Title: More than Mrs. Potter

Author: Joy

A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys. Let me assure everyone this is still a Harry/ Ginny fanfiction. This is not a Draco/ Ginny story. There will be VERY rough places for our favorite couple but you will have to trust me. Also the chapters maybe short but there are several of them and most of them are already written.

2.The confrontation for the truth

Harry entered his compartment in a serious mood. "All right there, Harry?" Ron asked. "That slimy git hex you or something?"

"No," he said firmly. "Could you leave us for a bit?" Harry asked eyeing his girlfriend who looked really nervous suddenly.

Hermione looked back and forth between the two then grabbed Ron's arm. "Sure. We'll make rounds."

Harry stood ominously over Ginny who stared fixedly out the window. "Did you cheat on me?" he asked plainly.

Ginny looked at him horrified, "What?"

"Did you cheat on me? I think it's a fair question when I listen to a guy I thought you couldn't stand call you Ginevra several times, you make a peace treaty with him, defend him to your brother, and he believes in all honesty that you and I were broken up."

Ginny swallowed but faced Harry head on, "I didn't cheat on you. I just know a few things you don't by virtue of Dumbledore. Draco and I started talking the end of the year. We agreed to owl over the summer secretly because both of our families would have had a fit...you would have had a fit. We agreed at the beginning of the year we would talk, and see if we felt that our friendship or whatever would be able to continue...if we wanted it to continue. He wasn't a jerk or cocky or rude so I offered. That is what you saw."

Harry grit his teeth, "Why did he think we were broken up?"

At that Ginny looked down. "First off, I do my best not to mention the 'trio' because it only leads to arguments. But secondly that...that last month of school...you got so distant. You were always pulling away. I know there are things you aren't telling me...big things. I tried to be okay with it... Dumbledore sort of orchestrated this peace with Draco and I. We talked. He has a lot more to deal with than we give him credit for... Anyway there was one night that was particularly bad with you and I. You practically ran away from me... Draco found me in the hall way crying. He was good to me. Comforted me. Didn't ask any questions or pry. Eventually I just started spilling my guts. I mentioned a few times that I didn't think with the war you could handle dating. That maybe it was time I let you go. He didn't say much, just brought me to Snape. Snape and I talked about making the memory pill from your life. He thought it might make you and I closer. He also assured me you loved me very much and to not give up because you were acting like a teenage boy."

Harry sat quietly thinking over the time line and recognizing he had been a runner for a while there. Draco it seemed had more than his foot in the door...something that galled him, frustrated him, and made him entirely too jealous.

Harry shook his head angrily. He had never envied Malfoy before and wasn't about to start now especially over his girlfriend. "I don't like it...and I really don't care if Dumbledore is involved. You hid this from me because you knew you were doing something wrong."

Harry was glaring at her. Ginny swallowed shallowly, "I did it cause I knew you wouldn't understand."

"You're right. I don't understand... We have problems and you won't talk to me but you'll write to him. That makes no sense. If you want to be with him Ginny then just do it and screw what everyone one else thinks. But if you still want to be with me then I need to know you're in this with me and you don't have some emotional surrogate on the side."

"What are you saying?"

"If you're in a relationship with me its with me. I don't want to know you have a back up boyfriend in the wing for when I screw up."

"You want me to stop being friends with Draco."

"I want to know that it is you and me in this relationship."

"You want me to not be friends with Draco."

They sat in silence for a moment.

Harry looked at his girlfriend carefully, "Ginny, I asked you about all those owls you were getting over the summer. I asked you if that present was something I needed to worry about. You said it wasn't...If he thought we were broken up then there is no reason for him to have thought it wouldn't be received as a romantic gesture... Whether you see it or not you have cheated on me."

"No," Ginny said in horror unwilling to accept what Harry was saying. "It wasn't like that. I wasn't telling him about us. I wasn't unloading on him...we just wrote little notes back and forth about random things. I didn't cheat on you."

"Yes, you did," he said in frustration. "You went to someone else for emotional support when our relationship got rocky...I'm not saying you did anything physical with him but you sure as hell cheated on me emotionally."

Gin swallowed slowly, "I...I'm sorry. I never thought of it that way. You were always the one with my heart Harry...I didn't do it on purpose."

They stared at each other a long time before Ginny whispered, "Are...are you breaking up with me?"

Harry blinked at her like she had lost her mind, "No Gin. I love you. I have told you that. If you tell me it isn't gonna happen anymore than I will believe you."

She nodded, "There is one problem with all this."

"What's that?" he asked.

"Draco is the person I am working with on the project for Dumbledore...I can't not see him." Harry's jaw tightened. Ginny panicked, "But there is going to be a new student added to help us. She is a transfer."

He sighed, "I would prefer you not work with him one on one. I think that's only fair under the circumstances."

"I at least owe him an explanation. I'll go find him." With that Ginny got up from her seat looking pitiful.

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Harry pulled on his cloak and followed to where he knew Draco would be on the train. He saw Ginny speaking gently to him, and his face getting angrier by the minute. Draco's arms flared as he fussed about the situation and then sighed in defeat. He and Ginny both had tears in their eyes before hugging briefly. Ginny told him something sweet because Draco smiled. Harry left when Ginny put her hand on the door handle.

Ron and Hermione were already in the compartment when Harry returned. "What's up mate?" Ron asked.

"Nothing I am ready to talk about. Don't mention to Ginny I wasn't here when you arrived please," Harry muttered quickly.

"Sure," Hermione answered in confusion.

Ginny returned to the seat next to Harry a moment later. "All taken care of?" Harry whispered lightly.

"Yeah...he's not thrilled with the 'no seeing each other or writing' rule I made but he seemed to understand at least a bit. Honestly Harry he was just in it for a real friend...that's all."

Harry nodded at her statement. "Thanks Gin...for...but I didn't ask you to that..."

"I did something that violated your trust. I should have thought it all the way through...I would do anything not to lose you."

With that Harry smiled and took her hand kissing the top of it.

A/N: I don't think Ginny really 'cheated' on Harry but I needed a way to stress the triangle convincingly. Though I don't ever suggest spending a bunch of time someone your partner can't stand while you are fighting.

A/N2: Next chapter you will be introduced to an original character named Hope.

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