him as we stood at the foot of the stairs outside of the entrance hall.
"Weird? If you mean weird as in the feeling that I am dating my sister, then yes, but because we're so close in that way, it's not nearly as bad as it would be if it were someone else." He said, giving my hand a gentle squeeze.
I smiled at him; feeling reassured and leant up to peck him on the cheek. He looked at me bewildered.
"Just practising." I said before walking off, him trailing behind me, our hands still linked.
We walked into the Great Hall and soon everyone was looking at us. I mean everyone. TA first it was only a few people then as more people notice, they would nudge the people alongside them and then they would nudge another few people.
Harry looked at me and grinned. I returned the gesture and walked to the Gryffindor table. We sat down next to each other and Harry casually draped his arm around my shoulders. I was getting used to it so it wasn't really anything different for me.
I picked up my goblet and took a swig from it to stop myself from laughing at the look on our fellow Gryffindor's faces. It was priceless. I wish I had thought to bring my camera with me.
"Are you two.?" Seamus asked as Harry spooned up a mouthful of porridge for me. I looked at him and declined it; for fear that I would spit it all over the place in laughter. Harry grinned, seemingly reading my mind.
"Yes Seamus, we are." I told him looking at him and gesturing to Harry's arm around me.
"About time!" Dean said from beside him. Hang on a minute.
"I always knew you two would hook up." Seamus said and looked to Dean. "You owe me a galleon."
"Hey, what other bets have you made about me?" Harry asked smiling. I could tell that he wasn't really upset.
"Oh none about you mate. The other one is about Ron." Ron stopped devouring his plate of food to look up and join in the conversation.
"What about me?" he asked, completely bewildered.
"Oh just how long it would take for you and Hermione to get together." Dean said shrugging.
"I really don't think that that is any of your business." Hermione said, her nose up in the air. She was clearly embarrassed and Ron was turning a magnificent shade of magenta.
"So, how high do the bets go for that?" I asked, taking the focus away from Ron and Hermione's faces.
"Ginny!"
"What? I was just wondering." I said grinning.
I looked at my watch and stood up. I had Potions with Snape that morning. Just what I looked forward too.
"I've got to go, you guys know how Snape is. See you at lunch." I added softly to Harry who stood up and wrapped his arms around me in a hug and bent close to my ear.
"You are a wonderful actress Ginny." He said and grinned.
"And here I was thinking that you were going to whisper sweet nothing's into my ear." I said rolling my eyes and walking away from him.
"I did." He said waving goodbye to me and sitting back down.
I shook my head laughing and walked out of the Hall and ran smack bang into something or someone solid.
"Sorry!" I said, realising that the something was warm and obviously a person.
"Not very chivalrous is he Weasley?" a cold voice asked.
Only two people called me "Weasley" and one of them was still in the Great Hall so it had to be him.
"Malfoy." I said as I stood up and looked at him.
"Weasley." He said rolling his eyes. "I thought we had already established that." He said smirking at me.
I smirked right back at him.
'What do you want?" I asked, impatient.
"I have a proposition for you." He said as I looked at him.
"Really? How lovely for you. If you'll excuse me, I have a class to get to as I'm sure you do too." I thought that would be the last of him but he followed me down the corridor.
"My proposition is that you go to the Christmas Ball with me." he said, looking at me. I nearly fell over again. This time from pure shock.
"Excuse me?" I said, stopping in my tracks to look at him.
"I'm not going to repeat myself Weasel." He said, folding his arms.
"I'm going out with Harry. Obviously you hadn't noticed because if you had, you wouldn't be asking me this." I said folding my arms as well.
"So will you go with me?" he asked apparently choosing to ignore my last comment.
"Are you deaf or just stupid?" I asked him irritated.
His seeker reflexes were so fast that I didn't even have time to flinch. He had me by my hair.
"I am neither. I heard you perfectly well Ginny." He said, pulling on my hair.
"Let her go Malfoy!" I heard a voice echo through the corridor.
Harry and Ron. Thank Merlin. Malfoy let me go and I turned and ran back to my brother and his best friend. I collapsed against Harry sobbing. Malfoy had really scared me. I didn't like to show people that I could be intimidated but some things really frighten a person.
"Hey Gin.Shh. It's ok now." Harry said as he stroked my hair. "Can you tell McGonagall that I'm taking Ginny back to her room? And tell Snape.to hell with Snape. Don't tell him anything." He said to Ron before he guided me back to the Gryffindor common room. We headed towards the Girls' dormitories and Harry gave me a hug and turned to leave.
"Don't go please Harry." I said as I wiped the last few tears from my eyes. He turned around and looked up the stairs.
"I would but I can't get up there remember?" he said looking back at me. Was that all?
"Oh right. Hang on a sec." I went up the stairs and tapped a brick three times with my index finger and motioned for Harry to follow me up. He looked at the stairs carefully and raced up the stairs and stood next to me.
"Clever little witch aren't you?" he asked as he opened the door to the Sixth year's dorms.
***
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A/N: I'm so happy with the amount of reviews that I've been receiving each chapter. It's really making me feel loved lol.
To the people who reviewed:
Mel B Hey, I'm glad that you like my story and are happy that you like my story. I agree with you, boys are so stupid. I'm good at making the Harry characters appear that way! Lol. Although I think they rock they are still human and need to be stupid some of the time. =)
TheLoneReed Um.what was your review about? I'm a bumma? How do you figure that? I don't know you. Lol. And who is spot?!
And last but not least, to the person who commented on Harry being stupid for too long and about them being impatient, sorry! I've written all the chapters so I won't be able to write a chapter from Harry's point of view, one because it just wouldn't tie in well enough and two.it's already written! Sorry, hope that you can be patient enough to wait for the next twelve chapters. They will all be up soon. I try to update frequently. =)
Again, thank you to those wonderful people who are reading my story and making it a success. Love you all.
~Nesserz.