Disclaimer: I do not pretend to own or actually own the wonderful Harry Potter Universe. That title belongs to J.K. Rowling.

This was written for Boogum's long writing challenge! The prompt is at the bottom of this chapter. :) Enjoy.

The Analogy

Ginny Weasley had gone to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with some of the most reputable men of her time. There was Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, Colin Creevey, Dean Thomas, and Draco Malfoy. All of these men had made something of themselves. Harry Potter was the Wizarding world's famous protector. He had defeated He Who Must Not Be Named at the end of Ginny's sixth year most valiantly. Neville Longbottom opened up a world famous apothecary and did research using plants and herbs to cure magical maladies. Colin Creevey was a fancy reporter; the one getting every scoop. Dean Thomas went on to, surprisingly, become the owner of the hottest gay bar in Diagon Alley. Since Ginny's time at Hogwarts, Diagon Alley had boomed with business and now offered a wider variety of stores and services. Draco Malfoy, after the death of his father, took over Malfoy Enterprises and turned it into a conglomerate of all sorts. His company did everything; from manufacturing items, loans, construction, publishing, etc. You name it, his company did it.

Since Ginny's time at Hogwarts, as she was now twenty five years old, she had had a dreary romantic life. Sure, she dated and loved Harry Potter. But, that fizzled out like a dud firework. It wound up being so disappointing. She was nineteen when that relationship ended. But, after Harry, her dating life had been an extreme embarrassment. Somehow, every guy she dated after Harry was a closet gay. And, to clear things up, Ginny had nothing against gays. Her problem then? She always found out a little too late that the guy was gay. No, she hadn't actually slept with any of them. One told her he was a virgin and wanted to wait until he was in love for the big bang. She could understand that. The next told her that he just wasn't ready to take that step with her. Again, she could cope with that. And the last, he went as far as to give her some huge story about how he didn't understand the concept of sex and that his mother had raised him to put things in other places. Ginny quickly figured out that the latter of the three men was gay. But the others, well, they had no real signs of being gay. They didn't have the cliché gay voice. They weren't prissy in their mannerisms. The only thing she noticed about all three was that they dressed very tastefully. They all hung out with lots of questionable men. And, they all had random jobs. Jonathan, the first guy, was a bartender at Dean's bar, "The Analogy". The second guy, Martin, worked as a tailor at the local men's boutique. She met Damon, the third guy, at the boutique Martin worked at. Damon was a ballet dancer. That should have been Ginny's first sign. But, she ignored it for the sake of love.

Despite all of her troubles with love, Ginny still had hope. She had just decided that she would be choosier and look very closely at men's traits before even accepting a date. She had gone six years without sex. Six years! All of this because of her failed relationships. And, Ginny didn't want this to happen again. She was getting extremely frustrated and her toys were beginning to not work for her. After repeated use over the last six years, it was time to really find a guy to settle down with. No more foolish dating that turned into shite!

Ironically, Ginny was still friends with Jonathan. She hadn't dated him long enough to really begin to fall in love with him. They had only dated a few months, so a friendship was salvageable. It was Friday night and Ginny wanted to go out. At this point, she didn't care where it was, she just wanted to go. It just so happened that her friend, Jonathan called her to come out on this particular evening. She had nothing better to do, and wanted to go out anyway, so she graciously accepted. As soon as she got off work from her dismal job (no need to mention what she actually does; she would be embarrassed), she raced home to put on her sexiest and skimpiest outfit. She often found that since she was going to a gay bar, she could dress as slutty as she wanted. And no matter how drunk she got, she was safe because no one would take advantage of her! And with this, she loved wearing her sluttiest outfits. Ginny decided on a green, two piece ensemble. The top was made similar to a cutoff jersey for a men's football team. The bottom of the shirt came to just below her breasts; barely disguising her bra. The bottoms were basically boy short panties. They showed just a bit of her bum. She sort of looked like a stripper, but she didn't care. She paired the outfit with black boots and then set about doing her hair and make-up. Her hair, long and wavy, she curled to the extreme. Her makeup consisted of lots of glitter and mascara. She kept it pretty simple, but with glitz. It was definitely club material. Once she approved of her selection, she apparrated to the club to meet Jonathan.

The Analogy was a place a glitz and glamour. This place was the place to go for gays. With its bright lights to its caged nude male dancers, it had everything a gay man could want. Ginny found it fun, but knew she was wasting her time with a place like this since there would be no straight men here. She walked into the club with Jonathan by her side and went straight to the bar. She ordered her favorite drink; a dirty martini. She then went to the dance floor and proceeded to get hammered while dancing the night away with Jonathan and a random assortment of men. Some were even dressed as pink fairies; how ironic.

After an hour of dancing and two drinks, Ginny headed back to the bar for another. She glanced to her right, noticing a familiar blonde head streak past her. There, on the other end of the bar, sat Draco Malfoy. Ginny couldn't have been more shocked. In fact, she was so shocked by this discovery, that she slammed down her glass and it shattered all over the bar. Ginny looked around, wide-eyed, and then shimmied away; hopefully unnoticed. She decided to slither over to where the blonde was to say hello. He couldn't have been the same git if he was gay, could he? She nudged up beside him, pressing her breasts into his arm as a joke. When he looked her way she smiled.

"Hi! I saw you from over there and decided I would say hey! Who are you here with?" She asked, while yelling to make herself heard over the noise. She noticed him look down to her chest and then back to her face.

"Well, hello to you. I'm here with Blaise." He coldly greeted. She knew it. He was gay. He was here with a guy!

"Come here often?" She questioned.

"Not particularly. Blaise really wanted to come tonight." He offered.

"Yeah, I came here with my friend. He's gay." Ginny admitted. Maybe she was a little drunk. She sure wasn't being tasteful with her words.

"Is that so?" He questioned with a smirk to his face.

"Oh, yeah. He's a total poofer!" Ginny confirmed loudly.

"Can I get you something to drink?" Draco offered to her. She smiled and nodded her head.

"I'll have a dirty martini, please." She asked. Draco waved over the bartender and ordered Ginny's drink.

"So, what have you been up to since Hogwarts?" Draco asked her.

"Oh, just working." Ginny answered. She hated this question.

"Well, what do you do?" He asked, trying again.

"Um, I…" Ginny began, but found her way out. The bartender brought over her drink. Ginny took three huge gulps, almost finishing her drink, and then stood up and grabbed Draco's arm.

"Let's dance!" She hollered while pulling him to the dance floor.

"Oh, I don't really…" But his voice was lost in the music and the heat of the floor. Ginny laughed and ground her bum against his crotch since she had her back turned to him. She felt him place his palms against her hip bones in the front and pull her closer to him. She laughed some more. She glanced at his hands. Manicured fingernails; figures. They danced for quite some time. Ginny laughing and doing raunchy moves for Draco. It was quite ridiculous, really. If anyone would have paid attention, one might call Ginny a slut. But, in her defense, she really didn't care how she looked at a gay bar.

After she was tired from dancing, and increasingly drunk, she decided to head back to the bar. Draco helped her to her seat and then sat beside her. She glanced at Draco's head, as he was ordering himself another drink, and noticed the tag on the back of his shirt. It was one of the custom shirts made in Martin's shop. Draco was definitely gay. Just as this revelation crossed Ginny's mind, Blaise Zabini walked up behind Draco and circled his arms around his waist. Draco immediately removed his hands and elbowed Blaise.

"Where have you been, sweets?" Blaise crooned.

"Busy." Draco replied.

"With that sassy girl?" Blaise eyed curiously.

"Yes."

"Oh! I like it! She is hot, hot, hot with that red hair!" Blaise shouted while moving over to Ginny and running his fingers through her hair.

"You should let me do your hair sometime sweetie! I do Draco's hair. I don't know if you like it." Blaise began and then paused.

"It's very chic." Ginny replied with a grin.

"Perfect! I own a salon in muggle London! You should come by sometime and let me tame that wild mane of yours! You are too hot!" Blaise gushed.

"Sounds wonderful." Ginny agreed. She could use a haircut. Just when she was about to drag Draco off for more dancing, Jonathan came up behind her.

"You ready to go? It's really late and I have to work the day shift tomorrow." He asked.

"Yeah, sure. Let me say bye." She agreed. She turned to Draco and Blaise.

"It was wonderful meeting you, Blaise. Draco, it was lovely running into you. We should get together sometime and go to lunch!"

"That sounds like a good idea." He agreed.

"Floo or owl me anytime! Bye guys!" Ginny parted. She ran up to Jonathan and the two apparrated to her flat.

"Well, someone was a dancing queen tonight. And, with a hot Malfoy, no less!" Jonathan chimed.

"I did have a good time. But, sadly, he is gay." Ginny admitted.

"Why did you think he was gay?" Jonathan asked, perplexed.

"Everything about him was gay. How can you not see that?" She retorted.

"Although I admit he is extremely anal about his appearance, he had manicured nails, and he was at a gay bar, that doesn't mean he is gay. There are plenty of men out there that just care about their appearance." Jonathan opposed.

"Name one." Ginny challenged.

"Well…there was…" He stopped.

"It's not fair to put me on the spot about it! But, I'm sure there are plenty!" He pouted.

"Well, all of the men that I know like that are gay! Gay! Gay! Gay! Jonathan, I would love to be friends with Malfoy. And, I will be. He was a ton of fun. But, I'm also going to look for a straight guy. Possibly someone that I'll marry one day and have kids with."

"You do have a point. We'll see. If he is gay, I'm going to go after him!" Jonathan beamed.

"I think he is with Blaise Zabini."

"What a shame."

"Well, I'm going to bed. I'm pretty tired after dancing all night." Ginny announced.

"Night." Jonathan told her and then apparrated away.

Ginny took off her make-up and party clothes and made her way to her bed. She had a good time, but she was determined to find a straight guy! She was so tired of meeting so many gay men that she was beginning to have a hard time telling the difference! With these thoughts, Ginny fell asleep thinking about all the things she wanted to do over the weekend before a long week of work.

Basic outline: For whatever reason (be it his job, close friends with another guy, anal attention to his clothes, yadda yadda), Ginny thinks that Draco is gay and so behaves around him in very different way to that of other men who she might consider potential boyfriend material. You can interpret that however you like - maybe she's less conscious about her body (and the showing of it), maybe she just behaves more loosely around him, etc, etc. It's up to you. The point is she thinks he is gay and he most definitely is not, and eventually that is going to become obvious.

Must Haves: Draco demanding incredulously, "You thought I was gay?", Ginny being mortified when she realizes her mistake.

No-No's: Ginny can't outrightly ask Draco if he is gay.

Word Length: None.

Bonus points: If Draco and Ginny are somewhat friends. They don't have to be super close, but I think the nature of this prompt calls for them to at least be able to interact regularly with each other anyway.

Deadline: 25 July 2011, closes midnight forum time. That gives you a month.