There's something about...Ginny?

Chapter one: Bully's Beatings and Harry

"My God, would you look at that freak?" spat Parvati.

"I know, look at her weirdo clothes AND she's not wearing make-up, she is a complete loser." Lavender Brown hissed.

Ginny tugged at her worn cardigan and shuffled along the corridor awkwardly. She got this a lot, but usually it didn't really bother her.

Now the "deadly trio" had taken it way too far. They constantly threw malicious comments her way. A couple of times they had cornered her and in a staircase and put various jinxes on her. She was unable to retaliate, petrified of what might happen if she did.

Ginny knew better than to tell anyone. Hermione was too busy with her NEWT work and her boyfriend, Ron. Her older brother would be the same, Hermione was pressing him with his work and his brain was full. Harry, well, they had grown closer, but when the bullying started she pushed everyone away. He had other friends now that Ron had Hermione, Dean and Seamus mostly.
She could only really turn to her best friend Colin, he always stuck by her, but, being gay, he'd probably just tell her to bitch jinx them- that being his answer to everything.

Most of the time Ginny was alone, doing homework, or writing her diary. They kept her mind off everything else.

"This is the day it went too far. After my last lesson, Potions, I was going up the defence stairs, when I met them. The deadly trio were coming right towards me.
"Oh look, it's the little weasel!" said Parvati.
"Let's get her." Lavender said with a cruel smile.

Padma took one of my arms and Lavender took the other, they dragged me into and old unused classroom and bound me to a chair. They threw curses at me; Jelly legs, Gopher teeth, Bush man eyebrows, bat bogey...and a lot more. I swear, is Harry hadn't have knocked on the door at that moment, they would have put the Cruciatus Curse on me.

"Erm...is someone in there?" he called through the door

Padma removed all the jinxes from me and nodded to Parvati. Then she answered, in a sickly, girly voice;

"Oh, Harry, do come in, we were just giving Ginny some private tutoring."
"Oh, ok. Hi Gin."
"H...hello Harry." I gasped

The trio left, Harry and I were alone. I took note of what I saw. He's so different from what he was in second year. No longer small and scrawny, he's tall and toned, with muscular arms from all that Quidditch. He got rid of his glasses last year and he has these muggle things called "contacts," his hair is long and falls over his eyes. God, I still like him."

Ginny got up from her bed, pulled on her school robes, swung her bag over her shoulder and left for Charms, her first lesson of the day. As she exited through the portrait, Lavender spotter her and with a flick of her wand, Ginny's bag had split open. Harry happened to be leaving at the same time, he approached Ginny and said;
"Can I help?"
"Oh...no, its fine, I'm OK."

"No, please let me help."

The gathered up her books and Ginny repaired her bag. Harry noticed she was blushing furiously so he looked away.
Ginny got up and hurried down the corridor.

"Hey! Gin! You forgot this!"

He was holding a small A5 size book; it was purple and on the front was written: "PROPERTY OF GINEVRA WEASLEY, KEEP AWAY IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU! (THAT MEANS YOU RON)"

Oh, God. He had no idea what to do, he was torn between reading it and finding out why she was so distracted, or giving it back, and leaving her to her own business. But something drew him to the small purple book. He realised that Ginny was a mystery to him. She wasn't the bright and lively girl he once knew. She was pale and conservative, shy and reclusive. He knew he shouldn't, but he felt he needed to. He put it in his inside pocket and went to lessons.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Night Ron."

"Night Harry."

Harry drew the hangings and took the book from his pocket. He stared at the front cover, as though it would tell him what to do...or it had naked ladies on it (A/N: I'm sorry, Friends has had an influence on me...).

The tentatively- he opened the book at the first page and began to read.

"I got called names today, names I've never heard civilised tongues utter. I can't bear to write them down. I don't know what I did wrong, but whatever it was, it was bad..."

Harry read on, attacking, name calling, hitting, kicking, pushing...

"...Then Parvati grabbed me by the hair and yelled "YOU'RE WORTHLESS, YOU DON'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE!" I cried and she slapped me. Lavender and Padma looked scared; she's never been like this before."

A lump formed in Harry's throat. This is what her life was like, no wonder she was so jumpy all of the time.

"I got cornered again today but not by one of the deadly trio, by Michael Corner, my ex-boyfriend. He grabbed me by the arm and forced me into a cupboard.

"Take off your shirt!"

"No! Michael! ARGH!" I yelled.

"Take it off or I'll curse you into next Tuesday!"

I kicked and punched, scratched and bit until I was free.

"Come back here you worthless bitch!"

I screamed and put my hands over my ears.

"Come back, you need to be taught a lesson!"

Harry closed the book, he couldn't bear to read anymore. Tears were in his eyes, he needed to talk to Ginny.

He grabbed a bit of parchment.

Ginny, I need to talk to you, meet me in the astronomy tower at 12 tonight. The invisibility cloak and marauders map will be inside the portrait hole.

Harry xxx

Ginny read and re-read the letter. Oh shit. He read it.