The next day in the Great Hall,

Ron just joined hermione and harry. "Morning, love" he pecked mione's cheek.

"Good Morning, ron" she smiled.

"Hey mate" greeted harry.

"Hey, how was the meeting?" Asked ron.

"Boring" answered harry immediately.

"It's not that bad," said mione sharply.

"Whatever. Where are they?" Asked harry to ron searching everywhere.

"They who?" Asked ron, stuffing food into his mouth.

"Ginny and Kathy" responded hermione. Harry nodded.

"Oh! I forgot. Don't worry, I don't think they came out of the dormitory yet." Said ron reaching for the pumpkin juice.
But harry still has a worried look on his face.

Suddenly, an owl dropped a letter in front of harry. He know whose that was from and smiled instantly.

"Padfoot?" Asked hermione.

Harry nodded his head. "I wrote him last night"

After reading his letter, "even Padfoot is saying that I should apologise" huffed harry.

"Sirghu ksuu abuj dhis" said ron, something gibberish with his mouth full.

Mione rolled her eyes. "You told Padfoot about her?" She isn't that surprised.

"Of course!" Said harry as it's the most obvious thing.

"When?" Asked ron finally chewing all his food.

"During summer, he used to reply to me with all these lovesick ideas and I'm so thankful that I haven't followed any of it" he smiled to himself. He misses Sirius. He desperately wanted to see him.

"I'm still taking that objectionable that you didn't tell us" hermione glared.

"Come on, mione. Also, I asked him about Horace Slughorn" he said bringing both of their attention.

"Does he know about professor Slughorn?"

"Well, he said that Slughorn was Potions Professor when he studied here. Slughorn being the head of Slytherin house, marauders weren't that close to him. And they never interestingly participated in any of the slug clubs." Explained harry.

"Head of Slytherin house?" Repeated hermione.

"Woah" exclaimed ron.

"I wonder why Professor Dumbledore had to bring him back after all these years" doubted harry.

"They had to be a strong reason mate"

After some time, "why aren't they still here?" Groaned harry. "Maybe they're lost. I think I should go and check out" he said as he stood up.

******************************** Meanwhile, with Ginny and Kathy

"Do we really have to sit alone?" whined Kathy.

They're are sitting at one corner of the Gryffindor table. "You're not alone. You have me" winked ginny.

Kathy groaned and started to dig in the food.

"Hey, Kathy, ginny!" Greeted Neville.

"Hey Neville"

"Where's Luna?" Ginny feels like she's already got many friends in here. Greeted by someone increased her confidence.

"Oh! She's at the Ravenclaw table obviously" he pointed to luna who is talking with some brunette (cho)

Kathy stared wistfully at this brunette as if she saw her somewhere. Ginny noticed this and clarified her "in the train" she mouthed and they both smiled.

"Why aren't you sitting with harry, ron and hermione?" He asked.

They both glanced at each other unsure of what to say when someone walked to them.

"Hey, nev! Are we sitting here today?" Asked a girl followed by another and a boy.

"Sure" answered Neville vaguely.

Neville sat across them and the girls. That boy sat next to ginny.

"Saw you both yesterday, congratulations on making Gryffindor" this boy smiled brightly.

"Thanks" they both smiled.

"Oh, by the way, I'm Dean Thomas," he said.

"I'm Parvati Patil"

"I'm Padma Patil"

"You guys are-?" Asked Kathy.

"Twins, yes!" They snickered.

"I'm ginny and this is Kathy. It's great meeting you all"

"I'm a muggle too," said the dean.

"Wow, they are many muggles here. At first, I was worried thinking I was the only muggle" grinned Kathy.

"Don't worry about that, no one's gonna point out that except for Slytherins. Just stay away from them" said one of the twins.

Kathy eyed ginny but ginny ignored it.

"Where's seamus?" Asked Neville.

"He didn't wake up yet. Seems like he's enjoying his first day back that like" dean rolled his eyes with annoyance.

After some casual conversation, "when are the classes going to start?" Asked ginny.

"Tomorrow, heads will pin the schedule" answered the Padma.

"So, there's nothing to do today," said Kathy.

"I'm so excited to look around the school" exclaimed ginny.

"Me too" Kathy agreed.

"It will take you months to wander around the whole school. Still, I could help if you wanted a guide" declared the dean.

"There's harry," said Neville.

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Harry walked away from his friends searching for ginny and Kathy. Now he's feeling really guilty about last night.

He reached the door of the Great Hall and halted as he heard someone call his name.

He turned around to find it's Neville next to Parvati. In front of them, he saw ginny eyeing him with a strange expression.

He walked to them slowly not breaking his eye contact with ginny. After he reached, "hey guys" he said with no energy.

After exchanging some little talk, harry noticed that ginny's ignoring his eye contact now. She doesn't even look at him neither respond.

He's already getting tired of it. Without holding back he asked

"Ginny, can I talk to you?"
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Here's another chapter. I just wanted to show ginny and Kathy should have more friends.
Also about the one direction thing. I'm a big fan of Liam Payne(British singer) his birthday is at the end of this month. So, Directioners are changing their pfp to Liam in insta/watt, showing how much we love him. So, if anyone wants to participate, here's the picture

Just don't bother if you're not interested. All good.
Thanks for reading all this.

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