Yeargh! Well this is my first Harry Potter fic, so if it's no good, you know why. Ginny and Draco romance. Romance isn't really my thing, but I just had to write this story once it popped into my head. Other pairings are Harry and Cho Chang and Ron and Hermione (my second favourite couple!)

Disclaimer: No, I don't own these characters. Anybody who doesn't, what in the world have you been doing for the past couple of years *g* they are owned by J. K. Rowling, who totally rules!

Forbidden Love

Part One - The Surprise Gift

Harry tried to suppress a yawn, but failed. Suddenly a very irritated Hermione was yelling at him.

"Well, if you want to get low marks on your N.E.W.T's that is not my fault!" She huffed, before taking her spell books and storming over to the girls' dormitory.

Harry stared blankly at where she had sat a few minutes ago, while Ron stared at the closed Dorm door.

"What's her problem NOW?!" The seventeen-year-old red head asked. Ron moved his glance to his best friend and shook his head. "Any ideas?"

Harry shook his shoulders. "Maybe stress? The N.E.W.T's are to be done this year, remember. You know Hermione and her studying."

Ron shook his head sadly, imagining what his girlfriend would be like this year. "The school year has just started. We could not possibly study any harder with the load of homework we are getting from classes." With that said, Ron put his Potion's assignment over to one side and ignored it completely.

It was plain to see that Harry was about to say something, but what is anybody's guess because at that moment Ginny came tumbling into the Gryffindor common room, clutching a plastic bag to her chest. The girl looked extremely embarrassed.

"Ginny, you alright?" Ron asked his little sister, at seeing the look on the youngest Weasley's face.

She nodded and ran straight into the girls' dormitory much like Hermione had. Both boys didn't miss the fact that Ginny's face was as red as her hair, as she disappeared out of view.

Shrugging, Ron got out his Wizard's Chess set and began to play with Harry. Thoughts of his embarrassed sister vanishing from his head as he concentrated on the game. Obviously, Ron won.

Packing that game up, the two boys moved on to Exploding Snap. After three quick games, Hermione appeared again, apologising for yelling, before sitting down next to Ron and joining in on the next game.

"You wouldn't believe what was in that plastic bag Ginny was holding," she announced, after all her cards disappeared from her hand. "No wonder she was embarrassed." When Harry and Ron looked at her curiously, she added with glee, "a bouquet of black roses and a box of chocolate frogs. She has no idea who sent them to her, only that she went to collect a book from the class she had just had and they were sitting there waiting for her."

"Ginny has a secret Admirer? That's nice." Harry replied, looking relieved. Ever since her first year at Hogwarts, Ginny had been harbouring a crush on him. Maybe Ginny would return her admirer's feelings, he added to himself silently.

Excusing himself from his two friends, when he found himself being ignored, he got up and moved over to Dean, Seamus and Neville, the other Seventh year boys. They were busy trying to do their Potion's assignment and failing miserably.

Harry's thoughts drifted over to Ravenclaw, where his girlfriend was. Ever since arriving back at Hogwarts, Cho Chang had been going steady with him. He had got the shock of his life when she had asked him out, but accepted. Cho had finally gotten over the death of Cedric Diggory.

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Ginny looked again at the card lying within the black flowers. It had been signed only with a D. The first thought that jumped into her head was Dean. Ginny smiled. Would it be such bad thing if he was her secret admirer? She thought, shaking her head.

Plucking the note out from the flowers, she noted the beautiful, flowing writing and realised her first guess was wrong. Dean would have scribbled it down; not taking so long just to make sure every curve, every line, on every letter was absolutely perfect.

Not knowing who it could be brought a smile to her face. Someone out there liked her. Her! Virginia Weasley, the Weasley's only female child and the youngest of seven children. The thought of someone loving her from afar, made her feel weak at the knees. Whoever D was, she liked him already.

She read the note again, this time out loud, since she had the Dorm all to herself now Hermione had left. "Dear Ginny, I send you chocolates and roses, hoping you like them. Some part of me has liked you from the first second I laid eyes on you. I do not know if you share my love, so I am now going to be your secret admirer. Hope you think of me. Your Secret Admirer, D."

Ginny sighed and held the thornless roses close to her heart, breathing in their scent. She didn't care that they were black instead of red. She thought they were beautiful anyway.

Looking around her, she soon spotted a vase not being used on the windowsill. Putting the flowers in it and using a spell, she filled it with water. Placing the full vase on her bedside table, she smiled happily to herself, before going back out to join her brother and his friends. All her fellow sixth year friends had gone to the library for study. She had been too excited to go with them.

Ron and Hermione were cuddling by the fireplace, quietly talking to each other. The image of a perfect couple. She spotted Harry with the other seventh year boys, Cho Chang sitting next to him. Harry must have let her in.

Frowning to herself, she got out her Transfiguration book and began to look up anything she could find on Animagus and the different forms one could take. In secret, Ms McGonagall had been teaching her how to be an Animagus. Apparently, only people meant to be one would become one. Her animal was a dragon. Small, yes, but a dragon nonetheless.

She loved the act of flying, and the fact she could breath fire. She found out about her being an Animagus when she had started to grow scales when she got angry enough.

She had caught on very quickly of how to change forms. Unfortunately, only one other person in the school was gifted with Animagi powers, as she calls them. That person was Malfoy. Contrary to his namesake, his animal form was not a dragon, but he could fly. His animal, which had surprised both her and McGonagall, was a snowy white swan.

She couldn't help but stare at that form whenever he changed. McGonagall couldn't either, telling Malfoy that she loved his animal form.

She was still wondering how one who was so rude, annoying and evil could become such a beautiful, harmless swan? She would have to ask him on Saturday. The day they finally were going to become registered Animagi.

She couldn't wait!