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"Miss Weasely. You are late, five points from Gryffindor."
"Professor, the bell hasn't rung yet," Alanna said in her friends defense.
"Ten points."
Alanna kept her mouth shut and Ginny mouthed a thanks while she was sitting down. She got out her quill, parchment, and text. Then she saw that no one else had anything more than a quill. Ugh, we have a test today she thought, putting away her un-needed things. I didn't study nearly enough either. Why not? Because of those stupid notes.
"As most of you remembered, we are having a test today. Your test will be on the uses and dangers of using Polyjuice Potion. You have all studied this potion and should know the ingredients and how to mix it. You may begin once I pass out all of the tests."
Ginny was nervous, and so, it seemed, were a lot of other students. They had gone over the potion, but most of them didn't pay attention to Snape droning on about what could happen if you heated the potion to higher than one hundred degrees Celsius. She saw Alanna biting the tip of her quill the way she always did when she didn't know the answer or didn't know anything about the subject of the test. Her quills from potions were usually in pretty bad shape.
Looking down at the page in front of her, Ginny saw that she would only have trouble with the ingredients part. Her brother had told her all about his adventure in his second year when he turned into Crabbe for half an hour. He had also told her that it only worked for human transformations because Hermione got turned into a very strange version of cat woman. That was two of the five questions answered. She stared at her paper.
How long does the Polyjuice Potion take to brew?
Ron had told her that they had to wait a month. This isn't so hard after all she thought. She had a small amount of trouble with the ingredients, but she wracked her brain until she remembered. Finally everyone was done with the test.
"Class is dismissed. If I hear that any of you took this time to cause trouble, I will take fifty points from your house."
Everyone shuffled out of the room, nervous that the professor would find another reason to take points away. Ginny looked at her wristwatch. The class didn't actually end until ten minutes from now. She didn't want Snape to see her lingering outside of his class, but if she found a reason to be there. She decided to catch up with Alanna and explain the situation. She figured that if she didn't come up with anything better, she could always drop her bag and pretend to be picking it up for ten minutes. That was if there wasn't anyone or a note waiting at the statue for her.
"Alanna, wait!"
Alanna turned her head toward Ginny's voice and stopped as she saw her friend running toward her. "Where's the fire?"
"I've got a problem."
"Ok, what is it?"
Ginny just showed her the note that she got during lunch. "Oh, so what, you need to have an excuse to be here until then?"
"Yeah, unless there is something already there. We should probably check."
"Probably, c'mon, let's check."
They went to the statue and, luckily, there was already a note floating there. It was hidden behind the statue almost so unless you were looking for it, you wouldn't notice. It had probably been enchanted to only let Ginny grab it as well as hiding it. Ginny reached out to look at it and plucked it out of it's floating position. She read it with Alanna trying to look over her shoulder.
Ginny dear, I am so glad you are reading this I realize that you must be getting impatient, unable to know who I am I hope that you can wait a while longer I have a consolation for you You can write back to me Put your notes, if you write any, in the statue of Uric the Oddball's back You can do this by tapping it and saying the password swan stone Please write me my love Love Your Secret Admirer
"Ooh, Ginny. Are you going to write to him?"
"Of course I am. I'm going to tell him that he should get a life and if he really 'loves' me like he says, he should be a man and own up to it. If he can't tell me who he is, then he obviously doesn't like me as much as he seems to think."
"Harsh, but you can ruin your almost love life anyway you want."
"What makes you say that?"
"Well, if you lay into him like that, he'll see your bad side before he gets to know you're good side. Anyway, I think it's kind of romantic the way he's doing this."
"I don't. I think it's cowardly. He's a scared little baby who is afraid of rejection."
"And you wonder why you can't keep a boyfriend," Alanna said jokingly, "C'mon, let's go to Transfiguration. Malfoy is in our class, you can ask about your necklace."
"Yeah, sure," she said. She didn't really want to ask him about anything. She wanted her necklace back, but didn't want to draw attention to the fact that she had seen him the night before. He had said that if she told anyone he would kill her. Surely bringing it up in class would cause the same reaction.
(**( "Today class, we will be studying animagi. I know that you have all studied them, but today we will be looking more into what it takes to become one. We will be studying this only, you are by no means to try any of the spells you will be looking at."
"This should be interesting," Alanna said to Ginny. Everyone had started to talk to people around them. McGonagall waited a minute then gave them the instructions. They were to partner up and look at some of the books Professor McGonagall had gotten from the library. Ginny partnered with Alanna like always, but she took a moment to go talk to Malfoy.
"What do you want Weasel?"
"I want my necklace back."
"Really, and what makes you think I have it?"
She didn't want to bring it up in front of everyone so she simply said, "Peeves." Luckily, he understood.
"Well, I don't think I have it. If I see it, I'll let you know."
"If you have that necklace and aren't giving it back to me, I'll make you pay."
"Are you threatening me?" he said, moving closer to her and looking down. She fought the urge to back down. She had started this and she was going to finish it.
"My, my, aren't we jumpy today. Are you scared of me Malfoy? I wouldn't think you would take the threat of a sixth year girl so seriously. Maybe you're just losing your touch. Who knows?"
"You better watch what you say to me, Weasel. It might come back to bite you in the ass."
"Yes well, we all know how much you like to look at my ass so you better hope nothing bites it."
Malfoy just sat there gaping. This was the last thing he expected to hear from Ginny Weasely. She was supposed to be shy and quiet. The worst thing about her last cutting remark was that it was true, she had a rather nice ass from his point-of-view. The rest of the class that had heard their conversation was surprised at first, but someone burst out laughing, making everyone doing the same. The students on the other side of the room looked over, trying to find what was so funny. Most got confused and gave up, but Alanna knew that Ginny had said something to Malfoy and wanted to know what.
"What did you say??"
"I just told him the truth, I can't help it if everyone else thought it was funny."
"No, really, what did you say?"
"I told you, the truth. I won't say anymore than that, you can find out at dinner."
"Spoil sport. C'mon, let's get some of this research done."
"'Kay, I want to get this done so I can think of an appropriate letter to write to you-know-who."
"Ginny! Don't call him you-know-who. People'll think your talking about, well, you-know-who."
"Guess you're right. What should I say then?"
"I don't know, how about LB?"
"LB?"
"Yeah, short for lover-boy."
"Oh, sure, why not?"
The girls did their research and wrote a few notes. They were relieved when Professor McGonagall told them they would have the next couple classes to work on their reports, which were to be only one roll of parchment. Working together, that would be easy to accomplish.
"Good, I'll have time to write a letter tonight. You have to help me," Ginny said to Alanna as they were walking to Gryffindor tower to put their things away and go to dinner.
"Don't worry, I will."
"What 'cha talkin' about?" said a very handsome boy behind the girls.
They turned, startled at the interruption. "Oh, nothing Steve," Alanna told Steven Wood the fantastic Quidditch player. All the fifth and sixth year girls thought that he was cute, but he didn't talk about anything but Quidditch. Most of the time, he didn't notice that he never changed topics. He was nice, but boring unless you loved Quidditch as much as he did.
"So, ready for the Quidditch game this Saturday? I want both of our star chasers to be in tip top shape for our game against Slytherin," he said as he put came in between the two girls and put his arms around each of them. He was very flirtatious at times, but just because Steven Wood flirted with you did not mean he liked you. He was in love with Padma Patil, seventh year Ravenclaw, Parvati's twin sister.
"I think we're all doing good," said Ginny, squirming the tiniest bit under his arm, "the whole team is. Especially you and Harry."
"What are you talking about? I need some definite work on blocking the lower hoop, you girls, on the other hand, have been scoring against every keeper we've been up against. Well, I gotta go. See ya later," he said, taking his arms off of each of their shoulders.
"See you Steve," Ginny called out at his back. He turned and winked at her. Ginny bit her lip, but tried to smile back. Alanna noticed her expression.
"What's wrong Gin'?"
"Huh? Nothing. I was just thinking."
"What about?"
"Stuff."
"Okay, let's get to dinner. I'm starving."
"Yeah."
"'Sides, I want to know what you said to Malfoy and I know that Colin will be acting it out for everyone at the table."
"I hope not."
They dropped their stuff off in the dorm and went down to dinner. They squeezed in between Harry and Dean Thomas. Ginny sat next to Dean and let Alanna take the seat next to Harry.
"Is it true? What you said to Malfoy?" Dean asked Ginny as soon as she sat down and started to dish up her plate.
"Yeah, is it? Colin is telling everyone about it and we don't know whether to believe him or not," Harry said.
"I still want to know what she said," Alanna said, "she wouldn't tell me earlier when I missed it and everyone in Transfiguration started laughing."
"I'll tell you if it's true if I know what you think I said," Ginny finally said when she could get a word in.
"Colin said that you asked Malfoy to give you back your necklace and he said that he didn't have it. Then you insulted him some how or another. He said that you should watch what you said because it might come back and bite you in ass. Then, according to Colin, you told him that you knew how much he loved looking at your ass so he should hope that nothing bit it," Dean explained.
"You said that!?" Alanna asked, surprised.
"That sounds pretty accurate," Ginny replied calmly. The three others started laughing.
"You mean," said Dean through his laughs, "that you actually said that to him? Really?"
"Yes," Ginny said staring down at her potatoes trying to keep a straight face. After a few moments, she couldn't stand it anymore and cracked up herself. "It is rather funny, isn't it?"
"Yeah, shy little Ginny Weasely getting the last word over Draco Malfoy. Hilarious really," said a drawling voice behind them. Everyone stopped laughing and Ginny froze.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry snapped.
"I wanted to talk to Virginia." Ginny bristled at the use of her whole name. Only Tom Riddle had ever called her Virginia.
"My name, is Ginny," she said, "and I don't want to talk to you unless you have my necklace."
"I'm hurt, why would you be so mean?"
"Because, you have been nothing but mean and nasty to me since I met you in Flourish and Blotts. This year more so."
"Fine. I did have something to tell you, but I seem to have mysteriously forgot," he walked back to his table and waved at her. She saw a glint of gold at his wrist. He's got my necklace! she thought. He better give it back.
"Miss Weasely. You are late, five points from Gryffindor."
"Professor, the bell hasn't rung yet," Alanna said in her friends defense.
"Ten points."
Alanna kept her mouth shut and Ginny mouthed a thanks while she was sitting down. She got out her quill, parchment, and text. Then she saw that no one else had anything more than a quill. Ugh, we have a test today she thought, putting away her un-needed things. I didn't study nearly enough either. Why not? Because of those stupid notes.
"As most of you remembered, we are having a test today. Your test will be on the uses and dangers of using Polyjuice Potion. You have all studied this potion and should know the ingredients and how to mix it. You may begin once I pass out all of the tests."
Ginny was nervous, and so, it seemed, were a lot of other students. They had gone over the potion, but most of them didn't pay attention to Snape droning on about what could happen if you heated the potion to higher than one hundred degrees Celsius. She saw Alanna biting the tip of her quill the way she always did when she didn't know the answer or didn't know anything about the subject of the test. Her quills from potions were usually in pretty bad shape.
Looking down at the page in front of her, Ginny saw that she would only have trouble with the ingredients part. Her brother had told her all about his adventure in his second year when he turned into Crabbe for half an hour. He had also told her that it only worked for human transformations because Hermione got turned into a very strange version of cat woman. That was two of the five questions answered. She stared at her paper.
How long does the Polyjuice Potion take to brew?
Ron had told her that they had to wait a month. This isn't so hard after all she thought. She had a small amount of trouble with the ingredients, but she wracked her brain until she remembered. Finally everyone was done with the test.
"Class is dismissed. If I hear that any of you took this time to cause trouble, I will take fifty points from your house."
Everyone shuffled out of the room, nervous that the professor would find another reason to take points away. Ginny looked at her wristwatch. The class didn't actually end until ten minutes from now. She didn't want Snape to see her lingering outside of his class, but if she found a reason to be there. She decided to catch up with Alanna and explain the situation. She figured that if she didn't come up with anything better, she could always drop her bag and pretend to be picking it up for ten minutes. That was if there wasn't anyone or a note waiting at the statue for her.
"Alanna, wait!"
Alanna turned her head toward Ginny's voice and stopped as she saw her friend running toward her. "Where's the fire?"
"I've got a problem."
"Ok, what is it?"
Ginny just showed her the note that she got during lunch. "Oh, so what, you need to have an excuse to be here until then?"
"Yeah, unless there is something already there. We should probably check."
"Probably, c'mon, let's check."
They went to the statue and, luckily, there was already a note floating there. It was hidden behind the statue almost so unless you were looking for it, you wouldn't notice. It had probably been enchanted to only let Ginny grab it as well as hiding it. Ginny reached out to look at it and plucked it out of it's floating position. She read it with Alanna trying to look over her shoulder.
Ginny dear, I am so glad you are reading this I realize that you must be getting impatient, unable to know who I am I hope that you can wait a while longer I have a consolation for you You can write back to me Put your notes, if you write any, in the statue of Uric the Oddball's back You can do this by tapping it and saying the password swan stone Please write me my love Love Your Secret Admirer
"Ooh, Ginny. Are you going to write to him?"
"Of course I am. I'm going to tell him that he should get a life and if he really 'loves' me like he says, he should be a man and own up to it. If he can't tell me who he is, then he obviously doesn't like me as much as he seems to think."
"Harsh, but you can ruin your almost love life anyway you want."
"What makes you say that?"
"Well, if you lay into him like that, he'll see your bad side before he gets to know you're good side. Anyway, I think it's kind of romantic the way he's doing this."
"I don't. I think it's cowardly. He's a scared little baby who is afraid of rejection."
"And you wonder why you can't keep a boyfriend," Alanna said jokingly, "C'mon, let's go to Transfiguration. Malfoy is in our class, you can ask about your necklace."
"Yeah, sure," she said. She didn't really want to ask him about anything. She wanted her necklace back, but didn't want to draw attention to the fact that she had seen him the night before. He had said that if she told anyone he would kill her. Surely bringing it up in class would cause the same reaction.
(**( "Today class, we will be studying animagi. I know that you have all studied them, but today we will be looking more into what it takes to become one. We will be studying this only, you are by no means to try any of the spells you will be looking at."
"This should be interesting," Alanna said to Ginny. Everyone had started to talk to people around them. McGonagall waited a minute then gave them the instructions. They were to partner up and look at some of the books Professor McGonagall had gotten from the library. Ginny partnered with Alanna like always, but she took a moment to go talk to Malfoy.
"What do you want Weasel?"
"I want my necklace back."
"Really, and what makes you think I have it?"
She didn't want to bring it up in front of everyone so she simply said, "Peeves." Luckily, he understood.
"Well, I don't think I have it. If I see it, I'll let you know."
"If you have that necklace and aren't giving it back to me, I'll make you pay."
"Are you threatening me?" he said, moving closer to her and looking down. She fought the urge to back down. She had started this and she was going to finish it.
"My, my, aren't we jumpy today. Are you scared of me Malfoy? I wouldn't think you would take the threat of a sixth year girl so seriously. Maybe you're just losing your touch. Who knows?"
"You better watch what you say to me, Weasel. It might come back to bite you in the ass."
"Yes well, we all know how much you like to look at my ass so you better hope nothing bites it."
Malfoy just sat there gaping. This was the last thing he expected to hear from Ginny Weasely. She was supposed to be shy and quiet. The worst thing about her last cutting remark was that it was true, she had a rather nice ass from his point-of-view. The rest of the class that had heard their conversation was surprised at first, but someone burst out laughing, making everyone doing the same. The students on the other side of the room looked over, trying to find what was so funny. Most got confused and gave up, but Alanna knew that Ginny had said something to Malfoy and wanted to know what.
"What did you say??"
"I just told him the truth, I can't help it if everyone else thought it was funny."
"No, really, what did you say?"
"I told you, the truth. I won't say anymore than that, you can find out at dinner."
"Spoil sport. C'mon, let's get some of this research done."
"'Kay, I want to get this done so I can think of an appropriate letter to write to you-know-who."
"Ginny! Don't call him you-know-who. People'll think your talking about, well, you-know-who."
"Guess you're right. What should I say then?"
"I don't know, how about LB?"
"LB?"
"Yeah, short for lover-boy."
"Oh, sure, why not?"
The girls did their research and wrote a few notes. They were relieved when Professor McGonagall told them they would have the next couple classes to work on their reports, which were to be only one roll of parchment. Working together, that would be easy to accomplish.
"Good, I'll have time to write a letter tonight. You have to help me," Ginny said to Alanna as they were walking to Gryffindor tower to put their things away and go to dinner.
"Don't worry, I will."
"What 'cha talkin' about?" said a very handsome boy behind the girls.
They turned, startled at the interruption. "Oh, nothing Steve," Alanna told Steven Wood the fantastic Quidditch player. All the fifth and sixth year girls thought that he was cute, but he didn't talk about anything but Quidditch. Most of the time, he didn't notice that he never changed topics. He was nice, but boring unless you loved Quidditch as much as he did.
"So, ready for the Quidditch game this Saturday? I want both of our star chasers to be in tip top shape for our game against Slytherin," he said as he put came in between the two girls and put his arms around each of them. He was very flirtatious at times, but just because Steven Wood flirted with you did not mean he liked you. He was in love with Padma Patil, seventh year Ravenclaw, Parvati's twin sister.
"I think we're all doing good," said Ginny, squirming the tiniest bit under his arm, "the whole team is. Especially you and Harry."
"What are you talking about? I need some definite work on blocking the lower hoop, you girls, on the other hand, have been scoring against every keeper we've been up against. Well, I gotta go. See ya later," he said, taking his arms off of each of their shoulders.
"See you Steve," Ginny called out at his back. He turned and winked at her. Ginny bit her lip, but tried to smile back. Alanna noticed her expression.
"What's wrong Gin'?"
"Huh? Nothing. I was just thinking."
"What about?"
"Stuff."
"Okay, let's get to dinner. I'm starving."
"Yeah."
"'Sides, I want to know what you said to Malfoy and I know that Colin will be acting it out for everyone at the table."
"I hope not."
They dropped their stuff off in the dorm and went down to dinner. They squeezed in between Harry and Dean Thomas. Ginny sat next to Dean and let Alanna take the seat next to Harry.
"Is it true? What you said to Malfoy?" Dean asked Ginny as soon as she sat down and started to dish up her plate.
"Yeah, is it? Colin is telling everyone about it and we don't know whether to believe him or not," Harry said.
"I still want to know what she said," Alanna said, "she wouldn't tell me earlier when I missed it and everyone in Transfiguration started laughing."
"I'll tell you if it's true if I know what you think I said," Ginny finally said when she could get a word in.
"Colin said that you asked Malfoy to give you back your necklace and he said that he didn't have it. Then you insulted him some how or another. He said that you should watch what you said because it might come back and bite you in ass. Then, according to Colin, you told him that you knew how much he loved looking at your ass so he should hope that nothing bit it," Dean explained.
"You said that!?" Alanna asked, surprised.
"That sounds pretty accurate," Ginny replied calmly. The three others started laughing.
"You mean," said Dean through his laughs, "that you actually said that to him? Really?"
"Yes," Ginny said staring down at her potatoes trying to keep a straight face. After a few moments, she couldn't stand it anymore and cracked up herself. "It is rather funny, isn't it?"
"Yeah, shy little Ginny Weasely getting the last word over Draco Malfoy. Hilarious really," said a drawling voice behind them. Everyone stopped laughing and Ginny froze.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry snapped.
"I wanted to talk to Virginia." Ginny bristled at the use of her whole name. Only Tom Riddle had ever called her Virginia.
"My name, is Ginny," she said, "and I don't want to talk to you unless you have my necklace."
"I'm hurt, why would you be so mean?"
"Because, you have been nothing but mean and nasty to me since I met you in Flourish and Blotts. This year more so."
"Fine. I did have something to tell you, but I seem to have mysteriously forgot," he walked back to his table and waved at her. She saw a glint of gold at his wrist. He's got my necklace! she thought. He better give it back.