Title: How To Get The Girl You Lost, But Didn't Know You Lost Her, Back
by: LilyP_writer@yahoo.com
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Chapter 10: Asking Ginny Out
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Harry realized the next day that he had missed Ron and Hermione over the week. He no longer resided in the middle, Harry had to walk on either Ron's side or Hermione's side on their way to class. He wasn't aloud to be in the center because the other members of the trio wanted to hold hands.
As Harry talked with them, he realized that he even missed the little things, Hermione nagging at Ron, Ron deserving it, and even the fact that Hermione wouldn't let them copy her work sheets made him happy.
"Why are you smiling?" Ron asked bitterly after Hermione nagged at the two of them for not completing their homework.
Harry looked of, "I'm happy."
"Why?" Ron asked bitterly, taking his seat between Hermione and Harry.
"Is it a crime?" Harry's smile stayed as he leaned back in his chair.
"Crap!" Ron mumbled("Ron!" Hermione scowled.) "You kissed my sister. Didn't you?" Ron's face turned red faster than a pin could drop.
"No!" Harry protested in an urgent whisper. "I haven't even asked her out yet!"
Hermione leaned over her desk so she could look at Harry, "Well, why don't you?"
"Sure, Hermione," Harry said sarcastically, "I'll ask on a date to the Library."
"Harry," Hermione said in her old-Hermione-fashion. She pulled out a gold Gryffindor Calendar with the days marked off in red marker and showed him this upcoming Saturday. "You can ask her to go to Hogsmeade this weekend."
"I'm not hearing this!" Ron protested, grabbing his book bag and pulling out textbooks, parchment, his wand, anything he could get his hands on.
"Your such a baby, Ron!" Hermione grabbed her Calendar and stuffed it neatly in her bag, her face a little flushed.
"What?" Ron asked loudly.
"Mr. White, Miss Green, please keep it down," Professor Binns asked from his position at the black board.
'I wonder how he can hold chalk,' Harry thought to himself.
"Ginny is fifteen years old, Harry is sixteen, I think they can take care of themselves." Hermione rolled her eyes, "Your the one being the baby. Your sister is more mature than you!"
"Gosh, Hermione," Ron's eyebrows pressed together as he looked down at his text book, which was what he picked up out of his bag. "I wasn't saying anything like that, I just don't want to hear about my sister's love life."
Hermione shifted around in her seat. Harry looked away quickly because Ron put his hand in Hermione's lap and Harry didn't want to see the lovey-dovey eyes and the kissy faces.
'Scratch the part about missing them.' Harry thought as he was forced to glare at a stone wall, which won the staring contest.
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Tuesday ended, so did Wednesday. It was now Thursday and Harry received more and more glares from Hermione. "If you wait any longer, when you ask her she will already be going with someone else!" Harry knew that deep down she was right, but he couldn't muster up the courage to ask her, even though he knew she liked him.
Plus she knew that Harry liked her, which was worse! What if he walked up to her and said, "Hi Ginny, would you like to go with me this weekend?"
Then she would say, "Oh, you were so five minutes ago!" And walk off with some Fabio-type guy from Hufflepuff, or worse: Draco Malfoy!
Harry tried not to dwell on this too long. Kiki informed Harry when they ended up passing each other in the hall that Ginny was going to be doing her homework in the common room, alone. "What?" Harry asked.
"Ginny plus alone at nine equals perfect time for Harry Potter to make his move." Kiki said, boredom being almost forgotten. Harry gave her arm a squeeze of thanks before running to catch up with Ron and Hermione.
'Witty pick up line,' Harry thought, 'come on, just one witty pickup line.'
Harry found his friends in Charms. "Have you thought of one yet?" Hermione asked, her chin on the palm of her hand, she was gazing at Harry as if he turned into Romeo and was about to confess his love for her.
"No," Harry said quickly.
"Tell her how pretty she is!" Hermione cooed.
"What if she isn't?" Ron asked, he let out one quiet snort-like laugh.
"Ron!" Hermione sat up at attention, "You don't think your own sister is beautiful?" Hermione's eyebrows were so close to her eyeballs that Harry couldn't tell when her eyebrows ended and her brown eyes began.
"No!" Ron mumbled.
"Ron, Ginny is your own sister, you do shared something from the gene pool." Hermione pointed out.
"Um, are you saying I have girlie features?" Ron asked angrily.
"No," Hermione said with a smile. Harry rolled his eyes. 'Do they have to do this in the middle of class?' Harry thought savagely.
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Harry entered the common room in the evening, he placed his bag on the table by the frosty dark windows and sat, ready to work. He pulled out stacks of books and parchment. Ink and quills were scattered here and there and he began his history essay.
It wasn't late so the common room was full. People took the good chairs by the fire not two seconds after the person before got out. The noise made it hard for Harry to concentrate on finding Ginny in the crowd, she wasn't in there yet.
The portrait hole opened and in walked Ginny, she looked cool and confident, far from what Harry was feeling, and she walked with a bounce in her step all the way up to the Girl's dorm. Harry sighed.
It wasn't near nine yet, but people were starting to disappear. The went upstairs to get a shower before the next day, or out of the common room to snog until morning. Harry tried hard to block out a mental image of Ron's bright red bob of hair being mixed in with Hermione's dark brown mane.
Harry saw Ginny walked down the common room with Kiki and they headed for the couch. "Well," Kiki staged loudly, "I have to go meet Seamus, he promised to help me on my homework."
"Yeah," Ginny winked, "homework, right." Harry couldn't help but smile. 'She is so cute,' he thought.
As Kiki left the room Harry felt his feet step toward Ginny. Her hair was swept off her shoulder and looked soft. Ginny's eyes were glued on page one hundred and forty-two of her Charms book. She looked like she was truly interested in the subject. Harry made a mental note to bring it up in conversation sometime.
Ginny turned the page with a smile on her face as she continued to read. Harry sat down next to her. "Hi, Harry," Ginny's cheeks turned a light pink, it made her look fresh.
"How are you Ginny?" Harry asked quietly.
"I do I have question," she said as she pulled out her Quidditch play book, "about number fifty-three--"
"I have something to ask you." Harry said quietly.
Ginny leaned back a little and said to him, on the same level, "What is it?"
Harry just sat for a moment to notice the fact that half of her face was in the golden glow of the fire and the other half was covered in the shadow of the nine o'clock sky.
'Something, Potter, something.' Harry thought to himself, trying to jog his memory. 'What was that muggle thing?? Oh yeah--' Harry looked deep into her chocolate brown eyes, noticing that they had specks of red in them. "Do your legs hurt?"
Ginny's lip curled upward and she looked as though what ever she was expecting, that wasn't it. "My legs?" She asked.
"Because," Harry said, not paying attention to her confoundment, "you have been running through my mind all day." Harry suddenly mentally kicked himself.
Ginny threw her head back and laughed heartedly. Her musical chortle was ringing in Harry's ears while her eyes were brimming with tears. Harry, although somewhat embarrassed, laughed as well.
"That was so funny!" Ginny giggled, placing her hand delicately on his bare forearm. Harry smiled. "I haven't heard that one. I like:" Ginny suddenly adopted an unnatural deep voice and said, "Did it hurt falling from heaven, because you are an Angel!"
Harry realized that soon he would have to bring the conversation back to asking Ginny out. "I never heard that one."
Ginny giggled, "Thank you Harry, I needed a good laugh."
"Anytime." Harry shrugged. "I was going to ask you something."
"Shoot!" Ginny sighed, falling from her chuckle-high.
"Are you doing something on Saturday?" Harry inwardly cursed himself for being such a dork.
"Just going to Hogsmeade." Ginny said, looked determinedly at her book. "Alone," she added.
Harry smiled and looked at her book too. "Would you like company?"
"Depends on who." Ginny whispered.
Harry stared at her fingers that were holding the book for dear life. "Me?" Harry looked up at her.
"Sure." Ginny stood up. "See you Saturday." Then she disappeared to the Girls dorm.
'This,' Harry thought, 'was the girl not two months ago was laying on top of me and now we can't even look at each other when talking.' Harry walked up his own dorm steps.
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"I can't believe you used that corny pick-up line," Hermione mumbled after Harry shared the total recall of the night before.
"I think it was fine." Ron shrugged.
"Oh and you would!" Hermione spat bitterly. "But, she still said yes."
Harry smiled. Even Ron apologizing to Hermione and practically undressing each other with their eyes didn't make Harry frown, although it gave him a stomach ache. He was on a Ginny-high.
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Next Chapter: The First Date
A/N: I am so sorry this short chapter took forever. Personal matter (my sister had to do countless test to see if she had breast cancer*which runs in the family*, then I got my drivers license, and one of my friends moved to Florida). Life has finally caught up with me. Crazy, but all this stuff was really tough and I had to choose to be with my oldest sister or to write. Guess which one I picked.
Sister.
Thank you to-
Neni Potter : they will!! I promise!
kitkat : Thank you! I just pray that my own characters aren't Mary Sue's, because I think they have their faults, they aren't all perfect. Oh, and Harry let it slip to me that he likes Ginny a lot. *wink wink*
cggeek241 : Very cute story!
Sarahamanda : Thank you so much.
Butler : lol
Ophelya : Thanks! You're fun, you know? I hope that everyone who reads this fic would say the same thing with Kiki and Harry!
Darcy16 : No problem. You know, I'm not a huge Draco/Ginny fan, but your fic is really cute!
sexy seeker : Thank you! I'm so happy you enjoy my writings. Sorry I haven't been able to write lately!
VoicezWithin : lol, thank you very much :)
catchergirl2007 : Thank you for reviewing!
xxGinnyxx : Thank you!!!
SiriuslyDelirious : No--thank you!
Fennie : I dunno, I don't think Ron is "pushing them into a relationship" I think he is pushing Ginny toward Harry so she won't be hurt by any other guys. I think Ron is just getting Ginny to have a crush on Harry, not date him. It just seems more like Ron's character!
hpfan723 : Thank you!
Sadz89 : Sorry this chapter took so long!
gandhfan : Thank you!
by: LilyP_writer@yahoo.com
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Chapter 10: Asking Ginny Out
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Harry realized the next day that he had missed Ron and Hermione over the week. He no longer resided in the middle, Harry had to walk on either Ron's side or Hermione's side on their way to class. He wasn't aloud to be in the center because the other members of the trio wanted to hold hands.
As Harry talked with them, he realized that he even missed the little things, Hermione nagging at Ron, Ron deserving it, and even the fact that Hermione wouldn't let them copy her work sheets made him happy.
"Why are you smiling?" Ron asked bitterly after Hermione nagged at the two of them for not completing their homework.
Harry looked of, "I'm happy."
"Why?" Ron asked bitterly, taking his seat between Hermione and Harry.
"Is it a crime?" Harry's smile stayed as he leaned back in his chair.
"Crap!" Ron mumbled("Ron!" Hermione scowled.) "You kissed my sister. Didn't you?" Ron's face turned red faster than a pin could drop.
"No!" Harry protested in an urgent whisper. "I haven't even asked her out yet!"
Hermione leaned over her desk so she could look at Harry, "Well, why don't you?"
"Sure, Hermione," Harry said sarcastically, "I'll ask on a date to the Library."
"Harry," Hermione said in her old-Hermione-fashion. She pulled out a gold Gryffindor Calendar with the days marked off in red marker and showed him this upcoming Saturday. "You can ask her to go to Hogsmeade this weekend."
"I'm not hearing this!" Ron protested, grabbing his book bag and pulling out textbooks, parchment, his wand, anything he could get his hands on.
"Your such a baby, Ron!" Hermione grabbed her Calendar and stuffed it neatly in her bag, her face a little flushed.
"What?" Ron asked loudly.
"Mr. White, Miss Green, please keep it down," Professor Binns asked from his position at the black board.
'I wonder how he can hold chalk,' Harry thought to himself.
"Ginny is fifteen years old, Harry is sixteen, I think they can take care of themselves." Hermione rolled her eyes, "Your the one being the baby. Your sister is more mature than you!"
"Gosh, Hermione," Ron's eyebrows pressed together as he looked down at his text book, which was what he picked up out of his bag. "I wasn't saying anything like that, I just don't want to hear about my sister's love life."
Hermione shifted around in her seat. Harry looked away quickly because Ron put his hand in Hermione's lap and Harry didn't want to see the lovey-dovey eyes and the kissy faces.
'Scratch the part about missing them.' Harry thought as he was forced to glare at a stone wall, which won the staring contest.
~~~
Tuesday ended, so did Wednesday. It was now Thursday and Harry received more and more glares from Hermione. "If you wait any longer, when you ask her she will already be going with someone else!" Harry knew that deep down she was right, but he couldn't muster up the courage to ask her, even though he knew she liked him.
Plus she knew that Harry liked her, which was worse! What if he walked up to her and said, "Hi Ginny, would you like to go with me this weekend?"
Then she would say, "Oh, you were so five minutes ago!" And walk off with some Fabio-type guy from Hufflepuff, or worse: Draco Malfoy!
Harry tried not to dwell on this too long. Kiki informed Harry when they ended up passing each other in the hall that Ginny was going to be doing her homework in the common room, alone. "What?" Harry asked.
"Ginny plus alone at nine equals perfect time for Harry Potter to make his move." Kiki said, boredom being almost forgotten. Harry gave her arm a squeeze of thanks before running to catch up with Ron and Hermione.
'Witty pick up line,' Harry thought, 'come on, just one witty pickup line.'
Harry found his friends in Charms. "Have you thought of one yet?" Hermione asked, her chin on the palm of her hand, she was gazing at Harry as if he turned into Romeo and was about to confess his love for her.
"No," Harry said quickly.
"Tell her how pretty she is!" Hermione cooed.
"What if she isn't?" Ron asked, he let out one quiet snort-like laugh.
"Ron!" Hermione sat up at attention, "You don't think your own sister is beautiful?" Hermione's eyebrows were so close to her eyeballs that Harry couldn't tell when her eyebrows ended and her brown eyes began.
"No!" Ron mumbled.
"Ron, Ginny is your own sister, you do shared something from the gene pool." Hermione pointed out.
"Um, are you saying I have girlie features?" Ron asked angrily.
"No," Hermione said with a smile. Harry rolled his eyes. 'Do they have to do this in the middle of class?' Harry thought savagely.
~~~
Harry entered the common room in the evening, he placed his bag on the table by the frosty dark windows and sat, ready to work. He pulled out stacks of books and parchment. Ink and quills were scattered here and there and he began his history essay.
It wasn't late so the common room was full. People took the good chairs by the fire not two seconds after the person before got out. The noise made it hard for Harry to concentrate on finding Ginny in the crowd, she wasn't in there yet.
The portrait hole opened and in walked Ginny, she looked cool and confident, far from what Harry was feeling, and she walked with a bounce in her step all the way up to the Girl's dorm. Harry sighed.
It wasn't near nine yet, but people were starting to disappear. The went upstairs to get a shower before the next day, or out of the common room to snog until morning. Harry tried hard to block out a mental image of Ron's bright red bob of hair being mixed in with Hermione's dark brown mane.
Harry saw Ginny walked down the common room with Kiki and they headed for the couch. "Well," Kiki staged loudly, "I have to go meet Seamus, he promised to help me on my homework."
"Yeah," Ginny winked, "homework, right." Harry couldn't help but smile. 'She is so cute,' he thought.
As Kiki left the room Harry felt his feet step toward Ginny. Her hair was swept off her shoulder and looked soft. Ginny's eyes were glued on page one hundred and forty-two of her Charms book. She looked like she was truly interested in the subject. Harry made a mental note to bring it up in conversation sometime.
Ginny turned the page with a smile on her face as she continued to read. Harry sat down next to her. "Hi, Harry," Ginny's cheeks turned a light pink, it made her look fresh.
"How are you Ginny?" Harry asked quietly.
"I do I have question," she said as she pulled out her Quidditch play book, "about number fifty-three--"
"I have something to ask you." Harry said quietly.
Ginny leaned back a little and said to him, on the same level, "What is it?"
Harry just sat for a moment to notice the fact that half of her face was in the golden glow of the fire and the other half was covered in the shadow of the nine o'clock sky.
'Something, Potter, something.' Harry thought to himself, trying to jog his memory. 'What was that muggle thing?? Oh yeah--' Harry looked deep into her chocolate brown eyes, noticing that they had specks of red in them. "Do your legs hurt?"
Ginny's lip curled upward and she looked as though what ever she was expecting, that wasn't it. "My legs?" She asked.
"Because," Harry said, not paying attention to her confoundment, "you have been running through my mind all day." Harry suddenly mentally kicked himself.
Ginny threw her head back and laughed heartedly. Her musical chortle was ringing in Harry's ears while her eyes were brimming with tears. Harry, although somewhat embarrassed, laughed as well.
"That was so funny!" Ginny giggled, placing her hand delicately on his bare forearm. Harry smiled. "I haven't heard that one. I like:" Ginny suddenly adopted an unnatural deep voice and said, "Did it hurt falling from heaven, because you are an Angel!"
Harry realized that soon he would have to bring the conversation back to asking Ginny out. "I never heard that one."
Ginny giggled, "Thank you Harry, I needed a good laugh."
"Anytime." Harry shrugged. "I was going to ask you something."
"Shoot!" Ginny sighed, falling from her chuckle-high.
"Are you doing something on Saturday?" Harry inwardly cursed himself for being such a dork.
"Just going to Hogsmeade." Ginny said, looked determinedly at her book. "Alone," she added.
Harry smiled and looked at her book too. "Would you like company?"
"Depends on who." Ginny whispered.
Harry stared at her fingers that were holding the book for dear life. "Me?" Harry looked up at her.
"Sure." Ginny stood up. "See you Saturday." Then she disappeared to the Girls dorm.
'This,' Harry thought, 'was the girl not two months ago was laying on top of me and now we can't even look at each other when talking.' Harry walked up his own dorm steps.
~~~
"I can't believe you used that corny pick-up line," Hermione mumbled after Harry shared the total recall of the night before.
"I think it was fine." Ron shrugged.
"Oh and you would!" Hermione spat bitterly. "But, she still said yes."
Harry smiled. Even Ron apologizing to Hermione and practically undressing each other with their eyes didn't make Harry frown, although it gave him a stomach ache. He was on a Ginny-high.
~~~
Next Chapter: The First Date
A/N: I am so sorry this short chapter took forever. Personal matter (my sister had to do countless test to see if she had breast cancer*which runs in the family*, then I got my drivers license, and one of my friends moved to Florida). Life has finally caught up with me. Crazy, but all this stuff was really tough and I had to choose to be with my oldest sister or to write. Guess which one I picked.
Sister.
Thank you to-
Neni Potter : they will!! I promise!
kitkat : Thank you! I just pray that my own characters aren't Mary Sue's, because I think they have their faults, they aren't all perfect. Oh, and Harry let it slip to me that he likes Ginny a lot. *wink wink*
cggeek241 : Very cute story!
Sarahamanda : Thank you so much.
Butler : lol
Ophelya : Thanks! You're fun, you know? I hope that everyone who reads this fic would say the same thing with Kiki and Harry!
Darcy16 : No problem. You know, I'm not a huge Draco/Ginny fan, but your fic is really cute!
sexy seeker : Thank you! I'm so happy you enjoy my writings. Sorry I haven't been able to write lately!
VoicezWithin : lol, thank you very much :)
catchergirl2007 : Thank you for reviewing!
xxGinnyxx : Thank you!!!
SiriuslyDelirious : No--thank you!
Fennie : I dunno, I don't think Ron is "pushing them into a relationship" I think he is pushing Ginny toward Harry so she won't be hurt by any other guys. I think Ron is just getting Ginny to have a crush on Harry, not date him. It just seems more like Ron's character!
hpfan723 : Thank you!
Sadz89 : Sorry this chapter took so long!
gandhfan : Thank you!
