Title: Serpent's Sting Summary: When Harry follows Ginny to her 'meeting' with Draco, he never knew what could happen . . . HP/DM slash. Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters, nor the series, nor the movies. If I were J.K. Rowling or the CEO of Warner Bros., I wouldn't be here :) A/N: Pretty, pretty please with gallons of whipped cream and hundreds of cherries on top read and review! This will be a mid-sized fanfic, so definitely more chapters to come!

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"And where do you think you two are going?" said a tall, sixteen-year-old Ron Weasley from the corner of the Gryffindor common room. "Honestly, Harry, my sister is fifteen! She isn't like Cho, she can't take so much affection, as you call it!"

"Ha, ha, ha Ron, make a nice Ginny and Harry joke. Just next time, if you laugh so hard, be sure to put on those rubber knickers that Mum got for you in Muggle London this past holiday," retorted Ginny, following Harry out of the portrait-hole, among sniggers and a red-faced Ron.

They went a little ways down the corridor, and then they stopped. Harry reached inside of his schoolbag, and pulled out his Invisibility Cloak. He then draped it over himself, and immediately Ginny was looking at nothing she could see.

"Same old drill, Ginny?" inquired Harry from behind. "And when are you going to tell everyone that you're going out with-" but he was cut off by Ginny.

"SHHH!! Not so loudly! And I don't know Harry . . . maybe not ever. But thanks for all of the help, I can't have done it without you," said Ginny, in a very Hermione-esque manner. With that, she walked towards the Fat Lady, said, "Piggy Bottom" and was through the portrait hole.

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Ginny mumbled something about needing her Transfiguration book for "studying with Harry", and was soon back outside the portrait hole. This time, she walked over to the bottom of the nearest staircase, and quickly looked around before disappearing in-between the banister and the wall. Here, she sighed, and then stood up straight and fell silent for a moment, closing her eyes. Then, she opened her eyes wide and transfigured herself into her Animagi form of a cat. If anyone cared to look close enough, they could see that across the bridge of her nose was a sprinkling of freckle- like dots that were identical to those across Ginny's human face.

She shook herself, and felt right at home in her cat form. After stretching, she trotted out of the crook and took off towards the main staircases. She had no idea, however, that she was being closely followed . . .

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Hey, like the first chapter? R&R! Criticism welcome, but no flames please! Also, I know that this was really short, but the chapters to come will be longer, I pinky swear!