Chapter 4

The Common Room Attack

The common room was packed to the max with celebrating Gryffindors.

Random shouts of things such as, "Yey! We're still in the race!" and "Woohoo! We won!" and "Those Slytherin's can't beat us!" and don't forget, "That Harry Potter is sooooo hot!"

Harry and Ron sat slumped in a corner watching it all, sipping butterbeers and trying not to think about Ginny… who hadn't returned to the common room at all after the Quidditch game.

Harry sighed and looked at his watch. It was 1:30! Where was she? He normally wouldn't have cared if it weren't for the fact that she was probably out some where with Malfoy!

Ron continously fidgetted and stared out at the raging chaos of the partyers.

"Ron! Stop moving! What's your problem??" As if I don't know… Harry thought. But he didn't know. Ron was only halfway thinking about Ginny…

He looked out through the dancing, talking, and laughing… and saw Hermione: sitting in a chair by the fireplace… reading. It did look extremely odd since she was surrounded by celebration.

"How can she just sit there like that? Do you realize how frustrating it is to just watch some one sit there while everyone else is partying their brains out!?"

Harry sighed. Well, this was ok. He didn't really want to talk about Ginny anyway. "Ron… we are just sitting here and everyone else is partying their brains out!" He pointed out.

Ron thought a moment. "Well… why are we just sitting here???"

"Because we are worried about Ginny?"

Suddenly, Ron frowned. "Great! Go ahead and remind me!"

And thus the hours passed… two to be exact. Until, as always with such parties in the Gryffindor common room, Proffesor McGonagal came in and broke things up. After a few protests, grumbling Gryffindors (Ooh! Alliteration!) went to their dormatories. That is, except for Harry and Ron.

Harry found it a bit amusing that everyone could be praising him all night, but then when the party was over they didn't even notice him sitting on the floor as they marched up to go to bed. He sighed and stood up.

"What do we do now?" he asked Ron.

"Well… we could pace the floor!"

"Oh yeah, that should be fun. Here, you pace vertically and I'll go horizontal!"

They both knew very well that Harry was being sarcastic, but in a few moments they found themselves doing just that.

Jen came down the stairs and raised and eyebrow at the odd grid Harry and Ron were making with their pacing. She rolled her eyes before asking, "Have either of you beings of inferior intellegence seen Ginny anywhere?"

The pacing stopped. Harry and Ron looked at eachother. "No…" Harry began. He was interrupted by Ron.

"Not since we saw her this afternoon, prancing around with Malfoy!"

This time, Jen raised both her eyebrows, but she didn't say anything. She just turned around and began walking back upstairs.

"Wait!" Ron called after her. "Don't you have anything to say?"

"Well, Ron. It's 3:30 in the morning. I'm tired. I asked you a question, which you answered, and now I am going back to bed. What would you like me to say?"

Ron just gaped at her.

Jen, realizing that any response he might make would most likely be incoherent, walked back to her dormatory.

Harry and Ron exchanged glances. "Sometimes I wonder about her sanity…:" Ron muttered.

Just then, the portrait swung open, and creeping in came the one and only… Ginny! It was obvious that she had thought that the common room was empty.

She saw the two of them, stunned. Ron and Harry took this moment to attack… literally in Ron's case.

He picked Ginny up and swung her over his shoulder.

"RON! Put me down right now! What is the matter with you?!?"

"Fine!" Ron said, and plopped her down on the couch.

"Thank you… " Ginny muttered, smoothing her hands over her hair.

Ron and Harry sat down on either side of her. They both began talking at once, so the words sounded something like this, "Madagada! Ginnib mweaak blahda Malfoy! Hemerblahblah Malfoy! Gingerhedda you!"

If they had been talking in a more rational manner, perhaps all of that would have sounded something more like, "Ginny, will you please tell us why you and Malfoy suddenly have feelings for eachother? We realize it's none of our buisness, really, but Malfoy has been our enemy as well as yours for several years. So, we would be much obliged if you could tell us what's going on."

Of course, they weren't speaking rationally at all. Therefore, what they were really saying was more like, "What on earth is your problem, Ginny?! DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOUR DOING?!? How could you possibly have feelings for some one like Malfoy!? How could anyone have feelings for someone like Malfoy!?!?!? Have you gone insane? What's wrong with you!?!?"

Ginny looked at them a moment before calmly asking, "Are you finished? I'm tired, and I want to go to bed." She began to stand up, but Ron pushed her right back down.

"Oh no, missy. First you have to tell us where you have been all day and all night!!" Harry demanded.

Ginny glared at him. Oy, she really hated when Harry became another brother. (That rhymed! On a roll today!)

"Virginia!" Ron added, not only using her full first name, but their mother's tone in saying it.

"Ronald!" She threw back.

The both looked at Harry, "Harold!"

"Harold?" Harry asked, rasing an eyebrow.

"Well…" Ron began. "Isn't that the full name for Harry?"

"No… as far as I know, my name is just Harry…"

"Oh." Ginny said thoughtfully. "Now, where were we?"

"We just asked you where you had been all day and all night."

"Oh yeah…" Ginny replied. "Well, you guys were right. I was with Malfoy…"

"Excuse me… with Malfoy? With Malfoy or with Malfoy???"

Ginny sighed. "Must you know?"

"YES!"

"Well… I was kind of… with Malfoy…"

"Aha!" Harry called triumphantly.

"But… why, Ginny? It was only last week that you hated the guy!"

"Yeah well… maybe I stopped hating him! Now can you guys just leave me alone about it?" She stood up abruptly and stomped upstairs.

Harry and Ron sat in silence for a moment before Ron commented, "Well I guess that went well…"

"This is a mess…" Harry said, agreeing with Ron's thoughts.

Suddenly, Ron looked around. "Where's Hermione anyway? Doesn't she usually stay up with us in situations such as this?"

"I suppose she went to bed… as we should because I'm tired…" Ron began to protest but Harry stopped him. "We'll talk about Ginny tomorrow!"

* * *

Draco lay stretched out on his bed, thinking. Was it possible that he had just spent the entire day with Ginny Weasley?

When they had first gotten back, Ginny had been heading to Gryffindor tower, but he had worked up the courage to stop her. "I… I heard you failed that Charms quiz…" He said quietly.

And before anyone knew it, they were headed to the library to discuss extra credit. (Mainly everything that Jen had said that morning, only this time Ginny listened with interest) And pretty soon Ginny couldn't take it any more and kissed Draco Malfoy, right on the lips.

Draco's immediate response was to do the same, and after a few minutes of just kissing eachother, the librarian insisted that they left. So they did.

They found an empty classroom, and began making out again. At the time, it seemed perfectly normal, but now that Draco looked back, he wondered what had been going on. She was a Weasley! How could he possibly be in love with a Weasley?

But he was, and there was no doubt about it. Draco sighed, and rolled over, trying to fall asleep and escape the chaos of his love life.

* * *

The creature was currently sitting in an armchair in the Gryffindor common room. He stared into the embers of the dying fire and planned what his next move should be. He had seen the entire argument between Ginny, Ron, and Harry. In fact, before that, he had been partying with the rest of them! But that little confrontation had amused him greatly.

He had been doing this for a long time. And when I say "doing this", I mean making new happy couples at various schools. It's just what he did, what he lived for! Sometimes he did research on the two soon-to-be-lovebirds, but this time it had been completely random. How could he have known that he had picked two enemies? It was all too delicious! Now others were getting involved too! It was always fun creating situations like this, but to see a genuine one. Ah, that was truly a grand moment!

Only now, he was a bit worried. He was sitting in the exact armchair that Hermione had been reading in earlier. And on the table next to the armchair was her book that she had forgotten. It was titled, "All You'll Ever Want to Know About Love Potions"

The furry one scratched his chin. Could she be on to him? … Nah!

He curled up and went to sleep.

END OF CHAPTER FOUR

You know, I wasn't going to put this up until I had the 9th chapter of me other fic out… but it is very very late right now, and I'm going to bed. Did you notice how everyone in this chapter was tired? ^_^ So, I won't have another chapter out until I get the other thing written… don't worry that should be in about a day tops. ^_^ See ya later, kiddies!