"Harry"
"Yes Ginny?"
The redhead sunk down into a chair next to his as he went over some sort of project she couldn't understand, for a moment she wondered if he had invented a new language using only Runes but ignored that for more pressing matters.
"Could I ask you for a favor?"
"Of course my dear, what is the problem?" He inquired, looking up and focusing his attention onto her, thus earning a small blush in the process.
"I uhm… well I wasn't able to finish my Astronomy homework for tomorrow evening and…"
"And?"
"Could you please shag Sinistra into a good mood? I mean no offense, but she has been a huge bitch lately."
"Ginny…" he softly growled, the constant attempt to set him up with women was getting a bit irritating at this point.
"She's right," Hermione chimed in as she approached the table from behind. "We have received more homework in the past two weeks than we did the last three months of last year."
Harry, however, would not go down without a fight, "We are a year older now, perhaps the increase in homework is due to this."
"If only," the bushy haired Witch sighed as she sat down as well, "it isn't just the number of assignments, but the length of it. I mean we had to write an essay on the historic differences between every planet on Monday, and then an essay on the similarities on Wednesday."
This had the emerald-eye boy gritting his teeth for some odd reason, why the hell was it his problem that Sinistra was acting more uptight lately? "I am sure that…"
"Harry, I know you haven't had much experience dealing with older women and their hormones… but trust me, this is because she isn't getting laid."
Hermione nodded in agreement with the redhead, "She is clearly willing, I don't understand what the problem…"
"Maybe the bloody problem is I am sick and tired of solving everyone's damn issues! If she is so pent up, then she can go to a bar and find someone to fuck like a normal adult rather than depend on a BLOODY TEENAGER!" He shouted, before standing up and storming off to his room, leaving a stunned common room behind.
"That went well…" Ginny muttered, while Hermione muttered out a few choice curses towards herself and the 'plan'.
...
The boy-who-lived sighed as he sat down on his bed, putting his head between his hands to attempt and calm himself down. What the hell was wrong with him lately? Yelling at people he cared about for no reason, ignoring others…
"Harry? What's wrong?"
"It hasn't gotten any better…" he muttered back to Hedwig, who softly approached and sat down next to him. "If anything, it is worse . I yelled at Hermione and Ginny for no reason…"
"I don't believe that, there is always some reason."
He growled before standing up and beginning to pace back and forth, "I am so sick of being some sort of problem solver to everyone. First year was Quirrel, the Stone, and the Troll. Second had the Basilisk and Lockhart. Last year was proving Sirius innocent, helping Remus, getting Lucius elected, dealing with politics and all these people who want my attention…"
The white-haired girl stood, before gently taking his face in her hands and putting their forehead together, "You are overwhelmed and tired ."
"I had a vacation, I shouldn't be."
"Not physically," she easily corrected, "but mentally . You have been stressing yourself out over every little thing and now that you have turning people down…"
He pulled back immediately, eyeing her in a way that that spoke of mistrust, and it broke her heart. "You are part of this… this attempt to manipulate me."
The former owl had to focus so that her voice wouldn't crack in anguish, "Yes, it was my idea."
" Why"
"Harry… you spent so many years denying who you are, what you are. Even now you do it every single day. You are constantly on guard, constantly scheming and manipulating for others while inadvertently hurting yourself. I… we just want you to be happy."
"And you think that fucking everything that moves will do this?"
Her amber eyes turned sorrowful, "Are you not happy with us? Are you not happier now that you have Hermione, Ginny, and Luna in your life?"
"I am… but the others…"
"You are human Harry. Despite everything else, despite your power and intellect, despite your maturity and capabilities you are still a teenager. Why are you trying to change that? Why are you trying so hard to deny yourself pleasure in life?"
"Do you think you are not enough? That the others are not enough?"
"Of course not, I know we are, that I am if I wanted to be… but that is another sacrifice. All you do is sacrifice for others, to give up happiness in exchange for a smile. Can't you see that we just want you . We want the real Harry, not the perfect person you keep trying to be, not the one who conforms to society or acts like everyone else. Would you want Luna to do that? To change so she fits in?"
"Of course not" he snapped.
"Then why do you think we want you to do that?"
"I… because… it isn't…"
She closed the distance, and this time he made no move to pull back. "Ask yourself this, if you were happy last year but unhappy this year… what has changed?"
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