Chapter 3

Ginny's Point of View

After Harry's surprising announcement dinner wasn't very eventful. Even though I had already had dinner I couldn't stop myself form trying a few things. I was a true Weasley when it came to food. I ate a lot and didn't gain a pound. After Harry told us who Alexis was we didn't go into much discussion. We all new that wasn't the right topic at the moment. Alexis wasn't giving away how she felt about it, but I'm sure she was glad we didn't go into much detail.

Instead we discussed what all we had done today. I really wasn't listening to Hermione go on about her ancient ruins class. I was trying to get a read on Alexis. Nobody else was visibly having a hard time excepting her. Why did nobody else care that she was voldermorts daughter. Well that wasn't true. I could tell Ron was wasn't very comfortable with what he had just heard. No one could tell but me though. Ron was my brother, not only that but he had always been my best friend. No matter how hard he tried to hide it, I would always be able to read him. The same went for him as well. In my 1st year through my 4th year we had somewhat drifted. This summer we've fixed that. We are now are even closer than before.

Ron's Point of View

Dinner took forever. I only ate so everyone wouldn't know something was wrong. I also knew Ginny wasn't happy ether. She didn't even attempt to hide it. Everyone knew how she felt. Well everyone who paid attention to her, witch at the moment I think was only me. Everyone else was too busy trying to act like nothing was hard, or that Alexis's presence was perfectly brilliant.

As we were heading back to the common room I decided to talk to Ginny. "Hey you guys go on without me. I need to grab something from the library. Ginny you want to come with me."

"I'll go with you Ron. I was going to drop by in the morning anyway," Hermione said.

"No that's ok Hermione you look beat, Ron and I should only be a couple minutes any way," Ginny said coming to my rescue. What she said did seem to hurt Hermione's feelings anyway.

I waited until we were for enough away before I stopped at a broom closet. I grabbed Ginny's arm and jumped in and closed the door. "So what's your opinion on this whole thing?" I asked her.

"I don't like this thing at all. What is Harry thinking?"

"Forget Harry what about Dumbledore. What's he smoking?" I returned. I had picked up the line over the summer talking to a muggle family that had just moved here from America. Ginny just laughed at me. "Well I guess if we take a minute and think about it from a more open point of view, Dumbledore usually has a reason for everything he does. He trusts Snape when everyone thinks he shouldn't maybe this is the same thing."

"You really should stop hanging out with Hermione so much. You just sounded exactly like her," Ginny stated with a big smirk.

"Shove off," I retorted back trying to hide my smile that was threatening to show it's self.

"But seriously, if Dumbledore does have something up his sleeve why does he have to involve Harry. Doesn't he think this all might be hard for him on top of everything else he's dealing with?"

"I think he has to have a plan. I trust Dumbledore. He knows more about this whole war then anyone. What should we do about Alexis for now though? I don't fancy the idea of Acting like everything is all brilliant around her."

"I know what you mean. But we can't be cold towards her ether."

"Man I hate this." I said with a big sight.

"Tell me about it. How bout this we just are neutral. Don't be cold but don't really talk to her ether. I think it's the only way to go."

"Yeah…it just doesn't sound like the one that's the most fun."

"Like I said it's the only plan I can come up with. We don't really have much of a choice."

"We better be starting back. I still have to straighten out Hermione. I'm sure this hurt her feelings. I'm just not sure why."

"Don't sweat it. I'm your sister she can't possibly think of too many horrible reasons as to why we wanted to go off alone."

"You don't know Hermione very well."

"Just leave it to me. I'll handle it."

Hermione's Point of View

I couldn't imagine why Ron and Ginny wanted to go off on their own. I wasn't so stupid that I didn't know they weren't going to the library. They had never done something like this before.

"Hey Hermione"

I jumped. Only seconds before I had been alone. Must have zoned out. I looked up to find Ron and Ginny were back. "Hi," I said not really sure how was feeling towards them.

"Where's Harry," Ron asked me. Of course he didn't care about me. He just wanted to talk to Harry.

"They went up to see Dumbledore about something," I responded. Ginny and Ron shared a look I sure didn't miss. What was going on?

"Well then I'm gona go up to bed. It's been a long day."

"Yeah," I replied. Acting like I didn't care, while in reality carring very much. Why did I have to care what he thought?

"Goodnight"

"Night," Ginny said making me remember she was there. After this there was a very uncomfortable silence generally I would be searching for something to say but at the moment I didn't care. Finally Ginny broke it by saying, "Please don't get mad. We just needed to talk. It was a sibling thing."

I felt my anger flair, "so how come they just started. Why couldn't you talk about it with me? Why did you have to make up an excuse." I knew I was being ridiculous but I couldn't stop. When it comes to things with Ron I don't make a lot of sense, even to myself.

"Hermione please try to understand. We didn't' want to hurt anyone's feelings. We just had to talk about some things."

I could see the pleading in her eyes. The logical part of my brain was saying drop it, Ron's one of your best friends he wouldn't do anything to hurt you; the part of my brain that didn't make sense when it came to Ron was saying be mad and yell. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I'm sorry. I should understand. I don't know what's wrong with me."

"Looks like a good case of Ron obsession to me." Ginny said under her breath.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing"

"So anyways what was it you wanted to talk to me about."

"Oh…it was nothing, never mind."
I could tell she was lying. I really wanted to be friends with her. She seemed like a really great person. Plus she was Ron's little sister and I really wanted his family to like me. "Come on Ginny you can talk to me." I persuaded.

"Its nothing I was being stupid." She replied with a quick smile.

I was so not buying it. "It wasn't nothing before you were really insistent. You can tell me anything. Trust me, I won't tell a soul. Besides who would I tell Harry or Ron. Yeah right, big deal," I said trying to lighten her mood.
"It is a big deal," she said in a whisper. "Come on follow me." Before I could ask anything else we were out of the common room, through the portrait hole and in the hallway out side.

"Ginny what is this all about?"

"I need your advice."

"Like I said anything," I returned.

"Its just…well you're the only one who could give me some sound advice…I just wanted…" she drifted off without giving me any real information.

"Come on Ginny, just spit it out."

"I still like Harry. But I don't want to scare him off again. I don't know how to act around him with everything. I don't want to bother him, but I want to help him. I don't want to always be Ron's little sister, but I don't think I could ever be anything else. And now there's that stupid Alexis girl that I think he likes. How am I supposed to compete with that?"

I stopped her there. She had said all that without taking a breath and there had been no sign of her needing one ether. "Ginny slow down, I can only solve one thing at a time. I can understand the scaring Harry off. You want him to see the grown up beautiful Ginny not he obsessed little girl. As far as that goes just stay the same. Just be Ginny. As far as not bugging him, but helping him…just be available to him. That's all anyone can do right now. There's little comfort when you loose someone close to you. Being Ron's little sister is already starting to change. Like I said just keep being Ginny. As for Alexis Harry's not stupid enough to fall for a face again. He did it with Cho he wont do it again. Besides that she's Voldermort's daughter, just because Harry's acting nice and relaxed doesn't mean he is. Harry's still on his guard, like we all should be; but that doesn't mean we need to be anything but nice to her."

"You make everything seem easier."

"I'm good at solving other people's problems. It's my own I have trouble with. Just remember what I said. The best thing to do is just be yourself."

"Thanks Hermione I really needed your help. Usually I would go to Ron for advice but there was no way I could talk to him about something like this. You're the only other person that really knows Harry."

I thought about this for a moment. I didn't like that she had come to me as a last resort. I wanted to be the first person she came to, not the last. I wanted her to be comfortable telling me things. I wanted her to trust me. I wanted her to…be my friend. "Ginny you can come to me for anything. I would like to get to know you a lot better. I think we could get to be really good friends."

Ginny's point of view

I wasn't really sure how to respond to Hermione. I did what I knew was neutral until I had time to decide how I felt. "That's nice Hermione. Thanks for your advice. I'm gona go to bed now, don't want to be tired for my second day of school." I threw in a laugh and turned and walked back through the common room, up the stairs and into my dormitory. I flopped onto my bed in my thinking position. What a day. I thought about what Hermione said. I don't know why I'm so hesitant to say 'yeah lets be best friends.' This is what I'd always wanted, the chance to be part of the terrific trio. Maybe it was because I knew at least part of why she wanted to be friends was because of Ron. I wasn't so daft that I thought she just wanted to be my friend for the reasons she had stated. I had enough friends that just wanted to be my friend because of who I was. Not the me person, but the I'll be popular if I'm associated with her. It wasn't much fun, actually it was really lonely; but maybe hermi8non was different. She was best friends with Ron and Harry, and both of them weren't materialistic. I didn't know so much about Harry, but I knew Ron would never be friends with someone who wasn't pretty much great. To most people it wouldn't seem that way but it was. Ron was a lot more complicated that most people saw. My last thought before I drifted off to sleep was I kneaded his advice on the Hermione subject before I could really make any real decisions.

And that's it for chapter 3. I should be getting one out in the next two weeks again so keep checking back on me. I didn't get any reviews on chapter 2, witch was kinda depressing so if you read this one please review. I really would like to know what anyone thinks about it. Even if you say 'it sucks never write again.' SO PLEASE REVIEW thanks for reading!