FULL SUMMARY: Dream after dream, Harry Potter sees a girl that just give him butterflies in his stomach; he is thoroughly convinces that this girl does to Hogwarts with him. His only problem with her? Every time he comes close to seeing the face of this girl, he wakes up from his dreams. So when he tells his best gal pal Elaine Port, she laughs and tries to convince Harry that maybe his so-called "dream girl" really is just in his dreams. Is Elaine right? Or is Harry's dream girl a reality?

DISCLAIMER: Though I find this completely unnecessary, I feel somewhat obligated to state that the Harry Potter franchise does not belong to me. Also, as you read the story, keep in mind that this is simply a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of their rightful owner's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

STORY DEDICATION: To swiftscout – the girl who used to mock my obsession for Harry Potter until she read the books cover to cover – this one's for you.

Chapter Seventeen – The Letter

Elaine sat alone in the Gryffindor Common Room with the parchment still balled up in her hand. She thought to herself in confusion. What was her relationship to the letter that sat in her hands? Why on earth would anyone link her to the letter? It was not as though Harry had written her name down as the girl of his dreams instead of Ginny, right?

Oh gosh! What if that was what it was? Elaine panicked silently as she stared at the letter, slowly trying to unwrap it once again.

"I can't do this…" she whispered to herself. "Once I do, there's no turning back."

Sighing to herself, Elaine allowed her gaze to drift from the letter to the staircase that led to Harry's dorm, where Hermione and Ron were now. What if Harry really had said that she was the girl of his dreams? But even if he did say that, would it have been a mistake or intentional?

Elaine knew she was far from ready to hear the answer to that… even if it was in her favor.

"Here goes nothing," she said before jumping right into the letter.

"Gin,

I had somewhat of a conversation with Elaine the other night and some of the things she said really helped me some to my final conclusion about us. So… when you come back from the holidays, we need to talk. Urgently. This is just something I can't tell you in a letter. I'd prefer to tell you in person…

Until then,

Harry Potter."

"You cannot be serious!" Elaine screamed at the letter. "Ugh!"

"Ugh!" Harry groaned as he awoke from his slumber. "You cannot be serious!"

"Some dream you were having there, huh?" Ron said to his best friend with a faint smile.

"Hermione? Ron? What are you two doing in here?" Harry wondered as he snapped up from the bed.

"Well," Hermione began to explain, "Elaine asked to be alone after Ginny kicked her out of the fifth year girls' dormitory. Apparently, Ginny blames Elaine for whatever's going on between the two of you."

"Yea, mate," Ron said, moving over so Hermione could sit beside him on the bed. "Do you have any idea about why my sister might believe that? I mean… Elaine's pretty… confused right now…? I guess. I dunno."

Harry buried his head under his pillow in frustration. Ginny blamed Elaine for their fight? Why?

"Bloody hell," Harry said from beneath the pillow, "what did I write in that letter?"

"Harry… what's going on?" Hermione asked.

Harry tossed his pillow at the other end of the bed as he sat up. Running a hand through his unruly black hair, the sixteen-year-old looked at his friends and sighed.

"This may sound really crazy," Harry said, "but for the past couple of months, I've been having these weird dreams…"

Author's Note: This chapter of the story was written and published on March 2, 2014.

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this chapter of the story. I should be bringing you guys the next update soon. Hopefully, that doesn't start another hiatus. I promise you here and now that it won't.

What do you guys think of Harry's letter? Was Ginny wrong to assume anything or was Harry just idiotic for writing it the way that he did? LOL oh! And what do you guys think of Harry letting Hermione and Ron in on what's been happening lately?

Anyways, please let me know what you guys think in the reviews! Thank you to all of you who took the time to read this chapter (as well as any other chapter from this story or any others)! I love you guys!

- May