Chapter 15
The next morning Harry awoke to Mrs. Weasley's pounding on the door.
"Get up! If you don't get up, you'll not get breakfast and you'll make us all late," Harry and Ron heard coming through the door.
Ron rolled his eyes as he pulled himself out of bed.
"We're always late, no matter how early we get up. But we never miss the train so I don't know what she's ranting on about."
Harry smiled as Ron said this for it was very accurate. They both cleaned up and changed out of their pajamas. Harry, as always, attempted to make his hair lie flat, but it was no use.
"Why even try boy?" The mirror asked. Harry scowled at it and the two boys headed downstairs into the kitchen.
The girls were already there, starting their breakfast. The boys piled food onto their plates and began eating quickly. Once they were all done, Mrs. Weasley swiftly grabbed all their plates and told them to bring their trunks downstairs.
"How are we getting there anyways?" Harry asked Ron as they carried down their trunks.
"Dad got Ministry Cars again, I reckon cause we're toting you around," Ron explained between grunts from the effort of carrying the trunk.
Soon, 1 calm owl, 1 over hyper owl, a disgruntled cat, 2 adults, and 4 school children were crammed into one car and they were off to Kings Cross Station. When they arrived, they quickly found trolleys and headed to Platform nine and three-quarters. Harry and Ron went first together, followed by Ginny and Hermione, with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley right behind them. The children quickly loaded their things and walked to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley to bid them goodbye.
"Take care of yourselves, all of you," Mrs. Weasley said, hugging and kissing them all. "Ron, Ginny, both of you send a note every few weeks so I know how you're doing." Mrs. Weasley kissed them all one last time and they all boarded the train in search of an empty car. They finally found a car with Neville and Luna in it, chatting happily.
"Sorry you guys, we have to go to the prefect's car for a bit. We'll try and get back soon," Hermione said as she and Ron left the car, hand in hand.
"They're dating aren't they?" Luna said, as always, in her dreamy manner.
"Yeah, they are, and it's about time they went out together," Ginny said, smiling at the memories of the silly fights Ron and Hermione had had in the past.
"There are some other people that should start going out too though," Harry said quietly, so quietly in fact, only Ginny heard him. Luna and Neville seemed to intent on talking and looking at one another to pay attention to what was going on.
Ginny blushed and looked at Luna and Neville instead of Harry. Immediately she noticed that they were both looking at each other they same way Ron and Hermione looked at each other.
"Are you two going out?" Ginny inquired.
"Well, yeah, we are," Neville said, blushing furiously as Luna nodded dreamily while staring out the window.
"That's great!" Harry said, beaming at them both.
The four of them talked for a while, until Neville and Luna left to go talk to some of Luna's Ravenclaw friends. Harry and Ginny sat in awkward silence for a long while.
"Ginny, about what happened a couple weeks ago, I'm really sorry," Harry said, blushing as he said it.
Ginny stared at him, openly shocked. "What are you talking about? I kissed you remember? It wasn't your fault at all," she said, still a bit shocked that he would blame himself.
"You kissed him?" A voice from the doorway said.