Ginny's Challenge

Ginny Weasley watched her confused best male friend being serenaded to by Harry Potter, the boy she had used to dream of marrying merely a couple years ago. She sighed. And promptly abandoned him to his fate.

Ginny wasn't exactly a cold person, it was just that she didn't view the threat of being wooed by an insane boy-who-lived to be all that much of a threat in the first place. That and she was hungry.

She walked off ignoring Harry's coo "Your eyes are like two hazel brown pools of… beautifulness? Is that even a word? I don't know. Whatever. And your hair is like.. silk. Yeah." And Neville's ensuing whimper.

She entered the cafeteria and walked towards the Gryffindor table. At the teacher's table she could see the flamboyant Headmaster taking his seat and immediately zeroing in on a bright colorful fruity alcoholic drink that should absolutely not be there. He'd probably made a personal request to the House Elves.

She sat down next to her brother because hey, why the heck not? It wasn't like he talked much anyways. He just ate food.

She served herself some eggs and bacon because she was unoriginal like that and started eating. Suddenly Ginny noticed Seamus Finnigan sitting across from her and had a devilish idea. She was single at the moment… and Seamus wasn't such a bad catch either…

Ginny suppressed a quite unGryffindorish smirk and served herself some sausages.

"Good morning Seamus!" she said cheerily.

"Morning," Seamus said. He was a tad confused that she was suddenly talking to him, she barely knew him after all, but he took it in stride.

She then speared one of the sausages on her fork and made eye contacts with Seamus. Seamus felt awkward and was unable to break away from her intense gaze. Ginny brought the sausage to her lips and opened wide and… Seamus's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he watched her. No matter what she was still a Weasley at heart, and everyone knew that Weasley's were about as subtle as a hammer to the face.

It was rare for Hogwarts students to perform accidental magic seeing as that was for small kids with no control. But even if he was sixteen Seamus had never had the best control of his magic, not to mention that his mind was currently being blown. As was the sausage.

So was it really all that weird that a huge, uncontrollable surge of magic surged up in Seamus and as fast as bullet careened towards the ceiling, exploding the fake blue sky? Well, a little. No one was hurt but there was a lot of screaming and confusion as the boom resounded through the cafeteria and the rubble of the ceiling flew into the lake. Ginny was so surprised that she suddenly bit down on her sausage. Seamus stared at the unlucky sausage in open mouthed horror and promptly fainted into his toast. Ginny sighed as she saw all her hopes of ever banging Seamus fall unconscious into a slice of perfectly toasted buttery goodness.

Ron hadn't stopped eating once.

All of the teachers, except for the Headmaster who was by then thoroughly wasted (Dumbledore had always been a lightweight), looked up at the ceiling in confusion where the boom had come from. All they saw was the sky. And due to the fact that that was what the ceiling usually showed them they didn't even notice so they just shrugged and turned back to their meals and gossip. It was probably just another one of the Weasley twin's pranks again anyways… they skillfully ignored the fact that the twins had stopped attending school a year ago.

Ginny, Ginny the ferocious predator, the lioness, the serial dater, the sex-machine, the unstoppable, twisted around in her seat and considered her options. She decided that she wouldn't have a guy from her own house, everyone dated someone from their own house (not really). She wanted to be original for once! Which house should she look for her soul mate (a soul mate that would most likely only last for a month or two)?

Well, Gryffindor was out. So was Ravenclaw seeing as she'd already dated someone from there. That left Hufflepuff and Slytherin. She rolled her eyes at the easy choice. Of course she'd choose Slytherin over Hufflepuff, it was no competition! Hufflepuff was totally lame and boring. Slytherin on the other hand had dark and mysterious hunks, plus her parents and family would definitely disapprove, which gave it the 'forbidden love' appeal. It would be so thrilling and stuff, plus it'd be a real challenge to find a hunky Slytherin that wasn't a total jerk face that would immediately turn his nose up at her.

Ginny loved challenges.

She left the cafeteria with a satisfied smirk on her face, a vague plan already forming in her head. She waved happily at a flushed Neville who was now standing alone in the hallway. She noticed the fact that he was touching his lips with disbelief and rolled her eyes. Harry was no doubt causing havoc somewhere else in the castle by now.