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Chapter 11

Draco was still a little baffled when the old man got up at the front of the Great Hall and called for everyone's attention. Ginny had just walked in on Dumbledore's arm wearing Slytherin robes and tie. Then when she sat down she had said something to Pansy that he didn't quite catch, and then proceeded to kiss him on the lips. She seemed completely unaffected by what happened last night. He on the other hand had been up half the night replaying the scene in his head over and over and the other half of the night wondering how he was going to face her in the morning.

The headmaster began speaking. "Due to recent events today we will be doing something not usually done but not totally unheard of either. One of our students will be changing houses today. Ginerva Weasley has requested to be removed from Gryffindor and put into Slytherin instead. We have seen a dramatic change in her outward appearance and given some of the situations she has been in throughout her years here at Hogwarts she has changed inside herself as well." Dumbledore paused and looked at Ginny. She had actually gone to him and asked to be changed, Draco almost couldn't believe it. He looked at her himself she just smiled. But her smiled faded a little as Dumbledore continued. "I however do not have total power over this. There is one little formality we have to go through. Miss. Weasley please come up." He nodded towards her. She stood up gave Draco a confused and slightly worried look and made her way to the podium.

"You will have to be placed in Slytherin by the sorting hat." Immediately Professor McGonagall rose from her seat and went through a door off to the side of the teacher's table. Draco looked over at Potty and Weasel; they were looking quite smug as though they knew the sorting hat would never put her in Slytherin. Draco was beginning to get worried that maybe they would win this battle. But he didn't have much time to dwell on it. McGonagall was back with the sorting hat and stool. She placed it in front of Ginny. Ginny looked very worried now as she sat down and the Hat was placed on her head.

"You again!" It said through it's tattered brim. "Well you have been a busy little girl haven't you? Yes, Tom was truly evil with you. Things no young girl should go through. And bravery yes I was right about you having that in spades. But your values seem to have changed quite a bit. You have a need for loyalty. And you are very cunning aren't you. Well I supposed as you have changed so much so must your house, and there is doubt about it your new home needs to be SLYTHERIN."

Draco could see the smile break out across her face as the hat was removed from her head. Five years later and it had still come down over her eyes. She stood and thanked Dumbledore then raced back to the table. Draco just had to look at the Gryffindor table. Weasel appeared to be crying, the Mudblood for once was speechless and all Potter could do was glare directly at Draco. So naturally Draco smirked back and when Ginny sat down beside him it was his turn to kiss her. He took her face in his hands and kissed her lips for a moment then her nose then her forehead. Before she had a chance to question his actions he turned back to Dumbledore who was once again calling for attention.

"Well now that that is settled there are just a few more things to go over. In Ginerva changing houses that leaves Gryffindor short one prefect. We will be announcing a new prefect tomorrow morning." He paused and the small photographer nodded. "Miss. Weasley, you will receive a new class schedule before breakfast is over so that you will be in classes with your own house. Only one more detail and then you may continue with your meal. In all fairness Miss. Weasley has obtained 45 house points over the first week, so it is only fitting by school rules put in place long ago that she take her points to her new house with her. That now puts Slytherin in the lead followed by Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. Now lets eat."

This time the whole Gryffindor table was outraged. They had been in the lead this morning just a few points ahead of Slytherin. Draco was torn between wanting to watch them all in their panic and finding out from Ginny what exactly had transpired to bring this about.

"So Pansy is it okay if I share a room with you? Dumbledore said that you probably wouldn't mind but if you do I can always tell him to switch me to a regular dorm." Ginny was talking excitedly with Pansy.

"Don't be silly, Of course it's okay. I can't think of anyone else I would rather share a room with. How are we going to get all your stuff from the tower? I don't imagine it will be easy to get in and out without problems. They all seem pretty pissed right now." Pansy replied. Draco couldn't tell which one of them was more excited.

"Don't worry about it. A house elf will be bringing my stuff down to the dungeon this morning. They are a little on the grumpy side this morning aren't they." Ginny laughed looking at the Gryffindor table most of whom were still glaring at her. "I had no idea when I went to Dumbledore that my points would come with me. Although I can't say that I am upset about it, I did earn them."

"So, are you going to tell us what happened this morning to bring all this about or are we going to have to beat it our of you." He had finally had enough of watching the various degrees of rage on the Gryffindor faces. She recounted her tale to them in full detail.

"Well it looks like the precious trio has more issues than anybody knew. So Weasel is in love with the Mudblood, but since it isn't written in Hogwarts a History she doesn't have a clue and she is too busy taking care of poor Potter for Weasel to even tell her. And then to top it off Scarhead is gawking at my girl that he never knew was alive was it mattered. Oh this is great. Can this get any better?" Draco couldn't stop laughing. He knew he should but he just couldn't. Who knew the little trio had their own little love triangle. Draco had begun to think Weasley didn't fancy girls. At least Potter had tried to get with Cho Chang, screwed it up royally but tried nevertheless. Finally Draco composed himself when he noticed everyone looking at him as though he had finally cracked. Then a look of total dread came over Ginny's face. Draco looked in the direction she was staring.

The morning post had arrived. And sure enough a tiny little owl with entirely too much energy was headed towards them with a bright red envelope. The small owl dropped the envelope directly in front of Ginny then pecked at her finger for attention.

"Pig, I will not reward you for delivering this. Go see Ron." She had gone completely pale. She picked up the envelope knowing there was no use just leaving it there, it would only be worse. As soon as se had the seal broken the hall filled with a voice that was not unfamiliar to most of them.

"GINERVA MOLLY WEASLEY WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING! YOU CANNOT GO AROUND ASSOCIATING WITH A MALFOY! HAVE YOU FORGOTEN WHAT THAT FAMILY HAS DONE TO YOU HOW THEY HAVE TREATED OUR FAMILY FOR AGES! AND THE PARKINSON'S AND ZABINI'S HAVE BEEN NO BETTER! HOW COULD YOU DISGRACE THIS FAMILY LIKE THIS! I AM ASHAMED OF YOUR BEHAVIOR! YOU BETTER GET RIGHT BACK OVER TO GRYFFINDORE TABLE AND STAY WHERE RONALD CAN PROTECT YOU! I WILL BE WAITING TO HEAR THAT YOU HAVE COME BACK TO YOUR SENSES WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PERCY IN THE FAMILY!" Then the envelope burst into smoke.

Naturally everyone in the Hall was looking at Ginny. The Gryffindor's were looking quite smug. All except Longbottom he looked as though he wanted to cry for Ginny. Ginny herself had been holding her breath, she slowly let it out.

"Well that could have been worse. At least is was short, sweet and to the point." She started breathing normally again. And Draco didn't really know what to say to her. He wanted to comfort her in some way but she didn't really seem to need comfort. It was like she had hardly noticed. "So what do you think she will have to say tomorrow morning?" Ginny smiled but Draco didn't think it was a true smile.

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Weasley seems to be writing now." Blaise said pointing.

They all looked up to find "Pig" flying off with a new letter tied to his leg. "What kind of a name is Pig anyway?" Draco said. Ginny swiftly poked him hard in the arm. "What was that for?" He began rubbing the spot where she had poked him.

"It's Pigwidgion and I named him that." She poked him again.

"Sorry. But why did you have to poke me that really hurt? And why does it have to be Pig? I'm sorry Pig is a rather funny name." He let out a little chuckle and thankfully so did Ginny. Snape came by and gave Ginny her schedule. Then they left to go to their first classes.

Once they were out in the Entrance Hall Draco grabbed Ginny by the arm. "Are you really okay? That Howler was pretty harsh." He said as other students rushed past them. A few Gryffindor's bumped into them; Draco highly doubted it was by accident.

"Yeah Draco I'm fine. I knew what was coming and I went into this willingly so I brought it upon myself. I'll be okay. I should get going though I have to get all the way up down to the greenhouses. I'll see you at lunch." She leaned forward giving him a light kiss on the lips. She made it seem like it was so natural for them. But when she went to pull away he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her closer kissing her harder then releasing her quickly before he got himself in trouble again.

He watched as she walked out the door with her robes flowing out behind her. She was amazing but she could also be a lot of trouble. He needed to stop kissing her like that. Pansy was right last night he was falling for her. Hard.

A/N – Sorry that this one is so short I have been sick over the weekend. Strep throat & morning sickness not pretty. But I waned to get something posted to keep you guys interested. The next chapter will be much better, more of Draco & Ginny's feelings and maybe a little late night girl talk (w/confessions).

Thank you to everyone who reviewed. Wow when I posted chapter nine I was just under a hundred reviews and now I have 155. You guys are too good to me, but I love it. Keep the reviews coming as I've said before they really do make my day. The first thing I do when I get home from work is check my e-mail.

I also wanted to let you guys know that I will be looking for a beta-reader over the next couple weeks. So if anyone is interested please let me know. I work with MS Word 2000 but that only catches some stuff if I mean to type "that" but it comes out "hat" spell check doesn't catch it. And most times I am too tired at the end of typing to reread the whole chapter. So please let me know if you are interested.

Now for a couple of personal notes on some reviews.

Lily – thank you for the other site I did an author application and just have to clean up some grammar and it will be posted. Hence my search for a beta.

SomethingsWicked – Yeah I know the prefects don't really get their own rooms but I figured that for many of the scenes in this story they would need one.

Mercury Sands – I think I'm going to leave Ginny off Quidditch for now she will have a lot to worry about this year with owls. Not to mention other things you will see as the plot thickens. There may be an injury latter in the year but defiantly not to Kyle, I wouldn't hurt my own baby and since he is based on my monster you can consider him safe from harm. He'll probably get in load of trouble but never hurt.

Lady Ghost Buster – Sorry for not posting over the weekend. I hope you are doing better.

Charmed-Goddess-07 – Yeah a lot of people think my Harry Potter obsession is a little strange. I got hooked thanks to my niece. I have read the books many times over and listened to non-stop Harry Potter books on tape all the way from New York to Tenn. And back. I didn't know anything about fanfiction until a little over a month ago and was addicted immediately. What better way to pass the time between books. I have read a couple Harry/Hermione and tried Snape/Hermione but I haven't found ones I really like. Let me know if you have any suggestions on good reads. And that's for the great review.

Cinnamon Angel -- I thought it would be different to make Pansy as nice. Even in fanfiction she is always horrible, unbearable, slut, so on and so forth. Just because she is a typical Slytherin in the books doesn't mean she can't be good right? And Blaise is wonderful cause he is a clear slate to work with. And Draco is too irresistible to not have a softer side to make him loveable. All we know of the Slytherins is what Harry sees. But they are friends amongst themselves so they have to have nicer side.

VirginVixen-666 – Thanks for the confirmation on Ginny's eyes. And yes it is really weird that she never mentions Ron's eye color when he is a main character especially when so much attention is placed on Harry's eye color. And the website I mentioned before is DarkMark . com (remove the spaces) if you scroll down the main page it has an encyclopedia section that is very helpful. I have found a few flaws on the character list and a few missing characters but other than that it is very accurate and helpful. I am in the process of making my own character list that tells ever characters year and stuff cause I'm not sure if everyone on my Quidditch team in a previous chapter is actually still at Hogwarts in this year. Hope this helps.

beckysue2 – I'm waiting for my no bake cookies!

Faith Maguire – I would be beyond pissed if I didn't remember that the next day. (Shhhh don't tell my husband)

Thank you everyone and keep the reviews coming. Happy reading.