Author's Note: This chapter does not take place directly following chapter three. It takes place about halfway through the year, the night after a Quidditch match.
"Gin."
Ginny was struggling to wake. She had been up late the night before, after Gryffindor's win at Quidditch. Harry was amazing, she thought.
Harry is amazing.
For Harry was standing over her now, trying to wake her up. She realized that not only had she been up late the night before, but she hadn't gone to bed at all, and had fallen asleep in the common room.
"What?" she murmured sleepily.
"I want to show you something." he asked before walking over to one of the tables.
She eventually got out of the couch she had become stuck in during her slumber, and followed him.
"Want to go for a walk?" Harry asked.
"What?" She looked at her watch. Her eyes widened. "Harry, its four in the morning! What were you thinking waking me up this early?" To complete the image of drowsiness, she yawned.
"Oh, I just thought you might want to see this," he gestured to the table.
Laying there was a cloak. It was silver and felt like liquid when she touched it.
She gasped. "Harry, that's an invisibility cloak!"
"You think I don't know that?"
"But, where'd you get it?"
"Dad gave it to me last night. I can't believe he gave it to me. This cloak is practically legend. All the adventures he had with it. Anyway, I decided to use it tonight, and I found something. Come on."
He grabbed the cloak in one hand and her hand in the other and threw it over them both.
"What about Hermione?" asked Ginny.
"I don't know, I wanted to show it to you first. Besides, Hermione, break a rule? I should think not."
She laughed. Part of her was flattered that he wanted to show her first.
"So where are we going?" she asked, now much more awake.
"Can't tell you. I have to show you." Was all he said before pulling her out of the common room.
She followed him halfway around the castle it seemed. Eventually they reached an old unused classroom, and he pulled her inside.
"Look over there." She did, and she saw a magnificent mirror, as tall as the room. Atop was written words in some other language, Erised something or other.
"I don't know what it does, but when I look in it, I see me as Quidditch Captain, and Head Boy too. Maybe it tells the future. What do you see?" he asked curiously, as she walked closer.
She gasped when she saw them. Her parents. Her father was tall and red-haired, with glasses, and her mother was short, pudgy with a very kind face. They were smiling at something on the right side of the mirror.
"I don't think it shows the future," she whispered.
Ginny followed her parents gaze, to see two teenagers, one black-haired, the other red.
They were about seventeen or so, probably fresh out of Hogwarts, and were kissing.
Her eyes widened further than it seemed possible when she realized this was her and Harry.
"Well?" Harry asked, gesturing with his hands for her to elaborate on her shocked face.
She couldn't think of a suitable lie, so she settled for a half-truth. "I see my parents. Smiling at me."
"Oh."
"It seems you two have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised," came a calm voice. They both spun around to see Professor Dumbledore smiling at them.
"Er, yes Professor," said Harry nervously.
"Any idea what it does?" Dumbledore asked curiously.
"Not really, no."
Ginny looked up at the inscription on the top of the mirror. After seeing the mirror, she looked at it differently. She read it backwards.
"It shows you nothing more or less -," started Dumbledore.
"- than the deepest desire of our hearts." finished Ginny, turning around. "It shows not our face but our heart's desire."
"Yes, Ms. Weasley." Dumbledore beamed at her. "Harry, you have grown up the youngest of seven brothers. You see yourself better than all of them. With the House Cup and Quidditch Cup. Everything you want." Ginny could have sworn she saw Dumbledore wink at him.
"And you Virginia, have never known your parents. You see them being proud of you. Smiling at you." She was sure that he winked at her.
It was almost as though he knew she had seen Harry.
He winked at Harry, too.
But what else did Harry see?
She looked at him curiously, to see him smiling back at her.