What happened before
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." he said nonchalantly.
Chapter 15
" Why would he want to talk to you?" Ginny said before she could stop herlself. She didn't mean it the way it sounded. That's just how it came out. He glared at her through the narrowed slits that were now his eyes, but obviously decided that he didn't want to reply because he sat down across from her and folded his arms over his chest. They sat in silence for a few moments with the only sounds coming from the portraits. Ginny noticed that Malfoy kept casting nervous glances around Dumbledore's office, and a thought occured to her.
" Malfoy are you afraid to be in here?" she asked failing to hide her grin.
" No." he said calmly. Ginny would have believed him too, except thats when the food appeared with a loud crack and a puff of smoke. When the smoked cleared enough for her to see properly she leaned over the table and saw that he had fallen out of his chair. Ginny laughed so hard that she had to close her eyes and clutch her stomache. With her eyes closed she didn't see Malfoy get up and cross the room towards her. Before she knew it, he once again had her in his grasp. He was holding her arms in his grip, and pressing his body against hers to keep it against the wall.
" Oww, stop it! Let go, your hurting me." she yelped.
" Oh yeah, now im going to let you go!" he laughed, but his grip on her did lighten up a good deal. She wondered why he did that but was just happy that he did. " Didn't I tell you not to laugh at me."
" Well if you really didn't want me to laugh then why did you do funny things?" She said.
" They were only funny to you because people with low IQs are easily ammused."
" People with low IQs are ammusing when they do stupid things." she replied. Both of them knew that they could go on for days. Ginny was starting to feel the lightheaded feeling that she got whenever Malfoy was too close. There was something about Malfoy's eyes that drew Ginny in. She could look into them for days and still not know what he was thinking. He didn't open up, not to anyone, and niether did she. They were so different yet so alike, it was complicated but so easy to understand.
" What are you doing?" Ginny asked, whispering, when he still hadn't let go of her.
" I don't know." he said truthfully, and Ginny could see the cold hardness that he kept over his eyes, soften. Malfoy's face, which was already dangerously close, began to drift even closer to hers. For a moment Ginny thought about kissing the undenialably gorgeous boy in front of her that was so obviously unattainable to someone like her....but then she thought of all the mean things he had said to her and probobly would say to her. It's probobly just a sick joke, she thought, disgusted with herself for even thinking of kissing him. He was the enemy, and he always would be.
" Get away from me!" She yelled. He jumped back and put his hand to the ear that she had practically deafened.
" What the hell was that for?"
" What do you think! I don't know what kind of girl you think that I am, but it's obviously not what you think. You've lost your mind, Im leaving!" Ginny turned around just as the door opened. Dumbledore and Maes came inside both looking rather amused.
" I see that you two have not been fighting," Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling at Malfoy. " I do not want to keep you too long so I propose we eat so that we can get down to bussiness." Dumbledore gestured toward the table and the four of them sat down. The tension in the room was so high that even Phawkes was unusually still. Dumbledores eyes were boring holes into the heads of both Ginny and Draco, who were gazing around at things in the office, pretending to be interested. Ginny looked around the office without seeing anything inside of it. She was too busy trying to avoid every single gaze in the room.
Dumbledore, seeing that he'd have to be the one to break the silence, said, " Well, since their is no friendly small talk taking place, I suppose I will begin the official meeting. Go ahead, load your plates." he said pointing at the food on the table. " This is a dinner meeting."
Ginny had lost her appetite ages ago, but she loaded a small pile of mash potatoes on her plate so that Dumbledore would continue speaking.
" Well then, I suppose the first order of bussiness would be to tell you that I know of your special gifts. I've known about them for years. Ginny," he said turning towards her, " you should have died in the chamber of secrets, but you didn't because Lifters can't be killed unless they want to die. Draco you should have died a few different times in your home, but you didn't because Healers can't be killed unless you want to die either." Ginny looked over at Draco who caught her eye and then looked at the floor pulling his robes tighter around his body. Ginny looked at Dumbledore and by the look in his eyes she knew that she'd been right about Draco's dad. She suddenly felt very bad for being so mean to him know that she knew how serious it was.
" Now that we have cleared that up, will you two please take out your necklace's. These necklaces were made over a century ago, and have been waiting for you two to be born and come into your powers. Ginny's is a white rose with a white chain which symbolizes being born into a family on the light side, and Draco's is black to sybolize being born into a family on the dark side. Both of you need to understand, however, that it doesn't matter what family your from. The path that you choose is completely up to you."
Ginny knew that he said this for Draco, but for the first time in her life, she realized that she wasn't just on the light side. She would have to choose.
" Thats all that you need to know about these necklaces right now," continued Dumbledore. " The next order of business is to assign your extra classes. Yes- I did say extra classes." he said laughing at the look of misery on both the students faces. " Actually it's only one exra class, I am going to change you both from your Care of Magical Creatures class and instead that period you'll have a private lesson with Professor Maes in her classroom. As for your extra class, you will both go to Professor Maes' classroom at 8'oclock on Modays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Any questions?" he asked cheerfully.
" Yeah, I've got one." said Malfoy. "Why should we do what you want?"
Dumbledore smiled. " I didn't ask you to do it because I wanted you to but because you need to. You need to learn not only how to use your powers properly but also how to expand and control them." he said, looking at Ginny sternly. " I will simply provide you the training. What you do with that is, of course, your choice. Do you have any questions. Ginny?"
" Um...not right now." she said.
" Alright then, if you think of a question, you are always welcome to ask. Since that is all of the business I have that concerns you, Ginny, you may go."
" What about me?" asked Malfoy loudly.
" There is still a matter that I need to discuss with you. Professor, " he said turning to Professor Maes, who hadn't said anything during the meeting, " will you please show Ginny out, and inform her of the new Gryffindor password."
" Of course, " she said, " Ginny, come with me." Professor Maes took Ginny out of the office and down the spiral staircase. " The new Gryffindor password is ' FreckledPigsnout'. Get some rest, and I will see you tomorrow." Professor Maes turned and went back up the stairs and into Dumbledore's office. Ginny turned and started walking to Gryffindor tower. She was thinking about the lessons and having to have a class with Malfoy three nights a week, ugh! Ginny went through the meeting over and over again in her head, and in the end, she always came up with the same conclusion. There was something Dumbledore wasn't telling them. He didn't even mention the inscriptions on my necklace, she thought to herslef. She continued to go through the meeting to see if she could salvage any clue to what Dumbledore was hiding, and before she realized it, she was at the portrait of the fat lady.
" Password?", the fat lady asked.
Should I go in, or should I go for a walk? Um...walk I think...yes! That way by the time I get back everyone will be settled down. Ginny turned away from the portrait and began her walk. She walked for nearly an hour, just thinking about the meeting, and then about the things that had happened to her that summer, and then, against her better judgement, she began to think about Malfoy. The way he'd look at her and not say anything and how they could just sit there staring at each other, and attempt to read it other, which they could never really do. She thought of the way that she started to feel weird around him and she wondered why that happened. Maybe he's changed, well of course he has changed. Maybe it's because I never really spoke to him until this summer, or maybe it's because...well,...maybe it's becuase I've changed. Not that she had a crush on Malfoy or anything. She just didn't hate him now. She kept walking, but now she was trying not to think of anything.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
Something was behind her. Ginny turned around, and to her horror and disgust, fifteen feet away stood a giant, black, ugly, spider. The spider started to move towards her, venom dripping from its mouth. Ginny, not being able to think of anything better to do at the time, ran as fast as she could along the corridor that she was on. The spider took three great leaps and had closed nearly half of the gap that was between them.
" Someone help me!" Ginny yelled looking back at the spider.
Bam!
Ginny ran into something hard, but instead of falling backwards she felt strong arms close around her body. She looked up and saw the same fifth year slytherin that had tried to stop Goyle from punching her.
" Run!", she yelled grabbing his hand and pulling him with her.
" Why are we running?", he asked as he let her pull him down the corridor.
" Take a look behind you."
He turned to look, then he imediately sped up. Now he was pulling Ginny. They came to the end of the hall and had to choose which way to go, right or left.
" Come this way!" he said pulling her to the left. After they turned left they ran along the hall just until they came to another intersecting hallway. From there they turned right, then left, and then left again. Dead end.
" We have to go back, that spider will be here any minute." said Ginny, starting towards the hall.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
" We can't go back." he said grabbing her hand and pulling her to a portrait of a small blonded headed girl. She was wearing a white sundress and standing beside a golden pony.
" Lily, it's me, Blaise. Al didn't tell me the new password, but can you let me, please. There's something really bad after us." The little girl sadly shook her head.
" Blaise told me not to let anyone in if they didn't have the password, even if they looked exactly like him." Ginny expected Blaise to be violent when he didn't get his way ( he was a Slytherin after all.), but he wasn't.
" Your right Lily, your doing a good job. Can you tell me if Al is inside?"
The little girl nodded. " He is inside.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
It was close now, very close.
" Can you get him for me, Lily?", he asked.
The little girl thought for a second. Then she nodded and left.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
Ginny and Blaise both turned at the noise and saw that the spider had already started towards them.
" What do we do now?" Ginny asked.
" Al! We need help!" Blaise yelled. The spider was nearly up to the portrait now. Ginny and Blaise had to back up.
" Know any spells?" he asked taking out his wand. Ginny felt in her pocket for her wand, but she couldn't feel anything. She'd let her wand in her bag, and she'd left her bag in Dumbledores office.
" No, and even if I did it wouldn't help us anyway. I don't have my wand." she said.
" Oh, well, I know a few that I can try, but just the same I wouldn't want us to die together before being properly introduced." He stuck out his right hand. " I'm Blaise Zanbini."
Ginny did the same. " Ginny Weasly."
" Nice to meet you, Ginny. It would have been even nicer if we weren't being chased by a freakishly large spider that's trying to kill us, but you can't be picky." he said halfway smiling at her. They're backs were almost touching the wall now. Blaise took a step forward and stepped in front of Ginny shielding her from the spider.
" Jack?" asked a voice. " Where are- okay that's not normal. What is it." They couldn't see the speaker, the spider was so big that they couldn't see over or around it.
" Al! Were trapped between the spider and the wall. We need your help. Do you know any spells that work on spiders?" Blaise answered back.
" Um... I don't know, but I will try." Both boys started casting spells, one after another at the spider. Ginny didn't recognize hardly any of them. At first she thought that it was because they were a year older then her, but then she noticed that when they would cast some spells she would start to feel sick. Her head would start to hurt, and she'd feel like she was going to throw-up, but then it would go away.
The spider was only about five feet away when a thought occured to Ginny. She closed her eyes and thought about pulling the legs off the spider, then she started pulling imaginary legs off an imaginary spider in the air.
" Uh... Al, did you do that?" Blaise asked.
" No, I thought you did." Ginny opened her eyes. First she noticed that her idea had worked and the spider was now immoblie, next, she noticed that, since taking off the legs had reduced the height off the spider, she could now see who Al was. It was Malfoy.
" Ah, it was her." Malfoy said almost laughing. " Took you long enough, Ginny."
He called me Ginny, she thought. He's never done that before, well I don't think he has anyway.
" No, it wasn't her, she doesn't have her wand with her. You must've done something without realizing it." said Blaise. This time Malfoy did laugh.
" No, it really was her, she's a Lifter. I will tell you all about it inside. Right now, we have to get rid off this." he said pointing at the spider. " Any ideas?"
" I've got one." Ginny said. Malfoy looked at her and they held each others gaze a second too long. Blaise was looking at them suspiciously.
" Okay then. What is it." Blaise asked.
" I turn it over, then one of you two cast a shrinking spell at the stomache, and then someone steps on it." Malfoy and Blaise looked at each other and nodded. Ginny closed her eyes and turned her hand over. She opened her eyes and saw Blaise standing right in front of her, so close that their noses were almost touching. He was in complete shock.
" That was so cool, can you teach me how to do that?" Ginny smiled and stepped around him.
" No, sorry." At first she'd been a little nervous that Malfoy had told him, but now it felt kind of good. She heard Malfoy cast a spell, and walked over to where the shrunken spider lay.
" Gross." she said as Malfoy stepped on it. Malfoy rolled his eyes.
" It was your plan." he said.
" Yes, and it's still gross." He rolled his eyes again.
" Blaise I think we should get out of the hallway now, Filch will be by soon."
" How do you know when Filch will be by?" Ginny asked.
" He has a general rotation that he follows everynight. Every once and a while he'll go somewhere on instinct but mostly it's just routine." said Malfoy.
" That's useful." she said. Blaise laughed.
" No kidding, pitty we didn't find out until the middle of last year." he said. Malfoy laughed too. " Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you," Blaise said, talking to Malfoy, " Lily is a very good gaurd. She wouldn't let me inside because I didn't have the password even though I was being chased by an enormous spider." They both laughed again, and then walked to the portrait of the little girl.
" Cotton Candy." Malfoy said to the little girl. She smiled and then the portrait opened to show a passage way just like Gryffindor tower did. The boys both started to go through the passage, laughing and joking. Ginny stood there akwardly for a second, and then she began to walk back the way she came.
She had barely passed the portrait hole Malfoy and Zanbini went through when she heard someone say " Where are you going." She turned and both boys were standing just inside the passage.
" Excuse me?" she asked.
" I asked where you were going." said Blaise smiling. He was very attractive, especially when he smiled.
" Im going to Gryffindor tow- place." she said correcting herself. She'd almost said tower, and that would have given them a good idea of where the Gryffindors stayed.
" Okay, let me rephrase that. Why are you going?" Blaise said.
" What do you mean?"
" I thought you were coming with us." he said.
" In there? No, thanks. I really should be getting back." she said thinking of an excuse.
" Come on, Ginny. We don't bite." said Malfoy, instantly regretting what he said as Ginny's hand flew to the vampire marks on her neck. " Sorry bad choice of words." Blaise looked at them. He knew something was going on there, he just didn't know what. Yet! Ginny thought about it. She didn't really feel like going back to Gryffindor, and she didn't think Malfoy would do anything with Blaise there.
" I don't think im suppose to." she said still trying to decide.
" Well, I know for a fact you don't always do what your suppose to" Malfoy said. Now Blaise was determined to get to the bottom of it.
" Okay" said Ginny, finally deciding, " but only because my life isn't weird enough right now." Blaise laughed
" Who knew that she'd be this sarcastic."
"Just wait." said Malfoy.
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." he said nonchalantly.
Chapter 15
" Why would he want to talk to you?" Ginny said before she could stop herlself. She didn't mean it the way it sounded. That's just how it came out. He glared at her through the narrowed slits that were now his eyes, but obviously decided that he didn't want to reply because he sat down across from her and folded his arms over his chest. They sat in silence for a few moments with the only sounds coming from the portraits. Ginny noticed that Malfoy kept casting nervous glances around Dumbledore's office, and a thought occured to her.
" Malfoy are you afraid to be in here?" she asked failing to hide her grin.
" No." he said calmly. Ginny would have believed him too, except thats when the food appeared with a loud crack and a puff of smoke. When the smoked cleared enough for her to see properly she leaned over the table and saw that he had fallen out of his chair. Ginny laughed so hard that she had to close her eyes and clutch her stomache. With her eyes closed she didn't see Malfoy get up and cross the room towards her. Before she knew it, he once again had her in his grasp. He was holding her arms in his grip, and pressing his body against hers to keep it against the wall.
" Oww, stop it! Let go, your hurting me." she yelped.
" Oh yeah, now im going to let you go!" he laughed, but his grip on her did lighten up a good deal. She wondered why he did that but was just happy that he did. " Didn't I tell you not to laugh at me."
" Well if you really didn't want me to laugh then why did you do funny things?" She said.
" They were only funny to you because people with low IQs are easily ammused."
" People with low IQs are ammusing when they do stupid things." she replied. Both of them knew that they could go on for days. Ginny was starting to feel the lightheaded feeling that she got whenever Malfoy was too close. There was something about Malfoy's eyes that drew Ginny in. She could look into them for days and still not know what he was thinking. He didn't open up, not to anyone, and niether did she. They were so different yet so alike, it was complicated but so easy to understand.
" What are you doing?" Ginny asked, whispering, when he still hadn't let go of her.
" I don't know." he said truthfully, and Ginny could see the cold hardness that he kept over his eyes, soften. Malfoy's face, which was already dangerously close, began to drift even closer to hers. For a moment Ginny thought about kissing the undenialably gorgeous boy in front of her that was so obviously unattainable to someone like her....but then she thought of all the mean things he had said to her and probobly would say to her. It's probobly just a sick joke, she thought, disgusted with herself for even thinking of kissing him. He was the enemy, and he always would be.
" Get away from me!" She yelled. He jumped back and put his hand to the ear that she had practically deafened.
" What the hell was that for?"
" What do you think! I don't know what kind of girl you think that I am, but it's obviously not what you think. You've lost your mind, Im leaving!" Ginny turned around just as the door opened. Dumbledore and Maes came inside both looking rather amused.
" I see that you two have not been fighting," Dumbledore said, his eyes twinkling at Malfoy. " I do not want to keep you too long so I propose we eat so that we can get down to bussiness." Dumbledore gestured toward the table and the four of them sat down. The tension in the room was so high that even Phawkes was unusually still. Dumbledores eyes were boring holes into the heads of both Ginny and Draco, who were gazing around at things in the office, pretending to be interested. Ginny looked around the office without seeing anything inside of it. She was too busy trying to avoid every single gaze in the room.
Dumbledore, seeing that he'd have to be the one to break the silence, said, " Well, since their is no friendly small talk taking place, I suppose I will begin the official meeting. Go ahead, load your plates." he said pointing at the food on the table. " This is a dinner meeting."
Ginny had lost her appetite ages ago, but she loaded a small pile of mash potatoes on her plate so that Dumbledore would continue speaking.
" Well then, I suppose the first order of bussiness would be to tell you that I know of your special gifts. I've known about them for years. Ginny," he said turning towards her, " you should have died in the chamber of secrets, but you didn't because Lifters can't be killed unless they want to die. Draco you should have died a few different times in your home, but you didn't because Healers can't be killed unless you want to die either." Ginny looked over at Draco who caught her eye and then looked at the floor pulling his robes tighter around his body. Ginny looked at Dumbledore and by the look in his eyes she knew that she'd been right about Draco's dad. She suddenly felt very bad for being so mean to him know that she knew how serious it was.
" Now that we have cleared that up, will you two please take out your necklace's. These necklaces were made over a century ago, and have been waiting for you two to be born and come into your powers. Ginny's is a white rose with a white chain which symbolizes being born into a family on the light side, and Draco's is black to sybolize being born into a family on the dark side. Both of you need to understand, however, that it doesn't matter what family your from. The path that you choose is completely up to you."
Ginny knew that he said this for Draco, but for the first time in her life, she realized that she wasn't just on the light side. She would have to choose.
" Thats all that you need to know about these necklaces right now," continued Dumbledore. " The next order of business is to assign your extra classes. Yes- I did say extra classes." he said laughing at the look of misery on both the students faces. " Actually it's only one exra class, I am going to change you both from your Care of Magical Creatures class and instead that period you'll have a private lesson with Professor Maes in her classroom. As for your extra class, you will both go to Professor Maes' classroom at 8'oclock on Modays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Any questions?" he asked cheerfully.
" Yeah, I've got one." said Malfoy. "Why should we do what you want?"
Dumbledore smiled. " I didn't ask you to do it because I wanted you to but because you need to. You need to learn not only how to use your powers properly but also how to expand and control them." he said, looking at Ginny sternly. " I will simply provide you the training. What you do with that is, of course, your choice. Do you have any questions. Ginny?"
" Um...not right now." she said.
" Alright then, if you think of a question, you are always welcome to ask. Since that is all of the business I have that concerns you, Ginny, you may go."
" What about me?" asked Malfoy loudly.
" There is still a matter that I need to discuss with you. Professor, " he said turning to Professor Maes, who hadn't said anything during the meeting, " will you please show Ginny out, and inform her of the new Gryffindor password."
" Of course, " she said, " Ginny, come with me." Professor Maes took Ginny out of the office and down the spiral staircase. " The new Gryffindor password is ' FreckledPigsnout'. Get some rest, and I will see you tomorrow." Professor Maes turned and went back up the stairs and into Dumbledore's office. Ginny turned and started walking to Gryffindor tower. She was thinking about the lessons and having to have a class with Malfoy three nights a week, ugh! Ginny went through the meeting over and over again in her head, and in the end, she always came up with the same conclusion. There was something Dumbledore wasn't telling them. He didn't even mention the inscriptions on my necklace, she thought to herslef. She continued to go through the meeting to see if she could salvage any clue to what Dumbledore was hiding, and before she realized it, she was at the portrait of the fat lady.
" Password?", the fat lady asked.
Should I go in, or should I go for a walk? Um...walk I think...yes! That way by the time I get back everyone will be settled down. Ginny turned away from the portrait and began her walk. She walked for nearly an hour, just thinking about the meeting, and then about the things that had happened to her that summer, and then, against her better judgement, she began to think about Malfoy. The way he'd look at her and not say anything and how they could just sit there staring at each other, and attempt to read it other, which they could never really do. She thought of the way that she started to feel weird around him and she wondered why that happened. Maybe he's changed, well of course he has changed. Maybe it's because I never really spoke to him until this summer, or maybe it's because...well,...maybe it's becuase I've changed. Not that she had a crush on Malfoy or anything. She just didn't hate him now. She kept walking, but now she was trying not to think of anything.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
Something was behind her. Ginny turned around, and to her horror and disgust, fifteen feet away stood a giant, black, ugly, spider. The spider started to move towards her, venom dripping from its mouth. Ginny, not being able to think of anything better to do at the time, ran as fast as she could along the corridor that she was on. The spider took three great leaps and had closed nearly half of the gap that was between them.
" Someone help me!" Ginny yelled looking back at the spider.
Bam!
Ginny ran into something hard, but instead of falling backwards she felt strong arms close around her body. She looked up and saw the same fifth year slytherin that had tried to stop Goyle from punching her.
" Run!", she yelled grabbing his hand and pulling him with her.
" Why are we running?", he asked as he let her pull him down the corridor.
" Take a look behind you."
He turned to look, then he imediately sped up. Now he was pulling Ginny. They came to the end of the hall and had to choose which way to go, right or left.
" Come this way!" he said pulling her to the left. After they turned left they ran along the hall just until they came to another intersecting hallway. From there they turned right, then left, and then left again. Dead end.
" We have to go back, that spider will be here any minute." said Ginny, starting towards the hall.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
" We can't go back." he said grabbing her hand and pulling her to a portrait of a small blonded headed girl. She was wearing a white sundress and standing beside a golden pony.
" Lily, it's me, Blaise. Al didn't tell me the new password, but can you let me, please. There's something really bad after us." The little girl sadly shook her head.
" Blaise told me not to let anyone in if they didn't have the password, even if they looked exactly like him." Ginny expected Blaise to be violent when he didn't get his way ( he was a Slytherin after all.), but he wasn't.
" Your right Lily, your doing a good job. Can you tell me if Al is inside?"
The little girl nodded. " He is inside.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
It was close now, very close.
" Can you get him for me, Lily?", he asked.
The little girl thought for a second. Then she nodded and left.
Ssscrt ssscrt.
Ginny and Blaise both turned at the noise and saw that the spider had already started towards them.
" What do we do now?" Ginny asked.
" Al! We need help!" Blaise yelled. The spider was nearly up to the portrait now. Ginny and Blaise had to back up.
" Know any spells?" he asked taking out his wand. Ginny felt in her pocket for her wand, but she couldn't feel anything. She'd let her wand in her bag, and she'd left her bag in Dumbledores office.
" No, and even if I did it wouldn't help us anyway. I don't have my wand." she said.
" Oh, well, I know a few that I can try, but just the same I wouldn't want us to die together before being properly introduced." He stuck out his right hand. " I'm Blaise Zanbini."
Ginny did the same. " Ginny Weasly."
" Nice to meet you, Ginny. It would have been even nicer if we weren't being chased by a freakishly large spider that's trying to kill us, but you can't be picky." he said halfway smiling at her. They're backs were almost touching the wall now. Blaise took a step forward and stepped in front of Ginny shielding her from the spider.
" Jack?" asked a voice. " Where are- okay that's not normal. What is it." They couldn't see the speaker, the spider was so big that they couldn't see over or around it.
" Al! Were trapped between the spider and the wall. We need your help. Do you know any spells that work on spiders?" Blaise answered back.
" Um... I don't know, but I will try." Both boys started casting spells, one after another at the spider. Ginny didn't recognize hardly any of them. At first she thought that it was because they were a year older then her, but then she noticed that when they would cast some spells she would start to feel sick. Her head would start to hurt, and she'd feel like she was going to throw-up, but then it would go away.
The spider was only about five feet away when a thought occured to Ginny. She closed her eyes and thought about pulling the legs off the spider, then she started pulling imaginary legs off an imaginary spider in the air.
" Uh... Al, did you do that?" Blaise asked.
" No, I thought you did." Ginny opened her eyes. First she noticed that her idea had worked and the spider was now immoblie, next, she noticed that, since taking off the legs had reduced the height off the spider, she could now see who Al was. It was Malfoy.
" Ah, it was her." Malfoy said almost laughing. " Took you long enough, Ginny."
He called me Ginny, she thought. He's never done that before, well I don't think he has anyway.
" No, it wasn't her, she doesn't have her wand with her. You must've done something without realizing it." said Blaise. This time Malfoy did laugh.
" No, it really was her, she's a Lifter. I will tell you all about it inside. Right now, we have to get rid off this." he said pointing at the spider. " Any ideas?"
" I've got one." Ginny said. Malfoy looked at her and they held each others gaze a second too long. Blaise was looking at them suspiciously.
" Okay then. What is it." Blaise asked.
" I turn it over, then one of you two cast a shrinking spell at the stomache, and then someone steps on it." Malfoy and Blaise looked at each other and nodded. Ginny closed her eyes and turned her hand over. She opened her eyes and saw Blaise standing right in front of her, so close that their noses were almost touching. He was in complete shock.
" That was so cool, can you teach me how to do that?" Ginny smiled and stepped around him.
" No, sorry." At first she'd been a little nervous that Malfoy had told him, but now it felt kind of good. She heard Malfoy cast a spell, and walked over to where the shrunken spider lay.
" Gross." she said as Malfoy stepped on it. Malfoy rolled his eyes.
" It was your plan." he said.
" Yes, and it's still gross." He rolled his eyes again.
" Blaise I think we should get out of the hallway now, Filch will be by soon."
" How do you know when Filch will be by?" Ginny asked.
" He has a general rotation that he follows everynight. Every once and a while he'll go somewhere on instinct but mostly it's just routine." said Malfoy.
" That's useful." she said. Blaise laughed.
" No kidding, pitty we didn't find out until the middle of last year." he said. Malfoy laughed too. " Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you," Blaise said, talking to Malfoy, " Lily is a very good gaurd. She wouldn't let me inside because I didn't have the password even though I was being chased by an enormous spider." They both laughed again, and then walked to the portrait of the little girl.
" Cotton Candy." Malfoy said to the little girl. She smiled and then the portrait opened to show a passage way just like Gryffindor tower did. The boys both started to go through the passage, laughing and joking. Ginny stood there akwardly for a second, and then she began to walk back the way she came.
She had barely passed the portrait hole Malfoy and Zanbini went through when she heard someone say " Where are you going." She turned and both boys were standing just inside the passage.
" Excuse me?" she asked.
" I asked where you were going." said Blaise smiling. He was very attractive, especially when he smiled.
" Im going to Gryffindor tow- place." she said correcting herself. She'd almost said tower, and that would have given them a good idea of where the Gryffindors stayed.
" Okay, let me rephrase that. Why are you going?" Blaise said.
" What do you mean?"
" I thought you were coming with us." he said.
" In there? No, thanks. I really should be getting back." she said thinking of an excuse.
" Come on, Ginny. We don't bite." said Malfoy, instantly regretting what he said as Ginny's hand flew to the vampire marks on her neck. " Sorry bad choice of words." Blaise looked at them. He knew something was going on there, he just didn't know what. Yet! Ginny thought about it. She didn't really feel like going back to Gryffindor, and she didn't think Malfoy would do anything with Blaise there.
" I don't think im suppose to." she said still trying to decide.
" Well, I know for a fact you don't always do what your suppose to" Malfoy said. Now Blaise was determined to get to the bottom of it.
" Okay" said Ginny, finally deciding, " but only because my life isn't weird enough right now." Blaise laughed
" Who knew that she'd be this sarcastic."
"Just wait." said Malfoy.