AN. So I couldn't resist the urge to write this. The idea had been in my mind for a few days and I just couldn't stop myself. It's a one shot but I have another idea too about how Ron and Hermione would meet Astoria, so please after you've read this, review and tell me if I should continue this into a two shot
To all those who are waiting for Alice's Twilight's last two chapters, I'm happy to announce that I've finally written them and shall be uploading soon.
Disclaimer: Oh yeah and I'm not J., just in case your wondering. I don't own Harry Potter or any of the other characters...
It had been almost a year since He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named fell.
In Ron's opinion, everything was great, almost all of the Death Eaters had been sent to Azkaban, well there was one exception. Which leads us to the one thing Ronald Weasley was not so happy about.
Draco Malfoy. He had not been sentenced to life in Azkaban like Ron had hoped. Instead, they had let him free and even worse, all because Harry had told them that Draco was not evil. Ron still could not understand how his best friend could have done that. Ron had always been under the impression that Harry loathed Malfoy more than any other living creature, besides Voldemort of course, and still he had practically told everyone that Malfoy was a great person.
"What are you thinking about?" asked Hermione who was currently sitting on Ron's lap and who had been reading a book until about two seconds ago when he had noticed Ron's disgusted expression.
"Malfoy" "What about Malfoy?" Harry asked as he and Ginny walked into the comfortable sitting room located in the centre of the Burrow.
"Everything. I mean, I know that it was Dumbledore's own choice to let Darco get that far and almost kill him, but I can't help but not to wonder what would have happened if Malfoy would've been caught. If someone had actually known that he had the Dark Mark", Ron said. They were all quiet for a moment before Ginny spoke:
"I think someone did", Ron and Hermione both turned to stare at her but Harry on the other hand looked like this wasn't even a surprise for him. "Do you think she knew?" Ginny asked from Harry, making Ron and Hermione now shift their gaze to Harry.
"I think she did", Harry said. "Would someone care to tell us what you are talking about?" Hermione asked.
"Well, I'm quite sure that there was someone who knew about Malfoy's Dark Mark", Harry said. "Who?"
"Astoria Greengrass" Ginny said. "And she is..." Ron asked.
"Well by now I think she's not just Astoria Greengrass anymore. As far as I have heard she's Astoria soon-to-be Malfoy", Ginny said and Ron could not help but to notice that there was a smile dancing on her lips.
"NO!" Ron almost yelled. Everyone turned to look at Ron. "I mean, it was bad enough that he didn't get sent to Azkaban but it's absolutely terrible that he has a girlfriend. Think about it! He might be happy!" Ron explained.
"I think that it's wonderful", Harry said. "Why?" Ron asked, obviously not understanding his friends point of view. "From where I'm standing, I see that Draco Malfoy is a Death Eater, a horrible person and that he'd deserve to get sent to Azkaban!"
"Well, from where I'm standing, I see that Draco Malfoy was forced to be a Death Eater, did those things because he didn't know any better and that it's great that he found someone", Harry said.
"Have you gone mental?" Ron asked his friend in disbelief.
"Have you met this Astoria person?" Hermione asked, clearly more interested in what she was like than who Astoria was with.
"Yes", Ginny said.
Flashback
" We were in the Ministery of Magic, for the Malfoy trials. We were there when they let Draco walk free. We saw him just standing there, after the trials that is, all alone. "Happy to not get sent to Azkaban?" Harry asked him. "Yes, I don't know how to put this Potter but I guess I need to thank you", Malfoy said. "I think that's a great way to put it" was Harry's reply.
Then we heard someone. It was a girl. She had dark brown hair and she was wearing muggle clothes. She walked straight to Malfoy and for a moment they looked in each other's eyes and both, Harry and I, knew that she wasn't just a friend. Then Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy came and the girl stepped away from Draco as if she wouldn't want to be seen with him.
"Let's go son", Lucius said and started walking away but Draco didn't move at all.
"Draco, come on", Narcissa said. But still Draco didn't move.
"Son?" That made Draco look at them and he started walking towards them. He stopped right in front of his mother and handed her something. It was a ring, with his family crest on it.
I could see the terrified face that his mother wore.
"Take care mother", Draco said and hugged her. Then he walked back to the girl.
"Where do you think you're going son?" Lucius questioned.
"I'm going to spend my life with someone who won't hurt me. And if I'm lucky, I can put back the remains of my life and never hear the word war again" Draco said. At that point we all, Harry, I and the girl who's name we didn't know then, we were all just staring at them, absolutely shocked.
"Who are you?" Lucius Malfoy asked from the girl with a tone filled with poison. The girl straightened her back and said:
"I'm Astoria Greengrass", she said, we could see that Lucius hadn't expected her to answer and not with such force.
"Well I'm glad to see that you could at least be smart enough to choose a pureblood", Lucius said. At that point Draco had already turned his back to him and was walking away. The girl, Astoria, glanced at Lucius her eyes just filled with the same poison that Lucius' tone had been and the she glanced once at Narcissa Malfoy and I'm quite sure that she wanted to say that she was sorry but then she turned around and went to where Draco was now standing, took his hand, and disappeared.
End of Flashback
Ron didn't say anything. He didn't really know whether to vomit or say that the story was cute. Personally he couldn't believe that Draco would have stood up for some girl. But something told him that Ginny was not lying. "She is a Weasley after all", Ron thought.
"So you're telling me that Draco Malfoy practically told his parents that he wants nothing to do with them and ran off with some girl named Astoria?" Hermione asked. Harry and Ginny both nodded.
"It doesn't seem likely", Ron said.
Ginny just stared at him, before saying: "I don't care if you don't believe me. But it's true. I think Draco Malfoy's in love"
