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Mixed Company

Chapter Four Poor Little Innocence

"I'll blame anything that happens to her on you, Potter!" Ron turned on his heel and left. Harry gave one more glance down Knockturn Alley. She would only run further if she knew that Harry was behind her. He put his hands in his pockets and walked off.

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Ginny followed closely behind Draco as he led her down a series of tunnels and passageways. *I am never going to find my way out of here!* she thought frantically. *But then again, where else would I want to go?* Ginny smiled slyly. *This'll show them! I'm not poor little innocent Ginny Weasley anymore!*

"What are you smiling at, Weasley?" Draco smirked. *This girl has no idea what she's getting herself into.*

"Why don't you call me Virginia instead of Weasley, Draco?" Ginny suggested. Draco looked a bit surprised but of course, didn't show it.

"Virginia? Not Ginny?" he asked.

"I'm not _Ginny_ anymore, Draco," she grinned. "I'm a different person from now on."

"Right you are, Wea--, Virginia. Right you are." They made a sudden left and then an immediate right. "You still have yet to answer my question. Why were you smiling, Virginia?" The sly smile returned to the young girls face.

"Oh, I was just thinking about how things are going to be different. I won't be the same person. I won't be who ever one thinks I am. Poor little innocent Ginny." Innocent... a title she had never grown to like. Never.

"Poor, yes. Little, yes. But innocent?" Draco scoffed. "You were a girl meant to be in Slytherin, Virginia. I could see that right away. If you weren't a Weasley, that where you'd've gone!" Ginny rolled her eyes.

"Thanks for the compliment, Draco, but I hardly think I'm Slytherin material." Another left into an even darker corridor.

"No," he agreed. "Not with that attitude. And not after spending seven blasted years in ... Gryffindor!" he spat the word out like a bad taste in his mouth.

"Anyway," Ginny decided it was time to change the subject. No need to be bickering about Hogwarts houses. That time had long since passed. "Where are we headed to anyway?" Draco winked at her.

"You'll find out soon enough, sweet. As for now, be contented to follow me, and not get lost." As they took yet another turn and made their way down a long corridor, Ginny reached forward and grabbed his hand. Draco squeezed it, and kept going.

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"You did WHAT?"

"Well, erm.. You see, Hermio--"

"And that's not the worst of it!" Ron cut Harry off and told Hermione all about what they had seen.

"She's with WHO?" Hermione and Ginny had best friends for years and Hermione just couldn't believe what the boys had let her get into. "Malfoy?" she spat. "You let her go off with MALFOY!"

"Hermione, listen," Harry began.

"I don't want to hear another word from you, Mr. Potter." Hermione said coldly (sounding rather like an angry Professor McGonagall.) "You cheated on my best friend! You're best friends little sister! And then you let her go off with Malfoy!" Hermione pushed her chair back from the Weasley family kitchen table. "Down Knockturn Alley!" She shook her head. "No, I daresay I've heard enough. Harry, Ron, you two have done some really stupid things over the years, but I didn't figure you for this."

Hermione stood up and walked out into the living room. Ron jumped up from the table and ran after her.

"Hermione, love." he began. He started to put his arms around her. "You aren't angry wi--"

"Yes, Ron," she glared. "I am angry with you, _love_," she said (rather sarcastically). She shook his hands off of her. "How could you not follow Ginny! Who knows where she's gotten to by now!" She threw her hands up in the air in exasperation. "You know how Malfoy is! He's probably luring her to be a .a victim. in one of his fathers Death Revels!"

Ron paled considerably. He hadn't thought about that. Then again, Ron didn't take the time to think very much did he?

"I don't know about you, Ronald Weasley." Hermione headed for the door and saw Harry standing there awkwardly. "or about you Mr. Potter," she opened the hall closet and took out her coat. "But I am going to go try and find her!" She threw on her coat and opened the door. Ron paled even more. It made his freckles stand out quite brightly when this happened.

"No, Hermione!" She wasn't listening. "Hermione!" She walked out the door. Ron grabbed he coat. "Get you things, Potter. You're coming, too." He growled and followed her out.

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