Sorry this took so long, I've been really busy. But I hope you like the chapter :)

Nightime Wonderings

About a week went by, with Harry and Ginny successfully sneaking around with each other, though they were both a bit busy, so they didn't see each other as often as they would have liked. But one day, Harry got an idea. A risky idea, but with their relationship, wasn't everything risky?

Harry's idea was, they could sneak out of the common room late at night, under the cloak, and go somewhere they could spend time together. He could take the map, and it would be easy. Or, so he thought.

He was wondering how he was going to tell Ginny about his plan, but he didn't have to for long, because the perfect opportunity was handed to him.

Hermione had convinced Ron and Harry to go to the library with her, pestering them and saying they needed to get work done too. Both of them had protested, Ron the most, but Hermione finally got them to come.
So, with Ron grumbling under his breath in annoyance, the trio entered the library and went and sat at a table. They all started taking their books and homework out, and beginning on it.

Harry glanced up a couple minutes later, and saw Ginny sitting a couple tables away. He resisted the urge to smile, she seemed so uninterested in her homework. He suddenly remembered his idea, and figured out a way to tell Ginny about it.

He grabbed a clean peice of parchment, and made it look like he was taking notes out of a book, when really he was writing a note to Ginny. Harry finished it a couple minutes later, and folded it up discretly. He told Hermione and Ron he was going to find a book, which they believed, and quietly got up. He knew it would be a dead give away if he headed right toward Ginny, so he went and stood by an isle of books a few feet away from her. He pretended to look at a book, when really he was glancing at her, hoping she would see him.

Ginny looked up about a minute later, and almost jumped as she saw Harry glancing at her from a few feet away. Harry gestured for her to come to him, and she looked at him questionably, but got up and followed him into the isle.

Harry knew it was much to risky to talk, so he handed the note he had written to her. She smiled softly at him then opened it, a grin spreading across her face as she read his idea. She looked back at him, still grinning, and nodded in approval. Harry smiled in happiness.

"Tonight?" He whispered as quietly as possible.

"Sure." She whispered back.

"See you then." Harry whispered, and they smiled at each other for a moment before reluctantly parting ways.

Ginny went back to her table, and hid her smile behind a book. She was aware of the risk of the plan, but that almost made it better. Her and Harry, together, when most people were asleep, what could go wrong?

Harry was about to head back to the table, when he realized he should probably find a book, since thats where he had told Ron and Hermione he was going. He got one that was related to the subject he was working on, and headed back to the table, having to fight to keep his face neutral and not grin in happiness.

The rest of the day seemed to pass by much too slowly to Harry. He felt anxious and excited for that night, eager to spend time with Ginny. Finally, night time came around. A lot of the students in the common room started heading up to their dorms. A few people stayed out later though, and Harry knew he couldn't try to sneak out with Ginny while people were still down here. Unfortunantly, Hermione and Ron got suspicious when he didn't go up to to the dorms when they did like he normally would.

"Harry, aren't you coming?" Ron asked, halfway to the dorm before he realized Harry wasn't following.

"I'll be up later, I uh, have some homework to finish." Harry lied. Ron looked at Harry in mild suspicion for a moment, having a feeling his friend was lying, but he let it go since he was tired. He nodded to Harry before going up to the dorms.
Hermione wasn't as easy to convince. She narrowed her eyes suspiciously at Harry.

"Homework in what?" She asked pressingly.

"Transfiguration." Harry lied, saying the first subject that popped into his head.

She stared at him for a moment, still suspicious, but sighed, letting it go for now.

"Alright then, goodnight Harry." She said before going up to her dorm. Hermione couldn't shake the feeling that something peculiar was going on with Harry, though. She didn't know what it was, but it was something, she was sure of it. She sighed, telling herself to think more about it tomorrow.

Harry knew Hermione had been quite suspicious, and hoped she would forget about it. He sighed, there were only a couple people left in the common room now. Ginny was across the room, pretending to do homework. Both Harry and Ginny wished the few people in the common room would hurry up and go to bed, feeling anxious the more past curfew it got.

Finally about 20 minutes later, the last person besides Harry and Ginny went up to bed. Harry looked up over at Ginny, who smiled. He smiled back, standing up. Ginny got up as well, walking over to Harry.

"Ready?" Harry whispered, pulling the cloak out.

"Of course." Ginny whispered back, and Harry put the cloak around them. Harry and Ginny faced each other, and smiled softly. Harry kissed her gently, with his arms wrapped around her waist. Ginny kissed back, her arms going up around his neck. They stood there together and kissed happily for a few moments before finally breaking apart. Harry rested his forehead against Ginny's and looked into her eyes as he grinned.

"We have got to do that more often." He whispered.

"I agree completely." She whispered back, before kissing him again.

This kiss was short, not lasting as long since their plan hadn't been to sit in the common room and snog each other senseless all night. Okay, their plan involved kissing, but not in the common room.
Harry took Ginny's hand and led her to the Fat Lady's portriat. It appeared as if the portriat opened, and then closed by itself without anyone coming through, but of course that wasn't the case. Harry and Ginny silently made their way down the staircase. Ginny looked quite happy when Harry glanced at her.

Ginny was indeed happy, how could she not be at a moment like this? She was sneaking through the castle at night with her boyfriend, holding hands, and no one could see them. Roaming the castle after curfew when she knew they weren't supposed to, gave her an odd feeling of being free. She felt like they could do anything, and no one would be the wiser.
Although, she knew they could accidently run into a teacher if they just roamed the corridors.

"Harry, do you want to find a classroom or something to go in for a while?" She whispered, blushing a bit.

"Yeah, thats a good idea." Harry whispered back, having just been about to suggest the same thing. He thought for a moment, trying to think of one that wasn't locked.

"Come on, lets go to the Charms classroom, the door never locks." He said quietly. Ginny nodded, and they set off for the Charms classroom, which they reached just a couple minutes later. The door to the classroom appeared to do the same as the Fat Lady's portriat had, simply opening and closing without anyone going through.

Once inside the classroom, Harry looked at Ginny. They were both silent for a moment, but thankfully Ginny spoke before it got awkward.

"Do you want to take the cloak off?" She asked softly.

"Sure." Harry answered back, and they both took off the cloak and laid it on the desk next to them. It was dark in the classroom, but they could see each other a little better than before without the cloak on.

Any feeling of nervousness Harry had went away the moment Ginny stepped closer, and they were suddenly kissing, melting in each others arms. They only broke apart ever couple minutes to come up for air, before going back to the blissful sharing of kisses.
All Harry could think about as they kissed, was Ginny. They way her sweet hair smelled, the way her arms were wrapped around him, and how soft her lips were as they met his over and over...

It seemed like an eternity before they stopped, and in all honesty, it could have been for all they knew. All they were focused on were each other, not the time, or anything else for that matter. Ginny and Harry sat down against a wall, still holding hands and catching thier breath from all the kissing.

To Harry, all that mattered as they sat against the wall, was Ginny. He wasn't thinking about what everyone would say if they knew this was going on, he wasn't thinking about what would happen if they got caught, he was only thinking about how blissful it was to spend time with her. He didn't think he could ever feel this strongly about someone, but it turned out he could, for Ginny. No matter of they were only talking, or just holding hands, or kissing, he felt ten times better when he was near her.

Harry sat against the wall with Ginny, holding her hand as she rested her head sgainst his shoulder. They sat in blissful silence for a couple minutes, content with just being in each others company, before one of them spoke.

"Can we please come here again soon?" Ginny asked softly. She had enjoyed this immensily, completely content with her time spent with Harry.

"Of course." Harry smiled. He wished he would have thought of this a week ago.

Ginny smiled and took her head off his shoulder, looking at him. She may have been kissing him for who knows how long, but she felt like she hadn't done it enough. She would probably always feel like that, cause the desire to kiss him was most likely always going to be there. Nevertheless, she moved a little closer to him once again.

Harry smiled softly, turning his head and looking at Ginny. He moved closer as well, effectivly closing off the remaining space beetween them. They started kissing again, softer this time. They kept holding hands as well, caught up in the moment.

So caught up in fact, that they almost didn't hear the footsteps from the corridor outside the classroom. Harry heard them first, and his eyes flew opened and he pulled from the kiss. Ginny frowned.

"Wha-" She started to ask, but stopped when she heard the footsteps as well. Her wide eyes met Harry's, and for a second they were frozen in thier spots. But as the footsteps got closer, they jumped into action. Both Harry and Ginny scrambled up off the ground, hurrying over to where the cloak was on a desk in the middle of the classroom.

Consequently, their hurrying caused them to be loud, thus alerting the person in the corridor of where they were. But all Harry cared about was not getting caught, and to do that they had to get under the cloak. Harry and Ginny reached the cloak and quickly picked it up off the desk, throwing it over pulled down on Ginny's hand, signaling for her to sit down. Ginny followed his message, and they sat together on the floor, barely having the time to get their feet covered completely before the charms door was thrown open.

Severus Snape scowled as he pointed his wand and looked around the charms classroom the moment he opened the door. His scowl deepened as he saw nobody in the room. Thats impossible.. he thought. He could have sworn he heard somebody in this room. No, he had heard somebody, he was sure of it. He walked into the classroom, keeping his wand in front of him as he walked through, looking everywhere. There was somebody in this room, and he was going to find them.

Neither Harry nor Ginny dared to move, or hardly even breathe. Thier hearts were racing, what if he found them? Harry felt a sense of dread as he saw Snape start to approach where they were sitting. He knew he had to do something, he couldn't let them just sit there and get caught. Harry suddenly got an idea. He nudged Ginny to get her attention, and made her watch his lips.

'Stay here. Go back to the common room when he's gone.' Harry mouthed, hoping Ginny wouldn't protest.

Ginny frowned, catching on a bit to what he was going to do. She didn't want him to get in trouble, not alone, but she knew he wouldn't take no for an answer.

'Okay.' She mouthed reluctantly. Harry gave her hand a small squeeze before he let go.

Harry saw Snape a few feet away, looking off to the side and he knew he had to do it now so he wouldn't suspect he had been hiding under some kind of cloak. Harry quickly slipped out from under the cloak, crawling a few feet away from it.
Even at the small movement, he made a sound and it was enough to make Snape turn and look straight at where Harry was on the ground. Harry gulped, hoping he wouldn't get in too much trouble for this.

Snape looked outraged and glared at Harry. "Potter! What in the name of Merlin do you think you are doing here?" He demanded.

Harry tried to look inoccent, though he knew it was pointless. "I felt like coming here." He said with a shrug.

"You felt-?" Snape started in anger, but then just shook his head. "What do you think you are doing being out of your common room this late? You are a third year, and I know you know the rules Potter. I don't care if you 'felt' like coming here for whatever absured reason, you are not to be here, or anywhere else in this castle after curfew!" He lectured sternly. He didn't have the patients to deal with Potter tonight.

"Yes professor." Harry said flatly, annoyed at the man. He knew very well hew wasn't suppose to be out of his common room, but he still didn't like being yelled at by Snape.

Snape sighed in his own annoyance. "Get off the floor, Potter." He commanded, and waited till Harry did just that before speaking again.
"30 points from Gryffindor for being out after curfew, and you have a weeks worth of detention, your first one being tomorrow." Snape said.

Harry frowned, a week of detention was going to completely suck. He sighed. "Okay." He said, trying to control his temper. The only reason he didn't feel completely upset, was because he knew his plan was staying successful, because Ginny was staying un-caught.

"Come with me Potter. I suppose I'll escort you to your common room, since I can't trust you to go back on your own." He sneered, gesturing for Harry to follow him. Harry scowled, but didn't retort, knowing it would only lead to more trouble. He followed Snape out silently.

Ginny sighed when Snape left with Harry, feeling kinda bad. She hated that only he got in trouble. But, it was done now. It would do no good to go running out saying 'Hey, I was in there too!'

Ginny waited a good fifteen minutes before she carefully left the classroom and causiously made her way to the common room. By this time, Harry had already got back, a little angry at Snape. He had his first detention the next night at seven. He sighed, oh well, at least he got to spend time with Ginny. He sat down on the couch, waiting for her to return.

Ginny entered the common room a few minutes later, and Harry stood as she ripped the cloak off and ran over to him. Ginny hugged him with a sighed, and Harry hugged her back.

"You should of just let us both been caught, its not fair that I didn't get in trouble and you did." Ginny said.

Harry shook his head. "If we both got caught, that would have been worse. It was better this way." Harry said reassuringly.

Ginny sighed, but accepted it. They pulled out of the hug.

"So, are we still going to go there again, or...?" Ginny asked softly, in curiosity. She didn't know if he wanted to risk it.

"Well, I don't know about there, cause Snape will probably be watching it now. But, we can always find another place." Harry said with a grin. Ginny smiled brightly and kissed him softly.

They kissed for a moment, before pulling away once more. The adrinaline from being almost caught gone, Ginny felt how tired she was. Harry yawned, and Ginny's eyes were looking heavy. Harry laughed slightly.

"Wanna go to bed now? Its like..4 in the morning." He said tiredly, looking at the clock.

Ginny nodded with her own yawn. "Goodnight Harry." She smiled.

"Night Ginny." He said softly. They kissed one last time, before pulling away and going into their different dorms.

Harry smiled to himself as he clombed into bed. Dispite getting caught, and getting detention, this had been a wonderful night. He couldn't wait till he got to spend some more alone tiome with Ginny. Thinking of her, he smiled as he fell asleep.

So, how did you like it? Please review! I thought about letting them off the hook, having a perfect night...but Harry's luck just doesn't work like that. :)