Harry had just recovered from being knocked down, Merlin had taught him a spell that would let him know if anyone with 'ill intent' was trying to attack him. So clearly he was in no danger, although the fact that he was tackled did give him reason to be cautious. He opened his eyes and found a small red headed girl had landed on him. She slowly got off and they both stood up, the red headed girl looked to be on the verge of tears.
"I'm sorry" It was obvious she was doing her best not to cry
"Don't worry I'm not hurt and it was an accident, are you alright though? You look upset, anything I can do to help?" The next thing Harry knew the red head had engulfed him in a bone breaking hug, but she quickly let go when she saw Harry looked uncomfortable.
"I'm sorry" she apologised immediately "I shouldn't…"
"Don't worry about it" Harry cut her off "in fact, I'm sorry, it's just I've never been hugged before so it felt weird."
"You've never been hugged before?" The girl looked interested, it looked like she had stopped crying so Harry decided to continue
"Yeah my relatives aren't wizards or witches, in fact they hate magic. So whenever I did magic, and it was always accidental because I never figured out I was a wizard until recently, then they'd hit me or throw me under my cupboard for a while."
"They make you live in a cupboard and they hit you?" The girl looked absolutely appalled by what he had described "and they've never been nice to you?" Harry shook his head; the girl wrapped him in a hug once more. She felt so sad looking at his clothes that were too big for him and his taped glasses. This time however, Harry didn't feel weird. Maybe it was the fact that this girl wasn't much of a threat or the fact that she seemed to actually care about him, either away he slowly returned the hug. It actually appeared to be quite nice, and he was disappointed when it ended.
"See it wasn't that bad" Ginny chuckled
"You right it wasn't?" Harry tried in vain to hide the smile that was forming on his face, he slowly wiped the tears from her face "so are you going to tell me what's wrong?"
"Don't worry about it, it's stupid" She insisted
"Hey, you can tell me, I promise I won't laugh or whatever"
"Fine" She looked as if she was building her courage so Harry stayed quiet until she was ready to talk "you know the story about Harry Potter and how he defeated you-know-who?" Harry nodded and was wondering where this was going "well my brothers know I really like that story, my mum and dad keep telling it to me. I told mum that he was probably lonely and needed a friend, my brother Ron then said he'd never be friends with me because I'm an annoying, ugly cry-baby. He said he only hangs around me because I'm his sister, he said Harry Potter would probably tell me to get lost. So I got upset and I ran off, I think he was right. I am just an ugly, annoying cry-baby."
"That's not true!" Harry felt quite upset, this 'Ron' sounded a lot like Dudley "listen my relatives insult me all the time. They call me stupid and a freak, I only looked stupid because if I acted smarter than them I'd get punished and I found out I'm not a freak, I'm actually a wizard. You're not annoying and you're definitely not ugly, you might cry a bit but you'll won't as much once you get older."
"But I don't even have any friends, there's one girl who hangs out I know but we're not friends. If I can't even make friends with her than how can I expect Harry Potter to be my friend"
"I can't believe I'm doing this" Harry muttered before grabbing the girls hand and leading her to a quiet spot where no one could see them, he really didn't know why he was doing what he was going to do but he felt like he had to do it. Something about this girl was weird, Harry didn't know what it was but it made him want to protect her. Once he was sure nobody could see them he turned to her, she looked worried. Upon thinking about it, he couldn't really blame her, he did just drag her away.
"Look" He spoke softly and quietly "I've got a secret that should make you but I'll only tell you it if you promise not to tell anyone, not even your family. Okay?" She seemed unsure but she nodded anyway. "Okay, I'm wearing a disguise and I'm going to remove it now" Harry sighed, he suddenly felt tired. He removed his glamour's with a wave of his hand, the first thing she was surprised by was the change from his blonde hair to black, she rather liked his messy black hair but then she noticed a particularly interesting scar on his forehead.