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Chapter 23: Christmas Night

Draco and Ginny got up and left the Great Hall together, hand in hand.

"I can't even tell you how scared I was tonight when your father almost left without drinking the potion! I must have turned white with fear!" Ginny said as they walked out of the Great Hall and through the doors.

"Yeah, I was a bit shocked myself," Draco replied.

"Draco Malfoy SCARED?! Am I hearing things?!" Ginny exclaimed playfully.

"I didn't say I was scared, I said I was shocked. There's a difference."

"Tomato tomoto," Ginny said.

"Very funny, Weasley," Draco said, and Ginny smirked. "Nice smirk you've got there," Draco said, complimenting Ginny.

"I learn from the best," Ginny said, and kissed Draco on the cheek.

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Hermione, Colin, Harry, and Ron were sitting together in the Gryffindor common room.

"I never thought Malfoy had it in him!" Harry exclaimed.

"Had it in him to what?" Colin persisted.

Harry rolled his eyes at the slowness of his friend, and answered, "To beat the snot out of that Slytherin boy!"

"Yeah, I know! A Gryffindor is one thing, but a Slytherin?! He must have really pissed Malfoy off!" Ron exclaimed back.

"Yes, ESPECIALLY since it was a Slytherin," Hermione commented, repeating the oh-so-obvious information.

"It was wicked really. At first I thought it was a Gryffindor boy, so I was like 'bloody hell!' but then I realized that it was a Slytherin, so I didn't really mind. I was routing him on, actually. I just enjoyed the show!" Ron said happily.

At the end of their conversation about Draco and the Slytherin boy, Colin said, "Oh, yeah, well, I knew that. I - I was just kidding with you!" He began to laugh hysterically as if he could actually cover up his obvious stupidity.

However, Ron, Harry, and Hermione just looked at the pale Gryffindor laughing in front of them.

"Anyways..." Ron began, turning his attention away from the 'pale rat' look alike, and onto his friends.

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Draco had walked Ginny to the Gryffindor common room, and gave her a kiss before turning to leave, his black cloak swishing behind him.

Ginny walked into the common room to see Colin on the floor, doubled over from laughing so hard. On the sofa sat Ron, Harry, and Hermione talking. Ginny walked over to them, and sat down in an arm chair close by to the sofa in which they sat.

"Hey," Ginny said casually.

"Hello my dear, and how is your prince charming?" Ron asked in a voice imitating that of an 80 year old woman's.

"Hahaha," Ginny said dully.

"I was just kidding with you, calm down," Ron said.

"Yeah yeah yeah," Ginny said, getting up from the arm chair in which she sat.

"Where are you going?" Ron asked her.

"I don't see HOW it is any of your business, but up to my room to change. Do you have a problem with that?" Ginny asked.

Ron opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it when he saw the look on his sisters face.

"He was just wondering, you don't have to be stuck up about it!" Hermione exclaimed, standing up for her boyfriend.

"I was just kidding, you guys! You guys are acting awfully weird, like you've got a ten foot pole stuck up your arse or something," Ginny said, whispering the part about the ten foot pole.

"What was that?" Harry asked.

"Nothing..." Ginny said in her sweet five year old voice.

Harry laughed, and Ginny said 'good bye' to all her friends as she turned and headed toward the stairs leading toward the girl's dormitories. She climbed the steps quickly and opened the door to her room.

On Ginny's bed lay three red roses. Ginny went over to them and picked them up, smelling them. The sweet scent filled her nose and spread through her body.

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Draco reached his Prefect dormitory and began to get ready for his date that night with Ginny. She was to meet him in his room at 8:00 PM that night.

Draco walked toward his dresser and opened one of the drawers. He lifted the lid to the present he was going to give Ginny.

He sighed and whispered to himself, 'She's going to love it.'

Draco took out his wand from his pocket and said a spell that would magically wrap the present. He inspected it, and then quickly put it back into his drawer and closed it.

Throughout the next half an hour, he took a shower, got dressed, and gelled his hair back. He glanced at the magical clock on his night stand. It was 7:15 PM.

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Ginny quickly took a shower, got dressed, did her hair, and applied make up to her face. She looked at her reflection in her mirror and approved of what she saw. She was wearing one of the dresses she bought from Hogsmeade. It was a long emerald green gown. Her curly red hair was down, reaching past her shoulders and almost to her elbows. She added a bit of blush to her cheeks, and eye shadow and mascara to her eyes.

She quickly took out the sculpture she had bought for Draco from Hogsmeade. She wrapped and rewrapped it to her liking. It now was wrapped in silver and gold alternating stripes.

Ginny looked at her watch. It was 7:40 PM.

Ginny didn't want to carry the huge present down to the Slytherin dormitories, as it was too heavy, and may ruin her dress. She picked up her wand from her desk and pointed it to the package. She said, "Wingardium leviosa!" and it instantly lifted off the ground and was levitated in the air.

Ginny made her way out of her dormitory and out through the portrait of the fat lady which hung in front of the entrance to the Gryffindor common room. She walked cautiously yet quickly toward the Slytherin common room. She reached the entrance about ten minutes later. She said, "Pure blood," and the portrait immidiately swung open, revealing the Slytherin common room. Ginny headed toward Draco's room and knocked silently on the door.

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