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"Who is he, Ginny?"
Next Morning…
"I can't believe it!" Hermione shouted once more and went into Harry's arms, giving him a bit too friendly of a hug.
"Harry, congratulations mate!" Fred and George shouted in unison from the table.
"Thanks!" Harry responded, unable to form any other words.
"HEAD BOY… You know what that means, Harry? We… Well, you are going to be able to take points from Slytherin…ha! Bet Draco didn't expect that!" Ron said eagerly and grinning sharply.
"Congrats."
Then it was Mr. and Mrs. Weasley's turn to congratulate him.
"Harry, Head Boy! Oh, Merlin! Wait until everyone hears…" was all Mrs. Weasley managed to say. She hugged him tightly, even more so than when he'd arrived.
"Um… thanks!" he said, unsure if he really wanted this.Something inside made him feel awkward.
"Congratulations, son." Mr. Weasley said politely but with a huge smile that reflected enormous pride.
When Mrs. Weasley finally decided to let him breathe, Harry noticed someone else enter the kitchen behind her.
"Why so much of a party down here, huh?" Ginny asked, still sleepy.
"Mr. Potter here made …Head Boy!" George said smiling widely, messing, with his left hand, Harry's hair even more.
Ginny raised her eyebrows and made a questioning expression. She turned her gaze to Harry and smiled politely.
"I'm glad you did. It's better you than Malfoy, isn't it?" She said, in a rather indifferent tone. She walked past Harry, not stopping to give him the slightest hug or shake and sat down besides Fred.
"Thanks Ginny, you're… right, I guess." Harry answered awkwardly.
They all proceeded to the table and sat down for breakfast. If you could ignore Ron's mad expression towards his sister, Hermione's sadness, and Harry's concern, you could imagine this as just another normal morning.
Throughout the whole breakfast, Hermione and Harry exchanged worried looks between them and towards Ginny. But she was oblivious about it; for she was too busy eating her breakfast.
"Oh!" Mrs. Weasley said lightly "Here is yours, Ginny!"
Ginny smiled at her mother, took her letter, but didn't open it. She knew what she needed: new books, which only surely meant one thing… Diagon Alley.
"Ginny, hurry up!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed from downstairs
"I'm coming, mum! Just wait a second!" Ginny screamed back.
Almost immediately the family heard Ginny's hurried footsteps down the staircase.
"I'm ready!" Ginny panted, entering through the door.
She was wearing a dark sea-blue shirt and a black pair of jeans, a pair of comfortable muggle tennis shoes and she'd decided to straighten her hair for the first time in the entire vacations.
"And about time, too," Ron hissed very softly, so that only she could hear, and he was pretty successful about it.
They all went, one by one, by Floo powder into Diagon Alley, the twin's joke shop to be precise; Ginny was the last one.
She took a deep breath, entered the chimney and shouted,
"WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES!"
SNAP!
"Ouch!" She exclaimed once she fell on the ground. She lifted her gaze just to find that Hermione had already held out her hand to help her up.
"I…uh…thanks," Ginny said, smiling shyly towards Hermione, whom immediately smiled nervously back.
And there was nothing more said, the silence seemed to have drowned them both but, finally, after several uncomfortable seconds, one of them decided to speak up.
"Listen, I'm…sorry…you know, about…yesterday," Hermione said, looking straight at the floor, her voice had sounded obviously nervous; Ginny noticed Hermione's high pitch. But she stood silently, which made Hermione wonder what she'd said or done wrong. She turned up her face towards Ginny…she was smiling, almost laughing.
"Hey…it's not fu—"
"Why are you apologizing? It's not your fault my brother has no reasoning sense!" she said.
"By the way, I seriously wonder if he's got a brain after all." she added as an afterthought.
Hermione was enormously relieved by it.
Ginny laughed at her reaction and placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Listen, Hermione, let's just leave yesterday where it should be…which is in the past," she said in an obvious tone of voice.
"Well...I… Just remember that what Ron said is absolutely not true… Ginny, you are an ama—"
"SAVE IT!" Ginny interrupted. "You can say that when I'm heartbroken."
"You're right, I will." came her reply, now she smiled with full confidence.
"Hermione, are you coming or what!"
It was Harry who had screamed from outside the shop.
Both girls turned to his direction in the same moment they heard his voice.
"Oh I forgot, Ron, Harry, and I are going to The Leaky Cauldron, want to come along?" Hermione said, returning to face Ginny.
"Oh,you're better off without me," she said, with a slight angry tone.
Hermione rolled her eyes.
"If it's because of Ron, don't bother to take him into account!" Hermione said sharply.
"Really Hermione, It is not my first wish to be around my brother" Ginny replied, staring at his brother with flaming eyes.
"Ginny, please!" Hermione insisted.
Ginny clenched her teeth furiously and took a deep breath. Next she closed her eyes for a second, opened them and said "Ok, I think I can manage to support his presence for an hour"
Hermione gave a huge smile and walked towards the boys. The four of them stepped along the outer path of Diagon Alley. They passed along some other Hogwarts students, but no one they really knew; only Seamus and Neville, but they were too far away to say hello.
"Glad you could come, Ginny." Harry said politely opening the Leaky Cauldron's door for her. Ginny smiled at him but said nothing; they found an empty table and the boys plopped down in front of Hermione and Ginny.
"Want something?" Ron asked suddenly as he slid the chair backwards to stand up.
"Butter beer." Harry exclaimed immediately.
"Butter beer." Hermione followed.
"Um- I'll have a glass of water," Ginny said quietly, not even pretending to raise her hopes of Ron being brotherly towards her.
"Okay." Ron said simply, getting up from the table and walking towards the bartender.
"So, Harry, how was your summer?" Hermione asked.
Harry raised his eyebrows boringly, sighed, and leaned his back against the chair.
"Well, I can't really complain," He started "I got 3 meals a day."
"So the Dursleys are relaxed on you now?" Ginny asked.
"I think, it's a miracle though, uncle Vernon even smiled at me once" Harry commented frowning.
Hermione and Ginny both frowned too.
"Now that I come to think about it… something weird did happen; I kept receiving owl post every single day with the exact same message." Harry exclaimed.
Ginny and Hermione exchanged worried looks at his current comment.
"And, what did it said?" Ginny asked hurriedly.
Harry looked at her, then towards Hermione, then slowly back at her. He was willing to answer, but, unfortunately when he was going to; Ron had returned.
"What did what said?" He said loudly, placing the drinks in front of their respective owners. Ginny was somehow surprised he'd brought hers as well.
"Nothing important," Harry answered immediately.
Ron questioned in his own thoughts for a second but didn't bother to wonder too much about it.
"So, how are you, Head Boy?" He asked.
"Fine, thanks, it's strange though, don't you think?" Harry said
"What?" they answered at once.
"This entire Head Boy thing. I mean…why me?" He asked, looking at Hermione.
Hermione hesitated for a minute
"Well, Harry, there's a lot of things that could have influenced the decision." She said in an obvious tone.
"Oh...no. Please…" Ginny said, almost inaudibly.
Hermione, Harry, and even Ron turned to face her immediately.
"Ginny, what's wrong?" Hermione asked.
Ginny instantly moved her chair backwards and was pretty much willing to get out of the place.
"Uh nothing, I think I better lea—"
"Well, well, well!" a very loud yet cold voice shouted.
Ginny sighed furiously and sat back down.
The other three turned to the direction of which the voice had been heard.
Two boys had entered. One of them was considerably tall, slim yet with acceptable musculature, he had broad shoulders, dirty blond hair and a pair of stunning and slightly intimidating green eyes. The other one was slightly shorter, a little bit slimmer, but with the same sort of irresistible appeal. He had raven-black hair and striking gray eyes.
"Too late," Ginny whispered forcefully.
The two boys walked into their direction.
"Who would have thought that we'd have found Ms. Ginevra Molly Weasley sitting peacefully on such a day inside the Leaky Cauldron, huh Jonathan?" The tall guy asked loudly while piercing his eyes onto Ginny.
Jonathan nodded at once and smiled dominantly.
"Go away, Matthew!" Ginny hissed darkly. Her hands were hidden under the table and tightly wrapped in fists.
Matthew released a low but superior laugh and approached even more to Ginny's chair.
"Ready for this year, Ginny?" He whispered menacingly in her ear.
"You can threaten me, Matthew, but I won't." she responded in the same way.
Matthew raised his eyebrow awkwardly. His slim-slender hand reached his back pocket and slid out a small yellowish piece of paper.
"That's a shame isn't it?" He continued, caressing Ginny's cheek with the paper, "It's a surprise…your drastic change of mind. Here," he said, placing the paper in front of her face.
Ginny's eyes widened as she remembered it. Her temperature began to rise to unimaginable levels. She took a deep…a very deep breath, trying to calm herself down. Just then, she stared at the paper one more time.
"That's it…get out of my face you stupid git!" She yelled at the very top of her lungs; in less than the amount of time you take to it heavily. She pulled it against the floor and squashed it with her left foot, without the slightest compassion.
"You know you look so hot when you get mad?" he asked mischievously. He took a step forward, leaving just a few inches between them. Since he was taller than Ginny, he was looking downwards to a very angry and about to yell Ginny, and she was looking completely upwards for which he was considerably taller than her.
They remained several second throwing death glances, which Ginny got tired about. She silently wrapped her hands even tighter.
"This is going to be good," Hermione whispered with a wicked grin on her face.
Ginny pushed with all her force within, her right fist against his lower stomach. Merlin, he was hard to hit, but she was strong and didn't complain about the pain on her hand.
He had to step backwards, his hand covering his belly. He looked down a second but immediately gained strength and stood up perfectly straight.
Ginny was standing in front of him, her hand still raised, as well as both eyebrows.
Ron, Harry, and Hermione were less than an inch away to start laughing, but managed themselves to hold back.
Matthew threw Ginny a dark, threatening look before stepping against them and walking out of the place.
"See you at school," Jonathan said before going after his friend.
There was complete silence. Everyone that had witnessed the scene, which was pretty much the whole place, was cautiously waiting for any kind of response that came from Ginny. But she just stared at the door, motionless and semi-petrified by her actions. It was hard for her to truly believe it, but she had finally found the guts to do it.
"Um, Ginny could you just at least say something?" Harry said impatiently.
Ginny knocked herself back to reality and turned around.
"I need to go for a walk," she replied simply while carefully picking up the paper and sliding it inside her pocket. She quickly disappeared from their sight.
"What was THAT about?" Ron asked, frowning his dirty nose.
Both Harry and Hermione raised their shoulders at his question.
"Come in!" Ginny shouted form her bed, not even making the slightest effort to see who the person was.
The doorknob twisted, the door creaked open and Hermione stepped inside.
"Hi" Hermione said
"Hi," was Ginny's reply
Hermione stepped through the room and sat down on the bed, just besides Ginny.
"Can I ask you something?" Hermione questioned.
"Anything"
"What was what happened today all about?" She asked again.
Ginny sighed hopelessly and answered: "Let's not talk about it."
"Ginny, who was this 'Matthew'?" Hermione insisted.
"Please don't be stubborn. I'll explain it to you when I'm ready," Ginny answered seriously.
"Okay, that's enough for me. Anyways, please remember that tomorrow we will be leaving early so we won't miss the train."
"I know, but please tell mum I won't go down to dinner, I'm having a really bad headache."
Hermione stared at her suspiciously, knowing as a fact, that that was not the exact reason.
"Okay, I will" she answered at last.
She stood up from Ginny's bed and walked towards to reach the door.
"Oh… almost forgot. There's something Harry said a while ago...Um…oh, yeah! He asked me to tell you that if you want to learn more about it… he'll help you," she said excitedly.
"And even if Ron gets mad," she said before closing the door.
A Harry and Ginny Dreamer: Hei! loved your review! :) Long and cool. Lol. I made you hate Ron didn't I? :o) well... actually that was my purpose. Travel inside the books! I would LOVE to do that! (To help Harry with Ginny of course gives angel smile) Thanks a lot for your review!
Author of the Mark: mmm... cool name, is that your book or something? :D thanks for your review, I really liked it. Wow, I made you hate Ron too!! yai! that was my 1ºst wish when someone read that chappie. I'm really glad! :D :D :D ... hope you'll stick the rest of the fanfic!
Mrs.HarryPotter12 You're absolutely right! Ron IS a jerk!
mysticruby Here's more! ;)
amy-felton Amy!, love your name (that's my best friend's nickname... lol) and thereIS a good explanation for it... just wait!
I know this chapter is a little bit shorter than the first one… but I placed the same amount of effort winks
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