Chapter 10

A/N: Okay, sorry for the delay but I wasn't feeling to good at the

beginning of the week and I had a few tests as well. This story is really starting to feel like a chore instead of for fun. The first few chapters were ok and they were fun to do but since about 3 and up, I have been unsatisfied with it. I haven't been writing to my best so I think this will be my last chapter unless I get some serious objections...I am better at one shots so I will do a couple of them and then start on the sequels. So if I disappointed you but I do hope you know what I mean….

"The party is tomorrow Harry, you need to ask someone" Hermione said as the trio made their way down to the Great Hall.

They had been back at the school for a little more than a week now and the Gryffindor glory was starting to settle back into their normal routine.

The Party. Just what he was trying to stop thinking about. It was Professor Slughorn's party and he even Harry had to admit it looked fun. The Weird Sisters were there and the rumor was that the great hall would turn into one of those muggle night clubs with pretty disco balls.

Like Hermione put it, he didn't have to show up with a date, it was just that "people like him" don't show up without them. Whatever that was supposed to mean.

If he could only work up the courage to ask Ginny, maybe he just wouldn't be fantasizing about kissing her. If only he could do it……….

Harry sat in front of the blazing fire of the common room. Ron was on his left in the same boat. No date and forced intentions to ask. Hermione didn't have a date either, surprisingly.

"I was asked," she said, when she saw Harry and Ron's puzzled expression. "The person I wanted just didn't ask" and with that she stared down at her shoes and hadn't uttered a word since.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Ron steal a sideways glance at Hermione. He opened up his mouth to say something a few times, but he would gather attention and state that he was just trying to amuse himself.

Ask Hermione to go with you, he thought. Then maybe I could just ask Ginny.

"I'm going to bed" Harry declared, after a few minutes thought. He couldn't ask Ginny. Plain and simple, he was just too frightened.

Hermione nodded her head. Harry already knew who her mind was on.

Disappointed in himself, he trudged up the stairs to the dormitories, only to bump into someone familiar.

"Harry!" Ginny exclaimed, rubbing her shoulder where she had rammed into Harry.

"Oh,er, hi, what are you doing up here?" he asked. As rude as it was, it was a good question. She was coming down from the boy's dorm.

"Well," Ginny closed her eyes and paused for a second. "I was looking for…you"

"Me?"

"Yeah. You know Slughorn's party is tomorrow, right?"

Where was this going? Was she going to ask him?

He nodded his head obidentiely.

"It's Ron and Hermione," his heart sunk. "You can tell that they both like each other but…I think their both afraid to ask one another"

When she said that, she looked at Harry straight in the eyes. She could see right through him.

"I think maybe you and I could persuade them to go with one another…maybe"

"We could try" Harry stammered.

"Cool" Ginny smiled.

"What are we going to do?"

Harry looked behind him and saw Hermione and Ron coming up the stairs.

"We lock them in the dorm"

Ginny snorted. "The dorm? And what is that going to do?"

"They have to learn to get along first."

Ginny shook her head and laughed. "All right"

Harry pulled Ginny along with him into the shadows out side the door, just in time to hear Ron and Hermione say goodnight. Just as Ron opened the door, Harry stepped out behind them and pushed them both inside the room.

"Bloody hell" Ron shouted. "What are you doing?"

"It's for your own good" Ginny said as she sat with her back to the door beside Harry.

Harry and Ginny started to laugh. Ron and Hermione didn't seem so pleased. They pounded their fist against the door, but Harry wasn't budging.

The pounding ceased for a second as Ginny held her wand to the door and muttered an incantation. "They won't be getting out for at least an hour"

"There going to be mad at us"

"I don't think so" Ginny said thoughtfully. "Maybe they see were trying to help them"

Harry couldn't help himself. He had to ask her now or never. "Ginny," he blurted.

"Hmm?"

Harry looked at the ground and moved his feet in circles. "I was wondering if maybe you were-er-going to the- er- party with anyone?"

The pounded behind the door stopped. "No, Harry, I'm not"

What sounded like Hermione made a hissing sound from the door. Harry kicked it with his foot.

"If you're not going with anyone, and I'm not going with anyone….maybe we should-er- go together?"

Ginny smiled at him. "I would like that Harry. I really would"

SCORE! SCORE! Little sirens were going off in his head. If we were alone, he would be doing a happy dance. SCORE!

"Excellent" he said smiling.

They stared at each other for a milli-second. He had done it. And all it took was locking Ron and Hermione in the dormitory.

"Will you let us out now?" Ron shouted.

"Do you reckon?"

Ginny smiled. "They've probably been in there for 20 minutes. If they haven't asked each other out, they would have murdered each other by now"

She pointed her wand at the door and Hermione and Ron fell out on top of one another.

"Well?"

"Well what? Why did you bloody do that?"

"Oh Ron. Why are you both so thick? Everyone one knows you to fancy each other so why not go to the party together?"

Ron and Hermione went red faced. "Hermione," he said, barely above a whisper.

"Yes?"

"Will you go to Slughorn's party with me?"

"I'd love to"

"Now was that so hard?" Harry asked.

"Hark who's talking" Ron barked, sarcastically.

"Let's go to bed" Hermione suggested. "I think enough has happened for one day"

Harry gave Ginny a quick hug as Ron went into his dorm and Hermione in hers. He didn't want to overdo it. A hug and a date in one night was enough.

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow" Ginny said.

"See you"

Unable to sleep, Harry set up on the edge of his bed. What was Ron going to say? Would he even care? It's not everyday that your best friend suddenly started snogging your sister so how would Ron take it? He had Hermione and all….

The good news was that he had done it. He had broken the barrier and he now and Ginny, or at least for one day. He wasn't going to make a baboon out of himself. Bound and determined, he would not do it.

"Does this look alright? I don't look like I did at the Yule Ball do I?" Ron asked as he fitted the collar of his formal dress robes.

"Course you don't. You would look better in a paper bag thing you did that thing"

Ron chuckled. "How nice of you"

Harry took a deep breath in. He was not going to make a baboon out of himself. He wasn't.

"So, you're going with Ginny right?"

This had to come up sometime, whether he liked it or not. "Yeah. No one else to go with so we figured we would go together"

"Aw, your better than half the people here at Hogwarts so I give you permission to have her for the night"

Harry snorted sarcastically. "Like I needed to ask you" He figured the best way to handle this was humor.

"You'd better" Ron said, following Harry out of the dormitory into the deep mystery of women.

Harry waited just outside the girls dormitory for Ginny. He had only been out here for five minutes and his stomach was in knots. He could do this. It wasn't that hard.

His prayers were answered as Ginny stepped out of the room. For a moment, it took Harry's breath away. Ginny's Harry was draped in a low bun across her neck. She had an emerald dress on that fitted her perfectly. Not to dressy and not to casual.

She smiled at him. "You look gorges Ginny"

"Thanks Harry. Should we go now?"

"Uh, yeah. Let's go" He took him all of his might to take his eyes off her.

He managed to make it all the way to down with out making a fool of himself. Not even an urge to puke.

They walked into the party to the sounds of "Do the Hippogriff":

Can you dance like a Hippogriff?

Ma ma ma ma ma

Flying off, from a cliff

Ma ma ma ma

Ginny laughed. "Let's dance"

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no. That was not in the contract. Dancing was not mentioned.

What did you expect at a PARTY?

"Yeah, let's go"

He started off just moving his arms. This wasn't that hard. He could do this.

Then the bloody song changed. Slow dance. Of course, just his luck. "Magic Works".

And dance, your final dance

This is, your final chance

To hold, the one you love

You know you've waited, long enough

Ginny wrapped her arms around his like all the surrounding couples. He wasn't ready for this. He saw Ron and Hermione doing the same thing near them. Ron looking just as clammy as he was feeling.

Believe that magic works

At the moment, he had no idea what sudden change came over him, but he kissed her. Long and hard on the lips, he kissed her. And best of all, she kissed him back.

She pulled apart, smiled at him, and rested her head on his shoulders.

His heart palpitating at rapid speed, he silently applauded himself.

He got Ginny Weasley to fancy him. Know all he had to do was keep it that way………

A/N: Yeah! They're finally together. Tell me if you liked it or not and PLeASE leave a review. I must credit the locking Hermione and Ron in the dorm idea to miniuncy22 (sorry if I spelled it wrong) I didn't come up with that, she did. I am again sorry for the delay but I've had a lot of other stuff on my mind so don't be too mad at me. I hope you understand why I ended it and stay tuned for the sequels!