AN: OK, here it is, I hope you enjoy! Oh, and purplegabby123, I think you are right about that story. Mine will definitely be different, that was my biggest concern, was that someone might think I am copying. I am not, this whole story started from a dream I had. Weird I know, but oh well.
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, no matter how hard I wish.
Chapter Three: Little Girls
Ginny awoke the following morning feeling refreshed and ready to start the school year. She got all of her things together, took a shower, got dressed and headed down to breakfast. She met Luna on the main stairs and they walked into the Great Hall together.
"Hey, see you during Charms, Gin."
"Of course," said Ginny as she walked towards the Gryffindor table.
"Good morning Ginny," said Hermione as Ginny sat down next to her. "Did you sleep well?"
"I did, surprisingly well, to tell you the truth."
"That's good, Professor McGonagall has already handed out our schedules, here is yours." Hermione said as she handed Ginny the small piece of paper.
"Great, thanks Mione, its even good news. I have DADA first, that's the best. What do you have first?"
"Ugh, Potions, something I could definitely live without. I mean I love learning all the Potions and everything, but Snape can be so unreasonable. Can anyone say mean?"
"Mean," said Harry as he sat across from Ginny. "Why am I saying mean?"
"Oh, just letting you know we have Potions first, I was just commenting on Professor Snape and his teaching mannerisms."
"Can somebody tell her to use smaller words this early in the morning? Ron grumbled as he sat down next to Harry.
"Grouch," Hermione whispered to Ginny as the two girls burst into a fit of giggles.
The boys looked at them curiously than went back to their food.
"So, did you do anything interesting this summer Gin?"
"Not really, mostly hung out with ShaeAnne, I had a job at Fred and George's joke shop and so I also made a bit of money. Oh, I found this really cool spell I have been itching to try. You can put a spell on your quill and it writes down everything for you. It is not to be confused with a quick-quotes quill, because this spell actually writes down what the teacher is saying."
"Wow, that would save me so much trouble; you're going to have to teach me that one."
"Yea, most definitely." Before she could teach her though, the bell rang signifying ten more minutes before class started. The group in the Great Hall immediately dispersed and left for the first classes of the year. Ginny met Luna as they were walking out of the Great Hall and they walked together until turning their separate ways.
"See you Gin."
"See you, Luna."
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"So your homework tonight is to read chapters one and two and come prepared to answer questions on Wednesday," said Sirius as everyone gathered up their stuff.
Ginny grabbed her things and walked out to find Luna already there waiting for her.
"Hey Gin, I got out a little early and I thought we could walk to charms together."
"Of course," said Ginny as the two girls started walking to the other side of the school.
"So, how was DADA?"
"Oh, you know, a little boring. I mean, I love Sirius and everything, but it is the first day. You know how teachers are on the first day, it's review this and review that. I don't want to review; I just want to learn new things. It is so frustrating," said Ginny as she let out an angry snort.
This got Luna laughing and Ginny joined in not too much later.
"You are hilarious Ginny, oh, before I forget, what does your schedule look like?"
"Well, I have no classes past 3:00. Why do you ask?"
"That is awesome; I don't have any classes then either. We should make a schedule for ourselves of when we will practice together."
"What a great idea Luna! My mum always did say that if you don't keep up practice you will eventually forget all you learned. I say we continue to use the Room of Requirement, because it gives us all the instruments we require."
"I agree," said Luna as they walked into Charms.
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"Now, class, your homework for tonight is to review everything we went over today and write one and a half feet about what you would like to learn this year."
Ginny looked at Luna and rolled her eyes as the girls put their books in their bags and left the classroom.
"See, what did I tell you? I don't even know why I bother showing up on the first day."
"If you didn't you would probably get detention or something like that."
"Well, maybe I will learn something new in detention, better than all this review crap."
"You are one of the weirdest people I know."
"Says the girl who sees knarkles and pontrias and whatever."
"Hey, it's not my fault I have a gift of seeing things."
"Honey, it's not a gift, it's called mental."
"You are just jealous; you wish you could see them."
"All I need is Antigone; she is the best pet ever."
"Whatever, lets go eat," said Luna as they entered the Great Hall.
The two girls split to go sit at their respective tables. Ginny made her way over to Gryffindor and sat down next to Hermione.
"How was potions?" she asked the 7th year.
"Oh, dreadful, as I expected. We are taking the class with Draco and he is as nasty as ever. He tried to put a spell on Harry's cauldron so that it wouldn't make the right potion. Lucky for Harry, I saw this and instead threw my eye of newts at him. He went all crazy and insane and Snape gave me detention. Oh well, it was worth it."
"Man Hermione, I thought being Head Girl this year would make you a rule abiding citizen."
"I know, and normally I would advise everyone to not do it. But, he looked so smug, and Harry would have gotten the blame and it would have been a nightmare."
"Mione' calm down, it's ok. I was just teasing," said Ginny with a faint smile on her lips.
The rest of the afternoon went by relatively the same. Ginny was so happy when she got her free time later in the afternoon. She met up with Luna in the library to talk business.
"Ok, so I don't think we should practice every single day. Maybe like, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3:30 to 5:00?"
"That works for me."
"Why if it isn't the red head and blonde, joined at the hip. So when are you guys coming out?"
"Malfoy, shut it ok? Maybe you should be asking that to your two cronies."
"What would you know about that anything like that?"
"Goodness Malfoy," said Ginny putting her hand in front of her mouth in a shocked expression. "Don't you ever listen? If those two aren't gay, than I will cut off my hair and get a tattoo."
"Well, be prepared to explain to your poor mummy, why her daughter came home with body art."
"I don't think I will have to Malfoy; see I know they are gay. I was the one who caught them in the broom closet at the end of last year. They were doing things I won't mention for there are delicate ears here." She replied looking at Malfoy as she said this.
"Why you little twit," said Draco venomously.
"Ouch that hurts," said Ginny mockingly. "What you didn't have enough fun tormenting Harry, Ron, and Hermione in potions, you now have to torment us? Why don't you go get lost? Save us all the trouble of killing you." Said Ginny as she got up and left, Luna following in her footsteps.
"Man Draco, she is good."
"I know, she will pay. She will learn to never speak to a Malfoy that way."
"Come on, let it go."
"I will, for now," said Draco with a glint in his eyes.
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"Ginny, you are amazing!" said Luna in complete awe of the girl walking next to her.
"Come off it Luna, it wasn't that great."
"You have the gift of thinking on your feet. I would have stuttered and not known what to say. Before the war, I would have had no problem, but the war changed me, and I can't stand the Slytherins."
"Luna," said Ginny embracing her friend, "the war changed everyone. You were kidnapped, that would be scary to anyone, and the only people who like Slytherins, are the Slytherins."
This made Luna laugh and the girls changed the subject to a happier one.
"So Luna, do you have any prospective boyfriends?"
"No, this year I am not doing any of that. I am going to focus on my school work and that is that. What about you?" She asked looking questionably at Ginny.
"Well, I was looking at the Gryffindor sixth year Darien Blasdell. He has always been nice to me, and well, he is nice to look at." Ginny replied giggling.
"Yea and his accent isn't too bad either. What was it? French?"
"No, Italian."
"Oooh, even better," said Luna in awe as Ginny broke out laughing again.
The two girls continued comparing guys as they eventually made their way to the Great Hall for dinner.
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"So Ginny, how was your first day?" asked Hermione as Ginny sat down across from her.
"Oh, pretty boring to tell you the truth. Though it got exciting when I had a confrontation with Malfoy, the stupid git. He dared try to have a wits battle, with me, none the less."
"Yea, he isn't known for his smarts, that's for sure," said Ron taking a seat next to Hermione.
"Well, that's like calling the kettle black Ron," retorted Ginny, which made Hermione laugh.
"What does that mean Gin?"
"Oh, no! Has Gin done it again? Has she left Ron without a clue?" said Harry as he joined the group.
"Shove off, Harry," said Ron as he occupied himself with eating.
This caused the others to laugh and soon everyone was having a good time and talking about their first day back. Hermione got up before everyone else saying she had detention with Snape and didn't want to chance being late. The remaining students eventually started dispersing and Ron, Harry, and Ginny started making their way to the dorms.
"So, Harry, when are you going to hold quidditch try outs?" asked Ginny, "We need two more chasers and two beaters."
"I know, I was thinking about holding them on Friday evening. I talked to Professor McGonagall and she is reserving the pitch for us."
"Ok, do we all have to show up?" asked Ron.
"Of course, I need everyone who is on the team to be there at 7 pm."
"Great, this should be loads of fun," said Ginny as they reached the portrait of the fat lady.
"Boogle," said Harry and she granted them access to their common room.
Ginny couldn't help laughing at the password whenever someone said it, especially because of the meaning of the word. When she first heard it she had to know what it meant, so she looked it up and found out that it was a name given to a pack of weasels.
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Hermione entered the potions classroom one second later than scheduled and Snape came up behind her shutting the door.
"You're late," he growled menacingly.
"No I am not, I am right on time," Hermione replied back with a slight quiver in her voice.
"I think I asked you to be here at 8:00 on the dot. It is now 8:00.30."
"Professor, I hardly think that is fair."
"Well, in my case I don't really care what you think Miss Granger. 5 points for being late, and if you open your mouth again it will be another 5 points." He said quickly as he saw she was about to protest.
Hermione immediately shut her mouth and waited for him to assign her work. She didn't want to let him see he had gotten to her, but he had most definitely made her almost want to cry, almost.
"I would like you to clean up those cauldrons over there, and then organize the student's ingredient cupboard."
Hermione got to work without complaint, even though she knew this was going to take all night. She finished the cauldrons and had moved onto the cupboards when someone knocked on the door to the classroom.
"You may enter," said Professor Snape in a drawl.
"Severus, I am sorry I did think you would be alone," he said looking at Hermione suspiciously.
"You may go," he said in a harsh whisper and than turned back to face Lucius.
Hermione, with a puzzled expression, hurriedly put away the cleaning supplies and went out the door.
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"I know that I have been a fool Severus, but I need your help. This is urgent," said Lucius losing all his coolness.
"What is it?" Severus asked viciously.
"Don't be like that Severus; he was going to kill me. He was going to kill Narcissa and Draco in front of me. I know you don't have a family, and you probably don't appreciate me bringing that up, but I couldn't watch them die. I love them, so I did exactly what you were doing. I put on a façade, and now that it is all over I don't know who to go to. Please you have to help me, we were best friends," said Lucius practically begging Severus on his hands and knees.
Severus had never seen Lucius this emotional or distraught, but should he believe him?
"You messed up Lucius, you messed up big time. We were best friends, not anymore, not since you got James and Lily killed. I know who helped Voldemort convince Pettigrew; don't you remember how I felt about her? You screwed me over, and know you want to buddy up to me?" said Severus, his voice getting louder and louder.
"Severus, please you have to understand, please that is all I am asking for."
Severus knew he shouldn't do this, knew it with ever fiber of his being, but when the tears started pouring down Lucius' face that decided it.
"I will help you the best I can, I will not promise you anything, but we shall see." With that Severus left to his private quarters leaving Lucius to show his own way out.
AN: Ok, so I am flirting with the idea of putting Snape and Hermione together. I hate making up someone for Snape and I always think that Hermione would compliment him well. I tried to convince myself I wouldn't do that, that Hermione would be with Ron. But, alas, when do I listen to myself? Anyway, what do you think about that? I know some people are grossed out by teacher/student relationships, but they won't do anything until she is out of school, if I decide to include that. Just give me your thoughts; you know how to do that, REVIEW!!