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Ok, now that's out of the way, I am going to apologize for not updating for so long. Time got away from me over this school term, A-Levels are hard non? So I hope that this chapter makes up for it.

The majority of the reviews wanted Harry to tell Ginny who he is, so I must do as told.

Hey before I start I NEED YOUR OPINION. I was thinking of starting another story. This would be a Harry Potter/YUGIOH crossover. It would definitely be AU from JK's Potter universe after OOTP, if you want a quick summary of it, (it's not one of the cliché plots that are so overused. I think its original; at least I haven't read it anywhere else!) say in the reviews and I could post it, and then say if you want me to continue with it or not. I think it could be really great BUT I WANT YOUR OPINION. THANKS!

OH AND I DON'T OWN HARRUY POTTER! (Disclaimer!) BUT I DO OWN THE ALLIANCE AND JESS ASTRAL AND DAN SO HANDS OFF!

By the time he reached the common room however his patience had run out and he was beginning to get pissed with both of them, Ron was an egotistical wanker and Hermione was spying on him he was sure, 'probably for Dumbledore' he thought to the others. Harry went up to the dorm partly to change his pants and partly to escape Ron, Hermione and Parvati. He stayed upstairs until he was sure most of the house had gone to bed and returned to the common room. Sure enough there were a couple of couples making out in the corners who wouldn't pay attention to him, and one Ginny Weasely was sitting in front of the fire reading a book. Harry came up behind her and said softly but still making her jump.

"Hello Ginny."

And now that saga continues (Cheesy intro music, and drum roll)

Ginny shot up into the air, and whilst dropping her book, which now Harry could tell was a muggle romance novel, drew her wand and turned sharply to face Shadow standing right behind her, with a decidedly amused expression on his face.

"Whoa, calm down I came in peace and I expect to go in one, piece."

"Don't do that to me again or I'll be forced to hurt you." Ginny replied while putting her wand back in its holster.

"What were you reading that had you so engrossed anyways?" Shadow said with a teasing smirk on his face.

"Nothing" She replied, as she tried ever so casually to push the book under a nearby chair with her toe with out him noticing. "So what's the new mysterious student doing up so late at night. All alone, I would've thought you and Parvati would have been busy with the way she was all over you at the feast." She said, with a completely innocent tone of voice (she pulled it off much better than Hermione did he noticed).

"My my, you are an outspoken little spitfire aren't you, I think I'm gonna like you!" He replied as he flopped down to lie casually across a sofa. "I swear no one here has a sense of humour!"

"I'm glad I made you happy, but why do I care what you think?" Ginny replied with a lazy smirk of her own. She sank gracefully down onto the chair she was previously sitting on and regarded him with a raised eyebrow.

"Ginny, I'm hurt, how can you not recognize me, after all we've been through together!" Harry then proceeded to break out into large theatrical sobs (Hey I never said he was completely sane did I!)

Ginny was curious about him, and a little bit worried about his sanity at the same time. She took the time when he was giving his "Oscar winning performance" to really look at him for the first time. Of medium height she could say right away that he was hot. You'd have to be blind not too. With the athletic build and the muscles she could see through his clothes he had a very good body. He wore clothes of a similar gothic taste to her own, "and that eyeliner definitely suits him," she thought. His tan only served to complement his green eyes further, and his chin length hair looked gorgeous on him. His piercing (ear and eyebrow) also served to give him an aura of danger. Overall she thought he was hot, and yet she didn't find herself attracted to him, instead she felt comfortable with him, and a nagging sense of familiarity that just wouldn't go away.

Harry waited patiently until Ginny had finished her perusal of him, and then suddenly leaped up and headed to the portrait hole, surprising the hell out of Ginny, and the snogging couple in the corner, who turned out to be Ron and Hermione. Hermione he noticed had a trail of drool over her chin, "something else Ron is incompetent at." He sniggered to himself. Although they didn't stop for long, not 15 seconds later Ron was back trying to suck Hermione face off.

"Well Ginny dear if you can't recognize me than I guess I'll just take my leave." He then headed towards the portrait and started humming the tune to

"His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,

His hair is as black as a blackboard,

I wish he was mine,

He's truly divine,

The hero who concurred the Dark Lord"

He hummed the last note just as the portrait hole closed behind him; he walked slowly down the corridor with a small smirk on his face "5, 4, 3, 2, 1-"

"HARRY" He turned and, SMACK, Ginny Weasley attatched herself to his neck, and judging by her grip wasn't going to be letting go anytime soon. He moved them off to the side of the corridor, where they were hidden in the shadows, and preceded to simply hug her back. It felt good to have his sister back in his arms again. She had been there for him the summer after Sirius, when Ron and Hermione had not, and they had subsequently grown much closer.

They stood there in the shadows for an unknown length of time, just savouring each other's presence after so long apart.

Suddenly Ginny pulled back and slapped him hard across the face,

"That was for abandoning me to the wankers for 14 months, and letting me think you maybe had died!" She hissed at him, and he winced at her tone.

"I'm sorry" Harry replied, although it came out more as a question than an apology. Ginny still seemed to accept it however, and instead started to smile at him again. Harry smirked back at her and threw his arm across her shoulders; he gently led her out of the castle and on to the grounds to walk around the lake. They spent the night getting to know each other again under the stars, and at around 3 in the morning they both returned to the castle, brother and sister re-united again.

Harry and Ginny parted company and the Entrance Hall, Ginny almost skipping back to Gryffindor tower and Harry heading to the teachers corridor using the mental map Dan had sent him earlier. He was glad Ginny knew he smiled to himself. He kept a lot of things from her of course, telling her the bare details, basically that he had been training, the new teachers were his family now, and that he was back. She could tell he was leaving a lot out of course "she's always been able to read me like a book, once she was over that silly crush of hers"

And any way he thought, if Ginny truly was Astrals bonded like his empathy was telling him she was, then she wouldn't be in the dark for too long. But Ginny may as well have had a pink neon-flashing arrow over her head, with a siren wailing "Danger Will Robinson, Danger! coupled with an aura that fairly screamed that she was intended to bond. Then again, he snorted to himself no one ever called my empathy subtle.

Sudden loud footsteps jolted Harry out of his thoughts and he looked frantically around for a place to hide, unfortunately it seemed that fate was in the mood for a laugh as he was currently standing out in the open, on s stair case that just happened to lead to the teachers quarters, that also just happened to be on the other side of the castle to Gryffindor tower with no excuse (plausible at least) and no place to hide. "I'm so screwed" he thought to himself in desperation, but suddenly he felt like smacking his head into a wall, and he indulged himself for a moment before reaching into one of the many pockets on his jeans and pulling out his invisibility cloak, now with added sound and scent suppressing charms, which. since he became an agent of the alliance he always had near him. He put it on and moved to sit on one of the banisters "mental note; never mention this to any other others, they would laugh their asses of, and never let me forget it, and they've got enough on me already" he remembered with a grimace.

Harry turned his head to the right where none other than Severus Snape was storming down the corridor in all his glory, face lit up by the Lumous he had cast on his wand, scowl firmly fixed in place and his robes billowing out behind him. Only Harry realized that something was wrong with this picture, very wrong, for Severus Snape was storming down the corridor at 3.30 in the morning in bright purple robes with what looked like dancing yellow polka dots on them, with his hair a matching yellow colour. Harry noticed he was mumbling something as well, as Snape passed where he was sitting he could hear something that sounded suspiciously like,

"Bloody barmy old codger and his infernal lemon drops, I swear one of these days I'll get him back. A nice humiliating prank in the Great Hall should do the trick; I'll have him dancing on the Slytherin table – wait - " sigh, "The old bat would probably enjoy it! Dam it!"

He continued mumbling till he was out of sight plotting potential revenge plans against the Headmaster, and it was only as he closed the door to his private quarters that Harry finally realised why the polka dots on his robes looked so weird, they weren't dots but large lemon drops doing a small dance routine. Harry almost fell off the banister for trying to suppress his laughter, and slowly made his was to his families quarters, almost crawling from trying to keep quiet the giggles that were trying to escape. Although he would never admit that to anyone, as far he was concerned Harry Potter the Boy-Who-Lived, defeater of Voldemort, Midnight, and secret agent extraordinaire did not giggle!

He finally managed to gasp out the password and basically collapsed into the common room catching a glimpse of Astral passed out on the sofa on his way down. He finally let out his manly laughter that in no way sounded like a giggle he reassured himself. His laugh must have disturbed Astrals alcohol induced stupor because she let an extremely un lady like snort which caused her to roll of the couch and hit the floor still asleep. This only increased Harry's non-giggles further and it seemed to take an age to stop laughing, and it was his point that the exhaustion hit him.

He stood up and slowly made his way into the room that he could tell Jess and Dan were sleeping in, when he saw them it only served to confirm his suspicions that they were in the same alcohol induced sleep as Astral, slightly pouting about the fact he had been left out he stripped and crawled in with them. Dan as if sensing him rolled over and wrapped an arm securely around his waist. Feeling both the presences of his bonded nearby, he finally gave into his exhaustion and fell asleep, absently wondering whether Snape would be able to charm his robes back to black, if not, then breakfast tomorrow would serve to be amusing at least. He fell asleep with a grin.

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