AN: IM REALLY REALLY SORRY! It's been so long! Ok IR's are going at the end…. I must get to writing.. It has been really long and I feel bad but yeah... Surprisingly, since it's the end of school, they started loading MORE work and tests on us.. Great! Onto the story…
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Professor Tofty arrived at the beginning of the week to test Ginny, who was surprisingly calm; more-so than any other 5th year student last year. She missed classes for a few days in order to fit all of the exams in, and was extremely glad when they were over.
On Friday morning, Professor Dumbledore announced that they would be holding a back to school ball. Ginny and Hermione were very excited by this, because they would get to wear the robes that they had bought and kept secret.
The ball was to be held the next Friday, giving them all plenty of time to prepare. Though they were together, Harry still thought it proper to ask Ginny to the ball. "Will you go with me then, Ginny?" Harry asked hopefully.
"Of course, you great prat." she said affectionately. Ron seemed more eager to go this time than at the Yule Ball, perhaps because he had a date and nice dress robes.
In anticipation of the Quidditch season, Harry had started running every morning to get in shape. Already, you could see the difference between him now and the way he was at the beginning of the summer. He also noticed a lot of girls looking at him. Since He and Ginny had been trying to keep their relationship a secret from the school (which had not been entirely successful), girls were openly flirting with him, and Ginny wasn't very happy about it.
Already, he had been asked by 5 girls to go to the dance with them, and had turned them down politely each time. He kept reassuring Ginny that none of them mattered to him and that he was getting quite annoyed, but that didn't stop her from being in a sour mood whenever another girl came up to talk to him.
One morning at breakfast, Harry saw professor Tofty coming towards the table at breakfast. Obviously, Ginny had seen too because she was now breathing very heavily and not moving a muscle.
"Miss Weasley?" Tofty said, "Would you please come with me for a moment?" Ginny didn't move, and didn't look like she was understanding him correctly so , after 2 minutes of sitting still, Harry gently lifted her up out of her seat and set her on her feet. She smiled gratefully and followed Professor Tofty out of the hall.
Harry was worried through all of his classes, but was quite relieved when he saw Ginny at lunch. "How did it go?" he asked hopefully. She smiled. "I got 13 owls!" she exclaimed. "Professor Dumbledore also gave me a short test on all that you guys have learned this year, and he says I'm ready to move up to 6th year by the beginning of next week!"
Harry just stared at her with his mouth open. "Are you serious?", he asked. Ginny nodded. He picked her up and spun her around. "This is great!" he said. "Have you told Ron and Hermione?"
"Not yet, but I will as soon as I see them." As soon as she said that, Ron and Hermione came into the Hall, and she rushed over to see them. Harry couldn't hear what was being said but he could hear Hermione's shriek and could see the dumb-struck look on Ron's face.
The day the ball was quickly upon them, and both of the girls disappeared around noon to get ready. Ron rolled his eyes and suggested that they play a game pf chess to pass the time. ("7 hours! Honestly, Harry. What are they doing in there?)
Finally, at 6 o'clock, they retreated to their room to put on their dress robes. Harry, like so many times before, tried to tame his hair, but got no closer than any other time. At a quarter to 7, they went down to the main part of their common room to wait for the girls, who soon arrived on the staircase.
As he saw Ginny, Harry temporarily lost the ability to speak and move. Ginny gracefully descended the stairs and kissed Harry, which brought him out of his daze. "Y-you.. You look-" He couldn't think of any word to describe her except, "wow." Ginny giggled.
She was wearing mint green robes of a soft, flowy material, and her hair was curled and pulled half up, with little tendrils of hair surrounding her face. Harry led her out into the hall and he could see that in front of them, Ron couldn't take his eyes off of Hermione who was wearing her long hair down in gentle curls, and purple robes.
The great hall was decorated beautifully, and many of the students were already dancing. Harry saw Cho, who was looking pretty, sitting by herself at a small table. As he entered the hall, she waved enthusiastically.
Harry hadn't talked to her since the last DA meeting, so was surprised at her reaction. She came over to him. "Oh, hello, Harry. I'm sorry about dozing off on you after the DA meeting. I must have been really tired." So she didn't see Ginny curse her then, thought Harry. "Anyway, we never finished our talk. Maybe we could finish it on the dance floor." she suggested.
"Err- no Cho. I'm here with Ginny." Harry replied. Cho, however, didn't give up.
"Oh come on, Harry. Its just one little dance." she said. Harry shook his head. "We will never be together Cho. I'm sorry. Have a nice night." He said as nicely as he could, and Ginny couldn't help but shoot a triumphant smile at Cho as they turned to leave.
"You'll regret that Harry." Cho shouted after them. Ginny rolled her eyes and led Harry onto the dance floor. All in all, it was a very pleasant night after Cho's outburst. The dance lasted until midnight, and Harry was actually disappointed when it was over.
Before retreating to her room, Ginny came over and kissed him. "Thank you for the lovely night." she said with a smile. Harry thought about how lucky he was to have Ginny. She was, without a doubt, the most beautiful girl in the school.
"Most beautiful" came a voice from within him mind (Ginny's) "Well I'm not sure about that, but thanks anyway. I love you." Harry smiled.
The next morning, Professor Dumbledore called Harry to his office. "Harry," Dumbledore began, "We need to talk more about your powers. All of your power is within you, and to make it surface, you need to tap into it. Most witches and wizards never break into the power within them. In fact, very few do. Only really powerful people can. Voldemort, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, and I are the only recent people to have done so. I believe both of your parents did, however.
"The secret to doing this is not well-known. You only have to do it once, then your powers will stay forever. This includes wandless magic, legimancy, and any other special powers you may have hidden within you." Dumbledore told him.
"To access your powers, you have to go into a kind of trance. You have to clear your mind and focus on your magical core. If you like, we can try this right now, though I doubt you will get it the first time. No one ever has." Harry agreed to try, so Dumbledore suggested he just sit in the middle of the room on the floor while he tried.
Harry tried to clear his mind, like he used to during occlumency. He thought of a bright core of magic inside of him, almost blindingly white. Suddenly, Dumbledore's office disappeared, and he felt his core getting brighter, and felt magic spreading throughout him. So much power was going through his body that he was starting to feel dizzy.
He could tell that his already blinding core was continuing to get brighter and Harry felt like he was going to explode if this didn't stop soon. It was getting truly unbearable, when all of a sudden, it did stop and Harry was extremely relieved. He tried to get up off of the floor, when he felt a wave of nausea come over him, and found he couldn't.
For once, Dumbledore was speechless. Harry had accesses his core on his first try, when no one else had. Finally, he found he could speak after a few minutes. "Harry, you will be very week for the rest of today. I'll bring you to the hospital wing until you feel alright, and I will also inform your friends that you are not feeling well, but I won't tell them why. That's for you to explain to them." Harry tried to nod his head, but soon passed out, and was levitated up to the hospital wing.
He woke later that day, truly exhausted, to see Hermione and Ron standing over him. "Where's Ginny?" he asked. Hermione glanced quickly at Ron. "Well, she sort of had a fit and we brought her here. She got sick all over the place and didn't have enough energy to walk."
Harry stared at her with his mouth open. "While I was in Dumbledore's office?" Hermione nodded. "But- well then again, we are soul mates- but this- I can't believe-" He rambled. He looked over and saw Ginny on the bed next to his, and soon she stirred and woke up.
Harry explained to all of them what had happened, and what this must mean. All of them were shocked into silence. Harry decided he wanted to test his new powers. He focused on summoning the pillow across the room, and without hesitation, it zoomed into his hands. "Whoa!" Ron exclaimed.
Ginny tried the same thing, and the pillow flew out of Harry's hands and into hers. Soon , they started trying more difficult spells, like transfiguration, and found that they had no problems with it.
They both spent the night in the hospital wing, and by the next morning, their energy was back more than ever. In fact, they felt more energized and powerful than thy had in their entire life.
As soon as they were back at the common room, they tried every spell in all of their books and found that all of them came easily on the first try, with and without wands. They also realized that their reflexes had sharpened, and they had gotten stronger.
Dumbledore came to them and requested that they begin special training with him to discover and harness their newfound powers. The both readily agreed and were willing to learn all they could about their powers.
That evening, Harry was feeling particularly adventurous. "Let's go pull a prank on the Slytherins." he suggested to Ginny. He knew Hermione would never approve, and Ron would not want to get on Hermione's bad side, so it would be just Ginny and him.
Ginny ran up to her room to grab some of Fred and George's newest products that they had sent. They decided to use the shedding sugar, which they would put into their sugar bowl in the kitchens, the "Hairy Limbs Lotion" for the girls ( hair all over their arms and legs for a day), the "Long Lasting Makeup Face wash" for the guys (Makeup that wouldn't come off when you washed over and over, but only got heavier, until you looked like a drag queen), and they would send howlers to all of them (some fake, some not).
They accomplished planting all of this before midnight, except the fake howlers, which Harry was on his way to do. He had forgotten his invisibility cloak, so was trying to get it done quickly, when he heard footsteps and saw Snape come into view. Oh no, Harry thought, what I would give to be a Slytherin student right now! Then I wouldn't be punished. He imagined himself turning into Malfoy, and avoiding punishment all together.
"Draco, what are you doing out here?" Snape asked him. Harry looked around. Malfoy wasn't anywhere near. "Excuse me?" he said. Snape simply rolled his eyes. Harry looked in the mirror across the hall. "Bloody hell." he said.
He WAS Malfoy. "Just go back to bed then, Malfoy." Snape said, as he turned away. Thoughts started racing through Harry's head. How had he done that? Maybe- he just had to try.
He willed himself to have bubblegum pink hair; and there it was. He was a metamorphagi! He had to tell Ginny; right after he sent the howlers, that is.
He raced back to the common room after the owlrey and saw Ginny sitting on the couch waiting for him. After he explained the story, she shook her head. "I should be getting used to shocks like this by now." she said. "Wonderful job with the pranks by the way."
Harry smiled. He was proud of them too. "I couldn't have done it without you." he said. They spent the next couple of minutes snogging on the couch, when all of a sudden, someone came down the stairs. It would be Hermione, and not wanting her to see them both laying down on the couch in the middle of the night snogging like crazy, she tried to melt away, be invisible.
"What are you doing down here, Harry?" Hermione asked. "I just came down to read." she said, holding up the book in her hand. Harry looked around for Ginny, ad was shocked not to find her, but he could still feel her leaning on him. She must be invisible, he thought.
"Ohh- umm- I just came because I couldn't sleep. That's all. I thought sitting by the fire might do me some good. Well I'm off to bed then. Goodnight." he said before rushing upstairs.
This day was turning out to be really strange.
AN: Sorry for the short chapter, but mom's limiting my internet time now. I have to earn it. Running 1 mile 1 hour online.. Its not like I'm getting lazy and fat… just lazy. Anywho- I don't have much time to write nowadays, so just try to stay with me and don't throw anything.
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Next chapter- Slytherin's get the pranks pulled on them and Ginny moves to 6th year classes. Also more about Draco!