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Chapter 13: Presents and Plans

Ginny walked outside the store with a bag full of clothes. She bought a blue sapphire dress for her mother, a black briefcase for her father, a shirt and jeans for Hermione, shoes for Harry and Ron, and was on her way to Honeydukes to get some things for Fred, George, Bill, and Charlie. She'd of course get Draco something, but not while he was in Hogsmeade with her.

"Hey! Sorry it took so long!" Ginny said.

"It's ok... where do you want to go now?" Draco asked.

"I was thinking Honeydukes, I still have to get something for my brothers."

"Alright, Honeydukes it is!"

Ginny and Draco walked into the shop and looked around at all the different things. After about 10 minutes, Ginny walked out with three bags full of trick sweets, chocolate frogs, bertie bott's every flavored jelly beans, pumpkin pastries, cake cauldrons, and some other different types of sweets.

"Where do you want to go now?" Ginny asked.

"Ummm, I dont know. Do you want to go back to Hogwarts now?" he asked.

"Sure, it's almost time for dinner anyway."

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"What were you guys doing in Hogsmeade?" Ginny asked Ron, Harry, and Hermione.

"We wanted to get some butter beer, but when we saw you sucking face with Malfoy, we lost our appetites," said Ron shuddering at the memory of Malfoy and his sister kissing each other.

"YOU WHAT?!" Colin screamed.

"Draco and I were in the Three Broomsticks drinking some butter beer, and we kissed."

"YOU WHAT?!" Colin screamed again in disbelief.

"It's exactly as it sounds, Colin... don't make such a big deal about it. Draco is my boyfriend, and I can kiss him if I want to kiss him, and you and no one else can change how I feel about it, so don't even bother," Ginny said cooly.

"No one tells me anything!" Colin said in a bit of a disappointed voice.

"There's a reason," Ginny said and smirked.

Colin laughed, as did Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

"What's so funny?" Snape snapped at the laughing Gryffindors.

They immediately stopped laughing and said, "Nothing, Professor."

Snape walked away, and they burst out laughing again.

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About fifteen minutes later, a large eagle swooped down and sat in the open seat next to Ginny.

"Who's eagle is that?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know," Ginny replied while carefully taking the piece of parchment off the eagle's leg.

She opened the piece of parchment, and read the contents to herself:

'Ginny-

I had a great time in Hogsmeade today with you. Maybe we can pick up where we left off at the Three Broomsticks earlier today. How about it? Meet me in my room at 8:00 PM tommorow night on Christmas.

I've got a surprise for you.

Draco.'

Ginny smiled and looked toward the Slytherin table. She met Draco's eyes, and she grinned. He smirked and then gave her a wink. He gave her a questioning look, and she nodded her head, and turned back to her friends.

"So... who was it from?" Colin asked.

"Draco," she replied, and then smiled.

"MALFOY?!" Ron screamed in a bitter tone.

"Yes, it was from Draco," she said. "Don't call him Malfoy."

"Why not?" he asked, not really caring what his sister had demanded of him. "I'll call him Malfoy whether you like it or not."

"Don't get smart with me, Weasley," Ginny replied.

"Funny, Ginny, real funny," Ron said sarcastically.

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Ginny went up to her common room after dinner. She looked at the clock, it was 7:00 PM.

'I'll have an hour or two until people get suspicious or realize I'm missing,' Ginny thought to herself.

She took out her wand and whispered the spell to turn herself invisible. She looked in the mirror to make sure that the spell worked, and it had.

Ginny grabbed her purse, made sure she had enough money, and headed out of the sixth year girl's dormitories, and out of the Gryffindor common room.

She was making her way toward the secret passage that led to Hogsmeade. Harry had discovered it in his third year, and had told her about it.

Ginny reached the gargoyle guard about five minutes later and said the password, "dissendium," causing the gargoyle to spring to life, and move aside so that Ginny could get through the passage way.

She made her way throught the tunnel until she reached a door. She opened it, and was in a storage room. She walked up the stairs, and slipped into Honeydukes, unnoticed.

Ginny went behind a shelf, and whispered the counter curse. She immediately turned back into her normal self. She walked back around the shelf and out the door into the streets of Hogsmeade.

She made her way towards a store that sold all kinds of things to do with dragons and snakes. She walked inside, and looked around.

Ginny spotted something in the corner. She walked over to it, looked it over, and whispered to herself, 'this is perfect.'

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