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Promises Broken...Promises Made...


It was evening and Ginny was sitting by herself near the fireplace quietly. Hermione and Ron had gone to meet all the professors to much of Ron’s resistance. Harry was done with talking to Demelza walked towards Ginny to see her sitting quietly near the fire.
“Hey Gin,” he said softly in her ears from behind
“hey,” she replied and saw him take a seat opposite her
“you alright?” asked Harry. He hated to ask the question when he knew that the pressure of the reunion and last evening’s event was taking toll on her but he didn’t have another way to start a conversation.
“just…tired,” said Ginny
“you want to say something, Gin?” he asked
“um…”she herself sounded unsure whether she should speak out what she was thinking and feeling right now.
Harry didn’t press her on but waited for her to come around. He looked at her and she looked back at him still weighing her thoughts.
“um…Harry I…I don’t know I feel…that it was because of me that Sara’s friend is no more with her”. Harry didn’t say anything but wanted her to continue and she did tearing her eyes off from him and staring in to the fire
“It was on her birthday that Sara was in her room and she heard a howl. She thought it was her friend. It howled twice or thrice. It was like it wanted to send some message to someone. Sara wanted to go and check but I stopped her. I tried to convince her that he might just be wishing her and he wouldn’t want her put herself in a trouble by breaking rules,” she said and looked at Harry
“I was so stupid to even try convincing her…I shouldn’t have done that…I should have let her go. I could have stuck up for her if anyone would ask me. How many times have I not done in my past years? But no…I had to be too much of my head girl self to avoid her from going. In that way at least she could have seen him one last time,” she added softly and staring at her hands. Harry stood up and went and sat next to her and placed his hand over her shoulder and tried to console her that there was nothing she could do when she had helped her few times all ready and taking a risk like that without Minerva knowing could have been very dangerous. But she shot back saying that when didn’t they do any such dangerous thing to which Harry replied
“Gin, werewolves are dangerous. We nearly lost our heads back in our 3rd year. You obviously couldn’t put Sara and yourself in such a trouble could you?”
“but Harry, Sara knows how to handle her friend”
“what if he wasn’t her friend and what if he would have been someone else like the last time,” said Harry remembering about Gorge telling them about Sara’s encounter with a foreign werewolf
“Harry” Ginny started off but was cut
“Harry is right Ginny. It could have been someone else other then Rahul,” said Sara standing behind the chair which Harry vacated. Harry and Ginny were so busy that they didn’t realize that Sara entered the common room and could hear what they were talking
“And I couldn’t risk you by getting hurt myself by some other werewolf. I have already been a too much of burden to everybody out here. It was a right decision that you took that day to convince me not to go out. So don’t think that it was because of you I couldn’t get to see my friend for the last time,” said Sara
“Sara, I am really very sorry,” said Ginny
“Ginny, please don’t apologize for it was no mistake of yours. I was just bound to not see my friend before he…he” but Sara couldn’t speak any more. She looked away from them and looked straight out of the window. After some moments of silence the portrait door opened and in stepped Hermione, Ron and Dean.
The common room soon had people whispering furiously as they headed towards Harry, Ginny and Sara. the students were all excited to see their ex Gryffindors especially the 2nd and the 1st years because they had got to learn very little about their ex 7th year students especially the famous trio and also Dean Thomas who was now already famous amongst the students especially girls since he got selected for the Puddlemere United this selection season. Ron for one was very happy to see Dean there instead of Cormac Maclaggen. Dean and Ron looked at each other as they soon realized the increase in whisperings in the common room as soon as they entered. They didn’t bother much but walked ahead and sat down. Ron and Hermione took the sofa and Dean went and sat on the arm chair. Dean sat opposite to Sara and gave her a small nod and she greeted back the same way. Harry and Ron spoke to him briefly about it when he asked but he didn’t pry much. They sat there silently for another few minutes and it was becoming awkward and disturbing as every second ticked by when Hermione finally tried to break the silence.
“um…Sara…so how is your studies going on?” everyone looked at her. Hermione was complete loss of words and ideas to start a conversation and the silence was sort of killing everyone but no one knew how to break it and when Hermione courageously took it up she went red. It was obviously no time to ask how was studies going on and that too of a girl who has had, had a disturbing day. Sara looked up at Hermione and gave her small smile to credit her for her smartness and courage to break the silence. She didn’t feel bad but was slightly relaxed seeing Hermione trying to bring back a normal atmosphere.
“it is going on fine Hermione. Really I am fortunate that I am continuing here and going to finish my last year from this school. Yeah I do have problems with planets sometimes but that’s all right because looks like the planets aren’t right for me right now and the moment I take up the Jupiter chart” Sara explained “or that of the Saturn’s looks like they shift for me accordingly making it slightly difficult and irritating me to the very end of giving up on them,” said Sara, “but on a whole I am really liking it. It reminds me of my old school a lot and my friends. The Gryffindor quidditch team is so much like our team back in my school. It’s really good to be around them and since Ginny is a member I get to know a lot about the team and it literally helps me to sort of remember my own days of being a quidditch member and attending all those meetings. It used to be real fun. And when she talks about Jimmy and Ritchie’s antiques it cracks me up. They are real laugh. Demi has a hell of a time managing both of them”
“You play quidditch?” asked Dean
“Um…yeah, mostly a chaser or a seeker but I don’t play here,” said Sara shrugging. Amazingly Sara took on the conversation of the quidditch further involving the guys to Hermione’s disappointment but she was relaxed nonetheless that everyone was talking and moreover that Sara was involved too. That probably surprised Ginny. Ginny was quiet for quite sometime till Hermione, Ron and Dean came up and she herself didn’t know how to break the silence and when Mione did it she wasn’t comfortable at all to participate but seeing Sara getting involved she relaxed slightly. The conversation was carried forward by the guys and later all that Sara did was to listen to them silently. She became her usual self of sitting quietly like she did it when she first came to the Burrow. Ron noticed the sudden silence of her but didn’t press her to talk much. He had faced such kind of situations before too. When Sirius died Harry would lock himself up and it would difficult for him and Hermione to talk to him and eventually Harry would come out of the room and his state after few days, when the war ended he himself was very quiet and didn’t talk much but ended up arguing with Hermione a lot. But Sara was turning up to be a different girl. She converses and then tries to create a normal atmosphere for everyone to join in and later she herself quietuses down herself. Sara was in her own world when she heard the word reunion Ball. She sighed inwardly and hoped no one would ask anything about it to her. As Sara was hoping not to get involved there on the other hand Ginny too was thinking of keeping herself out of from the topic because she didn’t want Sara to feel horrible and she was thinking hard also to change the topic. It was Fiona who joined them was talking excitedly about the Ball. None of the school knew about Sara and her friend and so Fiona in all her ignorance continued talking about and all that they could do was smile at her.
“and Sara, I know you are not well but please, please will you come to the ball. I know you don’t want to, you never wanted to in first place and no doubt bad health is no reason you will end up coming to the Ball but please will you make it, please,” pleaded Fiona. Sara who was quiet and hardly heard about what was being discussed was startled when Fiona addressed. Sara didn’t realize when Fiona turned up. “Huh…um…Fio I…I don’t know, I…don’t think so I would be coming. I’ll let you know if I am coming Fio, sure,” said Sara
“And whom will you come with?” asked Fiona
“Fio, I told you I can come without a partner I don’t care about it at all. If I feel alright I will be there in the Great Hall,” said Sara
“You should have said yes to Roger, Sara. You know if someone is there around it is good at least you wont feel alone,” said Fiona
“Didn’t I say I don’t care about being alone? I have been alone for quite sometime and I know how to pass my time when I am alone. Well alone in a party is not I have experienced so I wouldn’t mind experiencing that either. Don’t worry I will come,” said Sara
“You will come!” shrieked Fiona, “you said you’ll come!”
Sara sighed, “I don’t know”
“Hey you said you will come,” said Fiona pouting like a small girl
“Fio…” started off Ginny but she shut up as soon as she saw Sara trying to calm down
“Fio, I’ll be there but I wont guarantee how long I will be there, alright?” said Sara
“oh, that’s alright. I just want to see you once in that beautiful dress, Sara and anyway Ginny and the rest are doing such a cool job about this reunion I bet you will stay longer than you will think and you yourself will be very surprised how quickly time will pass by,” added Fiona excitedly
“Fio if you want to see me in that dress I will do a dress rehearsal for you before I sleep”
“no, I want you to come to the Ball in that dress,” said Fiona. Fiona acted like a 7 year old stubborn kid sometimes and what made Sara agree to her was what the trio and Ginny couldn’t understand.
“so you are coming, right?” asked Fiona once again
“Fio you ask one more time and I am not coming to the Ball,” said Sara sternly. She suddenly had a mother-ish or they could say an elder sister-ish-ness in her voice.
“oh, ok, I am not going to ask you,” she said quickly and got up and hugged Sara and whispered, “thanks, but you better get alright so that we can have fun tomorrow” and Sara gave small smile and nodded.
After Fiona left the guys looked at each other incredulously, “what was that all about?” asked Ron, “I have never seen any girl being so mad since her friend isn’t going to a Ball,” he continued and the other guys shrugged while Ginny and Hermione looked at Sara and said, “Sara, if you don’t want to come don’t force yourself”
“yeah, and I will talk to Fio. I guess the party mood itself is making her get high and she is acting like an immature kid,” continued Ginny and Sara just shook her head “forget it guys. I am alright right now that’s why I could say ok. Let’s see how I am tomorrow. If one of my mood swings gets on may be I will have to give it a drop anyways I have sort of got a knack of breaking promises so let this one also add up to my broken promises list,” she added ruefully.
“Sara, you haven’t promised her anything,” said Hermione and Sara just sighed, “guys just drop it, good night everybody,” she said and got up to leave
“you wont have dinner?” asked Ron and Sara just shook her head and didn’t turn to see them. She just walked up the stairs and vanished into the girls’ dorm.



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