Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything you might recognize in the story. You all know it belongs to the wonderful JK Rowling!

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As the sunlight burst into the boys' dormitory Harry opened his eyes and blinked. It was all a blur and he took his round glasses off the bedside table. He was tired, even though he had been sleeping throughout the whole night without any nightmares about Lord Voldemort. His dreams had all involved Ginny in some way. He shook his head; they were dreams, nothing more. With quick but sleepy movements Harry got dressed and as he passed the mirror on his way out he stopped. He sighed and raised his hand to touch his messy raven hair. "Give it up already", his reflection told him and Harry walked out.

It was still pretty early and not too many students had woken up. Harry walked slowly across the Gryffindor common room, stating that the weather today was, by the looks of it, going to be exactly like yesterday, a sunny but cold spring-day.

The portrait of the Fat Lady swung open just as Harry was about to climb through it. He almost crashed into Ginny. "Sorry", he said, blushing.

"Hi Harry!" she replied with a smile. "Good morning, I guess."

Harry nodded. "Mhm…" He tried to cover a yawn with his hand, but obviously Ginny noticed because she grinned. "What? I just woke up!" he said accusingly.

She held up her hands. "I wasn't saying anything…"

"But you were thinking it!" Harry pushed, getting Ginny to smile even more. "Anyways, what are you doing up so early?" he asked, remembering that it in fact was early on a Saturday morning.

Ginny shrugged. "I was just down for breakfast. There are a few people down there. Mostly Hufflepuff's and Ravenclaw's, though. Think they have a match in a couple of hours" she told him. "What are you doing up so early?" she asked him back.

Harry shrugged too. "Don't really know. Couldn't sleep, I guess", he said, scratching his head. "Going in or keep me company at breakfast?" he asked.

"I have nothing better to do so I'll sit with you", Ginny said, firing off a big smile at Harry who just nodded with a yawn. Together they walked down the many marble stairs down to the Great Hall. Like Ginny said there was a surprisingly large amount of students eating breakfast. Mostly Ravenclaw's and Hufflepuff's. Harry sat himself down at the Gryffindor table where there only sat three other students, two sleepy girls and a scared first year boy. Harry waved at them.

"Do you know them?" Ginny asked whispering as she sat down opposite Harry, looking over at the girls and the boy.

Harry shook his head. "No. But it doesn't hurt to be nice to them, right?"

"True."

As Harry ate, they talked about everything, from homework to the Weasley twins' newest invention. Harry laughed loudly when Ginny vividly described how Molly Weasley, Ginny's mother, went berserk when she found out that the twins had somehow made the gnomes allergic to the carrots. Harry remembered when he and the Weasley clan had to toss all the gnomes out of the garden at the Burrow and how Mrs. Weasley really didn't mind them at all. Just when Ginny was doing her best impression of Mrs. Weasley shouting at the twins, Ron stumbled in the Great Hall, looking rather angry.

"Where have you been all night?" he asked Ginny loudly. She looked around to see if anyone was watching.

"Could you lower your voice?" she asked Ron politely. "And what do you mean?"

"Hermione said that one of your roommates had been looking all over for you since you weren't in your bed when she fell asleep and when she woke up!" Ron said, staring at Ginny. "Do you mind telling me what was so important you had to stay out all night?"

Harry shook his head. Ron was overreacting as usual these days. "Come on, Ron", he said calmly. "Did her roommate say when she went to bed? And when she woke up?"

Ron turned his flaming gaze to Harry who almost jumped back at his best friend's eyes. "Late, and early", he replied through shut teeth.

Ginny was blushing red as her hair, looking down at the table. "I wasn't out all night", she said weakly.

Ron was looking like he was about to burst. Like he wanted to slap his little sister. "Well, where were you?" he asked, trying really hard to keep his voice calm. As Ginny didn't reply, Ron grabbed the collar of her shirt. "Huh? Where were you?"

Harry tried to grab a hold of Ron's arm, keeping him from strangling Ginny. "Calm down, mate", he tried, but Ron just shook his hand off him and stared at Ginny who kept her mouth shut and stared down at her hands. She looked terrified of her brother, and Harry couldn't blame her. Ron looked like a maniac.

"Why are you quiet? You usually have a lot of things to say, and now's the time!" Ron almost yelled, causing a few students to look their way. Harry looked at them with a "this is none of your business"-look and they turned away again.

Suddenly Ginny snapped. "I was out with Dean, okey!"