fire & snow ⇝ drinny {under heavy editing}

tea with harry

"W—what's up?" Said Ginny nervously, millions of ideas flashed through her head.    What if he saw her and Draco together? What if he saw his break down at Hogsmeade? What if. What if—

"Ginny." Harry pulled her out of her racing thoughts with a stern voice in his tone. Her eyes shifted over to catch his almost instantly; Harry cleared his throat apologetically.

"I was only wondering if, maybe, you'd like to have some tea with me? Down in the kitchens. I wanna talk to you." Said Harry.

"Oh — well alright then." She replied almost sighing with relief. "But would you mind if we went down a bit later? I was just about to pay Luna a visit, I haven't quite spent time with her since term started and—"

Harry broke her speech, "Yeah I've noticed, that's what I wanted to talk to you about but anyway...yes, ofcourse later let's say tonight? After dinner?"

"After dinner." Ginny said almost too quickly, excitement rushed through her stomach a little. Tea with Harry? She would never say no." She couldn't deny the fact that deep inside she still fancied him quite faintly.

Harry and her said their goodbyes and after that Ginny was finally off to catch up with Luna.

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Later...
"Oh no Ginny, don't worry it's quite alright." Luna said kindly, putting a hand on her shoulder.

Ginny continued though, Luna was such a great friend to her all the time while she hadn't even had proper time to be with her since the school year started. "It's just that, you're my best friend Luna, you and Neville, and I haven't been paying much attention to you both. Infact the only reason I've been spending so much time with Neville lately is simply because I had agreed to help him with his herbology project with Professor Sprout!"

Luna didn't stop her, she just waited patiently until she was finished, then spoke calmly to her, reassuring her that things were okay and that she understood that she had been distant and it wasn't her fault for not noticing.

"But I do know that you haven't been yourself, Ginny, I don't know exactly why but I'd like it if you told me." Luna smiled sweetly at her, putting a hand over hers. "If that's okay that is."

Ginny smiled back, she could always count on Luna for respecting her boundaries; because of this of course she could trust her.

"Well." Ginny said looking down. It's just I've been having these dreams, these nightmares, really ever since summer started and I never told anyone. I thought they'd be too private and serious to actually tell anyone." She said.

Naturally, Luna opened her mouth the word Dumbledore on the verge of her lips but Ginny stopped her before she could finish.

"Yeah Dumbledore I know, I haven't said anything I just don't think it's that serious and, I know he's probably very busy. I—"

Luna put a hand up indicating her to stop talking and possibly in the kindest way there was, she shot Ginny the nicest of smiles and proceeded. "I'm quite sorry to interrupt but, I believe you just said that you didn't want to tell anyone because of the fact that they were too private and serious." Luna added in an almost insisting tone. Ginny knew she was worried and the whole point of going to visit her was to spend time with her, reassure her that things were fine but it turned out to be the very opposite; instead, Luna was the one reassuring her.

Ginny expected nothing more from Luna, for it was always like this with her. It was a great feeling indeed.

As the time went by the two girls had probably walked around all of the grounds and back, and with every passing moment Ginny grew more and more affection towards the strange blonde girl that was her best friend, she loved her so dearly, more that anyone could anyone possibly understand, except Luna herself of course. She knew everything, maybe it was the calming aura about her or maybe it was just that she knew Ginny so well; whatever it was, she appreciated it so dearly and always left her company feeling good. This meant it was to be a good night with Harry.