"Okay lads, we need to discuss some plans," Draco announced, shutting the door to the boy's dorms firmly behind him and silencing it.
After the Slytherins had returned to the common room after dinner, Draco had told Blaise and Theo that he needed to speak to them privately. Luckily Crabbe and Goyle were more than happy in the common room playing exploding snap and munching their way through some extra dessert they'd smuggled out of the Great Hall.
"What sort of plans?" Blaise asked as he threw himself onto his bed.
"Weaselette," Draco replied. "It's time for the fun and games to begin."
"I thought this wasn't happening until later this term," Theo said. "Are we even set up to go this early?"
"It should work if the pair of you have been doing what I asked," Draco retorted. "Things have been running according to plan, haven't they?"
"They have on my end," Theo replied. "Ginny is more than happy to be having a secret relationship. I pretend I don't know she really wants Potter, and she pretends I'm the one she really wants. We're both getting some action, so we're both happy."
"Blaise?" Draco turned to his other friend, wanting to know how he was getting along.
"She's falling for my charms," Blaise grinned cockily. "A few flirtations with her and she's almost throwing herself at me. It'll be easy to seduce her."
"Of course it will, she's ridiculously easy," Theo snorted. "I'd barely spoken to her and we were regularly making out in empty cupboards. The girl is a slapper."
"But is she any good?" Blaise questioned.
"She's not bad actually," Theo replied. "She's up for almost anything, and she's especially accommodating when it comes to oral sex."
"Nice," Blaise grinned. "I might end up getting something out of this before we're caught."
"Will you two stop, you can compare notes later," Draco tutted. He had no desire to hear what Ginny Weasley was like in the bedroom. "Right now we need to get a plan of action together. Theo, you need to establish that there's still something going on between the pair of you. Once you've done that, Blaise will swoop in and turn on the charm. When Blaise arranges a time and place for a clandestine meeting, he'll tell me and I'll do the rest."
"I'm still not sure I like the idea of being caught by Snape," Blaise muttered. "Can we not use another Professor?"
"Another Professor will give you detention and mean it, whereas Snape will make a show of giving you detention but you'll not actually have to do it," Draco pointed out. "Besides if another Professor catches you, there's less chance of rumours spreading down to the dungeons. Plus Snape knows exactly what is going on, and will ensure word of his discovery leaks out."
"Do we get to find out what the point of all this is now?" Theo questioned the blond wizard. "Why have you made such a fuss of us exposing Ginny as a tart?"
"I've already told you, I thought it would be fun to mess with her before we leave," Draco smirked.
"Why her?" Blaise questioned. "Why not target Potter, or Weasley, or even Granger? Why Weaselette?"
"Who says I haven't already had my fun with Potter?" Draco asked with a mischievous glint in his eye. "The first match of the Quidditch season was highly entertaining."
"That enchanted bludger was you," Theo gasped in understanding.
"Just a little spell my father taught me," Draco boasted. "Dumbledore was able to work out Potter had been the target, but the spell was untraceable so he had no idea who had cast it."
"Sneaky," Blaise laughed.
"I thought so," Draco grinned.
"Okay, so you've targeted Potter and Ginny. But why not Weasley and Granger?" Theo asked. "I know for a fact that Weasley infuriates the hell out of you."
"He does," Draco admitted. "But the year isn't over yet. Our last match of the season is against Gryffindor, I'm sure I can find some way of humiliating Weasley during it."
"What about Granger? Are we going to have any fun with her this year? Is she our next target?" Blaise questioned hopefully. He rather liked the idea of seducing Hermione as in his opinion she was much better looking than Ginny.
"The ice queen," Theo laughed. "The only thing you'll get from her is frostbite. Even Weasley is lucky if he gets a peck from her."
"We won't be able to get to Granger the same way as Weaselette," Draco told Blaise, ignoring Theo's cracks about Hermione so he didn't reveal anything about their relationship. "Unlike Weaselette, Granger isn't a tart. She's also incredibly smart, so getting one over on her will be hard."
"You're not giving up, are you?" Theo questioned disbelievingly. "You're not going to let her go unscathed, especially after the stunt she pulled on the train earlier. Because of her we lost piles of house points and we all have detention with McGonagall on Friday night."
"I didn't say I was giving up," Draco said. "Leave Granger to me, before the end of the year I'll have something figured out. I promise by the time we leave in a few months we'll have taught those Gryffindors a thing or two about messing with us Slytherins."
Much to Draco's relief, Blaise and Theo were happy to buy his excuses of having a bit of fun with the Gryffindors before they left school. Even though he'd never spoken to Hermione about filling his friends in on what had truly being going on, he was hoping that after graduation Hermione would be more than happy for him to tell Blaise and Theo the truth. As it was they would know who Hermione truly was, so he saw no reason for them not to know what had been going on the previous year. It wasn't as if either of them were going to tell anyone and spoil the innocent figure Hermione was going to portray herself as.
G.O.V.
By the end of the week everything was in place, much to Hermione and Draco's delight. Theo had done his part and ensured he and Ginny were still going strong, meanwhile Blaise had swooped in and seduced her. After their first encounter, Blaise had arranged a second one during lunchtime on Friday. With the meeting all arranged, Blaise had told Draco the details and he'd passed them onto Snape, who had reluctantly agreed to be a part of things since it was part of Hermione's plan for vengeance.
At lunchtime on Friday, Ginny was noticeably absent from lunch. Harry remarked on it several times, leading Hermione to suspect that he was finally beginning to pay attention to the redhead as more than a friend. Unfortunately for Harry the object of his desire was about to be exposed for what she truly was. Ginny never showed up for lunch, and Hermione was well aware that Blaise and Snape were missing as well. Hopefully that meant everything was going well and things would kick off at dinner time.
All afternoon Hermione wondered if things had gone okay, but her first indicator that things had gone to plan didn't arrive until she was heading into dinner with Harry and Ron. Ginny was sitting at the Gryffindor table while a smirking Draco was sitting quite happily at the Slytherin table with Blaise. Now all they needed was for Theo to make his grand entrance.
"Hey Ginny," Harry called, settling down next to the redheaded witch. "Why weren't you at lunch, we missed you."
"I was busy," Ginny muttered, keeping her head down.
"Doing what?" Ron questioned his sister.
Instead of answering her brother, Ginny looked up and gave Ron a hard stare before once again lowering her head. Harry and Ron shared a confused look at Ginny's behaviour, but both boys knew better than to push the subject so they grabbed some plates and began loading up with food.
Five minutes later almost everyone was in the Great Hall when suddenly the wooden doors came flying open, slamming off the walls they'd been opened with such force. The noise of course drew everyone's attention and the whole student body watched as Theo Nott stormed into the Great Hall.
"Zabini!" He yelled, storming over to his friend. "I thought you were my friend."
"I am," Blaise replied, pretending he knew nothing about what Theo was going on about.
"What sort of a friend shags my girlfriend?" Theo shouted, causing several people to gasp out loud.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Theo," Blaise said as he stood up and faced his friend. "I would never shag your girlfriend."
"But you did," Theo retorted. "You were even bloody caught with her at lunchtime. The whole dungeons are talking about Snape catching you in his classroom."
"What the hell?" Blaise frowned, playing innocent. "Since when have you been seeing Ginny?"
"Did he just say Ginny?" Ron whispered to Harry, convinced he'd heard wrong.
"I think so," Harry replied, looking over at Ginny who had her head buried in her hands and was refusing to look up.
"What's that got to do with anything?" Theo demanded, drawing Harry and Ron's attention back to the arguing Slytherins. "She was my girlfriend, and you shagged her."
"I had no idea she was with you," Blaise said. "I just wanted an easy shag and everyone knows they don't come much easier than Ginny Weasley."
Blaise's comments sent everything into a frenzy. Theo snarled at his friend, before launching himself at him and soon the two boys were rolling around on the floor. Harry and Ron had turned on Ginny and were demanding to know what was going on, quite harshly in Ron's case. Meanwhile the rest of the Great Hall was buzzing with people gossiping and cheering on the fight between the two Slytherins.
"Enough," Dumbledore bellowed from the front of the room. Apart from Theo and Blaise who were still fighting, the room fell silent. Pulling out his wand, Dumbledore separated the two fighting Slytherins. "Mr Nott, Mr Zabini, there's no need for fighting in the Great Hall."
"There is when he's been shagging my girlfriend," Theo spat.
"I didn't bloody know," Blaise shouted. "If you're going to blame someone, blame Ginny. She was the slapper spreading her legs for the pair of us."
"Mr Zabini that is enough," Dumbledore snarled. "If I ever hear you speaking about another student in such a way, you'll be in serious trouble. Now the pair of you, get down to Professor Snape's office. He'll be down in a minute to hand out punishments. And as for the rest of you, get on with your meal."
Still bickering between themselves Theo and Blaise exited the Great Hall, while everyone slowly returned to their food. While Harry and Ron got back to questioning Ginny, Hermione watched as Dumbledore spoke to Snape before the Potions master swept out of the room as he went to deal with his students. Dumbledore then spoke to McGonagall, who shook her head disappointedly before standing up and approaching the Gryffindor table.
"Miss Weasley, come with me," McGonagall said sharply. "We need a discussion about your behaviour."
"It's true, isn't it?" Harry mumbled as Ginny got up and sheepishly followed McGonagall out of the Great Hall.
"Of course it's true Potter," Draco laughed from behind Harry. For some reason the blond had moved seats and was now sitting directly behind Harry, although Hermione suspected the move was purely to annoy the raven haired wizard. "Everyone knows exactly what Weaselette is like, and the rumours about her and Blaise being caught together have been circulating all afternoon. Personally I'm surprised it's taken this long for her to be caught doing someone she shouldn't."
"Piss off, Malfoy," Ron snarled, balling his hands into fists as he glared at the blond Slytherin.
"Although you must be jealous as sin, Weaselbee," Draco chuckled. "Your little sister's had more action than you, and you're not exactly likely to get any going out with Granger."
"Go away, or I'll dock more house points," Hermione hissed at her boyfriend, even though what she really wanted to do was laugh at how well he could get under Harry and Ron's skin.
"You really need to address those power issues, Granger. If you're not careful you'll go mad with power," Draco retorted, before turning his back on the three Gryffindors and turning back to the other Slytherins.
"I just can't believe this," Harry said, burying his head in his hands. "This isn't like Ginny, she's not this sort of person."
"I would have said so too, but it appears to be true," Hermione said gently. "Why else would McGonagall want to talk to her about her behaviour if she hadn't been caught with Zabini?"
"Mum is going to go mad when she hears this," Ron muttered. "With everything that's going on, you would think Ginny could manage to keep herself out of trouble."
"How much trouble do you think she's in?" Harry asked Hermione.
"I don't know," Hermione said. "If Snape caught her and Blaise, I'm guessing he punished the pair of them. And I would guess McGonagall will add her own punishment for sullying the Gryffindor name."
"She should be booted out of Gryffindor," Ron declared angrily. "No self-respecting Gryffindor would go near a Slytherin, let alone two of them. She's a disgrace to Gryffindors, and more importantly she's a disgrace to us Weasleys. From now on, I want nothing to do with her."
"Isn't that a bit harsh?" Hermione asked. She knew that Ron would calm down eventually, but given his hot-headed nature she wasn't surprised that he was reacting so badly.
"No." Ron shook his head, but refused to talk any more about his sister.
Getting the message that Ginny wasn't to be mentioned, Harry and Hermione tried to find other things to talk about. However it was hard not to think about Ginny when every other conversation in the Great Hall revolved around the redheaded witch, and it was inevitable they would hear snippets of other conversations. Eventually Ron couldn't take the gossip any longer and before dessert was even served he announced he was heading back to Gryffindor Tower to have an early night. Knowing it would be pointless to go after Ron when he was in such a bad mood, Harry and Hermione let their friend go without following him. Instead they remained in the Great Hall to finish their meal.