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Harry watched Ginny leave the Great Hall with tears in her eyes. He felt pity on her and he wished that he could do something for her, but he didn't know what.

Now, her friends, Flo, Sab and Melli also left the Hall and the laughter of the other students lost its intensity. Harry hoped that the three girls would make sure that Ginny was ok.

Ron got also up from the table and with a worried look, he said: "I have to find out if Ginny is all right! It's my duty as her older brother!"

"Ron, no-", Hermione started, but Ron had already left the Gryffindor Table and was on his way out of the Hall.

"When will he realize that Gin is not a child? She needs some privacy! I will try to keep Ron from making everything worse!" And Hermione was also gone.

But Harry hadn't really been listening to anything that his friends had said. He was too deep in thought.

"Why can't she stop watching me?", the 17-year-old boy thought.

Then, he sighed. Nobody was able to imagine how desperately he wanted to watch Ginny!

But how?

He was not able to spend more than five minutes alone with her because Ron was EVERYWHERE! He followed Ginny wherever she went to.

Harry had often planned to somehow get rid of Ron or tell him the truth about his feelings.

The truth! The truth was that every part of his body cried for Ginny! He really loved her!

He want to go out with her, to take her in his arms, to kiss her, to give her the feeling of safety. It was like a torture for him because he could not look at her and had to avoid every contact when Ron was near. In fact, it took him all his self-control to ignore her looks and his heart was bleeding because of that. It became worse with every day- no- every second he could not be with her.

"Oh, you stupid coward!", he said to himself.

He could not understand why this silly feeling of being guilty took away all of his bravery.

He had gone through many bad times with the Dursleys and had survived the attacks of the Dark Lord! So, why was he not able to tell his best friend, Ron, that he loved Ginny? And why did he feel guilty? He had done nothing wrong!

Now, he felt that anger was rising inside him, the feeling which he knew very well by now. It was always the same: everything started with thoughts about Ginny and ended with anger. Anger at Ron!

Why could Ron not leave his sister alone? She was 16! She had got much better grades in her OWLs than Ron had had! And: She had already got two boyfriends and Ron had never followed her then! So, why now?

Why could Ron not spend a bit more time with Hermione? She was his girlfriend (Harry had no idea why) and now, he neglected her very often!

The bell rang. That meant a whole day filled with stupid teachers telling Harry stupid things, which he would forget till the end of the day.

But if you want to forget something, you fist have to know something that you can forget afterwards!

So, Harry had to attend the lessons, but he could not at all concentrate on the anything today.

He knew that Professor Candidus, their Defence against the Dark Arts teacher, told them something about Xarx Superbia, a dark wizard, who had been hindered from killing a well-known wizard family with the Jelly-Legs Jinx. But Harry only knew that because the headline on one page of his open book told him so.

Next to him sat two people with red faces: Hermione had been able to stop Ron from "helping" Ginny, but the couple had had a terrible row and that's why they wouldn't talk to each other for the rest of the day.

In Potions, Harry caused and got into big trouble: he always thought about Ginny ("Her hair is so beautiful!") and that distracted him from every other activity. He didn't pay attention to anything else and that's why he put all the ingredients of the Bone-Healing Potion next to his cauldron instead of in it. Of course, it was a good opportunity for Professor Severus Snape to make a fool of Harry in front of the whole class:

"Ah, Mr Potter! You have finally found ingredients that walk into the cauldron all by themselves!" (the laughter of the Slytherins could have lifted up the roof from the dungeons) "I hope that they are worth the 20 points that I take away from Gryffindor!"

A very ugly smile was on Snape's face and the Slytherins- especially Draco Malfoy- couldn't stop laughing ("Potty, the great inventor!").

But still, Harry could not react to anything. He could only think about the sweet redhead.

Even Ron, who can be as sympathetic as a hammer, noticed the strange behaviour of Harry.

He and Hermione asked Harry several times if he felt all right, but the only answer they got (after a very long waiting), was: "Mmm? Did you say anything?"

In the two hours of Transfiguration, they had to transform a dog into a cat and the other way round, but nothing could wake Harry from his day-dreaming and thoughts (he only stroked the cat because she had red hair and he thought of Ginny's hair again).

Professor McGonagall made even sure that Harry was not bewitched, but with a sigh she had to accept that he wasn't and that she could do nothing against his state. She just suggested that Ron and Hermione should bring Harry to the Hospital Wing after the lesson.

But then, something happened that finally woke up Harry:

At the end of their lunch, Professor Dumbledore told the students not to leave the Great Hall immediately because he had to announce something.

"As you all know", he started, "the Saturday in two weeks will be a very important date. On this day, the cooperation of Beauxbatons, Durmstrang and Hogwarts will celebrate its anniversary! It's a pity that we cannot visit the other schools and they cannot visit us because it is to dangerous to travel at the moment. But we have decided to hold a ball to honour this important date!"

The word "ball" had caused a great and pleased yell of the students and had brought Harry's thoughts back to the world around him.

"All students will be warmly welcomed at the ball! And please wear your dress robes because it's a very important event! The ball will begin at 8 o'clock in the evening and the students from class 1 to 4 are allowed to stay till 11 o'clock, the older students till 1 o'clock!"

The reaction to the last statement was a disappointed sigh of the younger students.

But Dumbledore went on: "As it is a ball, you should come with as a couple! So, you have two weeks time to ask somebody you really like to be your date for the ball!"

He blinked into the Hall and sat down again.

Then, a big amount of laughter, sighs, conversations and whispers rose in the Great Hall.

But now, Harry was in deep in thought again: "The ball will be my chance!"

To be continued...