New Beginnings

Chapter 36

The very next day Ginny Weasley was sighted oggling a suit of armour by some Hufflepuffs. By lunch news spread of her search for something incredibly shiny and reflective as well as her now ignoring everyone unless they had with them something reflective.

No one could figure out what was wrong with her yet and no one wanted to or cared enough to. Already she'd pissed off more people within a few hours than years at Hogwarts.

And Harry was loving it.

He had to ignore the sneers of Gryffindor who had hated her but decided that that wasn't something to bond over. Hilariously they only defended her when it was a Slytherin saying something, every other house had free reign.

"What's wrong with her?" Pansy groaned, having had to drag the girl to her common room in the middle of her prefect duties and lose an extra few hours of sleep wandering from the top to bottom of a castle.

Harry winced, seeing faint but well hidden bags under Pansy's eyes, "she has been acting weirdly."

"The Weasleys always act weird, this is just disturbing." Blaise rolled his eyes, but otherwise opted out the conversation, uncaring of the ginger.

"Luna said she isn't eating anymore." Theo piped up, earning a couple strange looks from the group before explaining. "She studies with me."

"I forgot they were friends you know." Harry mused, shooting Theo a dirty look when he snorted.

"Not much of a friend that one."

Harry realised he hadn't spoken to Luna properly in months and resolved to fix that as soon as possible. Ever since Gringotts, Harry had been so busy putting his plans into action that the only time him and Luna talked was small greetings between classes. Now he found that all this time Theo had been friends with her and he hadn't known.

Pansy sighed, picking at her food. "I don't know what's wrong with Weasely but if I miss one more hour of sleep because of her, someone's going to die."

"Yeah, it's Weasley keeping you up."  Blaise teased, dodging quickly when Pansy went to stab him with her fork. 

She refused to answer any of their questions and ignored Blaise and Theo's teasing jabs, talking only when the conversation had steered far away from her and eventually left. Harry would've felt guilty of she hadn't made it blatantly obvious that she didn't mind the teasing.

Once she was gone Blaise leaned over the table, "You know how she has a crush on someone." He waited for them to nod. n"I think she's meeting up with them at night."

"How do you know?"

"She keeps offering to cover people's shifts, trust me, that's not something sane people do." Blaise sniffed, thankful that she had taken over a couple of his but also worried that she might burn herself out. Luckily those were becoming less frequent but Blaise wouldn't be surprised if she was just sneaking out of Slytherin now.

The rest of them giggled, wanting to know who this mystery person was but also not going to pry. Harry knew that because of everything that had been going on, other things like his friends crushes had kinda fallen under the radar.

Later they'd find out who this mystery person was, but for now they'd tease her.

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