Chapter 6 (One Bloody Triangle.) (This chapter is for Hans (I modeled Neville after him.))
Ginny returned to Harry "So we're 'going out' now right?" Harry nodded, wondering where she was going with this, Ginny did have a history of being a little crazy… "So, are we actually going to…GO anywhere?" Harry grinned, "How about next Saturday? At Hogsmeade?" Ginny flashed him a half smile "Sounds great." Hermione tiptoed down the stairs, "Is Neville gone?" Gin nodded "Um-hum. I don't think you'll have to worry about him anymore." "What did you do?" Hermione's eyes widened. "Don't worry, you'll see", replied Ginny. Harry looked back and forth at the girls' faces, totally clueless.
Ginny slid into her potions seat, Malfoy marched up to her seconds later, "What is this that I hear? Rumor has it you're going out with Potter…" "So?" asked Gin stubbornly. Neville popped up out of nowhere, "She has a right to go out with who ever she chooses." "Nobody asked you!" Malfoy glared at him. "I just don't like the way you are talking to Ginny", said Neville. "Buzz off, you clumsy oaf", Malfoy glared at Neville some more. Ginny slid out from under them and sat next to Hermione on the other side of the room. The boys didn't notice however, and they kept arguing, "Well I think that…" "Nobody cares what YOU think, right Ginny?" Malfoy turned around, "Ginny? Agh, just like a witch to disappear." "She didn't disappear, she is right over there", Neville pointed out. "Nobody asked you!" Malfoy said again. Ginny could hear them arguing, "What the bloody heck just happened?"
Later at lunch Ginny sat next to Harry, when a very strange thing happened: Neville popped up on her other side and sat down. "I've been sandwiched", Ginny noted. And was it her imagination or was Malfoy glaring at Neville and Harry from across the room, more than he did normally? "This is strange", Gin decided. "What, you don't think that I'm cute enough for a guy or two to like me?" Ginny wasn't ugly by any means, she had straight red (orange) hair that went past her shoulders, and she had cute little freckles on her face. In a crowd she defiantly would stand out, that is unless the rest of her family was in the crowd! "Like! Ginny they're STALKING you." "Only Neville." "Still…" Gin glanced over at Harry's plate; he was done eating. "Ever feel like you're being watched?" She looked at her plate; which she hadn't even touched yet, "How am I supposed to eat this without looking stupid, or getting something on my face?" she thought to herself. The last thing she wanted was to look stupid in front of Harry. She blushed. "Ginny are you ok? You haven't touched your food", said Hermione. "Thanks for pointing that out!" Gin thought, "Oh, I'm not hungry…" She could feel Neville's gaze pierce into her back, and Harry's gaze on her other side, and Malfoy's from across the room, "It's a bloody triangle!" the pressure to not look stupid was getting to her.
Ginny however in an effort not to starve grabbed some food, and stuffed it in her pocket, once safe in the hall out of the sight of Harry, Malfoy, or Neville she began eagerly scarfing it down. "Really Ginny, I thought you had better taste." Ginny froze, she'd been caught eating in the hall, she hadn't read the rulebook but she was pretty sure that was against the rules… She swallowed the last bite and turned around it was only Malfoy, "What do you mean?" "Well, Harry just isn't your type." "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" "I'm talking about the fact that you and Harry have nothing in common." "What?" Malfoy rolled his eyes, "Really Ginny, surely you know that this match up will never work." "Huh?" "Yeah he's right for once", said Neville popping up on her other side. "Please, we haven't even been a couple for a day, what makes you so sure?" "Uhh… I have to go… I don't mean to be mean you know…" Malfoy disappeared. "Yes he does", said Neville before disappearing as fast as he had just appeared. "Ok, you're right this IS weird!" said Ginny. "Told you", remarked Gin.
"Umm Hermione…?" asked Ginny, she had met her in the library to ask for help. "Well, you sure got Neville off my back", said Hermione. "Yeah, but now he is MY problem." "Yeah, sorry but I can't even solve my own problems… Ron just thinks of me as a friend", she sighed for dramatic effect. Ginny got a mischievous glint in her eyes, "What if I could get him to like you?" Hermione laughed, "What are you going to do? Brainwash him?" Ginny blushed, "Yeah, something like that… It works though I've done it before." "Yeah? On who?" "On Fred, might have been George… Anyway they took her of my toys for one of their dumb experiments so I made a special tape, and not only did they give it back, they apologized too!" Gin remembered. "I don't kn- I'm desperate, give it a try!" Gin grinned, "It should only take a night." "Great." Said Hermione.
Gin snuck up to the girl dormitory, taking out of mini recorder, that she had brought (just in case…) She copied a message on, that would be repeated over and over, as Ron slept. Hey if it worked on Fred or George it had to work on Ron right? Gin made sure that the message would only make Ron LIKE Hermione, instead of being obsessed with her. She had a feeling that Ron liked Hermione but was too afraid to say anything; after all they were best friends! Gin snuck into the boy dormitory, she thought it was odd that they were deserted, but she didn't question fate. She quickly hid the tape under Ron's pillow (It was easy to figure out which bed was his (it was the one that hadn't yet been made.)) Then she ran as fast as she could out of there.
Later that night… Ron sunk into his unmade bed, "I'll tell her tomorrow." "About time wimp." "Shut up, it's harder than you think to tell a girl that you like her." "If you really liked her you would have told her by now!" "Maybe you're right… No, I REALLY like her… I just need to work up some nerve." "Pull it together, your little sister was coupled before you." "Us", Ron reminded himself. Apparently split personalities ran in the Weasly family… Slowly Ron drifted off to sleep, and as soon as he did the tape started to play, "You like Hermione… Ask her out… Don't be a fool… Follow your heart… don't go over the top… You like Hermione…ask her out…"