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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: We're going to switch it up a bit in this chapter. You'll see soon what I mean, but you'll find that Ron and Harry's concerns aren't all that unfounded...
Also, reviews help to encourage me to write faster! I'm not going to be one of those stupid Fanfiction writers that say things like, "I'm not going to post another chapter until I get ten reviews!" Because, I hate people that do that... It's pretty much blackmail.
The next chapter is well underway, and I will post it soon anyways. But I would still love to hear from you and what you all think of the story! :)
Chapter Nine
Dean Thomas was sitting in his compartment, joking around with Seamus Finnigan, as both were flirting with Lavender Brown and the Patil twins.
The Hogwarts Express had yet to leave, and really, Dean was in no hurry for it to depart.
A stray part of his mind realized that Ginny, his girlfriend, was running late. But he really didn't dwell on it and laughed at something that Seamus had said.
But as the train started to depart, Lavender, Padma, and Parvati all got up to leave to talk to some other people.
Seamus groaned dramatically, "You girls sure know how to break a bloke's heart...!" He said with his thick Irish accent, as well as a hand over his heart.
The girls all giggled to each other before Lavender turned back to them and replied, "Don't worry, we'll be back soon..."
Dean flashed them his most flirtatious smile, "That had better be a promise."
They all giggled as their reply and left quickly.
Both Dean and Seamus settled back in their seats as they smiled to each other.
"So, how was your summer, mate?" Seamus asked him.
Dean beamed. "It was bloody brilliant! Dad took me to plenty of football games. How was yours?"
Seamus shook his head in mock disappointment. "I still don't understand how you can think such a game as football can be better than Quidditch! But I guess it isn't your fault that your brain is permanently confunded..."
Dean leaned forward to punch him in the shoulder for that one, and Seamus laughed as he rubbed at the spot. "My summer was good. Got in lots of trouble... Met some local muggle girls..." He broke off with a randy smirk, "Speaking of girls? Still got that thing going on with little Ginny Weasley?"
Dean laughed. "Yeah... yeah, I do. Thought about breaking it off with her over the summer, but I just didn't have the heart to break hers through a letter. She's actually supposed to meet with me here on the train. Thought that I'd end it here in person, but she's late..."
Seamus shook his head again, but his lips were smirking. "You are one cold bloke, breaking up with a girl right before the start of the school year! Do you imagine that she will skip the sorting feast for a good cry in the girls' bathroom?"
Dean shrugged, not really caring all that much. "Maybe, I don't know."
Seamus laughed again, "I still don't understand why you went out with her in the first place..."
Shaking his head at his friend, Dean couldn't really answer from the top of his head. He didn't really understand why he had went out with little Ginny Weasley, either. But he didn't really dwell on the reasons why, figuring that he was probably bored and Ginny had seemed... easy.
"True," Dean replied, "I guess I just felt sorry for her... I mean, her and Michael were on the outs, and Harry didn't even want her... even after her pining over him for over five years, you'd think that Harry would at least indulge in a pity date... Or maybe even-"
But Dean broke off what he had been about to suggest by the opening of their compartment door. And in the opening stood the most gorgeous girl he had seen outside of a magazine…
His jaw dropped at the sight of her, and she smiled wide at him – which would have made his jaw drop again if he had bothered to close it the first time.
She had long, wavy, red hair. Wide, expressive, brown eyes on a slender face. A cute button nose, and curves that ran along her body, which any bloke would want to run his hands along…
Dean sure knew that he wanted to…
"Dean!" She greeted him, excitedly. "I'm glad that I finally found you. Arnold was getting difficult to manage, the squirmy, little bugger!"
The girl was holding a purple puff ball that was, in fact, squirming in her hold.
Dean swallowed thickly as he stared at the beautiful girl that had directly addressed him, of all people…
"Yo-You were trying to find me?" Asked Dean, in shock.
He couldn't understand why the girl would go out looking for HIM of all people. He knew for a fact that there were better looking blokes on this train… Hell, Harry FREAKING Potter was on this very train! He couldn't understand why this girl didn't go and find him to sit with instead of Dean, but Dean wasn't about to look a gift-Hippogriff in the mouth…
The girl looked really confused at his question, which Dean thought was sexy. He wondered if she was inexperienced… because the look caused her to look innocent and virginal. He imagined that same expression on her face as his imaginary-self asked her to bend over for him…
"What's 'sex', Dean?" She would look up and ask him, with that slight frown of confusion.
"Well, beautiful," He would say, with an informative voice, "It's better if I just show you…"
He was broken away from his fantasy as the girl started to speak. "Well, of course I was trying to find you. I had promised you that I would in all of the letters from over the summer…"
Letters? When had he sent any-?
And with a start, Dean finally realized who this girl was…
It was Ginny Weasley…
…His girlfriend…
Sweet Merlin, was he the luckiest bloke on the planet, or what?!
…
As Ginny walked away from Harry, one hand wrapped around her wiggling Pygmy Puff, she felt bad for leaving him to ride the train all by himself.
Perhaps she should have invited him to come and sit with her and Dean… but she knew why she had hesitated. For all of the negative things that Harry had said about Dean after he realized that they were dating, she thought that Harry wouldn't be up to his best behavior when around the two of them together…
…The protective git that he is… But she didn't think this about him maliciously. She thought it fondly.
The summer had been an amazing time for Ginny. That is, it had started being a perfect summer after Harry had caught her in just her underwear… her sopping wet underwear.
She still blushed scarlet when she remembered what she referred to as 'The Incident'…
But after that embarrassing episode, Harry had finally confided in Ginny about one of his problems for the first time. And even better, he had told her about the prophecy before he had even told Ron or Hermione! It still shocked and amazed her at the same time. It made her feel included… more involved in Harry's life as well as a part of the oncoming war.
And what's more, she had spent the rest of the summer directly involved with everything the three of them had done together. She finally felt included in with the Golden Trio, a feat that she had thought was all but impossible.
Maybe that was why she had felt so guilty at excluding Harry from sitting with her right now…
Just as she had been about to turn around and join Harry anyhow, salvation struck when she caught sight of Neville and Luna coming her way.
"Hiya Ginny!" Neville exclaimed, after doing a quick double-take to assess that it really was her, "Wow, you look different, did you get taller?"
Before Ginny could reply, Luna interjected, "No. Not just that, no… You grew breasts, didn't you, Ginny? Now did you grow them yourself or did you get the seeds from the bongdaloo tree and harvest them on your chest?"
Luna seemed genuinely interested, as though what she just asked wasn't inappropriate at all. Both Neville and Ginny's faces burned, as Neville averted his eyes to anywhere but her and Ginny crossed her arms over her chest, defensively.
"I-I'll let you know another time, Luna…" Ginny muttered, before she took a deep breath and willed the heat in her cheeks away, "You both actually came along at the right time. I just had to leave Harry all by himself to go meet Dean. Could you go find him and sit with him?"
Neville nodded quickly, and rapidly made his way up the direction that Ginny just came from. Obviously in a great hurry to get away from his embarrassment with Ginny.
"Thanks, Neville!" She called after him, and he only waved a hand over his head in acknowledgement, not even bothering to face her again.
Ginny chuckled at his reaction, Neville's obvious mortification was making hers more bearable as she saw the humor in the whole situation. Before she turned back to Luna.
"You will tell me all about the effectiveness of the bongdaloo seeds later, will you?" Luna asked, a Ravenclaw gleam in her eyes.
Ginny smirked, feeling mischievous, "Sure Luna. Anytime you're free."
Luna flashed her a smile and put on strange glasses as she went on to catch up to Neville to find Harry.
Shaking her head, Ginny finally allowed herself to laugh, her Pygmy Puff squeaked at the noise and tried to squirm away. She would never understand how anyone could dislike Luna Lovegood… She was entertaining to have around, for sure. A large part of her wished that Luna had been sorted into Gryffindor. Maybe then, she wouldn't have been hurting for friends after her disastrous first year…
Thank Merlin for Colin Creevey… Ginny thought with a smile. Sure, Harry wasn't too fond of her photographer, muggle-born friend, but when he wasn't so busy being star-struck by Harry, he was actually rather inciteful. It had actually been Ginny that got Colin to cool down his obsessive reaction around Harry, telling Colin that Harry hated being fawned over.
She hadn't even known him all that well then, but even she knew that fact about Harry. He hated the spotlight.
Which was one of the many reasons for her crush on him in the past…
Ginny stopped her thoughts on that track right there, not willing to explore that road once again, and continued down the train corridor, looking in the windows of all of the compartments for her boyfriend.
It wasn't until she had gotten near the end of the train, when she had finally found him. Dean was sitting in a compartment with only Seamus as company. They must have been talking about something rather funny, as they both had humorous gleams in their eyes as they spoke.
She went forward and opened the compartment door.
"…date... Or maybe even-" Dean had been saying, before he cut himself off, having noticed her standing in the doorway. But what was peculiar about the situation, was that both Dean and Seamus' jaws dropped when they spotted her.
She wasn't sure what that was about, but her Pygmy Puff, Arnold, was squirming now more than ever. It obviously didn't like the rumbling movements of the train…
"Dean!" She greeted him, both relieved and excited. Because why shouldn't she be excited? This boy sitting in front of her was her boyfriend, after all. "I'm glad that I finally found you. Arnold was getting difficult to manage, the squirmy, little bugger!"
They both merely stared at her with wide eyes… neither bothering to acknowledge what she had just said. Just when Ginny was getting concerned that something was smeared on her face, Dean finally swallowed thickly and spoke.
"Yo-You were trying to find me?" Dean stuttered.
What?
Did he not remember what they had talked about in their letters? She was confused and she could feel the emotion displayed on her face…
"Well, of course I was trying to find you. I had promised you that I would in all of the letters from over the summer…"
Realization dawned on Dean's face a minute later, before he broke out into a wide grin.
"Ginny!" He exclaimed rather loudly, "O-of course I remember. Sorry, I felt a bit confunded for a minute there…" Dean rubbed at his temples for emphasis.
Ginny felt herself grow concerned, and Dean must have seen it, because he quickly replied, "It's starting to go away, now. But I do have a slight headache… coming from my neck. I must have slept on it weird. Would you mind rubbing it for me?"
Smiling sweetly, Ginny nodded, and went to go and sit next to Dean, before he grabbed her hand and pulled her onto his lap instead.
Ginny let out a very girly, un-Ginny-like, squeal at the unexpected movement, but let it go. Enjoying the closeness to her boyfriend. Dean wrapped his arms around her waist, tightening his hold on her. Perhaps a little too tight, now that she was thinking about it… but she didn't complain. He must have missed her as much as she had missed him.
"It's been too long, beautiful," Dean said, smoothly, his thumb rubbing circles at the sliver of skin that showed between her shirt and jeans.
She was momentarily stunned by the unexpected compliment. Her? Beautiful? Really?
Not even missing a beat, though, Ginny forced herself to chuckle lightly, and wrapped one arm around his back, bent at the elbow so that her hand was resting at his neck. She started to knead at the tense muscles there. "It's a good thing that the summer went by so quickly then, isn't it?"
"How was your summer?" Dean asked quickly, his eyes boring intently into hers.
She grinned broadly at him in response. "It was amazing! Hermione had come to the Burrow earlier than she usually does this summer. So, it wasn't just Ron and me the entire time, which is good, because I'm pretty sure that we would have driven ourselves barmy, especially since the twins had moved out this summer… Is it crazy for me to say that they actually keep our family dynamic sane? Even with all of the pranks and experiments they did before, you would think that would drive us all mad. But it really kept us on our toes, and from dying from boredom."
She laughed at her own chattering, but Dean didn't join in. His eyes were still roaming all over her face… So, Ginny decided to continue telling him about her summer.
"And then when Harry finally came to the Burrow, we all had such a good-"
Dean cut her off, his face hardening more and more as he spoke, "Wait. Harry spent part of the summer with you?"
Stunned, Ginny stopped her neck rubbing, and reeled back to stare at him. What about that made him get so angry? Unless… "Dean… you aren't jealous of Harry just because he spent the summer with us, are you? Because that would be absolutely barmy… Harry spends at least half the summer with us, every year!"
Dean rolled his eyes, then replied, "Yeah, whatever… you're my girlfriend anyways…"
Ginny frowned but let the comment slide, desperately wanting to change the subject. "So, anyways, in your letters, you said that you wanted to discuss something important with me once you saw me on the train…?"
His entire body seemed to have frozen beneath her, as he stared at her in something akin to horror.
It was then that Seamus finally spoke up, apparently having gotten over his goldfish impression.
"Yeah… Dean was just telling me about that, actually," Seamus said in a very snide way, which Ginny thought was very unlike his character. "It had something to do with bathrooms and the sorting feast, right mate?"
The glare that Dean sent Seamus at that moment, made it seem to Ginny that he was about ready to hex him. She had just about to open her mouth and ask all about what was going on, when the compartment door suddenly opened.
"Well, well, well," A snide, nasally voice spoke from the doorway, "Look at what we have here. Little Ginny Weasley is finally all grown up…"
The three Gryffindors looked up to see Draco Malfoy and his two pet goons standing behind him. As Ginny met Draco's gaze, he gave her a very weird smile… it was as though… he thought that what he had said was a compliment!
She felt Dean's entire stance stiffen beneath her, then he yelled, "You leave her well enough alone, you bloody –"
"Oh, but what if I don't want to leave her alone…" Draco mused in a demurring way, as he interrupted Dean. "Look at her. If she wasn't obviously too good for the likes of you, based on looks alone; imagine how much more off-balanced you two are when you factor in both of your blood-status'… A filthy mudblood like you, doesn't deserve a pureblood like-"
But he didn't get the chance to finish… because as he had been talking, Ginny disentangled herself from Dean's restricting arms, whipped her wand out of her back pocket, and performed her trademark curse that made her feared by many…
Bat bogies blew out of Draco's nose and swarmed all around him, as Draco yelled out in pain. There were so many bats, that even Ginny was surprised by their number… But she didn't let her surprise hinder her for long…
"You'd think that you would have learned your lesson from last year not to mess with me, Malfoy!" Ginny seethed at him with a fierce voice. "Now, I don't know what your obsession is with my dating life… but it's really creepy! But I guess that's pretty common amongst Death Eater offspring!"
She was reeling herself up to scream at him more, wanting to let loose years of pent up frustration for the blond Slytherin that made so many of her friends, as well as herself, miserable… but she had been interrupted by the frantic clapping of a pudgy looking man.
"Excellent, my dear! Really, truly excellent!" That man raved over his applause, "Inspired, I am. Really, truly inspired!"
Ginny froze and felt herself flush under the praise. "Er…"
"You are just the sort I am looking for to join my Slug Club!" The pudgy man exclaimed, pride all over his face as well as his voice. He came forward and started shaking her hand. "How could you ever refuse, such talent as you have! My name is Professor Horace Slughorn."
He was still shaking her hand until Ginny forcefully drew hers away. His name rang a bell… "Professor Slughorn? Oh! Harry told me about you-"
"And a friend of Mr. Potter! Your connections and talent surely know no bounds, Miss… Er, what is it you said your name was?" Mr. Slughorn raved, once again grabbing her hand to shake…
"Er, my name is Ginny Weasley, sir." She said, shyly. For some reason, she found this all so humiliating, and for once she got a glimpse at what life for Harry was like…
"Ahhh, Miss. Weasley," Professor Slughorn said, warmly, "You must join me for my luncheon. It's for club members only, that is, the Slug Club, a group for promising students such as yourself."
Ginny had just been about to open her mouth to decline, when Professor Slughorn started ushering her out of the door.
"Wait, I-" She began to protest, but was interrupted with Professor Slughorn's chatter.
She distractedly heard Dean yell behind them that he would come find her later, which she had no way of acknowledging…
She eventually sighed and gave up with any hope of protest and went along with it. It was a great deal better than the detention that she would have gotten if she had been caught by any other teacher…
She shuttered to think what would happen if Snape rode the train along with the students…
Soon she found herself sitting in the large compartment at the back of the train, sitting uncomfortably amongst other students she had seen around, but didn't know at all. She didn't even know the name of anyone except for Blaise Zambini, who had started at the sight of her one moment, before making a point to glare at her the next.
Which was fine with Ginny. Apparently, none of them were there to make friends.
Ginny was getting steadily more and more annoyed that she had been forced to come here instead of spending the time with her friends or boyfriend, when another hesitant presence came up in the compartment doorway…
And she was instantly relieved for his presence, if only to save her from the awkwardness and boredom.
That would be Harry Potter, she internally mused, Savior of the Wizarding World, foolish girls with diaries, and those who suffer from boredom.
Ginny felt the relieved smile grace her face as she waved him over to sit in the seat beside her.
Harry saw her wave, and he smiled wide when he noticed her presence in the room…
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