Chapter 2: Poor Harry

Harry was annoyed with what was going on with him and the others. He looked around to see if he could go talk to anyone. Whenever he sees someone, if he approaches them they would either give some excuse and get away or would act as though he is invisible. Harry was going mad. The whole of Saturday passed like this for Harry. He had dinner all alone that night. He had met Ron before dinner, but Ron promptly walked away from Harry without even saying a Hi. It was the opposite when he saw Ginny after dinner. She said a sweet Hi to him and went to have her dinner. Harry wished he had seen her before dinner and had it with her, he would have felt much better.

He went into his dorm to go to bed. No one was in there. He lay on the bed but wasn't able to sleep. He was really disappointed. The only one who seemed to talk to him was Ginny. She, as he guessed, does not know what's going on over here. He thought he ought to go ask everybody why they weren't talking with him but immediately thought against it as he knew he hadn't done anything wrong for him to go ask them. He wanted them to come and say sorry to him for what they have been doing.

He lazed around on his bed, tried to close his eyes and go to bed, but nothing seemed to be working, he couldn't sleep. At 1:00, he was still awake. He was wondering why his dorm mates including Ron had not come to sleep. At 1:30, he went to check where they were. He slowly opened his dorm door to find that they were all sleeping in the common room. He was shocked and went back to his bed. So he thought, they won't sleep where I am eh? I don't care. Let them go to hell!...DONT say that Harry, he shouted at himself.

He walked around the room. He was now hurt. "That's it", he said aloud. "If they don't want to talk to me, I will do them that favour. I will not speak with them until and unless, they want to, I will only talk to those who wish to talk with me", he said and jumped onto his bed. He lay and again tried his best to sleep but wasn't able to. He told himself, "Harry, why aren't you going to sleep? You did not do anything wrong for you to waste 1 whole night, its THEM who should not be going to sleep because its them who's doing wrong", he thought, turned around, made up his mind and was asleep in a minute.

The next morning, the same things happened. Harry, according to his plan, did not speak or try to speak with anyone. No one said Hi to him, he didn't say hi to anyone, but the 1 person who did not miss to say hi to him was Ginny and he didn't forget to reply to her with a smile. By afternoon, Harry started feeling very lonely. No one to talk with, no one to play or hang around with, he felt like going back to the dursley's, but told himself, Nah! I would get the same treatment there.

The 2nd day too passed on like this. Again no one slept with him in his dorm. He was all alone. The 3rd day started. Harry had too much of what was going on. He saw Hermione and Ron laughing and enjoying in the common room with many other people. Looking at their faces, Harry also wanted to join them but his ego thought better of him, he walked out of the common room and was off to the grounds.

It was already 3 in the afternoon and he hadn't spoken a word since morning except frequent hi's to Ginny. He thought he would go mute if this condition persisted. He desperately needed a friend. He walked into the grounds and sat under a tree. He sat staring at the lake when his eyes where distracted by a girl with shocking red hair walking towards the grounds. He smiled as he saw Ginny. He told himself….looks like she is gonna start reading her book now, maybe I could go join her…..nah! I'll be a nuisance….saying this he turned away from the thought.

But suddenly he felt someone sit next to him. He turned around to see that it was Ginny. She sweetly smiled at him and asked "Can I join you? "….and Harry immediately replied…"ya! Sure". He moved a bit so she could sit and he didn't no what to say (obvious isn't it). She started the conversation first……"so? Watcha doing Harry? "..

"Me" he asked….."What does it look like I am doing?" he asked her with a smile on his face.

"Mmmm……. Looks like you are trying your level best not to scream from Saturday. Am I right? "

Harry looked at her with a confused and shocked expression put together. He wondered how she knew. He thought….Maybe she knows why the others are behaving this way to me…..I'll ask her?...

"Harry", said Ginny as he was lost in his thoughts. "Oh! Sorry Ginny……mmmm……how do you know?" he asked her with a questioning look. "Well, I haven't seen you with them for almost 3 days now and you seem to be alone all the time, you eat alone, you also sleep alone…..right?"…she asked with a small smile. "Absolutely!" He said.

Harry was looking at Ginny and he thought…well! She has observed me and understood me better than my BEST friends….. " A question Ginny..." said Harry as Ginny turned around and sat across him " And what's that?"

She asked. " Why have you been all alone for almost 3 days when you could join them?" asked Harry with the questioning look again on his face. Ginny looked at him when he asked this question and started laughing. "I am supposed to be asking that question to you…….why haven't you been joining them?" she asked between laughs.

He immediately replied " no!no!no, answer me first Ginny…..why?" he asked with a playful look on his face.

Ginny smiled and said" well, its not me who's not joining them, its them who don't want me to join them" she said and continued to say " Don't ask me why cause I have no idea why they are doing this" she ended.

" Aahhh!" said Harry, "that's exactly my answer too" he said. Ginny looked at him. " What?...they have been doing that to you too?..." she asked with a concerned expression. "Yeah! They have" said Harry as he leaned on the tree.

"Well! I am doing them a favour of not talking to them and I guess that's your idea too" said Ginny as Harry nodded his head. " There is no point talking about them now, so why don't we do something….I am bored!" said Ginny as she looked around for a something. Harry was glad she said this because Harry was in no mood of talking about his "enemies" as he called them now. He asked her whether she would like to go to the library and have some chocolate. She started laughing and then said "Stop joking Harry…..what can we do?" she thought as she put her finger on her chin and started rubbing it. Harry was staring at her and thinking.

"Idea!" squeaked Ginny. " Lets play cards in the common room"…she said and looked at him for and answer, Harry thought and said " no! Not in the common room with THOSE people…..how about astronomy tower?" he asked with a broad smile on his face. She looked at him and said " Great idea lets go".. Saying this she got up. Harry refused to get up so she gave him her hand. He saw that she was wearing the bracelet he had given her. He got up and said" Thanks Ginny!...for the Christmas present…. I loved it" he said with a smile that would have killed old Ginny. Ginny said " Glad you like it! I thought you wouldn't… anyways….thanks for the bracelet….I love it ", she said pointing to the bracelet. Harry said" yeah! I can see that…." He said as he looked at her.

While walking toward the doors of Hogwarts, Harry, looking at Ginny, very badly wanted to tease her. He slowly moved closer to her and said " you know Ginny…..I am really surprised" he said with a mischievous grin. Ginny who was looking at her footsteps and walking….slowly looked up at Harry's face and asked " about what Harry? "

"Well!" said Harry as he moved closer and put an arm around her shoulder…" you don't seem to blush every time you see me nowadays…" he said as he stared grinning at the look on Ginny's face. Ginny's eye's widened and she looked back on the ground turning a little red and said " I….um... I am……mmmm….dunno…..why…." she said stammering and Harry not helping her much…..didn't take his hand from her shoulders but instead went down to her height and looked at her and had a look that was teasing her. He was expecting her to say something which Ginny couldn't at that moment. She looked up at him and he burst out laughing unable to look at Ginny's tomato colour face.

Ginny who realized she was being teased screamed " AGGRRRRRRHHHHHHH! Harry! How dare you! " She screamed and started hitting him (who was still laughing very badly) with the book and chased him up to the doors of Hogwarts and into them too……………

AUTHORS NOTE

Boring? Big? Dumb? Good? Sick? Nice? Bad?...anything….but plsssssssssssss review….plss….ty guys!