Chapter 1 - Aurora

Disclaimer - I do not own harry Potter. Just my characters and plot.

SUMMARY:

Draco and Ginny get into something they think they have under control, but they hopelessly realize that their feelings are stronger than they thought. They are put through many tests, especially when something serious happens to two of their friends. When Voldemort comes into the picture at the end of Ginny's fifth year and death eaters swarm Hogwarts, she and Draco, along with the D.A., have to work together to defeat them but when something happens in the battle, Draco realizes just how much he loves her.

This story focuses on other couples, as well, but they are the main item.

Let me know that I've done wrong

When I've known this all along

I'll go around a time or two

Just to waste my time with you

"Ginny dear, you're going to be late! Hurry up!"

"I'm coming, mother! Geez!" Ginny ran down the stairs, jingling a little due to the two chains on her black pants.

"Oh Ginny, I wish you wouldn't wear those pants…"

Ginny rolled her eyes. "Uch, mum. Enough, already."

"Alright alright… would you go make sure Harry and Ron are awake and getting ready? I tried waking them up so many times."

"Sure. FRED! GEORGE!" The twins appeared out of nowhere, making Ginny blink. "How do you do that? Nevermind. We have a job. Mission wake-up-Harry-and-Ron. Are you up for it?"

"Sure thing Miss Weasley!"

"Understood, Ma'am!"

Ginny smirked and ran up the stairs, followed by her twin brothers. Molly just sighed and shook her head. Before they reached the third floor where Harry and Ron shared a room, Ginny grabbed two pillows from her room and the twins grabbed something from their room they knew would be useful.

Ginny silently opened the door to see that the boys had, in fact, gone back to sleep. She signaled to her brothers and they all tiptoed into the room. At Ginny's next signal, Fred and George took out their device, turned it on, threw it into the room, and made a loud BANG as Ginny threw her pillows at both Ron and Harry, on opposite sides of the room. Mini fireworks shot out from the device on the floor and whistled around the room. Harry and Ron jumped up with yelps and fell off their beds. Molly came running up the stairs and into the room to see Ginny, Fred, and George laughing hysterically on the floor.

"What is going on?! What was that bang?!"

The three who were responsible tried to stop laughing enough to answer their mother.

"Well… well… Fred and George… they…" Ginny couldn't, so she let her brothers take care of explaining.

"Well you see, mum, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes has a new product that had to be tested, so we thought, hey, this is the perfect time to do it!" Fred said. Then George took over.

"Yes! Now would you like to know what that product is? Great! Do you have problems with annoying kids, roommates, or spouses that just won't get up in the morning? Try our new Morning Mayhem. It will wake even the heaviest sleeper!"

"It's the newest in alarms," Fred added.

Molly glared at them. "What have I said about testing your pranks on people?!"

"Not on our family yes we know but Harry isn't our family and it was him who we were trying to wake up."

"He's just as much a son to me as he is your brother! Oh I give up! I can't win! Hurry up or you'll all be late! The train leaves in an hour and a half!" She threw her hands up in the air and left the three to start laughing again.

"AN HOUR AND A HALF?!" Harry and Ron both yelled at the same time. They jumped up off the floor, sent a few glares at Ginny, Fred, and George, and shooed them out of the room so they could get dressed.

Thirty minutes later, they were all ready to go. Molly was fussing over Ginny's pants again, and Ginny was trying to get her to stop nagging. About forty-five minutes later, they reached King's Cross Station and ran to platform 9 ¾. All of them got through the barrier and on the train. They found an empty compartment and cast featherweight charms on their luggage to push them up onto the racks above their seats. Not five minutes after they sat down, Hermione walked in.

"Oh good! I found you! How was your summer?" she asked. She sat down next to Ginny and across from Fred. They were lucky that they were slightly early, because they got into one of the bigger compartments so all of them could fit. Not only were there seats on either side, but also at the window, which was where Harry was sitting.

"Fun, but not too eventful," Ginny answered.

"Except for this morning," Fred said, causing George and Ginny to grin and Ron and Harry to scowl.

Hermione looked at them curiously. "Alright, what did you three do?"

"Well… Harry and Ron had some trouble waking up so I enlisted the Dynamic Duo here to help me," Ginny explained.

"Oh no…" Hermione couldn't help but grin at this.

"So what we did was we went into our room to get this new invention we have, Gin went and got two pillows, we snuck into Ron's room…" Fred began.

"And while Fred and I set off our new Morning Mayhem alarm – fireworks, mostly – Gin here threw her pillows at them."

Hermione started laughing.

"It wasn't funny!" Ron grumbled.

"Oh yes it was. You two nearly jumped out of your skin," Ginny said with a laugh.

"How was your summer, Mione?" Ron asked, changing the subject.

"Oh it was brilliant! We went to Sicily, Sardinia, Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Amalfi coast. It was beautiful!"

"Your tan looks fantastic," Ginny complimented. Hermione beamed, and Ron blushed slightly and looked away. "And I like your hair long."

"Thank you! I guess I just kept it too short for it to smooth out properly. It's still frizzy... but at least it's managable, now." She grumbled a little about her hair. "I see you changed your style, as well."

"Well yeah, that's only because mum finally realizes that I'm old enough to stop letting her dress me however she wants. I like the chains, I think they suit me."

"Well, they do in a way, actually." Everyone looked at her with surprise and shock on their faces. "What?"

"We just thought that… you'd disapprove," Ginny said.

"Oh, no. They do suit you."

"Well, thanks."

"You're welcome," Hermione said with a smile on her face.

"Well if it isn't the Dream Team, sitting in our compartment."

They all looked at the door and saw Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, and three other Slytherins they didn't recognize.

"I don't see your names on it," Ginny retorted.

"Who-hoo, the little Weaslette's got claws. What's up with your new clothes, Red? Trying to get noticed?" Draco said with a smirk on his face. Ginny leaned back and put her arms behind her head in a casual pose, not realizing how much this pose accentuated her chest – or how it affected Malfoy.

"I don't need to try to get noticed. I've been wearing this style for a while. Oh and NEVER call me Red again."

"You can't tell me what to do, Weaslette."

"Watch me," she challenged.

He stepped into the compartment and leaned towards her. "What are you gonna do? Swing your little chain at me?"

"Get out of here, Malfoy," Harry said in a low voice before Ginny could respond.

Draco was about to answer when Pansy cut in. "Coming to the rescue again, Potter? Your little girlfriend looks like she can handle herself."

Ginny took this as a compliment, and she smiled. But Harry didn't. "She is not my girlfriend, she's like a sister and if you ever touch her…" He growled dangerously. Ginny loved that he was as protective of her as her own brothers were.

"Look, just leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. How's that for a compromise?" Hermione said.

"There's just one problem. You're sitting in our compartment," One of the unrecognizable Slytherins said.

"This isn't your compartment," Ron said, getting very angry.

"We've been sitting in it since we first started going to Hogwarts. So get up and move out," Draco said.

"It's not our fault that you got here late, Malfoy," Fred said angrily.

Draco was about to retort, when Hermione cut him off. "I'm Head Girl, and I say you have to leave because we got here first. You do not own this compartment, and you are being hostile and rude," she said, keeping her voice stern and her gaze level.

"Well guess what, Granger? I'm Head Boy. So you don't have any authority over me."

They all gasped.

"You're Head Boy?!" Ginny exploded and shot out of her seat. "HOW THE HELL ARE YOU HEAD BOY?! YOU DON'T DESERVE IT, YOU BLOODY GIT!"

"Ginny!"

"Oh sod off, Mione! Malfoy, you'd better get out of here or I'll hex you into oblivion! And I'll use my bat bogey hex to top it off!"

"Ohh I'm so scared. You may be wearing clothes that you think make you look intimidating, but I don't think so. So sit back down and shut the hell up, because you have no control over me." He was leaning in towards Ginny, and they were very close to each other. They were so furious, you could almost see sparks between their eyes.

"Come on, Draco. Let's just leave. They're being stubborn and stupid, and we don't have the time for this," Blaise said. "Compartments are filling up as we speak." Draco stood up straight and stalked out of the compartment. Apparently, Blaise and Pansy scared off some second years to get another one of the larger compartments down the hall.

Ginny sat down and fumed, crossing her arms over her chest.

"And the famous Weasley temper strikes again," Hermione said with a smile. Ginny rolled her eyes.

"Wow Gin, I never knew you had that in you," Harry said. "Well, not that much, anyway."

Fred and George grinned and high-fived each other. "That's because you haven't lived with us long enough to see it," George said.

"She's a feisty little ball of fire when she gets worked up. We learned looooong ago to stay out of her way when her temper gets going," Fred added.

Ginny grinned. She had no idea why, but she had gotten such a thrill when she fought with Malfoy. Maybe she just hasn't yelled like that in a while, but she loved it; it felt so good.

"Well I can't stay here long, I have to go to my Head Girl duties and check in. I'll see you all later," Hermione said. They waved at her as she walked out and closed the door.

"I really wish mum hadn't made us go back to school," George said suddenly.

His twin nodded. "I second that."

Molly had forced Fred and George to go back to school to finish their last year. She said she didn't care what they did with their lives, but they had to finish at Hogwarts. So there they were, on the train, with a young woman named Amy Callaway running their shop in Diagon Alley and another named Serena Macabee running the one in Hogsmeade that used to be Zonko's.

"Oh will you two stop griping?" Ron said.

"It's not like you're in Azkaban," Ginny added. "I'll be right back."

Ginny walked down the hall to the closest restroom, which was in a room of itself between cars. She came out a few minutes later and was about to head back to the compartment when she ran into Draco, who was passing through to get to the other car. She noticed him glancing at her, and stopped to face him.

"What's wrong, Malfoy? Like what you see?"

"You wish, Weaslette."

"Oh, well I thought that staring at someone and drooling meant that." She smirked at his annoyed expression.

"Do tell me why I would want to look at someone like you."

"Because I'm sexy."

He snorted at this. 'Damn right you are.' "You keep on thinking that." 'I definitely will be.'

"Oh I don't think it. I know it." She couldn't stop herself. She was enjoying this too much.

"Do you, now? Tell me, Red. Have you looked in a mirror recently?"

"Actually, I just did. About half a minute ago."

Draco's eye ticked. "And you still think you're sexy?"

"The way you were looking at me when I walked out said as much."

"How can you possibly think that the awful red hair you Weasels have is attractive?" 'It's the most attractive color I've seen on any woman I know, but I could never let her know that.'

"Well, first off, my hair isn't the orange-red my brothers have. It's darker and deeper. So right there is the first clue I got. Are you with me?" He snorted. "The other is that it's not frizzy or really curly, nor is it pin straight. It has a nice wave to it, don't you think? Which I happen to like very much. Apparently, so do a lot of guys."

"You're a cheeky little witch, aren't you."

"I am hardly little, Malfoy."

He smirked. Two could play at this game. "Yes, I agree. You are quite amply sized." She saw his eyes were looking straight at her chest. She blushed in anger, but forced herself to keep cool and calm. He obviously saw this, for he looked back at her eyes and smirked again. 'Point for Malfoy.'

She put her hands on her hips and puffed out her chest a little. "Oh? So you like them, do you? Well I am certainly not big, though not small, either. I'd say just the right size, don't you think?" He took two steps toward her and had her pinned to the wall. An intense heat suddenly pooled in the pit of her stomach, completely unexpected, and she shuddered, but kept her smirk. He, however, noticed. "Malfoy, I didn't know I had that kind of effect on you." He growled, and pushed against her shoulders a little harder, which made the heat rush through her again.

"Don't ever think you would have any effect on me but disgust." 'Gods she does.' "You'd better watch it, Weasley."

"Or what?"

"Or you will regret it."

He let go of her and stalked away, out the door, and into the other train car.

'What on Earth was that?' she asked herself, her breathing slightly off from normal. She shook her head to clear the odd feeling she got from being so close to him, and went into the bathroom to throw cold water on her flushed face. She walked through the opposite door, the one Draco hadn't gone through, and back to the compartment.

"Hey Gin, what took you so long?" Ron asked.

"I ran into the amazing bouncing ferret." This made them laugh.

"Did he do anything to you?" Harry asked, with a protective brotherly gleam in his eyes.

'You could say that…' "We called each other a few names, told each other to get lost, blah blah blah. The usual." Which wasn't exactly a lie. She sat down and sprawled out on the seat with her head on Fred's lap. When Hermione left a while ago, Fred had switched seats to make more room for everyone.

The door to their compartment opened and they saw that it was Hermione, but before she came in, someone collided with her in the corridor and sent them both to the floor.

"Ow!"

"Oh goodness, I'm so sorry!" said a female voice. Hermione and the others looked at the girl who flew into her and the guys eyes widened. She was a pretty blonde with long light hair and a sporty figure. "I didn't see you. I shouldn't have been running…"

"It's alright, I'm fine," said Hermione.

The girl stood and held out a hand to help Hermione up. "Heh, really sorry about that."

Hermione smiled. "I told you, it's fine." She stuck out her hand to shake the other girls' hand. "Hermione Granger."

"Aurora Malfoy. Nice to meet you!"

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