As the weeks went by, (much to both Harry's and Ginny's disappointment) Harry and Ginny never really got the chance to have a one on one chat like the first day. Harry who's been busy with homework and Qudditch practice and Ginny who's been busy catching up on what she missed last year.

Soon it was Halloween and the hogsmead trip came up. Harry wasn't at the common room after breakfast so Ginny assumed that he was at Qudditch practice though she didn't hear about it. So she packed a small picnic that consisted of sweets and set off to find Harry. When Ginny got to the pitch and found no one there she sighed.

She spent the majority of the morning walking round the lake, roughly round noon she flopped onto the damp grass and sighed. She really did hope that she could spend the day with Harry. She closed her eyes and went back to that moment were they almost kissed.

Something wet and warm licked her. Her eyes flew open to see a black dog sitting next to her head. She smiled at it.

"Hello" she said quietly she sat up and the dog backed up slowly. "Don't worry I won't hurt you." She lifted a hand out for it to sniff. The dog licked her hand. "You're rather skinny aren't you? Hmm do you belong to Hagrid?" she asked

To her surprise the dog shook its head. "You can understand me?" she whispered, the dog nodded. "Wow, well do you have a collar?" she asked edging closer to the dog. It shook his head "no name?" she asked patting its head; again the dog shook its head. "Hmm I guess I'll call you snuffles" she said the dog growled lightly "well it's either that or fluffy you pick" Ginny said looking stern.

The dog whined "snuffles it is then" Ginny said grinning. She then turned to her bag and pulled out some cauldron cakes, she opened the packages a gave half to the dog. It looked at her and then scoffed its half down. Ginny picked one up and took a bite.

"I was going to share this with a boy I like" she said the dog settled down as if to listen to her. "He's a year older; he wasn't allowed to go to hogsmead. I was kind of hoping he would spend the day with me but I couldn't find him"

Ginny pulled out two bottles of pumpkin juice she opened one and left it in front of snuffles. She then opened the other for herself. "He saved my life." She said before taking a sip. The dog looked at her questioningly.

"Last year I got possessed by you know whose memory and almost died. The boy saved my life, we wrote over the summer and he brought me a holy head harpies badge for my birthday" Ginny grinned at the memory.

She took another sip and watched in interest as the dog took the bottle in his mouth and took a swig. "His name is Harry Potter, he has the most wonderful green eyes" she said mostly to herself. Snuffles dropped the bottle spilling juice over the grass.

Ginny spent the rest off the afternoon talking to snuffles about Harry. She fed him half of her pumpkin pasties and chocolate frogs as she did. Ginny then got up to leave, before she did, she hugged snuffles.

"You're a wonderful listener snuffles. I hope I get to meet you again; I got to go to the Halloween feast now. It'll be my first one. I missed the last one" Ginny left the dog and wandered towards the castle not realising the dog was following her.

Sirius Black enjoyed the company of Ginny Weasley. He was heading towards the castle in hope to get Pettigrew, when he saw her. At first he thought it was Lily. He ran over hoping the whole thing was a nightmare and he just woke up from it. He licked her cheek in hope that she would wake up and snap "BLACK GET OUT OF MY FACE!" he was shocked to see dark brown eyes instead of green.

Ginny spoke to him and gave him sweets that he hasn't eaten in twelve years. She told him about Harry and how she felt about him. Sirius was willing to bet his life that Harry felt the same way. After all the Potter's are cursed to marry redheads. He hates the name she gave him but it was better than fluffy, he followed her too the castle, so he can make sure she was safe. After all she did have a bad year last year.

Ginny curled up in the thick purple sleeping bag in between Luna Lovegood and Colin Creevey. Her two best friends. They spent the first two hours whispering theories on how Sirius Black managed to get into the castle. Luna suggested that the Nargles have been helping him, Ginny doubted that but the suggestion was purely Luna.

Ginny watched the enchanted ceiling. She hoped Harry was all right.