Hey sorry i haven't written in a long time. I've been finishing up the school year. (im home schooled) I've also been writing another story! Anyways here it is, I just wanted to give an explanation for the delay
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" What did you do?" Ginny asked, her breath coming in gasps.
" I healed you." Malfoy said, still presseing Ginny's body against the wall with his own. Her hand flew up to her face and she pressed her cheek tenderly. There was no pain. She looked back up at Draco, who looked back at her for a moment before moving back and looking towards the door. Ginny ran over and looked in the mirror to see if Malfoy had really healed her. Sure enough, her face was back to normal- almost.
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" Er..Malfoy, is it possible for you to heal scars?" Malfoy looked back at her and shrugged.
" I don't know. Why?"
" Because I had a scar right next to my ear from when I had the chicken pox as a kid, and now it's gone."
" Then I guess I can." he stated blantly. Ginny remained quiet for a moment but soon found that she couldn't stay silent.
" Why?" she asked simply.
" Why what?" His impatience obvious, along with his rising anger. This irked Ginny extremely.
" Don't be stupid, why did you heal me?"
" Because it made you look worse then you did already, and thats bad. I didn't think you could get any uglier, but I see that I was wrong." He said once again cool and colected. Ginny could feel tears welling up in her eyes, but was dertermined not to let him see. She didn't even know why his opinion bothered her so much.
" Fine, I'll leave, that way I won't offend your eyes anymore." For a moment Malfoy looked like he was going to retort, but he didn't. He just turned around and started combing his hair with a comb that he pulled from the pocket in his robes. Ginny turned and went out the bathroom slamming the door shut.
What am I gonna do?, she thought, I can't face anyone. Unfortunately the first person Ginny saw was someone who had been in the room, the purple haired women. She was young looking but still too old to be a student. She had a kind face with a determined brow. Ginny noticed that her eye color matched her hair, a dark purple color. The women stuck out her right hand. Ginny took it slightly uncomfortable. This must be a new profesor.
" My name is Miss Maes, and your right Miss Weasly, I am a new profesor. I will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts." Ginny was speachless.
" How did you know what I thought, and how did you know my name?"
" I know alot about you Ginny. So much that even what I saw you do earlier didn't come as a shock." This came as quite a shock to her, and if her thoughts weren't running through her head so quickly she would have had time to register how creepy that had sounded.
" You know what I am?" Ginny asked her voice sounding small.
" Indeed I do, and so does Dumbledore. In fact he has requested that we have a meeting tonight during the feast. I expect that you will be coming, am I mistaken?"
" Um...I guess so." Ginny said slightly reluctanly. She had always loved the opening feast.
" Very good, I will meet you in the entrance hall then." She said with a slight twinkle in her eyes, Ginny turned to leave when the women called out to her- " Oh and Ginny, don't worry about your friends, I am sure they won't even remember." Miss Maes turned away and walked towards the front of the train to the teachers compartment.
" Yeah right.", she said to herself, " I'm sure that what they saw could easily just slip their mind."
Suprisingly though, Miss Maes was mostly right. The next time she saw Harry and Hermione they acted as if nothing had happend. Ron however was looking silently furious. After half an hour, it seemed that Ron could no longer hold his anger in.
" Ginny, can I have a word with you?. In private!" Ginny whom wasn't comepletly sure that she knew what it was about, agreed, and went with him out into the hall.
" Ginny what is wrong with you?! Are you comletely daft?! Using your magic in front of people. Four of whom, may I remind you, are Slytherins! Thankfully that new professor modified their memorys. She didn't modify mine becuase I told her that I already knew. She really is a gem that women, and she saved your arse!"
" She modified their memmories? Is she allowed to do that?" she asked Ron who looked puzzled for a moment before saying that it really didn't matter because she had already done it. After they had all changed into their Hogwarts robes, Neville came bustling in announcing that they were nearly there.
" Hermione," he said exasperatedly, " my Gran says I have to get at least 4 O.W.L.s in Potions or she is going to get me a Potions tutor over the summer. Will you help me? Please? I'd much rather be tutored by you then some old friend of Gran's." Neville was looking so desperate that Hermione would have to have had a hard of stone not to agree to help him.
While they were working out a tutoring schedule, Ginny left to go get her things that she had left in the last train compartment. All that she could think about the entire time she was walking was- I hope Malfoy isn't there. When she reached the compartment she looked inside to see that it was Malfoy-free. She got her bag and her book that was still laying on the floor, and went to the front of the train with the other students. The moment that she stepped out of the train into the fresh air Ginny felt her spirits lift.
" Miss Weasly! Over here!" yelled a womens voice. Ginny turned to see Professor Maes waving her towards her. Ginny went to her and together they got a carriage.
" Do you mind telling me what this meeting is about?" Ginny asked.
" I'd better wait and let you talk to Dumbledore yourself, but I am sure that it wouldn't take much guessing to determine the reasons for the meeting." she said once again with a twinkle in her eyes.
" Um....thank you for..er..what you did for me. It made things alot easier for me."
" I didn't do it to make it easier for you, Ginny. I did it because you made a serious mistake and someone needed to fix it." Professor Maes said strictly while Ginny looked down at the floor, ashamed of her lack of self-control. " But I probobly would have done it anyway, so your welcome." Ginny looked up into Professor Maes smiling face and instantly knew that she was going to love this teacher.
For the rest of the ride to the school they got to know each other. Well more like Ginny got to know Professor Maes, because Professor Maes seemed to already know alot about her. Professor Maes was twenty-seven, unmarried, and with no kids. She had asked Ginny to call her Elizabeth (when they were alone) several times saying Professor Maes was her mothers name and it made her feel old. Elizabeth's mother had been the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts fifteen years ago.
Once they arrived at the school Professor Maes took Ginny up to Dumbledore's office. " Wait here, Dumbledore and I have to make an appearence at the feast but we will not be long. When the sorting starts food will appear on that table." Professor Maes said pointing to a large wooden table. " Make yourself comfortable, I will be back soon." she said, then she left the room with a swoosh of her robes.
It's very hard to make yourself nervous when you are nervous. Ginny took a seat at the wooden table hoping that the food would be there soon. Looking around the room Ginny saw shelves and shelves full of books. She wondered when Dumbledore could possibly have found time to read. She could also see Phawkes perching atop his post. Phawkes turned his bright crimson head towards her and winked.
I am losing my mind! Birds are winking at me!, she thought. She heard the door click and turned to see someone that she was beginning to half suspect seeing everywhere she went.
"Malfoy, what are you doing here?"
" That purple haired lady cornered me in the bathroom and told me that Dumbledore wanted to have some kind of talk with me or something.
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" What did you do?" Ginny asked, her breath coming in gasps.
" I healed you." Malfoy said, still presseing Ginny's body against the wall with his own. Her hand flew up to her face and she pressed her cheek tenderly. There was no pain. She looked back up at Draco, who looked back at her for a moment before moving back and looking towards the door. Ginny ran over and looked in the mirror to see if Malfoy had really healed her. Sure enough, her face was back to normal- almost.
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" Er..Malfoy, is it possible for you to heal scars?" Malfoy looked back at her and shrugged.
" I don't know. Why?"
" Because I had a scar right next to my ear from when I had the chicken pox as a kid, and now it's gone."
" Then I guess I can." he stated blantly. Ginny remained quiet for a moment but soon found that she couldn't stay silent.
" Why?" she asked simply.
" Why what?" His impatience obvious, along with his rising anger. This irked Ginny extremely.
" Don't be stupid, why did you heal me?"
" Because it made you look worse then you did already, and thats bad. I didn't think you could get any uglier, but I see that I was wrong." He said once again cool and colected. Ginny could feel tears welling up in her eyes, but was dertermined not to let him see. She didn't even know why his opinion bothered her so much.
" Fine, I'll leave, that way I won't offend your eyes anymore." For a moment Malfoy looked like he was going to retort, but he didn't. He just turned around and started combing his hair with a comb that he pulled from the pocket in his robes. Ginny turned and went out the bathroom slamming the door shut.
What am I gonna do?, she thought, I can't face anyone. Unfortunately the first person Ginny saw was someone who had been in the room, the purple haired women. She was young looking but still too old to be a student. She had a kind face with a determined brow. Ginny noticed that her eye color matched her hair, a dark purple color. The women stuck out her right hand. Ginny took it slightly uncomfortable. This must be a new profesor.
" My name is Miss Maes, and your right Miss Weasly, I am a new profesor. I will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts." Ginny was speachless.
" How did you know what I thought, and how did you know my name?"
" I know alot about you Ginny. So much that even what I saw you do earlier didn't come as a shock." This came as quite a shock to her, and if her thoughts weren't running through her head so quickly she would have had time to register how creepy that had sounded.
" You know what I am?" Ginny asked her voice sounding small.
" Indeed I do, and so does Dumbledore. In fact he has requested that we have a meeting tonight during the feast. I expect that you will be coming, am I mistaken?"
" Um...I guess so." Ginny said slightly reluctanly. She had always loved the opening feast.
" Very good, I will meet you in the entrance hall then." She said with a slight twinkle in her eyes, Ginny turned to leave when the women called out to her- " Oh and Ginny, don't worry about your friends, I am sure they won't even remember." Miss Maes turned away and walked towards the front of the train to the teachers compartment.
" Yeah right.", she said to herself, " I'm sure that what they saw could easily just slip their mind."
Suprisingly though, Miss Maes was mostly right. The next time she saw Harry and Hermione they acted as if nothing had happend. Ron however was looking silently furious. After half an hour, it seemed that Ron could no longer hold his anger in.
" Ginny, can I have a word with you?. In private!" Ginny whom wasn't comepletly sure that she knew what it was about, agreed, and went with him out into the hall.
" Ginny what is wrong with you?! Are you comletely daft?! Using your magic in front of people. Four of whom, may I remind you, are Slytherins! Thankfully that new professor modified their memorys. She didn't modify mine becuase I told her that I already knew. She really is a gem that women, and she saved your arse!"
" She modified their memmories? Is she allowed to do that?" she asked Ron who looked puzzled for a moment before saying that it really didn't matter because she had already done it. After they had all changed into their Hogwarts robes, Neville came bustling in announcing that they were nearly there.
" Hermione," he said exasperatedly, " my Gran says I have to get at least 4 O.W.L.s in Potions or she is going to get me a Potions tutor over the summer. Will you help me? Please? I'd much rather be tutored by you then some old friend of Gran's." Neville was looking so desperate that Hermione would have to have had a hard of stone not to agree to help him.
While they were working out a tutoring schedule, Ginny left to go get her things that she had left in the last train compartment. All that she could think about the entire time she was walking was- I hope Malfoy isn't there. When she reached the compartment she looked inside to see that it was Malfoy-free. She got her bag and her book that was still laying on the floor, and went to the front of the train with the other students. The moment that she stepped out of the train into the fresh air Ginny felt her spirits lift.
" Miss Weasly! Over here!" yelled a womens voice. Ginny turned to see Professor Maes waving her towards her. Ginny went to her and together they got a carriage.
" Do you mind telling me what this meeting is about?" Ginny asked.
" I'd better wait and let you talk to Dumbledore yourself, but I am sure that it wouldn't take much guessing to determine the reasons for the meeting." she said once again with a twinkle in her eyes.
" Um....thank you for..er..what you did for me. It made things alot easier for me."
" I didn't do it to make it easier for you, Ginny. I did it because you made a serious mistake and someone needed to fix it." Professor Maes said strictly while Ginny looked down at the floor, ashamed of her lack of self-control. " But I probobly would have done it anyway, so your welcome." Ginny looked up into Professor Maes smiling face and instantly knew that she was going to love this teacher.
For the rest of the ride to the school they got to know each other. Well more like Ginny got to know Professor Maes, because Professor Maes seemed to already know alot about her. Professor Maes was twenty-seven, unmarried, and with no kids. She had asked Ginny to call her Elizabeth (when they were alone) several times saying Professor Maes was her mothers name and it made her feel old. Elizabeth's mother had been the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts fifteen years ago.
Once they arrived at the school Professor Maes took Ginny up to Dumbledore's office. " Wait here, Dumbledore and I have to make an appearence at the feast but we will not be long. When the sorting starts food will appear on that table." Professor Maes said pointing to a large wooden table. " Make yourself comfortable, I will be back soon." she said, then she left the room with a swoosh of her robes.
It's very hard to make yourself nervous when you are nervous. Ginny took a seat at the wooden table hoping that the food would be there soon. Looking around the room Ginny saw shelves and shelves full of books. She wondered when Dumbledore could possibly have found time to read. She could also see Phawkes perching atop his post. Phawkes turned his bright crimson head towards her and winked.
I am losing my mind! Birds are winking at me!, she thought. She heard the door click and turned to see someone that she was beginning to half suspect seeing everywhere she went.
"Malfoy, what are you doing here?"
" That purple haired lady cornered me in the bathroom and told me that Dumbledore wanted to have some kind of talk with me or something.