3. Just My Luck

Ginny stepped out of her compartment, and started walking through the train. She looked through the window of every compartment to see where Harry was. After a few minutes she felt the train lurch as it slowed down and came to a stop. She noticed with dread as the students started to flood the walkways. She tried to get out of the way but ended up being pushed and shoved in the chaos. She tripped and fell when one particularly small first year came barreling down the hallway. Thankfully she rolled into an open compartment, and wasn't trampled on and more.

She swore loudly as the sliding door closed on her head. She got up off the floor, and swore even louder when she saw who was in the compartment. It was just her luck that she had rolled into the one compartment, on the whole train, that Harry was sitting in.

They stared -or in Harry's case glared- at each other, unblinking. "Ginny." Harry said coldly. He walked past her without a second glance and left the compartment.

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After Ginny Accioed her trunk, she left the train and got onto a carriage. She still didn't like being able to see the threstrals, but she couldn't erase what happened at the Final Battle. She now thought of the thestrals as a memorial to all those who lost their lives that day. 'Most of the people in the school can probably see them by now.' she thought wryly. A couple of minutes later her friend Sarah entered the carriage. "Hey, Ginny," Sarah said with a smile on her face. She forced herself to return the smile. By the time that the carriage started moving, Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood had entered the carriage.

When Ginny entered the Great Hall with her friends she was starting to get nervous. 'What's to be nervous about?' she thought. 'It's not going to be so bad if we avoid each other for the whole year.' she thought, trying to convince herself. 'Fat chance, that's going to happen' said the voice. 'Would you shut up?' she internally screamed back.

"Ginny!" she heard someone shout. She turned around to see Hermione beckoning towards her, and could practically hear the voice smirking in triumph. She took a deep breath and walked over to her, after saying goodbye to Sarah, Luna, and Neville.

"Hey 'Mione." she said, with fake excitement, as she reached the spot where She, Harry, Ron, and the rest of the seventh years were sitting. Hermione told her to sit, and she started to, when Seamus and Dean dropped their arms in front of the empty spot, like a pass gate. "I'm sorry miss," Dean said in a falsely low voice. "This spot is reserved for seventh years only." Under the glares of both Ginny and Hermione, he hastily added, "But, since its not-so-little-anymore Ginny Weasley, I think that we can make an exception."

"That's what I thought." Hermione said promptly. Ginny sat down, purposely avoiding to Harry's gaze. Other than that, dinner was pretty uneventful.

After dinner, Ginny was sitting down in her favorite armchair in the Common Room, when Sarah approached her. "So, Gin. How was your summer?" she asked.

She started to answer when Harry came up behind Sarah. "Yeah, Ginny how was your summer? I mean even though I stayed at your house, it's not like I would know. In fact you didn't even look at me once the whole time I was there."

"You know," Sarah said. "I . . . uh . . . just remembered I have to be anywhere but here right now" She got out of her chair and walked away from the soon-to-be scene.

Ginny stared at her retreating form and glared at Harry. "I was having a conversation, you know." she said, still glaring at him.

"Well, that's a first." he said sarcastically.

Ginny's jaw dropped. She couldn't believe how rude he was being to her. She gritted her teeth in determination. He wasn't going to talk to Ginny Weasley that way. "Listen, Harry. I don't care how mad you are at me. You aren't going to talk to me that way!" She shouted. She didn't notice the people that had stopped to stare.

Harry seemed to shrink under Ginny's temper, but after realizing what he was doing he stood tall again.

He lowered his voice to a cold dead whisper and asked, "What if I just did?" Ginny gasped in shock. "That's it!" She shouted. She raised her wand.

"ENGORGIO!" she shouted, purposely aiming the spell at his head

"There," she said, as his head grew to be about five times its normal size. "Now you have a big head literally, not just figuratively." She looked over at Sarah and saw that She had a very Malfoyish smirk on her face.

Harry struggled to point his wand at his head to reverse the jinx. Hermione looked appalled at Ginny's behavior and Ron's jaw was hanging open, but everyone else looked happy that Ginny stuck up for herself. Some of them were laughing at Harry, and she couldn't help but feel a bit guilty. But, not near guilty enough for her to reverse the charm.

Sarah walked up to Ginny, took her hand and walked with her up to the girls' dormitory.

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Sarah and Ginny roared with laughter as soon as they got into their dorm. "Man, Ginny! How did you come up with that one? That was brilliant!" Sarah exclaimed.

"Yeah? Well, that will teach him not to mess with me."

"OK, spill. What was that whole thing about?" Sarah asked.

Ginny sighed, and explained everything that happened. When she finished Sarah stared at her. Her face was unreadable, and it made Ginny nervous. All of the sudden the dorm's door burst opened, and in came Hermione and Ginny's two other dormitory mates, Lexie and Emily. They all looked angry.

"Ginny, how can you do that to Harry? He had never been anything but nice to you and you go and rip his heart out of his chest like that! You are so shallow. Harry may have hurt you, but he didn't do it on purpose! He moped around in a slump ALL SUMMER and it's all because of you, AND YOU KNOW IT! You know it took a lot of his Gryffindor courage to tell you how he felt" Hermione shouted.

Ginny gulped, she had expected anything but that. The voice in the back of her head seemed to be shouting 'Ha! See, it isn't just me who feels that way.'

"How do you know what happened?" Ginny asked.

"Ginny, this is Hermione you're talking to." Lexie said. Hermione pretended to file her nails. "It's a wonder what a simple babbling curse can do to a person." she said lazily. "But, that's not the problem. The problem is the way you're treating Harry. He's the only one in the Common Room right now. Everyone else went to there respected dormitories. The seventh year boys have sealed the door to their dorm, so Harry can't leave the Common Room. Now, go kiss and make up."

Ginny snorted. "As, If."

"Then, you leave me no choice" Hermione said. Emily opened the door, while Hermione, Sarah, and Lexie shoved Ginny through it.

As they closed the door behind Ginny, she heard muffled words and a squelching sound as they sealed the door so that Alohomora didn't work.

Ginny knew what her only option was. And, if she wanted any sleep tonight she knew she had to take it.

She took a deep breath and descended down the stairs.

AN: Ok, just so you know there's probably going to be only one more chapter and an epilogue. On another note, I know that some of you might not like the rude Harry, but in the next chapter he'll be back to normal. This chapter was pretty hard to write because the characters just wouldn't 'cooperate'. Since I only got a one review on Chapter 2 I'm making a new rule. I have to get at least six reviews before I post chapter 4.

Thanks,

E and R

ps. Special thanks' to Carolquin who not only reviewed on both chapters, but also gave me some constructive critisism on them. THANK YOU! It really helped.