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Chapter 2: Tricks or Treats!
When breakfast was finished Ginny, Ron, Harry, and Hermione started back for Gryffindor towers so they could get ready to head to Hogsmeade. "Damn it! If I didn't need to get some important things in the village I wouldn't go at all." Ginny said more to herself than to the others but they all looked questioningly at her. She didn't say any more but finished getting ready. She then proceeded out of the entrance to Gryffindor and down to the entrance hall where she found a surprise. Draco was waiting there and upon seeing her he headed straight for her.
"Malfoy, don't start. I was going to back out but unfortunately I have to pick up some things in the village."
"So what does the littlest Weasel, have to pick up that couldn't have been gotten another time or someone else couldn't have picked up for you?"
"Don't call me Weasel." Ginny said in a rather frightening tone of voice. "I need to get some parchment. What about you what do you need to get?"
"Not that it is really any of your business but I need some potion supplies. Why couldn't the Weasel King get your parchment or that Mudblood Granger for that matter? Even Potty Potter could have handled that task!"
"Well that isn't the only thing I needed to get. I have six older brothers who try everything to annoy me so I have to go get something at Zonko's to get my revenge on the latest battle in the Weasley prank war." Ginny said a bit harshly.
"Can I ask what that might have been?" Draco asked hoping to get a good laugh out of whatever had happened to have her so pissed off at her brothers this morning.
"They woke me and all my dorm mates up with a stupid alarm clock that sung the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Song."
"Your poor bunk mates. So was it this year's song?"
"No it was from our third year. Anyway the stupid little twits wouldn't tell me how to shut it off when I contacted them by floo powder. So now everyone is mad at me and I still have the stupid clock going off in my trunk buried under everything I brought with me."
"Well that is what you call loving family right?" Draco said with sarcasm.
"Yeah but most of the time they are ok." She replied quietly.
"So what kind of pay back are you going to make them suffer though?"
"Not sure. I wish I had gotten some of their mischievous traits so that I could easily get revenge."
"So you don't think you know how to cause mischief? I have to say I doubt that is true since you are a Weasley. Again why couldn't someone else get this for you?"
"You know something Ferretface I don't think that is any of your business." Ginny was feeling her Weasley temper flaring up and she was trying not to let it get her since she didn't want to get detention over a stinky Malfoy.
"Well then be that way! I believe we can hit the potion supply store first. Then go get your parchment. After that we will stop for lunch and then go to Zonko's before going to Honeyduke's." Draco concluded. Ginny just nodded that this was agreeable.
They stood in silence for a while as they waited for the other students to arrive. It wasn't long before they were joined by Ron, Harry, and Hermione. Shortly after that their partners showed up. Not long after that the students heading for Hogsmeade were queuing up to be checked off.
Draco couldn't believe Dumbledore was forcing all the students of Hogwarts to do such a thing. Did the crazy old man know he was playing with fire? I mean pairing up students of different houses was not going to improve relations! However Draco was almost sure the old man had gone completely insane when he had paired Ginny Weasley and Draco together. This Hogsmeade trip was going to in one word BITE!
Ginny was walking ever so quietly beside Draco. She too was pondering why the crazy but sweet older man had thought it a good idea to have her pair up with Malfoy. She hoped by being quiet maybe Draco would forget she was even there. That would be too much to ask she knew but she couldn't take his snide remarks or his calling her Weasel. She was almost sure that Draco would find a way to torture and humiliate her in public.
"What's wrong Weasel?" Draco asked upon noticing the sudden quietness of his Hogsmeade buddy.
"Nothing other then neither of us likes who we were paired with and the fact that you keep calling me Weasel! I keep thinking that Ron is coming up behind me. I guess if you keep that up I will have to start calling you Ferret right?"
"I don't think so Weasel!" Draco replied coolly as they reach the edge of the village.
Draco led the way to the potion supply store. He let Ginny go ahead of him into the store. He quickly got the supplies he needed and they were on their way out of the store. "Weasley what is keeping you so quiet? Not that I mind but still why so quiet?"
"I don't know why. Maybe it is just I don't feel much like fighting since I am exhausted."
"Why are you exhausted?" He looked over at Ginny curiously.
"Because I tossed and turned last night having what might at first appear to be dreams but in the end I think they were nightmares."
"Oh fantasies of your little Scarhead?"
"No and don't call Harry that again. If you must know the nightmares were of who I was getting for a Hogsmeade buddy."
"Oh who did you have nightmares of being paired with?" He questioned her as the thoughts of his own nightmares or rather dreams came to mind.
"You!" Ginny said simply with no explanation.
"No Weasley they couldn't have been nightmares than they had to be dreams."
"You only wished you were in my dreams Malfoy."
"I know you wished you were in mine Weasel." At this they stopped just outside the parchment shop.
"Oh yes please tell me that I was in your dreams last night Draco!" Ginny said sarcastically as she batted her eyelashes at him and took his hand to her heart.
"What did you just call me?" Draco asked as he stared wide eyed at where she had placed his hand.
"Draco? Is there something wrong with that? I mean it is your name!"
"Yeah but it is the first time I ever heard you call me something besides Malfoy or Ferret." As he said this he noticed that she still had not let his hand go. He felt her chest rise and fall with each breath she took.
"Draco does it make you feel some sort of power when I call you by your first name instead of your last?" At this she finally released his hand and waited for his response.
It took him a couple of moments to recover from the way she had held his hand. Then he dropped his hand back to his side. "No it doesn't give me power."
"Ok then shall we get my parchment?"
"Yes. I really hate shopping with females!"
"Why?"
"Well because females always take a long time to find just what they are looking for! It is so aggravating because they make you wait and wait until they finally find that perfect item which they later decide they don't like after all."
"That isn't always true. I mean sometimes we love what we get but act like we don't just to have an excuse to get something new."
"Oh. Well that makes a lot of sense. I mean spend money just so we can later complain we don't like it and go spend more money" Draco drawled sarcastically.
"What are you complaining about? I mean isn't that the way you do your shopping too? You always have to have the best but then something better comes out or you find something you like better and its 'Dad I need a new…'" Ginny said with a look that could kill.
"Shut up Weasel! You don't know anything about good taste or money." Draco exclaimed angrily.
After getting her parchment they headed to the Three Broomsticks for lunch. They each had a butterbeer and a sandwich. Ginny was so tired that she almost fell into her sandwich at one point only to have Draco make a comment. "Weasley you need to stop having dreams about me no matter how good they are. I mean you can't keep your eyes open. Besides I don't like you having fantasies about me."
"Grow up Ferret. I already told you they were nightmares and besides you know it wasn't just my nightmares that have me tired. There is the alarm clock going off at 4:00 in the morning that didn't help matters! So just get over yourself and shut the hell up!" Ginny's temper was flaring again and she wasn't in the mood to be talking to the stupid ferret who was mocking her.
"What is wrong can't you even take a joke Weasel?" Draco smirked at her.
"You are a bastard you know that right?" Ginny said with her voice rising to a dangerous tone yet again. Unfortunately at this moment Snape, McGonagall, and Dumbledore came in. They happened to walk right by the table Ginny and Draco were sitting at noticing the little spat going on decided to intervene.
"Hello Miss Weasley, Mr. Malfoy. I expect you are both enjoying your day in Hogsmeade. So who do you think will win the first Quidditch game of the season?" Dumbledore said trying to ease his two students into a nice quiet conversation. He had put these two together because he had special plans for them.
"Well since it is Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff I believe it will be Gryffindor. What do you think Minerva?" Professor Snape said calmly.
"I think I would have to agree with you Severus. Seeing as how we have two of the best Weasleys playing and not to mention Potter is back on the team along with our other four excellent players." Professor McGonagall said proudly.
"You're on the team still?" Draco looked at Ginny surprised. He obviously didn't realize she had been on the team last year too.
"Duh! I mean I was on the team last year too. I moved from Seeker to Chaser last year when the ban had been lifted from Harry. I always wanted to be a Chaser but at the time the only two positions available were Seeker and Beater. I never liked the position of Beater."
"Oh I guess I was too focused on Potter to pay any attention to the rest of the Gryffindor team last year. I do have to agree that Gryffindor will win the first game. It isn't like the Hufflepuffs have much of a team. They never have." Draco concluded.
"I don't know if that is true. They do have some new players who are extremely talented. It is going to be much harder this year then last. I know I am not looking forward to this game any more then I normally look forward to our games against Slytherin." Ginny responded.
With this Dumbledore, Snape and McGonagall smiled and continued past their table. "What was that about?" Ginny asked Draco after they had past.
"I don't think they liked us fighting and thought we could at least agree about our interest in Quidditch long enough to get though lunch." Draco said with a shrug.
"I guess! So you are the captain of your team this year right?"
"Yeah! How did you know that?"
"Harry told me the other day. He said he would trade me positions when we played you! Of course he was joking. I mean if he wants to win against Slytherin there is no way he would let me play Seeker against you!" Ginny explained.
"Why not? I mean if I remember correctly you are really good!" Draco said looking over at her.
Ginny who was taken aback replied, "Yeah right. You just say that because you think maybe Harry will let me play against you and then you would definitely win for once."
"Not true. Can't you ever take a compliment? Coming from me compliments are rare."
"Well thank you but I know I am not good at playing Seeker. I stink worse then Ron did when he first played Keeper. I know he is much better now but still he sucked at first."
"Don't tell anyone I said this but Ron is really good and would have been then too had he not been so nervous."
"Wow two compliments in a row from a Malfoy about a Weasley. I am very impressed." Ginny told Draco who just smirked at her.
"So why did you go to Chaser after Potter came back? I mean what made you want that position instead of substitute Seeker?"
"Oh simple, I always admired Katie, Angelina, and Alicia. It always made me want to be a Chaser."
"I see."
"What made you want to be a Seeker?"
"I guess because I wanted something I was better at then Potter and since he played Seeker I thought I could too."
"I guess I can see that." They had finished eating and drinking while talking about Quidditch but neither seemed to notice this right away. However when they did they quickly paid and walked outside. They continued to talk about Quidditch and of course ended up arguing about who would win this year but still they stayed almost civil to one another as they finished their shopping.
"Well time to head back to school. I need to put stuff away and get a shower before dinner." Ginny said quietly.
"I need to put stuff away and get a shower as well. I mean I have got to get your germs off my body." Draco responded.
"That was my thought as well." Ginny was quick to come back with. They continued in silence back to the castle.
Ginny ended up leading Draco around the lake back to the castle. "Why are we going this way Weasel?"
"Well Ferret I wanted to enjoy the beautiful weather before going back inside."
"I can't believe that it is this nice with it being October 31st already." Draco responded almost pleasantly.
"I know! At least you weren't too scary today although you need to take your mask off!" Ginny didn't know why but she was trying to provoke him.
"Well at least my mask isn't as ugly as yours!"
"No but it sure is scary!"
"No it isn't but… wait what did you just say? Did you just say my mask wasn't ugly? Does this mean you think I am cute?" Draco teased Ginny.
"No I just said it may be scary not ugly there is a big difference scary is ten times worse then ugly." Ginny said but the color in her cheeks gave her away.
"Oh really? Your face doesn't seem to agree with your mouth Weasley."
"Ok Malfoy you may be handsome in some ways. However that doesn't mean that I like your looks!"
"Sure whatever helps you sleep at night Weasley."
They reached the castle and went in. They were meant by Dumbledore, Filch, Snape, and McGonagall. "So Miss Weasley how did the day go?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"Well even though I was with him!" She said pointing a finger at Malfoy.
"Draco how was your day?" Snape asked.
"It could have been worse but then again it could have been better. Lucky for us some professors stopped a fight or one of us may not have come back this evening."
"Really Mr. Malfoy?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yeah she has a bad temper! And I was tempted to bind her up and leave her there!" Draco responded with a half smirk.
Dumbledore laughed. "Well Miss Weasley I think you might have to work on your temper and you Mr. Malfoy may need to work on your short fuse."
At this Snape and McGonagall started to laugh silently. They had been in on planning the pairs and had immediately agreed that these two should be paired. They knew Dumbledore's decision was a smart one.
"Well then no one had any scares?" Dumbledore spoke up once the laughter stopped.
"He doesn't scare me!" Ginny said at the same time Draco said "She doesn't scare me!"
"Good now go get ready for dinner." Professor Dumbledore excused them. They started off toward their dormitories only glancing back upon feeling eyes on them. The three teachers were watching their progress so that they could continue their conversation about the two students' futures.
Author note: Thank you xoxLewrahxox and Shy Susanna Malfoy for your reviews. I am glad you enjoyed the first chapter and hope you enjoyed this second one as well. I will try to update one or two chapters a day. I currently have several chapters ready.