Life is Full of Surprises( Harry Potter love story) Part 34

The next morning you awoke before anyone else and since you couldn't fall back asleep you just started your day. It was a beautiful Saturday and it was surprising warm for October so you put on a pair of jean shorts a white tank top and a red cardigan. Having nothing else to do you went down to the common room and decided to wait until someone else got up. You picked up a random book from a table and began to read it. " Happy Birthday!" You put down your book to see Seamus sitting next to you. " What?" You asked confused. " It's your birthday isn't it? It's October 31st..." He said giving you a strange look. " Oh yeah that's today isn't it." you said laughing at your cluelessness. " Wow I can't believe I forgot my own birthday." " Want to go down to breakfast?" Seamus asked. You nodded to him and you followed him down to the Great Hall. " Good morning." You turned around hoping to see Harry, but it was Dave. You heart started to beat faster and you must have had a weird expression on your face because Seamus looked at you concerned. " Good morning." you said coolly. " So my offer from last night, it's still on the table so tell me if you're interested. I was thinking maybe tonight?" he said glancing at Seamus who had been inching closer and closer to you. "I can't I'm busy." I said plainly. " With this one?" He said glancing at Seamus again and laughing. " _ lets go." Seamus said grabbing your hand and pulling you into the Great Hall. Your hands were shaking slightly, which made Seamus ask " Are you okay? Who was that?" You continued to explain how you met him over the summer and how he has been following you around ever since and how creepy he is. " Stay away from him." Seamus said protectively. "I'm not stupid. I'm trying to he just seems to pop up everywhere." Soon enough Harry came down to the Great Hall followed by Ron, Hermione and Ginny. Ginny came running towards you nearly tackling you to the ground. " Happy Birthday." She screamed happily. You couldn't help but laugh at her enthusiasm. " Happy Birthday Sis." Harry said ruffling your hair. Hermione and Ron both said Happy Birthday and sat down to eat. " George did you hear that it's someone's birthday?" Fred asked playfully. " Why yes, I think I did!" George exclaimed. " I think this calls for some singing, don't you think George?" Fred continued. " No guys, seriously I'm okay you don't need to sing for me." You said trying to save yourself from embarrassment. " We didn't sing to you last year so we need to make up for it this year." George said matter a factly. " Please don't." You tried pleading with them. But as you expected they did anyways. They stood on their seats and on the count of three started to sing Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs. Quickly all of the Gryffindors and most of the other house were singing along. Even Dumbledore had stood to sing along.

After they were done, people went on with their days which included putting their names into the goblet of fire. Tonight the 3 champions were going to be chosen, which will be an interesting way to end your birthday. The post came and you were surprised to see that you had gotten a letter. You opened it slowly and it read.

_ ,
We forbid you to go to that terrible school anymore. When you come home this is where you will stay. I don't know what kind of lies they are telling you at that school but none of it is true. You will no longer be around those freaks. I am your mother and Vernon is your father. I thought you were smart enough, but I guess you're just as stpuid your no good worthless cousin.
- Your mother

Your face quickly dropped and it didn't go unnoticed. " What's wrong?" Harry asked. You handed him the letter. Serious deja vu right now. " They can't stop you from coming here you know Dumbledore wouldn't let them do it, I wouldn't let them. I will take you myself if I have to." Harry said trying to comfort you. Ginny snatched the letter and read over it. Her face got red with anger. " They can't do that. I'll talk to mum. She loves you she wouldn't mind having you come live with us. That can't do this, they just can't do this." Ginny looked like she was going to be in tears. It pained you to see how upset it made her. " Did I hear that _ is going to be living with us? " George asked budding into the conversation. " Her parents aren't going to let her come back to Hogwarts." Ginny explain. " They can't do that! Dumbledore wouldn't let them." Fred said angrily. " It's okay guys, don't worry about it. I'll figure something out." you said getting up and leaving.

You left the Great Hall alone and where grabbed from behind and pulled into an empty corridor. " Serious you need to stop doing that, it would be ten times easier to just ask me to follow you." you said to Draco. " Sorry I'll remember that next time." He said with a smirk on his face. " Happy birthday." He continued leaning in to kiss you. "Um.. no." You said putting your hand up to stop him. " I'm still not happy with you for cursing me. And yeah I know you didn't mean to, but you meant to hit Harry and you promised you would try to be nice. And from what I hear you started the whole thing." "I'm sorry. I really am, you know how I can get. Please I'll be better." You had never seen him like this before. " Maybe, you are going to have to prove it to me." you said and with that you left him.

You spent most of the rest of the day with Ginny. I was fun, you two sat by the lake and talked and skipped rocks. Seamus and Dean came and said hello and hung around for a while, which was pretty fun. You finally headed back inside for dinner and waited for the three champions to be chosen. Finally Dumbledore stood and went to the cup and there was a spark and a paper flew out. " Fleur Delacour, the champion for Beauxbatons" there was clapping and then another spark. "Viktor Krum the champion for Durmstrang" more clapping and then the final spark. "Cedric Diggory the champion for Hogwarts." Everyone clapped and cheered for the champions, then unexpectedly there was another spark and the goblet spit out another piece of paper. " Harry Potter....." Dumbledore said. Everyone went silent. Your jaw dropped and you froze. You thought you were going to have a heart attack or be sick or something. This couldn't be happening. Harry got up slowly and walked to the room where the rest of the champions were.

You found yourself sitting on a couch in the common room with the rest of the Gryffindor house waiting for Harry, but unlike everyone else you weren't excited. You knew Harry could die in this and that was the last thing that needed to happen right now. As Harry came in everyone cheered and congratulated him. You pushed through the crowd trying to get to him, but when you finally did he had left and was on his way up stairs to his dorm. You sighed and decided to do the same.

You couldn't even get to Harry the next couple of days. He was always surrounded by people and the one time you were about to go talk to him Hermione had dragged him off somewhere. " Ron is mad at him, you know." Ginny said as we sat down in the Great Hall noticing that Harry and Ron weren't sitting together like they always did. " Yeah I noticed. Why? I mean I don't really get why he is mad." you said. " Yeah I don't really either. Stupid boy stuff I guess." Ginny laughed. You left the Great Hall and headed to our next classes Ginny went off to Care of Magical Creatures and you to Potions. " Hey can we talk?" Draco asked coming up from behind you. " Sure why not." you said following him into an empty classroom. " Are you okay? You look kind of out of it." Draco observed. " I'm fine, just tired I guess." you lied. " I know you're lying, I can see it in your eyes. Do you want to really tell me what's wrong?" He said. " Family stuff and now this stuff with Harry, I haven't even been able to talk to him set." you continued to tell him about the letter and how you really wanted to talk to Harry about what was going on, but you could never get him alone. It just all spilled out. " Sounds like you could use a friend right now, how about you meet me back here after classes are over today and we can talk." Draco suggested. " Yeah that sounds good. Now I'm going to get to class before I'm late."

The day came to an end and you went to go meet Draco in the classroom. " Hey" He greeted you. " Hi." you said back setting your books down and taking a seat. It was silent for a few minutes and then you two began to talk. Nothing too interesting, just chatting and it was nice. And this continued almost every day for a couple of weeks. Draco really was a nice guy when you got to know him. " So I'm really not supposed to tell anyone but there is supposed to be this ball right before Christmas. And I was thinking that we should go together." Draco said one day as you were sitting in the class room with him. " Really? Yeah that would be nice." You smiled. He leaned down quickly and gave you a quick peck on the lips. " What was that for?" you asked. " For making me happy." Draco replied with a smirk. You laughed and got up saying " Should really be going. I'll talk to you later." and with that you left.

You walked into the common room and found Harry by himself. " Hey." you said sitting next to him. He was silent. " I'm guessing you read the article?" you said noticing the Daily Prophet next to him. Rita Skeeter had written a four page article about Harry and how pitiful he was and then ended it by saying that he was in love with Hermione. Harry sigh in response. " What about Ron? Is that getting any better?" you asked hopefully. Harry laughed " Not even he hasn't even looked at me for weeks." You put your arms around him hugging him and rested your head on his shoulder. " I'm sorry." you said sadly. " Don't worry about it. So how is everything going with you?" he asked changing the subject. " Fine I guess. Petunia sent a couple more letters saying that I will becoming home for Christmas and then once I'm home that's where I will stay." you said sitting up straight. " You're not going...... Are you?" Harry asked. " Of course not. If they want me out of this school they are going to have to drag me out kicking and screaming." Harry laughed " Why am I not surprised that that's your response." " Because you know me to well." you laughing a little and decided to go find Ginny.

It was the day of the first task and you were more nervous than Harry was. You weren't even sure if he had a plan yet. Leave it to Harry to not figure anything out until the last second or even go out there with out a plan. You sat in the stands tapping your feet nervously. As Champion after champion fought the dragon you began to get more nervous. Both Cedric and Fleur had walked away injured. Finally it was Harry turn and he walked out looking terrified. He did a spell and next thing you knew his broom came flying and he jumped on it. He sped around effortlessly until he had gotten the egg. He had done it the fastest out of all the champions, it was amazing. You were on your feet screaming and cheering along with many other. You were shaking again but this time with excitement. You ran down from the stands and made your way towards the tent to congratulate Harry. " Oh my god you were amazing! You beat everyones times!" you enthusiastically. " Thanks." he said smiling. Ron come up to you too and gave you a look. You took the hint and said " I'll leave you two to talk." You grabbed Ginny and made your way to the castle.

Word had gotten out about the Yule Ball and everyone was excited but stressed about getting a date. You were so excited that you didn't have to worry about that because you already had one. You were even more excited because Ginny had also been asked so you wouldn't be alone. Only 4th years and up can go unless you were asked by someone older. Things were just getting better and better. Your parents had stopped sending you letters about going home and Dave had been leaving you alone! " Hey there." Spoke to soon. " What do you want." you said to Dave who was at the bottom of there staircase. " You." he said confidently. " Wow you're original." you said rolling your eyes and trying to walk past him, but he grabbed your wrist. "Okay I don't get what your problem is. Just stop playing hard to get. Everyone knows you want me." " Let go of me now." you said angrily. He yanked you towards him making you trip down a few steps. In one swift movement you had your wand out and pointed at his face. " I'm going to say it one more time. Let go of my now!" you said more forcefully, but he ignored you. " What's going on here." You turned to see Harry, Ron, and Hermione staring down at the scene. Dave reluctantly let go of your wrist and you lowered your wand but didn't put it away. He walked of and you ran up the stairs trying to go past Ron, Harry, and Hermione. " _ wait. What just happened." Hermione asked concerned. " He's crazy! He wont leave me alone. No one believed me when I said it before, but this is basically what he has been doing to me all year and it sucks! I can't turn a corner without wondering if he might be there, he scares me." you nearly yelled and stormed off.

Later that night in the common room Harry and Ron were talking about how they were going to get dates. " I have an idea. What about you two." Ron said referring to me and Ginny. " You guy don't have dates. Why don't you come with me and Harry." " As tempting as that sounds Ron, Ginny and I already have dates, so you're out of luck."you said. " Let's go up stairs." Ginny said and you followed her up to our room. " So why wont you tell me who you are going with?" Ginny asked. " You will find out soon enough." you said with a smirk on your face. There was a tap at your window and you saw an owl. It had a note attached to its left foot and you took it. It was addressed to you. It read:

Meet me at our meeting stop at midnight. We need to talk.

" What's that?" Ginny asked. " Nothing." I said plainly stuffing the note in my pocket. At 5 minutes to midnight you got out of bed and started to walk to the classroom where you and Draco usually met. I waited in the classroom for a few minutes until Draco came. You smiled in the darkness as he approached you. " We need to talk." Draco said plainly. " No really? I didn't get that from your note." you said sarcastically. " I don't think we should go to the Yule Ball together." Draco blurted out. " W-what.." you stutter. " We can't go together. I can't be seen with a Gryffindor." he said letting his head drop. " Oh okay. It's fine. Well I need to go." you said coolly and left. As soon as you got fair enough away from the room you broke into a sprint with tears streaming down your face. Once you got back to the common room you sat down on a couch pulled your knees to your chest as you cried. This sucked, leave it to Draco to do this days before the ball. " Are you okay?" A familiar voice asked. " I'm fine." you responded to Seamus. " Oh really then why are you crying?" he questioned. " I'm not crying... I just have something in my eye." you said rubbing the tears from your eyes. " I know you well enough to know when you're crying and when you're not." Seamus said lifting your face so you would look at him. You smiled " What are you doing out of bed this late?" " I couldn't sleep and I could be asking you the exact same thing." Seamus said. When you didn't answer he changed the subject. " So are you going to the Yule Ball." " Not anymore." you said bitterly. " The guy told me he couldn't go with me because ' he couldn't be seen with a Gryffindor'" " Is that why you were crying?" Seamus asked. You were silent but that was a good enough answer. " Well he's stupid. He should be lucky to be able to go with someone as amazing as you." " Thanks." you smiled. " It's just so frustrating because I already have my dress and everything." you said. " Well I mean, if you wanted to, we could go together. I mean just so your dress wouldn't go to waste but I completely understand if you wouldn't-" You cut him off with a kiss. " I would absolutely love to go to the Yule Ball with you Seamus."