A/N: It took me a long time to find the perfect song for Harry to sing, I hope you guys would play the song while Harry is singing so that you understand why I choose the song, "Don't Ask For More" by Abby Dobson. The reason I say this is because this song is sung in a very heartfelt and tragic voice that I knew only Harry/Ginny could pull-off…
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Chapter three - Don't ask for more
"Wait, what did you say!"
Hermione looked guiltily up at Ginny, lifting herself up from the floor she repeated herself.
"I think I cast a spell on the school."
Ginny gave despairing look, "I heard you, but what I meant was 'why' do you think that? I mean I know that you could but…" Ginny paused and began pacing the room nervously, the last thing she wanted was for her only closest friend sent expelled from school.
After watching Ginny pace around the room several times Hermione straightened her shoulders and walked towards her bed, she opened her desk drawer and pulled out a small box.
"If we think about this rationally you'll see that I'm right when I say that I cast the spell. I cast a spell last night," Hermione explained pulling Ginny to her bed, "I used this to cast the spell," She said handing the small rectangular box to Ginny.
"Make your fantasy a reality, a 24-hour enchantment spell," Ginny read curly pink words on the box, dread creeping into her voice, she looked up from the box to Hermione, "Where did you get this?"
"It was a Christmas gift, but I don't know who's sent it," Hermione replied. 'Yeah, real smart Hermione, opening gifts from strangers,' Hermione scolded herself before saying aloud; "I know that was stupid of me."
"Yes, and definitely not something that you would usually do," Ginny began but changed her approach when she saw the desperate look on Hermione's face, "So your fantasy was to have the whole school in some sort of musical nightmare?" Ginny questioned unbelievingly, before placing the box down onto the bed, she strummed her fingers on her leg trying to remember where she had seen it before.
"N-no not the whole school," Hermione gulped nervously turning away from Ginny to hid the blush creeping onto her face.
Ginny sat in silence watching Hermione shift uncomfortably before she realized why her friend was so embarrassed, "Oh…ok so not the whole school, but just one particularly dense red-headed Gryffindor Prefect."
Hermione's eyes widened in surprise as she looked at Ginny smirk at her, "Am I that obvious?" she groaned holding her face in her hands.
"Hey, what are you so embarrassed about? I'm the one who sent Harry that singing valentine remember?" Ginny froze the instant the words left her mouth, "That's it, Hermione!" She grabbed Hermione's shoulders excitedly, "I knew that this spell seemed familiar? It's the one Fred & George taught me when I wanted to send Harry that Valentine!"
Ginny grabbed the box and flipped it over, she read the box quickly before pointing out the details to Hermione, "See look, '…the perfect gift if you want to serenade that special someone…lasts from 5 minutes to 24 hours depending on the amount of emotion felt by the person casting the spell," Ginny raised her eyes at Hermione, "Wow, you love him so much that the whole school was placed under the spell."
"That doesn't seem right," Hermione said ignoring Ginny's last comment and grabbing the box from her hands, she read the directions before the she caught the small yellow label at the bottom of the box.
"Caution: PROTOTYPE ONLY!" Hermione clenched her fist angrily, "Those JERKS!'
Ginny resisted the urge to laugh and instead she grabbed the box from Hermione hands, "Come on, we gotta tell the teachers, or at least McGonagall," she added when she saw the horror struck look on Hermione's face.
"No need, girls I already know," Professor McGonagall's stern voice spoke from the doorway.
"Professor I can explain," Hermione said quickly jumping off her bed.
"I've heard enough," she replied holding up her hand, "both of you will follow me to the Headmaster's office this instant!" she commanded before turning and leaving the room.
"Come on!" Ginny said grabbing Hermione's arm to pull her from the room.
Ron sat staring at his folded hands in front of him, just moments before Professor McGonagall had sent everyone to their rooms where they were to remain until the situation could be dealt with, surprisingly the spells only affected those outside the dormitories; as long as you stayed inside your respected house dormitories the spell had no effect, which explained why the instant that Hermione and he had stepped trough the portrait hole Hermione had begun singing. Ron glanced at Harry sitting on his own bed the same confused expression on his face that Ron knew was on his. From what Harry had told him, his sister had just declared her love for his best friend in front of the entire school. Ron lied down on his bed and stared at the ceiling, as much as he cared about his sister he knew that Harry just didn't think of her that way. Then again, he had begun to notice that Harry and Ginny were spending more time together lately but he had just dismissed it as an improved friendship. Ron furrowed his brow and looked at his friend again, 'Did Harry's feeling for Ginny lean more towards love?'
"So are you going to tell me what happened between you and Hermione?" Harry questioned when he noticed Ron staring at him; he hoped that by shifting the attention to Ron he would avoid being questioned about Ginny and himself. Truthfully his relationship with Ginny had improved of late but he just didn't want to think about being a relationship with anyone at the moment.
"I'd rather not," Ron mumbled turning his back to Harry.
"That bad, huh?"
'No not bad, it was perfect actually; the girl he loved had just confessed that she loved him too. So then why do I feel so lousy?'
"Let me guess, you're not sure if it was actually her that was saying…singing those things or the spell," Harry spoke sagely.
Ron turned back to his friend, raising a suspicious eyebrow, "Are we talking about me or are we talking about you and Ginny?"
Harry sighed; this was exactly what he was avoiding, "Definitely you,"
"Uh-huh, if you say so…look Harry I gotta ask you something,"
'Here it comes,' Harry groaned inwardly.
"Do you know any good muggle love songs?"
"Why!" Harry asked not even attempting to hide the surprise in his voice. Harry sat up in his bed instantly and stared at Ron, 'Where did that come from?'
"I…just answer the question would you," Ron answered irritably.
"If you want to sing to Hermione, all you gotta do is step outside the portrait hole," Harry replied jokingly.
"That's not what I…oh forget it!" Ron huffed before turning his back on Harry again.
"If you say so," Harry stopping himself from laughing, seeing as how Ron was in a particularly foul mood and he did not want to be the one who Ron took it out on, that was Hermione's job.
Dumbeldore looked at the girls an amused smile on his face, "Well it appears as thought the spell will wear out by the end of the day, so no harm done,"
"No harm? The entire school is in chaos!" Professor McGonagall interjected.
"I believe that most students are in their dormitories, so I see no permanent damage here Minerva, however," Dumbeldore turned to look at Hermione standing in front of him, "perhaps Miss Granger would benefit from this experience if she lost some house points for using spells from anonymous senders."
"But it was Fred and George's fault!" Ginny said from where she stood beside Professor McGonagall.
"No Ginny, I deserve to be punished," Hermione spoke softly looking at her friends face before turning back to the Headmaster.
"One Hundred points from Gryffindor," Professor McGonagall sighed before leading the girls from the room.
"One hundred! That's just….unfair!' Ginny commented looking at the Professor as though expecting her to morph into Professor Snape.
"That's enough Miss Weasley! Now back to the common room," McGonagall responded.
"Are you going to tell everyone?" Hermione asked before leaving.
Dumbledore looked at her from behind his glasses, "I believe that most students would like to forget this day had happened, not to mention some teachers," he said looking at Professor McGonagall with an amused look.
"So, that's a 'No'?" Hermione questioned.
"Yes, Miss Granger that would be a 'No'"
Hermione thanked the Headmaster and Professor McGonagall before following Ginny from the room; she noticed that the usually stern expression on the Professor McGonagall face was replaced with a tint of red. Ginny must have also noticed because she was struggling to keep a straight face and had to place her hands over her mouth to stop herself from laughing aloud. Once they had left the Headmaster's office and far away enough that Professor McGonagall could not hear her, Ginny fell over in fits of laughter.
"That was absolutely classic!" Ginny laughed, wiping the tears from her face.
Hermione gave her a confused look, "Why was the she blushing?"
"It might have something to do with the fact that she was serenading Dumbledore this morning, that's probably, was she was so upset with you," Ginny explained as she followed Hermione towards the dormitories. She stopped suddenly when she realized where they were going. "Actually, Hermione I think I'm going to take a walk around the school grounds."
"What! But McGonagall said to…" but she never got to finish her sentence since Ginny was already walking down another path that led outside.
Harry felt the rush of air on his face as he flew on his broom above the quidditch pitch. He had tried to talking to Ron but his friend seemed momentarily obsessed with muggle music, he practically pounced on some of the CD's Harry had given him. So Harry had left him once he showed Ron how to cast a spell to listen to the CD's without an actual CD player. Harry suddenly noticed a figure walking alone in the lush green hills leading to the lake, he could not be sure but he was sure that he saw some ginger hair sway along with their robes. He sighed as he remembered the embarrassing scene in the great hall a few hours earlier. Ginny had danced across the Gryffindor table singing that she was in love with him and always had been. Harry rubbed his neck, he stopped flying so that he could watch Ginny sit down against a tree beside the lake. She sat for a few moments and Harry hopeful that she wouldn't see him was about to turn back to the school when Ginny looked up and saw him.
Ginny groaned when she saw Harry just above her, she quickly waved so that he didn't think she was avoiding him. She glanced towards the school wondering if she could make a run for it. "The one person I wanted to avoid seeing the most…just my luck," Ginny mumbled throwing a pebble into the lake. 'Please go away, go away, go away' Ginny chanted to herself as she noticed Harry still floating above her motionless. He soon made his decision and Ginny heard a soft, 'Thump' noise as he landed near her. Ginny turned her face towards the lake determinedly as he sat down leaning against the tree, their shoulders touched momentarily causing Ginny to jump up suddenly. 'Just go away Harry,' she pleaded internally her eyes still fixed on the lake, Ginny heard her heart beat so loudly that she could have sworn that it was echoing across the lake. Ginny furrowed her brow in confusion before realizing that what she had thought was her heartbeat was actually music, the sound of rapidly increasing beat of the music drifting towards her and forced her, against her will, to turn around to see Harry staring at her sadly. She gulped nervously as she waited for what was to come. As the music became louder Harry opened his mouth and began to sing.
(Harry)
"What do you say,
when words are not enough
Too few won't sum it up
Too many's just too much
I've read all the signs,
but still don't know the way
I can try and lead you there,
but I'd just lead you astray
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies
If you wanna be with me
Cause the truth'll set you free
Don't look to closely or you'll see my disguise
I saw the love between us die
But I'm not ready for goodbye
Don't ask for more
'Cause what you're searching for
You won't find at my door
Don't ask for more"
(Ginny)
"My heart already knows
But my head won't let you go"
Harry continued as he stood up and reached for her hand,
"Please try and understand
This is all I am
I keep holding on
But half of me is gone
The pieces of my heart
Are lying on the floor
It's been broken up before
It can't be broken anymore
Ask me no questions
And I'll tell you no lies
If you wanna be with me
'Cause the truth would set you free
Don't look too closely
Or you'll see my disguise
I don't want to live a lie
But I can not say another goodbye
Don't ask for more
'Cause what you're searching for
You won't find at my door
Don't ask for more…"
Ginny turned her back to Harry as she sang sadly, tears streaming down her face,
"My heart already knows
But my head won't let you go
oooh... Another goodbye...
oooh... Another goodbye "
(Harry)
"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies
If you wanna be with me
'cause the truth would set you free
Don't look too closely
Or you'll see my disguise
I don't wanna live a lie
But I can not say another goodbye
Don't ask for more
'cause what you're searching for
You won't find at my door
Don't ask for more"
(Ginny)
"My heart already knows
But my head won't let you go"
Harry turned Ginny towards him and wiped the tears from her face, he looked into her eyes, pleading her with his words,
"Don't ask for more
'Cause what you are searching for
you won't find at my door
Don't ask for more…
(Ginny)
"My heart already knows
But my head won't let you go"
Ginny pushed Harry from her before she ran towards the school leaving Harry alone as he sang the final words of the song,
"(Oooh...) Another goodbye
(oooh...) Another goodbye
(oooh...) Another goodbye…"
The music echoed across the lake before fading, Harry continued to stand alone watching Ginny disappear in the distance.
A/N: Like I said at the beginning I hope you can actually hear the song because all the emotions are in the song and it's a bit pointless without it. (sad)
E: Hi! I hope you like this chapter, it took me forever to find the perfect song...you'll see why when you read the next chapter. Thanks for the support and kind words! Hahaa I can't believe you reviewed this fanfic in one of my other stories again!