𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 | Harry James Potter x Reader

YR 4 ☆•°~'* 09

A/N - "Maybe I just wanna be yours..."

❈🌠➵9¾♌ ⚯ 🗲━━━━━★. *･｡ﾟ✧⁺

Y/N and Hermione returned to the Gryffindor common room from dinner a couple of days later to find Ginny scowling at a laughing Harry and a sniggering Ron.

'Why weren't you two at dinner?' said Hermione, going over to join them, followed by Y/N.

Y/N sat on an armchair and her cat hopped onto her lap. 'Hi, baby,' she cooed, petting Jasper.

'Because - oh, shut up laughing, you two-' said Ginny, 'because they've both just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!'

Y/N stopped smiling. Both? Well, maybe Harry would ask her, now... 

She suddenly felt pathetic for even thinking that. 

She looked at Harry, who seemed determined on looking everywhere but at Y/N.

'Thanks a bunch, Ginny,' said Ron sourly.

'Who did you ask?' said Y/N, turning to Ron.

'Fleur Delacour,' said Ginny at once, grinning. Y/N snorted.

'It's not my fault she's part-Veela!' Ron huffed.

'All the good-looking ones taken, Ron?' said Hermione loftily. 'Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.'

But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a new light. 'Hermione, Neville's right - you are a girl...'

'Oh, very well spotted,' she said acidly.

'Well - you can come with one of us!'

'No, I can't,' snapped Hermione.

'Oh, come on,' he said impatiently, 'we need partners, we're going to look really stupid if we haven't got any, everyone else has...'

'I can't come with you,' said Hermione, now blushing, 'because I'm already going with someone.'

'No, you only said that to get rid of Neville!' said Ron.

'Oh, did I?' said Hermione, and her eyes flashed dangerously. 'Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

Ron stared at her. Then he grinned again.

'OK, OK, we know you're a girl,' he said. 'That do? Will you come now?'

'I've already told you!' Hermione said, very angrily. 'I'm going with someone else!'

And with that, she stormed off towards the girls' dormitories.

'She's lying,' said Ron flatly.

'No, she's not,' said Y/N. Hermione had told her that Krum asked her to the ball a few days ago.

'Who is it, then?' said Ron sharply.

'We're not telling you,' said Ginny, annoyed. 'It's her business.'

'Right,' said Ron, looking extremely put out, 'this is getting stupid. Y/N, you can go with Harry, and I'll just-'

But at that moment, Harry got up, walked right past Y/N and towards Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, who had just walked in through the portrait hole.

'Parvati? Will you go to the ball with me?' he said loudly.

Oh.

Ron and Ginny stopped dead and turned to stare at Harry. Several other people in the common room had stopped whatever they were doing and looked at Harry and Parvati. Y/N felt like she had stopped breathing.