A/N: I'm sorry if anyone is annoyed by the little situation with Dean, I just always believed it in the books and it would be completely weird for me if I didn't get to include this in my story.

Thanks again, of course to my amazing readers, reviewers etc. I dedicate this chapter to HB17RJO for her ideas on Luna, for more information please consult the review, I must now get on with this story!

Oh, and obviously I don't own this story, and no amount of veritaserum could make me say I did. Satisfied? OK. On. With. The. Story!

Chapter 3

Ginny sat thinking intently for a moment, then looked up with a big smile on her face. Dean looked sceptical, Harry was laughing inwardly, Ron was gazing open mouthed at Hermione, which Harry noticed with a keen interest, and the others were fidgeting with shoes and various others items of clothing.

"Dean. What is the real reason you like football so much?"

Ginny said, sharing a private giggle with Hermione, they both obviously knew something Harry didn't, and he was keen to be let in on this little secret.

When Dean Thomas blushed, it was the oddest thing in the world. He had very dark skin so at first, his ears went a purply-pink colour. A slow, dark flush then rose up his neck, finishing with his high cheekbones rapidly turning redder and redder.

This, Dean did, looking down as he muttered something incoherently.

"What? Speak up, I didn't hear you?" said Ginny grinning from ear to ear.

Hermione's bushy head suddenly shot up as if realising something. She looked worried and she whispered something in Ginny's ear. Ron looked furious at whatever it was and gave Hermione a scorching look.

"Come on Dean, get on with it!"

"OK. Fine." Dean said angrily, shooting an evil look at Ginny.

"You promised you'd never tell, I told you in complete secrecy and this is how you repay me!"

He muttered before adding quietly, "I'm gay… I didn't fully realise it until a little while after Ginny dumped me. I don't know why I chose to tell her…" he said, annoyed, glaring at her.

Ron looked confused but this cleared into a smirk when Dean added for anyone present who didn't know football,

"They wear really short shorts ok…?" he added with what could almost pass for a grin.

They were all a little gobsmacked at this revelation, it all seemed rather sudden and unusual, homophobia wasn't tolerated in the wizarding world, and it wasn't like it never happened, but they had never met a gay wizard face to face before.

Harry shook his head and then said loudly, to shut up all the whisperers in the little room,

"Dean," he said to an abashed but relieved looking Dean, "It's your turn now, who do you pick?"

Dean smiled and turned back to Ginny but was interrupted when Harry quickly made a new rule- you couldn't pick someone who had already picked until everyone had had a go.- Harry wasn't sure why he did it, maybe it was just to protect Ginny from Dean's wrath, maybe he was just a believer in fairness.

Dean turned to Harry, and Harry sighed.

He should have seen this coming. Oh well, he had faced Voldemort, couldn't he handle a little angry Dean? Harry looked at Kreacher, who had been standing quietly in the corner, and smiled for no particular reason, just to try and hold off Dean for as long as he could, he supposed.

"Harry…"

Dean said, stretching out the word, seeming to roll it over his tongue as he considered.

"Truth or dare?"

Harry knew everyone expected him to pick dare, and out of defiance he picked truth, watching as everyone looked mildly shocked, and then turned back to Dean who was looking a bit put out.

Dean thought for a moment, then turned to Seamus, muttered something out of the corner of his mouth and watched as Seamus smiled widely and nodded.

Dean once again looked at Harry, and then, putting on a mock-serious voice, said,

"Harry James Potter. Thoughts on Ginny Weasley? Honest if you please"

Luna gasped and smiled at Ginny who went a little red.

"Very funny Dean. You all know how I feel about Ginny, the only reason why I haven't asked her to marry me is Voldemort and I'm really not afraid to say so. So well done, nice try. But I win." Harry said triumphantly.

It really was fairly true, he wasn't afraid to say so, he didn't really know for sure why he hadn't before but seeing the beautiful flush of ecstasy on Ginny's face, something made him glad he had chosen this moment.

Before anyone had to remind him, Harry reluctantly pulled his eyes away from Ginny, and turned to his chosen victim…

A/N: OK, another cliffie maybe, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I thoroughly enjoyed writing it, it's a filler, so keep reading, the romance, Ron/Hermione, Luna/Seamus, humour and whatever else you may want will be coming up in the next chapter or so.

Just so you know, I am estimating between 8 and 20 chapters for this story, so it's not ending that soon but I will probably update tomorrow, if I don't have too much homework.

Oh and REVIEW! I don't hold my story hostage or anything, but if you have any stories you want R&R'd, just review mine and ask a particular one and I will, otherwise I'll pick one of yours at random and R&R anyway.

Just a little incentive there,

So longg!

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