A/N: If I owned anything to do with Harry Potter would I be a poor student writing fanfiction about it? No I don't own anything except maybe a plot or two if you can find one

Full Summary: The tensions of the upcoming war are telling on Hogwarts, so the older students decide to do something about it. In typical teenage fashion they throw a few wild parties which become a monthly release for them where they can do their own thing. With startling consequences all round. Obviously it's Draco/Ginny because that's my favourite pairing ever with a few more thrown in for fun. It's set before HBP because I'm still in denial over most of the events in that book. Pure smutty fun.

Pairings: D/G R/Hr H/OC I'll list others as I decide on them

Rating: M for language and eventual sex scenes

Lyrics at the beginning from 'Fill My Little World' by The Feeling

The Heat Inside When Rhythm and Love Collide

Chapter Nine – Fill My Little World

I had a dream we went away
Left this city for a day
You took me southwards on a plane
And showed me Spain or somewhere
But in reality you're not so keen to show me anything
And I thought you liked me

Hey, show some love, you aint so tough
Come fill my little world right up, right up
Someday you're going to realise
(I want you)
To fill my little world right up, right up, right up

Yeah, so what you gonna do
With all this stuff piling up, filling up and taking up
You misunderstand me
All I wanted was some evidence
That you really like me
(You really like me)

Hey, show some love, you aint so tough
Come fill my little world right up, right up
Someday you're going to realise
(I want you)
To fill my little world right up, right up, right up

Maybe it's all too much
How come we're so messed up
Maybe I'm not enough
Maybe you're just too much

"These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time."
"Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail!"
"I was referring to the Bible."
"... I knew that!" – The Da Vinci Code

"Absolutely outrageous behaviour! I knew you couldn't control your students Dumbledore!"

Fudge continued in this vein for a few more moments while the subject of his rantings sat quietly before Dumbledore's desk.

Draco watched in fascination as Fudge got redder and redder and redder. He himself was sat silently, his features blank which Cleo knew meant he was furious… and he wasn't getting any happier as Fudge bellowed at him.

"Have you nothing to say for yourselves? Am I keeping you from something important?"

Remembering exactly what he could be doing instead, something snapped in Draco's eyes and he opened his mouth angrily; "As a matter of fact little man…"

Ginny put her hand on his arm and he broke off in surprise, glowering at Fudge who was huffing and puffing at the insult of being implied as an insignificant person by someone a great deal younger than him. No matter that the person was richer, higher in status through being the only heir to an ancient family, and definitely better looking.

"Excuse me Minister." He turned to the pretty young girl sat to one side. "But isn't it Professor Dumbledore's duty to punish us?"

Fudge scowled and turned on Dumbledore again; "Not only breaking all kinds of rules but disrespectful as well. I had no idea such pure families bred such ill-mannered children…"

Dumbledore rose to his feet angrily; "Thank you Cornelius, but as young Miss Weasley said, it is my job to punish my students. Since they have broken no laws they are not under the Ministry's jurisdiction and therefore, since our previous business is now resolved, I am sure you will understand if I ask Hagrid to accompany you to the door and not I."

Fudge turned a violent shade of red and blustered a little at being dismissed in such a way but saw no other choice than to do what Dumbledore had suggested. Hagrid rose from his seat and made her way to the door of Dumbledore's office, opening it and waiting for him to pass through.

Fudge swept out without so much as a goodbye and McGonagall shut the door quickly behind them.

Dumbledore now turned to the students sat in a row before his desk.

"Stupid bumbling fool." Cleo muttered, eying the closed door distastefully.

"I take it you won't be voting for him in the next election?" Ginny muttered and they exchanged a look, giggling nervously.

"This is not an amusing matter." McGonagall snapped.

Dumbledore held a hand up and she fell silent, sitting back in her chair with her lips tight.

"You are both right of course." Dumbledore said slowly.

Cleo frowned; "You're not voting for Fudge either then?"

He chuckled and shook his head, his eyes twinkling as he put his fingertips together before him.

"I was referring to Miss Weasley's earlier line of reasoning, before our Minister professed his opinion."

Ginny glanced at Dumbledore who was eyeing her thoughtfully.

"No students were hurt over the past months, unless we count hangovers." His eyes were twinkling again. "You were right to indicate that no one was placed in any danger and all students were still in fact on the grounds."

"Professor…" McGonagall spluttered. "You cannot be considering condoning their actions?"

Dumbledore turned his steady gaze to her; "I am not denying that they were wrong, I am merely weighing both sides of the argument before I come to my conclusion."

"Maybe we won't get punished after all." Cleo muttered hopefully to herself.

"Nevertheless, you have broken many of the school's rules."

Before Dumbledore could relay his punishment there was a clamouring outside and Snape, who was closest to the door, pulled it open in a fury.

"Fudge you incompetent fool… now what!" He roared.

Silence followed and Ginny turned in her seat to see what was going on.

"Well you can't see him he's busy." Snape's voice snapped.

"What's going on?" McGonagall asked irritably.

"Students." Snape said shortly.

"Let them in." Dumbledore said, watching as Snape moved from the doorway.

About two dozen students filed into the room, most of them knocking something over as the room filled up.

"We're here to back up Ginny." Ron said stoutly. "And to a lesser extent those two."

Cleo and Draco eyed the students with interest. They weren't as surprised to see the amount of Slytherins as Ginny was, they knew the loyalty to each other their House possessed.

"Indeed, you represent the rest of the students?" McGonagall demanded.

"Well actually ninety-eight percent of the students are in the hallway." Ron turned to Dumbledore. "There's probably some sick on your revolving staircase by now."

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"We're under supervision." Ginny said flatly.

After the students had shown up in Dumbledore's office chaos has ensued, everyone trying to argue their point at once. Eventually Dumbledore had established that the students didn't want the punishment bestowed on their friends to be harsh since their decision had helped the students greatly.

They had made their point and been dismissed back to their common rooms.

As soon as Ginny had made her way through the portrait hole she had been accosted.

"What does that mean?" Harry asked in confusion.

"We've had a charm put on us, it tracks where we are at all times. We have to be in the common room by ten o'clock and we can't leave it until six in the morning."

There was a stunned pause as the common room listened to her.

"They grounded you!" Ron bellowed.

"Pretty much." Ginny agreed, throwing herself down in a chair by the fire. "They also put all new wards up at the docks so no one can go down there except a teacher."

Groans of disappointment filled the room as people passed this news around.

"Do you think they'll let us keep the Yule Ball?" Lavender asked suddenly.

Ginny shrugged; "I don't know."

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Breakfast the next morning was a dull affair. Everyone picked listlessly at their food, chatter was rare and whispered… no one had anything to look forward to anymore.

"There's a happier atmosphere in the Dark Lord's dungeon." Cleo muttered, slumping down in her seat and pushing her still full plate away from her.

She glanced at Draco and saw his gaze fixed on the Gryffindor table, more specifically on the back of Ginny's head.

"Ah… still not spoken to her after your fumblings yesterday."

He shot her a filthy look and turned to his plate, picking a grape off the sprig before him and rolling it over in his hands. He was about to say something when Dumbledore rose to his feet. There was no need for him to ask for silence since no one was talking but they all turned expectantly towards him, if somewhat resentfully.

"As we are aware Halloween is nearly here. And, in light of recent events, we have agreed to put on a ball."

Excited mutters followed this and the noise got louder and louder until Dumbledore had to shout for their attention.

"It has also been decided that, should they agree, Miss Weasley Mr Malfoy and Miss Sear are to arrange it."

Stunned silence greeted this statement until the grape in Draco's hands flew from his startled grasp and landed with a plop in Pansy Parkinson's pumpkin juice opposite him.

"Are you going to arrange it?" Pavarti asked Ginny in a loud whisper and she turned to look at Cleo who was staring at Dumbledore as though he had suddenly sprouted a few extra of heads.

"I… I guess so."

Excited chatter filled the room again and Cleo bounced to her feet, darting over and grabbing hold of Ginny.

"We've got work to do, kitten."

Ginny shot a despairing look at Draco who shrugged as Cleo went off in front of them, a stream of nonsense flowing over her shoulder as she planned.

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"Have you ordered the drinks and the food?" Ginny asked a passing fifth year and he nodded. "Thanks, Billy."

She tapped her wand on the clipboard and a tick appeared next to the food, indicating it had been taken care of.

"Hey Callie?"

A Ravenclaw girl from her year popped her head up over the top of a pile of huge cardboard boards she was supervising the painting of; "Yeah?"

"Did you get in touch with that wizard about the actors?"

She nodded; "Yup he said he'd owl you a list of their names and pictures so we know who they are and a brief outline of what they do."

Ginny gave her a thumbs up and Callie went back to showing a fourth year how to change the colours of paint issuing from his wand.

She ran a hand through her fringe and shoved her wand into her ponytail.

"Difficult job?"

She turned to see Draco stood behind her. He had been organising the tables being brought up from the docks to be stored in a room just off the hall until tomorrow when the Ball was.

"Yes." She said, taking in his dusty appearance.

He had streaks of dust across his black t-shirt and his hands, face and hair were filthy.

"What have you been doing?" She asked, amusement in her voice. "Rolling in the dust?"

He lifted his eyebrows at her; "Interesting fantasy you have there, Weasley."

"I have far more interesting ones I could tell you." She replied calmly, going back to checking over her list of things still to be done.

"Really?"

She studiously avoided his eye as she ran her finger down the list; "Oh yes, I have several. My favourite involves warm chocolate syrup."

When she looked up again he was standing directly in front of her.

"Is that a fact?" He muttered and she shivered. "No fantasies involving dust?"

She shook her head, for a moment unable to speak as she shrank the clipboard down and put it in her backpocket.

"Allow me to widen your imagination." He whispered, pulling her against him and kissing her before she could reply.

She ran her hands through his hair. He had started to notice that she enjoyed doing that, a lot. He traced the top of her back pocket with his fingertip, one hand on her neck and his thumb massaging her jawline. She felt the dust rising up her nose and she pulled away quickly, putting a hand over her face.

"What?" He asked, puzzled by her reaction.

She was about to answer when she sneezed, loudly. They stared at each other for a moment.

"Romantic." He said, his lips quirking a little at her and she laughed.

"Oh please, there aren't enough empty rooms in this castle for you two? You have to subject the rest of us to this display?"

They turned to find Cleo frowning at them, her hair clipped back from her face and a smudge of paint across her snub nose.

"It's a reward for hard work." Ginny grinned, very aware that Draco's thumb was tickling the sensitive skin where her back met her low jeans.

"I never get a reward." Cleo pouted.

"You never do any work." Draco pointed out.

"And neither will you two if you keep that up." Seamus put in as he backed past them, pulling a cart piled high with folded up chairs.

"Yes thank you Seamus." Ginny said icily as he moved on towards the room they were using to store things.

"You're welcome." He called over his shoulder.

"Speaking of rewards, if this is a system we're setting up does anyone know if that Hufflepuff is dating anyone?" Dean Thomas asked as he ambled past with his arms full of heavy black material.

"See what you've done now." Ginny said disapprovingly to Draco.

"Forgive me if I'm wrong but you weren't complaining about said system five minutes ago? Or were you telling all your complaints direct to Draco's tongue since it was already in such close proximity?" Cleo observed in amusement.

"Alright that's it. GET BACK TO WORK!" Ginny hollered at Cleo who stuck her tongue out at Ginny and moved over to count the pumpkins.

"I could totally get used to this." Ginny said after Cleo had gone.

"See there you go talking about fantasies again, that's not the way to get a guy working you know." Draco smirked.

"It is if he ever wants to experience said fantasy." Ginny pointed out, getting her clipboard out again.

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Tomsgirl2005 – they didn't get into that much trouble really, mainly because I couldn't be bothered writing a big scene where they get shouted out. Little bit more Draco Ginny stuff, not a lot but fear not there will be soon.

crazysugarhighpixie – thanks a lot

well.just.imagine – glad you liked it

ToXiC-SeOuL-FiRe – thanks a lot I'm glad you like it

Lady of Romance – thanks here's your update

Yuki Asao – I updated, I know it took a while but still… an update

Nickel – fear not, there shall be Draco Ginny-ness soon indeed there shall. Thanks a lot and here's what happened (it's a bit anticlimactic but I couldn't be bothered writing a huge getting in trouble bit I'm afraid)

xfinishedinadayx – I updated, you can stop dying now :) (please stop dying I need reviews and its bad for my reputation :D)