Girl Talk (Ginny)

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Boys hadn’t been something Hermione had been all that interested in until probably around her fourth year when she had started to notice them more. She could thank Viktor for that, someone whom she hadn’t fawned over or followed around like so many of the other girls, but was still pleased when he asked her to the dance. It had been unexpected but it had turned out to be a wonderful night – until Ron ruined it of course. She had been furious with him for awhile after that but eventually she had forgiven him. He just frustrated her to no end. And then this year’s ball had come along and once again he hadn’t asked her. She wasn’t sure what to think, exactly, but he and Harry were her best friends. They meant everything to her and she’d stand by them to the end, no matter how frustrating it was.

Which was why, right now, she was trying to do just that, but there were complications. She had started to develop feelings for someone she knew she shouldn’t, and it was the last person on this earth that she thought that’d ever happen. It was unimaginable, unthinkable, yet it was clearly there. Hermione stood in front of the mirror in her dormitory, wrapped in a fluffy white towel as she brushed her damp hair. She had cast a detangling charm and was currently slowly working through the mess of curls that made up her hair, but her eyes weren’t on the brush moving through the tangles – her eyes were on the marks along her neck, the ones that were slowly fading and ones she’d need to re-cast another charm on. She managed to keep them hidden pretty well during the day and with her amount of hair no one ever noticed, but they were there clearly now, almost bruised, but she knew why they were there and where they had come from. Something she’d never talk to anyone about – it just made things worse.

Hermione finally finished brushing her hair and took her wand, concealing the marks with a simple spell, hoping no one would have noticed. There was no way anyone would hurt her friends, and she wouldn’t be the reason for that to happen. She still couldn’t believe he had actually admitted it, and the feelings he professed for her, it was clear they were true, which made her even more confused and complicated things so much more so than it would have if he had been faking all along. It also didn’t help she still had feelings for Ron, although the other – the one whom she was finding herself spending more time with, was slowly overtaking those feelings. Hermione reached up to touch her neck, wincing slightly as her fingers touched a still-sensitive spot, now hidden beneath a charm. She felt her stomach do funny flip flops as she thought about those times with him and had to shake her head to clear her thoughts. She had a Defense Against the Dark Arts essay due, she should work on that. Sometimes she wished she could go back to their third year or before, when things had never been this complicated with boys. They were just friends, nothing more – and now? Now she was experiencing love, at least, what she thought might be that, for he had said those words to her and she felt them down to the core of her body, and it terrified her. She didn’t like to think that she might be feeling something like that, and so she’d immerse herself in homework and studies, and her friends. Yes. That would make things so much bette.

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[ginny molly weasley]

keep calling it a crash and burn waiting your turn you might have time to speak there
BARELY WAS A LESSON LEARNED ,

CAUSE IT WILL RETURN NO FLAVOR
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For Ginny, boys – or at least one in particular – had been an area of interest but she had never been outgoing enough to actually show them who she was. After so many years of not being able to stay in Harry’s presence without freezing up and running away, she had finally listened to Hermione’s advice and forced herself to relax. Once she’d done that, a whole bunch of doors had opened for her and in her fourth year she had snagged her first ever boyfriend, Ravenclaw fifth year Michael Corner. That relationship hadn’t been the best one, mainly because neither of them had experience with that kind of thing before. It was awkward and they had fought about the smallest, stupidest things. After a while, it got tiring and Ginny had ended it before it could get any worse. After that, she and Michael hadn’t spoken and basically faded out of each other’s lives, and after a little while Ginny had started to date fellow Gryffindor Dean Thomas – much to Ron’s disproval. She had been hesitant at first since she had already had a failed relationship that had ended pretty badly, but after a while she’d warmed up to the idea of trying a relationship again, and it had been going well. Dean was more patient, and easier to ease into a relationship with than Michael had been, and she knew then what not to do in a relationship and had vowed to try and avoid it this time around.

She had spent the entire summer away from him, and now that they were back at school she had hoped they would see more of each other. At first, that had been the case, but now that school work and the pressure to practise for Quidditch was piling up on them, it seemed like Ginny and Dean had less and less free time and when they did, they didn’t spend it together. They had also been fighting a lot recently, and things were suddenly going downhill. It had started when he’d seen her talking to Michael on the train, and continued on because she’d offered to help the Ravenclaw boy learn how to fly better so he could actually try out for his house Quidditch team. They had become friends again, and she had offered simply because that was what friends did for one another, but Dean hadn’t seen it like that. Luckily, she had managed to convince him that she and Michael were just friends, but she couldn’t help feeling like her boyfriend no longer trusted her. In fact, she felt like they were more friends than they were anything else these days, and it wasn’t sitting well with her. The little time they got to spend together was not enough, and she was getting tired of all the constant fighting and the need to justify everything she did these days. They were on decent terms right now – their most recent fight having ended just a few minutes earlier – but things were definitely not the same as they had been before.

Sighing, Ginny decided that a shower and her warm pajamas would feel amazing and she slowly headed up to the common room. Her homework was done, since she had spent the last two hours in the library doing it, and she was ready to spend the rest of the night relaxing comfortably on the couch. Dean had stayed downstairs since he had more to finish then she did, but she hoped that he would come upstairs and join her eventually. In the meantime, she was going to take advantage of the quietness of the common room. As she passed through the portrait hole, she heaved her bag higher up onto her shoulder so it wouldn’t drag across the carpet and headed towards the stairs. As she made her way towards her dormitory, she passed Hermione’s on the way and noticed that the door was open. Raising an eyebrow in curiosity, Ginny stopped before the door, knocking on it lightly before stepping into the room. There, she discovered Hermione wrapped in a towel in front of the mirror, trying to work through the tangles of her thick, curly hair. Smirking, Ginny leaned against the doorjamb and let her bag fall off her shoulder and onto the floor. “You know, having your door ajar like this when you’re wearing nothing but a towel may not be the best idea,”

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[OoC: SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG! IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN! <3]

[HERMIONE JEAN GRANGER]

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There was a huge difference between Hermione and most of the other girls in her year, even give or take a year or two and the driving factor was boys. The only experience Hermione had when it came to boys was Harry, Ron, and she supposed Neville but they were all friends, nothing more. Harry and Ron were best friends, to be sure, and yes Hermione’s feelings towards Ron had seemed to become more complicated over the past year or so, but Hermione had never dated and it was one thing she wasn’t focused on, unlike several other girls she knew. It wasn’t that she was inexperienced or naïve about it all – she had read plenty, mostly bibliographies and histories and such, as well as more credible advice-giving books, but when it came to no-kidding face to face contact and hands-on experience, so to speak, this was where Hermione lacked. Not that it had ever bothered her. She was perfectly content to curl up with a book, or hang out at the Quidditch pitch with Harry and Ron, or sit in front of the fire in the common room with her best friends. But now things had started to become a little more complicated and certain individuals were on her mind as she stood there in front of the mirror lost in thought.

She didn’t even hear Ginny come in until she spoke, causing Hermione to jump slightly and turn in surprise. ”Ginny! You shouldn’t sneak up on people.” She took a few breaths to calm her racing heart. ”And as for standing here, boys can’t come up to our dormitories anyhow, it’s magically charmed to keep them out, so what’s there to worry about?”

[/color] She gave a slight shrug and then went into the bathroom, hanging up her towel to dry and then changing into jeans and a long-sleeved grey shirt. Hermione twisted her curls up into a messy ponytail, fed up with dealing with them at the moment, and then walked back out, picking up a few things as she did so and putting them in their place. Hermione doubted she ever would have become this close to Ginny if the other girl hadn’t been her best friend’s sister. Ever since fourth year during the Quidditch World Cup where they got to spend some time together, Hermione definitely counted Ginny as one of her few close friends. The other girl could understand what she went through, at times, and Hermione tried to do her best to help her friend, although sometimes it seemed to come off as more lecturing than anything else.

”So how as Quidditch practice been going? Harry’s not being a tyrant is he?”[/color] she teased. ”I’d think things would be a bit easier for him this year, given what happened last year and all, though if it weren’t for you, I doubt he’d be able to keep control of the others,”[/color] she chuckled, clearly remembering the Gryffindor Quidditch tryouts when it had taken Ginny stepping up to put all the others in line when they had been talking over Harry. Hermione admired Ginny’s strength and courage, and she was one of the few people Hermione could completely trust. Not to mention all the times she had spent at the Burrow, watching as the bond between Harry and Ginny grew, only to come to a frustrating halt when neither would step forward. Hermione was bound and determined to help if she could, but she wasn’t going to push if neither of them were ready. ”How’s everything going with Dean?”[/color] It had been the subject of amusement around Ron, watching at how flustered he got whenever he saw Ginny with the other Gryffindor. Honestly it was rather funny how over-protective he was. ”Ron’s not still giving you a hard time is he?”[/color]
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