"Miss Granger, if I might have a word with you?" Albus Dumbledore was standing in the doorway to the Charms classroom. "If that's fine with you, professor Flitwick?" The professor only nodded and Hermione rose reluctantly. She had never liked being taken out of class, maybe she missed something important?

"Miss Granger, I believe you have been talking to Miss Weasley. Did she happen to mention anything regarding her relationship with Mr. Malfoy?" Hermione could hardly believe her ears. The Headmaster was asking her about Ginny and Malfoy. Why didn't he ask anybody else? "Excuse me, sir, but why not ask someone else? I hardly think that I am the right person to talk to about Ginny. Maybe you should talk to some of her brothers?"

Albus Dumbledore shook his head. "I am afraid they will be of no help, I need to know Miss Weasley's feelings on the subject. You see Miss Granger, Miss Weasley and Mr. Malfoy are spending an unusual amount of time together for two engaged people. Unusual little was more the phrase I was looking for. If this marriage isn't going to be a total disaster I am going to need your help Miss Granger. We need a plan." Professor Dumbledore lowered his voice at the end of the speech and Hermione found herself leaning more and more in to listen.

Hermione thought about it for a second. It wasn't like she would be doing something immoral or something. It would be for their own good. They had everything to gain and nothing to loose. She stuck her hand forward. "I'm in."

***

"But Harry. You have to help us get Ginny and Malfoy together." Hermione had put on her pleading puppy-dog face and was sitting on the floor of the Gryffindor Common Room by Harry's feet looking up at him.

Harry found out that he had to be stern and follow his decisions. "No Hermione. I won't help the two of you. I won't tell Ginny about it either, but I don't support these kind of matchmaking tricks. How would you feel if Parvati and Lavender suddenly had a prediction in Divination where they foresaw you coming together with Vincent Crabbe? Would you be so extremely keen on getting to know him as you are of the fact that Ginny and Malfoy should get together?"

Hermione looked down. "But it is an entirely different situation Harry. Ginny and Malfoy are getting married. All we are trying to do is ease up the first days of their marriage, making them get to know each other." Harry sighed. "I don't think I'll ever win an argument with you 'Mione, but how do you know that Ginny and Draco aren't already having some kind of secret rendezvous where they shag like mad in the astronomy tower?"

Hermione gasped. "They are?" And as an afterthought. "Ginny tells you these things?"

Harry shook his head. "I don't know whether or not they are, because neither of them tells me anything of that sorts." He shuddered. "If they did, I don't really want to know. But I use it as an example of why I don't want to get mixed up in your plan. Let Nature run its course."

Hermione sighed. Harry clearly wasn't going to help her out this time.

***

"So what we have to do is get them together so that they can talk it over?" Hermione looked over at the headmaster who nodded. "It wouldn't hurt if they got to some level of intimacy as well." Albus Dumbledore winked to a shocked Hermione Granger.

"You want me to put them in the same bed as well?" Hermione couldn't resist using a thick layer with irony on her words. But it was lost on Dumbledore. "Ah, no I don't think that would be necessary Miss Granger. A nice arranged rendezvous in the Astronomy Tower would be sufficient." She narrowed her eyebrows. "You don't happen to be related to Harry as well as Draco, Professor Dumbledore?"

All she got in reply to that one was a chuckle. "Don't forget to lock the door behind them. I am sure you know a spell that the un-locking spell doesn't work on. Good afternoon, Miss Granger." The headmaster was sly as a fox.

***

Ginny, meet me in the astronomy tower at midnight. It is important. Harry.

Ginny had no ideas to what Harry wanted with her. It seemed like everything was important these days. Her dreams being the most important of all. After all it was partly them who had put her into this situation. But if Harry wanted to meet her she would go. Not because she still had a crush on him, but because he was her favorite "brother". He was the only one of the lot who truly understood and wasn't overprotective.

If Harry said it was important it could be anything, ranging from the latest brooms to Voldemort. During the last year they had had regular night meetings chatting about everything and nothing. It was comforting to have someone to talk to, almost like the diary she had kept back in first year. But this time she knew the thing she talked to and there were no great risk involved in sharing her secrets with him. He wouldn't tell anyone.

She recalled the time when she had told her brothers that she was going to marry Malfoy. The night after she had walked downstairs she had found Harry there. He had uttered the always-calming words. "Would you like to tell me more about it?" She had found herself telling him of the qualms she had about the whole caboodle, how scared she was of winding up with an abusive husband, her doubts about herself and how well her brothers were going to handle her being married. Harry's answer to everything had just been hugs and a simple "I'll be there for you, Gin."

She simply had to go meet him at the tower, whatever he was going to tell her, it was worth it. He would be there for her; she would be there for whatever problems he could be having. She only hoped he would have the guts to ask out the girl he fancied soon.

***

Draco, I have something to discuss with you regarding your father. We can't meet in my office. Minerva will be using that. Meet me in the Astronomy Tower at midnight.

Albus Dumbledore.

Well, well… Draco didn't quite know what to think about the note he'd just received from Dumbledore. Wouldn't it have been more natural for his mother to be telling him about his biological father? But he supposed Dumbledore was willing to play the responsible father for once. Of course he had to be there when his grandfather told him who his father was. It wasn't something he wanted to miss.

Who his father was wasn't the only question on Draco's mind. His future with Ginny was also a subject his thoughts kept wandering off to. How was it going to be, living with a Weasley? A Weasley who knew how to show people when she was angry and when she was happy. Living with said Weasley during pregnancies could get scary. Achieving those pregnancies could be a lot of fun. Not that he would dare to mention anything of that in the presence of the Weasley brothers. He had the feeling that they wouldn't see it as an act in following the prophecies.

The thing was that they weren't talking to each other. They hadn't spoken together since the day when the unknown parentage was revealed. And now the time of the NEWTs were approaching. What would happen afterwards?

***

The Astronomy Tower, midnight.

"Harry, are you here?" Ginny Weasley clad in her moss-green robes entered the room the Astronomy Tower door closing behind her. Hermione, who had borrowed Harry's invincibility cloak without his knowledge, and was standing on the outside couldn't help but smile. "One down, one to go."

On the inside Ginny sat down to wait for Harry. Surely he would come soon, he never used to be late for anything. But maybe Filch was roaming around in the hallways of Hogwarts tonight.

"Dumbledore, are you here?" Draco opened the door and went inside. The person in the invincibility cloak quickly said her spell and left. No one would come up to the tower until morning. They could scream for help all they wanted. There wasn't anyone that would hear them.

"Ginny, what are you doing here? I was supposed to meet my grandfather here." Draco sounded as astonished as Ginny felt. Why was he there? Where was Harry? Why had someone locked the door behind him? Realization began to dawn upon them at the same time. "We have been set up. Fred and George love to play these tricks. I bet they paid someone to do it on us." Ginny talked fast and looked furious.

"What?" Draco was smiling at her. "Sweetheart, no matter how lowly you happen to think of your brothers it can't have been them. The speech I got from all of your brothers regarding your happiness sort of says something. I got the impression they didn't want me in your presence at all. This is sneaky. Who do we know that are sneaky besides your brothers, darling?"

A/N: Think I am putting a stop to that chapter there. I have got some reviews stating that my chapters are too short. This one islonger than usual, happy? If I write shorter chapters I can put them out more often. Due to school I have some problems with my time.

Now I actually have a school excuse for writing. See this Thursday I am having an exam in English. This means that writing stories, checking grammar is practice… My world is good at the moment.

Now for the disclaimer, I don't own it. Nope not me. I wish but I don't own. Just a poor Norwegian girl who loves to write and read.

I love e-mails and reviews giving me ideas or telling me what I can do better, or how much you liked it. TTFN.

PS. I was reading through my story today and discovered a mistake I'd made in this chapter. So I fixed that and uploaded it once more.