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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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A/N: Just for the record, Hermione isn't jealous… She is annoyed and angry at Harry on Ginny's behalf, as Hermione and Ginny are really close. So, for those of you who asked, there will be no Harry/Hermione in this story. Not even a hint of it. Harry and Hermione are strictly friends.
Also sorry for the longer delay for the upload of this chapter. I wrote it out, and it accidentally got deleted, so I had to rewrite it all again. Hope you enjoy it!
Chapter Five
Annoyance spread throughout his entire stance, and he crossed his arms roughly. "Whose side are you on, Hermione? Why are you so against me fancying Ginny?"
Huffing, Hermione threw her arms into the air as she finally stood. "That's hardly the problem, Harry. The problem is that you're too late... Ginny has moved on!"
And with that, Harry was left stunned. Not really knowing what to think...
His mind went blank for a solid minute, trying to reprocess and catch up to the large hippogriff that Hermione had figuratively shoved at him.
"Wh-what?" He asked with wide eyes, still dazed.
He didn't understand. What did Hermione mean when she said that Ginny has 'moved on'…? Merlin, this was Ginny they were talking about. Ginny Weasley had fancied Harry Potter for years now. Five years, to his exact knowledge. She couldn't just stop liking him now…
…Could she?
Hermione's anger had all but melted away at the sight of Harry's face. She gasped and covered her mouth with both hands as she stood before him. Looking mighty guilty and actually on the verge of tears.
"Oh, Harry." Hermione breathed, her entire stance contrite. "I'm sorry. So terribly sorry. That wasn't how I should have told you… it wasn't right for you to find out like that."
Her apologetic tone snapped him out of his trance and an involuntary anger started to overcome him. But he wasn't sure who it was directed at.
"What do you mean that she has moved on?!" Harry exclaimed, fiercely. "She can't just go and move on just as I start fancying her. That would be bloody mad!"
He couldn't help it. Harry had started to pace as his frustration mounted. Hermione watched him with sad eyes, thinking that nothing good ever really came easy to Harry…
"Well…" Hermione said, quietly, "She has… moved on, that is…"
But Harry wasn't listening. He was too busy thinking. His mind calculating where it had all gone so wrong enough for them to get to this point.
And his eyes suddenly widened and he stopped his pacing as he remembered what else was said in the Room of Requirement that night…
He had apologized to her for the second time for not feeling the same way for her as she did for him.
Ginny had waved his apology away, then said, "Ah, don't be. You did nothing wrong. You can't help the way that you feel, any more than I can't help how I feel. But I'm going to try…"
It was him… He was the one that pushed Ginny away. With his initial rejection of her months ago, she had given up, and forgotten all about him romantically in the process.
She tried to get over him. And it seems that she had succeeded...
It was at that moment, that he knew who his anger was truly directed at… himself.
How could he have been so stupid?! He had Ginny Weasley, the girl of his dreams, confess her feelings to him, and he bloody turns her away?! Had he been blind? Could he claim temporary insanity if such a case could last for over five years? As that was how long he had ignored Ginny in his life…
Determination started swelling in his gut and he turned back to his trunk and doubled his efforts at finding something nice to wear.
Hermione watched him with a bewildered expression as he dug through each item of clothing, each offensive garment that he pulled, making him more and more on edge.
"Harry," Hermione said, "What on earth are you doing?"
Harry turned to look at her briefly, a hard look in his eyes. "Well, I have to make a good impression, don't I? I figure that if she fancied me before, then maybe I can get her to fancy me again. Who knows, when I ask her out on a date, maybe she will have such a good time, that she will start to fall for me again…"
And he didn't doubt that they would have a fantastic time on a date. Unlike his date with Cho... He and Ginny got along splendidly, and dating her would be like dating his best friend… but just with the added benefits.
He finally found an old t-shirt of Ron's at the bottom of the pile. It was orange and boasted that the Chudley Cannons was the best quidditch team, but it was better than the rest of his overgrown clothes.
"I don't think that will be as easy as you'd like, Harry…" Hermione cautioned carefully.
Harry almost groaned. "What is it now?"
Hermione bit her lip hesitantly, thinking of the best way to phrase what she needed to say. "Ginny is not exactly available… She's with Dean."
His eyes buggered out at that unexpected news. "Dean? As in Dean Thomas?" Harry could hardly believe his ears. "When did this happen?!"
He suddenly found that he was no longer all that fond of his Gryffindor roommate, and he found it difficult to recall anything that he initially liked about Dean.
The prat did steal his girl... Harry's possessive side seethed. But Ginny had never really been his girl, he reluctantly had to admit. He had his chance and he blew it.
So, really, Ginny had been fair game to any bloke such as Dean.
"They officially got together at the parting feast," Hermione informed him.
Harry's eyes widened. "What? So soon after breaking it off with Corner?"
Her entire demeanor soured as Hermione replied haughtily, "If you are trying to imply that Ginny is making her way around, then I should think that making Ginny fall for you is going to a lot harder than you thought if that's what you think-"
"No! No... I was just surprised is all. I just thought that she must not have cared for Corner all that must for moving on as fast as she did."
Hermione frowned thoughtfully. "Now that it think about it, I'm not exactly sure why they broke it off..."
Harry pondered this as well. Straining his mind, he looked back on the few observations he had of Ginny and Michael's relationship. And he was surprised to remember how distant they were as a couple together. Which was blazing mad in Harry's mind. If he had Ginny as a girlfriend, he would try to get into as much contact with her as often as possible.
But that wasn't how Ginny and Michael's relationship had been at all. In fact, Harry would describe their entire relationship as awkward.
No, they certainly hadn't fit well together at all...
Harry didn't know how Ginny's relationship with Dean was, but if they acted just as awkward together as Ginny and Michael had... Hope blossomed in his chest again. It wouldn't be too difficult then to convince Ginny that she belonged with someone that she was comfortable with. Specifically, someone with messy, black hair and a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead.
"How close are Ginny and Dean?" He wondered out loud.
Hermione studied him for a moment, before she gasped, scandalized. "Harry potter, are you insinuating that you are going to try and break up Ginny and Dean?!"
Harry scoffed, indifferent. "It's not as though they are married, Mione..."
The look that she gave him was a hard look full of disappointment. "That's hardly the point Harry. How would you feel if you were dating Ginny and some other boy came along and was trying to break it off between the two of you?"
Sputtering, Harry replied, "As if I would ever allow that to happen!"
The very idea was ridiculous, mad even. As if he would just idly stand by and watch another bloke try to get at his Ginny.
But she's not your Ginny, now, is she?... An annoying, stray thought said back to him. But his resolve hardened and he added a 'yet' at the end of it.
"Dean would most likely say the same, Harry," Hermione pointed out to him. "Besides, I think that it's really Ginny's decision if she wants to see other boys besides you!" She said, scathingly.
Her words struck a cord and resonated a sense of déjà vu in his mind. Like an echo resounding over and over again until he fully recovered it.
Suddenly, with a gasp, another memory of something that Ginny said the night he rejected her came to mind…
Ginny had bitten her lip, then she had said, "I promise that I won't hold any feelings for you anymore. At least I will try. Hermione has already suggested that I see other people…"
The realization left a bitter taste in his mouth, and he turned his sour eyes on Hermione. "What did you do?"
His voice full of betrayal.
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