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Ron was just walking down the hall when he spotted Ginny going the opposite way from the Gryffindor common room. "Hey, Ginny!" he called out. She turned around. She looked nervous. "Where're you going? The common room's that way."

"Oh... just to the library," she said.

"Oh, I'll go with you-"

"No! I mean... that's okay. I'll be fine. And besides, I need to get some work done. So I'll see you later, alright?"

"Fine," he said, his shoulders slumped a little, and he walked off. He continued walking until he saw something in the distance... it was a girl running. He couldn't tell who it was because she was moving too fast, but he decided to run after her. "Hey! Wait!" he said. After he'd been running a while, he said, yet again, "Wait!" He was panting by now. She slowly came to a stop and spun around.

"What do you want?"

"Why were you running?"

"Oh... well I was trying to get away from Malgarcon... he shouldn't be too far behind. I'd better keep going. I don't want him to find me." She began running again at a slower pace than before. He followed her.

"Is he mad at you for some reason?" he asked.

"Actually... I sort of played a little prank on him, and he got upset for some reason... I'm not exactly sure why, but all I know is he's looking for me and I'm not safe anywhere I go."

"What house are you from?"

"Slytherin."

"Oh."

"Why? What house are you from?"

"Gryffindor."

"Ah, I see... our houses don't exactly get along now, do we?" she said, stopping. He stopped as well. "I'm Daisy by the way. I just moved here from America before this school year."

"I'm Ron... Ron Weasley. It's nice to meet you."

"And you. I must say, your school is much better than my old one. I'm so glad we moved here." She smiled.

Ron smiled, too. "I'm glad you moved here, too."

"Well, well, well, look who we have here... if it isn't Daisy... I've been looking for you," Malgarcon said, and the two spun around.

"Leave me alone, already!" Daisy said, annoyed.

"Why? It's really no bother to me... I could just as well stay here and talk to you all day."

"Why don't you leave," Ron suggested, stepping in front of Daisy, and facing Malgarcon.

"Why if it isn't poor Weasley..." Malgarcon said... then, realizing what he'd said, began laughing hysterically.

Ron stepped forwards and pointed his wand at Malgarcon. "Petrificus Totalus," he said, and suddenly Malgarcon's arms and legs snapped together, and he fell backwards on the cold castle floor, speechless and unable to move. Ron looked down at him satisfied, and then looked up at Daisy. "Come on, let's go before someone comes around and we get in trouble." They dashed down the corridor and out of sight before anyone else had time to get there. Ron didn't feel the least bit sorry about leaving him there, either. He was practically as bad as Malfoy! Wait! No, he wasn't... he was worse than Malfoy. And Ron never thought he'd meet anyone worse than Malfoy in his life at Hogwarts.

Later that night, he lay in his bed thinking about her. "Daisy," he said. "Daisy... what is her last name anyway?" he wondered out loud.

"Who's Daisy?" Harry asked.

Ron jumped a little, not knowing that anyone else in their dormitory was awake. He pulled back the fabric hanging from his bed posts, so he could face Harry, and saw Harry's face there, looking at him. "You know that new student from America... well, I met her earlier this day."

"But isn't she in Slytherin?" Harry asked, alarmed.

"Yeah."

"Ron... you don't seriously... you don't like her, do you?"

"I dunno... I don't really know her that well... but she was really nice before. She's not all that bad to look at, either," Ron said.

"Well... I guess I'm happy for you... if you two get together, I mean. You really need to find someone, and I support your decision, if that's the one you make."

"What about you?"

"What do you mean?"

"You said I really need to find someone... you don't have a girlfriend, either."

"True."

"You should be more outgoing."

"Look who's talking."

Both boys laughed at their not-so-smart conversation, and soon fell asleep... Ron, all the while, still thinking of the girl he'd met earlier, and wanting it to be the next day so he could see her again.

~*~*~*~*~*~

"I think the potion's complete," Hermione said, as she stirred the mixture in the cauldron. She looked up at Ginny, then took a small glass bottle and began pouring some of the potion inside. She then stuck in the cork, and handing it to Ginny. "Here... tomorrow at breakfast be sure to get there early, and slip some of this into Harry's goblet. Don't worry about it being in the wrong person's drink... I'll sit right beside it to watch, and make sure Harry sits there. Then you can sit wherever, and it'll work. Just don't go blabbing anything before you know for certain if it worked."

"Okay... thanks Hermione," Ginny said, hugging her friend and getting up to leave.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Hermione arrived in the great hall for breakfast a little early, but just after Ginny got there. She watched as her friend emptied the bottle's contents into Harry's drink, and sat down across from his plate. She saw Hermione coming, and smiled faintly. "I did it, " she whispered.

"I know," Hermione said, sitting down.

Not too much later Harry and Ron came in, and she didn't even realize that until they had both sat down, and began eating. She looked up, and saw Ron sitting on her left, just about to take a sip of his pumpkin juice, when she snatched it away from him. "You can't drink that," she said.

"Why not?!" he demanded.

"Because I said so," she said, dumping it out behind her on the floor, and watching as it got absorbed. Not wanting to give it to Harry now, and have Ron say something, she just waited until it filled back up with pumpkin juice and handed it to Ron. "Here you go... it's okay now," she said. Ron looked at her strangely, but drank anyway. Hermione felt bad about what she did, but luckily Ginny didn't notice anything, because she had been turned away at the time.

So the next day, Hermione took some of the leftover potion and put it in Harry's goblet, once again, and this time watched when they entered. "Sit over here, Harry," she said, motioning for him to sit beside her where the drink was. Ron sat on her other side. Before Ron drank his pumpkin juice today, he asked, "Can I drink it this time?"

"What? Oh, of course!" she said, acting like he was going crazy, and looking at him weird today.

~*~*~*~*~*~

"I don't know if the potion works... Harry hasn't said anything yet," Ginny confided in Hermione later that day.

"Oh, I'm sure it worked... just give it time. It shouldn't be too much longer."

~*~*~*~*~*~

"Hermione! I have to tell you something!" Ginny exclaimed, rushing into Hermione's room. "Guess what just happened?"

"What?"

"Harry kissed me!" Ginny squealed.

Hermione's eyes widened. "Seriously?"

"Yes!"

"When?"

"Well, we were alone in the common room and he came over to where I was sitting and said 'I want to tell you something...' and then he paused for a second, and then he just kissed me, and said 'Will you go out with me?'"

"Oh my gosh! I'm so happy for you!" Hermione said. "That's wonderful!" She hugged her friend, and they went on talking about it until it was very late and Ginny had to leave.

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