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A/N : I know most of you are confused right now as to what the heck Harry and Ginny did and what they're up to right now! One or two of you got it right! But here you are! It all comes unravelled now! ... Read on and enjoy!
Warning - Major H/G action in this chapter. So if you are truly not a HG shipper and think you may throw a fit if you read too much of it ... I must advise - this may not be the chapter for you! But you have some of your Ron/Mione-ness of course!
And The Truth Comes Out
Morning Arguments
Chapter Two
'Harry? Harry?' Ginny whispered, poking Harry's cheek as she did so.
After their nightly excretion earlier they had both stayed up laughing on the Common Room couches in front of the dieing fire. Now it was almost around the time everyone in the Gyrffindor Tower woke up for classes, although it being Saturday most would be sleeping it. Ginny, though, awoke on the lumpy, overstuffed sofa next to Harry just before the Common Room would begin to fill.
'HARRY!' Ginny jolted as she gave his cheek another poke, harder this time.
Harry rose, startled then, taking in his surroundings. Ginny was squished next to him on the couch peering down at him with a smile playing across her lips. The first thing he realized was the close proximity between himself and her. Smiling he looked back up at Ginny. Finally it hit him, memories from last night flashed back in his mind and he grinned back.
'This is gonna be one heck of a day.' He mumbled as he and Ginny tried to untangle themselves from the blanket he had conjured up last night.
'You ready?' Ginny asked as she sat upright on the couch.
'When will the Veritaserum kick in?' Harry questioned, thinking back to the night before; pouring the thick dark liquid into Ron's glass of water before running out of the dorm and down to the Common Room.
'Well I'm not too sure, probably by after dinner. I don't think it's too strong of a truth potion, I took it from Snape's office a few weeks ago but I doubt it's the 'real' kind, probably a cheap knock off. It'll take a while longer then the normal kind.' Ginny shrugged.
'Meet me down here in an hour?' Harry suggested while trying to flatten his horribly untidy hair.
'You look fine.' Ginny said as she watched him lose the battle he was engaged in with his jet black hair.
'Hmm, so do you.' Harry grinned.
'I wasn't worrying about my hair.' Ginny pointed out.
'I know,' he smirked and got up and began walking up the Boy's Staircase. 'See you in an hour.' And with that he disappeared up the stairs.
Once he was in front of the Sixth Year Boy's Dorm he took a deep breath and tried to keep from giving himself and Ginny away. Harry entered the room where he found Seamus still asleep in his four-poster, Ron with his head under his bed, and Dean no where to be found.
'Hey, mate.' Harry walked around to his best friends bed, 'What are you doing down there?'
'Trying to find me shoe. Have you seen it?' Ron's muffled voice asked.
'Try under your nightstand.' Harry suggested as he flopped onto his bed, right next to Ron's.
'Hmm..' He moved over to his night table and began poking around underneath. 'So where were you last night? Your bed is still made, you never came up?'
Searching his mind quickly for an excuses Harry said, 'Erm, yeah. I stayed in the Common Room last night. I was doing some last minute work.'
'It's Saturday, couldn't you have done it tonight?' Ron questioned.
'Er ... well yeah but I think Ginny has a full day planed out for us.' Harry said randomly.
'That girl, she's going mental, just like Mione is.' Ron informed him as he came back from under his nightstand, shoe in hand. 'Yesterday that crazy girl wanted me to do that Charms essay! We have two weeks to do it, she wanted it done that night. I told her no of course ...'
'She won didn't she.' Harry half laughed, Ron was such a pushover when it came to a certain bushy haired sixth year. Not that Harry wasn't the same way around Ginny.
'Yeah.' Ron answered flatly. 'Like I said, crazy. Now lets get going, I'm starving.' He started toward the door.
'Er ... wait!' Harry jumped off his bed and toward the night table. 'Knowing Gin she and Mione wont be down for a while.'
'I don't understand what they do that takes so long in the mornings, especially Ginny.' Ron grumbled as he walked back over to his bed.
'No clue, mate. Girl thing?' Harry kept eyeing the water which was now only a few feet away from Ron.
'Hungry?'
'I need breakfast.' Ron complained.
'Try some water, it'll make you forget about food.' Harry suggested, his eyes making their way to the glass once more.
'I don't see how ...' Ron's eyebrows wrinkled.
'Er ... Mione mentioned it a while ago.' He pushed the glass over to Ron. 'She knows a lot.'
Shrugging Ron took a drink from the glass. 'Whatever.'
Trying hard to hide his smile he made a mental note to tell Ginny that the mention of 'Mione said' would probably convince Ron of many things. 'You know, let's go down, we'll wait for the girls there.'
'Okay?' With that they headed down to the Common Room.
It was almost completely empty when they arrived at their usual waiting spot by the fire. There were a few blurry-eyed first and second years and some seventh years who were already hidden behind a tower of thick books. Everyone else was probably doing the sensible thing: sleeping in, something Harry would have given his right arm to be doing right now. He looked over to the sofa he and Ginny had spent the night on, together.
'I wish we could get up those stairs,' Ron complained as he looked up at them. 'We could drag the girls down without wasting an hour waiting for them to do whatever they do every morning.'
Harry laughed to himself, in a matter of hours Ron would want to have Hermione up in her dorm, far away from him. 'Yeah, that'd be nice.' He replied.
'Hey, Harry.' Ginny smiled as she walked down the stairs, Hermione following after her.
'Morning, Ron.' Hermione chirped as she bounced down.
'Finally, lets eat.' Ron grinned as he and Hermione fell into step next to each other, leading the way out of the Tower.
'Ready?' Ginny smirked as she and Harry followed them out.
'Nope. You're the mastermind behind all of this.' He teased as she pushed him gently.
Down at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall, which was nearly empty, Ginny sat next to Harry while Ron and Hermione faced them on the other side. The two were, as always arguing about something. Hermione was nagging Ron about the Transfiguration homework he had yet to hand in, while Harry and Ginny sat watching.
After a few long moments of looking from Ron to Hermione, who was quite obviously going to win the battle, just as she always did Harry lazily poked Ginny in the ribs under the table. Out of the corner of his eye he could see her smirking as she watched the argument. Again he reached over slowly, so as not to disturb the fight and poked her. This time though, Ginny brushed his hand away before he could reach her, so instead he started swinging his foot under the table, lightly hitting hers as he did so, over and over.
Smiling now, Ginny began to flick his knee. Instinctively Harry put his hand on top of Ginny's to stop her, grinning she pulled his hand, which still held hers, back over to her. Just then the heated argument Ron and Hermione had been involved in since they had entered the hall moved up a level in volume, making both Harry and Ginny avert their attention back to them. Subconsciously, though Ginny began tapping her leg, which held her and Harry's intertwined hand's.
'Mione, sometimes I just don't know how to deal with you!' Ron grunted as he gave up the fight and turned back to his plate.
'Try kissing her.' Ginny mumbled under her breath so only Harry and herself could hear.
'It'll release that emotional tension.' Harry added, just as quietly as she had.
'Ron, please.' Hermione sighed, then, turning back to the two in front of her she added, 'So? What did you guys have in mind for today? Unlike some people, I have all of my homework done so I have a whole day to spend doing nothing.'
'And I unlike some people I don't need to have every piece of work ever assigned done before I can let myself have fun.' Ron added after her.
Ginny cleared her throat uncomfortably before answering. She didn't like being in between one of Hermione and Ron's infamous fights. 'Well, Harry and I figured after breakfast we could take a walk around the grounds, maybe play some Quidditch? Then I guess we can just hang around the Common Room after dinner.'
'Sounds good. I'll just grab a book from my room before we head out though, no Quidditch for me.' Hermione said, more to herself then to anyone else at the table.
'Always reading, this one here. Never takes a minute for fun.' Ron grumbled in response.
Clearing her throat again Ginny smiled, 'So is everyone alright with the plan?' Two yes's came from the table followed by one more nod. 'Great.'
Silence fell over them as the all focused on their food. The air wasn't yet clear between Ron and Hermione yet, it would take a few more minutes before either of them forgot about what they had been arguing about in the first place.
'Hey, Harry? What about that Ravenclaw girl? What was her name? Kelli something? Didn't you want to get together with her this weekend? She was mentioning something like that during Divination last week,' Ron recalled as he grabbed another piece of toast.
To anyone else at the table it would have seemed as if nothing had happened but Ginny pulled her hand out of Harry's at that moment and placed it on her knee as she continued to drink from her goblet. Wincing inwardly Harry slid his hand off of her thigh, mentally hitting himself.
'No, I'd much rather play Quidditch with Ginny ... and you.' He glanced to his left where she sat, acting completely un-phased.
'Why? You can play Quidditch with us any time, that Kelli girl is pretty.' Ron pointed out, not at all helping Harry's situation.
Hermione, though wasn't handling this news half as well as Ginny was. She reached over and pinched Ron's arm - hard.
'OUCH! Are you crazy? What's gotten into you?' Ron grabbed his upper arm, rubbing it furiously.
'You are so thick sometimes!' Hermione glared at him. 'Did it every dawn on you? I don't want to hear about which girl in which year is pretty!'
'Crazy.' Ron mumbled.
'If it makes you crazy whenever anyone mentions Viktor's name why would you assume it's okay to talk about pretty girls in front of me?' Hermione hissed.
'Well why would you mention him then, Hermione?' Ron stressed her name.
'Well why would you mention this pretty girl in Ravenclaw, Ron?' Hermione snarled.
'She wasn't even talking to me! It was Harry she was making eyes at -'
'Yeah but I wasn't even paying her any attention!' Harry quickly added, wishing this conversation would end, although he felt the need to defend himself.
'Let's just change the subject. It's obviously causing problems for you and Mione, Ron.' Ginny gave a small smile. 'Is everybody finished breakfast? Let's head up to the Common Room. We can get our brooms and ... er, Mione, your book.' With that she pushed her plate aside and got up from the table, everyone else following suit.
Just as it was on the way down Hermione and Ron led the way with Ginny and Harry following close behind. Though, this time Hermione just kept her eyes focused ahead, not even bothering to look at Ron, let alone argue.
Harry walked silently next to Ginny until they had almost reached the Common Room.
'Gin, please listen?' He began pleadingly, though, she refused to look over at him.
Stopping he grabbed her upper arm and pulled her next to him, giving her not choice put to face him. Ginny
quickly tore her arm out of his grasp.
'Kelli?' Ginny said cooly, narrowing her eyes before walking through the Fat Lady portrait, leaving Harry alone in the corridor.