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Chapter 16
Back To Normal
Now that Ginny was better everything was better, Harry's mood, Ginny's mood, and both of their grades. Ginny was still in the hospital wing, it had only been two days since she had woke up, making today Friday, thankfully another dress down day.
Harry was finished showering and dressing so he made way to the dungeons. Harry despised the dungeons more than anything in the world, other than Draco Malfoy, who by the way was late for detention everyday and got away with it.
He on the other hand was right on time and payed for his crime ( hey it rhymes lol ) everyday, washing, sorting, dusting, wiping, sweeping, and mopping the same things. He was sick of it, but ever since Ginny had awaken it hadn't seemed so bad.
He was doing it because he let Blaise hurt her, that is how he had to look at the situation, otherwise he wouldn't want to do the job at all and would become a clone of the ignorant prat Malfoy. And who in the right mind would want that? Definitely not Harry.
Once he had finished cleaning the entire kitchen, which for some reason was the detention for today, he headed to breakfast meeting Ron and Hermione yet again making out.
Oh, my god, what is their problem, EVERYDAY, this happens every single day! Are they trying to make me feel like I am a nobody because I can't make out with my girl friend! God I wish she wasn't so weak, otherwise I would've snogged her senseless by now.
Harry stood there with his arms crossed, eyebrows raised, and a disgusted look on his face. " Excuse me, sorry to interrupt your intimate conversation, but I would like to eat, and be able to keep it down! So if you'll just STOP doing that for FIVE bloody seconds, so I can eat.. that would be great!" he said in a mixture of disgust and anger.
Immediately they stopped making out and became silent. They hated it when Harry caught them kissing, it was so... so... weird. Having their best friend watch them kiss, was just, disturbing.
Hermione began to eat with her eyes locked on her plate, she hardly moved the entire meal. Harry was too pissed off at Ron to even think about talking to him, so they all sat and ate in silence, that is until a snow white owl swooped in and dropped a letter directly in front of Harry.
He picked it up, and slowly tore it apart, it read:
Dear Mr. Potter;
You are no longer to be going to morning detentions because of your persistent attendance and your grade average. I have also noticed that when a certain someone does not seem to appear in detention, instead of starting yet another row with him you do his work for him. That shows that you have learned your lesson and much more with it. Have a nice weekend.
Yours truly,
Albus Dumbledore
Harry smiled at this he no longer had to face that git of a Malfoy and he no longer had to wake up at 5:00, Harry was satisfied that this was going to be a good day.
" What's your first class?" He asked Ron and Hermione, who seemed shocked at the fact that he had said something to them after the make-out problem a second ago.
" Uh... double Potions. What about you Harry?" Ron replied
" Yeah, me too, why did they have to double it? Isn't it enough pain and agony with out it being a doubled class?" he asked rhetorically
" Sometimes I think Dumbledore is the smartest guy around and other times, like now, I think he's a complete arse," he replied
" What do you have next 'Mione?" Harry asked.
" I have the same thing," she said still looking at her plate, she was still very embarrassed.
" Good, do you guys want to head off to the classroom a bit early?" Harry suggested light heartedly.
" Sure, got nothing else to do," Ron replied as he stood up picked up his bag and walked towards the door, Harry and Hermione close behind.
Hermione soon caught up to Ron and caught his hand when Harry wasn't looking, or so she thought. But in reality he had seen perfectly, but he soon let it pass. Just seeing that reminded him of Ginny, he kept wondering when she was going to be released.
They chatted in a friendly matter down the crowded hallways, just like before when no one had started dating, it was like the golden trio was back.
When they entered the gloomy dungeons surprisingly Professor Snape was already at his desk, he was usually out making kids suffer before class time.
" Take a seat and no talking, get out your parchment and quills. Just be ready," Snape said rudely as they barely set foot into the room.
" How polite," Ron muttered under his breath as Hermione sat down beside him and Harry sat in front of them.
" Really," Harry whispered back sarcastically.
" Guys, honestly, shut up, you're going to get into trouble!" Hermione snarled quietly
" Okay, okay, okay, fine," Harry snapped as he turned around.
Soon the class was filled, another one of Harry's admirer's had taken a seat next to him, it was Lavender Brown. Silence soon fell over the room, Snape stood up and started the lesson.
" Quiet down class. Quiet down, okay now everyone take out parchment and your quills. I want you to copy this down," Snape said as he tapped the board, and notes appeared. " Make sure you copy everything down, when you are done please bewitch a cauldron to come to your desk. Once everyone has a cauldron I will put up the ingredients for the Silencing charm," Professor Snape began. After he had drilled them on every fact about the Silencing potion(a.k.a. Silentium lepor)and everyone had gotten a cauldron he put the potion directions on the board and began to pair people up.
" Brown and Malfoy ... Patil and Longbottom ... Potter and Granger ... Weasley and Parkinson," Harry let out a sigh, and Ron let out a moan.
" Why do I have to be with Pansy?" Ron asked as Snape continued to sort them out.
" Sorry mate," was all Harry had to say, he was very lucky that Hermione was his partner.
Harry and Hermione successfully completed the potion in exactly one hour and fifteen minutes, Ron and Pansy completed the potion very unsuccessfully and got detention for blowing up their desk. Pansy had added too many hippogriff feathers to the potion which caused it to explode, this made Ron very angry, in fact, so angry that he had to have Harry restrain him from punching Pansy.
Harry and Hermione left the room feeling like they had won an award from getting done first out of the class and Ron left fuming at the fact that he had to share his evenings with Pansy and Snape for the next week.
They all breezed through the rest of the day, by dinner time Ron was ready to have a nervous breakdown. He now had a week of detention with McGonagall, along with Pansy and Snape.
He got detention with Pr. McGonagall because he tried to transfigure a clipboard into a cat but it went very wrong. Instead it turned into fifty pixies that wrecked the room, in detention he was supposed to be cleaning up the mess and learning how to vanish all of the pixies.
Ron sat at the Gryffindor house table and stabbed his food violently muttering curse words and nasty things about Pansy, Pr. Snape and Pr. McGonagall
Harry and Hermione kept catching glances and began to laugh each time, and each time it made Ron more, and more angry. So they had to keep their eyes off of each other until Harry had filled two plates of food and headed for the hospital wing. He bewitched them and made them float a couple feet in front of him all of the way to the hospital wing.
Once he had reached Ginny's bed he conjured up two trays, one for him and one for her. He sat them up with the food arranged on them and then began to tell Ginny of the day's activities.
" So now Ron has detention for a week with both Snape and McGonagall" Harry said, finishing the story of his long day.
Ginny was shaking all over from laughter, her head was back and her mouth was open wide, but she was laughing so hard that nothing was coming out. When Harry saw her do this he smiled widely, started to beam, chuckled a bit, and then burst out into laughter along with her.
" That is hilarious, poor Ron, I can see him now," Ginny said as she calmed down. She looked Harry over approvingly, and smiled. She was so happy to be out of the coma that even when she was by herself, in that dull room all day doing homework, she was smiling. Nothing could make her stop.
" Oh, no, here comes Madame Pomfrey," Ginny said, her smile slackening a bit, but not fading completely. Harry looked in the direction that Ginny was staring and saw , sure enough, Madame Pomfrey marching down the aisle between the two rows of beds straight at them.
Harry put on a false smile and awaited whatever she had to say.
" Hello, how are you two this evening?" Madame Pomfrey questioned politely
" Just fine thank you," Ginny said sweetly
" Good," Harry said dryly
" Well that's just lovely, and I have some news for both of you, good news that is," she added quickly noticing the look of terror on Harry's face, which was soon changed to curiosity " Ginny is able to be released, as soon as you want to leave you may,"
Harry looked shocked, but then began to smile, soon he was beaming along with Ginny. He turned to look at her, she was nodding violently, then she said " Yes, yes, please may I go now!" she asked, almost childishly
Madame Pomfrey smiled gently at her and said, " Yes, of course, go ahead. You are completely healed so I can no longer force you to stay here," and with that she walked off briskly towards her office, leaving Harry and Ginny behind.
" This is great! Now everything can be back to normal," Ginny said as she began to sit up and push her covers off of her.
" Yes, finally, back to normal...," Harry replied almost in a dreamy state.
He cleaned up the food and made the trays disappear, he then bewitched all of Ginny's homework, which towered a foot high, to hover above them back to the common room.
Harry gently helped her up onto her feet, she was a bit dizzy, but she felt much better to be up and about. Rather than having to stay cooped up in bed all day.
He slipped an arm around her waist and squeezed her tightly, he could now hug her. She was in his arms now, and oh how it felt good. He loved it, and so did she. Ginny had missed the smell of his hair, and the feel of his hand on hers, the way that he looked at her, how when she walked into the room the corners of his mouth turned up into a smile, and how he held her like this. He did it like it would be the very last time it would ever happen.
Harry finally pulled out of the hug, but as soon as he did that he took her hand in his and began to walk slowly towards the corridor. After some time they had reached the canvas at which Harry spoke the password and entered, followed closely by Ginny.
As soon as they entered the room, Ginny did something very unpredictable. She let go of Harry's hand and ran towards the couch plopping down on it, as she did so she said,
" Ahh, finally I'm home,"
Ginny sat up and patted the part next to her motioning for Harry to join her, which he did, without hesitation. He slipped his arm around her neck and kissed her forehead gently. She smiled up at him and gently caressed his cheek, sending shivers up his spine. He was almost positive that she would kiss him then, but she didn't she just rested her head on his chest and said, " I love you Harry, more than anything,"
Without a seconds pause he replied, " I love you to Ginny,"
A/N: a bit boring yawn but it was time for an update. Please review I love you all!
alissa
