And then there was the plays he kept trying to present to her as new strategies to win more games. Every time the team lost a game, Ron would go ballistic and claim it was because she wasn't listening to him and giving his plays a chance. He simply wouldn't understand his dreamt up plays wouldn't work. That they were dangerous and would only succeed in getting someone seriously hurt or killed. Because not everyone could fly like Harry could. Hell, no one could fly like Harry could. Somehow he had convinced himself that being a master chess player on a family owned board, also meant he was a Master Strategist and by using that gift, he was a natural choice as the go-to guy for new plays on the quiditch field as well. His position as Team Keeper also meant he was the natural choice for the next Team Captain when Angelina graduated so he kept trying to show her the plays he dreamt up and trying to force her to use them. The rest of the newly structured team took to running interference for her as there was no talking to Ron on the matter.
Ginerva was spending the bulk of what free time she had trying to find a way to cover the rune on her face and crying over the destruction of her looks. She just didn't understand why if Harry hadn't wanted her he hadn't just said so. Instead, he had marred her beauty making it so no one else would want her either. That wasn't fair. She deserved a good future but with this ugly mark, it wasn't likely to happen. So she spent what free time she could find in her room crying as she tried and failed to cover the blemish.
Not for a second did she stop to realize she'd taken his coin without his knowledge or permission to be his potential woman. Operative word there. Potential. Not certain. Not wife or lover or girlfriend either. Just woman. And more than once he had actually told her he did not, and never would, want her. In that manner or any other. Yet she had kept taking his coin and hanging around him trying to force the issue against his clearly stated will. More than once she'd spread rumors throughout the school stating that she would be his bride because they had an agreement. And more than once she'd turned another girl away with vicious lies simply because she felt threatened by the girl. But by taking his coin for that purpose, she'd ruined any possible chance she might ever have had at a good future for herself. And now everyone in the school knew she had. It was bad enough they all thought her to be a thief. No. Knew her to be a thief. But knowing they all knew she'd taken coin from him to keep herself free for his needs just made her shame complete.
She, unlike Ron and Hermione, had given up any and all ideas of forcing Harry into removing the mark. She had heard what the Professor was telling them and did understand even if they did succeed in cornering him and trying to force him to remove them, it wouldn't work. His magic wasn't anchoring the mark to her face. Her own magic was. That meant he couldn't remove it unless he was willing to battle her magic to do so. And she was smart enough to realize that would hurt her. Badly.
She'd also given up any pretense of having friends or even people willing to listen to her or follow her direction. She didn't have any clout with the student base any more. This mark had told everyone she wasn't and never had been Harry's girlfriend and future wife no matter what she said to the contrary. At best, it let them all know she was nothing but his bought and paid for bit of fluff on the side. Because the rumors that had swirled around the Castle made certain to include what Harry thought her future prospects would be. And he'd said flat-out he thought her future to be that of someone's mistress. Not wife.
To her way of thinking, that was why he had marked her. Because he didn't want anyone else to marry her. And in that he'd succeeded. No upstanding boy with deep coffers ever would, considering this mark would tell everyone exactly who she was. She knew the story of Harry marking them had already escaped the Castle. Sue Bones had made that clear to them shortly after it happened when they'd been loudly complaining about it in the halls. So even when she finished school, she wouldn't be able to find someone who wouldn't know her on sight.
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