Author Note: Read/Review please!
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"I'm sorry, you what?"
"I bought the ring."
"The ring for whom?"
Whatever Harry Potter said next was completely lost in the mumble. Ginny Malfoy rolled her eyes and replied, "Potter, seriously, enunciating is not that hard. You should try it every once and a while. I asked who you bought the ring for."
Harry took a deep breath and a gulp of coffee. "Hermione."
Ginny nodded thoughtfully. "Hermione, the girl you haven't seen in five years yet are completely in love with? That Hermione?"
"I've seen her," he offered lamely.
"Sod off. You've been avoiding her because you lack the balls to actually admit your love for her to her!"
"You know, Ginny," Harry began threatingly.
"No, Harry, because I just want to make sure that we're talking about the same Hermione." Ginny's voice began to raise, "Because no bloke in his RIGHT MIND would buy a Tiffany's engagement ring for a girl he hasn't spoken to in FIVE FUCKING YEARS."
"Was that good to get off your chest there," Harry yelled back.
"No, there's more!"
"No, I think you're done," Harry said as he got up from her kitchen table.
"Potter, you know better than to fuck with me when I'm pregnant! You will sit back down, and you WILL sit quietly while I explain some things to you!"
Harry sighed and sat back in his seat. Ginny's heart broke just a little at the sight of Harry twirling the gorgeous ring around in his hands.
"Harry, how long have we been friends?" Ginny asked quietly.
"Forever," was Harry's response.
"Pretty much," Ginny grinned. "So, I've earned the right to be heard, correct?"
Harry simply nodded, refusing to make eye contact with her. "Just promise me you won't go into labor, okay, Gin? Draco will kill me."
Ginny rolled her eyes but smiled. "Harry, how long have you loved Hermione?"
"Forever."
"Why haven't you told her?"
"Well," Harry raised his eyes to hers for the first time, "there was that slight complication of her being married to Ron."
Ginny nodded, "Yeah, but he's dead now."
"Ginny!"
"What? It's true! We were all there. We saw them put him in the ground. And, seriously, I'm happy for him!" Ginny exclaimed. "He was in so much pain there at the end and you know it. Death was relief."
"Shitty relief."
"Don't I know it," Ginny smiled wryly. "But it doesn't change anything. My brother's last wish was that you would stop breaking Hermione's heart. And for the past five years, you've let him down."
"Are you quite done?"
"You going to do something?"
There was a long pause from the Man Who Lived. He sighed deeply and then meekly offered up one word. "Help?"
Ginny's eyebrows wiggled, "I thought you'd never ask."
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Draco Malfoy was surprised to see his wife's owl perched at his desk later on that afternoon. His fears of trouble turned to laughter when he red her note.
Malfoy –
I had a lovely chat with Harry.
Game on.
Red
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