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Summary: These are basically a few missing moments from Half-Blood Prince. The reason I am doing this is because I am incredibly dissatisfied with most of the ones milling about there, featuring a completely obsessed Ginny. If anyone read the now famous interview J.K. shared with Mugglenet creator Emerson and Leaky Cauldron founder Melissa, they would have realized that she basically said that Ginny had to get over Harry for him to notice her. I have decided to keep up that notion in my own ficlet. Will probably not be longer than 4 chapters
This is Ginny Weasley's journal, but I am not dating it, because no one reads the dates anyways. The entry numbers are random, because I am not going to even try and pretend that I entered all of them, I just wanted to insert the ones that I felt showed a change in her relationship with Harry or events that are particularly important to each other.
Now, on with the story
Entry #72
Today was Slughorn's party, which was, well it was interesting. I went with Dean of course, and we took great advantage of the mistletoe for a good part of it. Unfortunately, it does not seem that everyone had as great a time as we did. Hermione spent most of the party dodging McLaggen, whom she brought to annoy Ron. Whenever she did seem to ditch him for a good amount of time, she would talk with either me and Dean or Harry and Luna, of course, she couldn't dodge him for long, and so then she would have to go scampering off away from him again.
As I previously mentioned Harry came with Luna. That was… well it's really hard for me to describe my feelings for him. Most of the time we are just laughing or he's yelling about something when on the quidditch pitch, in short, most of the time we are just friends. Yet still seeing him laughing at the party with Luna was not my highlight of the night. It's at times like these when those feelings I used to have for him become known to me. Don't get me wrong, I don't like him like that or anything, but seeing him with another girl does remind me of what I used to feel when I saw him talking with any member of the opposite sex. In any case, I wasn't overridden with jealousy, which I am incredibly happy about. After I realized that I wasn't mad or jealous or annoyed that Harry came with another girl, I snogged Dean under the mistletoe and he said he didn't know what came over me but he liked it. I just giggled and wished him a merry Christmas.
Harry disappeared for awhile after Malfoy was dragged off with Snape and came back later. He didn't seem to be having as much fun as he was having before, and it seemed to take him awhile to get back into the partying spirit. He was probably spying on Malfoy. I know Harry wants to find out what he's up to but he's getting a bit obsessive. A little obnoxiously so. I mean, no one else concerns themselves with these things, and I don't think he should either.
Hmm… but that wasn't the best part of the party. The best part of the party was when Professor Trelawney got really drunk and started telling everyone's future really loudly. First she told Professor Snape that he was doomed to be eaten by an overgrown toadstool. When he told her that he highly doubted that this was how he was to meet his demise, she just laughed and said that he should keep away from any toadstools or mushrooms or bright orange spots.
Then she told Hermione that she was going to die from a terrible wand accident. Hermione asked Professor Trelawney if she had anymore details and she said it occurred when Hermione stuck her own wand up her nose and then got hit over the head with a club. I didn't think this was funny at first but Hermione and Harry almost died from laughter. I asked Hermione what was so funny about this and she told me that in her first year when she, Ron, and Harry had taken out a mountain troll in the bathroom Harry had stuck his wand up its nose and then Ron had knocked the troll out with its own club. At first I was a little taken aback that they had taken out a mountain troll in their first year but then I realized that what made Trelawney's prediction so funny was that she wasn't predicting the future so much as retelling the past. What an old hack.
Some people's predictions were a lot funnier than others. McLaggen was apparently supposed to have died two years ago, which got some of the most laughs. She even predicted my own death (I am going to run headfirst into a wall repeatedly until I passed out where I would get trampled on by a rhino.)
However, the room got really deathly silent when she shouted out "Potter!" and we all knew she was going to predict Harry's death. Well, even with the war going on out there Harry is the only person that we can be sure Voldemort wants to kill personally. This means that his chances are far less than the rest of us. However, it was all okay again because she told us that Harry was going to try and date the giant squid and when it turned him down he got all huffy and hexed it, so the giant squid decided to drown him. Even after she made this really ridiculously prediction we were all really still and it wasn't until Harry burst out laughing that we all breathed again. The party ended pretty soon after that though.
Entry #75
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!
I was walking down the hallway today when I saw Harry walk out of his room to the shower SHIRTLESS! AAAAAAA! IT IS NOT FAIR! I should no have a boy that good looking living in my house! Fear not dear journal, this is not the obsessive school girl crush. I do not have feelings for Harry. However if you saw the epitome of all sexiness walking down your hallway you would be freaking out too. It's not just me because I immediately ran to Hermione and was spazzing out until she told me to calm down and that she has seen Harry shirtless before too. I stopped to ask her when and she said a couple of the times over the summer when he was working on my mum's garden or whenever she walked into Ron and Harry's room and forgot to knock. She told me that it was not just my imagination, and that Harry did in fact have a very VERY nice body. That really floored me and I asked her if she ever thought of Harry in that way. She explained her feelings about Harry rather well I thought.
"I have always thought of Harry as a brother and I could never picture myself dating him or anything. It's just that every now and then I see him like that and I am very acutely aware that I am not actually a blood relative of his. It's not real feelings or anything, its just that the teenage hormones kick in."
Then I very shrewdly asked her if she had ever thought of Ron that way and she mumbled something about leaving her transfiguration book downstairs and sprinted off. HA! Sometimes denial is the best evidence. Or in this case avoidance is the best evidence.
I feel that the only way I can get over seeing Harry half naked is if I tell someone what I saw and I figure that since you can't talk or judge you would be a great place to do just that. Well his hair was all, messy like it normally is, and he looked mostly like he normally does, except he has a great body. I dunno why I am really that surprised really, I mean, he has been playing quidditch for the past 6 years. It was just REALLY unexpected to suddenly see him like that.
Now I am vaguely curious as to what Dean looks like shirtless… hmmm… I must investigate further when I get back to Hogwarts.
Entry #77a
Christmas was fantastic. I got a GREAT haul this year. Mum and Dad gave the expected jumper and candy, Ron got me a book on the benefits of becoming a nun and joining a Covent, (okay so that present wasn't so great), Hermione gave me a book on defensive spells, My friends from school chipped in and got me a HUGE thing of chocolate, which I will probably have to hide from Lupin, come to think of it, a bag of jokes from Fred and George, a beautiful picture frame from Bill, and Charlie got me a book on all of the great dragon slayings in the past. But there were two gifts worth mentioning.
One was from Harry, and that was surprising. I guess we are officially friends now, which I am really happy about. It was a charm bracelet with three charms already on it, a daisy (my favorite flower), a lion, and a heart. It was really sweet and cute.
The other gift was from Dean. It was a beautiful necklace that he got from France. It is gold and it has a rose in the middle. The rose's petals are rubies and the stem and leaves are emeralds. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen, although I am pretty sure I have mentioned once or twice that I thought roses are pretty cliché and one reason I like daisies is so much is because part of their beauty is their uniqueness from other flowers. I wore my necklace all day and when I was asked who gave it to me I was incredibly happy to say that my boyfriend Dean gave it to me.
Entry #77b
So Christmas dinner was pretty much the same as it usually is. It was so much fun to see everyone again, though I heard Harry laughing and when I asked him what was so funny he told me about the truly horrid necklace that Lavender gave Ron. I told him that it wasn't funny no matter how horrid the necklace was and it was the thought that counts. Then he told me to wait there and he ran up to grab the necklace. I haven't laughed so hard since Slughorn's party. Also, Lupin found my chocolate stash and managed to eat half of it before I noticed. He is too addicted for his own good. Then I managed to make him feel really guilty and he apologized and turned red before I laughed and told him it was okay and I knew he was going to find that part of my stash anyways. He chuckled embarrassedly for a minute and then apologized again. I told him it was okay but he really should seek out some help. All in all, it was a truly wonderful Christmas.