Ch 20 –
[a/n Okies, something odd was happening with the reviews for a while and I got really depressed at first cause I thought no one was reading my story anymore! You should have seen me, I almost cried! (I am tres emotional) But then I realised it was happening to almost everyone and instantly felt muchos better! Thanks so much to the people who told me all those great H/G fics – I REALLY appreciate it! I would still love more if anyone else had some… alright where are we? I think a lot of people were a little confused about the vamps, I'll just say here that it is not some big huge scary new twist to the plot but a… you'll see in this chappie. I think most of you guessed anyway. THIS CHAPTER IS NOT AS LONG AS USUAL OKIES? Also the sequel is coming along nicely and I am up to ch 3!
This chapter is dedicated to "VoicezWithin" for giving me the most H/G fics! Thank-you so much! Also in part to "Random Nothingness" for a 676 word review.
One more thing: if you could take the time to read Un Bloody Believable by Nesserz I (and she) would really appreciate it. Here's a quick summary: Everything between Ron and Hermione couldn't be better. Or so Hermione thought. Little did she know that Ron overheard something that he shouldn't have. Will he tell her before everything turns sour? Knowing Ron, not likely.
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Ginny took in a sharp breath, her hands shaking uncontrollably. How did vampires get in the Hall? Where were the teachers – Professor Dumbledore? She opened her mouth to scream but no sound came out as she opened and closed her mouth in horror. There had to be at least 400 of them.
But then something caught her eye, something that she almost missed. Since when are vampires covered in orange freckles? She thought to herself. She looked closer. And since when do they wear wigs? Unless. . . no.
"Ron?" she whispered, looking at the vampire fearfully.
The vampire stopped its growling and lowered its hands. It looked oddly like it was very annoyed. All the other "vampires" had stopped and were looking at "Vampire Ron" with questioning glances. Ron shrugged and picked a confused yet very amused Ginny up and hauled her over his shoulder towards a single chair sitting in the middle of the cleared Hall. He dumped her in the chair as she took in what was going on. The Hall had been totally cleared of all tables and the only thing in it was the black stage in front of her.
"What on earth is going on?" Ginny asked a rather bushy haired vampire who was beside her. The vampire shook its head and signaled the others. Ginny had to keep from laughing from biting her lip, she had an idea what was going on. The vampires had all put on awfully ugly neon scarves around their necks.
A beam of light shone on the stage, where a baby was curled up in the middle of it. An extremely large almost 6 feet tall baby. The vampires all formed around the supposedly sleeping baby, twisting and turning their hands and making deep hissing noises.
"Wahhhhh!" said the no longer sleeping baby. Ginny snorted, she recognized that scream. Only Harry could sound like such an idiot.
A few of the vampires, she noticed, were also trying not to burst out laughing at Harry's ridiculous baby cry.
"Wah! I am a baby and I am all alone!" Harry whined.
Ginny threw her head back laughing, now she knew what they were doing. When she had lost her memory Hermione had told her Harry was famous for being in a play when he was little about a baby becoming a feared vampire to explain why she had hero-worshipped him. They had told her that was why they had been dressed in cloaks.
"We are evil and scary vampires! Be afraid of us!" said an unfamiliar voice.
"But I am just a small and cute baby! Wah!" Harry cried.
"We do not care! Notice our scary white faces and long teeth!" said a vampire who sounded a lot like Dean Thomas.
"Wah! Oh no, don't bite me! I shall turn into an evil baby vampire mastermind who will terrify everyone and become your leader before taking over the world."
Silence.
"Yes . . . that is right!" a vampire squeaked. Ginny slapped her knee; this was the most ludicrous thing she had ever seen,
"Wah! No! Please look at my innocent baby eyes and melt!" Harry wailed.
"Never! Seize him!" another vampire yelled.
"No! Spare me!" Harry said as he shielded himself from the vampires as they all surged forward.
"Oh. . . they got me… they got me!" Harry cried. He had instantly grown 2 large teeth and donned a cloak.
"I am now an evil vampire baby. Fear my wrath." He said calmly.
"Wah." He added as an afterthought. Ginny wiped a tear from her eye, this had to be a tie between the worst and best birthday surprise ever.
"Oh master, you are our master." Cried a shrimpy vampire who looked like Dennis Creevy.
"Yes. . . that is right. Now fear me fool! Wahhh!"
"Yes my most fearsome master. You are very fearsome. I am fearful because of your fearsomeness."
"Tell me how fearsome I am. . . again!"
"You are very fearsome."
"Wahhh!"
And from then on it got even more ridiculous, Harry proceeded to crawl like a baby and take over the world. All the while yelling out 'wah!" randomly and saying how fearsome he was. It was hard to take him seriously when he was wearing a diaper though. Ginny had slid off the chair in tears by the last "scene".
Harry had taken over the world and had fallen in love with a female vampire baby who pretended to love him but secretly wanted his powerful position as Head Vampire.
"But I am so fearsome and so cute! How can you kill me?" Harry cried.
"Because you are a stupid baby who says "wah" after he has taken over the world!" the female vampire baby cried, otherwise known as Lavender.
"So are you! Wahhh!"
"Oh no you're right! Wahhh!" Lavender cried as well.
They both sobbed hysterically as all the other vampires stood round trying to look solemn but just ended up doubling over in laughter at the ridiculous things Harry and Lavender were saying.
"Wahh!" Lavender repeated as she drew a flimsy plastic sword and stabbed Harry.
Harry didn't register that he had been brutally murdered by a baby for a second and kept on making baby noises repeatedly until someone kicked him in the back and whispered loudly,
"You're dying remember mate?"
"Oh yeah. Oh the pain! The agony!" and Harry slumped forwards dramatically and his head banged against the floor with a loud thud.
"Ouch," he whispered.
Silence.
Lavender giggled.
And that was all it took.
The whole room erupted with laughter, leaning and falling all over eachother. People were rubbing off their horribly done white face-paint and removing their cloaks. Harry had gotten and walked over to a mercilessly giggling Ginny lying on the floor clapping.
"You guys are. . . too much!" she gasped between busts of laughter.
"You didn't like it?" Harry said with a mock-disappointed face.
"Far from it," Ginny chuckled as she pulled on his leg and he collapsed beside her.
"You'd better like it," he warned. "We spent ages planning and working on it." He said as he wrapped one of his arms around her.
"Where are all the teachers?" she asked.
"We warned them what was going on," Harry said.
"I can imagine their reaction," Ginny said dryly. "You guys scared me to death when I first entered the hall though."
"Let me guess, you spotted Ron's freckles?" Harry teased.
"Actually yes," Ginny smirked.
"Speak of the devil," Harry said, watching as a grinning Ron and Hermione walked over to them.
"Like your surprise Gin?" Ron asked, his eyes twinkling.
"There are no words, dear brother," Ginny said as she got up off the floor.
"I hoped that would be the case," Ron laughed.
"But don't worry Gin, that wasn't your entire present," Hermione said as she waved a hand to the corner of the room.
"Just the best bit," Harry added.
Ginny looked over at the corner and noticed that where there had been nothing only minutes before there was now a huge table piled with food and on the far end of the table a mound of presents.
Ginny squealed and ran over, thanking various people on the way.
"Thank you so much!" she cried as Ron, Harry and Hermione caught up to her.
"Doesn't the person who came up with the idea get any credit?" a voice asked from behind her.
Ginny whirled around to see Louise smiling softly at her. Ginny studied her for a minute. Louise had been her best friend, and really still was. But they could never go back to how they had been before, too many things had happened. Louise had always been there for her, it was like she was some protector or something. She had helped Ginny no matter what. Though things could never be like they were before, they could always try, right?
Ginny gave her a quick hug. "Thank-you," she said quietly.
"I'm sure you never guessed I would take you up on your word when you said you wanted a surprise for your birthday." Louise said.
"Oh yes, believe me this comes . . . nowhere close to what I expected." Ginny said as she raised her eyebrows.
"Well then I was a success because that was my aim," Louise happily.
"How on earth did you get all of these people to go along with it?" Ginny asked.
"Well, it was mostly Ron who told most of the 1st and 2nd years that he would take away points if they didn't join in and he forced other people to as well," Louise chuckled.
"How?" Ginny asked curiously.
"By saying I would do to them what I did to Neville," Ron grinned as Hermione tried to look angry but just looked ended up looking amused.
"But the Slytherins didn't do anything for it and other people said they didn't want to either. We still got a lot of people though!" Hermione said informatively.
Ginny opened her mouth to reply but was jabbed in the ribs by an impatient Ron.
"Presents!" he admonished her and steered her towards the presents. Ginny glared at him and rubbed her ribcage before following him.
"Which one first?" she asked.
"This one," Ron said as he passed her an oddly wrapped bundle.
Ginny raised her brow as she felt something squishy inside. She tore open the wrapping and found. . .
Socks.
"What the?" she asked as she held up the mismatching pair of hideous green and purple socks with little red flames on them.
Harry coughed. "Uh, Dobby got very. . . excited when he found out it was your birthday and insisted I give you those."
Ginny stared at him unblinkingly as she put the socks down on the table. Harry coughed again and tried to move behind Ron.
Ginny shrugged and reached for the next present. She didn't notice that everyone close to her started to back away, or that they were covering their eyes and mouths behind her. She happily took of the lid of the box-
BANG!
Green lumpy stuff flew out of the box and all over her as colored string jumped out of the box and arranging themselves to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIN". Ginny spun around and was happy to note that most of them had not escaped the green goo. Ginny groaned. Who else but Fred and George would send her something like this?
"Idiots," she muttered as she looked into the box uncertainly. She was surprised to see something else in there, some squashed package that thankfully wasn't covered in the goo. She pulled it out and hesitated slightly before opening it. Inside was a fully-equipped box of products from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
Rolling her eyes and setting the box aside, Ginny opened the next present from Hermione. A book. Seeing Ginny's look Hermione hurriedly said,
"No no, it's truly a very interesting book."
Ginny looked at the cover, Practical Spells for the Teenage Witch. She flipped through the book quickly, seeing charms and spells for things like fixing ladders in your stockings, stains, make-up removal and all those useful little things. Maybe it wasn't that bad after all.
"Thanks Mione, that's really useful," Ginny said warmly.
"Yeah, for using as toilet paper," Ron said quietly to a smirking Harry.
"What was that Ronald?" Hermione snapped, though her eyes were laughing.
"Nothing, nothing Mione," Ron said lightly, drawing her into a hug.
Ginny looked at them for second, they made the cutest couple. Harry saw the look and gave her an equally affectionate one. Ginny bit her lip and smiled at him, still hardly believing how lucky she was to have him.
"Hmmm, this one next," Ginny said as she pulled a small roundish present towards her. Ron's present. She opened it slowly as something small and silver tumbled out.
A nose ring.
"Are you mad Ron?" she asked in amazement as she held it up in the light. It was silver and it had a ruby in the centre that sparkled when the light hit it. "You hate my nose piercing. . ." she trailed off as she looked at him.
"It's er, a special one. It changes stones with your different moods. Like right now you must be feeling love because it's a ruby. If you were feeling jealous it would become an emerald, or sad would be a sapphire." Ron said awkwardly.
"Oh Ron!" Ginny shouted as she flung herself on him for a hug. Ron patted her rather uncertainly on the back as he struggled to breathe in her tight embrace.
"It must of cost you so much!" she said breathlessly, admiring it in the light.
"Yeah well, you deserved it," Ron blushed. Ginny looked at him seriously.
"I mean it, you really shouldn't have," she said. Ron switched feet uncomfortably, looking around. Ginny hugged him again before getting the next present. The pile slowly diminished and soon there were only two presents left. Harry's and Louise's.
Suddenly Ron got a very scary look in his eye. His roving eye had just caught sight of a very timid looking Neville Longbottom hiding behind a piece of armour.
"Excuse me, I have some business to attend to," Ron said, grinning evilly. Ginny looked around to see what had caught his attention.
"What do yo- Oh. . ." she said as she too caught sight of Neville. She smiled and turned back to the presents.
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Ron strolled over to Neville, who was so busy looking out for him that he had forgotten to look behind him and he had squeaked and spun around in fright. His eyes went as big as saucers and he backed up against the wall.
Ron began to do a slow and deliberate general march in front of Neville. A walk that a commander did before leading troops into battle.
"Alright Longbottom, I don't like you and you don't like me so-"
"But. . . I like you," Neville said nervously, his eyes darting towards the door as if to weigh his chances of escaping.
"Fine then let me rephrase that: I don't like you and you for some reason like me. . . So I have decided that I will make your life a living hell." Ron said simply as Neville's eyes possibly went even rounder.
"I see you have managed to get rid of the boots," Ron observed as Neville nodded with a relieved expression on his face.
"Don't worry, they'll be back," Ron said pleasantly.
Neville gulped visibly and inched his way closer to the doors.
"You may leave." Ron said, walking back over to Ginny, Harry, Louise and Hermione.
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She reached for Harry's first, noticing how nicely wrapped it was. She picked it up and immediately put it back down again.
"Heavy," she remarked as she pulled it towards her. It was circular and felt like there was something weird inside it. She opened the wrapping and her jaw dropped when she realised what it was.
"Oh Harry," she said with shining eyes. "Thank you so much." He had given her a Pensieve. Just what she needed with this hectic year.
"I thought it could be useful with. . . stuff." Harry stammered, though smiling.
Ginny went over and hugged him, kissing him fiercely on the cheek and then the lips as Ron coughed loudly while he was coming up to them from being with Neville.
"Please stop that?" Ron begged. "I just can't bear watching my little sister do that with my best friend."
"So what about you and Hermione then?" Harry asked.
"What about us?"
"It's pretty sick to watch you two do the same thing." Harry said.
"Touché," Ron held up his hands.
Ginny looked back at Louise's present, sitting by itself on the table. She walked over and stared at it. It was a letter. Quite a thick letter at that too. She looked up at Louise's unreadable face staring back at her gravely.
"A letter?" Ginny asked.
"A letter," Louise confirmed, eyes flickering to the letter in question and back to Ginny's face.
"A letter for you to read when the time comes," Louise said mysteriously.
"What time?" Ginny asked quizzically.
"The time when I will not be able to explain," Louise said in a final yet gentle tone. Ginny stared at her for a minute, before nodding and slipping the envelope into her robes.
"Well," Ginny said cheerfully, "I'm up for an encore of the play," she said jokingly.
"I refuse to go through that degradation again," Harry said flatly.
"Come on Harry, I have to go through the degradation of being Bree Warren for an hour, you can do this." Ginny protested.
"What?"
"Oh nothing, I was just saying how Snape made Bree and I partners for working on Polyjuice potion. I have to become her tomorrow. And the she has to become me," Ginny shuddered.
"Ah the good old Polyjuice," Ron said reminiscently. "Snape was very annoyed when we got top marks for that in 6th year. I think he knew how we did so well too," he added thoughtfully.
"No that's just Snape being Snape," Harry said sarcastically as they made their way across the Hall.
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"Is it ready?" asked a voice.
"Almost." came the swift reply.
"Good, make it quick, we don't have much time." Said the first voice softly.
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Harry stretched his arms over his head as he put his Quill down. The fire in the Common room was just red embers now, making the room seem very dark. Everyone was down at dinner but he had got far behind in his schoolwork and decided to catch up when no one was around.
He lay back on the couch, closing his eyes for s second. He was sitting on something hard. He pulled a vampire tooth out from under him and laughed. Vampire teeth had been appearing all over the castle lately. Ginny's surprise party and play had been talked about non-stop the past two days. Harry had had to suffer a lot of remarks about being a baby vampire.
Just then he heard the portrait door swing open and he opened his eyes and swiveled his head around to face the newcomer.
"Gin," he said happily as Ginny walked into the room and smiled at him.
"Hey Hun," Ginny said as she plonked herself down next to him.
"Hun?" he asked with raised eyebrows.
Ginny looked confused for a second and stared at him blankly.
"Uh. . . I mean Harry?" she asked. Harry laughed.
"I just don't think I've ever been called 'hun' before," he grinned at her fondly.
"Now you have," she said huskily.
Harry's eyes widened, looking at her with surprise.
"Feeling okay Gin?" he asked, checking her forehead.
"Now I am," Ginny said as she leaned over and started kissing him.
Harry started, Ginny was acting unlike herself. But when he was kissing her he kind of forgot about that fact because kissing Ginny made him feel amazing. Well, usually it did. But something was wrong this time.
"Ginny are you sure you're ok?" he asked after he broke away.
Ginny nodded and lunged at him again, kissing him intensely. Harry shook his head, it was nice but it seemed fake. It didn't seem like the first time they had kissed, or any other time for that matter.
He pulled away again. "Ginny, do you want me to take you to Madam Pomphrey? You're acting weirdly and as much as I love kissing you this one feels wei- Gin you're getting blonde roots in your hair!" Harry said in amazement.
"Shut up and kiss me!" Ginny said sternly. Harry did. But for some reason he wasn't feeling anything. Actually he was, but a physical change. Ginny's body seemed to be getting sturdier, not the delicate body he was used to. He heard a noise from the portrait door.
"We better stop, anyone could come in," Harry murmured.
"Damn right they could," said a voice from the doorway.
Harry froze. That voice shouldn't be coming from over there; it should be coming from in front of him. Where Ginny was.
Harry opened his eyes to see a hurt Ginny with tears in her eyes staring at him from across the room. Harry slowly turned towards the person on top of him.
Bree Warren gazed back at him, smiling wickedly as Ginny whirled around and ran out of the Common Room.
[ yes I am evil. I suppose if you're going to flame me on how clichéd that was then I suppose you can. Flames could come in handy as it had been raining non-stop all day. I'm a bit cold. But if you do want to flame me bear in mind that there is two chapters left and I have decided to go with the happy ending – so nothing long term will be happening. Wasn't the vampire play the most ridiculous yet funniest thing ever? I just want to say here that I was so grateful for all of your reviews – it meant SO much to me. I was really pleased on how funny everyone found Neville's punishment, there wasn't too much punishment in this chapter. But Ginny and Neville haven't come face to face yet. . .]
Thanks to: fancyeyes, Tipla, Bekah Tahiri Solo BTS, Twinkey, Fair-Faye-Kahlan, harry+lissa=luv, SilverKnight7
Hannah – Louise's secret is all in good time. I'm glad they're friends again too, but not as close anymore. I loved the mud bit, I could just imagine it so clearly when I was writing it.
Kay Spring – I aim to please – so glad you found it so funny.
Nessypotter – hopefully this explained the 'vampire thing'
Surfngurl – I think you should laugh at him. I'm fairly excited about the sequel too, chapter 3 already!
Silvercrystal77 – I think we needed some more focus on R/Hr. Did you enjoy my little play?
Ana Morales – yes it is a bad year, but an interesting one at that right? And that's what keeps the story going…
Deer boy – I added you but I haven't been on lately. I can stay on there until the wee hours of the morning. I actually fell asleep in Maths the other day. . . or maybe I was just bored. I would love to have a look at your chapter!
Zeldagrl436 – now that wasn't too bad was it? No need to cry…
ZagZig722 – thanks for the fics! Glad you liked the Neville bashing.
Shadyday9 – I am currently obsessed with the hilary duff cd. She has a really great album – LOADS better than I expected.
Eric2 – re read the end carefully and it will say she was in the common room and decided to head down to the Hall. She got bored of being in her bed so went to the Common room if that's what you mean.
GinnyPotter08 – thanks very very very much for the fics! Well, the fic is almost over so you weren't that far off. It was only meant to be a 10 chapter fic anyway.
Hagridlover – good guess. I think the chapter answered your question.
Jac – come to think of it… I don't know what a cyberspace autograph is either – it just sounded cool. Maybe we should make up what it is.
Sarah Noisette – well at least you're honest and won't 2-time him. I've already read "An Ideal Match" and "This Thing Called Love". They're good aren't they? I love the "oh yes I have" bit too, ch 18 and 19 are definitely my faves.
Kat Davi – good guess. Not too much fluff in this chapter but this ch was like small chapter for what Bree did that I needed.
Pan27 – cliffies are great! I love them! Just not when I'm reading them Lol.
VoicezWithin – I think I have found a friend. If you like Christina A you are instantly in my good books (especially that song), if you give me lots of H/G fics you are my new best friend, if you're guessing what Louise is then. . . go you! I'm now really curious as to what you think Louise is, reckon you could email me? Don't worry if you don't want to, I am just really curious now
Darcy16 – looking back on the chapter I cant believe I wrote it at 3 am either. Neville does need a gf, and he just may get one. Well, I can start writing the sequel because I know the end to this fic and was just itching to start the sequel. I will start posting it a few weeks after this fic is done.
Rebel Rikki – she didn't have a choice lol. She was getting the stupid party whether she liked it or not. I am the opposite to you, all my life I have wished for a surprise party.
Dk Lili – I liked your name so much better than my one so I changed it to yours! Thanks!
Grimmauld – I've already explained what happened to Luna, Louise's secret will be at the very end. It's good you noticed that little thing you noticed, it is part of Louise's secret.
Missprongs – I wouldn't exactly call it Neville-bashing but I love what Ron said to Neville in this chappie. That was for you.
GuruGuru214 – dear me. . . we never seemed to be able to get through to eachother on MSN. You're making me blush with all this high praise! Thanks. I'm really pleased you decided to review - it means a lot.
Vicous Pixie – Japan!? Wow! Is it a maybe or a positive?
Naz1 – damn that was a really good idea but I had already started typing this one. I have the worst timing skills. Last year of high school I am certainly not looking forward to. Good luck.
Happynutcase*numba 1 – yeah well the review side of things were stuffing up majorly for a while so maybe that was why. I would never make you wait a month, I update Saturday night every week.
dracoisahottie13 – why is it so awful that I've started the sequel? I'm confused… I wouldn't start posting it until this fic is done which will be VERY soon. Lol, I had no idea that last chapter was so entertaining though - I'm glad you liked it Lol. Hope you didn't hurt yourself when you fell off the chair.
Jlatmil1 – how am I "losing my path"?
Lizzie Weasley – ok first of all, Harry was joking when he said they were "screwing". Ginny knew that too. Ron knew it. I honestly don't see how joking like that makes them seem like "sluts". I do have a PG 13 rating and I'm not angry but I just don't like it when people tell me what to do with my fic. I suggest you don't read the sequel if that is your belief. But I'm happy you liked that chapter.
yeoldecrazy1 – heh heh, Ron does have a great lil imagination doesn't he? Good guess about the Vampires though…
Random Nothingness – ouch. That was a to-the-point review. [sigh] I guess I should be used to it by now though. Lacrosse! How exciting – I used to play that when I lived in America, I loved it so much. I love pranks so don't be surprised. But they weren't that perverted were they? I don't think they were, maybe the cereal yes. I can understand where you're coming from with the grammar – but I re read it and it wasn't THAT bad! And where is this Hermione PMSing thing coming from? Ron was ignoring her! I didn't need to make the chapter longer, I wanted to make their 'ship more detailed instead of random kissing everywhere. The "just then Neville ran by them. . ." line that no one said was a mistake coming from a very tired person at 3 in the morning. Well I'm pleased you like the detail though I may have to eat my words cause I get the feeling there's not to much in this chapter. But that's ok cause it's not a very important chapter. As for your pen name I think you should have stuck with "luvhp224"… it's just more… you. Random Nothingness is a good name and even though I have never met you I get the feeling you're more the "luhp224" person. Well until ch 20!
Magic sparkle 1 – good guess about the vampire/party thing. Yup a nice long chapter, I'm very proud.
AND NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!
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