Harry Potter Preferences ♦

#48 Flirting

I'm in quarantine so I'm gonna have plenty of time to write, yay

Just to be clear, you and the guys are not dating yet in those ! I know the story line is very messed up in this book haha so yeah, in my mind they happen a few days / weeks or months before they ask you out/you ask them out

Also I'm thinking about making this book genderless, let me know if that's something you'd like ! 

Harry : You were a bit of an enigma for Harry. He never thought he would feel awkward about flirting with you, because all he wanted was to make you laugh. But he knew you only thought he was being friendly with you and it drove him insane. 

"So," you muttered one day during a Divination class, "do you think Trelwaney's glasses are made of crystal balls?"

"That would explain the huge eyes," he laughed with you, "but does that mean the little ornaments on her shawl are tiny crystal balls too?"

You kept giggling together for the rest of the class, ignoring Trelawney, Pravati and Lavender who glared daggers at the both of you every time one of you snorted.Then, you made him look at your classmates through the crystal ball that was placed between the two of you and laughed even harder at their distorted face. At some point, you had to readjust your seats so you could look at the same person at the same time, and ended up sitting very, very close to him.

"Hey, Y/N," Ron called from the other side of the classroom, where he was seated next to Seamus, "might as well sit directly on Harry's lap!"

You blushed hard and went back to your original position, opposite to Harry. Meanwhile, Harry turned to Ron and made a rude gesture with his hand. 

"Harry, no, not to me!" you giggled when you saw him trying to look at you through the ball. 

"Aw, that was cute though!" he protested playfully, and you stuck out your tongue. "I mean it, I think you're beautiful."

He had said that without even thinking and it confused you a bit.

"Thanks, you're pretty cute yourself."

Ron : You were walking in the schoolyard with Ginny during a break when you bumped into Ron. You tried to say hi, but before you could even open your mouth, he was already long gone. He didn't even look at you. 

"What's the matter?"You asked Ginny with a frown. 

"He's, uh, how can I say..." she mused and struggled to find the right words. "Don't tell him I told you, okay?"

"Pinky swear?"

You held your pinky at her eye level, and she locked her own with it. Ron had now found his friends and Hermione was laughing very loudly at something Harry had just said. Ginny briefly glanced at her brother to make sure he was too far out to hear what she was about to say. 

"Okay, so, Fred told me that Ron kinda has a crush on you" she said and you gasped, feeling your face turn bright red. "George added some time later, that, apparently, he's been trying to flirt with you but in a very awkward manner and now he's feeling defeated because he's done all he could and you're not getting it."

"How was I supposed to get that he was flirting with me?" you replied in disbelief. "Last time he talked to me, he asked me if I needed help to tie my shoelaces!"

Ginny looked at you dead in the eyes and lifted her eyebrow, and you "ooh"-ed quietly. Flirting in a very awkward manner? It did make sense to you at that moment, because you suddenly remembered how often Ron had asked you if you needed help for the most random and trivial things. There had also been time when he had complimented you on your school uniform or wand, before his ears turned red and he ran away.