"A Relations Class. for 6th and 7th years, get that wobbly relationship off
the rocks or find that oh so special someone you have searching for. This
class is taught by the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Professor
Stacey. The class includes everything from trusting to MUGGLE DANCING!!
Please attend the class wearing muggle clothing." Ron read aloud from the
message board posted in the Gyffindor Common room.
Ginny looked up surprised from her Muggle Studies homework (Meek Muggles: A Common Misconception by Merlins Beard). Hermione, who had just sat down on the red overstuffed couch, looked excited when she heard this but her boyfriend on the other hand.
"Harry! It sounds like fun!" Hermione said happily.
"Are relationship is fine. it is non wobbling relationship." Harry said nervously. "And no it does not sound like fun. Going in front of my peers and awkwardly dancing. fun, fun, fun!" Harry said with heavy sarcasm. Hermione didn't say anything she just looked at him with her big chocolaty brown eyes and batted her eyelashes.
"There is no way on Earth I am going to that class!" Harry exclaimed fighting the strong urge to kiss her.
"Oh yes you will!" Hermione said excitedly decided she would pursue him with talk rather than just batting her eyelashes.
"Hermione do you remember 4th year-" Harry shuttered as Ron said this. "at the Yule Ball. now try you may have blocked it out. Harry dancing. people try to block out disturbing images."
"Yes I remember but its been 3 years!"
"And what? You don't become a better dancer when you get older." Harry exclaimed laying on the same couch as Hermione was sitting on and putting his head in her lap.
"I know! But you have gotten more graceful and your not as shy as you use to be." She said stroking her hair.
"I am not going and that is final!" Harry said simply.
~*~ "I cannot believe I am here." Harry muttered to Ron in the surprisingly very full classroom for the Relations class (even some Slytherins showed up but all the other houses expected that the only reason they were here was because Professor Stacey was hot).
"Well you said no force on Earth was going to get you here and Hermione is defiantly not an angel." Ron said. Hermione had made Ron, Harry, and Ginny got to the Relations class. Ginny and Hermione were talking to Neville (who came of his own free will).
"I wonder how she is going to pair people up!?!" Ginny said excitedly despite herself. She had pick out of Hermione's closet and made the proper size adjustments and modifications. It ended out a tight fitting black spaghetti tank top and a pair of tight blue jeans.
"Well if we have to choose how we partner with do you want to be my partner?" Neville asked looking hopefully at Ginny.
"Neville we have gone over this, we dated for 2 weeks and it didn't work out. I am here to and I quote 'find that oh so special someone I have been searching for.' And since we have dated I know you are not." Ginny looked up and saw Draco Malfoy looking at her. "Yes?" She said venomously.
"Well I was wondering who would want to be your oh so special someone? Well, I guess someone desperate." Ginny was about to slap him when Professor Stacey began to speak and quiet fell over the class.
"I am sure you are all wondering why I asked you to wear muggle clothing," Many student shook their heads, "that is because I grew up in the muggle world despite being a full wizard and I like muggle clothes more interesting than plain black robes. It gives me a view on who you really are on the way you dress. Now I understand that some of you have come without dates and or boyfriends/girlfriends but before we get to that, we have to separate the couples from the singles. Couples on the other side of the room." For the next 5 minutes there was a lot of moving around but then it was silent again. When it was quiet Professor Stacey cast a spell under her breath and a scroll and a quill appeared on both the singles side and the couples side. It was a contract that said they would stay in the class for the duration of the 5 weeks every Wednesday and Sunday for 2 hours each meeting with the same person as there partner. Ginny sighed to her self then when it was her turn to sign, she a little hesitantly, signed.
After the whole class signed, even Pansy who at the beginning refused to sign anything without her lawyer, Professor Stacey smiled and snapped her finger making the scrolls and the quills disappear. "Now lets get settled with paring up the singles." Professor Stacey muttered something else under her breath and cards appeared floating on one side of the room. "Now will the boys please take a blue card and the girls please take a yellow card." After this was done Ginny glanced at her card. 13.
"Great, lucky number 13." She muttered sarcastically under her breath.
"Now we are going to play a muggle game. Couples please with your partners try to give each other clues to the words that on the other ones back without telling them what it is and only saying yes or no to their questions. For example if I had hippopotamus on written on my back then I would ask my partner questions like if it was an animal and my partner could only say yes or no. Oh and it is bewitched to not let you cheat." Then she turned to the singles.
"Now come and get blindfolds and make sure you tie them tightly!" Everyone rushed to the box in the back to make sure they didn't get a pink one, but Ginny who was at the front grabbed a blue one that matched her eyes exactly. Then was bumped out of the way by Malfoy who gave her a dirty look but she just rolled her eyes and walked to the back of the classroom. "You have to yell out the number that is on your card and when you find the other person yelling the same number as you hold their hand and the male please hold up your hand to signal you have found your partner but don't remove the blindfolds." She tied the blindfold on, then she heard Professor Stacey yell go.
The first five minutes were fruitless, and Ginny started to wonder. what if no one else had 13 what if everyone had their blindfolds off and they were silently making fun of her. But her thoughts were interrupted when she bumped in to someone.
"13?" She asked half-heartedly.
"5." He responded sounding a lot like Neville.
She walked along when someone behind her asked, "13?"
"Yes." She responded dumbfounded. He grabbed for her hand, which ended up being her upper arm and slowly slid his hand down to hand which sent shivers up her spine. His hands were huge and when he found her hand he interlaced fingers hers, the vibes she was getting from him that he was very nice and soft-spoken. Then after what seemed like only a few seconds Professor Stacey asked them to remove the blindfolds Ginny was shocked as she looked into the icy gray eyes of none other than Draco Malfoy. 'Lucky number 13,' she thought to herself, 'poo'.
Meanwhile Professor Stacey had gone over to the couples group and told them to tell the other person if they had not guessed.
"HARRY! A dolphin is not a fish! It is a mammal!" Hermione said harshly. Harry, who had guessed his in a matter of minutes, just rolled his eyes. "You said yes to my fish question! How was I suppose to guess correctly if you give me incorrect information."
Harry sighed to himself and muttered, "Shut up Hermione." She looked at him disgustedly and turned her face away from him.
"This will be all for today class, goodbye please return the blindfolds when you leave, and remember you signed an agreement saying you would stay in the class." Ginny heavy sighed to her self, neither Malfoy or her had said anything to each other since they had removed their blindfolds. "We will meet in the empty charms room at 2 on Sunday." She liked the silky blue scarf and didn't want to part with it so she strayed to the back of the group and started running the scarf through her fingers. By the time she got to the box she was one of the only 6 people left in the room and Professor Stacey saw how much she liked it and was about to say something but Ginny cut her off.
"I am sorry Professor Stacey but I can't be in this class, I don't know if you know about the long time Weasley-Malfoy rivalry. I can't be partnered with Malfoy."
"Yes I know about the rivalry but do you know why it started?"
Ginny shrugged, "I think it had something to do with me and Malfoys great great great grandfathers and a girl named Charlene."
"Well that was a long time ago and don't you think it is time it was ended?"
"I would think that if Malfoy wasn't such a pig-headed, ferret-faced, rat bast-" Professor Stacey raised her eyebrow, "sorry Professor Stacey." She said looking at her feet.
"Stay in my class Ginny, what could it hurt?" It was Ginny's turn to raise her eyebrow. "Ginny, what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger." Ginny sighed and nodded. "And you may keep the scarf Miss Weasley, I think it matches you eyes beautifully." Ginny blushed and Professor Stacey nodded her head to dismiss her.
She exited stuffing her scarf in her pocket and noticed that not Harry, Hermione, ot Ron had waited for her. "Figures." She muttered to herself and walked off towards the common room. She got a few feet when she heard a voice behind her.
"So," she turned around to face Malfoy who was standing in the shadows. "I'm a pig-headed rat bastard?"
"You forgot ferret faced." She said simply turning around and starting to walk again when he grabbed her wrist and spun her back around.
"Don't walk away while I am talking to you." He said his grip tightening. Sure it hurt like hell but Ginny would never give him the pleasure of him seeing her hurt.
"Was that talking? It sounded like we were insulting you to me." She said. Malfoy raised his eyebrows, while tightening his grip even more. 'That's right you jerk,' she thought to her self, 'I'm not that controllable ignorant little girl anymore.'
"Don't be a smart ass Weasley, all I wanted to say is that we're stuck doing this we may as well be civil to each other." Ginny cocked her headed to the side and he held on to her wrist and pulled her closer. "I know am devilishly good looking but lets try to control ourselves. Shall we." He dropped her wrist and she backed away from him. Draco stuck out his arm, meaning for her to walk arm in arm with him. Ginny gave him a piercing stare. "You shouldn't have to wonder these halls unescorted." But Ginny didn't move. "Alright! It was Pansy's idea to come to this class. She knew how Professor Stacey was going to pair us up and how she knew this prove that we were destined for each other, or something about fate, total nonsense if we got the same number card. The reason I want to walk arm and arm with you is to make that stupid cow jealous and miserable." Ginny sighed.
"It would have helped more if you didn't stare at me like I was gum on your favorite shoes when you pulled the blindfold off." Ginny said staring at a spot on the floor. "And who did 'That stupid cow' get paired with anyway?"
Malfoy snickered. "Longbottom. Pansy was totally depressed, talked about locking herself in her bathroom or suing Professor Stacey." Despite herself she smiled and giggled to herself.
"Why did you stare at me so harshly when you found out I was your partner, I know you hate me and all but."
"I'll tell you in time, Weasley." He said with a little bit of venom in his voice. Then it came to her, why should Malfoy the only one who got to make someone pissed. Her brother was going to control her no more.
Ginny sighed and looped her arm around his. As Ginny stopped outside the portrait of the pink fat lady she turned to Malfoy. "Thank you for escorting me Malfoy but if you learn the password there will be nothing left of me when my fellow Gryffindors get finished with me."
"I'll see you Sunday Weasley." And Malfoy walked away. Ginny sighed to her self and the pink fat lady eyed her suspiciously.
"What?" Ginny asked but realized she was waiting for the password. "Opticaus." She walked through the portrait hole.
Ginny looked up surprised from her Muggle Studies homework (Meek Muggles: A Common Misconception by Merlins Beard). Hermione, who had just sat down on the red overstuffed couch, looked excited when she heard this but her boyfriend on the other hand.
"Harry! It sounds like fun!" Hermione said happily.
"Are relationship is fine. it is non wobbling relationship." Harry said nervously. "And no it does not sound like fun. Going in front of my peers and awkwardly dancing. fun, fun, fun!" Harry said with heavy sarcasm. Hermione didn't say anything she just looked at him with her big chocolaty brown eyes and batted her eyelashes.
"There is no way on Earth I am going to that class!" Harry exclaimed fighting the strong urge to kiss her.
"Oh yes you will!" Hermione said excitedly decided she would pursue him with talk rather than just batting her eyelashes.
"Hermione do you remember 4th year-" Harry shuttered as Ron said this. "at the Yule Ball. now try you may have blocked it out. Harry dancing. people try to block out disturbing images."
"Yes I remember but its been 3 years!"
"And what? You don't become a better dancer when you get older." Harry exclaimed laying on the same couch as Hermione was sitting on and putting his head in her lap.
"I know! But you have gotten more graceful and your not as shy as you use to be." She said stroking her hair.
"I am not going and that is final!" Harry said simply.
~*~ "I cannot believe I am here." Harry muttered to Ron in the surprisingly very full classroom for the Relations class (even some Slytherins showed up but all the other houses expected that the only reason they were here was because Professor Stacey was hot).
"Well you said no force on Earth was going to get you here and Hermione is defiantly not an angel." Ron said. Hermione had made Ron, Harry, and Ginny got to the Relations class. Ginny and Hermione were talking to Neville (who came of his own free will).
"I wonder how she is going to pair people up!?!" Ginny said excitedly despite herself. She had pick out of Hermione's closet and made the proper size adjustments and modifications. It ended out a tight fitting black spaghetti tank top and a pair of tight blue jeans.
"Well if we have to choose how we partner with do you want to be my partner?" Neville asked looking hopefully at Ginny.
"Neville we have gone over this, we dated for 2 weeks and it didn't work out. I am here to and I quote 'find that oh so special someone I have been searching for.' And since we have dated I know you are not." Ginny looked up and saw Draco Malfoy looking at her. "Yes?" She said venomously.
"Well I was wondering who would want to be your oh so special someone? Well, I guess someone desperate." Ginny was about to slap him when Professor Stacey began to speak and quiet fell over the class.
"I am sure you are all wondering why I asked you to wear muggle clothing," Many student shook their heads, "that is because I grew up in the muggle world despite being a full wizard and I like muggle clothes more interesting than plain black robes. It gives me a view on who you really are on the way you dress. Now I understand that some of you have come without dates and or boyfriends/girlfriends but before we get to that, we have to separate the couples from the singles. Couples on the other side of the room." For the next 5 minutes there was a lot of moving around but then it was silent again. When it was quiet Professor Stacey cast a spell under her breath and a scroll and a quill appeared on both the singles side and the couples side. It was a contract that said they would stay in the class for the duration of the 5 weeks every Wednesday and Sunday for 2 hours each meeting with the same person as there partner. Ginny sighed to her self then when it was her turn to sign, she a little hesitantly, signed.
After the whole class signed, even Pansy who at the beginning refused to sign anything without her lawyer, Professor Stacey smiled and snapped her finger making the scrolls and the quills disappear. "Now lets get settled with paring up the singles." Professor Stacey muttered something else under her breath and cards appeared floating on one side of the room. "Now will the boys please take a blue card and the girls please take a yellow card." After this was done Ginny glanced at her card. 13.
"Great, lucky number 13." She muttered sarcastically under her breath.
"Now we are going to play a muggle game. Couples please with your partners try to give each other clues to the words that on the other ones back without telling them what it is and only saying yes or no to their questions. For example if I had hippopotamus on written on my back then I would ask my partner questions like if it was an animal and my partner could only say yes or no. Oh and it is bewitched to not let you cheat." Then she turned to the singles.
"Now come and get blindfolds and make sure you tie them tightly!" Everyone rushed to the box in the back to make sure they didn't get a pink one, but Ginny who was at the front grabbed a blue one that matched her eyes exactly. Then was bumped out of the way by Malfoy who gave her a dirty look but she just rolled her eyes and walked to the back of the classroom. "You have to yell out the number that is on your card and when you find the other person yelling the same number as you hold their hand and the male please hold up your hand to signal you have found your partner but don't remove the blindfolds." She tied the blindfold on, then she heard Professor Stacey yell go.
The first five minutes were fruitless, and Ginny started to wonder. what if no one else had 13 what if everyone had their blindfolds off and they were silently making fun of her. But her thoughts were interrupted when she bumped in to someone.
"13?" She asked half-heartedly.
"5." He responded sounding a lot like Neville.
She walked along when someone behind her asked, "13?"
"Yes." She responded dumbfounded. He grabbed for her hand, which ended up being her upper arm and slowly slid his hand down to hand which sent shivers up her spine. His hands were huge and when he found her hand he interlaced fingers hers, the vibes she was getting from him that he was very nice and soft-spoken. Then after what seemed like only a few seconds Professor Stacey asked them to remove the blindfolds Ginny was shocked as she looked into the icy gray eyes of none other than Draco Malfoy. 'Lucky number 13,' she thought to herself, 'poo'.
Meanwhile Professor Stacey had gone over to the couples group and told them to tell the other person if they had not guessed.
"HARRY! A dolphin is not a fish! It is a mammal!" Hermione said harshly. Harry, who had guessed his in a matter of minutes, just rolled his eyes. "You said yes to my fish question! How was I suppose to guess correctly if you give me incorrect information."
Harry sighed to himself and muttered, "Shut up Hermione." She looked at him disgustedly and turned her face away from him.
"This will be all for today class, goodbye please return the blindfolds when you leave, and remember you signed an agreement saying you would stay in the class." Ginny heavy sighed to her self, neither Malfoy or her had said anything to each other since they had removed their blindfolds. "We will meet in the empty charms room at 2 on Sunday." She liked the silky blue scarf and didn't want to part with it so she strayed to the back of the group and started running the scarf through her fingers. By the time she got to the box she was one of the only 6 people left in the room and Professor Stacey saw how much she liked it and was about to say something but Ginny cut her off.
"I am sorry Professor Stacey but I can't be in this class, I don't know if you know about the long time Weasley-Malfoy rivalry. I can't be partnered with Malfoy."
"Yes I know about the rivalry but do you know why it started?"
Ginny shrugged, "I think it had something to do with me and Malfoys great great great grandfathers and a girl named Charlene."
"Well that was a long time ago and don't you think it is time it was ended?"
"I would think that if Malfoy wasn't such a pig-headed, ferret-faced, rat bast-" Professor Stacey raised her eyebrow, "sorry Professor Stacey." She said looking at her feet.
"Stay in my class Ginny, what could it hurt?" It was Ginny's turn to raise her eyebrow. "Ginny, what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger." Ginny sighed and nodded. "And you may keep the scarf Miss Weasley, I think it matches you eyes beautifully." Ginny blushed and Professor Stacey nodded her head to dismiss her.
She exited stuffing her scarf in her pocket and noticed that not Harry, Hermione, ot Ron had waited for her. "Figures." She muttered to herself and walked off towards the common room. She got a few feet when she heard a voice behind her.
"So," she turned around to face Malfoy who was standing in the shadows. "I'm a pig-headed rat bastard?"
"You forgot ferret faced." She said simply turning around and starting to walk again when he grabbed her wrist and spun her back around.
"Don't walk away while I am talking to you." He said his grip tightening. Sure it hurt like hell but Ginny would never give him the pleasure of him seeing her hurt.
"Was that talking? It sounded like we were insulting you to me." She said. Malfoy raised his eyebrows, while tightening his grip even more. 'That's right you jerk,' she thought to her self, 'I'm not that controllable ignorant little girl anymore.'
"Don't be a smart ass Weasley, all I wanted to say is that we're stuck doing this we may as well be civil to each other." Ginny cocked her headed to the side and he held on to her wrist and pulled her closer. "I know am devilishly good looking but lets try to control ourselves. Shall we." He dropped her wrist and she backed away from him. Draco stuck out his arm, meaning for her to walk arm in arm with him. Ginny gave him a piercing stare. "You shouldn't have to wonder these halls unescorted." But Ginny didn't move. "Alright! It was Pansy's idea to come to this class. She knew how Professor Stacey was going to pair us up and how she knew this prove that we were destined for each other, or something about fate, total nonsense if we got the same number card. The reason I want to walk arm and arm with you is to make that stupid cow jealous and miserable." Ginny sighed.
"It would have helped more if you didn't stare at me like I was gum on your favorite shoes when you pulled the blindfold off." Ginny said staring at a spot on the floor. "And who did 'That stupid cow' get paired with anyway?"
Malfoy snickered. "Longbottom. Pansy was totally depressed, talked about locking herself in her bathroom or suing Professor Stacey." Despite herself she smiled and giggled to herself.
"Why did you stare at me so harshly when you found out I was your partner, I know you hate me and all but."
"I'll tell you in time, Weasley." He said with a little bit of venom in his voice. Then it came to her, why should Malfoy the only one who got to make someone pissed. Her brother was going to control her no more.
Ginny sighed and looped her arm around his. As Ginny stopped outside the portrait of the pink fat lady she turned to Malfoy. "Thank you for escorting me Malfoy but if you learn the password there will be nothing left of me when my fellow Gryffindors get finished with me."
"I'll see you Sunday Weasley." And Malfoy walked away. Ginny sighed to her self and the pink fat lady eyed her suspiciously.
"What?" Ginny asked but realized she was waiting for the password. "Opticaus." She walked through the portrait hole.
