In Half-Blood Prince, teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. A series of related oneshots exploring that iconic sentence. Various canon and plausibly canon pairings.

Ginny persuades her parents to let her visit Shell Cottage after Harry and company escape from Malfoy Manor. Luckily, she's on excellent terms with her exes. Canon except for the premise.

Neville is struggling to find a way forward after the war, living alone in London, depressed and apathetic. He wants to make Luna happy, but to him their friendship is invariably platonic. He is hopeful, but he wallows. Oneshot, several years post-DH.

From Harry's first introduction to the Order of the Phoenix to the final Battle of Hogwarts, Ginny is forced to wait in ignorance as her family and friends fight Voldemort and risk their lives. This is a series of canon scenes exploring her relegation outside the Order, beginning with the night she and Mrs. Weasley wait at the Burrow during the Battle of Seven Potters.

"Normally she might have tried for a more subtle approach, giving Dean a few minutes' head start to the boys' side of the dormitories before slipping upstairs after him, but this morning she took no notice of any curious, slightly starstruck younger students." An explicit, plausibly canon, somewhat desultory Ginny/Dean oneshot, taking place during Half-Blood Prince.

"Later, Neville wallowed. He imagined kissing her, one hand in her flowing hair, one hand on her back, and felt nothing. He wanted to love her as more than a sister. He tried. But he couldn't. And he couldn't lie to her." A few years after the war, Neville struggles to come to terms with his feelings for Luna.

"He knew Ginny wouldn't want a ring. He knew that. And yet, somehow he found himself in a Muggle jewelry shop, keeping an eye on the darkening London sky." A newly affianced Harry ponders whether to give Ginny a gift to commemorate their engagement.