Midnight: Hello, everyone! I'm sorry for the late upload. I know I promised that I would update every Saturday or Sunday but I have been busy these past few weeks; with my homework, my review this July for my College entrance exams on August and loads of homework. I didn't even have the time to go online or check my stories.
I thought that I would have more free time this Senior Year. But, no. :sighs:
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Without further ado, I give you Chapter 10 of Always You!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Summary: After her so called 'happily ever after', Ginny Weasley found out that her boyfriend, Dean Thomas was cheating on her. As she was crying she ran into the hero of the wizarding world, The-Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter. You see, Harry has never noticed Ginny...Until now that is. Will their friendship bloom into romance? Will Dean get Ginny back? Will Ginny forgive Dean? Will Harry finally see the missing piece in front of him was always been there, waiting for him to notice it? Would you read and review this fanfic made by XxMidnightStarxX? Rated T for safety.
Chapter 10: The Battle at Clocktower Courtyard
Re-cap: "Because, she's completely, utterly and desperately inlove with my Git-of-a-brother, Ron." Ginny answered. Hermione smirked. "First, I am not inlove with him and second, he's not just a git. He's a big, fat git."
Normal POV
Clocktower Courtyard, 7:40 am…
Every student was excited.
Re-phrase that and you would get with: Every student was ecstatic. Why, though? One word; Hogsmeade.
So why were they ecstatic for Hogsmeade today? Let's just say that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft And Wizardry was going to pay a visit on the said village; today.
"Students, please, fall in line." Professor Pomona Sprout - also known as: Professor Sprout - had told - more like, begged - her excited Hufflepuff students.
"Listen to your prefects, Hufflepuff." She added.
In response, the said Hufflepuff House had only ignored her and continued to chatter away with their friends and groups.
Frowning, Professor Sprout glanced over at the Slytherin House; Slytherin students were quiet and were perfectly in line.
'Why can't the Puffs be more obedient?' Professor Sprout thought.
Losing all of her patience, Professor Sprout had stepped infront of her House and began chiding them.
"I am very disappointed in you Hufflepuff," She started; the Hufflepuffs started to look at her and one by one, their chattering became hushed whispers.
"Is this how you would treat your Head of House and prefects; with constant disrespect and treat them as if they do not exist? I know that a lot of you are very excited to visit Hogsmeade but haven't you all gotten used to visiting the village? Honestly, you students act like this is your first time visiting there." She said.
The whole Hufflepuff house became quiet and started to apologize to her.
"We're sorry, Professor Sprout; please don't be angry at us anymore." The Hufflepuff students said, crestfallen.
"I am not angry at you; just very disappointed. I hope that this habit of yours would stop."
"Yes, Professor."
"Good, now fall in line."
Over at the Gryffindor line, students were chattering, discussing where they would go or do in Hogsmeade today.
"I'm going to buy every flavor of sweets in Honeydukes!" A Fourth Year exclaimed.
"Well, I'm going to buy tons of gizmos at Zonko's Joke Shop!" A Fifth Year exclaimed as well.
"Oi, what happened to your loyalty in us, Timothy?" George had asked the Fifth Year; feigning to be hurt.
The boy- Timothy- snorted.
"Please, you buy loads of things there too! Quit acting like git, George." He said and went back to his friends.
"Prat midget." George muttered and turned his attention back to his girlfriend, Katie.
"Yellow carnations again this year, Kitty?" He teased, winking at her.
Rolling her eyes, Katie had ignored him and chatted away with Angelina.
"I say we dress-up as ghost princesses this year!" Angelina suggested.
"I'm fine with it; so long I don't have to be on cleaning duty with Filch." Katie said, shrugging.
"Alright; ghost princesses it is." Angelina agreed.
"You, a princess? Surely no princess would have hair as bad as yours eh, Johnson?" Pansy Parkinson's voice was suddenly heard and along with her posse, began laughing at her joke.
"Like your hair is something special, Parkinson." Angelina retorted, making a disgusted face at Pansy.
"Of course it is; along with my fair skin, beautiful face, charming smile and everything else." Pansy smirked.
"Don't forget your conceited big, fat head." Katie answered in a sing-song voice.
"Say what you must, Bell, but I'll still be a better and prettier princess that you and Johnson combined." Pansy said.
"Princess? More like a demanding bitch."
A familiar voice was heard this time and the girls' heads shot towards the direction and saw Hermione, with her face scrunched-up in disgust and she was glaring at Pansy as she made her way towards them with Katie and Angelina chuckling with her and Pansy narrowing her eyes at her.
"Watch your language, Mudblood. Or are you really that desperate to get some attention?" Pansy smirked.
"Desperate to get some attention? Moi? Surely you have mistaken that statement for yourself, eh?" Hermione retorted, glaring at Pansy even more.
Pansy snorted.
"Think what you must at least I have the common decency to not interfere with other people's conversations. Though of course, a lowly and stupid Mudblood like you wouldn't know what decency is, eh, Granger?" Pansy smirked.
Hermione's fists curled into her sides and she was itching to punch Pansy in the face. She had done it to Malfoy before and she would not hesitate to do it again.
She was about to retort something back until Annie's voice was heard this time.
"Hermione? Stupid? I thought that she was The-Brightest-Witch-of-Her-Age?" Annie glared at Pansy.
"Watch it, Klausters. Or have you forgotten what the consequences are when you try and do anything to me?"
"Sweetie, I haven't done anything to you…yet." Annie smiled sweetly and began twirling her blonde hair around her finger.
"How dare you?!" Pansy demanded.
"Love, you haven't seen me dare yet." Annie smirked.
"You take that back you- you ugly-haired minx!" Pansy exclaimed, fuming.
"Really now, is that the best you can do? Of all the hair-related humor in the world before you, you go with 'ugly-haired minx'?" Annie smirked wider; clearly enjoying this.
Pansy was about to retort something again when Ginny and Sakura went to Hermione and Annie laughing about something.
"Hermione! Annie! You'll never guess what we saw in the Common Room a while ago! Ron! His face was…" Ginny couldn't finish her sentence because she and Sakura were giggling like no tomorrow.
"Not now, Ginny. Can't you see that we're in a middle of a bitch-fight?" Annie asked, placing her arms in front of her chest and frowning, but her the corners of her lips were itching to smirk.
"Eh? With whom?" Sakura asked.
"With me, Shirobara." Pansy said, looking at her with dark eyes, emphasizing her name as if she was drinking poison.
"Oh, sorry; we didn't notice you there, Parkinson. We thought there was a talking coconut over here." Ginny retorted.
Pansy glanced over to her posse, who has not said a word since Hermione had talked. Fixing her gaze at Ginny this time, she glared at her this time.
"Take that back, you filthy Bloodtraitor. You have no right to speak to me in that tone." Pansy gritted her teeth, flushing more as she glared at Ginny even more.
"Why should I? You are a talking coconut, aren't you? I mean, look at that hair; it's as frizzy as a coconut's and it's even shaped like one. I know! You should go as a coconut this Halloween Ball! I'm sure everyone would be dying to know who you are." Ginny smirked. Pansy made an ugly, angry noise as she pointed her index finger accusingly at Ginny.
"Wait until I tell this to my Father, Weasley! You will rue it!" Pansy exclaimed, flushing even more.
"Tell her to your Father? What are you, five?" Sakura asked, raising a delicate eyebrow at her.
Pansy looked at her with a flushed, angry looked. She was either about to say something at Sakura or tackle her to the ground and attack her, until Draco Malfoy came and grabbed her right arm tightly, making her flinch a little.
"Stop it, Pansy. You're just embarrassing yourself." He said.
Pansy looked at him as if he had lost his mind.
"But, Draco-"
"I said stop." Draco said in a firm tone and that made Pansy a frown.
She fell silent and shook her arm from his firm grip and stormed-off back to the Slytherin line with her posse following her, and she kept on muttering things.
Luckily, their banter wasn't very scandalous and the teachers were busy scolding their other students and their attentions were in something else.
When Pansy had left, Hermione, Ginny, Katie and Angelina began to go back to the Gryffindor line, leaving Annie, Sakura and Draco there.
"Thanks for that." Sakura said, smiling gratefully at Draco. Draco's cheeks suddenly tinted a faint bit of pink and he began stuttering things.
"I didn't do it for you, Shirobara. I just wanted Pansy to stop before she does anything drastic and I have to either be responsible for it or be involved in your little talk with her." He said, the pink in his cheeks never leaving.
"I-"Sakura started but he had already stormed off, his green scarf swishing along with his movement.
"Did…Did I say something wrong? Did I offend him?" Sakura asked Annie, still astonished.
Annie just chuckled at her and shook her head.
Sakura sighed and gave up.
"Come on; let's go back to the line. I'm sure Hermione and Ginny must be furious." Sakura just laughed as they made their way back in line.
"I was this close to punching her. This close! The nerve of that girl! Calling me stupid when in fact, her grades can't even be compared to mine!" Hermione fumed as Angelina, Katie, Ginny, Annie and Sakura were around her, supporting her.
"Don't mind her, Hermione. She's as bad as Malfoy." Katie said.
"At least Malfoy shut her up." Annie said.
"Just ignore them; thanks for backing me up back there, Granger." Angelina shot her a grateful smile.
Hermione looked at her and smiled back.
"'T was nothing; that coconut head needed someone to tell her off." Hermione grinned.
Suddenly, Fred snorted at them.
"Some bitch-fight that was. I didn't even get to see some hair-pulling." Fred made a fake frown.
"Because we're civilized, unlike Pansy. Did you see how she looked at Sakura back there? She looked like she was going to trap Sakura on the ground and attack her." Ginny said.
"I noticed that too. I don't get it, though. What did I ever do to Pansy to make her hate me?" Sakura asked, adjusting her pink scarf around her neck.
"Maybe she's jealous." Annie answered.
"Jealous of what?" Sakura asked.
All eyes were focused on her.
"Me? Why? What did I do?" Sakura asked.
"Because, Sakura, besides Pansy, you're the only girl that Malfoy has ever talked properly with. And besides, you're much, much prettier than her. So it's only obvious." Annie answered.
Sakura just shrugged and began fixing her white coat.
"I'm grateful that neither Professor McGonagall nor Professor Snape noticed us. If they did, we would probably be having a one-way ticket to Detention tonight." Hermione said.
"Yeah, but I love what Ginny said. Coconut. That was brilliant, Gin." Annie grinned at her best friend.
"Well, I learn from the best." Ginny smirked.
"Did you see Pansy's face? She looked like she was about to cry." Angelina laughed and the girls just laughed along with her.
When their laughter died, Ginny smirked even more and said,
"Though, I wouldn't mind making her cry."
Midnight: So that's Chapter 10 for now. I'll try to update Chapter 11 ASAP. Let me just adjust some things to my schedule and I'll be updating this story every Saturday/Sunday as I promised.
Read and review my lovelies! Also, you are welcome to vote on the poll that I have created in my bio and I have made a recent JamesLily fic called Took You Long Enough. I do hope that you all would look at that as well and review it too.
Again, I apologize for not updating sooner.
Goodbye for now! x