CHAPTER 11

Harry and Ginny were walking down the corridor, away from the north tower.

"I cannot wait until I can stop taking that subject. Between Trelawney the Fraud and Firenze the Human-Hater I'm just about ready to kill myself." Harry laughed. "I mean, honestly, how does Dumbledore expect us to pass our OWLs with those two teaching us? It's like last year with Umbitch. Maybe Parvati and Lavender should start the DA back up; only it should stand for Divination Association." Harry laughed again. "Or maybe we could call it something different. How about 'Save Us From Humiliation In Our OWLs Without Having To Listen To The Two Divination Idiots.'" Ginny ended with a laugh of her own.

For two weeks Harry had been escorting Ginny to all her lessons, alternatively making him late for his own. Laying the reasoning for this aside, Harry had been having fun. Ginny had a very positive attitude towards life, despite all the things that had happened to her. He wished that he could be more like her. Harry didn't think he had laughed so much in his life.

"I don't think I even give a damn about how I do in that OWL. What did you get Harry?"

"P. Not that I really cared about it. I think I was just relieved not to have to do it ever again." He explained. Harry and Ginny entered the great hall for lunch.

"I'll see you later. I'm going to sit with the girls."

"Okay. What class have you got after lunch?"

"Potions."

"Okay. I'll walk you down there when I'm finished."

"Thanks." Ginny reached up to kiss Harry's cheek. "Bye."

That was another part of the pretend boyfriend things that Harry loved. Ginny's lips were always so soft against his skin and he was secretly hoping she would miss is cheek and catch his lips in a sweet kiss at least once. At night he would dream about her running her lips all over his body.

Walking back to the common room, Harry and Ginny took the scenic route to walk off the three helpings of Dobby's apple pie and custard.

Both teenagers were currently laughing with tears running out of their eyes.

When both had calmed down, Harry said, "Where do you get those jokes from?"

"Where do you think they came from?"

"Oh!"

"So what jokes do you know, Mr Potter?" Ginny slid up right close to Harry's side and tucked her arm around his.

"I only know the ones that you just told me. Remember I grew up with the Durlsey's and I kind of have other things on my mind at the moment. That's why I have you to tell me these jokes."

"Of course. What would you do without me?" said Ginny with a giggle, she turned around and came face to face with her pretend boyfriend.

Harry was staring intensely into her eyes, so she just stared right back. Gulping a lot more than in any average situation, Ginny instinctively licked her dry lips anticipating some contact.

Harry's head was drawing nearer and nearer. Ginny slowly slid her eyes shut so that she could still see Harry lips coming closer and closer.

"OH! I'm so sorry." Hannah stopped talking when Harry and Ginny lifted their heads from each others. Hannah eyes widened with glee, "Oh, sorry. I'll leave you two kids alone." The she flounced back around the corner sending Ginny a scandalous look.

Harry and Ginny stood in an awkward silence until Ginny spook.

"We should get back to the common room."

"Yeah." For the rest of the journey, they walked in silence and as far apart from each other as they could get.

"So is Harry a good kisser?"

Ginny growled at her friend while pulling on her flannel pyjamas.

"You kissed Harry!" The other two girls squealed, settling down in the middle of the 5th year dormitory for the weekly gossip and chocolate fest they had every Friday.

"I would have if ferret lover hadn't interrupted."

"YOU PROMISED!"

The other girls gasped. "You like Draco Malfoy?" They squealed again.

"So? He's gorgeous and he's a bad boy. Every girl loves a bad boy, you know that." Hannah shrugged, her earlier embarrassment obviously gone. "Besides, Ginny isn't pretending anymore."

Each girl looked concerned at Ginny. "I – I don't want to pretend anymore." Ginny looked to the ground ashamed. "I don't know if Harry doesn't want to pretend and I don't know if I want to risk being hurt again."

Patricia broke off a huge piece of Honeydukes best chocolate and passed it to Ginny.

Ginny was sitting in a far corner in the library working on a potions project that Snape had set the previous day. Clearing his throat ready to say all the things he had wanted to say for two weeks. He sat in the common room, always watching her every movement wishing he could be with her, holding her, laughing with her, kissing her.

"Ginny?" He said in almost a whisper.

Ginny's quill stopped mid-sentence and her head whipped up. "Dean?" Her voice sighed.

"Um, can we talk?"

Ginny looked down at her array of books and parchment. Frowning she resignedly said, "Yeah!"

"Thanks. Um, I just wanted to apologise to you for how I acted before Christmas. Not just that morning but for quite a few weeks before that. I wasn't really that nice to you at all and I'm sorry."

"Thank you for apologising and I except your apology. Also, I want to apologise too. I spent hardly anytime with you after my birthday. I was always with Harry and you were my boyfriend so I'm sorry for that." Ginny looked embarrassedly into his eyes.

"You don't have to say sorry for anything Ginny. I also wanted to know if we could still be friends at least. I've really missed your company these last two weeks. If not then I'm glad we cleared everything up anyway." Dean asked hopefully.

"I'd like that." Ginny said guiltily.

"Okay. Well I'll see you later then?"

"Sure." Ginny smiled at Dean and he smiled back. Turning to walk away Ginny called back to him. "Dean!" he spun back round. "I have a confession to make."

"It's okay. I figured you were probably seeing Harry at the same time as me."

"I did no..."

"Sshh!" said the librarian sharply.

"I did no such thing." Ginny said in an angry whisper. "I would never do that, I'm not that type of person, you know that." she sighed.

"Sorry. I do know that. I just thought..." Dean voice trailed off.

"I was going to say that I never really dated Harry at all."

"What?"

"Harry was pretending to be my boyfriend so that I wouldn't appear to be to messed up by you breaking up with me the way you did." Ginny was embarrassed again.

"So you were never Harry Potter's girlfriend?"

"No." Ginny shook her head from side to side.

"Um. Does that mean that you might give me another chance as your boyfriend?"

Breathing hard Ginny tried to make sense of what Dean had just said. "I – I don't think so, Dean. I'm sorry. I don't think it would be a good idea."

"It's okay. I understand. Had to check though, you know?"

"Yeah. I'm sorry."

"Me too. Friends though?"

"Of course."

"See you later."

"Bye." Ginny said with a smile.

I know, I know. I said I would update ages ago but I didn't. I am so sorry if you've been waiting but I have been having a lot of trouble motivating myself to write this chapter. I think that for now I'm going to write this chapter and then end it on chapter 13(unlucky number). I had hoped that this would go a lot further than that but I'm not really interested enough in this story anymore. Also I'm going to be started four much more demanding courses at school this week so I won't really have that much time for this anymore. I hope none of you are too disappointed. And I hope you will continue to read other stories I post up on the website.

I don't think there will be a sequel to this story but I promise to review it and make some changes to it after January 2005. That is a promise I do not intend to break to you, my devoted readers and reviewers.

I hope to get chapter 13 up this weekend or failing that next weekend (because a carnival has come to my town which has never happened before).

Sorry again if my ending this story is disappointing to any of you.

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