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Depression
Chapter 5
To The Rescue
At 10:55 that night, Harry left the Common Room, hidden under his Invisibility Cloak. He walked slowly and hesitantly down the hall, curious as to what he was walking into. He reached the dungeons, unsure as to what he was supposed to do now. He leaned up against the door to the dungeons and fell backwards. He landed on the floor hard and winced at the pain, careful to remain quiet. He thought to himself, Door must've been open…He looked around but didn't see anything in the pitch darkness around him. Suddenly a lantern flickered on at the back of the room and a feminine voice called, "Hello, Harry. It's good to see you again…" He called back, "Who's there? Where's Hermione? Is she hurt? What'd you do to her? Come out of the dark!"
"One thing at a time, dear Harry. Hermione is safe, she's right here."
Harry heard a muffled scream. He called to the voice, "Who are you?"
"Hasty, hasty Harry! Be patient. All in good time, all in good time."
"What do you want from me?"
"Not from you, I just want you."
"You…you want…you want me? Why?"
"I'm in love with you, Harry Potter. I had the chance to be with you, but I gave it up. I hope you can forgive me."
"When did you ever have a chance with me?"
"That's not important. What's important is that I broke you heart a while back, and then you broke mine by getting with her."
He heard the muffled scream again. He took a step towards the light and said, "You broke my heart? When? I don't remember that…"
"Well, maybe I didn't break your heart because you were too damn depressed about losing your godfather or whatever."
He took another step towards the light and said, "During my depression…" It suddenly hit him, "Cho!"
"That's right, Harry dear. It's me. Cho Chang."
Earlier In The DayRon entered the Great Hall, hand in hand with Hannah. No one seemed to notice, really. This made Ron kind of angry. He felt like shouting, "Hey everybody! See this? Hannah and I are together! Notice you idiots!" But he kept his cool as he walked Hannah to her seat at the Hufflepuff table, and kissed her before walking to his own seat. That got their attention. As he walked back, he heard people cat calling, and he knew people had noticed. He smiled to himself proudly.
He was so into his thoughts about Hannah, he didn't notice Ginny running towards him, tears streaming down her face, until she had run right past him, almost knocking him over. He called after her, "Ginny?" She kept running. She didn't stop until she collided with someone at the entrance to the Great Hall. She thought to herself, Great, more embarrassment. She wiped the tears from her face and looked up to see the surprised face of none other than Draco Malfoy.
She slapped her forehead as he said, "Well, what do we have here? Little Weaslet having a bad morning?"
"Shove off, Malfoy. I'm not in the mood today."
She pushed past him and started walking down the hall. He wasn't satisfied yet, so he turned and ran to catch up with her. He grabbed her arm and said, "Ah, ah, ah. You didn't even apologize for bumping into me."
"Shove off, Malfoy!"
"Not until you apologize…like you mean it."
"Fine! I'm sorry! Happy? Now leave me alone."
"I said to say it like you meant it. That didn't sound too convincing."
By now they had reached the end of the hall and turned onto a deserted corridor. She stopped and turned to him and said, "I'm sorry for bumping into you, Malfoy."
"Without the 'Malfoy', please."
"What do you want from me, Malfoy?"
"A sincere apology."
She shook her head and walked away from him, thinking about the previous episode in the Great Hall. Tears sprang to her eyes as Malfoy caught up with her again and grabbed her arm. He spun her around to face him and he saw the tears and backed down. He said, "I didn't think an apology would make you cry…"
"It's not that, moron."
"Then what's wrong?"
"Why do you care?"
"Excuse me for being polite!"
"I just caught my boyfriend snogging some other chick, okay?"
"You have a boyfriend? Since when?"
"Had, actually, and since the beginning of the year. On the train."
"Who?"
"Dean Thomas. We didn't make it public, really."
"Did you shag him?"
"Okay, now that's a little too personal!"
He put up his hands and said, "Okay, okay…"
"Can I go now?"
"Feisty much?"
"Well I'd like to go off to my room and have another good cry if you wouldn't mind."
"Crying won't help. If he knows you're upset, he'll feel more superior. He'll feel on top of the world."
"That's sick!"
"It's how guys work if they're cheating on their girl."
"And you would know this…?"
"I'm a pro." He smiled proudly but Ginny only saw conceitedness.
"I'm sure…"
"I suggest something to get him back."
Ginny looked at his face, full of mystique and ideas. She nodded her head and said, "Any suggestions?" He smirked and relayed his plan to her.
Ron sat down at the Gryffindor table, right next to Harry. He turned to Harry, who was staring at his plate intently, and said, "Staring at the plate isn't going to get you any food, mate." Harry seemed to snap out of a trance and replied, "What?"
"You were staring at your plate. Why?"
"Oh. Just thinking."
"About?"
Harry lied, "Transfiguration. We've got that first thing today, right?"
Ron nodded; his mouth full of toast, swallowed, and then said, "Yeah. Hey, did you see me come in with Hannah?" He smiled proudly and Harry laughed, saying, "Well don't be so happy, Ron!" Ron laughed and they continued eating breakfast. They both looked up when whispers and murmurs started going quickly around the Great Hall. Coming through the door, at that exact moment, was Ginny Weasly, holding hands and looking cuddly with none other, then Draco Malfoy.
Ron jumped to his feet and stalked quickly over to where Ginny and Draco were coming in. When he reached them he grabbed Draco by the hair and threw him aside and screamed, "Get your slimy, disgusting hands off of my sister!" It was then that Harry reached Ron, having quickly followed Ron, curious, but with ever intention of pulling Ron off. He grabbed Ron and said, "Ron, you need to calm down, okay? This is nuts, I know, but calm down, mate."
"He had his hands all over Ginny!"
"I know, but calm down. You're causing a scene."
"I don't care! He's Malfoy for Pete's sake!"
Ginny stood in front of him and said quietly, "Ron, I love you, you know that, but believe me. This isn't what it looks like. Just please calm down and everything will be fine. I'll explain it to you in private. Please! I'm begging you. Calm down."
Ron saw the look in her eyes, the look of fear, and loosened up. He said to her, "You swear you're not really with Malfoy?"
"No, Ron. Never. Mark my words. I will never be with Draco Malfoy."
Later in the Common Room, Ginny as sitting with Ron at a table, telling him the whole story, "So my ex was cheating on me, and blah, blah, blah, to make a long story short, Draco came up with a plan to get back at him." She thought it was best not to mention Dean's name because he slept in the same dormitory as Ron, and she wanted to avoid drama. She continued, "I pretend I'm with Draco to make him sorry and maybe it'll hurt him, like he hurt me." Ron gawked at his sister and said, "Wow, Ginny, I'm impressed. Why won't you tell me 'his' name?"
"Because, knowing you, you'll go and pick a fight with him and I don't want to cause any drama or anything. Things are dramatic enough without you fighting him. Ron, listen, you have to pretend to be perfectly okay with this whole Draco thing. We have to make everyone believe that Draco and I are a real couple, otherwise it won't work."
Ron nodded in agreement and said, "I want to kill whoever made you so upset as to go to Malfoy…"
"I know, Ron, I know. Trust me, I know. I want to murder him, too. But, really? I didn't go to Draco. Draco just kind of caught me at the bad time and helped me. Really, I didn't go and find him…"
Ron nodded again and then headed up to bed. In the dormitory, he looked around for Harry. He hadn't seen him in the Common Room downstairs, and he wasn't here. He pushed his worry from his mind and said to himself, "Oh, he's probably off with Hermione somewhere…" He smiled to himself and continued to bed.
A/N-MWAHAHA! I'm done, and I didn't go back to Harry/Hermione/Cho or any of that! Be patient and review a lot and you'll get to read what happens next soon! I don't remember any notes I had so I guess I'll just say PLEASE REVIEW, because then I would love you FOREVER AND EVER, and please come back and read some more and stuff…you could also read some of my other stories to pass the time between updates…I don't know, JUST A SUGGESTION: D! Seriously though, GO READ THEM! They're SEXY! Haha…yeah, I'm hyper right now. Listening to Good Charlotte, as I'm doing now, gets me like that. Anyway, LATERS!
Love,
DC