The Love of a Bet

Chapter 5

For the rest of the week all Ginny could think about was Draco, Draco could only think about Ginny, and Harry could only think of Ginny as well. To Harry, it was a mystery to him because he really didn't think that he liked Ginny in that way, but apparently he did. He just couldn't understand why on earth he would either. "Did this thing with Malfoy help me realize my feelings for her?" he thought. Harry realized that he should really talk to someone about this, someone who would understand, someone who could council him. He knew the exact person who he needed to talk to. Hermione.

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Draco was sitting in the common room on the couch when Pansy walked in and hugged him from behind.

"Oh, Draco!" she said. "I can't wait for tomorrow! We are going to have such fun!"

"What's tomorrow?" he asked.

"You don't remember?"

"No, I don't."

"Oh, well, tomorrow is the Hogsmeade trip."

"I knew that, but what are we doing tomorrow. I don't remember making plans with you."

"But, Draco, you agreed that the next Hogsmeade trip we would spend the day together. Don't you remember?"

"No, I don't, and if I did say that, it was because you were bothering me and I just needed to get you out of my face."

"Well, you're no picnic to be around either!" she screamed. Pansy stormed up to the girl's dormitories and slammed the door.

"That should keep her from bothering me for a few days," he said to himself.

***

Ginny was sitting on her bed doing her homework. She really didn't have much focus on it. Simple assignments seemed hard to do. She decided to wait with her homework until Sunday. She just couldn't get tomorrow off of her mind. "I can't believe that I'm going out with the one person I've hated more then anything in the world. How am I suppose to go through with this? How can I have a decent conversation with someone I can't stand to be around? I'm not sure I can go through with this," she said to herself. She can't believe no one new yet. She always thought that Draco was the bragging kind. Then again, why would he want to brag about going out with her? But still, it confused her. She decided to go to Hermione and tell her what she was feeling.

***

Hermione was just exiting the library when someone tapped on the shoulder. She snapped around immediately. When she turned around, she met Harry's eyes. "Oh, Harry, it's you."

"Thanks, it's nice to see you too."

"You know perfectly well that's not what I meant," she said.

"Whatever, anyways, I was wondering if we could talk, privately."

"Oh?" she asked. Her heart fluttered. She had liked Harry for quite some time now, and maybe he would finally admit that he had feelings for her too. He sounds so serious, and the way he said privately indicated that it was something concerning his personal feelings for someone. She hoped that someone was him.

"Yeah, it's about a girl," he said hesitantly.

"Oh?" she said again.

"Yes, it is. What are you all of a sudden, the one word wonder?"

Hermione turned a slight shade of pink. "Sorry, it's just, I didn't think you would come to me on such personal matters. I'm kind of in a stage of shock."

"Well, I am. I can't really talk to Ron about it, because, well, you'll see. How about after Potions?"

"Sure Harry. I'll see you then." Hermione turned around and hurried to her arithmancy class. She never felt so overjoyed before, but she also felt her heart breaking. She new this girl wasn't going to be her. No matter how much she wanted it to be, she new it wouldn't. But then again, no one could've predicted what happened after Potions, now did they?