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"Ginny!!!!" Hearing her named called, Ginny turned around to find Hermione running after her. She'd been on her way to lunch. She stopped and looked at Hermione puzzled.

            "You ok?" Ginny asked Hermione.

            "Ginny!!" Hermione grabbed Ginny's arm and pulled her off into an empty classroom. She slammed the door behind them and turned to Ginny with a slightly odd expression on her face. "Gin what did you do to Harry??"

            "What?"

            "Don't what me!! I know you did something. Ever since yesterday he's been walking around acting all strange. Like when I asked him the name of this Quidditch player who I know he knows, he just told me that maybe Ron could tell me. It's too weird so what did you do?"

            "I didn't do anything!"

            "Really? He's acting very distant and distracted. Maybe you should talk to him because I really think this has to do with you."  

            "Why do you think so?"

            "Well because it's only since yesterday in the common room when you yelled at everyone that he's been acting like this."

            "Oh." Ginny breathed a mental sigh of relief, glad that it wasn't because she'd stolen his cloak.

            "So will you talk to him?" Hermione looked impatiently at her.

            "Yeah. I'll find him later right now I have class."

            Ginny walked into potions for a special announcement meeting and sat in her usual spot. The senior students, which were the two oldest classes, had been called to a meeting to announce a special potions project. She automatically looked to where Harry was seated. He was sitting next to Ron talking with him about something. He looked normal to her but she'd find him later anyway to appease Hermione. Then she gazed toward Draco's usual seat. Surprisingly he was there. He sat the looking around the room and his gaze finally landed on her. He gave her a half smile and she returned it easily. Snape drew their attention when he called for the student's attention.

            "Students we are going to be doing a special project. For your final examination, you will be paired up with another student in the class. Your partner will be randomly assigned but will not be from the same house as you. Dumblebore designed this exercise to promote a friendlier attitude between houses. Obviously the years will not be mixed." Snape looked around the room looking completely bored. "There are two of the same numbers in this hat. You will pick a number out of the hat and then pair up with the person holding your identical number. Weasley you first." Snape looked at Ron. Ron got up and pulled a number from the hat. They all went one after another, and then the hat was replenished with numbers for Ginny's class to draw. When all the numbers were taken they were allowed to open their number.

            Draco opened his. "Who's got a seven?" He looked around at the people sitting around him.

            "I've got a seven." Hermione stood up and sounded thoroughly annoyed about being paired with Draco.

            Draco smirked. "Oh great I get to work with Weasley's girlfriend."

            Across the room Ginny opened her number and got a boy from Slytherin. He was a new student and had transferred from another wizarding school. His name was Jake Penning. He seemed nice but Ginny hadn't had much experience with him so she didn't really know. 

            "Hi. I'm Jake." He introduced himself to her and smiled. She smiled back. Jake was cute. He had blue eyes and sandy blonde hair. It wasn't like Draco's though, it was a brownish blonde.

            "I'm Ginny."

            Once again their attention was directed toward Professor Snape.

            "Ok now that you are in your pairs, I'll tell you the assignment. In lei of a final you are supposed to, as a pair, find a potion and it's antidote. This cannot be a potion covered in any of our textbooks or most of the books in the library. It must be at least a level 8 on the scale of difficulty." At this instruction some of the students gasped. A level 8 potion was extremely difficult and the antidotes were usually ten times harder. No wonder this is our final, Ginny thought. "You have the next three weeks to do this and submit it to me. You must on the day I assign you, prepare both of the potions while I watch. This is pass/fail. There is no halfway, you must complete both parts of the potion or else you will have to arrange another way to pass potions." With these final words he left the room, his cloak floating behind him.

            "Well this is certainly a hard assignment. I can't believe this is our final! I mean we'll have to search and search to find a potion like this." Jake sounded very mad about the whole thing. "Look Ginny, I have to go but we should get together sometime in a few days and discuss what idea we have. Let's brainstorm and meet in say two days?"

            "Ok. That sounds like a plan. I'll try and think of something." Jake left and Ginny turned around to locate Harry. He was standing next to Draco and Hermione. Draco said something that caused Harry to just turn and leave.

            He was about to walk right past Ginny when he noticed her standing there. He looked down and her and smiled. The smile was a little unsure, not like Harry's normal grin.

            "Ginny."

            "Hi Harry!"

            "Gin, I've been wanting to talk to you. Do you think you we could go somewhere?" He looked intently at her through his glasses.

            "Sure. What about the common room?" She suggested.

            "No I meant something more private. There's something I need to discuss with you alone."

            "Umm...alright. Where could we go then?"

            "How about the astronomy tower?"

            "No!" Ginny's no was quick and loud. Harry looked at her quizzically. "I mean...there's classes there. How about we just go walk around the grounds outside?" Harry agreed and they left but not before Ginny cast a wary glance over her shoulder and found Draco watching them. He had a look of jealously on his face and Ginny chose to ignore it as she walked out of the room with Harry.

A/N: Sorry it took me forever to get this out. I mean it! I am soooooo sorry I hope you guys are still goin to read it. I am going to post the next chapter on Monday so look for it if you want. It's good there's a little more action in is…I mean the kind between Ginny and Draco *Wink Wink* Anyway thanks for the reviews and I really am sorry it took so long!!