Laws Of Love: Chapter 17

"McGongall has gone insane. I swear she's gone completely kaboobooo!" Ginny exclaimed at Hermione, the second she closed the door behind her.

Hermione raised an eyebrow and said, "Do Elaborate."

"She's says that I have great potential in the Healing career, therefore she had added Advanced Healing into my 5th year packet, even though it's a frigging NEWT class! Doesn't she realize that I'm in fifth year, not SEVENTH?" Ginny screamed, not caring if McGongall heard her.

Hermione smirked,"I knew it!"

Ginny gaped at her, "How could you possible have known that?"

"Well," Hermione started, "Remember when we were at JAH Training? They made us perform simple healing spells on plants, and you did by far the best."

"So?" Ginny said blankly, "That doesn't mean anything"

Hermione sighed "Come with me" and added "We can need to be some where private incase you feel any need to explode."

Ginny followed Hermione down a few flight of stairs, and round a corner, there Hermione stopped in front of a painting. The painting portrayed an unusually fat man eating some tart in a savage like manner. Hermione tapped his red nose three times and the portrait swung open to reveal a small chamber.

The chamber was furnished in a way that suggested an unnaturally feminine and cozy living-room style. It was ruby red and had two fairly big, plum couches that stood opposite each other with a small, straw coffee table in the middle. Under this lay a deep red rug and the walls were painting in another type of red that Ginny couldn't quite describe, overall she decided that it was a very light burgundy.

"Welcome to Granger's Hollow." Hermione said with a big smile, "Well actually it isn't, but…I found it last year and spend a good time studying here and no one else knows about…I suppose Dumbledore does but…well…you know…"

Ginny grinned, "Wow quite a place." But then her face grew serious, "So what's it that you want to tell me, do you know why I am taking advanced healing?"

"I heard Dumbledore and McGonagall talk." Hermione said, sitting down, "At JAH…" she hesitated, "They said that they would pick the best healer from the group and train that person as much as they could so that in the final battle……" Hermione stopped, "So that in the final battle…" but she choked in her words.

Ginny understood, "Harry, right? Oh no! That means that I need to make sure that Harry will be fit as a fiddle every single second of the fight, so I must be able to perform fast and efficient healing spells at…a….a….battle…."

Hermione nodded, "But not only Harry…but every one."

Ginny's jaw dropped, "But what about Madam Pompfrey!"

"She can't always be there." Hermione said wistfully.

"And how do you know that?" Ginny spat.

"McGongall thought the same thing, but the battle will probably held at school if Dumbledore can help it….at least that's what he said. Because on contrary to popular believe, Ginny, its better to have the Final Better here….cause Dumbledore is here and so is his army which is stronger then any army the ministry can provide."

"So, then Pompfrey will be there wont she!"

"Yeah, and she'll have to handle three times more patients…she needs help."

"But I need to fight too!" Ginny exclaimed.

At this point Hermione collapsed and moaned, "Oh I don't know Ginny! Dumbledore asked me to tell you this somewhere private and try to make you understand that it's for the better, really."

Ginny felt a slight tinge of sympathy for her friend but ignored it and pushed on, "So you think I can't handle the fight! So instead I get stuffed up in a hospital where I don't need to do anything but bustle around and rub moisturizer on people? Well forget it!"

And with that Ginny stormed away.

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Ron and Harry were engrossed in a nasty conversation about Quidditch injuries when Hermione entered the Charms Class room and joined them in the top row, "My god!" she puffed out irritably, "Ginny is completely irrational!"

Harry grinned and secretly agreed with this, but then he agreed to it in a different light. He daren't say this Hermione so he and Ron wisely kept their mouths shut.

Hermione ranted on and on, but stopped in the middle of her sentence when the class room door flew open and a long, tall, dark and mighty handsome young man entered the room.

Many of the girls instantly gasped, and then they realized that they gasped, so the blushed, and when they realized that they were blushing they squealed out of nervousness and wiggled in their chairs, all thinking, "By Merlin, he's hot!"

Even Hermione seemed temporarily lost by words; she gulped and gaped along with the rest with her mouth unattractively wide open.

Ron leaned forward, flicked her jaw shut and planted a kiss on her lips and said in a mocking way, "I sure love you too."

Hermione scowled and reached down under her desk to retrieve her books, and when she came back up she was disappointed to see that the gorgeous manly body had disappeared behind the Teachers desk.

She heard several of the boys mutter disapprovingly and most of the girls now broke out into excited chatter.

The man waited patiently for silence to come over them and then said huskily, "I'm Professor Luke. Luke is actually my first name, and I'm more comfortable using it then my last. I'm your new Charms Teacher, since Dear Old Professor Flitwick has decided to retire."

No one groaned disappointedly as they would have done if the teacher ad been less attractive, instead some girls nodded reprovingly and Hermione distinctly heard Pansy Parkinson say; "It's about time that got rid of that blasted old bean. He's tiny, and OLD!" And another girl said, unaware of her loudness, "I hear that he is so tiny because he has goblin blood running through him." And another said, "Yes, I always thought he had pointed ears." AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, "Oh shut up, Sally May! We don't need to be reminded of your secret little crush on the old man and how you love stare at his ears and we NEVER want to hear you rant on about how cute he was." "I didn't mean cute as in attractive, I mean cute as in puppy cute!" "Yeah sure, Sal"

At this point Hermione couldn't hear any more because Ron, Seamus and Harry had broke out into hysterical laughter.

Professor Luke clapped his hands lightly, and instantly the girls fell silent, but it took a little more effort to stifle the chuckles that were coming from the guys.

"Now that every one is silent, I want to start our lesson. We will be practicing silent spells so get your wands out."

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Lupin's lesson were the same, they did some silent spells and marveled at their terribleness. Lupin was just as kind as he always was but he knew that he shouldn't push the students of which he knew that their parents were very objective to werewolves. He treated them with respect but he didn't show any desire to try and convince them of how great he was.

At the end of the class, Lupin called Harry back. Harry waited nervously till every one was gone, and he held his breath until Lupin closed the door behind Ron and Hermione and turned towards him.

"So, as you know…. Tonks and me have you in our custody…" he started weakly.

Harry nodded and waited.

Lupin continued, "The Dursley's have willingly giving us all rights. They are no longer your legal guardians."

"Then why do I have to stay with them!" Harry demanded quietly.

Lupin sat down in a student desk next to Harry and sighed, "You know why Harry. You know why."

Harry refused to look at Lupin, so Lupin continued, "Besides, it's only for one more year…"

"Yeah." Harry said unenthusiastically, "One more year."

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Neville had shakily told Ginny his plan while whispering it to her in the middle of a crowded hallway. Ginny told him that she's talk to him about it more later that evening. They had agreed to meet up in the Astronomy tower. And that was where she was heading right now.

She pushed open the doors and stepped out into the stone room with such big windows that it was practically a balcony. At first she saw nothing, her eyes not being used to the darkness, but then, when everything focused she saw the figure of guy standing by one of the windows. It was Neville, even though Neville has lost quite a lot of weight, he wasn't that broad shouldered

Ginny neared him, and the recognized him, "Dean?" she whispered.

Dean turned around and said nothing.

"Dean." Ginny repeated, "What are you doing here?"

"Thinking." He replied softly.

"About what?" Ginny asked.

Dean sighed, 'My father."

"Ow." Ginny said, surprised.

"I've seen him recently." Dean said blankly.

"That's nice…but didn't he disappear?"

"Yeah, but he's….back." Dean said vaguely.

"Oh right…right." Ginny said hesitantly.

"He teaches at Hogwarts now, you know."

Ginny said nothing and thought…then it made sense…of course, he did quite look like Dean..."Professor Luke?" she asked.

Dean nodded. And Ginny gasped, "But aren't you muggle born?"

Dean laughed, "We never knew for sure you see. My mum had an affair with a guy, who ran off before I was born. And when I got my Hogwarts letter, she kind off suspected that he was one too…you know…a wizard. And when I saw Professor Luke today. I was sure of it. He's my father."

Ginny couldn't ask no more, for Neville entered the room.

Ginny and Dean both turned to look at him, and Neville instantly realized that he had interrupted something important and tried to scramble away, but Dean stopped him, "No stay." And Neville did.

"Does he know?" Ginny asked Dean.

"Who?" Dean asked.

"Professor Luke…your father...I mean?" Ginny said.

"Nope, he didn't even recognize me. I don't know if I should go up to him."

"Wait, hang on…" Neville said, "What's going on?"

"Dean has found his long last dad." Ginny explained, "Professor Luke."

"Oh," Neville stated, "Well then I think you should go talk to him, Dean."

Dean nodded, "Okay, I will, thanks. But uhm, what are you guys doing here?"

Ginny smiled brightly, "Neville is going to ask Luna to be his girlfriend! He's now asking me for advice."

"GINNY!" Neville hissed angrily, "Keep a secret can you?"

"Oh don't go off in a hissy fit! Dean can keep one." Ginny said reassuringly.

"Yeah, but you can't!" Neville snapped back.

"Well anyways," Ginny said dismissively, "I think you should ask her tomorrow, go for a walk around the lake then…ask her!"

Dean nodded, "Yeah, good plan."

Neville smiled, "I think I might just do that."