A/N: I know this whole thing is a big cliché, Harry/Ginny are my favorite couple and I wanted to put some more out there. As I have been thinking about sex too much, I decided to make a clean version first and then add an extended chapter after I finish. This one may be 4 chapters long! I never write that much! I only just posed my first story out like yesterday, and I don't have very many reviews yet, but I figure I'll give this a shot anyway. Enjoy!
Chapter 1 – The Last Day of TermIt was double potions again. This class was an improvement to the pre-N.E.W.T. class because it contained members from all four houses. There were definitely more Slytherins than anyone else, but the ratio was about fifty/fifty, Slytherin to everyone else. Harry was cleaning up for the day, anticipating Christmas break, when Snape indicated that they could finally leave.
"Hey Hermione, want to go for a walk by the lake?" Ron asked without making eye contact with Harry. He and Hermione had been "dating" since the end of sixth year. At this point in time Harry was pretty sure they had only gotten as far as heavy kissing, but Ron was still guilty every time he and Hermione spent alone time together.
"Sure. Harry, do you mind? I don't think we had anything planned this afternoon."
"Not at all. I am supposed to meet Ginny in the common room anyway." Ron scowled at this last comment.
Ron was going to visit Hermione's family for Christmas, but both of them would be back early to spend the last week and New Years Eve at Hogwarts.
Harry was told to stay at Hogwarts for all of break because it was the safest place for him to be. At first this made him angry, being treated like a child at 17, but when he found out that Mrs. Weasley was going to let Ginny stay his mood changed. Since the beginning of his sixth year, Harry and Ginny had become the best of friends, even matching Harry's friendship with Ron and Hermione.
"Hey it's about time. I got out early and I've been sitting here for aver half an hour."
"Let's go down to dinner. The Great Hall will probably be empty."
The sat and ate for an hour and a half talking about nothing at all. It seems like they should have run out of things to say.
Ginny knew everything about Harry's childhood from the way his aunt and uncle treated him at home to the way his cousin and everyone else in his primary school treated him. She know that his birthday was never recognized until his eleventh when he got his Hogwarts letter. Few actually comprehended that Hogwarts was his only true home. She understood his battle with Voldemort better than anyone else, and it wasn't just because she was once possessed by him, it was mainly because she listened without interrupting and knoew how to act when he was done speaking. She had never had this level of understanding with any of her previous friends or boyfriends.
Harry knew everything about Ginny as well. He knew that as much as she loved her family, she sometimes wished she was the only child. He listened to her when she told stories about her brothers picking on her because she was the only sister, and how she used to climb a tree in her yard to avoid them. She was not the type of person to hide, and he soon learned how she became the person she is today.
Even with the second war brewing out side the Hogwarts walls, Harry found peace in Ginny that was so seldom with his other friends.
Ginny had long string of boyfriends through the last two years, but she was know throughout the school as someone who would not have sex. He liked all of the boyfriends, maybe even loved a few, but she did not take her virginity likely. She was not one of those strongly religious people, but she still wasn't about to let anybody push her around.
Every time on of her relationships ended, she would turn to Harry for comfort. She would always ask if they were, or could be more than friends. But each and every time Harry said that he didn't want to ruin the best thing in his life right now.
"Hey don't cheat," said Ginny with a smile on her face. Harry was leaning over the chess board with his ear pressed against his king.
"Cheating?" Harry said with fake incredulously. "I know not of what you speak! We're discussing the weather."
"Yeah sure," she retorted as Ron and Hermione walked through the portrait hole.
Ron subtlety signaled for Harry to come upstairs with him by waving his arms high in the air and pointing to stairs up to the boys dormitory. As Harry made his way over to the steps, Hermione plopped down next to Ginny and they started to talk in whispered voices.
"Oh Harry, I'm in deep shit," Ron confided in him after he locked and charmed the door closed. "I know I love Hermione and I wanted this Christmas to be special. I've never been in a muggle house before, and I doubt I'll be able to sleep in the same room with her, much less as her if she's…you know…ready." Ron blurted all this out very quickly, except the last few words which seemed to take him a year to get out.
"Ron, I'm sure it will be fine. I know for a fact Hermione loves you too. And, well, you're probably not going to get to spend…alone time with her, you will be back here before the new year and there won't be anyone else here, well except for Ginny and me, but we promise to stay out of your way." Harry said the whole thing slowly so Ron would be reassured, but added the last comment with a smile on his face.
