A New Life

Chapter Nine

Back at The Club

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"Harry, Ginny…are two still out there?" Called the distant voice of Hermione.

"Oh bugger!" Ginny said as she suddenly jumped up and started picking up plates and food from the picnic. "Harry, wake up!"

Harry and Ginny had fallen asleep holding each other. They had been watching the fairies in the trees and time got away from them.

"I forgot I told Hermione that we would meet her at the house around eight thirty." Ginny said as she pushed Harry off the blanket so she could fold it.

Harry looked at his watch, "It's almost nine o'clock now Ginny!"

Ginny didn't reply but instead was trying to put her hair back up in a bun and started to retouch her make-up. "Harry!" She said when she finally looked up at him. "You have lip stick on your cheek." She couldn't help but smile.

Ginny hurried over to him rubbed the pink lipstick off his cheek and gave him a quick kiss.

"Harry, Ginny? Are you in there?" Hermione called again.

"Yeah, were here guys!" Ginny called back.

Hermione and Ron entered the clearing looking aggravated. "What have you been doing? We have been waiting for you for a half an hour!" Hermione said with her hands on her hips. Ron however was eyeing Harry suspiciously.

"Sorry, we just lost track of time." Harry said.

"Oh, right." Ron said still giving Harry an odd look. "Well, shall we go then?"

Harry was helping Ginny fold the blanket up, "Go? Where are we going?" He asked while looking at Ginny.

Ginny blushed and looked over to Harry. "I forgot to tell you that Hermione wants us all of us to go to Luna's Club tonight. It's supposed to be a lot different on the weekends."

"You spent all this time together and you didn't tell him?" Hermione asked Ginny.

"We just got to talking about other things, that's all, I forgot."

"Well, no matter let me clean all of this up and we will be on our way." Hermione said. She pulled out her wand and with one swoop all the lights, fairies, candles and the basket with food disappeared. "Right then, let's go."

Ron and Hermione Disapparated with two loud cracks. Ginny walked over to Harry and put her hands on his arm. "Harry I'm sorry I forgot to tell you, if you don't want to go we don't have to."

"No we better go or Ron will be more suspicious than he already is." And with Ginny on his arm, Harry spun around and they too disappeared.

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When Harry and Ginny arrived outside of The Club, Ron and Hermione were already waiting for them.

"Ready to go in?" Hermione asked. "Luna and Neville are waiting for us."

"Neville? He's here too?" Harry said looking perplexed.

"Oh, yeah I think they may be dating now." Ron said. "I saw them snogging in Diagon Alley the other day."

"Well, let's not stand outside, shall we?" Ginny said taking Harry's arm and leading him towards the door.

Ginny was not mistaken when she said that The Club was different at night. It no longer looked like an ordinary pub, but a very popular night club. The bar that had occupied the room before was now gone and replaced with a large dance floor. A smaller round bar was now found towards the front door and small two person tables were placed around the edges of the dance floor. It was also very dark as most of the lights were off but strobe lights and other twinkling lights moved about the room, however Harry could not see where they were coming from and assumed it must be some spell. Each small table also had a mysterious blue haze around it. As Harry looked around the room the most noticeable thing about the club was the lack of people. It wasn't until Ginny grabbed his arm did he realize why.

"There all in the back waiting for us." Ginny whispered in his ear.

They headed towards the back of the club and saw that there were several large round booths packed with many people, most of whom had flaming ginger hair. The moment Harry came into view the back of the club exploded.

"Surprise!" Everyone said which was followed by many Happy Birthdays and Cheers Harry.

"Thanks everyone." Harry said as he pulled up a chair for Ginny and then one for himself. "You really didn't have to do this."

"We didn't mate, Hermione and Ron did it." Lupin said, he was sitting next to Tonks and Mr. Weasley.

Harry turned to Hermione who was now sitting to his left and gave her a hug. "Thanks Hermione. Thanks Ron" Harry said.

"Well, I didn't do this just for your birthday; I wanted to celebrate your new job too. Did you tell everyone yet?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, no I guess I haven't, hey everyone I got a job as a Seeker for the Cannons." Harry announced to the room at large.

Everyone cheered and applauded Harry and Ginny reached up and gave Harry a small kiss. This caused a lot of funny faces mainly from the Weasley brothers. Harry blushed profusely and put his arm around Ginny. "Oh, and Ginny and I are seeing each other."

This announcement wasn't as well received as his Quidditch announcement but most of them seemed genially happy for them. Fred and George, who all ready knew about them gave Harry an I'll kill you if you hurt her look which Harry tried to ignore. But was spared the embarrassment due to the arrival of Luna Lovegood.

Luna came from a back room that Harry assumed was a kitchen and was carrying a large tray of butterbeer and she was being followed by Neville who was balancing a large cake. Harry held his breath slightly at the site of them because he was afraid that they would fall or drop what they were holding, they were not the most trustworthy people to be carrying such large and heavy things. But to Harry's surprise both of them made it to the table without spilling a thing, Harry was truly impressed.

Luna passed out the butterbeers while Neville stuck candles in the cake. When Harry stood up slightly to see what was on the cake he noticed it was in the shape of a Snitch and a spell had be placed on the icing to make it flash different shades of gold, making the wings look as if they were moving. Neville took out his wand to light the candles and placed a scorch mark onto the cake instead.

"Here dear, let me do it." Mrs. Weasley said as she pulled out her wand and lit the nineteen candles placed in a circle around the cake. "Go on Harry, you know what to do."

Everyone sang him a rousing chorus of "Jolly good fellow" and Harry blew out his candles. The whole gang sat there and enjoyed each others company for a few hours. Fred and George entertained the group with some new ticks from their shop. Hermione was especially surprised when George poured a purple liquid on her head; it caught fire, and when the fire went out her hair was, long and silky black.

"What did you just do?" Hermione asked now examining herself in the back of a spoon.

"Locks of Fire. It instantly changes your hair to your most desired look. Watch, I'll to it again." George said as he rounded on Ginny. Once again he poured the liquid on her hair, watched it catch fire, then instantly change to a short, blonde hair-do with spikes and pink highlights. "Wow, Ginny…I didn't know you dreamed of being such a rebel."

Ginny blushed and pulled Hermione's spoon out of her hand to look at herself. "That's really cool Fred but there is one problem."

"What's that?" George asked eagerly.

"My eyebrows are still red and I look like a clown because of it." Ginny replied now running her fingers threw her new hair. "How long does this last?"

"Only a few hours or the next time you shower." Fred said. "And I guess you could put a little on your eyebrows, we have never tested that."

George took the purple bottle of Locks of Fire off the table and put a few drops onto Fred's eyebrows. They caught on fire (giving him a very surprised look) but when the fire went out his eyebrows were completely gone.

"Ok, so we still need to work on this line of products then. Thanks Ginny." George said, laughing at his brother.

It was getting late and Harry was starting to get very tired, he did after all have to get up in the morning for yet another round of Quidditch practice.

"I'm sorry guys, but seeing as I have to get up early I think I should go." Harry said to everyone. "Iv had fun, thanks for everything."

Harry got up and shook everyone's hand, received several large hugs from Mrs. Weasley and started to head towards the door. Ginny, Ron, and Hermione were going too so the rest of the family thought it was best to go as well. Harry felt bad for breaking up the party but he really was getting tired.

Ginny and Harry were now walking hand in hand across the street and over to their apartment. Ron and Hermione were walking a short ways behind them.

"Did you have fun tonight?" Ginny asked.

Harry squeezed her hand tightly. "Ginny, I've never had so much fun in one day, but I had the most fun being with you tonight."

"Me too Harry, I wanted to make sure tonight was special because we are running so short on time for us to be together." Ginny said while walking through the main apartment door and heading for the stairs.

"Don't worry Ginny, we will make the most of the time we have, I'll make sure of that." Harry said.

Harry kissed Ginny goodnight when they were back in their apartment and they went into their separate bedrooms.

Ron entered their bedroom several minuets later and noticed Harry staring out the window.

"Something wrong mate?" Ron asked as he pulled a night shirt from his dresser.

"Ron, I think I need to tell you something."

"Okay, what?" Ron asked not really looking Harry.

"Ron, I think I'm in love with your sister."

Ron whose head had just shot up, just stood there, opened mouthed, speechless.