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Draco walked into his room smiling, he couldn't believe Ginny'd actually said and done those things. She was amazing and she was totally his, he realized that now. She had to feel really strongly about him to be so bold and aggressive. To think about when she'd put his hand in her panties...well he shouldn't think about that because it made him need to take a cold shower.
His euphoria was short lived however. He turned to his bed and found a note lying on it. He didn't even have to look at the handwriting to know who'd sent it. He picked it up and began reading.
Draco
You do much to make me proud these days. I heard about your little incident with Potter at the Quidditch field. I was very happy to hear about that except I'm concerned that you didn't hurt him enough. You should have broken something or bashed his skull. When are you going to prove what a great and powerful Malfoy you can be? You have opportunities all the time to show Potter about real magic and I suggest you start using them.
Dumbledore has given us the perfect opportunity to get rid of Potter for good. It's unbelievable, the stupidity of the man sometimes. He actually thinks that the houses can combine and work together in unity. Slytherin and Gryffindor will never be united. We can't allow that to happen and so we found the best way to get rid of Potter. Dumbledore seals his own fate at last!
My plan is a good one and flawless in design. I'll write you more about it later when all the elements are in place.
Malfoy
Draco reread the letter again quickly. He knew his father made his letters so they would disappear within three hours of being written. It was a dangerous way to pass messages because it could disappear before being read but it was also an easy way to minimize getting caught. So his father figured out a way to get rid of Potter? He didn't know what the plan was but assumed it had to do something with the potions class because of all the talk about houses always being separate and never joining.
He turned away and took off his robes, once again grateful for the single room he'd managed to secure. He took a shower and let his mind wander as he showered. His father was insane; there was no other explanation for his attitude and hatred toward people. Draco thought about Ginny lying in her bed, tucked up tight in the covers and tasted a bad taste in his mouth. His father would never accept Ginny on any level. The Weasley's were among the wizard families his father considered only slightly above mudbloods. He didn't really care about his father's opinion but he couldn't stomach the thought of what his father would do to Ginny when he found out. He couldn't kill his own son but he could easily kill a Weasley, a slip of a girl who was no better to him than a common house elf. Draco couldn't even think about Ginny being hurt in anyway. It terrified him to even think of her getting hurt, but to think of her getting killed...he couldn't think about it. It wasn't an option and he would die before he let anything happen to her.
"So Ginny, have you thought of any potions we could do?" Jake looked over at Ginny from across the table. They were in library and had been looking through various books trying to spark some idea about the final for their potions class.
"Well, we could do a shaping potion." Ginny suggested a potion that was somewhat known and extremely hard. The potion was intended to help a person locate any hidden objects in a room. The objects could be hidden by anything: a curse, a potion, or even an invisibility cloak.
"That's a very hard potion Ginny. I can't even think about how complicated it would be." Jake immediately discarded Ginny's idea, which annoyed her.
"Well, we have to do a really hard potion Jake, so why not a shaping potion?"
He looked at her in a thoughtful way. "I think you may be right. Besides the antidote is one of the easier ones to make on this level of magic." He smiled at her brightly and got up from the table and walked over to her side. He sat on the edge of the table and looked down at Ginny.
"I always knew you were smart Ginny." He looked down at her then bent down and kissed her on the cheek. The action startled Ginny so much that she didn't even have time to react before Jake quickly got up and left. What in the hell was that?? Ginny wondered.
Draco walked into the library just in time to see Jake walk over and kiss Ginny. His hands automatically formed into fists and he began to stalk over there when Jake made a quick exit and left the scene. Draco looked at Ginny trying to discern how she felt about Jake kissing her. He couldn't see anything in her expression except shock. He looked at her again and decided she hadn't had anything to do with the kiss and walked over to her. He sat in the chair across from her, the one Jake had just vacated. She looked up at him startled.
"Hey Ginny. How are you? Get much sleep?" Draco asked her quietly, luckily there were only a few students in the library.
"I did actually." Ginny answered and smiled when Draco frowned at her. He hadn't been able to get any sleep last night because he was too busy thinking about her. "Yeah I got such good sleep because I was having such good dreams. Dreams about a certain sexy blonde haired man."
She was flirting with him in a public place and he loved it. Now all he wanted to do was walk over and kiss her mouth soundly so all imprint of Jake would be gone. He was probably overreacting about a simple kiss on the cheek but he couldn't help it. "Well I guess I'll just have to go kick this guys butt for encroaching on my territory." He joked and Ginny laughed.
"It's not necessary, the dreams were great. I wish I had em every night. They're inspired by real life you know? Wanna hear about one of them?" Ginny leaned close to Draco.
"You know I do." He leaned in towards Ginny also.
"Well it all starts when the guy-"
"Malfoy are you ready to discuss our final yet?" Hermione stood over them, interrupting their privacy.
"Sure." Draco replied in a actually civilized manner. Hermione was stunned and her jaw dropped. For once in her life Draco hadn't come back at her with some snide remark or cruel joke, she had no idea what to say.
Draco looked up at her and saw her expression. His mouth curled up in a half smile, "Don't just stand there looking like an idiot Granger. Do you want to get an A or not?" Draco pushed himself away from the table and stood next to Hermione. "Well?" He demanded rudely.
Hermione said goodbye to Ginny and left with Draco. Hermione felt much more comfortable when the Draco she'd known returned but couldn't help feeling like he was trying to be rude instead of it being natural. She didn't know what caused the change but she had a distance feeling it was a certain redhead who was reshaping his heart.
A/N: Hey guys! I know this has taken forever to get out but my life has been one big sucking upheaval after the next so I've been thinking about other stuff. Uhhh…I really, really love all the reviews and I can't believe so many people like the story but I am soooo happy you guys do!! So thanks for being patient with me and still reading it.
