Chapter 7

Harry was incredibly confused by how Eliza was acting. It wasn't that she was usually shy, she just didn't want to get hurt again. And here he was, hurting her, and she just kissed him a second time. Then he heard her. She said his real name.

Harry quickly untangled himself from her. "What? How – Who – my name – you –" He knew he was stuttering and not making any sort of sentence, but there was no way he could process any sort of coherent thought.

This woman who called herself Eliza was just grinning at him and he even thought he saw a sparkle in her eyes. Finally, she decided to say something.

"Come on, let's get out of here so we can talk." She pulled out some money and put it on their table and pulled Harry away before he could protest that he should be paying.

He felt her pull him away from the bar towards her car. Then the door opened and he was plopped into the front seat. Harry watched at she walked around to open her door and as she sat behind the wheel. He just felt so overwhelmed. He vaguely wondered if he should feel in danger since she obviously knew who he was. What if she was some sort of ex-Death Eater looking for revenge? Harry also vaguely knew that she wasn't. The way she had kissed him and grinned was like she had just realized he was Harry Potter. So who was she?

"Harry, have you figured it out?" He pulled himself out of his dazed bewilderment to try and respond. He looked at her first and saw that she looked excited but also very nervous.

"No." Harry said honestly and saw her face fell. "But who are you? I wondered for a moment if you were an old Death Eater or something but I know that's not it."

The woman laughed, "Well, I'm glad your Auror training came in useful for something, if only to tell you that I'm not going to kill you."

"You didn't answer me though. Who are you? I thought you were Eliza Finch but…" But Harry stopped talking. Finch. She was acting oddly when he said he had a 15 year old daughter and when he had said the name Ginny. He jerked his heard to look at the woman, his eyes narrowed. He saw her eager face that was laced with nervousness. Finally, Harry felt his eyes go wide with realization.

"Gi – Ginny?" He said her name the exact same way he said it only a few days previously. His life was starting to get rather crazy.

Ginny removed both her own and Harry's appearance charms and then there was silence as they sat there and looked at each other. Finally, Harry grinned and Ginny sighed in relief.

"How is this possible?" Harry asked in bewilderment.

"I don't really know." Ginny replied shaking her head. "Luck?"

"Wait, so let me get this straight. You are Ginny Weasley who was pretending to be Eliza Finch who was pretending to look like a cross between Neville and Hermione?"

Ginny laughed loudly and it surprised Harry at how she could find humour in this situation but as he thought about, it was so absurd that it just ended up being funny, and he began to chuckle as well.

"Yeah, that's pretty much it. You're much simpler. You are Harry Potter pretending to be some made up person named Dylan Ward."

"Yes, but – Lily… She didn't know you were a witch until just a few days ago. Yet you have been changing your appearance for the past five months. She didn't know? What were you planning on doing if you ever wanted to introduce Dylan to her?"

"I only had to worry about using magic when she was home and not at Hogwarts, and then I would just change it in the car. It wasn't hard. I just felt awful. And, honestly, I didn't know what I was going to do. I was constantly fighting with myself because I couldn't introduce you until I told Lily that I was a witch and I was too afraid to do that. I was even planning on breaking up with you at one point just because I didn't know what to do. But I couldn't." A smirk crossed over Ginny's sad face before she added, "And thankfully I didn't because the night I was going to was when we saw 'Wicked' and then went back to my place." Ginny winked at him.

Harry grinned at her bluntness until another thought crossed his mind. "Your place… How come I didn't recognize it when I went there the other day?"

Ginny frowned in thought. "You know, I'm not sure. Well, I magically removed all of the pictures from the walls that had anything to do with me or Lily so you wouldn't wonder who all these strange people were in my photos. But other than that… I don't know." She smirked again. "I guess you were just thinking about other things than my house that night."

"You are very right." Harry chuckled. "I definitely did not see the outside of the house or anything as we drove up because I was too busy watching you. In fact, I really only saw the living room and your bedroom but I didn't pay much attention to them." Harry said smirking right back at her. "And then when I went there as myself, I only saw the hallway and kitchen. I didn't think anything of it."

"I am still just amazed at how we ended up dating after that speed dating night. I mean, of all the people there and all the nights to speed date, and all the speed dating organizations, we ended up together after that. What are the chances?" Ginny said breathless in amazement.

"One in a million?" Harry grinned and looked at Ginny. He really did love her. As Eliza, as Ginny, whatever.

"Harry?" Ginny suddenly felt much more self-conscious the her timid voice that came from her proved that.

"Yeah?"

"Did you really mean it?" Ginny found her steering wheel very interesting to look at while she said this.

"Mean what?"

"That you loved me. Both Eliza and Ginny? Because I meant it." Ginny looked back into Harry's eyes. "I still love you Harry. And – and I loved Dylan too."

Harry could see both the fear and the tears forming in Ginny's eyes and he pulled her across the seat into a hug. "Of course I meant it. I told you before you left that I would always love you. And then I fell in love with Eliza these past few months."

Ginny let out a small sob of joy into Harry's shoulder. "It's incredible, isn't it? That we got back together like this."

"Yeah it is. You know what I think this shows us?"

"What?"

Harry gently pulled Ginny off his shoulder. "That we were meant to be," he said softly.

Ginny's face spread into a large smile before Harry pulled her face towards his and they finally kissed again as Harry and Ginny. And it seemed, that if only for that moment, that life was perfect again.

They stayed there in the car for a long while. Just kissing and talking about anything, including their mind-blowing luck; neither of them could get over that. Harry also told Ginny how Lily had told him all about how happy her mum was dating some mysterious guy. They both laughed heartily at that story and ended up kissing deeply again. Unfortunately, a security guard of the car park noticed them just sitting there and snogging and he rapped on the window.

"Hey, you two! This car park is for customers of the bar only! Now move along!"

They grinned sheepishly at each other and Ginny started the car and drove away.

"Where are we going?"

Ginny shrugged. "Back to my house. Lily is waiting up for me to find out how my break-up went. I figured we could surprise her."

"Break-up?" Harry asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yeah. I mean, I was going to break up with Dylan for the same reasons that you were going to break up with Eliza. It would have been too hard to have two love interests and I put Lily's needs first so I had to push Dylan away instead of Harry. But trust me, it was a terrible feeling knowing that I had to do that…" Ginny gave a small smile, mostly to herself, before adding, "Well, at least that's what I thought."

Harry laughed again. He couldn't remember the last time he had laughed so much at things that weren't obvious jokes. It was something about being in Ginny's presence again where they were both completely comfortable with each other that just made everything seem better. "It was hard for me too. But I am so glad I ended up not having to choose. Alright, let's go give Lily the shock of her life."

Fifteen minutes later they ended up in the same garage they had been in as Eliza and Dylan. Ginny walked over to the door leading into the house before stopping and turning back to Harry.

"Wait in the hallway for a minute when we go in. I want to find where Lily is first, although I bet she is in the living room working on her homework still."

Harry nodded in agreement and followed her into the hall.

Ginny walked into the living room, and sure enough there was her daughter pouring over a book, this time it looked like transfiguration though.

At the sound of footsteps, Lily looked up. "Oh, there you are. I was expecting you home much sooner! So how did the break-up go?" She said sympathetically.

"It was surprising." Ginny replied truthfully.

"How was it sur –" Lily started to question but was quickly interrupted by the sound of something breaking and a man cursing in the hallway. She instantly stood up and looked harshly at her mother. "You brought Dylan back?"

Ginny nodded and started to open her mouth but Lily spoke again. "But you look like your normal self! What is going on?!"

"Stop being so accusatory! Come on, follow me." Lily could tell her mother was up to something because of the smile creeping up on her lips and followed nervously.

In the hallway, she saw the back of a dark-haired man repairing a broken picture frame with his wand and then replacing it on the wall. A soon as he heard the door to the living room close he turned around and said "Hiya Lily" causing Lily to gasp.

"Prof – I mean – Harry! What are you doing here?" She then turned to Ginny. "I thought you said you brought Dylan back."

"I did." Ginny replied simply while grinning.

"What?" Lily was thoroughly confused now.

Harry spoke up this time. "Turned out that both of us were hiding something."

"What?" Lily repeated herself.

Harry laughed. "Dylan Ward was hiding that he was really Harry Potter and Eliza Finch was hiding that she was really Ginny Weasley."

"And we both changed out appearances." Ginny added.

Lily couldn't speak for a few seconds. "Really? That happened? No one is pulling a prank on me or anything? You two were just THAT lucky?" Lily was obviously skeptical of their whole explanation. They seemed much to relaxed about this entire thing.

"Really! That's what we keep saying too, how we ended up so lucky! Amazing isn't it?" Ginny breathed clearly dying with happiness.

Lily turned to look at Harry who was grinning shyly and looked back at her mother. Lily suddenly squealed in joy and threw her arms around Ginny.

"This is perfect! I knew that Mum really liked Dylan but I could also see you two making eyes at each other all through our conversations the other day… It is just perfect!"

Lily suddenly broke off from her mother and stepped back to look at both of them. They were both blushing lightly because of Lily's comments. "So, this means that you guys are dating properly again, right?" They rapidly went from blushing lightly to turning crimson, especially Ginny. Both Harry and Ginny, though, looked at each other and grinned.

"Yeah, I guess it does mean that." Harry told her.

A/N: So this is the second part of the previous chapter and I really hope it worked out well! I was pretty scared while writing this that it would turn out totally cheesy or lame. But I think it did anyway. Ick. Let me know what you think… Next up: the family dinner at the Burrow!