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Draco Malfoy::
A/N: My BRAND new story people. Please review I know it gets annoying to here that but hey.
Chapter 1: Getting to know one another and passes
Draco was walking through the Charms corridor. It was about 2 in the morning. He couldn't sleep so he decided to take a walk. He was taking advantage of the fact that today was the first day back from Winter Break.
During Break, Draco was forced to come home to the Manor for Christmas, his mother had insisted on it. Draco wasn't too happy about it. It wasn't that he didn't like spending time with his mother, on the contrary, he loved his mother. His father was the reason he didn't want to go. He loathed he father.
A lot of people, especially the Gryffindor's, thought that Draco wanted to be, and was like, his father. But Draco actually tried to be everything but his father. Sure, he always picked on Potter, didn't like Gryffindor's, and was always breaking the school rules. All those things didn't mean that he was going to be a Deatheater when he graduated.
Lucius had it in his mind that Draco was going to be a Deatheater and just so he wouldn't get in trouble Draco let him believe it, but the truth was Draco hated Voldemort and couldn't stand the fact of bowing down and kissing someone's feet, it was appalling.
No, he had his own plans. A plan that involved a redheaded Weasley girl. He had liked Ginny for a couple of years now it started in his 5th year. Even though he was in his 7th year the liking never changed, it actually got more.
He never got to talk to her. She was always around The Dream Team. He decided last night that he didn't care who she was around he was going to talk to her.
He knew for a fact that she had it in her mind, by her brothers, that he was mean and would hurt her when he got the chance. Of course Draco would never hurt her, but she didn't know that. Well he was going to prove it to her, and Potter and his little groupies will not get in the way.
He was going to talk to her tomorrow at breakfast. He looked at his watch. I should go to bed if I want to be awake for breakfast tomorrow.
He started to walk back to the dungeons and to the Slytherin Common room.
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When Draco walked into the Great Hall that morning he didn't even look at the Slytherin table he just walked over to the Gryffindor table. All the Gryffindor's began to glare at him, as he walked toward Potter and Co.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked up at him. Ron was getting ready for a fight. Hermione was getting ready to hold Ron and Harry back.
"Morning." Draco said as he sat down next to Ginny.
Ginny just looked at Hermione in confusion.
"What do you want Malfoy and why are sitting at our table." Ron said as he almost jumped across it.
"Calm down Weasley, I'm not here to talk to you." Draco said rolling his eyes. He turned away from them and put all of his attention to Ginny. "Hello, Ginny"
Ginny got nervous. Why was he talking to her? What does he want? "Hello Malfoy." She said trying to be nice anyway.
"I prefer Draco. You're probably wondering why I'm talking to you. Well I'll tell you, if you go on a walk with me." Draco said standing up.
"WHAT? YOU ARE NOT TAKING MY SISTER ANYWHERE."
"I don't believe I asked you." Draco snapped. Draco held out a hand for Ginny to take.
Ginny hesitated. She looked at her brother and his friends. She didn't have anything to do anyway. It's not like she can hang out with Ron, Harry, and Hermione. They're always ignoring her and she doesn't have any friends at Hogwarts. She didn't have anything to lose.
"Sure, I'll come." Ginny Smiled at him.
"Good, come on." He grabbed her hand.
Ron jumped up out of his seat. Hermione kept trying to pull him down. "Ginny, Why are you going with that stupid git?"
"Because it's not like anyone around here talks to me anyway." Ginny said as she walked off with Draco.
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There was a long Silence for a while as they walked out to the lake. Draco was trying to organize what to say to her but every time he thought he had it down and tried to open his mouth, it wouldn't come out.
Ginny was nervous. She wasn't sure what to talk about. She wasn't even comfortable with being around Draco, let alone hold a conversation with him.
"Umm... The reason I brought you out here was to ask you a favor." Draco said trying to hide his nervousness.
"What kind of favor?" Ginny asked eyeing him suspiciously.
"I know all about you. I want you to get to know me, not through your brothers."
"If you know all about me then, what's my favorite kind of flower?"
"Lily." Draco smirked in triumph when he saw the shocked look on her face.
"My favorite kind of books?"
"A Muggle named William Shakespeare, and you favorite play from his is, As you like it." Draco grabbed her hand. "Ginny I really like you and I want you to get to know me. Please that's all I ask, even if you don't want to go farther then friends. I just want you to know me." Draco was lying somewhat because he would get her to like him more then a friend, it is his goal and Malfoy's always get what they want.
"Why do you like me? And why is it so important I get to know you?"
"I like you because you're sweet, cute, and I love your personality. It's important to me because not a lot of people know who I really am."
Ginny looked at him as if trying to see if he was telling the truth instead of all of a sudden changing it around and hurting her. "I thought you were just like your father."
Draco's eyes went cold. "I am nothing like my father. I hate my father."
Ginny saw the pain in his eyes after she made that comment. She could also tell he was trying to cover up his emotions. "Why do you hide?" It came out of her mouth before she even knew it.
"What?" He asked shocked because she had caught him off guard.
"Why do you hide who you truly are to people." Ginny sat down on the ground next to a tree waiting for Draco to explain and for him to sit.
Draco sat down next to her. He stayed silent for a while. He wasn't sure of what to say.
"Well I guess I'm afraid of what they would say." Draco said in a distant voice.
"Your really lonely, aren't you?" Ginny asked as she took his hand in hers.
"No." Draco said defensively trying to pull his hand back but Ginny had to tight of a hold on it. "I just like being alone."
Ginny smiled. She knew what it was like to be alone. Of course her family loved her but it's not the same when nobody pays attention to you. It was like the only way she could get there attention was to do something dangerous or out of place. She was sick of it. Maybe getting to know Draco would make her feel not so lonely.
"Tell me about what happens at home?" She found herself asking.
She felt Draco's hand stiffen. She could feel the tension in the air.
"You promise you won't tell anyone or laugh at me?" Draco asked uncertainly.
"Why would I laugh at you? And who am I going to tell, I don't even talk to people." Ginny said looking at him with curiousity.
"Alright." Draco said moving uncomfortably. "Well ever since I was a child, my father thought that I was to soft. Whenever he got the chance he would hit me." He heard Ginny gasp but ignored it and continued. "My mother of course couldn't do anything because if she got in the way he would hit her to and then things would just get messy." Draco paused for a second. "He says that I have to be toughen up, that I was to weak to carry on the Malfoy name. So he made sure that I wouldn't make or have any friends. He says they make you soft."
"But what about Crabbe and Goyle?" Ginny asked trying to get the picture of what Draco was saying out of her head.
"They're to stupid. I met them through my father's 'friends'."
"Oh." Ginny said not sure of what to say after that. "Why do you go back to the Manor if he just hurts you?"
Draco smiled. "Because he's my father and I was brought up respecting him and I go back for my mother, I don't want to leave her alone there with that bastard."
"Does she love him? Oh listen to me I'm getting into something that isn't my business, I'm sorry." Ginny blushed as she turned away from him. She took her hand back to cover her face.
Draco grabbed her hand and moved it away from her face. "No she doesn't love him. She just acts like she does when we're in public so we can keep the Malfoy name 'pure'. And don't worry about it I'll tell you anything you want to know. I said I want you to know me and I want you to know everything, so please don't hesitate to ask anything."
Ginny nodded.
"What about you? What's it like living in a house where people love each other?" Draco asked.
"Well... it's good I guess but I've never had anything other then that. It's very lonely though." She said looking out at the water.
"How can it be lonely with all of those people around?"
"It's lonely because nobody listens to me because I'm the only girl out of 6 boys and besides the fact that I'm also the youngest." She had a far away look in her eyes as she spoke of her family. "Ron won't let any boy near me but other then that he's never around me. The only way my family notices me is when something big happens. It's not that I don't love my family, it's just sometimes I really wish they would pay attention to me, I know that sounds selfish but I'm sick of being alone. Even when I'm at school, I don't have any friends. I'm not sure if it's because of what happened with Tom Riddle in my first year or if I'm just not a likable person."
"You are, people just don't take the time to get to know you." Draco said pulling her out of her thoughts.
"Are you a Deatheater? Sorry I've been wanting to know for a while because my brothers say you are and I'm not sure if..."
Draco put a finger to her lips to make her be quiet. "I'm not a Deatheater." Draco pulled up his left sleeve to show her there was no Dark Mark. "I don't want to be either."
"Then how come there are rumors that you're always at their meetings?"
"I go because I let my father believe that I'm going to be one for now so I don't get in trouble. The less I'm in trouble the better off I am."
"Oh." Ginny now felt very stupid. She stayed silent for a while.
Draco looked down at his watch. "We've missed a couple of classes."
"What?" Ginny grabbed his wrist and looked at his watch and noticed she was suppose to be in McGonagall's right now.
"Come on." Draco stood up and helped Ginny up.
She grabbed his hand and they headed toward the castle.
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Ginny walked with Draco to his class to get a pass from Professor Snape, although she didn't know why Snape would give her a pass but it was worth a try.
When they entered the room everyone in the class stopped what they were doing and looked at them.
Draco looked at The Dream Team. "Do you guys have a staring problem?" Draco snapped. He turned to Professor Snape. "Can we talk to you?"
Snape looked from Draco to Ginny and then gestured them to follow him into his office.
"Stay Quiet and continue preparing your Wit-sharpening potion. If I hear a single sound out of this room I'm taking points off the person who said it." Snape said as he looked to Potter, Granger, and Weasley.
Snape walked into his office to see Draco and Ginny waiting.
"What do you want Mr. Malfoy."
"Well, Ginny and I were talking and we lost track of the time." Draco paused and noticed Ginny was uncomfortable talking to Snape. "I was wondering if you could give her a pass to go to class and if I could walk her there."
Snape glared at Ginny. He sat down in his chair and took out some parchment and quill. "What class are you suppose to be in right now?" Snape asked looking at Ginny once again.
"Transfiguration." Ginny said in a squeaky voice. She was afraid Snape was going to yell at her.
Snape handed Ginny the pass and looked to Draco. "Come back here quickly Draco." He walked out to tend to his students.
Draco smiled at Ginny. "See I told you so."
Ginny playfully hit him.
He offered her his arm like a normal gentleman would. She took it and they walked to Professor McGonagall's classroom.
A/N: That's the end of this first chapter. A new one will be coming up soon because the Plot Bunnies hit me. So keep looking for the new one and PLEASE REVIEW I want to know what you people think about my new story.
A/N: My BRAND new story people. Please review I know it gets annoying to here that but hey.
Chapter 1: Getting to know one another and passes
Draco was walking through the Charms corridor. It was about 2 in the morning. He couldn't sleep so he decided to take a walk. He was taking advantage of the fact that today was the first day back from Winter Break.
During Break, Draco was forced to come home to the Manor for Christmas, his mother had insisted on it. Draco wasn't too happy about it. It wasn't that he didn't like spending time with his mother, on the contrary, he loved his mother. His father was the reason he didn't want to go. He loathed he father.
A lot of people, especially the Gryffindor's, thought that Draco wanted to be, and was like, his father. But Draco actually tried to be everything but his father. Sure, he always picked on Potter, didn't like Gryffindor's, and was always breaking the school rules. All those things didn't mean that he was going to be a Deatheater when he graduated.
Lucius had it in his mind that Draco was going to be a Deatheater and just so he wouldn't get in trouble Draco let him believe it, but the truth was Draco hated Voldemort and couldn't stand the fact of bowing down and kissing someone's feet, it was appalling.
No, he had his own plans. A plan that involved a redheaded Weasley girl. He had liked Ginny for a couple of years now it started in his 5th year. Even though he was in his 7th year the liking never changed, it actually got more.
He never got to talk to her. She was always around The Dream Team. He decided last night that he didn't care who she was around he was going to talk to her.
He knew for a fact that she had it in her mind, by her brothers, that he was mean and would hurt her when he got the chance. Of course Draco would never hurt her, but she didn't know that. Well he was going to prove it to her, and Potter and his little groupies will not get in the way.
He was going to talk to her tomorrow at breakfast. He looked at his watch. I should go to bed if I want to be awake for breakfast tomorrow.
He started to walk back to the dungeons and to the Slytherin Common room.
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When Draco walked into the Great Hall that morning he didn't even look at the Slytherin table he just walked over to the Gryffindor table. All the Gryffindor's began to glare at him, as he walked toward Potter and Co.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked up at him. Ron was getting ready for a fight. Hermione was getting ready to hold Ron and Harry back.
"Morning." Draco said as he sat down next to Ginny.
Ginny just looked at Hermione in confusion.
"What do you want Malfoy and why are sitting at our table." Ron said as he almost jumped across it.
"Calm down Weasley, I'm not here to talk to you." Draco said rolling his eyes. He turned away from them and put all of his attention to Ginny. "Hello, Ginny"
Ginny got nervous. Why was he talking to her? What does he want? "Hello Malfoy." She said trying to be nice anyway.
"I prefer Draco. You're probably wondering why I'm talking to you. Well I'll tell you, if you go on a walk with me." Draco said standing up.
"WHAT? YOU ARE NOT TAKING MY SISTER ANYWHERE."
"I don't believe I asked you." Draco snapped. Draco held out a hand for Ginny to take.
Ginny hesitated. She looked at her brother and his friends. She didn't have anything to do anyway. It's not like she can hang out with Ron, Harry, and Hermione. They're always ignoring her and she doesn't have any friends at Hogwarts. She didn't have anything to lose.
"Sure, I'll come." Ginny Smiled at him.
"Good, come on." He grabbed her hand.
Ron jumped up out of his seat. Hermione kept trying to pull him down. "Ginny, Why are you going with that stupid git?"
"Because it's not like anyone around here talks to me anyway." Ginny said as she walked off with Draco.
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There was a long Silence for a while as they walked out to the lake. Draco was trying to organize what to say to her but every time he thought he had it down and tried to open his mouth, it wouldn't come out.
Ginny was nervous. She wasn't sure what to talk about. She wasn't even comfortable with being around Draco, let alone hold a conversation with him.
"Umm... The reason I brought you out here was to ask you a favor." Draco said trying to hide his nervousness.
"What kind of favor?" Ginny asked eyeing him suspiciously.
"I know all about you. I want you to get to know me, not through your brothers."
"If you know all about me then, what's my favorite kind of flower?"
"Lily." Draco smirked in triumph when he saw the shocked look on her face.
"My favorite kind of books?"
"A Muggle named William Shakespeare, and you favorite play from his is, As you like it." Draco grabbed her hand. "Ginny I really like you and I want you to get to know me. Please that's all I ask, even if you don't want to go farther then friends. I just want you to know me." Draco was lying somewhat because he would get her to like him more then a friend, it is his goal and Malfoy's always get what they want.
"Why do you like me? And why is it so important I get to know you?"
"I like you because you're sweet, cute, and I love your personality. It's important to me because not a lot of people know who I really am."
Ginny looked at him as if trying to see if he was telling the truth instead of all of a sudden changing it around and hurting her. "I thought you were just like your father."
Draco's eyes went cold. "I am nothing like my father. I hate my father."
Ginny saw the pain in his eyes after she made that comment. She could also tell he was trying to cover up his emotions. "Why do you hide?" It came out of her mouth before she even knew it.
"What?" He asked shocked because she had caught him off guard.
"Why do you hide who you truly are to people." Ginny sat down on the ground next to a tree waiting for Draco to explain and for him to sit.
Draco sat down next to her. He stayed silent for a while. He wasn't sure of what to say.
"Well I guess I'm afraid of what they would say." Draco said in a distant voice.
"Your really lonely, aren't you?" Ginny asked as she took his hand in hers.
"No." Draco said defensively trying to pull his hand back but Ginny had to tight of a hold on it. "I just like being alone."
Ginny smiled. She knew what it was like to be alone. Of course her family loved her but it's not the same when nobody pays attention to you. It was like the only way she could get there attention was to do something dangerous or out of place. She was sick of it. Maybe getting to know Draco would make her feel not so lonely.
"Tell me about what happens at home?" She found herself asking.
She felt Draco's hand stiffen. She could feel the tension in the air.
"You promise you won't tell anyone or laugh at me?" Draco asked uncertainly.
"Why would I laugh at you? And who am I going to tell, I don't even talk to people." Ginny said looking at him with curiousity.
"Alright." Draco said moving uncomfortably. "Well ever since I was a child, my father thought that I was to soft. Whenever he got the chance he would hit me." He heard Ginny gasp but ignored it and continued. "My mother of course couldn't do anything because if she got in the way he would hit her to and then things would just get messy." Draco paused for a second. "He says that I have to be toughen up, that I was to weak to carry on the Malfoy name. So he made sure that I wouldn't make or have any friends. He says they make you soft."
"But what about Crabbe and Goyle?" Ginny asked trying to get the picture of what Draco was saying out of her head.
"They're to stupid. I met them through my father's 'friends'."
"Oh." Ginny said not sure of what to say after that. "Why do you go back to the Manor if he just hurts you?"
Draco smiled. "Because he's my father and I was brought up respecting him and I go back for my mother, I don't want to leave her alone there with that bastard."
"Does she love him? Oh listen to me I'm getting into something that isn't my business, I'm sorry." Ginny blushed as she turned away from him. She took her hand back to cover her face.
Draco grabbed her hand and moved it away from her face. "No she doesn't love him. She just acts like she does when we're in public so we can keep the Malfoy name 'pure'. And don't worry about it I'll tell you anything you want to know. I said I want you to know me and I want you to know everything, so please don't hesitate to ask anything."
Ginny nodded.
"What about you? What's it like living in a house where people love each other?" Draco asked.
"Well... it's good I guess but I've never had anything other then that. It's very lonely though." She said looking out at the water.
"How can it be lonely with all of those people around?"
"It's lonely because nobody listens to me because I'm the only girl out of 6 boys and besides the fact that I'm also the youngest." She had a far away look in her eyes as she spoke of her family. "Ron won't let any boy near me but other then that he's never around me. The only way my family notices me is when something big happens. It's not that I don't love my family, it's just sometimes I really wish they would pay attention to me, I know that sounds selfish but I'm sick of being alone. Even when I'm at school, I don't have any friends. I'm not sure if it's because of what happened with Tom Riddle in my first year or if I'm just not a likable person."
"You are, people just don't take the time to get to know you." Draco said pulling her out of her thoughts.
"Are you a Deatheater? Sorry I've been wanting to know for a while because my brothers say you are and I'm not sure if..."
Draco put a finger to her lips to make her be quiet. "I'm not a Deatheater." Draco pulled up his left sleeve to show her there was no Dark Mark. "I don't want to be either."
"Then how come there are rumors that you're always at their meetings?"
"I go because I let my father believe that I'm going to be one for now so I don't get in trouble. The less I'm in trouble the better off I am."
"Oh." Ginny now felt very stupid. She stayed silent for a while.
Draco looked down at his watch. "We've missed a couple of classes."
"What?" Ginny grabbed his wrist and looked at his watch and noticed she was suppose to be in McGonagall's right now.
"Come on." Draco stood up and helped Ginny up.
She grabbed his hand and they headed toward the castle.
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Ginny walked with Draco to his class to get a pass from Professor Snape, although she didn't know why Snape would give her a pass but it was worth a try.
When they entered the room everyone in the class stopped what they were doing and looked at them.
Draco looked at The Dream Team. "Do you guys have a staring problem?" Draco snapped. He turned to Professor Snape. "Can we talk to you?"
Snape looked from Draco to Ginny and then gestured them to follow him into his office.
"Stay Quiet and continue preparing your Wit-sharpening potion. If I hear a single sound out of this room I'm taking points off the person who said it." Snape said as he looked to Potter, Granger, and Weasley.
Snape walked into his office to see Draco and Ginny waiting.
"What do you want Mr. Malfoy."
"Well, Ginny and I were talking and we lost track of the time." Draco paused and noticed Ginny was uncomfortable talking to Snape. "I was wondering if you could give her a pass to go to class and if I could walk her there."
Snape glared at Ginny. He sat down in his chair and took out some parchment and quill. "What class are you suppose to be in right now?" Snape asked looking at Ginny once again.
"Transfiguration." Ginny said in a squeaky voice. She was afraid Snape was going to yell at her.
Snape handed Ginny the pass and looked to Draco. "Come back here quickly Draco." He walked out to tend to his students.
Draco smiled at Ginny. "See I told you so."
Ginny playfully hit him.
He offered her his arm like a normal gentleman would. She took it and they walked to Professor McGonagall's classroom.
A/N: That's the end of this first chapter. A new one will be coming up soon because the Plot Bunnies hit me. So keep looking for the new one and PLEASE REVIEW I want to know what you people think about my new story.