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Rejection: A Double-Edged Sword	By : brooklynvtc Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Harry/Ginny Views: 21247 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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"Your mum and Snape were best friends at Hogwarts, Son."
Harry's jaw dropped.
Lily nudged at James' side, and his dad hastily continued. "Or rather, they used to be best friends."
"And what's more," Sirius boasted loudly, "Is that Snivelus has been in love with Lily flower here, this whole time!"
If Harry wasn't shocked before, he surely was now. Snape in love? With his mum?! He thought he was going to be sick...
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Chapter Twenty-Six
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"For the last time, no! I won't give Snape the Resurrection Stone!" Harry argued, an angry flush to his face that he must have inherited from his mum.
His mum... who Harry was having his very first argument with. And it was over Snape, of all people!
He felt like what his dad must have felt in the vision Harry saw of their Fifth year. When they were sitting by the lake, and his mum had defended Snape when his dad and Sirius were picking on him. And what did Snape do in return to her kindness? He called her a mudblood!
And now, his mum wanted Harry to give the Resurrection Stone - the only means Harry had to be able to see his parents - to the very same man, who had called her the dirtiest insult known to Wizarding kind. There was no way in hell he was going to let Snape anywhere near it!
Because Harry knew that as soon as Snape got his slimy hands on it, Harry would never see the stone, his parents, or Sirius ever again! Because there was no way that Snape would ever return such a priceless stone to Harry. Especially if what Sirius said was true, that Snape was in love with his mum.
Harry shuttered as an unwanted image came to mind of Snape using the stone to fulfill perverted desires with his mum that couldn't come to fruition before.
But his mum had just as much stubbornness in her than he had in him, because she wasn't backing down in the least. As he could see, since they had been arguing for a lengthy amount of time.
A part of Harry noticed that the others in the room were distinctly uncomfortable at having to be subjected to listen to their arguing. Especially his dad, who looked torn between staying loyal to his wife, or his son… the first time he ever had to choose sides between them.
Ron and Hermione looked frazzled, as it wasn't a common sight for them to see Harry lose his temper enough to argue with someone as much as they did. And a part of Harry was satisfied that they were finally seeing how it felt having to listen to other people argue right in front of them.
"Harry," His mother stressed, exasperated with a tinge of her own anger in her voice. "If you would only just listen to reason-!"
"No." Harry interrupted her. "If Dumbledore trusted Snape with the Resurrection Stone, then he would have given it to him. Not me."
In truth, Harry didn't know why all of this really upset him. He knew, to the outside perspective, he looked rather irrational… blowing this entire matter completely out of proportion. But on the inside… his heart clenched painfully, and he felt the prick of unformed tears at the back of his eyes, every time his mum mentioned Snape getting his hands on that stone.
Harry shook away the emotion before it had time to overtake him, resolving to hold onto anger instead. "Look, I'm not giving away the stone. So, will you please just stop talking about it!" Harry snapped.
His mum gasped at the bite in his tone, before her eyes flashed with pure anger. "Harry James Potter! You will not use that tone of voice with me!"
Shaking with fury now, Harry intentionally rolled his eyes at her and sarcastically said, "Or what? You'll ground me?"
"I very well just might!" His mum yelled, standing, even though they both knew that there was no way for her to enforce it.
But Harry found himself tired of her anger, of her yelling at him, and he felt the previous emotion threatening to take over again. So, Harry stood abruptly, and thrusted the stone into Hermione's surprised open hand, and didn't even bother to watch his parents and Sirius disappear from his eyes. Instead, he turned and strode towards the door to exit the Room of Requirement.
"Mate, wait-"
Harry's mind immediately asked the room in his mind to keep his friends contained until they could no longer follow him.
Yelps of surprise came from behind him from both Ron and Hermione, but Harry didn't turn to look and see what the room did to them. Instead, he opened the door, and slammed it shut behind him. Furiously stomping down the hall, making his way towards Gryffindor tower.
But the longer he strode on, the harder it was for him to hold onto his anger. And it was as he heard the voices of students up ahead in the next corridor where Harry finally broke. Slipping into a dark, hidden alcove in a crook of the castle wall, Harry pressed his back to the stone wall, and slid down to the ground. He hugged his knees to his chest, and buried his face in between. And it was there where Harry Potter broke down... and started to cry...
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Ginny had been disappointed that she couldn't go to the Room of Requirement with Ron, Hermione, and Harry. She wanted more than anything to find out what Harry had to share about his meeting with Dumbledore and Snape. And whether she still even had a detention or not. But she supposed that she would have to wait like everyone else... all because of stupid Slughorn and his preposterous amount of homework!
Ginny sighed as she tried to concentrate on writing another line on her parchment paper. She was currently sitting alone at her table in the library. Colin had managed to get done with his essay a little while ago, and he packed up and left already. While Ginny would have been done already, if her mind hadn't kept straying from the tedious task...
She really had to hurry up and finish. The library was set to close soon, and she always had a much harder time concentrating in the common room.
But she couldn't stop her mind from seeing images from earlier on in the evening... Harry had looked really good up on that podium. She found his confidence to be alluring, and his leadership... Ginny shuttered as her thoughts went down dirty paths.
And then there had been the way he had come up behind her, and grabbed her hand that held her wand, then whispered in her ear... and he did all of this without even realizing what it really did to her. What he really did to her...
"Hey, uh, Ginny." A thick, Irish accent spoke up from behind her, interrupting her thoughts.
Ginny looked up and saw that it was Seamus, who looked mighty nervous for some reason. Ginny smiled kindly at Seamus, never having had any problem with the Irish Gryffindor, despite him being Dean's best mate...
"Hi, Seamus," She said in what she hoped was a bright tone. "What brings you down in the library this late?" Then a thought came to her and she frowned in sympathy. "Don't tell me that Slughorn is accosting you with homework as well... I swear that someone needs to slap him up with a confundus hex, just so we can get a day of peace!"
Seamus chuckled nervously, wiping at the sweat at the back of his neck.
"No... I'm not here to do any homework," Seamus swallowed heavily. "I-I was actually looking for you..."
"Me?" Ginny asked, sounding surprised.
Seamus merely nodded, no longer confident enough to clarify his reasonings to her.
"Well," Ginny continued, awkwardly, "You found me."
Seamus saw this as an invitation, and took the liberty of sitting next to her. "Yeah... I found you." Seamus coughed uncomfortably, and fidgeted in his seat.
Ginny stared at him while she waited patiently for him to say what he needed to say. She wondered if it had anything to do with Dean, and frowned at the idea of Seamus trying to get them back together on Dean's behalf.
There was no way she was getting back together with Dean. Ginny was adamant on that. No matter how nice Seamus was to her as he tried to convince her.
"Will you go out with me?!" Seamus suddenly blurted, startling her with the way his body lunged forward in his seat as he asked.
Ginny's jaw dropped.
Seeing her reaction, Seamus sat back in his seat and quickly continued with a rambling explanation. "Look, I know that this seems rather sudden and out of nowhere for you. But I think that you're beautifuland charming, and I'm hoping that you'll just take a chance to get to know me..."
Ginny really hadn't expected this. If someone had told her this morning that her ex-boyfriend's best mate was going to ask her out, she surely would have thought them to be barmy.
When some time passed with Ginny just staring at him without saying anything, Seamus started to visibly get more nervous.
"I even understand that Harry will always be important to you and your family, if that's what you're concerned about," Seamus tried to reassure. "In fact, I have no problem with the bloke."
At the mention of Harry, Ginny broke out of her stupor, and she gave Seamus a speculative look.
"I guess I'm just trying to understand why you would ask me out...?" Ginny asked, curiosity thick in her voice. "I mean, what about Dean? He's your best mate..."
But to Ginny's surprise, Seamus didn't don a look of guilt and shame, as she expected. Instead, Seamus made a face at the mention of Dean.
"Dean and I... aren't exactly on the same page at the moment..."
Now Ginny couldn't help herself from bursting with curiosity, questions burning in her eyes. And Seamus must have seen this, as he continued sourly, "Before I say anything, I just want to apologize for my part in it..."
Her interest was piqued even more at his sudden apology. What exactly did Seamus have to be sorry for?
Seamus sighed and ran a hand through his hair roughly, leaving the ends sticking up.
"It all goes back to last spring..." Seamus began slowly.
Then he proceeded to tell her all about how Dean had only gone out with her in the first place, because he felt pity for her after he heard that Harry rejected her.
"...but Dean was telling me about how he was waiting for you to meet him on the train, so that he could break up with you. And that he didn't care if you missed the sorting feast to cry in the girls' bathroom over it."
Ginny could not believe what she was hearing. She highly doubted that she would have been upset enough to go cry in the girls bathroom if Dean had broken up with her... In fact, she probably would have been happy that she could go join Harry on the train at the time – something she would have done if she hadn't promised Dean in their letters that she would sit with him. With a start, Ginny realized that the only reason Dean wanted her to sit with him on the train so badly was because he wanted to break things off with her before the school year actually started.
But what really irritated her was the fact that Dean had only started to date her, because he pitied her! What a waste of time their relationship was!
"Why didn't he break up with me on the train then, if he was done entertaining 'the charity case'?" Ginny spat, in a right terrible mood, now.
Surprise flitted across Seamus' face. "You're kidding, right? Ginny… over the summer you became smoking hot!" Seamus' face flushed a bright red, but he smiled shyly at her all the same. "You are definitely the hottest girl in Hogwarts, and every bloke must be thinking it!"
Ginny's mouth fell open in shock. Her? The hottest girl in school?! Has Seamus gone bloody mad?!
"You've gone barmy..." Ginny whispered, as she stared at him with so much confusion.
Seamus merely shrugged and said, "Well, regardless, Dean thought that you've gotten too attractive to break up with. The moment that he saw you on the train, he was thinking of ways to get into your skirt..."
Seamus trailed off at the scathing look that Ginny was giving him and swallowed mightily, looking slightly terrified of her. "Sorry..." He said, "But it's the truth."
Ginny sighed, and dropped her angry glare, "I know. It's not you that I'm mad at... you're just trying to tell me the truth."
Seamus nodded, and laid his hand on her shoulder in a comforting way. "It's alright. I'm here for you, Ginny." Seamus said, before continuing, "Dean got so jealous and possessive over you. And he knew how you felt for Harry for years, so he felt threatened by him. So, when Dean saw Harry fly through our dorm window on his broom in the middle of the night, he lost it! Went into a mad rage, and grabbed Harry right from his bed and shoved him against the wall, where Harry hit his head. He had accused Harry of making you his whore... which set Ron off and it took a while before Harry and Neville were able to get Ron out of there..."
Ginny listened in shock, never having heard the whole story of that night before.
"As soon as Harry and Ron had left, Dean knew that he screwed up big time. He begged me to help him. He knew that you would break up with him for sure when you found out. So, I did... I went and knicked some Angerall potion from Slughorn's supply, and he drank it right before going to the hospital wing. Where he told Madam Pomfrey that someone spiked his goblet with the potion. It became his cover story, but it only worked in delaying your breakup with him."
Ginny was seething, shaking with rage. Her hand twitching for her wand, feeling compelled to action. She wanted to find Dean, march right up to him and hex his bits right off! She couldn't believe that he had lied to her about all of it! What kind of person was he to attack Harry while he was unaware?!
"And that's not the last time he messed with Harry, either..." Seamus continued, and, if possible, Ginny's eyes flashed even more.
"There's more?!"
Seamus nodded, now unsure seeing that he noticed Ginny getting more and more on edge the more that he told her.
"It was after you broke up with Dean. Harry had gotten into the shower..." Ginny flushed slightly at the picture Seamus had just painted for her, but opted to keep the images out in order to hold onto her anger. "And Dean burst in on him, accusing him of making you his slut again. Dean had actually opened the shower curtain and was yelling at him while the poor bloke was naked. But Harry seemed right mad at Dean for what he said, and he socked him right in the jaw..."
Ginny gasped, feeling slightly more excited by the fact that Harry stood up for her. But perhaps, Seamus had it wrong, and Harry merely punched Dean because he didn't like the rude invasion of privacy while he was... naked. Coils in Ginny's lower abdomen tightened at the image she conjured in her mind...
Harry... in all his nude glory... displaying his manly power in one swift punch.
Ginny automatically pressed her thighs together in hopes to quell the spreading heat in between her legs.
"But the most amazing part was, that after Harry stepped out of the shower and put a towel on, he got real close to Dean, and threatened him. I have no idea what he said, but Harry... he was glowing...!"
G-glowing?!
She must have exclaimed this out loud without even realizing it, because Seamus nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah, it was downright terrifying. Dean looked as though he had met his maker... Harry had been so serious and looked so powerful, that he didn't even really look like Harry anymore, you know?"
Ginny nodded, even though she didn't understand what he was trying to imply. Harry would always be Harry to her. No matter if he was glowing, balding, or even a squib... he would always be Harry. It was that simple to her.
"Thanks for telling me all of this, Seamus..." Ginny said in a rather robotic tone, her mind still trying to process and catch up with all that was revealed.
Seamus nodded, and suddenly looked nervous again. "So... what do you say to going to the first Hogsmead visit with me?"
Ginny's icy demeanor melted as she looked at the sixth-year boy apologetically. "I'm sorry, Seamus. You are a really nice guy, but I don't see you in that way. And besides that, I made the decision to stay single for a long while..."
Seamus sighed and ran a hand through his hair before giving her a sad smile. "You're breaking every bloke's heart in the castle with that decision..."
Ginny rolled her eyes but she couldn't help but smile at the compliment.
Finally, Seamus shrugged and commented as he stood, "Can't blame a bloke for trying."
Ginny nodded and grinned. "You're a good guy, Seamus. Any girl is lucky to have a shot with you."
Some of Seamus' confidence came back at that and he replied, "Let me know how you plan to get back at Dean... I have a feeling that he needs a few more blows to the head before I finally get my old friend back..."
And with that, Seamus left. And Ginny was left behind, reminded at her rage at her ex-boyfriend all over again.
Oh... she would get revenge. And it would be sweet. Because no one played Ginny Weasley for a fool and got away with it. Not since she had been tricked by the diary of Tom Riddle in her first year.
She was not a victim.
She was not to be pitied.
And for the first time, Ginny knew - without a doubt - that she deserved better.
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