When she looks at me, it's like she's seeing all the good things about me, none of the bad.
- The Lightning Thief/Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Maybe she's changed, or maybe it was you, but you wonder—oh how you wonder—just how sane you would be without her.
Without her believing in you.
Because she's not looking at you the way they do.
Because in their eyes, you're that hero again, you're the famous Harry Potter.
And every time you hear that name—that stupid name, that cursed name—Harry Potter—your name—you think you're going to go insane.
But then she'll pick up the paper, and she'll read whatever headline it may be, and she'll laugh.
"Harry Potter," she'll say in a voice nothing like her own.
And she'll laugh, and you'll laugh, because by now it's something of a joke.
Because as she reads some article describing your nonexistent life filled with scandal and mystery, she'll smile to herself and her brown eyes will sneak glances toward you.
And when she's finished you just talk, and she jokes about what a rebel you are, and it's nice.
Because everyone else—they either worship you or hate you.
But she's Ginny, and when she looks at you, she's not seeing Harry Potter at all. She's not seeing any of that stuff you hate. Not The Chosen One or The Boy Who Lived or any of that. She knows that it's complete nonsense.
It's weird, the way she's like that.
But it hardly matters, because weird or not, that they way it is with you. And you wouldn't change it for the world.
AN: I swear, these are all going to be exactly like this. But this is an excellent example of how I'll twist the quotes. Thanks for all of your help, by the way. I was hardly expecting three. But you nearly doubled my list, which was fantastic. So thanks very much for that, and as always, for reading. Hopefully you enjoyed.