Harry Potter Breaking The Chains

Ginny let herself be shepherded out of the room with the others. The four Gryffindors bade goodbye to Luna as they turned toward Gryffindor Tower. After they rounded the first corner, Ginny stopped in her tracks. The others noticed and turned to see what was the matter. "Ginny, what's wrong?" Hermione voiced the question on all their minds.

"I just remembered something I needed to ask Luna," she told them. "You guys go on, I'm gonna go try to catch her before she makes it to her common room." She turned and began jogging back the way they came.

"Ginny." Neville's voice stopper her as she was about to turn the corner. She looked back at her friends. "Do you want some company?"

"That's okay, Neville," she replied hastily. "It's kind of personal," she added when his face fell slightly.

"Oh," he replied heavily. "Okay. See you later."

"See you," she called back over her shoulder as she hurried away.

She jogged down the corridor, but instead of running off to find Luna, she stopped in front of the door to the Room of Requirement and cracked it open a fraction, letting the voices carry out to her. It was Cho that she heard first. "You did the right thing, Harry. So cheer up. Besides, there are much better things you should be focusing on, like the upcoming ball." Ginny rolled her eyes; apparently subtlety was not one of her strengths. She missed Harry's reply, but she heard Cho's next question quite clearly, "So is there anyone special you're looking to go with?"

She listened as Harry replied quite shortly that there was someone he wanted to go with, only to have Cho try to weasel it out of him. Ginny smiled when he told her that he was going to the ball with her, but she could not believe what Cho said next. How dare she suggest that he just drop her? Ginny had been worried that Harry didn't really want to go with her. She heard Friday evening that Cho and Michael had broken up, and that she had cornered him after dinner. She was concerned that he regretted his decision to ask her now that Cho was available again.

That was why she had questioned him about it on Friday night during their trip to the owlery. But even after he assured her that he wanted to go with her, Ginny still had lingering doubts that maybe she was just a second choice. She didn't want him to feel like he had to go with her if he didn't want to. But all of her doubts were expelled as she heard Harry's response to Cho's suggestion. Harry made it quite clear that he was going to the ball with whom he wanted to. He had admitted that even if that were not the case, he never would have ditched Ginny, which she had already guessed, but he insisted that he really did want to go to the ball with Ginny.

Satisfied, she began walking away. She did manage to catch Cho's outbursts as they echoed through the hallway. She couldn't believe what the girl said about her robes, but knew that there was at least some truth to the statement. She didn't have money to buy the best robes out there. She just hoped that with the money she saved up and whatever her mum was able to send her, that she'd be able to find something decent in Hogsmeade.

She had written home about the ball to her mum. That was the letter she sent out Friday night when she and Harry went out after curfew. She had managed to earn herself several galleons from the twins over the summer, and she still had most of that, but it was nowhere near enough to buy any of the dress robes in Gladrags. She might be able to buy something if it were on sale once her mum's money was added onto what she already had, but she had a feeling that she'd be looking around for a second-hand robe store come Hogsmeade weekend. She realized, as she walked back to the common room, that the Hogsmeade weekend was next weekend. It had really crept up on them.

She walked into the common room and had to endure Hermione's knowing looks, but luckily neither boy seemed to be aware of her deception. She supposed that she'd have to talk to Hermione later, whether she wanted to or not. But she really didn't mind all that much. There wasn't really much to hide, at least not anything that Hermione had any clue about. She and Harry were just friends. They were often both missing at the same time, which was bound to arouse suspicion, but as long as no one guessed the actual reason for it, she was fine with it. And she imagined that Harry was alright with that as well. They could just continue to tell everyone the truth, while completely avoiding the actual issue.

Hermione never got a chance to talk to Ginny alone before dinner arrived because she spent most of that time working on a potions essay. And Hermione was not one to interrupt anyone's studies. To her that was a sacred time. Harry never came back to the common room, but that was hardly a surprise. She assumed that he was either reading or doing his own training. The only actual training she had ever seen him at was his morning workout, but she knew that there was more to it than that, though he never actually said as much.

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