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A/n: I don't really have anything against Cho…I've just made her a bit ditzy for the purpose of this story. I don't mean to offend any Cho fans out there! Happy reading, drop a review!
Ginny found herself standing on Platform 9 ¾ the morning of September 1st with Harry, Hermione, Ron and the rest of her family. Quick good-byes were being exchanged as the train was leaving in five minutes. Charlie currently enveloped Ginny in a massive bear hug.
"Ginny Ginny Ginny…my favourite sister! How will you ever manage without the help of your wise older brother?" Charlie said in the most melodramatic voice imaginable.
"Charlie you prat, I'm your only sister!"
"That too…" he said pulling back.
"They grow up so fast, don't they dad?" Charlie continued, this time acknowledging Mr Weasley in the conversation and he wiped a fake tear.
Mr. Weasley smiled and rolled his eyes at Charlie's foolishness.
"Will you stop making such a bloody production?" Ginny said annoyed and she shot Charlie a look.
"Well Ginny-kins you better go, the train will leave without you," Charlie said pushing Ginny towards the train.
"And if you miss the train you'll have to come back to the burrow with us…and I certainly don't want you around eating all of mum's apple pie's you hear?"
"So much for missing me eh?" Ginny cocked her eyebrow.
"Rest assured…you will be missed…not," Charlie said grinning.
After saying her final good-bye to her parents, Ginny boarded the train.
The minute Ginny stepped in the train's corridor she collided with someone. She lost her balance and fell face first in the carpet.
"Oooff!" she said falling, she let go of her trunk to break her fall with her hands, and her trunk opened and spilled all its contents in the corridor.
"Watch it will you…" Ginny mumbled in an angry growl in she looked up to give the person a death glare.
David McNeal stood in front of her trying not to laugh.
"It's you…" Ginny said rolling her eyes and she quickly started stuffing things in her trunk.
"Ginny Weasley if I'm not mistaken? Charlie Weasley's beautiful sister?" David asked in what he hoped was a suave and debonair voice.
"Flattery will get you nowhere David," Ginny said rolling her eyes again.
"Flattery? But it is the truth I speak! Such vibrant red hair would make a carrot jealous," David continued.
Ginny's eyes bulged out at his carrot comment but she continued stuffing her things in her trunk.
"Sorry, I meant it in a romantic way," David said trying to clarify.
"I think you're a tad too young for me David," Ginny said as she closed her trunk.
"But love has no age, my darling!" David gave an over dramatic sigh as he leaned against the wall.
"Ok, you stand there and pretend to be in love while I go look for a compartment," Ginny said walking away from him rolling her eyes.
"Wait, wait, I'll come with you! I need a compartment too!" David said as he started following her.
Ginny and David made their way through the corridor peeking in various compartments to find a place to sit. Ginny spotted a partially opened door and she could see Hermione sitting inside.
"I just saw my friends, we can sit with them," Ginny said turning her head towards David.
They made their way to the opened door and looked inside the room. Hermione and Ron were trying their best to keep an angry Crookshanks away from a very trembling Trevor that was tightly clutched in Neville's grasp.
On the other side of the compartment, Harry and Cho sat side-by-side watching the scene before them.
"Err...hello," Ginny nervously cleared her throat as everyone's attention turned from the two animals to the two students standing in the doorway.
To her utter dismay, everyone was giving her a blank stare, like she had sprouted another head with blue tentacles. Not wanting to show how flabbergasted she was, she continued, "I was wondering if there was any room in here…"
"Yea Ginny, you can sit next to Cho and Harry," Ron said nodding his head towards the only empty seat, not noticing David.
"What about—" Ginny started as she jerked a thumb towards David, but Cho cut her off.
"Don't you have any friends? Why are you hanging out with David? He's like a little kid!" Cho said in an extremely blunt voice.
Ginny sensed David tense behind her, and she couldn't help but feel that Cho's comment was very rude.
"I'm in fourth year!" David said sending Cho a scowl.
Cho seemed surprised but shrugged carelessly. Clearly seeing that she wouldn't find any room for the both of them, Ginny tried to lighten the situation.
"Well, we'll go find another compartment then," she flashed them a non-chalant smile but her insides were seething with anger.
David started walking away from the compartment and Ginny followed suit but making sure she slammed the door none too gently.
They walked towards the end of the train where they found a completely empty compartment and they settled in there.
"She is such a rude cow!" Ginny growled sitting opposite of David who nodded solemnly.
"Err—you didn't have to leave the compartment because of me…I could've just found some place else," David said slightly embarrassed but he flashed her a smile.
"Don't mention it, why would I willingly sit within three meters of her?" Ginny said with a little grin.
David gave a little chuckle and he extended his hand, "We haven't been properly introduced. I'm David McNeal, 4th year Ravenclaw…top student of the year," he added with a cheeky smile.
Ginny shook his hand and offered a warm smile, "Ginny Weasley, 6th year Gryffindor, #1 on Witch Weekly's list of 'Most Talented Witches'," and she added her own mischievous smile.
Just then, the compartment door opened and Seamus Finnegan's head peeked inside. Upon spotting David, his tense features relaxed somewhat and they both nodded to each other in acknowledgement. Ginny silently wondered how the two knew each other.
Immediately Seamus and David started talking to each other, as they were the best of friends.
"So why'd you come in here?" David asked Seamus after awhile.
"If I had to spend another minute listening to Lavender and Pavarti squeal over how good looking the lead singers of muggle boy bands are, I was going to Avada Kedavra myself," he said with a scowl.
"You should've gone ahead, no one was going to stop you…" Ginny quietly muttered with a playful smile.
For the first time, Seamus noticed there was someone else in the compartment besides David.
"Ginny?" He looked at her with slight surprise.
"I'm sorry! I didn't notice you there," he apologized.
"So you two know each other then?" Seamus continued in his heavy Irish accent looking at David.
"I'm trying to woo her," David said in a grave tone.
Seamus's face turned a mixture of bewilderment and bafflement. Ginny took this opportunity to throw her pastry wrapper at David's smirking face.
"Stop lying David," she admonished.
"We just didn't want to sit with Cho aka 'Miss PMS'," David clarified.
"Oh right, that Chang character…" Seamus said nodding his head.
"Don't know why Harry and Cho are going out all of a sudden…" Seamus wondered.
At this, Ginny let out a little 'hmph' that didn't go unnoticed by anyone. David raised his eyebrows and Seamus gave an evil grin.
"Jealous much?" Seamus asked with a smirk.
"Jealous? Me? And of Cho Chang? Pff…in her dreams maybe," Ginny said in careless voice as she turned her attention to her nails.
"You like Harry?" David asked with an incredulous laugh and Seamus nodded to confirm what David had said.
"Only the dead don't know she's crazy about him," he supplied.
Ginny turned an unflattering shade of red and muttered "Don't understand where you're getting this garbage from…me like Harry? As if…"
David and Seamus just laughed at her.
"Well, as lovely as it was chatting with you two dunderheads, I think I'll go change into my school robes now," Ginny said with an air of authority as she made her way out.
"You sure you're not going to get another peek at Harry?" David asked laughingly.
Ginny was almost out of the compartment but she turned around to shoot him an evil glare.
"You two are just so funny!" she said sarcastically and made her way out amongst Seamus and David's chortles.
Ten minutes later she entered the compartment again, Seamus and David were wearing their school robes too and they were laughing over something, but they both shut up as soon as Ginny walked in.
"Care to share?" she asked raising her eyebrow.
"David thinks he knows how he can get Harry to dump Cho to go out with you," Seamus said smirking.
"Oh brother…not this again," Ginny said giving a dramatic roll of her eyes.
"No no, really, its as simple as pie," David started, "all we do, is get you a boyfriend."
Ginny's eyebrows shot up "Whoa whoa, first of all, I am not some floozy that goes around dating random boys," she began.
"Secondly, I refuse to admit I like Harry, therefore I am not going along with any shenanigans you two cook up…and David, pie is not simple to make, trust me" she added as an afterthought.
"Aww…Ginny, you're spoiling all our fun," Seamus said exasperatedly.
"You don't like Harry! You know, now that I think about it, I think you were acting very jealous of Cho at the quidditch match…and why would you be jealous of her? Well, she has Harry and you don't!" David said like he had uncovered a mystery.
"Dear Merlin…" Ginny buried her red face in her hands.
"Continue telling her about your plan, you can tell when she's lying when her ears start turning red like that," Seamus said to David pointing at Ginny's beet red ears.
"Right-o, like I was saying, if Ginny gets a boyfriend, she can use him to flaunt around and make Harry jealous!" David unravelled his plan.
"Pray tell, how is Harry supposed to get jealous?" Ginny momentarily uncovered her face with her hands.
"Well, even though you won't admit it, you're jealous of Cho because she's dating Harry— "
"I an not jealous!" came Ginny's muffled reply; she still had her face buried in her hands.
"Now, we all know you're a beautiful girl—" David was again interrupted by Ginny's snort.
"I beg your pardon, but I think I look like a hag," Ginny clarified.
"Well, for a hag you sure are quite pretty," Seamus said with a wink. David rolled his eyes at the blatant comment and Ginny wore a surprised expression.
"Now, if we get you a boyfriend, Harry will see that you are over him and you don't want him anymore. And once Harry realizes you don't want to be with him, he'll want to be with you—" David was interrupted again.
"Excuse me, but if I don't like him, why would he like me back?" Ginny asked completely lost.
"Tsk tsk tsk, don't you know? What you can't have is always what you want? If he can't have you—he'll want you," David said clarifying.
"David! The boy has a girlfriend! He's not going to cheat on Cho!" Ginny said exasperatedly.
"I guarantee you, he's going to break up with her in two weeks. That's probably the maximum anyone can stand her. I've heard stories from Andrew Chang about how Cho is—and well trust me, two weeks they'll be done," David told her.
"Now, we get you a boyfriend and then Harry will be the one acting jealous—and for good measure Ginny, you've got to date someone Harry loathes." David finished.
"I'm sorry, I am not playing some poor unsuspecting boy—" Ginny said with a frown.
"Don't worry, we'll make sure we'll tell him the whole story," David said in an explicatory manner.
"Well? How about it then?" Seamus prodded.
"I don't know…" Ginny said dubiously.
"Oh come on! It's sure to work! The plan is foolproof even!" David urged her to say yes.
"David, this idea is absolutely ridiculous! Ludicrous even," Ginny said shaking her head.
"We'll take it as a 'yes' then," David said with a sly smile and they started getting up as theHogwarts Express had come to a halt.
Ginny gave a frustrated groan…what had she gotten herself into?