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Harry and I started to plot how to get back at Ron. To tell you the truth, I was kind of surprised that he wanted to help me with it. I always figured that if it came down to it in an argument between me and Ron, he would side with Ron. I just accepted that that's the way it was, the way it would always be.
We started spending more time together too. The thing that people never mention about revenge is how much work it is. First I had to come up with a plan. The plan was pretty much to wear down my brother until he exploded and ended up admitting his feelings about Hermione when she was within hearing range. The details of it were a little harder to work out. Harry and I ended up spending long hours in the library researching possible spells. I don't think that Ron and Hermione noticed anything suspicious about all the time Harry and I were spending together in the library. Or at least Ron hadn't.
Hermione on the other hand, let's just say that a week after we'd started planning she cornered me in the sixth year girl's dormitory after dinner.
"So, what's going on between you and Harry?" she asked with a smirk on her face.
"Nothing," I replied, completely serious, "What are you on about?"
"All those hours you two spend together in the library these days, studying," and she must've misread the shocked expression on my face at her insinuating tone because she added, "I won't tell Ron if that's what you're worried about, though I don't think that he's as against the idea as you might assume."
"Wait. Me and Harry? Hermione, you've got this all wrong. Me and Harry aren't together. Good lord, like he'd...anyway, that's not what it is at all. We've just been looking up new plays for Quidditch. Slytherin's got an especially strong team this year and - "
"Ginny," she said as she held up a hand, "You don't have to make things up. I just wanted to say that I'm happy for you. I can only imagine what it must feel like to finally be together with the guy you've always wanted."
I heard the wistful tone in her voice and decided that denying what she thought wouldn't get me anywhere. So instead I asked her what made her think that something was going on between the two of us.
"Well," she replied thoughtfully, "It's the way that he's been looking at you lately I guess, as if there were something about you that quite surprised him. And the way that you always get that sparkle in your eyes when he comes in the room. Plus, if you want to hide it you've got to come up with something better than going off to the library for hours. Everybody knows you both hate to study and Quidditch won't start up for another month. Good try though."
And with that she had flounced out of the room with that superior air of hers leaving me to wonder why in Merlin's name Harry would be looking at me strangely.
Anyway, back to the plan. After all of those hours of brainstorming and researching we had plenty of ideas to get back at my brother, five hundred at least. A lot of them weren't feasible of course, I mean we wouldn't really want to bribe Victor Krum to come teach here to make Ron jealous, although it would've been funny. Harry and I came up with a handful of more manageable ideas. He even invented a few of the more brilliant ones, like the charming Ron's robes. You wouldn't think that a bloke who was always off saving the world could be so devious, but then again Harry's good at most everything except potions and divination. I wonder what other surprises he has in that devious mind of his.
Sorry, got off in another Harry induced tangent. I seem to be having a relapse of blighted first year crush. Anyway, the plan was working brilliantly. Ron didn't know what hit him. Together Harry and I managed spells that made Ron dance with Hermione in the corridor before lunch on Monday and sing a montage of love songs the next day at breakfast. Then I put the partner bind on the two of them on Wednesday. Harry called that one inspired. On Thursday we charmed his robes before Potions. It didn't have the effect we'd been hoping for (of Ron's thoughts about Hermione scrolling across his chest), but the result was smashing nonetheless. I wish I could've been there. Harry had been practically falling down laughing when he told me what had happened.
"Oh, you should've seen it Ginny!" he'd said as he'd burst into the Room of Requirement after class. The Room of Requirement was where we'd taken to doing all of our planning since Hermione's talk with me. That way people wouldn't know we were going off together and they wouldn't suspect anything. I'd told Harry about Hermione's suspicions that something was going on. Of course I'd waited until I was leaving for class to mention that what Hermione thought that something was was that the two of us, Harry and I that is, were using the library as a place to conduct our indiscretions. Snogging in the library, I'd said, imagine that. I loved the look on his face after I told him that one. Who would think that shocked could be such an attractive expression? Anyway, back to Thursday.
"Ron's face got bright red after he saw the message on his robes and Snape looked ready to kill. Hermione fixed the robes straight away for Ron so no messages about her, but I think that it still worked out rather well anyway. He's about to explode."
Harry had a huge grin on his face.
"Well, what happened with Snape?"
"Oh, a lecture, twenty points from Gryffindor, and a detention. Nothing he hasn't had before."
"I wish I could've been there." See that's the thing that sucks. I'm a year younger then all three of them so I miss all the important things that end up happening in classes.
"Yeah."
"So detention's not that bad?" I felt a bit guilty.
"You've never had one before?" Harry looked at me with an eyebrow raised.
"Not yet. I save my rule-breaking for special occasions."
"Wow. You and Hermione."
"Hermione's never had a detention?"
"Only one, first year." And that's when I came up with my most brilliant idea yet.
"Let's give her another one."
"Ginny, detentions aren't exactly like presents, you can't just go around handing them out."
"I know that you prat. And I'll have you know that the only reason I haven't had a detention is that I'm obviously better at breaking the rules than you lot."
Harry raised his eyebrows at my speech and I realized that I might've gotten a bit too worked up. "So," he started slowly, "Am I to assume that this plan of yours involves rule-breaking?"
I nodded.
"Ooh, special occasion." He'd been teasing me. I smiled and hit him on the arm.
"Does that mean you're in?" I questioned.
It was another hour before we'd worked out the plan.
"Yeah, I think it'll work perfectly with Snape. He's never liked the way that Hermione always knows the answers. He has to be especially frustrated that she helped Ron today. We just have to play on that." Harry looked up from the piece of parchment that I had scrawled the details of the plan on and caught my eye. I nodded and thought about what we would be putting into motion the next morning.
"This should be fun." We both cracked smiles and I prayed that this would work.
Harry and I gathered our bags and headed back to the tower, laughing about our wonderful prank partnership.
"You know," he said as we went through the portrait hole, "I never thought I'd be giving Hermione a detention. On purpose that is."
"Just think of it as an early birthday present. It's one of those things that's for her own good. She won't realize it at first and will probably be really mad, but once she and Ron start snogging she won't care."
Harry looked at me in surprise.
"You're quite a girl Ginny Weasley."
"Thanks," I said as my cheeks grew warm, "You're not so bad yourself."
He didn't mean anything by it. We're just friends. Nothing wrong with being friendly. Right?
We were just standing at the foot of the stairs just looking at each other and I decided to take a chance. I closed the space between us, put a hand on his shoulder, and stood on my tip-toes to whisper in his ear.
"We make quite a team don't we?"
I felt him silently nod his head and grinned.
"Sweet dreams Harry."
I stepped away and took a quick glance at his face before I scurried up the stairs. Yeah, shocked is definitely an attractive look on Harry.
A/N: Thanks to AJLITE, darkness, BballShorty118848, MadPiper, Drama Fox, Nymphadora003, Fuzzy Elf, magicrulz, and Moonlight Kiss for reviewing. I loved all of getting all of your comments. Thanks to those of you that read my stories in the past (it's great to have such loyal readers!) and for those of you that are new (welcome and enjoy!). I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I can't wait to hear back from you. On a side note on a point brought up, this story isn't going to have as much outrightly funny parts because Ginny is a different character as Ron and will narrate differently. I see her as slightly calmer than Ron, but still feisty and mischievous. That being said, I'm looking forward to your reviews!
Harry and I started to plot how to get back at Ron. To tell you the truth, I was kind of surprised that he wanted to help me with it. I always figured that if it came down to it in an argument between me and Ron, he would side with Ron. I just accepted that that's the way it was, the way it would always be.
We started spending more time together too. The thing that people never mention about revenge is how much work it is. First I had to come up with a plan. The plan was pretty much to wear down my brother until he exploded and ended up admitting his feelings about Hermione when she was within hearing range. The details of it were a little harder to work out. Harry and I ended up spending long hours in the library researching possible spells. I don't think that Ron and Hermione noticed anything suspicious about all the time Harry and I were spending together in the library. Or at least Ron hadn't.
Hermione on the other hand, let's just say that a week after we'd started planning she cornered me in the sixth year girl's dormitory after dinner.
"So, what's going on between you and Harry?" she asked with a smirk on her face.
"Nothing," I replied, completely serious, "What are you on about?"
"All those hours you two spend together in the library these days, studying," and she must've misread the shocked expression on my face at her insinuating tone because she added, "I won't tell Ron if that's what you're worried about, though I don't think that he's as against the idea as you might assume."
"Wait. Me and Harry? Hermione, you've got this all wrong. Me and Harry aren't together. Good lord, like he'd...anyway, that's not what it is at all. We've just been looking up new plays for Quidditch. Slytherin's got an especially strong team this year and - "
"Ginny," she said as she held up a hand, "You don't have to make things up. I just wanted to say that I'm happy for you. I can only imagine what it must feel like to finally be together with the guy you've always wanted."
I heard the wistful tone in her voice and decided that denying what she thought wouldn't get me anywhere. So instead I asked her what made her think that something was going on between the two of us.
"Well," she replied thoughtfully, "It's the way that he's been looking at you lately I guess, as if there were something about you that quite surprised him. And the way that you always get that sparkle in your eyes when he comes in the room. Plus, if you want to hide it you've got to come up with something better than going off to the library for hours. Everybody knows you both hate to study and Quidditch won't start up for another month. Good try though."
And with that she had flounced out of the room with that superior air of hers leaving me to wonder why in Merlin's name Harry would be looking at me strangely.
Anyway, back to the plan. After all of those hours of brainstorming and researching we had plenty of ideas to get back at my brother, five hundred at least. A lot of them weren't feasible of course, I mean we wouldn't really want to bribe Victor Krum to come teach here to make Ron jealous, although it would've been funny. Harry and I came up with a handful of more manageable ideas. He even invented a few of the more brilliant ones, like the charming Ron's robes. You wouldn't think that a bloke who was always off saving the world could be so devious, but then again Harry's good at most everything except potions and divination. I wonder what other surprises he has in that devious mind of his.
Sorry, got off in another Harry induced tangent. I seem to be having a relapse of blighted first year crush. Anyway, the plan was working brilliantly. Ron didn't know what hit him. Together Harry and I managed spells that made Ron dance with Hermione in the corridor before lunch on Monday and sing a montage of love songs the next day at breakfast. Then I put the partner bind on the two of them on Wednesday. Harry called that one inspired. On Thursday we charmed his robes before Potions. It didn't have the effect we'd been hoping for (of Ron's thoughts about Hermione scrolling across his chest), but the result was smashing nonetheless. I wish I could've been there. Harry had been practically falling down laughing when he told me what had happened.
"Oh, you should've seen it Ginny!" he'd said as he'd burst into the Room of Requirement after class. The Room of Requirement was where we'd taken to doing all of our planning since Hermione's talk with me. That way people wouldn't know we were going off together and they wouldn't suspect anything. I'd told Harry about Hermione's suspicions that something was going on. Of course I'd waited until I was leaving for class to mention that what Hermione thought that something was was that the two of us, Harry and I that is, were using the library as a place to conduct our indiscretions. Snogging in the library, I'd said, imagine that. I loved the look on his face after I told him that one. Who would think that shocked could be such an attractive expression? Anyway, back to Thursday.
"Ron's face got bright red after he saw the message on his robes and Snape looked ready to kill. Hermione fixed the robes straight away for Ron so no messages about her, but I think that it still worked out rather well anyway. He's about to explode."
Harry had a huge grin on his face.
"Well, what happened with Snape?"
"Oh, a lecture, twenty points from Gryffindor, and a detention. Nothing he hasn't had before."
"I wish I could've been there." See that's the thing that sucks. I'm a year younger then all three of them so I miss all the important things that end up happening in classes.
"Yeah."
"So detention's not that bad?" I felt a bit guilty.
"You've never had one before?" Harry looked at me with an eyebrow raised.
"Not yet. I save my rule-breaking for special occasions."
"Wow. You and Hermione."
"Hermione's never had a detention?"
"Only one, first year." And that's when I came up with my most brilliant idea yet.
"Let's give her another one."
"Ginny, detentions aren't exactly like presents, you can't just go around handing them out."
"I know that you prat. And I'll have you know that the only reason I haven't had a detention is that I'm obviously better at breaking the rules than you lot."
Harry raised his eyebrows at my speech and I realized that I might've gotten a bit too worked up. "So," he started slowly, "Am I to assume that this plan of yours involves rule-breaking?"
I nodded.
"Ooh, special occasion." He'd been teasing me. I smiled and hit him on the arm.
"Does that mean you're in?" I questioned.
It was another hour before we'd worked out the plan.
"Yeah, I think it'll work perfectly with Snape. He's never liked the way that Hermione always knows the answers. He has to be especially frustrated that she helped Ron today. We just have to play on that." Harry looked up from the piece of parchment that I had scrawled the details of the plan on and caught my eye. I nodded and thought about what we would be putting into motion the next morning.
"This should be fun." We both cracked smiles and I prayed that this would work.
Harry and I gathered our bags and headed back to the tower, laughing about our wonderful prank partnership.
"You know," he said as we went through the portrait hole, "I never thought I'd be giving Hermione a detention. On purpose that is."
"Just think of it as an early birthday present. It's one of those things that's for her own good. She won't realize it at first and will probably be really mad, but once she and Ron start snogging she won't care."
Harry looked at me in surprise.
"You're quite a girl Ginny Weasley."
"Thanks," I said as my cheeks grew warm, "You're not so bad yourself."
He didn't mean anything by it. We're just friends. Nothing wrong with being friendly. Right?
We were just standing at the foot of the stairs just looking at each other and I decided to take a chance. I closed the space between us, put a hand on his shoulder, and stood on my tip-toes to whisper in his ear.
"We make quite a team don't we?"
I felt him silently nod his head and grinned.
"Sweet dreams Harry."
I stepped away and took a quick glance at his face before I scurried up the stairs. Yeah, shocked is definitely an attractive look on Harry.
A/N: Thanks to AJLITE, darkness, BballShorty118848, MadPiper, Drama Fox, Nymphadora003, Fuzzy Elf, magicrulz, and Moonlight Kiss for reviewing. I loved all of getting all of your comments. Thanks to those of you that read my stories in the past (it's great to have such loyal readers!) and for those of you that are new (welcome and enjoy!). I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I can't wait to hear back from you. On a side note on a point brought up, this story isn't going to have as much outrightly funny parts because Ginny is a different character as Ron and will narrate differently. I see her as slightly calmer than Ron, but still feisty and mischievous. That being said, I'm looking forward to your reviews!