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fullmoonwaning: You know, everyone has his own taste... So I'm sorry you don't like H/G, but I'm a huge H/G shipper and this is fic is going to have a little romance between them. I hope you continue to read it anyway.

lets-sing-it: Yes, this is the romance I talked about. But this is just the beginning. There will be ups and downs, as you'll see in this chapter.

yo-yo55d: I already planned something about the Christmas break, and Sirius and Harry sure will bond, but there will be more at that same chapter, of course...

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Chapter 6 – Harry's Punishments:

Ginny went straight to the Gryffindor common room. She was relieved to see that it was empty because everyone else was still at dinner. She sat on an armchair at the farthest corner of the room and crossed her arms around her knees.

She sat there alone, thinking, for what seemed like hours, but every time she looked at her watch she saw that the time had barely passed by.

How could she make the stupid and uncharacteristic mistake of give giving Harry Potter the pleasure of doing whatever he wanted and take advantage of her? Not that they did anything more than kiss, but she was still furious with herself.

She couldn't believe herself; she actually jumped on him and kissed him back! Merlin knows why she did that. She was so angry and confused; how could she have let her guard down? And everything went fine until she heard what he told Snape. How could he? He was the one who initiated the kiss!

Ginny was brought back to reality from her thoughts when she heard someone calling her name. "Ginny, are you all right?" Hermione asked.

Ginny looked up and saw her and Ron standing in front of her, looking concerned. It was then that she realized that she had tears in her eyes again. She slowly shook her head and sniffed.

"What happened?" Ron asked.

When Ginny didn't reply, Hermione asked, "Did something happen in detention? Did Snape say something that offended you?"

"It wasn't Snape," Ginny said in a whisper.

"Then who?" Ron asked.

Ginny just shook her head again. "Never mind, Ron, I'm okay now," she said and tried to sound calm.

"Bollocks Ginny! People don't cry for anything!" he argued. "Come on, tell me."

"Just let it go already!" Ginny snapped.

"I won't until you tell me who made you cry!" Ron demanded.

"Ron, maybe you should let me talk to her?" Hermione whispered to her boyfriend, but Ginny heard her anyway and said that she didn't want to talk about it at all.

"I'll owl Mum if you won't tell me who did this to you," Ron threatened. "And I'll tell Dumbledore and McGonagall if you leave me no choice."

Ron turned to leave, but the words he said seemed to affect Ginny. She stood up and held his arm to stop him from making another step before he took off. "NO!" she yelled in shock. "I'll tell you, but you have to swear to me you won't tell anyone, you too, Hermione," she added. "I'm so humiliated and I don't need the whole school to know what happened and give me a hard time."

Ron and Hermione nodded and the three of them moved to the couch in front of the fireplace. Once Ginny felt comfortable, she let out a sigh and started to tell them everything that happened in detention with Harry.

"He did what?" Ron cut Ginny off in mid-sentence when she told them about the kiss. "I'm going to kill that little bastard!"

"Ron, shut up!" Ginny hissed. The last thing she wanted was that the group of fourth years that sat behind them to hear everything. Ron made a move to get up from the couch, but both Ginny and Hermione forced him down. Ginny went on and told them everything else, trying not to miss out on any details.

"You kissed him back?" Ron said in a low voice through gritted teeth, obviously furious with what he was hearing. "He forced you, didn't he?" he asked, hoping to hear that his sister didn't kiss Harry Potter by her free will.

"He didn't force me, Ron," Ginny said. She lowered her head so she wouldn't have to look at his face and see his reaction, but Ron just gaped at her.

"Wait a minute," Hermione began, interrupting the silence. "If you kissed him back, then why were you crying?"

Ginny started to explain what happened the minute Snape caught them kiss. "Snape told me to leave, so I did, but I stayed behind his office's door and I heard Harry tell him that I put a spell on him!"

"What?" Now it was Hermione's turn to shout. Ron got up quickly and succeeded in avoiding Ginny's grasp on his arm again and ran out of the common room, leaving Hermione and Ginny alone in there.

He started to run towards the Great Hall, when he spotted Draco, Blaise and Harry exiting it and heading to the dungeons. "Potter!" Ron roared, causing all the people present in the room to look at them. Harry looked up and as he saw him, he felt a lump build in his throat. Draco and Blaise looked at Harry and saw him freeze at the sight of Ron approaching them. They didn't know exactly what was going on, and they didn't know how to react, but with any step Ron made toward them, they made one backwards.

"You!" Ron shouted when he was two feet away from Harry. Without any hesitation, he took a swing with his fist and aimed it to Harry's face, knocking him down. "If you ever come near my sister again, I swear I will kill you! You and your bloody friends stay away from her!" he shouted at Harry's limp form on the floor and walked back up to Gryffindor Tower to tell his sister that everything was okay now.

"What's up with you Weasleys being so damn violent?" Harry called out at Ron, kneeling on the floor, nursing a bleeding lip. He looked around and saw students whispering and shooting glances at him. "Oh sure, now there's no teacher to save the day and see what really happened," he said to himself.

Draco and Blaise hurried back to help him get up. When Harry was on his feet again, he wiped the blood off his bottom lip, gently touching the cut.

"Aren't you going to do something to him?" Blaise asked him.

"No, he's not worth it."

"What was he talking about? What did you do to his sister?" Draco asked. He exchanged a confused look with Blaise. They were now heading to the dungeons, like they were going to before the encounter with Ron.

"Nothing," Harry lied. "I have no idea what he was on about. He's probably thinking I attacked her with a spell or something after what she did to me yesterday, which I did not."

"Let's send Crabbe and Goyle to punish him," Blaise suggested with an evil smirk.

"Nah, things can only get worse. I don't want to get into more trouble than I am now. This morning I received a very angry letter from my parents about the detention I got because of that Weaslette. I don't want to receive a howler tomorrow in addition to that."

He had to say that, even if it was true. He just didn't tell them the whole truth. How could he explain to them what happened earlier with the red-head girl? They wouldn't understand. They'd probably make fun of him or something.

He knew he probably deserved the punch from Ron and the knee in the balls from Ginny because what he had said to Snape. He shouldn't have said that, but the words slipped out of his mouth.

He shifted his eyes down and saw his lip starting to get blue and swell. It hurt, but the pain was sufferable.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, he would walk up to her and apologize, but now, all he needed was ice to make the pain go away so he could get some sleep.

"Oh, Harry-poo! I heard what happened last night, are you all right?" Pansy started again to annoy him at breakfast.

"Take a hike, Pansy," Harry said, throwing his toast back to his plate in the lost of his appetite.

"Don't you worry, Harrikins, I'll make the pain go away," said Pansy, who pushed herself between Harry and Draco and sat on Harry's lap, throwing her arm around his neck and hugging him tight. She broke the hug quickly and leaned in to kiss Harry.

"Sod off!" Harry said, pushing Pansy away from him in disgust as he got up from his seat. "I think I'm going to puke," he said to himself.

Harry looked over at Blaise, but he didn't seem to mind that Pansy was all over him again. Blaise sat two seats away from Harry, shot him an amused look and continued to do his homework before the first class.

"All right!" Pansy cried out. "You know what? Fine!" and she walked off, though nobody really seemed to care about her dramatic exit.

Harry let out a long sigh and sat back in his seat, looking at his neglected toast. He had a strange feeling that someone was watching him. He felt someone's eyes on him and when he looked around the Slytherin table, he couldn't see anyone giving him any looks, so he looked around the hall. Finally he spotted that person who was staring at him. Sitting at the Gryffindor table, was none other than Ginny Weasley. When she saw he was looking back at her, she immediately looked away. Harry sighed again. It's going to be a long day...

Around five o'clock at the afternoon, Harry went into the library. After searching the hallways all day for Ginny, he saw her walking with some friends into the library and decided to follow her.

He crept behind bookshelves, pretending to be looking for a book. If someone saw him, he/she'd know what he was really doing, because Harry never visited the library.

He pushed aside two large books so he could get a clear view of Ginny. She sat at a table with her friends and started to work on an essay. Harry wished he could talk to her alone, but he couldn't just show up and ask her if they could talk in front of her friends, surely not to apologize to her in front of them. So he waited, and it didn't take long for her friends to say goodbye to her and leave, like he thought.

Ginny was all alone now. It was the perfect time to talk to her. Harry looked around to see if anybody was watching him and when the coast was clear, he walked slowly to her table. He sat two seats to her right and looked completely innocent. They didn't say anything to each other and she didn't even ask him to leave the table, nor did she get up to leave, but only cast him a strange look, shook her head slowly in disbelief and returned to her essay. "New here?" she finally asked, a small sarcastic grin on her face.

Harry tried to smile back, but found it painful and almost impossible to do with his new fat lip. "Ouch..." he mumbled, wincing from the pain. Ginny looked up again and saw him holding his sore lip with closed eyes. "Very funny," he muttered when the pain passed.

"Well, I've never seen you here before. What are you doing here, anyway?" She went back to her essay again.

"As odd as it may sound, I'm here to apologize for my behavior yesterday," he said.

"Good," Ginny replied. "But if you expect to hear an apology from me, you better leave, because I'm not regretful for what I've done."

"Actually, I know I deserved it. I'm sorry for what I said," he said sheepishly and looked at the table.

"You're not used to apologizing a lot, are you?" she asked curiously.

Harry let out a small laugh. "No. Especially not to girls."

Ginny also chuckled and focused back at her parchment. "We don't bite, you know."

"Oh, some of you do."

"What?"

"Never mind," he replied, shrugging it off. He didn't really know what to say to her now.

He saw a small lock of her red hair fall from her loosened ponytail and she swept it behind her ear, though Harry thought she looked cute the way it was before. She stopped writing and started absently to sway her quill with her thumb and index finger as she searched for ideas to put in her essay.

"Need help?" Harry asked when he saw her do so. Ginny let out another chuckle, but a different one this time, a mocking one. "I'm serious. What is it, Transfiguration?" he asked as he craned his neck to see what the book in front of her was about.

"Yes," she said. "But no thank you."

"I got an E in the Transfiguration O.W.L.," he said. "I can really help you there."

"I don't want to get an E, I want an O," Ginny said and went back to think. After a few seconds she spat, "You're distracting me. I can't concentrate when you're here."

"What exactly about me is distracting you?" he asked with a mischievous tone in his voice.

"What do you want?" Ginny asked loudly, causing some of the students around to shush her, so now she whispered, "You apologized, right? So please leave me alone if you don't want a black eye from me or from my brother."

"I just wanted to know if –"

"Ginny," someone said, causing both Harry and Ginny to look up. Harry saw a young black guy, wearing Gryffindor uniforms standing in front of their table, looking angrily at him. Dean Thomas, Harry thought. What's he doing with Ginny? "What's going on? Is he bothering you?" Dean asked her.

"No, Dean, he's not," Ginny answered sweetly. She started to gather her books and things and got up. Harry noticed a little dark book falling from the pile of books she was holding. Harry leaned to the floor and picked it up, but Ginny didn't even notice that something was missing. "Here, hold those for me, please," she said and stuffed the books into Dean's hands. "Thank you," she said to him softly. Dean leaned over and kissed her on the lips. Harry saw that Ginny didn't seem to mind his kiss. He felt a little twinge of jealousy when he saw her kissing him back. They didn't even care that Harry was watching them with a frown on his face.

"Oh, you know, there's a Hogsmeade weekend before Halloween, I was thinking we can go together," he said after he pulled back from their kiss.

Ginny's cheeks went red as same as the color of her hair. "Er, can we talk about it someplace else?" she asked in embarrassment, eyeing Harry.

"Right," Dean said. Ginny walked away and didn't see the nasty look Dean shot Harry before walking after her.

Harry watched them leave together. Ginny was holding Dean's hand and leaning her head on his shoulder. What did she see in Dean Thomas, anyway? How could he be better than me? Harry thought. He was fuming. Well, he could smell something burning. In fact, something was burning. Harry looked down and saw the hem of his robes was on fire. He didn't realize that when he saw Dean kiss Ginny, his wand shot sparks and they kindled his robe. Harry apathetically repaired his robes with the help of his wand and got up. He became aware that he was still holding the little black book he picked up from the floor and forgot to give it back to Ginny.

Harry examined the thin book closely. It had a black leather cover with the initials G.M.W. engraved on it in silver. A diary, Harry realized. He was curious to know what was written inside, but he couldn't do that. His conscience was holding him back from opening the book and starting to read.

Harry stuffed the diary into his robe and decided to keep it until he met Ginny again, so he could give it back to her. He wouldn't read it because he knew that was the wrong thing to do.

At night, Harry found himself lying in his bed wide awake. He couldn't sleep knowing the diary that belonged to the girl he had a crush on lay on his bedside cabinet.

Harry looked at the diary. What can happen if he'll read only one line? A paragraph? An entry? Nothing, right? And Ginny would never know anyway. Screw my conscience, I'm reading it!

A/N: Did I end it with a cliffy? Hee hee... Yes, I did! LOL I love beating up Harry (I'm evil, I know, but it's fun!) and I know I made Ginny such a crying baby in this story, but she won't cry anymore... hint hint :D

Sorry I didn't update for the past month, but I had difficulties to think of a plot, and I blame my laziness for it as well, and my Beta just sent the fixed chapter back.

Anyway, you have to REVIEW! If you won't review, no chapter 7 for you, and I can tell you that it's ready because this chapter was suppose to be like 10 pages longer, but I split it into two parts. So it's up to you, review and chapter 7 will be posted soon ;)