Miss Ginny (ginnyweasley) wrote in riddikulus,
@ 2008-02-20 00:38:00

Who: Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley
When: Just after everyone else has fallen asleep
Where: Gryffindor Boys' 7th Year Dormitory
What: It's time for Ginny to learn the truth about Gilderoy Lockhart and the Chamber of Secrets. In other words: Harry just has to show how much cooler he is than Ginny's other childhood sweetheart. In other words: Harry jus' hatin', yall.
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13 for language.

Ginny let out a morose sigh, pulling the blankets up to her shoulders. Usually, the moment Ginny slid into bed, she would tease and cuddle Harry. But not tonight: it was an evening of mourning. Of great sadness.

Gilderoy Lockhart was barking, sodding, off the wall, shite-flinging, bug-wanked mad.

She had nearly sent her mother a Howler, but thankfully, her friends had talked her down to a simply acid-tongued owl post that informed Molly Weasley that her deceptions as to Gilderoy Lockhart's mental state were not appreciated! Ginny was a big girl, she had been possessed by Voldemort, her boyfriend had died, she was taking a class with Snape, she was related to Percy, she could handle dark and nasty things!

With another beleaguered sigh, Ginny turned to face her boyfriend and rested her head on his chest, letting her red hair hide her entire face. Poor Gilderoy! A Russian banshee. How dreadful. She sighed mightily again.

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hjpotter
2008-02-20 06:55 pm UTC (link)

Harry raised an eyebrow as Ginny burrowed morosely against his chest. Tell me, please, that this has nothing to do with what she and Justin were talking about. She was play-acting there, all of the dramaing and the hurt, right? Right? He put his arm around her, the ache in his shoulder from the deep tissue injury finally gone and healed.

Twisting a bit of her hair around his fingers, he looked at her warily. "Gin?" he began slowly. "What's wrong?"

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ginnyweasley
2008-02-21 02:13 am UTC (link)

"Why didn't you tell me that Gilderoy Lockhart had been driven insane by a trip to Siberia where he was chased by banshees that left him freezing half to death on a tundra?" she demanded, slapping his side and looking at him accusingly. "I mean, Harry, you were in the Chamber, you knew how stressful it all must have been on Professor Lockhart, why didn't you stop him from going to Russia? Or at least tell Dumbledore that he was so obviously shaken?"

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	hjpotter 2008-02-21 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Harry sat up straight, pulling Ginny up with him and staring at her as if she had gone just as bonkers as Lockhart. "Why didn't I what?" he blustered. "Lockhart went where? Are you bloody banjaxed Gin?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ginnyweasley 2008-02-21 02:25 am UTC (link)
	"No, I am not," she said witheringly. Her face hardened into a condescending look of superiority. "Justin told me. And then I filled in the gaps from some of the other girls. And an issue of the Quibbler from the archives in the library. Why didn't you tell me, was this part of you 'protecting' me?" she asked with bratty air quotes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hjpotter
2008-02-21 02:28 am UTC (link)

"Did you eat a bad herb?" Harry stammered, rubbing at his eyes under his glasses. "Did Neville have you test a new plant of his? I don't - "

Harry slapped his hand against his forehead. "That's not what happened at all! Not even in the same universe as what happened! Lockhart is a bloody sodding prat wrapped in a git!" he said, nearly bellowing. "He nearly killed me, he nearly killed you back then!"

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	ginnyweasley 2008-02-22 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	"He did not," Ginny stammered. He had nearly killed her? This had to be a joke. "Gilderoy Lockhart is an incredibly talented wizard, he'd--you're just jealous!" she blurted out, crossing her arms defiantly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hjpotter
2008-02-22 03:49 pm UTC (link)

"What the sod do I have to be jealous of?" Harry exploded. "I'm more famous than he is, that's all he cared about, that's how he nearly did us all in! He was a bloody coward, he hadn't done a single sodding thing in those books. You want to know the truth?" Harry's face screwed up in an annoyed grimace. "Lockhart was an expert in memory charms; he'd steal stories from other witches and wizards and then wipe their memories clean! He admitted it to your brother and me, ask Ron if you don't believe me!"

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ginnyweasley
2008-02-22 03:53 pm UTC (link)

Ginny stared at Harry dumbly. But...Ginny read Holidays With Hags every year at Christmas...Magical Me was one of her favourite books...!

This is what Luna must feel like, when Hermione insisted that there was no such thing as the Blibbering Humdinger...but at least Luna was able to keep blithely denying Hermione's counterarguments. Ginny, on the other hand, couldn't bring herself to think that Harry was lying.

She continued to stare at him in a shocked, horrified silence. Oh, Gilderoy!

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hjpotter
2008-02-22 04:05 pm UTC (link)

Harry sighed, looking at her face. He rubbed his eyes and then his scar. She looks like I just snapped her wand in two. "I don't know what story your mum told you, but - he refused to go into the Chamber," he said wearily; "and he didn't want Ron and I to go because then we'd blow the lid off of his whole memory charm scheme. He was going to modify our memories into madness, say that the horrors of the Chamber and seeing you dead and all of it had driven us insane," he admitted. "He was just going to leave you to die."

I snapped her wand and then stabbed her with the broken pieces. Oi Molly why didn't you tell her the truth! Well, clearly, Harry realised, it was because Molly Weasley was hell bent on protecting her children from the evils of the world. "Your celebrity crush was going to let you die" fell right into Molly's protective wheelhouse.

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ginnyweasley
2008-02-22 04:15 pm UTC (link)

The last time Ginny had cried, full on cried, was after the battle had ended. She had been teary after Harry had defeated Voldemort, she had been sniffling when she rested against her mother, she had been trembling as she and her entire family embraced. But she cried, full on sobbing in her hands, when she realised that Ron and Hermione and Harry had left without her. Her mum thought it was just her exhaustion and her age catching up with her, but it was that moment of being left behind...

...Harry had stared at the map...

Ginny sighed, her eyes beginning to tear up. Her Gilderoy Lockhart had left her to die. "How did he go mad then?" she asked in a hoarse voice, Harry's face beginning to swim behind her tears.

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hjpotter
2008-02-22 04:18 pm UTC (link)

Harry looked at her, flabbergasted. Ginny doesn't cry. Oh shite, I made Ginny cry. Terrified, he glanced at the curtains to make sure that the protective charms were holding; if Ron could hear this, he'd slay Harry where he sat. "Erm - he tried to cast that - spell - using Ron's broken wand, and it just shot at him instead of us, thank Merlin," Harry said quietly, hesitantly taking her hands.

Oh shite. Oh shite. Oh shite, I made Ginny cry.

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ginnyweasley
2008-02-22 04:24 pm UTC (link)

Ginny began to cry in earnest, vowing to herself to burn every single one of her Lockhart books, starting with that wanking piece of shite Magical Me...where she had underlined her favourite passages in her best purple inked quill. She wasted her purple inked quill on him!

Collapsing against Harry, Ginny sobbed against his neck. Gilderoy had wanted to leave her behind...

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hjpotter
2008-02-22 04:32 pm UTC (link)

Harry had absolutely no idea why Ginny was so devastated. Well, no, he did: it must be awful to hear that your hero wanted to leave you to die. Still let's not forget that I saved your life, hullo? Small consolation, I've always been there for you, this ring a bell? I told you I want to marry you, and you didn't cry, even out of happiness, but you're here blubbering over Gilderoy Wanking Lockhart and I don't! Get! Girls! Yet he stroked his hand down her back and whispered shushes into her ear, kissing her head and being as comforting as he could while fighting the urge to roll his eyes.

Gilderoy Sodding Lockhart.

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	ginnyweasley 2008-02-22 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	After a few minutes, Ginny felt all cried out. But she had to know. She pulled back from Harry, wiping her eyes and looking down at her hands. "When you...went into the Chamber...did you do it to save Hogwarts from the evil in there--or to save me?" she whispered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hjpotter 2008-02-22 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	Harry didn't hesitate. And in fact, it all began to make sense. He cupped her face in his hands and said, "To save you. I wasn't going to leave you there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ginnyweasley
2008-02-22 04:41 pm UTC (link)

And Harry had only been twelve, and he had been braver than Gilderoy. She stifled another sigh on behalf of her darling Gilderoy and instead leaned in to kiss Harry, smoothing over the wet spot on his neck and tracing in the shape of a heart.

She pulled back, snuffling hard and then wiping her eyes once more. Giving him a tiny, chagrined smile, she slid back down under the covers and curled against Harry, feeling herself relax. She rested her forehead against his and whispered, "Thank you. For that."

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hjpotter
2008-02-22 04:44 pm UTC (link)

See I don't get why Skeeter won't write a book on him. Maybe if I told her all of this, she'd lose interest in a book on me and instead - oh who am I kidding. Ginny's kiss made Harry grow warm, a shot of firewhiskey, but it was her thank you that made him feel red.

Harry kissed her and felt himself grow a bit pink. "You're welcome," he mumbled in complete and utter embarrassment.

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ginnyweasley
2008-02-22 04:49 pm UTC (link)

Ginny smiled, feeling quite humiliated herself for crying. She had such a reputation of being a tomboy, all of Hogwarts knew it. Ginny doesn't cry: she flirts, she fights, she hexes, she charms, she does not cry. And if she was going to cry, why couldn't it have been over something with more substance than Gilderoy Lockhart.

She rested her head back on his chest and rested her hand below his bellybutton, playing with the trail of black hair there. "He did have the dreamiest eyes," Ginny said softly, sighing again. "They were the most perfect shade of forget-me-not blue..."

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	hjpotter 2008-02-22 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	Harry's arm had been massaging her lower back, but he froze. He stared at her in disbelief and then to the ceiling. Are you kidding. Kill me. Kill me now... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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