Disclaimer: Do I have to write one of these? *Lawyers bring out suitcases and paperwork*  Fine, fine, I'm not J.K. Rowling, so all the lawyers who want to sue me can just go away.

Author's Note: Another chapter. Not much to say about it really, just read and review, or else I'll feed you to the Giant Squid that dwells in the lake of Hogwarts. Mwahahaha! *Does really bad impersonation of an evil villain laugh*

Pureblood---Chapter Four

~Late September, Ginny's Sixth Year~

Ginny Weasley took a seat at the Gryffindor table next to her friends: Noelle Chantal, Patrick Reagan, and Colin Creevey. She glimpsed over at her brother's side of the table and saw him, Harry, and Hermione staring at her again. They had been doing that a lot this year, it was almost as if they thought she was one of Neville's projects from Potions…ready to explode at any second. Ginny couldn't stand it and she played with her food, shoving it around on her plate.

She looked up and saw Noelle smiling again, which really just figured, she must have heard another juicy rumor or something, because Noelle Chantal was the gossip queen of Gryffindor. Her hair was long, straight, and blonde, she had big, bright, blue eyes and always wore gallons of make-up, she had stated to Ginny once, 'To look perfect, is to be perfect.' And then giggled away. Ginny was only friends with her because she had been friends with her since her second year when Noelle was a down-to-earth, nice person, but then in Noelle's third year, when no one had asked her to the Yule Ball, she changed, drastically. Now Noelle was Miss. Popular of the Sixth years, and knew all the dirt on everyone. For what reason Noelle stayed friends with Ginny, she would never know, but it was probably because her brother was best friends with Harry Potter, and because Ginny was one of the best Quidditch Chasers Hogwarts had ever seen. 

Patrick Reagan was also picking at his food, Ginny had noticed. But he did have a habit of doing that…well, ever since Noelle had changed, he had had this enormous crush on her, but of course, Noelle would never give him the time of day. Why? Because he wasn't a 'special' guy, he wasn't a Quidditch player, he wasn't popular, he wasn't a Ravenclaw when it came to school work, and he had no connections to the Boy-Who-Lived. He was just a regular guy, and Noelle didn't date 'regular' guys, if he had been a hot regular guy then she might have given him a second look, but he didn't even have that. Patrick Reagan had shaggy light brown hair, dull grey eyes, freckles, and was chubby…Noelle couldn't stand chubby guys. And she had told him so, in their fifth year when he had asked her to go with him to Hogsmeade, but did that crush his love for her? No. Of course not. Poor Patrick had just sulked over to Ginny telling her of all his woes and Ginny pitied him and listened, and even told him a few of her own problems, after a while they became good friends, and had many long conversations, in result he had been sitting with Ginny at the Gryffindor table for almost a year now, which wasn't usually so bad because Noelle didn't always sit with Ginny as she was Miss. Popular and had other people to see and gossip to dish.

Colin Creevey sat next to Ginny and was cleaning the lens of his camera, he had become a bit of an introvert over the years, and was now shy and reclusive, or it could have been that he was just annoyed with people in general. Either way, he was like the shadow in the corner that no one noticed, or a fly on the wall, so to speak. Actually, very much like the fly on the wall, because like Noelle he knew everything about everyone yet unlike Noelle he didn't spill any secrets because he didn't really talk to anyone but Ginny, he only spoke to people when absolutely necessary such as when they would ask, 'Are you mute?' and he would say, 'No.' Otherwise, everything else Colin would answer by  nodding, shaking his head, or shrugging his shoulders, he found that he liked silence, which was one of the things that drew his passion on in photography. In photography you studied your subject and that was it, the photo didn't care about your life or ask you stupid questions, it just…was there.

The big thing that made Colin and Ginny really close friends, was that they had dropped Harry Potter at the same time, Ginny had 'given up' on him as she had said to Hermione, and Colin had left him now realizing that he would never be one of Harry's friends, he would always just be looked upon as Harry's stalker, and that made Colin disgusted with himself. For when he was eleven years old he didn't see himself as a stalker, he just saw himself as a kid in awe, ready to do anything for a friend like Harry… it would have been like being the friend to Superman, a muggle comic hero that Colin used to love when he was nine years old, after Colin had heard the story of the Boy-Who-Lived on the Hogwarts Express in his first year he thought Harry would look like Superman, all buff and tough with a huge H.P. across his chest and a daunting lightning bolt scar slashed across his forehead, obvious to the world. But what did Colin find? An awkward twelve-year-old kid that had this microscopic little scar, that you couldn't even see unless Harry pushed his hair away and pointed it out to you.

Yep, those were Ginny's friends, and now Noelle was about to burst if Ginny didn't start asking her questions on what was going on in the social world of Hogwarts.

"So…" Ginny started, "What's happened, you know, since I had to be late to dinner, although it wasn't my fault at all, stupid Snape wanted to lecture me about not knowing the entire freaking potion of anti-venom for poisonous orchids, does he not understand that the potion has like 162 ingredients?"

Noelle rolled her eyes, "Of course not Ginny, he's a professor, and he get's pleasure in making lives a living hell. But anyways, that's not interesting news, what is interesting is who's with who and what's really going on."

Yep, Noelle could give Rita Skeeter a run for her money.

"Alright, so what's really going on?" Ginny laughed and dramatized her voice like Noelle did.

Noelle didn't notice it, but Colin smiled, she got very close to Ginny and her eyes became wide, "Hannah Abbott and Scott Nott are an item…can you believe that?"

Ginny who was taking a sip of her pumpkin juice choked, "W-what?"

"Yep, exactly how I thought you would react, who wouldn't? I mean Hannah…the ultimate Hufflepuff and that thug? Who would have thought? You know, that guy Ernie Macmillan looks like he wants to kill himself, which people can sort of see why, I mean him and Hannah had been serious for like two years! And then, all of a sudden, she changes her mind and is clinging on to the arm of Scott. I don't get it."

Ginny peaked over at the Slytherin table and saw that she was right, Hannah was smiling adoringly at Scott, like he was the love of her life…and that wasn't all, Pansy Parkinson and Brigitte Maeve had their hands on their stomachs and were laughing, something wasn't right about the way they were rubbing their stomachs---not right at all.

"That's not it is it? That's not all there is?" Ginny asked Noelle.

Noelle grinned, she was having a field day, there hadn't been this much gossip since Harry and Cho broke up two years ago, "Nope, there's more…Pansy and Brigitte are pregnant!"

Now Ginny felt like she was about to faint, Brigitte was sixteen, and Pansy was seventeen…and they were pregnant?! Ginny was sure that this had never happened in all of Hogwarts history, two underage witches pregnant…

"But their so young…they're underage…" Ginny whispered unbelievingly.

"They're not underage," Patrick had finally chipped in, "they're actually of Age, according to ancient times, witches used to get married when they were sixteen years old and have children, but that was such a long time ago, I mean back then anyone with a hint of Muggle in their blood was treated quite badly, and that was even before Hogwarts was built…"

Noelle groaned, "Spare us the history lesson Patrick…and stop being such a nerd."

Patrick turned red and stared down at his food, meanwhile Ginny scowled at Noelle.

Noelle rolled her eyes in a very annoyed expression, and then got back on topic, "Well, anyways, it's crazy isn't it?"

"Well, what are they going to do now…leave Hogwarts?" Ginny asked.

Noelle grinned and shook her head, "No they're staying, and there's no one that can make them leave, unless they want to go away themselves."

Ginny blinked and stared at Noelle, "But isn't Dumbledore going to do something?"

"He can't. It's in one of those old school rule books, it was actually a rule written for Muggle-borns and now those Slytherins have twisted the words to make it fit with being pregnant, and Dumbledore can't do a thing about it. You see Hogwart's rule # 467 states that, 'A student who has paid for their education in Hogwarts, shall go to Hogwarts, regardless of parentage, bloodline, situation, or problems of the student. Any student needing accommodations at Hogwarts because of certain predicaments, will be accommodated. A student will only be expelled when he or she has broken school rules, and then must leave school grounds.' And you see," Noelle continued, "being pregnant does not break any of the school rules. It's not even in the rule book! And those rules were written by the founders of Hogwarts, and they can't be changed."

"But when Umbridge was here, she made many rules, can't Dumbledore make one about being pregnant and having to go home?" Ginny asked.

"He could," Noelle smiled, "but he won't…I always did think the man was crazy myself."

"So now pregnant teen witches will be accommodated for?"

"Yeah, they will, Pansy and Brigitte are going to be given their own room and everything."

Ginny shook her head in disbelief and was about to answer when she saw Luna Lovegood take a seat down next to her.

"Hey Luna," said Ginny.

Luna smiled weakly, "Hey."

Noelle eyed Luna with disgust, Luna was wearing those rather large radish earrings again, and Noelle couldn't possibly stay there, it would hurt her image to be seen with Loony Lovegood.

"I have to go Ginny," Noelle snapped and then walked off before Ginny could even say good-bye.

Ginny ignored her and turned to Luna, "What's the matter?"

"I'm just…" Luna sighed, "I feel bad for those girls."

"What?" Ginny was confused, "Who are you talking about?"

"Pansy and Brigitte, they don't even know that this part of their life is going to die. Everything will change for them, and they don't even understand that. Nothing will be the same for them ever again, children are hard work, and they've got to be there for them always, or at least I hope they'll be there for their children."

Ginny looked at Luna and now understood where she was coming from, Luna was probably thinking about her Mum right now, and how she couldn't be there for her, "Oh Luna…" Ginny whispered.

Luna gave her a half smile, and then said, "Never eat a blue Bertie Bott bean."

Ginny raised an eyebrow and asked, "Why?"

But then people started moving, and Luna looked down at her big, plastic watch that's face was in the shape of a rhinoceros' head, "Time to get to class," she said and then left.

Author's Note: Do you really want to be fed to the Giant Squid? Just kidding. But please review. : )