A/N: This challenge was issued by the lovely Lunar Fire at The DG Forum. The requirements were to write a 300-500 word Draco/Ginny drabble including a quote from a book and some sort of public spectacle.

Since I like to make my life as difficult as possible (and because I couldn't choose just one), I have selected quotes from the illustrious American author, Theodore Geisel—better known by his penname, Dr. Suess.


"I was stating a fact," Draco hissed, plucking Ginny's fork from her fingers before she could use it to spear him.

She glowered, and the silence that spanned their table-for-two was interrupted only by the clink of glass on china and the conversational hum of the late dinner crowd. "A person's a person, no matter how small," she breathed. "You are such a prejudiced arse."

Draco coolly balled up his napkin. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant."

"Liar!" A hush fell over the elegant murmur, and Ginny blushed scarlet. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." She dragged her knife violently through her steak.

Draco slipped the knife from her fingers. "Your niece or nephew is going to be the first Weasley—ever—without pure blood," he said in a low tone.

She polished off her merlot. "Well, I don't like what you're insinuating! Even after all the Wizengamot's post-war trials, blood prejudice is still rampant," she declared, oblivious to the strangers staring over their crème brulee.

Draco sneered, folding his arms. "You think I'm guilty of that level of bigotry? If that's your opinion of me, perhaps we're not meant to be together. That's your choice. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

Ginny gaped at him. "You're breaking up with me?"

"That's up to you," he drawled. "But I'm not about to be with a girl who turns a pleasant night out into a tribunal." He tossed his napkin onto his plate. "What's it to be, Weasley?"

"You're saying this is my fault?" she cried, clasping a hand to her chest.

Draco cast a careless smirk around the room. "I can't fault you for dramatic flair, Gin, but you're the one who turned the evening into an argument."

Ginny stood, grabbing the bottle of wine from the table. "This is not my fault," she said, turning on her heel and stalking out of the restaurant.

Scowling, Draco threw a pile of Galleons on the table and grabbed the shawl she'd abandoned.

He found her as she kicked a lamppost and turned, gesturing wildly with the bottle of wine. "Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how."

Draco wrenched the bottle away. "Gin, you're being ridiculous."

Her face crumpled. "I just—I'd had the same thought about Ron and Hermione's baby," she admitted. "I'd pushed it aside. Then, coming from you, it seemed so…awful. I thought maybe I'm as bad as—you know." she finished quietly.

Draco leaned against the lamppost and pulled her into his arms. "Merlin's arse, love. You're going to vie Granger in your love for that child. Not that you need to worry. Our children are going to be pure bloods."

"Draco Malfoy!"

"What?" he asked innocently. "I was stating a fact."


Quotations taken wildly out of context are from The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches an Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, The Lorax, and Oh! The Places You'll Go!. I tried to work in my favorite, but…well. These things are tricky. I'll include it here:

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"

Isn't that your new favorite quote?

Now, review!