Harry's Torment Harry trudged down the stairs to breakfast. So this is how Ron felt, he thought resentfully. Ron and Lavender were already at breakfast. They weren't a proper couple yet, but from the way they were flirting it wouldn't be long before they were. George and Hermione were sitting together, just as sickly as ever. Don't those two ever fight? Harry asked himself, then he realised that he and Ginny had been the same. It was something he had come to realise in the last couple of days since Ginny had broken up with him. They had never argued, never had a difference of opinion. Some might say that was a blessing but Harry had come to realise that it was those differences that put the fire into a relationship and he and Ginny had had no spark. Harry sat down at the table next to Ron. Ron was startled by Harry's sudden appearance. "Harry! Uh, look, don't look over at the Slytherin table, okay?" Ron said quickly. Of course Harry instantly looked up and over at the Slytherin table. Harry was unable to believe what he was seeing. His mouth fell open in shock and he felt like he was drowning. Sitting over at the Slytherin table, next to the milky white head of Malfoy was….Ginny? Yes, it was the unmistakable Weasley red hair that gave her away. Harry couldn't believe she was sitting there, with him. He didn't want to watch but was unable to take his eyes off the unlikely couple. They were laughing and talking together but when Malfoy's lips touched Ginny's, Harry saw red. He jumped up and marched over there, oblivious to Ron and Hermione's protests. Harry jerked Malfoy away from Ginny. Harry's face was red with rage.  "Get your hands off her, Malfoy!" Malfoy disdainfully pulled himself out of Harry's grip.  "Watch it, Potter, these are silk robes. Virginia is here of her own free will." Malfoy turned back around to his breakfast leaving Harry standing there, rage still clearly evident on his face.  "Is this true, Ginny? Do you want to be with Malfoy?" Harry's tone plainly showed his disbelief. "I prefer Virginia actually. And yes, I love Draco and I want to be here," she said defiantly. Draco turned to face Virginia when he heard her say she loved him. He couldn't believe it. He cupped her face in his hands, "I love you too, Virginia, so much," he said before he kissed her gently. Harry couldn't believe it. He took a couple of steps back and then turned and ran back up to the Gryffindor common room. Ron and Hermione left the table then too and hurried up to the common room to talk to Harry. The rest of the Gryffindor's were just as stunned at Ginny's, sorry Virginia's, defection. She hadn't really joined Slytherin, but eating with them was just as bad as far as they were concerned. ~*~ Virginia (as she demanded everyone now call her) was a little upset at the treatment she was getting from the other Gryffindor's. They had been ignoring her ever since the breakfast incident this morning. She wasn't as upset about it as she normally would be but that was because she had Draco. No one else might understand it or even like it but she was happy, really happy, for the first time in, well she couldn't remember how long. The only thing she regretted was how much she had hurt Harry in the process. Virginia started walking faster. It was late at night and she had crept out of the Gryffindor rooms and was heading to a rendezvous with Draco in an empty classroom. Knowing her luck she'd get caught by Filch. Suddenly she felt a hand over her mouth and an arm around her waist and she was being pulled backwards into a dark room. Virginia started to struggle, feeling more than a little terrified. "Shhh, it's me," Draco whispered in her ear. Virginia stopped fighting and relaxed against him. She turned around and his arms held her close to him. She smiled up at him and ran her hands up his arms and into his hair. They kissed like they hadn't seen each other in weeks, when in reality it had only been since dinner when Virginia sat with the Slytherin's again, just like she did at lunchtime. Draco's arms tightened around her as his hands roved over her body. He had been surprised that under her shapeless robes she had an incredible body. He pulled Virginia back with him, further into the classroom and away from the door. They sank down to the floor, unable to tear themselves away from each other…. ~*~ It was early in the morning and Ron was lying in bed, still asleep. He felt something tickling his nose, and he sleepily swatted it away with one hand and snuggled down to continue sleeping. He felt it on his ear this time and it walked across his face. Walked? Thought Ron. He jumped up and out of bed, suddenly very awake. He looked down on his bed to see a huge spider crawling around on his sheets. Ron backed away from the bed screaming and fell onto Harry's bed. Harry sat up and tried to see what all the noise was about. All the boys in the room had pulled back the curtains from around the beds to see which girl had snuck into the room and started screaming. They started laughing when they realised it was Ron. Harry looked over at Ron's bed and saw the spider there. He looked at it more closely, there was something odd here. He got up and poked the spider. It fell onto it's back, it's legs wriggling in the air. Harry let out a laugh as he saw the Zonko's brand name stamped into its plastic stomach. Ron was still screaming and staring in horror as Harry tried to explain that it wasn't real. Harry soon realised that as long as the spider was visible he would get no sense out of Ron. He quickly pulled the bed covers over the spider and saw Ron visibly calm down. He wasn't totally calm but at least he had stopped screaming. "It's a fake," Harry explained, "It's from Zonko's." Ron's face changed from a look of terror to a look of rage. "Fred and George!" he managed to get out before racing out of the room and into the common room with Harry at his heels both of them unaware that they were just wearing boxers. In the common room, George and Hermione were sitting on the couch snuggled up together whispering quietly to each other. Ron suddenly burst into the room and charged over to them. "George! How could you? You know how much I hate spiders!" he yelled in anger. Hermione pulled away from George in shock, "You didn't buy that spider at Zonko's did you?" George looked at her in confusion but then remembered the incident a couple of weeks ago in Hogsmeade, "NO! No! I swear I didn't!" He turned to Ron, "I promise you Ron, I didn't put a spider anywhere near you." Fred entered the room and started laughing, "Ron, Harry, did you forget something this morning?" he said pointing at their lack of attire. Ron was still too mad to notice, he turned around and went after Fred, "It was you wasn't it! You put a spider in my bed!" Fred tried to look innocent but failed miserably, "alright, alright, I surrender!" he mocked and without showing a trace of remorse he turned and left through the portrait hole to go get breakfast. Hermione was thinking hard, "But Fred didn't go to Hogsmeade that weekend. George, did you give him a spider?" George looked offended, "I gave him a gift, can I be held responsible for what he did with it?" Hermione, Harry and Ron looked stunned. "You know what Fred is like. You knew he couldn't resist something like that. I can't believe you did that to your own brother," Hermione said sadly as she stood up. She walked over to a table, picked up her books and left the common room. George swore. Ron and Harry looked at him in surprise. "Thanks a lot Ron. Now she's mad at me." George stood up and went to argue with his twin over his use of George's gift. As the rest of the Gryffindor's started coming down for breakfast, they started laughing at the two boys standing in their boxers still. ~*~ Harry was starting to come to terms with his break up with Ginny and could see that it was probably for the best. If she wanted someone like Draco, then they obviously wanted different things. Ron and Lavender had been getting closer. Harry took great pride in his friend's happiness. For once Ron had something that Harry didn't and he knew that Ron would never say anything, but he knew that Ron was secretly pleased to be one up on him after so many years of being Harry's shadow. Harry was staring into space, thinking, during History of Magic, luckily it wasn't Potions or it would have been obvious he wasn't paying attention. However their ghostly professor never asked for a response so they could get away with daydreaming. Harry wondered if he'd ever find anyone else. He had liked the feeling of being with Ginny. She had made him feel whole again. She filled the space in his heart that that been left by the death of his parents. He wished he could find someone else like that but he didn't think there would be anyone else like that at Hogwart's. To be continued…..