Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
THE SEER OVERHEARD
The fact that Harry Potter was going out with Ginny Weasley seemed
to interest a great number of people, most of them girls, yet Harry found
himself newly and happily impervious to gossip over the next few weeks.
After all, it made a very nice change to be talked about because of something
that was making him happier than he could remember being for a very long
time, rather than because he had been involved in horrific scenes of Dark
Magic.
“You’d think people had better things to gossip about,” said Ginny, as
she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading
the Daily Prophet. “Three dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda
Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a hippogriff tattooed across your
chest.”
Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.
“What did you tell her?”
“I told her it’s a Hungarian Horntail,” said Ginny, turning a page of the
newspaper idly. “Much more macho.”
“Thanks,” said Harry, grinning. “And what did you tell her Ron’s got?”
“A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.”
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