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Disclaimer: doh.. : not mine
Summary: Ginny Weasley, the breathtaking president of Women have the Power has a secret that could ruin her reputation: her lover does not want to sleep with her! So she decides to seduce him. But it is not her boyfriends bed in which she wakes up.. but that of Draco Malfoy, her enemy and writer of a rather anti-feminism book. If Draco by accident hears about Ginny's secret, he has a juicy story for his second book. And that could bring down Ginny's reputation. But the longer he is near her, the more he wants to give her what her last lover failed to give..
Prologue
Finally Luna arrived.
Ginevra Molly Weasley looked at her friend, who was making her way to the back of The Three Broomsticks. Ginny immediately felt relieved. The party could begin, and she never felt the need to express her feelings more then this evening.
She had a hellish day, one of the worst she could remember.
"I'm sorry I'm late." Luna Lovegood, who looked tired, but fantastic, slumped down on a chair and sighed deep. "Let's get started." She waved at Madam Rosmerta that she wanted a drink and looked around the table. "Who begins?"
"I think you should," Hermione Granger pointed out, and Ginny agreed. Luna looked particularly exhausted this time and looked as needy to reveal her weakly horror as the rest. "Why were you late?" asked Hermione, after taking a swig from her Butterbeer. "Were you Pumpkin Pasties to spicy again?"
Cho Chang's eyes sparkled, while she pointed the neck of her bottle towards Luna. "I'll put my money on the mashed potatoes. Too slack again, right?"
"Not as slack as his you-know-what," Hermione pointed out with a bitter smile.
"But that would mean that he actually has a you-know-what," Luna answered immediately. "And he doesn't, remember? After the Pumpkin Pasties incident we came to the conclusion that he isn't a man, but a flubberworm."
"And there is the added advantage that he is an arrogant bastard." Hermione added.
Ginny laughed, the description fit perfectly. Luna was a amazing chef-cook, one of the best in the wizarding world. But that didn't stop her boss from criticizing her non-stop.
She glanced at her friends. Actually, the description 'arrogant bastard' applied for all of their bosses.
Except hers. For she no longer had a boss. And a boyfriend, she thought with sneer. She lost them both, when she was fired a couple hours ago.
She sighed deep and suppressed the impulse to alternate cry and shout. But she would do neither, because that would be a triumph for that unfaithful, backstabbing coward and she didn't want to give him that pleasure. As long as she didn't cry, he wouldn't win and she would not be an idiot.
Listening to her friends, she realised she wasn't the only one who's had a shitty day. She already put through the others paces before Luna arrived, and Hermione and Cho both wailed about having gone through a horrible day.
To be honest, their weakly party in The Three Broomsticks or The Leaky Cauldron was their peek of the week. Expressing your irritation while having a (strong) drink, getting agreeing nods and shared indignation in her opinion helped her better then spending 31 galleons, 2 sickles and 26 knuts for a session with a shrink.
The four started hanging out at Hogwarts and they never broken their friendship since. They shared both victories and defeats.
Ginny had a wonderful family, consist of her parents who lived at The Burrow and her older brothers. But these three woman became the sisters, whom she always wanted but never had.
Unfortunately the last couple of weeks were more defeats then victories, and she knew something had to change. Hermione's cynicism became chronicle, Luna's smile lost the happiness and Cho's sometimes annoying, but endearing naïve attitude started to disappear into nothing. They were in the bitter-witch-express and unless something extraordinary good happened that would cause them to derail, they would most likely head towards the dead end. They became man haters and cat lovers with cupboards full of her mum's premade meals and a handy vibrator on the nightstand.
Ginny loved men and didn't have a cat and she only ate her mum's Treacle Tart on special occasion, such as getting dumped. And fired. She preferred 'wand-made' meals. And about the vibrator, she loved all the aspects of sex too much, from the first kiss until the last happy sigh, to be happy with a muggle boyfriend toy. Actually she couldn't imagine her friends being happy with a substitute-lover either.
Luna's lips formed a tired grin. "No spicy Pumpkin Pasties or slack mashed potatoes this time." Gratefully she took the drink from Madam Rosmerta. "Does this mean I should bear the brunt?"
Ginny nodded and the others mumbled agreeying. The one with the worst news usually got the right to go first. Gettingfired and getting dumped in one day, probably also was a first priority, but she didn't mind waiting a bit. She would get her turn.
"Bring it on."
Luna leaned back in her chair and shook her head helpless. "What can I say? It's the same every time. Neville isn't happy if he can't boss around and he especially likes to irate me." She sighed deep."Tonight I didn't put enough rice in the rice pudding." Lifting her shoulders she added: "Tomorrow evening it would be something else."
"Arse."
"Bleeding git."
"Bastard."
Verbally bringing down their bosses always made them feel good.
Luna took a deep breath. "Alright, I'm finished. Who's next?"
Cho lifted her hand. "Me. Ginny's fiery temperament is boiling, so I'm sure she has something important to say. And 'Mione's been way too quiet." Cho glanced meaningful at the others. "And we all know what that means, eh?"
Ginny couldn't stop herself from grinning. Cho completely typified them.
She, Ginny, was pretty hot-tempered and nearly exploded when she was angry. Hermione was different. When she felt irritated, she just suppressed herself. While her method was more therapeutic, 'Mione's was more calculating.. and revengeful. She didn't forgot and forgive easily. Because of that she had the tendency to get in her well-meant, but nosy brother's hair. Much like Ginny herself did too. Her brothers did hate Dean from the start, Ginny remembered, that should have rang a warning bell. It should have been a clue.
Cho sighed. "Something terrible happened to me, although I don't think it is as important as your troubles, it is still unnerving." A deep frown appeared on her forehead.
Irritated Ginny lifted an eyebrow. "Unnerving as in: they don't have my favorite sweets in Honeydukes anymore? Or is it more unnerving as in: my father finally came out of the closet?" Cho's troubles covered the whole universe. Her father didn't came out of the closet willingly, but Chofound out by accident. Her company in designing advertisements for the Daily Prophetgot the assignment to make one for the local gay bar. Instead of letting the manager send her some pictures, Cho wanted to 'feel' the atmosphere. She was prepared to meet gay couples, but she didn't expect to run into her father.
Naturally, it was quite the shock.
"Neither." She took a deep breath and lifted her shoulders. "I lost my orgasm."
..
Deadly silence.
"What? How did you lose it? Where did it go?"
Ginny bit the inside of her cheek. "You mean you can't-"
Cho rolled her eyes. "Yes. And believe me, I tried everything. It's.. " She tried to find the right words and shook her head. "It's just gone."
"Well, it can't be gone forever," a clearly alarmed Hermione stated. Out of the four of them, she talked the most about sex, about the male and female role and the ancient double moral with relation about the sexual freedom of both men and women. A man with a strong libido was a 'stud', but a girl with a strong libido was a slut. "You're just dating the wrong bloke."
Cho sighed deep."Not anymore. Michael left after he wasn't able to satisfy me anymore for the last few weeks. His fragile ego couldn't handle it."
"You're better off without him," Luna said. "I never really liked him anyway."
Another non-spoken rule: boyfriends were approved until they were considered history, then they immediately were declared scum. The solidarity between them was big: it was the glue that kept them together, Ginny thought with a smile.
She was very grateful to have their support.
"Me neither," Hermione jumped in. She picked at the label on her bottle. "He had ugly feet."
Cho's face frowned thoughtful. "Yes, he did had ugly feet, eh?"
Ginny never really noticed Michael's feet, but she felt forced to play her part as well. "They were absolutely horrid."
"Well, I am sure that your, erh.. condition isn't permanent." Luna comforted her.
Cho grimased and took a sip. "I should hope not. Who's next?"
Hermione and Ginny looked at each other. "I think 'Mione should go first," Ginny said. "I don't mind being last."
Hermione indifferent shrugged her shoulders. "Alright. I cathed my father eating a bagel today."
Luna and Cho looked clueless, but Ginny knew the clue had yet to come.
"What?" Luna asked, seeming upset. "He sinned against the Lockhart-diet?"
"No," Hermione answered grim. "He sinned against my mom. The bagel was around the breast of a bagel-saleswoman." The last words she hissed out, teeth clenched together.
Cho gasped for air and Luna shouted: "No!"
Hermione grinned and continued ripping the label she removed from the bottle.
"Yes."
Ginny knew there was a bit of enmity between 'Mione and her father. After getting fired as a dentist, her father opened a bagel shop, which Hermione worked in for several years now, but she didn't seem to get the acknowledgement a son probably would. Her father being unfaithful was nothing new either.
"Oh, Hermione, I'm so sorry," Cho said. "I know he is your father but.." She hesitated.
Hermione laughed grimmly and said with a tired movement of her hand: "That's okay. He's a git."
"He sure is," Luna reacted heated. "What did you do? What did he do?"
Again Hermione shrugged her shoulders indifferent.
"I asked: 'Do you want cream cheese with that?'"
Despite the terrible day she had, Ginny giggled. That was Hermione for you. She could held grudges, but that didn't stop her from having witty answers.
"What else could I do?" Hermione continued. "Like I said: he's a git." With a grim smile she said: "But that wasn't the worse."
Bloody hell, there was more, Ginny thought. "What happened?"
"The bagel girl turned to have just graduated and needed a better job. Guess which she got?"
Ginny thought her eyes would pop out of her head. "No," she said, outraged. That could not be true. 'Mione's father could hardly done this to her.
Hermione nodded with a sad look on her face.
"Your job?" Ginny asked shrieking. "Is he gone mad?"
Hermoine snorted. "I think he put the part in which his brain settels in the bagel girl this afternoon." she said bitter. "Anyhow, I am unemployed right now. I ran away and I am never going back."
"That makes two of us," Ginny pointed out subsided. "The only difference is that I didn't quit but I got fired."
"Fired?" they chorused. "For what?"
Ginny smiled forced. "Officialy? Not being obedient. Unofficial? He's sleeping with Susan Bones, the editor.
"No!" Cho, panting, said.
"Oh, yes." Ginny said, comforted by their outrage.
"The dirty fag," Hermione hissed. "After all you've done. How dare he?" Her faced turned red in anger. "You helped build that paper! Without you he would have never made it."
Her words were like balm and also very true.
But that didn't help her. Dean was always her 'boss'. It didn't matter that she as creative manager helped to triple the sale of 'WizardingTalk'. The magazine was doomed to fail before she started to work on it. She managed to snatch it away from the precipice and make it blossom into something great. The only thing that mattered was that he had the authority to fire her and that he used it. He will pay for that.
Ginny didn't know how or when (although her famous Bat-Bogey hex did sound good), but somewhere in the not to far future he shall pay for it.
Luna shook her head. "This is truly insane. I just can't believe it. What are you going to do?"
Ginny shrugged her shoulders resigned. "Get another job. In the meantime I saved some money to live. I find it horrible to spend it, but there is just no other way."
"Ginny, I just don't know what to say." Chogave her a sympathizing look. "It is unbelievable. I thought Dean was a good man."
Ginny felt a painful lump forming in her troat, but she swallowed it and forced her tears to go back. "Me too."
"There are no good blokes." Hermione stated cynical. "This is why I started to think that all men are filthy pigs. They simply can't look further then their 'manliness'. They are too busy hitting on bagel girls and editors." She sniffed scornful. "This would never happened to you or me, if the woman would be the boss."
Ginny was at the point off to assent Hermoine when suddenly a strange tingly feeling started to grow in her chest, as she always got when she had a brilliant idea. Hermione was right. Woman were caring, loyal, faithful and independent. Again she realized how much she supported on her group, for sharingjoy and pain, for giving advice and therapeutic help. They all needed the same: support. If she would have a woman as a boss, if they all had women as bosses, then, excluding Cho who has her own business, none of this would have happened. They would all be better off.
"What are you thinking about?" Hermione asked suspicious. "I know that look. You have an idea."
Ginny didn't ignore her on purpose, but she couldn't focus on anything else but her train of thoughts. If a woman would be in charge, none of this would happened.. Women have the Power! Yes, that's it!
"Ginny?" Hermione asked again. "What is it?"
Ginny smiled. "I think you just gave me an idea that I think will change our lives."
The next three hours she was busy brainstorming and planning her idea with the other three women who saw good possibilities of her plan succeeding.
When Madam Rosmerta arrived with the last round of drinks, the concept Women have the Power was born. It was an organisation for and by women, that would help the success of businessand personal happiness, by making them more self-confident and independent. They would bind their forces and help each other. They could change everything. She just knew.
The committee was chosen quickly. Ginny was of course president and the other three were given important functions.
They were at the beginning of something big, something important. A new begin, a better future.
Hermione grinned at Ginny. "This feels really good."
Strangely energetic Ginny raised her butterbeer to cheer. "To Women have the Power," she said, the other three following solemn.
What do you think? Want me to continue? Chapter 1 will take place one year later and rating will be M, but only if you would like me to continue.