Harry Potter Breaking The Chains

She stood up from her bed and looked down at the kitten in her arms. She was curled up in the crook of her arm against her chest and appeared to be sleeping. Ginny carefully made her way across the room and offered Hedwig an owl treat. With all the correspondence Ginny had been doing with Harry this summer, she kept a small stock of treats in her room now. She offered one to the mystery owl as well, but as Harry had said, the owl shook its head and turned its neck slightly away to signify that he wasn't interested.

Ginny shrugged and gave the second treat to Hedwig as well. She looked through all the supplies that the black owl had brought. There was a ton of food, the litter box he had talked about, a bag of catnip, and a couple toys. She thanked both owls profusely and asked "Can you guys hang out for a little bit? I want to go show off this precious little kitten and then write Harry a reply, okay?"

Hedwig hooted her acquiescence right away, so Ginny turned her attention to Harry. He thought about it for a second before hooting and bobbing his head slightly. Ginny shot them both a wide smile and said, "Thanks, I'll be back in a few." And then she was gone.

She carefully made her way down the stairs so as not to disturb the sleeping bundle of black fur in her arms. She walked into the kitchen and was greeted by a chorus of "Happy Birthday" from all occupants of the room. The kitten's head shot up at the unexpected noise, and she shot out of Ginny's arms and out of the room before the red haired birthday girl could react. "Oh, you scared her away," Ginny huffed.

"Scared what away?" someone asked, Ginny didn't pay attention to whom the voice belonged.

"My kitten," Ginny replied. "I haven't named her yet. Now I'll have to go find where she's hiding."

"Where did you get a kitten, dear?" her mother asked.

"Oh," Ginny's cheeks tinged the faintest shade of pink, a testament to how composed she had become over the years. "Harry sent her to me… for my birthday," Ginny explained as she turned on her heel and strode out of the room in search of her kitten.

A few minutes later, Ginny coaxed the black ball of fur out from under the couch and once again let her curl up in her arms. She began thinking of names for her as she walked back into the kitchen.

"So Harry sent you that kitten, eh?" Fred asked.

"Mighty nice of him, that was," George added.

"Indeed, he is quite thoughtful, wouldn't say George?"

"Why, I would say so, Fred."

"Quite the catch, that one."

"Oh yes, he's simply dreamy."

"Why if we weren't sure he didn't swing that way -"

"-and we are sure aren't we, Fred?"

"Pretty sure, my good twin."

"Alas, if only things were different, we'd be vying for his attention."

"We wouldn't mind sharing, mind you -"

"-after all, we're sure he's plenty man to handle the both of us."

"Cut it out, you two," Mrs. Weasley admonished her sons. Ginny meanwhile had largely ignored their banter and was now trying to eat her breakfast with her one free hand. The other arm was still holding the kitten in her lap, scratching behind her ears as Harry had suggested. After scarfing down her breakfast as fast as she could handle one handedly, she scrambled away from the table and back to the stairway.

"Well I'm off to write Harry a reply. The owls are upstairs in my room waiting for me," she explained to her family. She ascended the stairs and stopped off on the first floor, immediately heading back to her room. She laid the kitten down on her bed where she scratched it some more while thinking up a name for her. She finally decided on Emerald. She'd call her Em for short.

"What do you think, Em?" she asked her kitten. "Will Emerald do for you?" The kitten purred affectionately into Ginny's hand in reply, which Ginny took as a yes. With that settled she left Em on her bed with one of her toys and walked over to her desk. She sat down to write a reply.

After a few minutes of writing, she stopped and tapped that quill against the parchment for a minute. After rubbing her chin for a moment in thought, she crumpled up the parchment and started over. Harry would have laughed if he was capable of doing so in owl form. He was tempted to retrieve the discarded parchment from her trash bin but decided against it. He didn't want to arouse any suspicion, and it really wouldn't be right of him to invade her privacy like that.

Several more minutes passed before Ginny signed her name, finishing the letter. She tucked it into an envelope and wrote Harry's name. Turning to the two owls perched on the windowsill, she asked, "So which one of you wants to take this?"

Hedwig hooted and stuck her leg out, signifying that she would be the one to take the letter. It made sense since she was Harry's owl. Ginny thanked both of the owls and appreciatively stroked both of their feathers. Harry felt a little awkward at the attention but found that he rather enjoyed it in an odd sort of way. He hooted his thanks in reply, and the two owls took off out of the window.

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