Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling. ::with tears in her
eyes:: What a great woman.
A/N: I hope you guys like this chapter. It's probably my favorite so far. Thanks to those of you who reviewed! And to those of you who haven't, please do! It would make my day!
Piercing the Darkness
Chapter 3 A Secret Passage
******
The next day Ginny left Transfiguration in a hurry. It was lucky her classroom was so close to the Charms classroom, which was where Malfoy would be getting out of class. Ginny waited around the corner, until she heard the Charms door burst open, and a stream of students file out. Malfoy was one of the very last people to exit. Keeping her wand hidden under her robes Ginny walked towards Malfoy, who was trying to stuff all of his notes into his book. It was just as Ginny had planned, everything was going very smoothly. She pointed her wand at Malfoy's feet and quietly muttered,
"Tripilinni."
Instantly Malfoy tripped over his own feet and fell face first to the ground, his papers flying everywhere. Ginny laughed aloud with the others in the hall and quickly bent down and grabbed one of Malfoy's notes, and stuffed it into her robes. She couldn't help but smile. It had worked perfectly, and she now had what she needed.
"Oh careful Malfoy." Ginny said sarcastically as Malfoy started to push himself up off the floor. "It's no wonder you're so terrible at quidittich, you can't even keep your balance on the ground."
A group of Gryffindor's who had all gathered around to make fun of Malfoy, laughed hysterically at Ginny's comment.
Ginny moved away before Malfoy had time to respond. She went to her dormitory and plopped down on her bed. Ginny studied the paper she had just stole from Malfoy. She wasn't studying the information; she was studying his handwriting. Malfoy had neat even handwriting. He used simple print form, and it slanted a bit to the right. This was going to be easier than Ginny had thought. Print was so much easier to forge than cursive.
****** 'That was brilliant Draco, falling on your face in front of everyone. Including Ginny Weasley.' Draco thought to himself. 'Oh, I bet she loved that, seeing me on the floor, humiliated in front of everyone.' He was thinking about her again. He tried to imagine what his father would say, if he knew whom Draco's thoughts dwelled on a lot these days. He knew his father would be angry, and he would probably disown him or something. But Draco didn't really care. He didn't care about the Weasley girl either. She was just a poor, immature little girl who happened to have some good looks. Draco had seen a lot of guys looking at Ginny lately in a new light. He had seen heads turn as she walked down the hallway. She was nothing real to Draco. Just another distraction, to keep his mind off his life. A life he knew led to nothing good, a fact he had excepted when he was young. Eagerly he had taken up the challenge of being mean, cruel, evil, and heartless. It was just who he was. It would never change.
Draco walked away in a haze, thoughts flowing relentlessly through his mind. He never even noticed that one missing paper. A paper filled with his handwriting. A paper he had written notes on in class to keep his good grades up and make his father happy. A paper that would help one certain individual with something commonly called revenge.
****** Ginny got up very early the next morning. She hurriedly showered and dressed, and grabbed a piece of parchment lying in her chest before dashing out of the room. She had spent a good deal of the night working on that paper, and it was perfect. It looked just like Malfoy's handwriting. Ginny made her way to the Entrance Hall, her nerves making her feel very jumpy and nervous. She went over to the wall where announcements and things were posted. Ginny hung up her "masterpiece" and smiled. She couldn't wait until people noticed it. This would definitely be interesting to watch. Satisfied with herself, Ginny happily made her way to the Great Hall to eat some breakfast.
****** Draco ate his breakfast in silence. Crabbe and Goyle weren't worth talking to normally anyway. When they did have discussions, it was immature and almost always about food. Draco stared across the hall at the youngest Weasley. She looked very happy and excited today. Draco wondered why. This day was no different than any other ordinary boring day.
After pushing his food around for about a half an hour, Draco made his way out of the Great Hall and into the Entrance Hall. There was a group of students gathered around the wall, all reading something, chattering and laughing. Draco decided he didn't care about what they were looking at, and he headed to class.
When students started coming into the Transfiguration Classroom, Draco began to notice many of them staring at him. Some were talking in groups, pointing at him and laughing. This was getting bothersome so Draco decided to speak up.
"What are you all staring at?" he sneered.
Crabbe and Goyle came over laughing.
"We had no idea Draco!" Goyle said with much glee.
"Yeah who would have thought." Crabbe added in his deep, slow voice.
"What are you talking about!? I demand to know what's going on!" Draco said trying to keep his voice down.
"Crabbe and Goyle imediately stopped laughing. Students in the class stopped whispering and stared at Draco.
"You- you mean you don't know?" Goyle asked. "But you must know. You wrote it!"
"Wrote what!?" Draco asked, a tinge of red from anger beginning to show on his face. When no one answered, Draco got even more upset.
"SOMEONE BETTER TELL ME RIGHT NOW!!" he shouted just as Professor McGonagal walked in.
"Mr. Malfoy! I would like to ask you to please keep your voice down in my class room!" she said. "Now please take a seat."
Draco was about to explode. What was everyone laughing at him for? He remained standing, and hissed at Goyle.
"Tell me."
"The- in the Entrance Hall there's, well there's this note, and-"
Draco didn't wait for him to finish. He walked out of class quickly, not heeding McGonagal who was yelling at him to come back. He went to the Entrance Hall, where there were still many students pointing at a piece of parchment hanging on the wall. Draco noticed that Potter, Granger, Weasley, and his sister there too. The Hall fell dead quiet as Draco approached. He pushed people out of his way, as he headed towards the parchment. As he approached it, he realized it was in his handwriting! Draco read:
My dearest Milicent, Never before in my life have I felt the way I do about you. I can't stop thinking about you. I see your beautiful brown eyes in my thoughts, and I want to gaze forever into them. I want to run my fingers through your long, thick, tangled hair. I want to hold you tight and never let go, I want to spend every night in your arms, I want to spend the rest of my life by your side. So I make this public announcement of my everlasting love for you, Milicent Bulstrode. Oh, your name flows off my tongue like sweet honey. I will love you forever. Please promise me you will do the same. Love With All My Heart, Draco Malfoy
Draco thought he might throw up. He knew every eye in the Hall was on him. Draco slowly turned around to face them, wearing an expression of fury on his face. But then he noticed who moved up to stand beside him: it was none other than Milicent Bulstrode.
"Oh Draco, I promise I will love you forever too!" Milicent said, while batting her eyelashes.
Draco turned to Milicent.
"I did NOT write that note! I do not like you Milicent." Draco said with venom dripping off his every word.
Apparently Milicent didn't notice.
"But Drakkie it looks like you wrote it, oh I'm so glad you finally came forward with your true feelings!"
At this point the previous silence was broken with hysterical laughter, mostly coming from Potter and his friends; Ginny was laughing the hardest. That's when Draco knew who had written it, but he turned back to Milicent.
"You better listen to me, all of you better listen." He said, although many more had joined in with the laughter. His words were barely heard over it. "I didn't write that! I think Milicent is one of the ugliest females I've ever laid eyes on!"
"What's that Malfoy? You think Milicent is the sexiest female you've ever laid eyes on!?" Ron called out.
He turned and glared at Ron. Draco would wring his sister's neck right in front of everyone, he would strangle her in front of her own brother! He moved towards Granger, where Ginny had been standing. But she wasn't there. Draco scanned the crowd, but didn't see her red hair anywhere. Students were still laughing at him, some so hard they were practically rolling on the ground. 'She's gone the little'- and Draco called Ginny some bad four and five-letter words under his breath. Draco shoved his way through the crowd and headed towards Gryfinddor Tower, where he knew Weasley would be headed. He took a secret shortcut Filch had showed him and waited in the shadows, right outside the Gryfinndor Portrait Hole. She had done it now.
****** 'That was great!' Ginny thought to herself, as she hurriedly made her way back to Gryffindor Tower. She had thoroughly enjoyed watching Malfoy's reaction when he saw her letter. 'He probably knew it was me though. I saw his eyes dart over to me after he read it.' That's why Ginny had left so quickly, she didn't want to give Malfoy a chance to hurt her. She would have to be extremely careful over the next few days.or weeks depending on how long it took Malfoy to forget about it. Ginny approached the Fat Lady and said the password, or at least part of it.
"Bertie Botts Evehmp fump aahh!!"
A hand clamped down tight around her mouth, and she felt someone very strong grab her around the waist and pull her through some kind of secret entrance she had never seen before. It was very dark and Ginny couldn't see a thing. Finally the person let go of her mouth and waist, although he or she grabbed her arm very tightly. Ginny surmised that they did this to keep her from running, which she very much wanted to do.
"Let go of me!" Ginny yelled. "Who are you?" But realization had finally dawned on her. Malfoy had used this passage to get to Gryffindor Tower before she had. The voice that spoke confirmed her theory.
"How many times do I have to tell you Weasel, not to mess with Malfoys? When are you going to get that through your thick head?" Malfoy said with a hard, icy voice. "Lumos." He muttered.
With the light of his wand, Ginny saw Malfoy very clearly now. He had a look of pure fury on his otherwise flawless face. Ginny wondered if anyone had ever made him as angry as she had.
"I really get to you don't I Malfoy?" Ginny asked with a touch of delight in her voice. "Admit it. There's just something about me that just annoys the heck out of you. Am I right?"
Draco chose to ignore her. She was not going to get him to admit it.
"Look Ginny, I'm tired of all this just let's say we're even okay?" Draco said exhaustedly.
Ginny stared at him with disbelief. Had he just used her first name?
"What?" Draco asked with much annoyance, when he saw her staring at him like that.
"You just used my first name!" Ginny said. She would use that against him. "I think you like me! You feel something for m-"
"Don't be ridiculous!" Draco yelled at her. "It just- just slipped." Well that was the truth. Draco never called Potter or any of his friends by their first names. It was just to, well to formal, or polite. And never in his life would Draco want to be polite to anyone that had anything to do with Potter.
Ginny had hoped that he would get embarrassed at her comment and just let her go, but it hadn't worked. If anything, his grip on her arm got harder. Ginny definitely didn't want to go through any more pain that Malfoy decided to dish out, so she would just agree with him.
"Okay then, I'll call it even. Draco."
Ginny decided she'd throw that in just to aggravate him, and it worked. Malfoy roughly pulled her even closer to him and hissed in her face.
"I don't want you to ever talk to me again. I don't even want to ever see your face again. Understood?"
"Sure Drakkie." Ginny found so much pleasure in annoying him. She looked up into his face and caught his eye.
"I swear if you don't stop that-" he said but stopped short.
They were so close. Close enough that Draco could see every detail of her perfect face. 'Well I night as well take advantage of it.' Draco thought to himself. Her face seemed to be moving closer to his anyway. Almost as if she wanted him to kiss her. Draco pulled Ginny to him tightly, and placed his mouth on hers. She didn't try to push him away, which slightly surprised him. She only gasped, a detail he noticed with much satisfaction. He wrapped his arms around her waist, and she melted into him. Draco inwardly smirked. He knew she loved it. They kissed for a few minutes, until Ginny jumped. She made an angry noise and pushed him away from her. She seemed to have finally realized what she was doing.
"You-you jerk! How dare you take advantage of me like that!" Ginny shouted at him.
"Oh lay off." He replied. "You loved every minute of it."
"What!? I did not enjoy that!" 'That was a lie' she thought. "You were forcing me too!" Ginny said uncertainly. "I didn't have time to defend myself!"
"Weasley, we both know that you are perfectly well of defending yourself. Don't think I haven't forgotten my bloody lip!" Draco said. "Why won't you just admit that you liked it?"
"I DIDN'T LIKE IT!!" Ginny screamed. There was absolutely no way she could have liked any physical contact with Malfoy. 'I did not like it. I did not like it. I did not like it.' She just had to keep telling herself that.
"Sure, whatever." Draco said sarcastically.
"Like you said earlier, I don't ever want to see you again. Don't ever come near me!" Ginny said while taking out her wand. She pointed it at him.
"Keep away!" She shouted as she backed away towards the entrance to the passageway.
Malfoy just stood there smiling an evil, mischievous grin. Ginny pushed desperately on the statue that blocked the entrance, but it wouldn't budge. How does it open!? Ginny was starting to freak out. She was once again trapped. Malfoy move towards her, still grinning. For one fleeting second Ginny thought he was going to grab her again, but he moved past her towards the statue.
"Let me be of assistance." Malfoy said. He pulled out his wand. Ginny extended her wand arm further.
"Don't try anything funny Malfoy, I still have my wand on you." She said.
Malfoy laughed.
"I'm terribly scared now!" He said with no conviction in his voice.
Ginny wanted to blow him to pieces right there, but she held her temper and watched as Malfoy prodded the statue with his wand. It sprang to life and jumped aside. Malfoy stood back.
"Bye love." He said sweetly.
Ginny stepped hard on his foot as she made her way out of the passage.
A/N: I hope you guys like this chapter. It's probably my favorite so far. Thanks to those of you who reviewed! And to those of you who haven't, please do! It would make my day!
Piercing the Darkness
Chapter 3 A Secret Passage
******
The next day Ginny left Transfiguration in a hurry. It was lucky her classroom was so close to the Charms classroom, which was where Malfoy would be getting out of class. Ginny waited around the corner, until she heard the Charms door burst open, and a stream of students file out. Malfoy was one of the very last people to exit. Keeping her wand hidden under her robes Ginny walked towards Malfoy, who was trying to stuff all of his notes into his book. It was just as Ginny had planned, everything was going very smoothly. She pointed her wand at Malfoy's feet and quietly muttered,
"Tripilinni."
Instantly Malfoy tripped over his own feet and fell face first to the ground, his papers flying everywhere. Ginny laughed aloud with the others in the hall and quickly bent down and grabbed one of Malfoy's notes, and stuffed it into her robes. She couldn't help but smile. It had worked perfectly, and she now had what she needed.
"Oh careful Malfoy." Ginny said sarcastically as Malfoy started to push himself up off the floor. "It's no wonder you're so terrible at quidittich, you can't even keep your balance on the ground."
A group of Gryffindor's who had all gathered around to make fun of Malfoy, laughed hysterically at Ginny's comment.
Ginny moved away before Malfoy had time to respond. She went to her dormitory and plopped down on her bed. Ginny studied the paper she had just stole from Malfoy. She wasn't studying the information; she was studying his handwriting. Malfoy had neat even handwriting. He used simple print form, and it slanted a bit to the right. This was going to be easier than Ginny had thought. Print was so much easier to forge than cursive.
****** 'That was brilliant Draco, falling on your face in front of everyone. Including Ginny Weasley.' Draco thought to himself. 'Oh, I bet she loved that, seeing me on the floor, humiliated in front of everyone.' He was thinking about her again. He tried to imagine what his father would say, if he knew whom Draco's thoughts dwelled on a lot these days. He knew his father would be angry, and he would probably disown him or something. But Draco didn't really care. He didn't care about the Weasley girl either. She was just a poor, immature little girl who happened to have some good looks. Draco had seen a lot of guys looking at Ginny lately in a new light. He had seen heads turn as she walked down the hallway. She was nothing real to Draco. Just another distraction, to keep his mind off his life. A life he knew led to nothing good, a fact he had excepted when he was young. Eagerly he had taken up the challenge of being mean, cruel, evil, and heartless. It was just who he was. It would never change.
Draco walked away in a haze, thoughts flowing relentlessly through his mind. He never even noticed that one missing paper. A paper filled with his handwriting. A paper he had written notes on in class to keep his good grades up and make his father happy. A paper that would help one certain individual with something commonly called revenge.
****** Ginny got up very early the next morning. She hurriedly showered and dressed, and grabbed a piece of parchment lying in her chest before dashing out of the room. She had spent a good deal of the night working on that paper, and it was perfect. It looked just like Malfoy's handwriting. Ginny made her way to the Entrance Hall, her nerves making her feel very jumpy and nervous. She went over to the wall where announcements and things were posted. Ginny hung up her "masterpiece" and smiled. She couldn't wait until people noticed it. This would definitely be interesting to watch. Satisfied with herself, Ginny happily made her way to the Great Hall to eat some breakfast.
****** Draco ate his breakfast in silence. Crabbe and Goyle weren't worth talking to normally anyway. When they did have discussions, it was immature and almost always about food. Draco stared across the hall at the youngest Weasley. She looked very happy and excited today. Draco wondered why. This day was no different than any other ordinary boring day.
After pushing his food around for about a half an hour, Draco made his way out of the Great Hall and into the Entrance Hall. There was a group of students gathered around the wall, all reading something, chattering and laughing. Draco decided he didn't care about what they were looking at, and he headed to class.
When students started coming into the Transfiguration Classroom, Draco began to notice many of them staring at him. Some were talking in groups, pointing at him and laughing. This was getting bothersome so Draco decided to speak up.
"What are you all staring at?" he sneered.
Crabbe and Goyle came over laughing.
"We had no idea Draco!" Goyle said with much glee.
"Yeah who would have thought." Crabbe added in his deep, slow voice.
"What are you talking about!? I demand to know what's going on!" Draco said trying to keep his voice down.
"Crabbe and Goyle imediately stopped laughing. Students in the class stopped whispering and stared at Draco.
"You- you mean you don't know?" Goyle asked. "But you must know. You wrote it!"
"Wrote what!?" Draco asked, a tinge of red from anger beginning to show on his face. When no one answered, Draco got even more upset.
"SOMEONE BETTER TELL ME RIGHT NOW!!" he shouted just as Professor McGonagal walked in.
"Mr. Malfoy! I would like to ask you to please keep your voice down in my class room!" she said. "Now please take a seat."
Draco was about to explode. What was everyone laughing at him for? He remained standing, and hissed at Goyle.
"Tell me."
"The- in the Entrance Hall there's, well there's this note, and-"
Draco didn't wait for him to finish. He walked out of class quickly, not heeding McGonagal who was yelling at him to come back. He went to the Entrance Hall, where there were still many students pointing at a piece of parchment hanging on the wall. Draco noticed that Potter, Granger, Weasley, and his sister there too. The Hall fell dead quiet as Draco approached. He pushed people out of his way, as he headed towards the parchment. As he approached it, he realized it was in his handwriting! Draco read:
My dearest Milicent, Never before in my life have I felt the way I do about you. I can't stop thinking about you. I see your beautiful brown eyes in my thoughts, and I want to gaze forever into them. I want to run my fingers through your long, thick, tangled hair. I want to hold you tight and never let go, I want to spend every night in your arms, I want to spend the rest of my life by your side. So I make this public announcement of my everlasting love for you, Milicent Bulstrode. Oh, your name flows off my tongue like sweet honey. I will love you forever. Please promise me you will do the same. Love With All My Heart, Draco Malfoy
Draco thought he might throw up. He knew every eye in the Hall was on him. Draco slowly turned around to face them, wearing an expression of fury on his face. But then he noticed who moved up to stand beside him: it was none other than Milicent Bulstrode.
"Oh Draco, I promise I will love you forever too!" Milicent said, while batting her eyelashes.
Draco turned to Milicent.
"I did NOT write that note! I do not like you Milicent." Draco said with venom dripping off his every word.
Apparently Milicent didn't notice.
"But Drakkie it looks like you wrote it, oh I'm so glad you finally came forward with your true feelings!"
At this point the previous silence was broken with hysterical laughter, mostly coming from Potter and his friends; Ginny was laughing the hardest. That's when Draco knew who had written it, but he turned back to Milicent.
"You better listen to me, all of you better listen." He said, although many more had joined in with the laughter. His words were barely heard over it. "I didn't write that! I think Milicent is one of the ugliest females I've ever laid eyes on!"
"What's that Malfoy? You think Milicent is the sexiest female you've ever laid eyes on!?" Ron called out.
He turned and glared at Ron. Draco would wring his sister's neck right in front of everyone, he would strangle her in front of her own brother! He moved towards Granger, where Ginny had been standing. But she wasn't there. Draco scanned the crowd, but didn't see her red hair anywhere. Students were still laughing at him, some so hard they were practically rolling on the ground. 'She's gone the little'- and Draco called Ginny some bad four and five-letter words under his breath. Draco shoved his way through the crowd and headed towards Gryfinddor Tower, where he knew Weasley would be headed. He took a secret shortcut Filch had showed him and waited in the shadows, right outside the Gryfinndor Portrait Hole. She had done it now.
****** 'That was great!' Ginny thought to herself, as she hurriedly made her way back to Gryffindor Tower. She had thoroughly enjoyed watching Malfoy's reaction when he saw her letter. 'He probably knew it was me though. I saw his eyes dart over to me after he read it.' That's why Ginny had left so quickly, she didn't want to give Malfoy a chance to hurt her. She would have to be extremely careful over the next few days.or weeks depending on how long it took Malfoy to forget about it. Ginny approached the Fat Lady and said the password, or at least part of it.
"Bertie Botts Evehmp fump aahh!!"
A hand clamped down tight around her mouth, and she felt someone very strong grab her around the waist and pull her through some kind of secret entrance she had never seen before. It was very dark and Ginny couldn't see a thing. Finally the person let go of her mouth and waist, although he or she grabbed her arm very tightly. Ginny surmised that they did this to keep her from running, which she very much wanted to do.
"Let go of me!" Ginny yelled. "Who are you?" But realization had finally dawned on her. Malfoy had used this passage to get to Gryffindor Tower before she had. The voice that spoke confirmed her theory.
"How many times do I have to tell you Weasel, not to mess with Malfoys? When are you going to get that through your thick head?" Malfoy said with a hard, icy voice. "Lumos." He muttered.
With the light of his wand, Ginny saw Malfoy very clearly now. He had a look of pure fury on his otherwise flawless face. Ginny wondered if anyone had ever made him as angry as she had.
"I really get to you don't I Malfoy?" Ginny asked with a touch of delight in her voice. "Admit it. There's just something about me that just annoys the heck out of you. Am I right?"
Draco chose to ignore her. She was not going to get him to admit it.
"Look Ginny, I'm tired of all this just let's say we're even okay?" Draco said exhaustedly.
Ginny stared at him with disbelief. Had he just used her first name?
"What?" Draco asked with much annoyance, when he saw her staring at him like that.
"You just used my first name!" Ginny said. She would use that against him. "I think you like me! You feel something for m-"
"Don't be ridiculous!" Draco yelled at her. "It just- just slipped." Well that was the truth. Draco never called Potter or any of his friends by their first names. It was just to, well to formal, or polite. And never in his life would Draco want to be polite to anyone that had anything to do with Potter.
Ginny had hoped that he would get embarrassed at her comment and just let her go, but it hadn't worked. If anything, his grip on her arm got harder. Ginny definitely didn't want to go through any more pain that Malfoy decided to dish out, so she would just agree with him.
"Okay then, I'll call it even. Draco."
Ginny decided she'd throw that in just to aggravate him, and it worked. Malfoy roughly pulled her even closer to him and hissed in her face.
"I don't want you to ever talk to me again. I don't even want to ever see your face again. Understood?"
"Sure Drakkie." Ginny found so much pleasure in annoying him. She looked up into his face and caught his eye.
"I swear if you don't stop that-" he said but stopped short.
They were so close. Close enough that Draco could see every detail of her perfect face. 'Well I night as well take advantage of it.' Draco thought to himself. Her face seemed to be moving closer to his anyway. Almost as if she wanted him to kiss her. Draco pulled Ginny to him tightly, and placed his mouth on hers. She didn't try to push him away, which slightly surprised him. She only gasped, a detail he noticed with much satisfaction. He wrapped his arms around her waist, and she melted into him. Draco inwardly smirked. He knew she loved it. They kissed for a few minutes, until Ginny jumped. She made an angry noise and pushed him away from her. She seemed to have finally realized what she was doing.
"You-you jerk! How dare you take advantage of me like that!" Ginny shouted at him.
"Oh lay off." He replied. "You loved every minute of it."
"What!? I did not enjoy that!" 'That was a lie' she thought. "You were forcing me too!" Ginny said uncertainly. "I didn't have time to defend myself!"
"Weasley, we both know that you are perfectly well of defending yourself. Don't think I haven't forgotten my bloody lip!" Draco said. "Why won't you just admit that you liked it?"
"I DIDN'T LIKE IT!!" Ginny screamed. There was absolutely no way she could have liked any physical contact with Malfoy. 'I did not like it. I did not like it. I did not like it.' She just had to keep telling herself that.
"Sure, whatever." Draco said sarcastically.
"Like you said earlier, I don't ever want to see you again. Don't ever come near me!" Ginny said while taking out her wand. She pointed it at him.
"Keep away!" She shouted as she backed away towards the entrance to the passageway.
Malfoy just stood there smiling an evil, mischievous grin. Ginny pushed desperately on the statue that blocked the entrance, but it wouldn't budge. How does it open!? Ginny was starting to freak out. She was once again trapped. Malfoy move towards her, still grinning. For one fleeting second Ginny thought he was going to grab her again, but he moved past her towards the statue.
"Let me be of assistance." Malfoy said. He pulled out his wand. Ginny extended her wand arm further.
"Don't try anything funny Malfoy, I still have my wand on you." She said.
Malfoy laughed.
"I'm terribly scared now!" He said with no conviction in his voice.
Ginny wanted to blow him to pieces right there, but she held her temper and watched as Malfoy prodded the statue with his wand. It sprang to life and jumped aside. Malfoy stood back.
"Bye love." He said sweetly.
Ginny stepped hard on his foot as she made her way out of the passage.