Chapter 2 "What did he say?"

Hermione's Point of View

Ron and Harry had already left for breakfast when I waited in the common room for Ginny. After what I heard Harry say last night, I was ready to jump for joy. Hopefully Ginny's wish could finally come true.

Hearing footsteps coming from the girl's room, I quickly wiped the large grin off my face as a certain red head came down the stairs.

Ginny had a small bit of parchment in her hand which she was peering at curiously. I guessed it was the note Harry left her last night.

"Hey Gin, what's up?" I asked, sounding as casual as I could. She didn't look at me. All she did was hand me the parchment and stood there with a dreamy, yet scared look on her face.

"Ooh, Ginny's got a secret admirer," I said playing along. She looked at me and snapped the note out of my hand. "Very funny 'Mione," she said folding the paper neatly and putting it in her robes. We started walking down to the Great Hall, gossiping and giggling all the way. When the Great Hall came into view, the show began.

Ginny's Point of View

Physically, I was talking to Hermione, but my mind was on a different subject. Being as smart as Hermione in Charms, I could immediately tell whoever had written the note had used a forgery charm.

At first notice that it was forged, I was a little freaked out, thinking it was going to be another thing like Tom Riddle's Diary. I decided that after breakfast, I'd try to disarm the charm and find out who really wrote it.

"WHAT!"

The entire hallway before the Great Hall went deathly quiet as Cho was on the brink of tears and Harry stood in front of her with his arms crossed.

"Why?" I heard her yell through tears as I pushed myself through the crowd to see what was going on. I ended up standing next to Ron and Hermione who were both grinning.

"Because I'm sick of the lies and I'm sick of you," he said. Cho continued to bawl her eyes out and denied the whole thing. "When have I ever lied to you?" Harry looked at Cho's friends behind her and averted his eyes back to her. "How about you start by telling me who the baby's father is?"

All of the students in the Great Hall, including me, stood there with mouths wide open and eyes ready to pop out of our heads.

"H-how did you know?" Cho asked. Everyone around us gasped loudly and looked at Cho like she had grown a second head. "You've got a really big mouth Cho."

At that comment, a couple of students started snickering, and I looked up at Harry.

He looked at me with those big green eyes behinds those round spectacles, and gave ma a half smile. Okay, now I knew he was up to something.

Cho's eyes were clouded over with tears as she looked back and forth at the people staring at her. She took one more look at Harry and stormed out of the hallway and into the Ravenclaw Common Room.

"It's about time you did that Potter," Malfoy said as he rounded the corner with his girlfriend. "You're telling me Malfoy," Harry said as he walked over to take his niece out of Malfoy's arm.

"You are so lucky Jimmy," Harry's twin sister, Mary said. "If that was your kid, I'd seriously kill you." Harry's mouth fell open as he handed his niece, Crystal Rose, back to Malfoy.

"Am I the only one who didn't know she was pregnant?" he asked. "Apparently," I said, finally speaking. He looked at me strangely, and looked at Mary.

Mary's Point of View

"Well I've known for about a month now," I said, beginning to get pissed off at my brother. "My god it's Goyle's kid."

Everyone looked at me. "What?" was the only thing they could all say. "How do you know that?"

"Harry, my daughter is 2 months old. She gets up at two in the morning. I took her into the Common Room so Draco could sleep, and they were both sleeping on the couch."

Well, Harry looked like he was ready to kill someone, Ron was leaning on the wall with Hermione in his arms, Ginny just stood there like she was frozen in time, and Malfoy looked like he was going to kill ME!

"What do you mean 'so Draco could sleep'?" he asked. I mentally sweat dropped and returned his stare. "You're the one who had a potion exam that morning, not me," I said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. He just crossed his arms and looked at me straight in the eyes. "What did I tell you about doing that?"

Crap now I was in trouble.

Harry's Point of View

Ron, Hermione, Ginny and I decided to leave the happy couple to bicker, and headed to the Great Hall for breakfast.

"Malfoy really needs to calm down," Hermione said when we were all seated at the table. "He's taking this 'I'm-going-to-be-a-better-father-than-mine-was' thing a little too seriously."

"Well can you blame him?" Ginny asked when she sat down next to me in Cho's old seat. "He just doesn't want Crystal Rose to grow up like he did."

I really didn't blame my brother-in-law in that respect. He grew up in a death eater's shadow and didn't want to raise his child like that. Of course, what father isn't protective of their newborn daughter?

Ginny reached over me to get a piece of toast and brushed her arm up against my hand. For some reason my imagination was going a mile a minute, detailing what my life would be like when I get out of Hogwarts. Growing old and enjoying life with the one person I love more than life itself.

"Earth to Harry!" Ron said waving a hand in front of my face. Shaking my head, I looked at Ron. "Sorry mate. What did you say?" Ron shook his head at me and helped himself to more pancakes. "Hermione and I are going down to the lake so I can show her the You-Know-What, where are you going?"

Oh Crap! I completely forgot today was Ron and Hermione's anniversary! Ron had made plans and the only thing I was suppose to do was get out of the way for the day.

"Uh… I'm-."

"He's teaching me how to fly."

Ginny's Point of View

"You're learning how to fly?" Hermione asked me once she, Ron and Harry stopped staring at me.

"Yeah, Harry's training me to be the seeker for Gryffindor for when he graduates." I looked Harry in the eyes and gave him a look that specifically told him to play along.

"Oh yeah, that was today!" Harry lied as he smacked his forehead. "Sorry Ginny, I totally forgot." He took one last bite of his breakfast and stood up.

"Let's go," he said taking my hand and helping me out of my seat. I caught Ron giving Harry a death glare, but I knew it wasn't from forgetting about today. Harry winked at him and headed towards the door with his arms wrapped securely around my waist. Now I knew something was up.