A/N: okay so this is coming out sooner then all my others...I think....haha I
like this chapter – its more focused round Ginny...oh yea I think that I'm
gonna make that ball next chapter and like so I hav like nothing else 2 say
rite now so R&R!!!!! haha 3 me
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Chapter: A new beginning for Ginny
Title: The Mind of a Girl
Two days after the girls had gone shopping something in Ginny clicked. She had just noticed that a relationship had to be between two people. She had liked Harry since his first year, the year before she herself had gone to Hogwarts. She was now in her 5th year, Hermione in her 6th and she felt disgusted in herself for liking one guys for 6 years. It was then, as she was walking into the Great Hall, staring at Harry, that she realized she no longer felt butterflies in her stomach when she was around him. She no longer felt faint when he looked into her eyes. She no longer wished he were hers. She felt so utterly free, like she had been caged up these 6 years with nothing to do but stare and pray he were hers. She didn't know what to do with her newfound freedom, but that didn't seem to be a problem, because her thoughts were soon interrupted but her headmasters voice, driving his way into her somewhat idle mind.
"Students, as well as giving you a ball, which you already know about, we have also decided to, erm, spice it up a bit! We have decided to bring some foreign exchange students to Hogwarts for a month, which is the month of the dance. I'm sure you will all have a very pleasant time fighting over them." said Dumbledore, finishing with a smirk.
As soon as Dumbledore had finished his little speech, the big oak doors to the entrance hall came open and about 50 students came in.
"Ah, here they are!" said Dumbledore enthusiastically. "Please, guests, make yourselves at home. You may sit at whatever table you wish to, the are all wonderful."
The students followed into the Great Hall and stood there, a bit apprehensively. All the Hogwarts guys were looking over all the girls, but the Hogwarts girls were just looking at one boy, and with good reason. The guy was so unbelievably hott, the girls were speechless and their boyfriends were staring at them with great jealously, including Draco. Hermione, who had no intent on dating him since she was more then overjoyed with her boyfriend right now, still wanted to get to know him. Hey, girls could flirt couldn't they?! Anyway, the hottie had short spiked dark brown hair, perfectly spotless, tan skin, and stunningly clear sapphire eyes. All the girls were secretly praying that he would come sit next to them, but since there was only one gorgeous guy, he could only sit in one place. As he walked between the Gyrffindor and Ravenclaw tables, all the girls along the inside were praying that he'd sit next to them, gazing longingly up at him. Well, all but one girl, which happened to be Ginny Weasley. She just was eating her food like it was any other day, her thoughts about being free from her crush on Harry had come flooding back to her as soon as Dumbledore finished speaking. The hottie seemed to notice that she was paying no more attention to him then she was anyone else, and apparently that was what he was looking for.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" he asked, all dreamily.
"'o 'ot at oll" said Ginny, food stuffed in her mouth. She looked up at him, swallowed, and then spoke again. "Oh, sorry about that. I said 'no not at all' incase you didn't catch that. Well welcome to Hogwarts. I'm Ginny Weasley and if you need any help finding your way around here you can just ask me. I can be like your tour guide sort of. Sorry, I'm kind of babbling. What's your name anyway?" By this point all the girls were staring daggers at Ginny, who didn't notice a thing
"I'm Matt Watson, and I'd really like it if you helped me around here. I really don't like it when all these girls stare at me. That's why I sat next to you. I figured that if you weren't staring at me you'd probably be really cool. Who's you friend?" said Matt.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'll have to introduce you to everyone. This is Hermione Granger, my best friend. She's like the smartest girl in the school, but she can be very wild when she wants to be." started Ginny, just as Draco came to give Hermione a kiss, though no one saw. "And this is Draco Malfoy, her boyfriend, if you didn't pick that up already. He's really cool, but its so weird that Hermione and Draco are going together, even though like no one knows because they're keeping it a surprise until the dance. Any way its really weird because she's in Gryffindor and he's in Slytherin, which are just about as much of enemies as you can get. Oh, and here's my brother Ron, and his best friend, Harry Potter, yes the Harry Potter. Anyway, lets go down to this end of the table, its more the gossip end and I'll introduce you to Pavarti and Lavender, who will probably try to seduce you, but just ignore them and they'll get offended that it didn't work and stop trying." said Ginny, leading the way down the row, with a very confused, yet still very hott, Matt following her.
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5 days had passed since Matt and the rest of the foreign exchange students came, but the swooning over Matt still hadn't died down any. And this day also happened to be Ginny's BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!! When she woke up, all of her friends, which were all of Hermione's friends too since Ginny hung out with them more than her own year, bombarded her with tulips and lilies that they had picked from the garden shouting 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINNY!!!!!!!!!!!!' a giving her hug after hug. When she finally had gotten herself dressed, wearing a tight orange halter-top with short jean shorts, she walked down into the common room to some more 'Happy Birthday-ing' by everyone in the Gryffindor house, which now included Matt. Hermione was pleased to see Harry's face when Matt hugged Ginny happy birthday. He looked very jealous, but as Hermione thought, it serves him right for practically ignoring her all this time.
"Happy Birthday Ginny!" said Matt. "I'm really sorry I didn't get you a present. I really would have but I didn't find out that it was your birthday until about 10:30 last night and by that time it was way too late to go to Hogsmeade. So here is half of your present that I can give you." And he then leaned in a kissed Ginny hard yet soft (if ya know what I mean!) while dipping her and then pulling her back up. There were a lot of catcalls but nothing compared to Ginny's face when they finally pulled apart. Her cheeks were almost as red as her hair and she was wearing the biggest smile she had ever had.
"Your other, uh, surprise will be later." said Matt, smiling just as must as Ginny and then he turned and left the common room.
As soon as the portrait shut Ginny was then bombarded by questions about the kiss. "What was it like?" "Is he a good kisser?" "Was there any tongue?"
"Wonderful, very, and yes!" said Ginny in one quick breath and then all the girls went into giggles and the other guys just figured they'd be better off leaving the common room so they took Matt's example and left to go to breakfast.
When the girls finally went down to breakfast Ginny found a cake on her plate with candles and then all the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws and a few Hufflepuffs and Draco all serenaded her with a 'Happy Birthday' song and then Ginny blew out the candles. All the fun was then interrupted by a familiar voice, but unfamiliar to be speaking over the loud students.
"Hello, um, I'm sorry to be interrupting your breakfast, but there is something I would like to say to a special birthday girl. Right....so anyway...I just wanted to say Ginny I already gave you half of your surprise up in the common room, and I'm sure it will be all over the school in about 10 minutes, but on with what I'm up here for. Your second half of the surprise is me getting up here and asking you something. And...um...that question would be...uh...Ginny do you want to go with me to the ball?" said Matt, rather quickly but no matter how fast he went every single person heard what he said, then looked at Ginny, who was shaking her head 'Yes!' very quickly, then cheered for them, except for a handful of girls who went into tears over losing the chance to have him for the dance.
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The next weekend Ginny drug Matt and Hermione to the dress shop they went to the weekend before, and once again Draco sort of stalked them until they were in the dress shop and then entered after them.
"Okay so here we go. Draco, I think you should have like black dress robes, to match Hermione's and Matt, you could have black too, yes, I think that would be best." said Ginny.
"Yes captain!" said Draco mockingly, to which everyone laughed, including Ginny, at her own domineering fashion.
The guys took much less time to get their outfits then it took the girls. Draco decided that he would pay for the dress robes, considering that Matt was the guest. They all walked back to the carriages, which took them back to the castle. When they walked in to dinner they were still slightly together (the two girls in the front and the two guys following since Hermione and Draco were still "no more than acquaintances").
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A/N: okay yea I kno that was a really REALLY REALLY crappy ending but the rest of the chapter was okay....okay well u kno wuts next R&R...oh yea im really sry I didn't get this out sooner but I have been really busy lately and right now I am having drill team tryouts this whole week and I really hope I make it so uh wish me luck!!!!! Okay so go go go and review!
Chapter: A new beginning for Ginny
Title: The Mind of a Girl
Two days after the girls had gone shopping something in Ginny clicked. She had just noticed that a relationship had to be between two people. She had liked Harry since his first year, the year before she herself had gone to Hogwarts. She was now in her 5th year, Hermione in her 6th and she felt disgusted in herself for liking one guys for 6 years. It was then, as she was walking into the Great Hall, staring at Harry, that she realized she no longer felt butterflies in her stomach when she was around him. She no longer felt faint when he looked into her eyes. She no longer wished he were hers. She felt so utterly free, like she had been caged up these 6 years with nothing to do but stare and pray he were hers. She didn't know what to do with her newfound freedom, but that didn't seem to be a problem, because her thoughts were soon interrupted but her headmasters voice, driving his way into her somewhat idle mind.
"Students, as well as giving you a ball, which you already know about, we have also decided to, erm, spice it up a bit! We have decided to bring some foreign exchange students to Hogwarts for a month, which is the month of the dance. I'm sure you will all have a very pleasant time fighting over them." said Dumbledore, finishing with a smirk.
As soon as Dumbledore had finished his little speech, the big oak doors to the entrance hall came open and about 50 students came in.
"Ah, here they are!" said Dumbledore enthusiastically. "Please, guests, make yourselves at home. You may sit at whatever table you wish to, the are all wonderful."
The students followed into the Great Hall and stood there, a bit apprehensively. All the Hogwarts guys were looking over all the girls, but the Hogwarts girls were just looking at one boy, and with good reason. The guy was so unbelievably hott, the girls were speechless and their boyfriends were staring at them with great jealously, including Draco. Hermione, who had no intent on dating him since she was more then overjoyed with her boyfriend right now, still wanted to get to know him. Hey, girls could flirt couldn't they?! Anyway, the hottie had short spiked dark brown hair, perfectly spotless, tan skin, and stunningly clear sapphire eyes. All the girls were secretly praying that he would come sit next to them, but since there was only one gorgeous guy, he could only sit in one place. As he walked between the Gyrffindor and Ravenclaw tables, all the girls along the inside were praying that he'd sit next to them, gazing longingly up at him. Well, all but one girl, which happened to be Ginny Weasley. She just was eating her food like it was any other day, her thoughts about being free from her crush on Harry had come flooding back to her as soon as Dumbledore finished speaking. The hottie seemed to notice that she was paying no more attention to him then she was anyone else, and apparently that was what he was looking for.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" he asked, all dreamily.
"'o 'ot at oll" said Ginny, food stuffed in her mouth. She looked up at him, swallowed, and then spoke again. "Oh, sorry about that. I said 'no not at all' incase you didn't catch that. Well welcome to Hogwarts. I'm Ginny Weasley and if you need any help finding your way around here you can just ask me. I can be like your tour guide sort of. Sorry, I'm kind of babbling. What's your name anyway?" By this point all the girls were staring daggers at Ginny, who didn't notice a thing
"I'm Matt Watson, and I'd really like it if you helped me around here. I really don't like it when all these girls stare at me. That's why I sat next to you. I figured that if you weren't staring at me you'd probably be really cool. Who's you friend?" said Matt.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'll have to introduce you to everyone. This is Hermione Granger, my best friend. She's like the smartest girl in the school, but she can be very wild when she wants to be." started Ginny, just as Draco came to give Hermione a kiss, though no one saw. "And this is Draco Malfoy, her boyfriend, if you didn't pick that up already. He's really cool, but its so weird that Hermione and Draco are going together, even though like no one knows because they're keeping it a surprise until the dance. Any way its really weird because she's in Gryffindor and he's in Slytherin, which are just about as much of enemies as you can get. Oh, and here's my brother Ron, and his best friend, Harry Potter, yes the Harry Potter. Anyway, lets go down to this end of the table, its more the gossip end and I'll introduce you to Pavarti and Lavender, who will probably try to seduce you, but just ignore them and they'll get offended that it didn't work and stop trying." said Ginny, leading the way down the row, with a very confused, yet still very hott, Matt following her.
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5 days had passed since Matt and the rest of the foreign exchange students came, but the swooning over Matt still hadn't died down any. And this day also happened to be Ginny's BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!! When she woke up, all of her friends, which were all of Hermione's friends too since Ginny hung out with them more than her own year, bombarded her with tulips and lilies that they had picked from the garden shouting 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINNY!!!!!!!!!!!!' a giving her hug after hug. When she finally had gotten herself dressed, wearing a tight orange halter-top with short jean shorts, she walked down into the common room to some more 'Happy Birthday-ing' by everyone in the Gryffindor house, which now included Matt. Hermione was pleased to see Harry's face when Matt hugged Ginny happy birthday. He looked very jealous, but as Hermione thought, it serves him right for practically ignoring her all this time.
"Happy Birthday Ginny!" said Matt. "I'm really sorry I didn't get you a present. I really would have but I didn't find out that it was your birthday until about 10:30 last night and by that time it was way too late to go to Hogsmeade. So here is half of your present that I can give you." And he then leaned in a kissed Ginny hard yet soft (if ya know what I mean!) while dipping her and then pulling her back up. There were a lot of catcalls but nothing compared to Ginny's face when they finally pulled apart. Her cheeks were almost as red as her hair and she was wearing the biggest smile she had ever had.
"Your other, uh, surprise will be later." said Matt, smiling just as must as Ginny and then he turned and left the common room.
As soon as the portrait shut Ginny was then bombarded by questions about the kiss. "What was it like?" "Is he a good kisser?" "Was there any tongue?"
"Wonderful, very, and yes!" said Ginny in one quick breath and then all the girls went into giggles and the other guys just figured they'd be better off leaving the common room so they took Matt's example and left to go to breakfast.
When the girls finally went down to breakfast Ginny found a cake on her plate with candles and then all the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws and a few Hufflepuffs and Draco all serenaded her with a 'Happy Birthday' song and then Ginny blew out the candles. All the fun was then interrupted by a familiar voice, but unfamiliar to be speaking over the loud students.
"Hello, um, I'm sorry to be interrupting your breakfast, but there is something I would like to say to a special birthday girl. Right....so anyway...I just wanted to say Ginny I already gave you half of your surprise up in the common room, and I'm sure it will be all over the school in about 10 minutes, but on with what I'm up here for. Your second half of the surprise is me getting up here and asking you something. And...um...that question would be...uh...Ginny do you want to go with me to the ball?" said Matt, rather quickly but no matter how fast he went every single person heard what he said, then looked at Ginny, who was shaking her head 'Yes!' very quickly, then cheered for them, except for a handful of girls who went into tears over losing the chance to have him for the dance.
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The next weekend Ginny drug Matt and Hermione to the dress shop they went to the weekend before, and once again Draco sort of stalked them until they were in the dress shop and then entered after them.
"Okay so here we go. Draco, I think you should have like black dress robes, to match Hermione's and Matt, you could have black too, yes, I think that would be best." said Ginny.
"Yes captain!" said Draco mockingly, to which everyone laughed, including Ginny, at her own domineering fashion.
The guys took much less time to get their outfits then it took the girls. Draco decided that he would pay for the dress robes, considering that Matt was the guest. They all walked back to the carriages, which took them back to the castle. When they walked in to dinner they were still slightly together (the two girls in the front and the two guys following since Hermione and Draco were still "no more than acquaintances").
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A/N: okay yea I kno that was a really REALLY REALLY crappy ending but the rest of the chapter was okay....okay well u kno wuts next R&R...oh yea im really sry I didn't get this out sooner but I have been really busy lately and right now I am having drill team tryouts this whole week and I really hope I make it so uh wish me luck!!!!! Okay so go go go and review!