Author's note: Evil Ginny in this one-shot, so readers discretion is advised!

Padma Patil

Harry (who was dressed in forest-green dress robes) was on his way to the entrance to Ravenclaw Tower, to pick his date up and head off to Professor Slughorn's classroom for the Slug Club Christmas Party. Several minutes after arriving in front of the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room, it opened up to reveal an indian girl dressed in purple dress robes. The girl was Padma Patil, who was a sixth year like Harry, and she had dark-brown hair in a high elegant bun, dark-brown eyes and dark-mocha skin. Padma had a twin sister named Parvati, who was in Gryffindor (the same house as Harry).

"Are you ready to go?" asked Harry, holding an arm out.

"Why yes, Harry!" said Padma ecstatically, linking her arm in Harry's.

As they headed for Professor Slughorn's classroom, Harry began revisiting the memory of how he and Padma got better acquainted. It was a week after their fifth year ended, when Harry left Privet Drive for good because his so-called relatives continued treating him like trash despite him saving Dudley from that dementor. After making it to the Leaky Cauldron, Harry checked into a room and got his stuff set up there until he could figure out what to do. The morning after he left Privet Drive for good, Harry went to Gringotts and found out about his inheritance and how his parents never wanted him placed with the Dursleys. That resulted in Harry cutting ties with Dumbledore, and his two former best friends for good (as it turned out that Ron and Hermione were spying on him under Dumbledore's orders). As mentioned in his parents' will, Harry found out that his mother was Neville's godmother, and likewise Neville's mother was Harry's godmother. After fire-calling Longbottom Manor and explaining that to Neville and his grandmother, Augusta, they allowed Harry to come over to Longbottom Manor. One visit to Diagon Alley, Harry and Neville encountered the Patil twins at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, and the four got to knowing each other better outside of school. Feeling bad for what happened at the Yule Ball, Harry decided to make it up to the twins as much as possible. Harry and Padma appeared to be smitten with each other while Neville and Parvati had a similar reaction. Because of Harry's unwanted fame, the four spent as much time in the muggle world as possible. Naturally Neville had some difficulty blending in because he was a pure-blood. Harry and the Patil twins (who were half-bloods) helped Neville out tremendously and overtime, he gradually got the hang of it. As soon as the year started, the news of Harry and Padma potentially becoming a couple (same with Neville and Parvati) spread throughout the castle.

"There's Neville and Parvati!" said Padma, getting Harry's attention and causing him to snap back to reality.

The two met up with Neville and Parvati (who also had their arms linked together). Neville's dress robes were gray while Parvati's was magenta. Moments later, the four reached Professor Slughorn's classroom. The potions teacher was waiting outside his classroom door to greet the other members of the Slug Club and their respective dates. Because they weren't hungry yet, Harry, Neville and the twins went out towards the middle of the room to join in with the other guests dancing. Harry spotted Hermione dancing with Cormac McLaggen, a seventh-year Gryffindor who was the reserve keeper on the quidditch team, but went back to dancing with Neville and the Patil twins. He didn't want anything to do with her anymore after she and Ron betrayed him once more. It was minutes later when Ginny and her boyfriend, Dean Thomas (a tall dark-skin Gryffindor who was also a sixth year) made it to the party. It didn't take long before Ginny spotted Harry dancing with Padma and felt her limbs trembling with pure anger and jealousy. As soon as Dean looked at her, Ginny immediately ceased her jealousy trembling and put on an innocent smile on her face.

"Dean, why don't you go get us some food and punch." Ginny suggested.

Okay." said Dean

He walked towards the long table where the refreshments were. Ginny used that opportunity to walk up to Harry and get in between him and Padma, not caring that they were enjoying their evening. Just as she was within five feet of the happy couple, Ginny got glares from Harry and Padma, even Neville and Parvati glared at the redhead. Ginny just gave off her best smile ever in false hopes that it would convince Harry to give her a chance. It was enough for Harry, Neville, and the Patil twins to roll their eyes, knowing what kind of person Ginny was.

"What is it, Ginny?" asked Harry with a sigh, clearly annoyed that his alone time with Padma was interrupted.

"I want to dance with you, Harry!" Ginny replied in a sweet-talk voice, still putting up that very smile that Harry hated.

"You're not getting the chance!" Harry shot back in a firm voice. "Just like Ron and Hermione, you abandoned me for the last time, now let me and Pad get back to our dance."

Ginny stood there blankly when Harry said that to her. Hermione had been passing by when she heard that, and she got alot of eyes staring at her. When Ron and Hermione tried to make amends with Harry on the Hogwarts Express on the first day of term, he told his former best friends off for listening to Dumbledore instead of checking up on him. Harry even told Ron and Hermione that enough was enough, and how he befriended Neville and Luna more. Everybody heard that Luna was now Harry's best female friend. Harry and Cho also made up and they decided to remain friends, with Cho even offering Luna to help her out in keeping fangirls and fanboys away from Harry (with Luna having accepted it). Once it became clear about the Patil twins having befriended Harry and Neville and with Neville being Harry's godbrother, many of the students backed off to avoid retribution from Harry. As Hermione found herself getting glares from the other guests, she burst into tears and left. Ginny didn't seem to be affected by it much, as she was unwisely assuming that Harry was joking.

"Come on, Harry!" Ginny tried sweet-talking again. "We're meant to be, you know it deep down."

"How so?" asked Harry rhetorically.

"I've defended your honour several times," Ginny argued. "I've even been a good girl for you."

"I can tell when someone is sucking up to me, Ginny!" said Harry, exasperated. "You've never done anything for me out of genuine kindness."

There was a little bit of giggling coming from the guests, since they knew what Ginny's ulterior motive was. Ginny acted like everything was cool and calm, until Dean came back with a couple goblets of punch for himself and Ginny. When he cleared his throat, Ginny turned around and started acting all frightened of Dean, which resulted in more giggles because of how predictable the redhead was.

"No, go away!" Ginny mock-whined to Dean, pulling herself away from him as if she'd just seen a monster.

"Ginny, I just came here with some punch you asked me to get." Dean reminded her, in a rather confused tone of voice.

"Stay away from me, you creepy rapist!" Ginny whimpered, pulling further away from him. "You'll rape me again and feel s-s-satisfied!"

Gasps were heard when those words escaped Ginny's mouth, causing Dean to drop his jaw open in utter shock and fright (his heart beat increasing because of that). Professor Slughorn heard that and walked over towards where the commotion was coming from. Neville smoothly whipped his wand out, pointed his wand at Dean and whispered a spell.

"I would never do that, Ginny!" exclaimed Dean, his voice cracking, unaware that he was glowing in blue light. "How could you say that?"

Ginny saw the blue light surrounding Dean, which angered her because she (like all pure-bloods and those raised in the wizarding world) knew that Dean had a lie-detecting charm cast on him. If the person was cast with the spell told the truth, they'd be surrounded by blue light and red light if they were lying. It was one of the few charms that couldn't be cheated, so it was one of those charms that was advised to only be used as a last resort. More and more giggles erupted because of Ginny's attempt at slandering Dean backfiring.

"Who cast that ridiculous charm on Dean?" Ginny demanded.

"I did," Neville admitted, with Ginny turning around to face him. "Because Dean is anything but a rapist. Slander is a crime and you know it."

"Neville's right, Ginny," Harry spoke up in a no-nonsense voice. "You clearly know that Dean treats you the way a gentleman should treat a lady, but you were being ungrateful."

Ginny felt her arms trembling with rage that her plan to ruin Dean's reputation backfired, much to the amusement of the guests witnessing the ordeal. Ginny glared over to Neville and, with her eyes flashing with anger, stomped up to Neville and slapped him across the face. Outraged to see his godbrother getting smacked, Harry quickly whipped his wand out to put the delusional redhead in a full-body bind. The Patil twins beat him to the punch because Parvati punched Ginny in the face while Padma slugged Ginny in the stomach, resulting in the redhead groaning in pain as she got down on her hands and knees. Then the Patil twins pulled her back onto her feet, yanked her close to their angry faces.

"You ever do that again," Parvati and Padma warned Ginny through gritted teeth, in dangerous voices. "And we'll see to it that your worst nightmare ever comes true!"

Having spotted Ginny's wand on the floor, Harry picked it up and handed it to Professor Slughorn, who took it and put it in his pocket. Neville felt tears welling up in his eyes as Ginny's slap left a handprint on his left cheek, with the stinging pain lingering. Once Professor Slughorn made it over to deal with Ginny, Parvati went to check on Neville and spotted the handprint on his face and kissed it to make him feel better. Dean was still shocked that his supposed girlfriend tried to pass him off as a rapist that he couldn't move any part of his body.

"Miss Patill and Miss Patil," Professor Slughorn lectured. "I won't condone attacking a fellow student, so that'll be five points each from both of you. But since you defended Mr. Potter, Mr. Longbottom, and Mr. Thomas's honours, that'll be fifteen points to gryffindor and fifteen to Ravenclaw."

"Thanks, professor." Parvati and Padma replied, feeling proud of themselves.

"As for you, Miss Weasley," Professor Slughorn informed, as soon as he turned his attention to the Weasley girl (who was looking rather horrified). "Your behaviour was extremely inexcusable, especially for trying pass Mr. Thomas off as someone who is heinous to commit such crimes. Your privilege in the Slug Club is hereby revoked, and that'll be fifty points from Gryffindor for that and another twenty-five for smacking Mr. Longbottom out of spite. I think you'd better follow me to Professor Dumbledore's office for recommendation of a much more suitable punishment for you."

Harry handed Ginny's wand to the potions teacher, who took it and pocketed it. As he turned around to leave the classroom, Ginny had no choice but to follow him to Dumbledore's office, but she glared at Neville as if to tell him he would be sorry. Professor Slughorn called Professor McGonagall over to keep an eye on the party until he got back. Once the deputy head arrived, Professor Slughorn continued escorting Ginny to the headmaster's office, and the party resumed. Parvati even massaged Neville's cheek to continue making him feel better, since he was still in shock that Ginny had the gall to smack him like that just to spite him. Harry, Neville, and the Patil twins invited Dean to join them at a table for some food and punch. Dean drank both goblets of punch that he was holding (since he originally got one for Ginny). Despite Ginny's outrageous behaviour, the five refused to let it bother them and continue having a fun night.

'No more Ginny for me!' thought Dean, as he ate his dinner. 'I should've seen what kind of person she was, but now I know to be more careful next time with who I date.'

The End!

Author's note 2: I'd like to give a shoutout to the user 'The Underrated HP Fan' for suggesting that Ginny try to play victim by falsely accusing Dean of raping her and the other guests (Harry, Neville, and the Patil twins included) not buying into that malarkey. While I had Neville cast the lie-detecting charm on Dean to ensure it would be foolproof in making sure Ginny's plan backfires, the main idea belongs to The Underrated HP Fan. I'll also leave it up to you to decide how Professor Dumbledore punishes Ginny.