Title: Blindness makes the heart grow Fonder
Rating: PG-13
Author: Ginny
Summary: Draco has a blind, twin cousin named William. William makes a new friend, but what happens when he can see again??
Pairings: G/W (very little) G/D (of course) H/Hr and R/L (both very little)

Author notes: UH... what can I say... umm... oh yes... the very very last chapter will be a little smutty so I will more than likely raise the rating.

Disclaimer: I own everything! I am Queen of the world!! Uh... okay... so I'm really not. I own nothing. Nada. I own William though. But the last name and the looks belong to Draco Malfoy. So I just own the name.

Thanks to my two betas! Becky and Champagne!!

ENJOY!!!!!

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Virginia Weasley wasn't the most beautiful girl in Hogwarts. With her 5'5 frame, flaming red shoulder-length hair, deep chocolate colored eyes, and small but pert breasts, she was considered "cute". Virginia Weasley wasn't the most popular girl either. In her 5th year, Virginia had not made any really good friends. People were afraid to get close to her because of what happened in her first year at the school. Even though everyone knew that it wasn't really her fault, they were still afraid. Her closet friend was Hermione and she was rarely ever around. So Virginia Weasley decided that this would indeed be the year that she did something different to get people to look at her in a new light. Maybe at least one person, maybe even a boy. Ginny gave up on Harry Potter last year when he finally asked Hermione out. She wondered that if she ever told him that she liked him, that maybe she would be with him now. It was just something that she would never really
know.

They were all sitting at the Gryffindor table when Professor Dumbledore stood up and said, "Attention please. Attention!" All the kids hushed right up and he said, "I would like to make an announcement. We have a new student in our school this year. His name is William Malfoy. William?" William stood up and everyone gasped. He looked just like Draco Malfoy except his hair wasn't slicked back, he didn't look so evil, and for some reason he was wearing a pair of black glasses. William sat back down. "Now I know that you all realize that he has the same last name as another one of our students. This is Draco Malfoy's twin cousin."

Everyone moved their heads closer together and started whispering, "Cousin?" "Twin?" "He looks so much cuter than Draco does."

"I am not quite done yet!" Dumbledore said. "He has joined us from Durmstrang. Last year William was in a horrible accident and it left him blind." Everyone gasped. Dumbledore looked over to where William was sitting and said, "I'm sure that you will make a lot of new friends quite quickly."

"Thank you sir, I'm sure I will."

Ginny remained quiet the whole time.

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A few weeks later...

Ginny had tried so many new tactics to try to get one person to be friends with her. She sat with the boys during lunchtime and tried to flirt, but they only looked annoyed. She pushed her way into a girls' slumber party, but they made sure that she knew that they were ignoring her. It was hopeless.
It was a Friday afternoon when she finally got the upper hand.

Ginny was waiting outside Harry, Hermione, and Ron's class. They usually did something with her on Friday nights. As she was waiting, she saw the new boy, William, walking down the hallway finding his way with his walking stick, when a Hufflepuff boy stuck out his leg and tripped the boy. William fell to the ground and his books went everywhere as the Hufflepuff boy laughed and walked away.

Ginny rolled her eyes and went over to William, "And they say that only Slytherins are bad." She got down on her knees and helped him gather his stuff. "Here, let me help you," she said in a kind and gentle tone as she handed him one of his books.

He snatched it out of her hands and snapped, "I don't need your pity, girl!"

Ginny stood up and said, "Listen here, Malfoy! I don't pity *anyone* especially not you! I've been pitied before and I hated it. Excuse me for trying to be nice. You know what? Maybe they were right, Slytherins are the worst type of people." As she turned around to leave, she felt someone pull on her robe. She turned around and saw William on the ground.

"Wait a moment, please?" Ginny stood there as she waited until the boy stood up. He removed his sunglasses and was staring right at her with his cool blue eyes.

"Boy, he has really beautiful eyes," she said to herself. "What is it?" she
said out loud.

"Look, I'm sorry I was so rude. It's just that during these past few weeks I've had girls all around me pampering me and pitting me. I don't like people doing everything for me, I like doing things for myself and well... did I say I was sorry, because I really am sorry."

Ginny smiled and laughed, "You seem to be so much nicer than your cousin."

"Yes, that's what I've been told. So will you forgive me?"

"I'm a Gryffindor," she blurted out. "Are you sure you want to be apologizing to me?"

"I'm not my cousin," he smiled at her and put his glasses back on. "I'm William Malfoy." He put his hand out.

"I'm Virginia," she said, purposely not telling him her last name, "but my friends call me Ginny, that is if I had any friends." She mumbled that last part and she took his hand.

He brought her hand up to his lips and kissed it, "It's a pleasure. So does this mean I'm forgiven?"

"Sure."

"Great," he said not letting go of her hand. "Let's go get something to eat,
I'm starving!"

Ginny silently agreed and walked with William hand-in-hand. She smiled and realized that she actually made a new friend.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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