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Ginny checked her watch, it was 7:30.breakfast had just started. She had never before woken up so early, but yesterdays events with Draco just kept on replaying in her mind. She was still fresh in shock. Draco Malfoy, the nasty Slytherin git apologized to her and asked her to come with him to the Hogsmeade trip.

'Something's wrong. He would never.how could anyone change over the course of one summer?' She sighed, shaking her head. She gave herself one look in the mirror and walked out of her dorm quietly.

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When Ginny entered the Great Hall she surprised to find the trio sitting there as well as a whole load of other people.including Draco Malfoy. She never knew people woke up this early.

"Hey Ginny! You're up early! Feeling alright?" that was Ron. Ginny coughed up a laugh.

"Yes Ron! I'm perfectly fine. I DO wake up early once in a while you know." She said with a smirk and sitting down next to Hermione, opposite Ron and Harry.

Hermione and Harry gave her little smiles. She looked around the table and started buttering her toast.

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Draco was sitting at the Slytherin table listening to Pansy and Veera go on and on about their summer and who they met and what they did. He looked at his watch. 7:40. He didn't know what in the world came over him to wake up this early. As far as he knew, classes didn't start till 9. He looked around the Great Hall and his eyes fell upon Weasley. Ginny Weasley.

She walked in looking kind of confused. Right then his heart started thumping, she smirked. He had never, ever seen that one before. He put a hand to his chest and cursed himself. The last thing he wanted was to be falling for the little Weasley. After all, he did have an absolutely stunning Slytherin girlfriend. But when he actually thought about Veera, he realized he didn't love her. At the time he asked her out, he thought that she would "just do for now". He sighed.

Then it struck him. If he wanted to be "friends" with the little Weasley, that meant he had to make a good impression on the other Weasley, Potter and the mudblood. After all, that would make things much easier. Screw Veera. He smirked and got up and walked to the Gryffindor table.

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Ginny sat there eating her cereal and listening to whatever the trio were talking about.

"Oh god! What does he want?" Said Hermione pointing forward. Ginny looked up. It was Draco, and he had the nicest smile on his face. Her heartbeat had just sped up to a hundred miles an hour. She tried smiling back but couldn't.

'If only he didn't look so hot.' She looked back down at her plate.

"Well, well, well, the Dream Team and little Ginny." Said Draco with his usual drawling voice. He looked around at all four of them.

"What do you want Malfoy?" said Ron with his fist out, ready to punch him.

"Now, now, Ron," said Draco putting the emphasis on Ron's name. "No need to get rude with me." He smiled. Harry rolled his eyes. "It's just that I haven't seen you all in a long time." Now it was Hermione's turn to roll her eyes.

Just then Hermione got up. "Whatever Draco, waste your time on other things, we've got class." She said with an angry look. With that she picked up her bag and books and walked out of the Great Hall with Ron and Harry following, leaving Ginny sitting there looking up at Draco.

Draco noticed Ginny's eyes on him, and he tried to put on a hurt expression. Ginny seemed to notice and she got up, shocked really, to see him acting civil towards her brother and Harry.

She got up and asked him, "Are you alright?". 'Wow Ginny, what a thing to say.' She wanted to smack herself for saying that.

He cocked up an eyebrow. "Why wouldn't I be?" he paused, then continued, "Oh! I get it, you've never seen me being nice to your brother and his friend have you? Well to tell the truth actually, I have nothing against them, it's them that have something against me. I think you should try telling them that." He said, and folded his arms, waiting for her to reply.

She blushed and looked down. 'Maybe all Slytherins aren't really that bad'. Another voice came up, 'What? Are you crazy? This is Dra.co. Mal.foy. Him.nice? Girl get a grip!'

She looked up at him, "Oh. Well, I.umm.It's just that.", she didn't know what to say.

"Don't bother. We're still up for Hogsmeade?"

She blushed again. "Y-yeah, sure, w-why not?" and she put on a smile.

He smiled at her. "Cya then!", twirled on his heel and walked out of the Great Hall, leaving her there with her own thoughts.

'Too easy, way to too easy!' Draco laughed as he was on his way to Advanced Tranfiguration.

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A week passed by, and Ginny could hear Ron complaining that Draco was actually acting nice towards them. She really didn't know what they were complaining about.

On Friday night, the day before the first Hogsmeade trip, she made up her mind to talk to the trio about Draco. After all, if they found out she was going with him, she wouldn't be seeing her next birthday.

She walked out of her dorm room where she had changed and put her books away, and went down the stairs into the common room. A lot of people were there just chilling and waiting for tomorrow. She looked around. She saw Oliver Wood, or more professionally Professor Wood talking to some of the students. He was here for 2 years , taking a break off playing quidditch for Puddlemere United. He looked at her and smiled and gave her a wave. She waved back and nervously smiled.any girl would be nervous when someone looking like Oliver would smile at them. She walked to where the trio were sitting.

"What are you guys doing?" asked Ginny, pretending to be interested, as she sat on the couch next to Harry.

"Trying to get Hermione to shut up about homework. I mean, come on.the weekends just started!" Ron said while looking through a quidditch magazine.

Hermione just rolled her eyes and returned to her book that she was reading.

'Funny. I didn't get that tingly feeling whenever he's anywhere within 5 feet from me.' Ginny looked at Harry thoughtfully.

"What?" Harry turned around to her. She was starting at him.weirdly.

"Nothing" she said with a smile and turned to Ron. "Actually I wanted to talk to you three about something."

"What?" asked Hermione, looking up from her book.

"Uuh..umm.Draco" Ginny said uncomfortably. This wasn't the exact subject you just randomly brought up to talk about.

"Draco??!?" said Harry choking on his water.

"Draco?" said Ron, looking up from his magazine with an eyebrow up.

"Are you guys deaf? Yes, Draco." Said Ginny, losing her patience.

"Oh my god." Said Hermione, leaning forward. "I knew it, I knew it!" She stood up with a worried expression on her face.

Ginny raised her eyebrows up inquisitively. Hermione looked at her. "Of course! How could I have been so stupid? You like him!". At that point Harry spat out the water in his mouth. Hermione continued. "It was so obvious! I mean, he obviously wanted to talk to you today, 'cos we left you there in the Great Hall!". Then she suddenly stopped as if she just realized what she had said.

Ron and Harry were staring at her. Ginny was looking at her in disbelief.

"Umm.no! I do NOT like Draco. That's the not the reason why I wanted to talk to you.". She said.

Ron looked relieved, but then asked "Just one question before you do talk.since when are you and .err.Malfoy on first name terms?"

Ginny rolled her eyes. "Look, all I want to know is .WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?" she screamed, abruptly standing up, and surprising the trio, as well as the common room. She had just lost her patience there. She wasn't usually like this. It was her brother acting like a total idiot.

Oliver walked over to them. "Everything alright here?" he asked, fulfilling his duty of a Professor.

Ginny looked at him. "Yeah, yeah, everything's fine. Sorry about that." She smiled, embarrassed that she made everyone in the common room shut up. That had never happened. Everyone started talking when Oliver went back to the group he was hanging with.

Ginny turned back to the trio who were staring at her with their mouths open. "Close our traps and listen to me. I don't ask very much of you, and you know that Ron. It's just that, when Draco actually acts civil towards you lot you complain about him, and when he acts like the git he usually is you still complain. What on earth do you want?!"

Sure enough, they closed their mouths, but couldn't think of anything to say. Ron opened his mouth to say something but Ginny cut in, "He's starting to be nice, let him be! Hermione," she turned around to look at her, "do you want a nasty Slytherin calling you a mudblood?" she turned back to all three, "All I'm saying is that, he's nice to you, you guys be nice to him, it won't hurt.". She said looking at each of them. Then she sat down, relieved and shocked at herself for actually saying all that to them.

"Look Ginny, you don't know that he's being nice to us, as far as I know he was acting as annoying as ever!" said Harry.

"And anyway, why should we be nice to him? After all he's put us through for the past 7 years?" said Ron, siding with Harry.

Hermione spoke up, "Ron, don't you think Draco could ask the same question as well? Why should he be nice to us? As far as I'm concerned, it won't hurt just to at least act civil towards him." She looked at Ginny who smiled at her.

Ron started to say something, but Ginny chose that moment to get up and leave. She had done what she wanted. Hermione followed close behind, and they both went into her dorm room.

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".and his hair!" Ginny said and laughed!

She and Hermione were sitting on Hermione's bed talking about Draco. Hermione had apologized for saying what she had earlier. But Ginny did admit that he made her feel all.'tingly', just like Harry used to.

However, Hermione also revealed her long time crush on Oliver and admitted that she was really happy when he came back here to teach.

Hermione looked at Ginny happily and concernedly. She put her hand over hers. "Just know, that I'm here whenever you need me. You know you can tell me about anything you want." She said reassuringly.

Ginny nodded and smiled.

"Well you better be off and sleep. After all, you do want to look your best tomorrow, even though it's just Hogsmeade!" said Hermione, getting up. Ginny had told her all about her encounter the other today.

Ginny laughed. "Goodnight then!"

"Goodnight!" and Hermione left the room and closed the door.

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'What should I do with my hair?'. Ginny was standing in front of her mirror the next morning, getting ready for the Hogsmeade trip. She had put on a mauve t-shirt and a pair of black jeans under her black robes. Hermione had given her a pair of silver hoop earrings. Now she had just finished brushing her hair.

"Leave it down, it looks good like that." Ginny jumped and turned around. It was Hermione.

"Gosh Hermione! You could have knocked!...Well, fine, I'll leave it down." She put a beret on one side, and turned to face Hermione.

"Perfect." Said Hermione. They smiled and they went down stairs.

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(Hogsmeade)

After persuading Ron, that she was going with Draco to help him get something, and that nothing would happen, he let her go, although was very grouchy about it.

When they had met Draco in the entrance hall, Ginny and Hermione made sure they gave the two boys (Harry and Ron) a good glare to make them remember to be civil to Draco.

Now, Ginny and Draco were walking side by side up to the Shrieking Shack.

"Your brother seemed quite nice today," he said to her, looking at from under his eyelashes.

Ginny smiled. "I gave Ron and Harry a good talking to last night!"

Draco laughed and at that moment put his left hand up to pull away his hair that was in his eyes. At that moment Ginny noticed a silver ring on his "wedding ring finger".

"Nice ring. Where did you get it from?" she asked him.

He stopped walking, and turned to face Ginny with a puzzled expression.

"Didn't you already know? I got engaged this summer." He said with a serious face.

Ginny's head started spinning and she fainted.

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