The minutes before the sorting ceremony at the Great Hall were
something Gin did not wish to discuss with her friends, but Diana and Katey
would not let the subject go at all during the actual ceremony, and talked
in whispers during the entire event. They had both noticed Draco and Harry
staring at each other evilly and were convinced it was because of their
mutual crush on Gin.
"Come on Gin, we all know Draco was looking at you," Katey said, irritating Gin to no end.
"Yeah, sure he was Katey, and you're engaged to Ron eh?" Ginny said sarcastically.
"Actually, she is," Diana put in, at last entering into the conversation.
"Sure. Well no one was looking at me I can guarantee that, they were all looking at you two," Gin insisted. Katey shook her head and Diana frowned at Gin in annoyance.
"No one ever looks at us Gin, we're not nearly as attractive as you," Diana told her simply.
"Yeah and did you see the protective way Harry put his arm around you?" Katey added.
"Shut up both of you, look Katey, your brother was sorted into Gryffindor," Gin said changing the subject as eleven year old Dhani McCartney strolled towards the table and sat beside his sister.
"Come to pester me some more have you?" Katey inquired jokingly. Her brother nodded solemnly, as Diana's brother Nick joined the Gryffindors as well. Diana and Katey looked at each other in anguish, stuck with their little brothers for the whole year!
"You two have nothing to complain about, look at all the brothers I've had to deal with!" Ginny said. She did have a point though.
The rest of the meal went on without much of interest to record, and the Gryffindors went up to their tower to get their rest, but Ginny could not sleep, and went to the window, gazing at Draco Malfoy's picture, thinking how the moonlight looked wonderful splashing on it, and loving the way the picture kept smirking at her.
Down below in the Slytherin dungeons, Draco Malfoy was at the moment, wishing that the girl snuggled next to him would be Gin Weasley and not Millicent Bulstrode, the pug faced girl his father insisted he be seen with. He could never tell his father of his feelings for the Weasley's youngest child and only daughter, and his mother would just laugh at him and tell him he'd gone mad.
He had loved Gin ever since one day when he had been helping Snape with a potions lesson. Gin had been the only one not to make vulgar comments about Slytherins and the Malfoy family, she had listened carefully to the instructions he gave, and she offered interesting thought provoking comments. Snape had made her serve a detention with him for taking notes while Draco was talking and had been unable to make it, so Draco was put in charge of her punishment. She was willing to serve her punishment and even made some really good jokes.
His closest friend, Pansy Parkinson, who some called the Slytherin slut because of her blond hair, had thought his reasons were good, but still not much of an excuse for fancying a Gryffindor, and a Weasley to boot. Still she did promise not to breathe a word, and give Draco time to get over the Weasley spell. He didn't have a chance, everyone knew Gin was head over heals in love with Potter, what good did it do to even wish?
"Worrying over Weasley again eh?" Pansy asked joining him on the couch and helping him get the snoring Millicent off of him.
"Yeah, I don't get it. I must be under a spell, and I'm serious here," he said when Pansy started to laugh. She quirked her blond head, staring questioningly at him with her bright green eyes.
"Oh, really now? Do tell," she said.
"Well, I would never dream of noticing a Weasley and I wouldn't put it past McCartney and Harrison to have slipped something into my pumpkin juice," he explained.
"Aye, I'll have Prue look into that," Pansy said with a nod.
"Prue?"
"Prue Starkey, Slytherin fifth year, Diana helps her with her Herbology work and they are friends, maybe she can find out for you," Pansy offered.
"I could kiss you Pansy," Draco told her. She laughed, glancing at the snoring Millicent.
"I think Sleeping Ogre over there would have something to say about that," she said, getting up and heading towards bed, leaving Draco with renewed hope of getting to the bottom of this mystery.
So Draco fell asleep at the cold common room couch, and Ginny, on his picture's head, at the window of her dormitory, both going into their nonsensical dreams that they could not hope to recall in the morning, but each had a glimpse of the other at least once during their sleep.
The next day Katey and Diana caught Gin sleeping at the open window, clutching Draco's picture.
"Ha, no wonder it was so cold last night eh Diana?" Katey said, winking in Gin's direction.
"Oh yes, I did wonder. It was you then was it Gin? Get any owls from your admirers while we were asleep then?" Diana chirped. Gin glared at her two friends playfully and searched for a pillow to throw at them.
Finally going down to the Great Hall they were greeted by Prue, the fifth year Slytherin that Diana tutored.
"Oh, hi Prue," Diana said when the girl nearly ran her over.
"Hey, look can we have a tutoring session today? After lunch if possible, I have a test on Friday," she explained. Diana nodded and told Prue to meet her at the library, then went back to talking with Gin and Katey.
"Ginny, sit here," Harry called, making room for her and getting the evil eye from Malfoy, matching it with his own death glare. Gin winced at being called Ginny but was obliged to sit there as Ron was urging her through violent gestures with his hands, accidentally smacking Hermione in the process and falling over.
"Oh for Christ's sake Ron! Learn to control yourself and not to smack people while trying to achieve your own ends would you?!" Hermione said in irritation, being very tired and groggy, and definitely not the nicest person in the mornings.
"Of course your highness," he said sarcastically, but shut up at a glare from both his sister and his friend.
"Shut up Ron," said Gin, taking her seat next to Harry reluctantly, but much to his delight.
"Hey Gin, thought about trying out for Quidditch at all? We need a new beater and I am sure you'd be amazing at it, like you are at everything," Harry said, Gin rolled her eyes.
"I have no hand eye coordination, I'd probably lose every game for us," she said and started talking to Katey before Harry had a chance to dispute what she had said.
"I don't understand what you see in Malfoy Gin," Katey said loudly as Draco passed their table. His pace slowed a bit and he strained to hear more but the Great Hall was too loud for him to hear much of anything, even his own thoughts.
"Kate, I am going to rip every single dirty blond hair out of that head of yours if you do that again" Gin said through clenched teeth, Katey just grinned in return, picking one of Diana's straight long black hairs off of her shirt.
"Diana's the one that sheds, not me," Katey said, earning her a good hard kick in the shins from Diana.
"I. Do. Not. Shed." Diana stated slowly and angrily.
"No, you really do, but nevermind that, the mail's here," said Ginny, as her owl Hermione, Ron, and Harry had chipped in to buy her as an early birthday present flew in. She had named him Lyle, a posh name for a posh Eagle owl, much like Draco's she had realized once she took a good look at his owl who had flown in with the usual box of sweets from Draco's mum.
"Gin you aren't looking at Malfoy are you?" Hermione asked. Gin shook her head and said she was seeing if Prue had gotten anything, a lie which Hermione excepted with a nod and went back to her food.
Once they finished they headed back to their common rooms to get their things for their first class of the day, but Gin was tapped on the shoulder, and told the others to wait for her. She turned around to see.....
*Hint* Not Draco, would I ever be THAT predictable? BAH! But you better review, I want six more or I won't even write the next chapter! Well that's a lie, but review anyway.
"Come on Gin, we all know Draco was looking at you," Katey said, irritating Gin to no end.
"Yeah, sure he was Katey, and you're engaged to Ron eh?" Ginny said sarcastically.
"Actually, she is," Diana put in, at last entering into the conversation.
"Sure. Well no one was looking at me I can guarantee that, they were all looking at you two," Gin insisted. Katey shook her head and Diana frowned at Gin in annoyance.
"No one ever looks at us Gin, we're not nearly as attractive as you," Diana told her simply.
"Yeah and did you see the protective way Harry put his arm around you?" Katey added.
"Shut up both of you, look Katey, your brother was sorted into Gryffindor," Gin said changing the subject as eleven year old Dhani McCartney strolled towards the table and sat beside his sister.
"Come to pester me some more have you?" Katey inquired jokingly. Her brother nodded solemnly, as Diana's brother Nick joined the Gryffindors as well. Diana and Katey looked at each other in anguish, stuck with their little brothers for the whole year!
"You two have nothing to complain about, look at all the brothers I've had to deal with!" Ginny said. She did have a point though.
The rest of the meal went on without much of interest to record, and the Gryffindors went up to their tower to get their rest, but Ginny could not sleep, and went to the window, gazing at Draco Malfoy's picture, thinking how the moonlight looked wonderful splashing on it, and loving the way the picture kept smirking at her.
Down below in the Slytherin dungeons, Draco Malfoy was at the moment, wishing that the girl snuggled next to him would be Gin Weasley and not Millicent Bulstrode, the pug faced girl his father insisted he be seen with. He could never tell his father of his feelings for the Weasley's youngest child and only daughter, and his mother would just laugh at him and tell him he'd gone mad.
He had loved Gin ever since one day when he had been helping Snape with a potions lesson. Gin had been the only one not to make vulgar comments about Slytherins and the Malfoy family, she had listened carefully to the instructions he gave, and she offered interesting thought provoking comments. Snape had made her serve a detention with him for taking notes while Draco was talking and had been unable to make it, so Draco was put in charge of her punishment. She was willing to serve her punishment and even made some really good jokes.
His closest friend, Pansy Parkinson, who some called the Slytherin slut because of her blond hair, had thought his reasons were good, but still not much of an excuse for fancying a Gryffindor, and a Weasley to boot. Still she did promise not to breathe a word, and give Draco time to get over the Weasley spell. He didn't have a chance, everyone knew Gin was head over heals in love with Potter, what good did it do to even wish?
"Worrying over Weasley again eh?" Pansy asked joining him on the couch and helping him get the snoring Millicent off of him.
"Yeah, I don't get it. I must be under a spell, and I'm serious here," he said when Pansy started to laugh. She quirked her blond head, staring questioningly at him with her bright green eyes.
"Oh, really now? Do tell," she said.
"Well, I would never dream of noticing a Weasley and I wouldn't put it past McCartney and Harrison to have slipped something into my pumpkin juice," he explained.
"Aye, I'll have Prue look into that," Pansy said with a nod.
"Prue?"
"Prue Starkey, Slytherin fifth year, Diana helps her with her Herbology work and they are friends, maybe she can find out for you," Pansy offered.
"I could kiss you Pansy," Draco told her. She laughed, glancing at the snoring Millicent.
"I think Sleeping Ogre over there would have something to say about that," she said, getting up and heading towards bed, leaving Draco with renewed hope of getting to the bottom of this mystery.
So Draco fell asleep at the cold common room couch, and Ginny, on his picture's head, at the window of her dormitory, both going into their nonsensical dreams that they could not hope to recall in the morning, but each had a glimpse of the other at least once during their sleep.
The next day Katey and Diana caught Gin sleeping at the open window, clutching Draco's picture.
"Ha, no wonder it was so cold last night eh Diana?" Katey said, winking in Gin's direction.
"Oh yes, I did wonder. It was you then was it Gin? Get any owls from your admirers while we were asleep then?" Diana chirped. Gin glared at her two friends playfully and searched for a pillow to throw at them.
Finally going down to the Great Hall they were greeted by Prue, the fifth year Slytherin that Diana tutored.
"Oh, hi Prue," Diana said when the girl nearly ran her over.
"Hey, look can we have a tutoring session today? After lunch if possible, I have a test on Friday," she explained. Diana nodded and told Prue to meet her at the library, then went back to talking with Gin and Katey.
"Ginny, sit here," Harry called, making room for her and getting the evil eye from Malfoy, matching it with his own death glare. Gin winced at being called Ginny but was obliged to sit there as Ron was urging her through violent gestures with his hands, accidentally smacking Hermione in the process and falling over.
"Oh for Christ's sake Ron! Learn to control yourself and not to smack people while trying to achieve your own ends would you?!" Hermione said in irritation, being very tired and groggy, and definitely not the nicest person in the mornings.
"Of course your highness," he said sarcastically, but shut up at a glare from both his sister and his friend.
"Shut up Ron," said Gin, taking her seat next to Harry reluctantly, but much to his delight.
"Hey Gin, thought about trying out for Quidditch at all? We need a new beater and I am sure you'd be amazing at it, like you are at everything," Harry said, Gin rolled her eyes.
"I have no hand eye coordination, I'd probably lose every game for us," she said and started talking to Katey before Harry had a chance to dispute what she had said.
"I don't understand what you see in Malfoy Gin," Katey said loudly as Draco passed their table. His pace slowed a bit and he strained to hear more but the Great Hall was too loud for him to hear much of anything, even his own thoughts.
"Kate, I am going to rip every single dirty blond hair out of that head of yours if you do that again" Gin said through clenched teeth, Katey just grinned in return, picking one of Diana's straight long black hairs off of her shirt.
"Diana's the one that sheds, not me," Katey said, earning her a good hard kick in the shins from Diana.
"I. Do. Not. Shed." Diana stated slowly and angrily.
"No, you really do, but nevermind that, the mail's here," said Ginny, as her owl Hermione, Ron, and Harry had chipped in to buy her as an early birthday present flew in. She had named him Lyle, a posh name for a posh Eagle owl, much like Draco's she had realized once she took a good look at his owl who had flown in with the usual box of sweets from Draco's mum.
"Gin you aren't looking at Malfoy are you?" Hermione asked. Gin shook her head and said she was seeing if Prue had gotten anything, a lie which Hermione excepted with a nod and went back to her food.
Once they finished they headed back to their common rooms to get their things for their first class of the day, but Gin was tapped on the shoulder, and told the others to wait for her. She turned around to see.....
*Hint* Not Draco, would I ever be THAT predictable? BAH! But you better review, I want six more or I won't even write the next chapter! Well that's a lie, but review anyway.