"Excuse me?!" Hermione looked affronted by Ginny's words, Ron had managed to have enough sense to back away while Harry just marveled at the glorious sight that was angry Ginny. He was just glad he wasn't the one on the receiving end, and frankly he got proud of her when she was angry, Harry loved that no one could handle the little petite red girl when she was angry. Well, except him, but he just knew what to say to calm her down.
"You heard me" Ginny growled "you keep going on about helping elves but you've never thought about what they want. You've never even talked to house elves before and you shouted at the only one you did"
"Fine then" Hermione placed her hands on her hips "since I don't know where the kitchens are you can take me with you and I'll talk to them"
"I'm not taking you on our date so you can ruin it by shouting at them for not wanting to listen to you" Ginny roared "besides I couldn't do that to those house elves anyway, me and Harry already have to put up with you" Before Hermione could say anything Harry gently placed his hands around Ginny's shoulders and slowly lead her away
"Come on, you'd kill her" Harry whispered just as they left the portrait and walked towards the kitchens.
"I would" Ginny mumbled in agreement.
Eventually the two reached the kitchen where they were greeted by a swarm of excited house elves, Harry and Ginny greeted them all and even said hello to his own elves while he was here, something which made the other elves a bit jealous. They had heard stories of the great Harry Potter who had vanquished the dark lord and of his treatment to house elves, many longed to work for him but were sadly bound to the headmaster of the school. Fortunately they loved working at Hogwarts but it would still be nice to work for him.
Soon Dobby led the two to their dinner table which was covered in a very clean white cloth and had candles and flowers on it. The elves brought them a massive dinner, Ginny was in heaven, the elves food was way better than her mothers. Her mother's tasted better but she knew that was because she magically enhanced the taste, Harry had spent the last few years of his life eating elf made food, apart from on the odd occasion where he would make himself dinner yet he was surprised by the fact that it always tasted good.
After a lovely and romantic dinner the couple thanked the elves for their hard work and even caused a few of them to blush from embarrassment, they then told the elves about S.P.E.W and how Hermione was planning to leave clothes in the common room.
Unsurprisingly the elves were furious, but Harry had managed to convince them to still clean the common room by having them send Dobby in first so he could take all of the clothes, Dobby loved clothes so he naturally agreed. The other elves for the first time were glad they had an elf who liked clothes, it meant they could do their work and not be insulted.
Harry and Ginny soon returned back to the common room, Ron questioned them about the food and listened in envy as the two described both the food and the treatment the house elves gave them in great detail. Hermione soon questioned them about their evening, Harry told them they had a brilliant time and told her how he had mentioned S.P.E.W and her idea to leave clothes for the House elves.
She looked on in anticipation before Harry told her about their less than happy response to hearing about her organization and her idea to leave clothes, they even handed her a letter that was given to them by the elves for her. They had to convince Hermione that they didn't write it but eventually she read it, soon after she tossed the letter at Harry and ran up the stairs in a clearly emotional state.
Harry and Ginny read the letter to see what all the fuss was about, their eye's widened as they saw that the letter was four whole pages of insults and curse words thrown at Hermione. Ginny and Harry couldn't stop laughing and even Ron giggled when he read the letter, he went upstairs while the two were still laughing. Harry had never felt so much pride in another being that wasn't Ginny, he also wondered how they wrote this letter so quickly.
The next day Harry and Ginny after a brilliant defense class went off to lunch, next lesson was a free period so they were still debating whether to go to Hagrids care of magical creatures lesson or not. Harry voted yes but Ginny was still undecided, in that moment Harry noticed a familiar twinkle in her eyes, unfortunately it didn't belong to her.
Using his peripheral vision he saw that Dumbledore was making eye contact with Ginny from the teachers table, Harry decided that although he would like to go up there and slam Dumbledore's face against the table, his priority would be getting him out of Ginny's mind.
Dumbledore had seen the two enter the hall, he was glad that Miss Weasley was sat in a way that allowed him to see in her eyes he'd learn what he can and if needs be then he'd check Harry's later. Dumbledore was unsure why he never probed Harry with legilimency but whenever he was going to he ended up thinking it was a bad idea.
Dumbledore entered Ginny's mind and was surprised to see a castle, was formed. It appears that she had some mind barriers in place. If she had some then Harry would likely have better, he felt rather fortunate that he didn't attempt to check Harry's. Fortunately Dumbledore should be able to get past without getting noticed, however before he could do anything he saw a person running at him with incredible speed.
The person was a young boy wearing Hogwarts uniform, he jumped in the air when he got close and Dumbledore was painted surprised when he saw that it was Harry. Harry had punched him in the nose and Dumbledore was thrown out.
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