Sorry I didn't get to update yesterday guys, I was out enjoying my newfound freedom. I have officially finished high school! *Does excited dance*
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Someone asked a couple of chapters ago, what's so old-fashioned about not living together before marriage? I take your point, however I was trying to get into the heads of the characters, and I can see Harry having no issues about living together. After surviving the war, he knows that he and Ginny are meant for each other and will spend the rest of their lives together. I actually got the idea for Molly to be against them living together from LizBee's "The Revenge of Lord Vodkamort" (which is freaking hilarious and everyone should read it): Ginny has "old fashioned ideas about premarital cohabitation, not to mention a healthy fear of her mother's wrath".
Anyway, and now for something completely different - a little bit of angst today. Enjoy!
6. Cow
Thursday
Harry knows something is wrong the moment she opens the door.
"Ginny, what's the matter?"
"Nothing," she says, pushing past him. "I need to have a shower."
"Why didn't you have one after training?"
Wrong question. "I just didn't, okay? Merlin, Harry, stop interrogating me!"
The bathroom door shuts behind her. Harry sighs. He knows it is safer to let her calm down, but the look in her eyes is haunting him.
Should he? Shouldn't he?
He knocks softly. "Ginny?" Nothing.
She's sitting against the tiled wall, swiping angrily at her tears. "Go away."
Harry ignores her.
"Was it her again?"
Ginny looks away. "Stupid bloody cow," she says viciously. "I wish she'd go and die in a bloody hole."
Rosaria Bradley, Ginny's fellow Chaser. Reasonably talented with a jealous streak a mile wide.
"Have you talked to Jones about it?"
She shakes her head. Gwenog Jones might be the most ferocious captain in the league, but she takes no interest in her players' petty squabbles.
"I know it's hard," says Harry with sympathy, "but you just can't let it get to you."
"How?" says Ginny, tears streaming. "How can I when she's always going on about you? About how you're just a famous face and no one really respects you, and you're probably shagging the secretary in your lunchbreaks and you should leave the hard work to the normal people?"
Harry is amazed, not by Rosaria's abuse of him, but by how much Ginny has been hurt by it.
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