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*annoyingly loud beep in your ear several times*

**Read the warning, please.  I would hate to get sued for broken limbs or brains.

Be careful, and please avoid any plot holes that may show up after this chapter.** This public service announcement has been concluded, but you may read on if you wish.  I just realized something, and I don't think I can fix it without deleting a chapter or three of the original story.  Thank God for sequels, eh?

I'm leaving now.

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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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Ginny's wedding day started out horribly, and it wasn't getting any better.

First, she woke up to Pig flying over her, and he then proceeded to take a dump right on her face.
Next, her curlers weren't where they were supposed to be, so her mother had to put her hair up in a twist instead of curls along with the twist.
When she put on her wedding dress to go to the Malfoy Manor, it ripped in the back. To make matters worse, Hermione, Blossom, Lavendar, Parvati, and Evelyn, her bridesmaids, were late.
"Oh, Gin, it isn't so bad!" her mother said, waving her wand and saying, "Reparo." The dress went to its former glory. Ginny liked the way the bodice had fake diamonds and pearls sewn into it, and the delicate spaghetti straps, along with the full skirt, made the dress the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
When her bridesmaids arrived, Ginny almost blew her top, and made them change into their lavender gowns. Although Ginny didn't like the man she was marrying, that didn't mean that she didn't want everything to be perfect on her wedding day.  What girl didn't want the perfect day?
And then, of course, to make matters worse, Draco walked into her dressing room at the Malfoy Manor.
"Don't you know its bad luck to see the bride before the wedding?" she shrieked, before pushing him out the door. He turned and ran as fast as he could.

When they finally arrived outside, where a Ministry official was waiting to marry Ginny and Draco, everything had pretty much smoothed itself out.

"Welcome friends and family…"the Official started. Ginny sighed. This was going to take forever, she just knew it, and she…

Ginny began to drift out, and she thought about how horrible her life was going to be.  She knew Draco was getting some twisted sort of amusement out of this whole situation, and she was so depressed about it.  She looked around the lawn at the crowd, looking anywhere but at Draco.  She'd have the rest of her life to look at him- she could look around the room for now.
Suddenly it was time for the vows.
"I take this woman as my wife, and along with, all the responsibilities of a husband." Draco repeated after the Official. Then, Ginny repeated,

"I take this man as my husband, along with all the responsibilities as a wife."

She felt as if she were a mindless robot, doing whatever its programmer had asked it to.
"I take your hand as a symbol of marriage.  With this, I promise to protect you from harm against all outside forces." Draco, giving Ginny his hand, repeated after the Official.  Ginny noticed the "against all outside forces", but could say nothing but the words the Official told her to.
"I also take your hand.  With this, I promise to love and obey you, until my last breath." Ginny whispered, dreading the words.  She knew she wasn't getting out of anything.  Feeling the power behind these words she knew, as sure as her name was Virginia Ann Weasley (Malfoy now, she admitted), that there would be no divorce.

The Ministry Official then made a swift cut on each of their hands, put their hands together, and bound them with a piece of white cloth.
"It is finished." The Ministry Official muttered, and a great cheer rose from the crowd. Ginny and Draco came out of the semi-trance they had been in, and blushed. They tried to move apart, but their hands were still tied together. They looked at each other, made faces, and walked back down the aisle together. What else could they do? It was their wedding, it was expected. As soon as they had made it away from the people, and into their bedroom, they hurriedly threw the cloth on a dresser. They had been instructed not to throw it away, but that didn't mean they didn't want to. It was, after all, a symbol of the marriage that both of them despised, Ginny more than Draco. Draco was going to use the marriage to his advantage, to get Ginny as angry as he could. He knew there was nothing she could do about it, as he had more control over her actions that she had over his.
The reception was beautiful, and, unfortunately for Draco, Harry Potter was one of the guests. Molly and Ginny had insisted on it, and nothing the Malfoy family could say would change their minds (One more thing to get even with Ginny about, Draco thought to himself). 

After Harry had given them both his best wishes, he took Ginny aside. 

"Look, Gin," he began, "if you ever want to get away from Malfoy, just tell me, or Ron, or any of your other brothers.  We'll make sure neither your mother or father know, either."

Malfoy watched Ginny and Harry talking from a distance.  Ah, yes, it was time for him to make his move.

"Potter, Virginia." He said snootily, nodding to each in turn.  "Nice of you to join us, Potter, but I'm afraid I need to take my wife away now.  Come on, Virginia."

Ginny glared at him, but she was already being taken away from Harry. 

"Why did you do that, Malfoy?" She hissed at him.  He smiled.

"It's Draco, dear." He reminded her sweetly.

Ginny didn't answer, but began to walk away.  He grabbed her elbow and pulled her back to him. 

"Stop it, Malfoy.  Let go!" she hissed.   He smiled and shook his head.

"No.  I'm not going to let you go talk to Potter on our wedding night.  Oh, wait!  I'm not going to let you talk to him ever."

"You can't stop me, you arrogant piece of-"

"Oh, but I can." He replied threateningly and kissed her.

Her eyes widened.  She tried to push away from him, but he held her tightly.  Ginny glared at him when he finished kissing her, but it was obvious that to anyone who was watching that Draco was in control.  Finally, she relaxed, and his grip loosened.  She pulled away and he looked at her.

"Oh, and did that prove anything, Virginia?"

"Yes.  It proved that you aren't in control."

"You're so full of it, Ginny." He said, rolling his eyes.  She looked at him, wondering what was up his sleeve.  Draco smirked.  Good.  He'd put her in her place.

"You'd best watch it, Malfoy." Ginny said threateningly, but she really had no idea what she was threatening him with.  From his smirk, it was obvious that he knew she didn't know, too. 

God how she wanted to kill him!

As Ginny politely spoke to people the rest of the night, she thought of Harry's offer.  Although she wanted nothing more than to take it, she knew that she would never do it.  It was for her family that she married Malfoy, and it was for her family that she'd stay married to him.  Well, at least until one of them killed the other.  

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Ha!  Bah, it isn't very long, but I'm okay with that, and you're okay with that… and you will be okay with that… la!

I'm going to go now.  TTYL

~Lili

Thanks to those who reviewed!

Oh, and congratulations to those who got the trivia question right!  The correct answer:  Video Killed the Radio Star.   Good job, scifisarah!  I'm not sure if anyone else got it right, because I uploaded the chapter at 11:25 at night and was ready to go to sleep.  Of course, I could have just waited to upload, but I'm a butthead like that.

Next trivia question: Which Greek god devoured all but one of his six children at birth because he feared they would overthrow him?

I think the trivia is so much more fun than pondering the meaning of life (for any who read the original copy of this story, you know how I did that for three or four chapters?  Yeah, I'm giving that up for now.), because you can learn so much useless information (unless, of course, you go on a game show where this information might be useful…) and I can laugh. 

But I'm leaving now, and going to sleep.