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Now How Did This Happen?

Chapter 1: Counseling

Ginny looked up into the smug face of Draco Malfoy. She couldn't take his tormenting anymore, that smug idiot. Behind her back she raised a fist, making sure he couldn't see it, and punched him in the eye.

"Owe..." He yelled, falling back onto the floor. Regaining his composure with surprising agility, he removed his wand from the pocket of his robes. "Stupefy!" he screamed.

Ginny ducked out of the way, and she pulled out her own wand, "Furunculous!" Fungus spread all over the boy's body.

He quickly said the levitation spell and Ginny was floating over his head. "Put me down Malfoy," She said dangerously.

"Not until you call me the supreme ruler of the universe and remove this god awful spell."

"How about this, you put me down and I don't put you in a body bind?" Ginny asked.

"As you wish," he said, she fell to the ground with a deafening 'thud.'

"Malfoy," Her voice thundered down the corridor.

Ginny raised her wand and pointed it at him. "I'm going to make you wish you were never bor..."

"Miss Weasley!" a shocked voice said," I insist you desist immediately." Ginny turned around to see professor Mcgonagle and immediately lowered her wand.

"You two!" Mcgonagle thundred,"That's the fifth time this week, can't you guys be civil for one minute in each others presence.

'Not a chance,' both Draco and Ginny thought.

"This school can't take this anymore, you will both be going to counseling together," She said matter-of-factly.

"What!" Ginny yelled.

"You can't be serious," Draco, said," What kind of counseling?" he asked.

"Every weekday at 6:30 and at 2:00 on Saturdays until you two learn to tolerate each other, Professor Sinistra will be leading your sessions."

"Ever...Every...Every Night," Draco sputtered. "You mean I only get one day off a week from that thing!"

"That is the exactly what I said Mr. Malfoy." Mcgonagle said. "Tonight you will meet Professor Sinistra in my classroom at 6:25."

"We start tonight?" Ginny asked in a low growly voice.

"Yes, as this obviously cannot wait...Now get to your next class," She barked.

Ginny and Draco stalked off in opposite directions. Fuming at the other.

"I have to talk to her," Ron said, jumping out of his seat," I have to talk her out of this." Ginny had just told Harry, Ron, and Hermione about her impending doom, and Ron was definitely not pleased.

"It's no use," Ginny sighed," There's no changing her mind."

"You can't just go through with this, he'll kill you."

"I don't have a choice," Ginny said. It would have been her choice not to tell the trio at all, to just tell her own friends, but she figured they would find out soon anyway.

"Every day!" Ron shrieked, his voice getting higher and higher.

"Except Sunday," Ginny said. She got up and walked out of the common room. Hoping Luna or Colin would be hanging around somewhere. No luck.

At exactly 6:25 she was standing next to the desk in professor Mcgonagle office. Neither Malfoy nor Professor Sinistra had arrived yet.

The door swung open and in walked Malfoy himself with a look of severe distaste on his face. He saw Ginny and scowled darkly. She returned the favor.

The door opened again and in walked professor Sinistra. She smiled brightly. "Hello there!" she said excitedly.

"Hello," Ginny muttered along with Draco.

"Follow me," the professor said, opening the door," We're not having counseling in here," She said as though it were the most obvious thing in the world. "We just needed to find a place you both knew how to get to to meet."

Draco nodded and followed the professor," Coming Weasley?" He asked. She nodded disgustedly and followed.

They followed Professor Sinistra down a corridor as she continued to talk. "This first session I will talk to each of you about what your problems with the other about the other. The next five or so sessions I will oversee while you guys talk just to make sure you don't kill each other," She said brightly. "After that you will be left alone. I will check on you every once in a while to see how much progress you've been making."

They reached a door that Ginny suspected was some where near the kitchen. Professor Sinistra opened the door to reveal a desk with a chair behind it, to plastic looking backless sofas, a big reclining chair in front of the desk, and another pouf chair in the corner.

"Draco, sit there," She said, pointing to the chair in front of the desk. "We'll start with you." He sat down obediently and Professor Sinistra sat down in the chair behind the desk. Ginny took a seat in the other chair.

"Okay, lets begin," She said. "So what do you dislike about this young lady?"

"She's a Weasley," he said, turning up his nose.

"Yes, we know that, but what about her personality don't you like?"

"She's a Weasley," He said again slower.

"Shocker!" Ginny said holding her hand over her heart," You know, after all these years I never realized I was a Weasley"

"Shut up Weasel," he said coolly.

"Now that won't do," Professor Sinistra said. "We need to be ob a first name basis, and there will be no more mean comments."

Both went silent. Neither had ever used the other's first name.

"Now back to the questioning," Professor Sinistra said. "Now what about her personality don't you like?" Draco shrugged. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well I've never actually talked to her except to annoy her," Draco mumbled.

"As I thought, you may sit down elsewhere Mr. Malfoy. Miss Weasley please sits here."

They switched seats. "Now Miss Weasley. What do you dislike about Mr. Malfoy?"

"He's a Malfoy," She said. Making fun of Draco.

"You little..." He said standing up, but he realized there was a teacher there and promptly sat down.

"Miss Weasley, what do you really dislike about Mr. Malfoy?" She asked.

"He's always an arrogant prick, he thinks he's the top of the school, he's made my like hell since I started Hog warts because I'm a Weasley, he picks on all of my friends, he manipulates his head boy position so he can take points from people he doesn't like, he doesn't have to do any work in potions because he's Snape's favorite, he thinks he's hot stuff just because ..."

Professor Sinistra had cut her off, looking surprised at Ginny's answer. "Well... looks like you do have a reason to dislike him," She looked confused.

"Now Draco," She turned to him," What do you think of Ginny's answer to the question."

"It just proves my point," he said snootily.

"And what point would that be?" Ginny asked.

"That being a Weasley is a bad thing and that is why I dislike you."

"You are so impossible," Ginny said, putting her head in her hands.

"Okay," the professor said, looking confused as to where to go next, "Draco, Do you mind moving that chair next to Ginny's?"

"Not at all," He said sarcastically.

"Have you guys actually ever had a civil conversation?" Professor Sinistra asked.

"No," Ginny shook her head, thinking.

"Then how would you know what the other is really like?" She asked.

"I don't want to know what she's really like, she's a Weasley," Draco drawled.

"I believe that had already been established," Ginny said, borrowing the smirk that was normally placed on the boy's arrogant face, but was absent at the moment.

"Shut up Weaslette," He said.

"Shove it Ferret," She said.

"I thought I told you to stop this!" Professor Sinista said exasperatedly. "You do realize the sooner you guys learn to get along, the sooner you can get out of counseling," She bribed. Both parties went silent.

"Good, now Draco, what do you dislike about Weasleys?"

"They're Weasleys," He said casually.

"ooohhh...that hurt Malfoy," Ginny said.

"Remember our agreement about being on a first name basis." They both visably cringed.

"Okay back to the questioning," Sinistra said,"What exactly do you dislike about Weasleys?"

"Don't know, I've never acutally had a conversation with one," He muttered.

"As I thought. Now Ginny, what do you dislike about Malfoys?"

"Well lets see," Ginny said sarcastically,"They get away with anything because they're rich, they're all death eaters, they're all as arrogant as him, they hate out family for no particular reason, and.oh yeah, his father gave tricked me into getting possessed by Voldemort when I was a little girl," She ranted.

Again Professor Sinistra looked at though this wasn't going at all the way she had predicted it to be. Her mouth hung open in a lopsided way. She gathered her composure back and said," There's no need to stereotype all Malfoy's as being that way. How do you know Draco is not different?"

"I see no proof that he's not," Ginny said.

After two hours of questioning from Sinstra they were finally allowed to leave. Ginny walked back to her dormitory thinking about the session, and wondering if there was any possible way she could get out of it. She smiled widely as she thought about how Malfoy had spent the whole session trying to convince Sinistra how it was perfectly logical to dislike her just because of her surname.

Meanwhile Draco was in his dorm lying on his bed and up at the canvas. He was fuming, how could this teacher not see that his dislike of her was logical? He tried to think of all the things he disliked about her on a personal level and came up with only two.

She's a Weasley

She had the courage to stand up to me