Days passed. They soon turned into weeks, which turned into months.
Ginny became an Animangus, and therefore required to go spying whenever
anyone needed her. Ron finally let her date Draco when he got a letter
from his Mum saying she talked to Dumbledore, and Dumbledore said it was
fine.
The Quiddinch tryouts were in October. Ginny became a Chaser, and Harry got to be a Seeker again. Andy got to be a Chaser, and she could tell he was a great Quiddinch player. He said that before he came to Hogwarts, he used to play some Muggle sport called "basketball". He said it was played by running around a court and throwing a rubber ball into tall baskets. But not as tall as Quiddinch hoops. Of course since he was modest, he wouldn't admit how good he was at all sports. But his friends said he was really good.
Emily, Angel, and Lexie got to be Chasers on the Slytherin team. Gina became a Beater for the Slytherin team. During the first game between Slytherin and Gryffindor, a funny thing happened.
Gryffindor was beating Slytherin by 20 points. It was a pretty good game. Everyone was watching, including the teachers, as usual. The week before, Gina had gotten mad at Mr. Mark for giving her a bad grade when she thought she deserved a better grade. A Bulger was coming towards her, and at that moment, Mr. Mark yelled out, "C-!". She turned in his direction, and "Accidentally" whacked the Bulger straight towards him.
"Oops! Sorry Mr. Mark!" Gina yelled when he got hit in the face by it. He was taken to the Hospital Wing, and during all of the confusion of that, Harry caught the Snitch. Draco took Ginny out for ice cream for some odd reason after the game.
A week after that, Ginny had to go and spy on Tinieblas with the trio. All they found out was that he really liked singing about taking over the world.
Another week after that, a bunch of Death Eaters tried attacking the school. Draco and Professor Snape had to go out and lie to them and say that the Dark Lord meant to say to attack themselves instead of Hogwarts. That didn't work, so all the students of Hogwarts had to go and attack them. Ginny tried dueling with a Death Eater. She took of their hood and mask and found out it was Pansy.
"How dare you steal my Dwakie-Poo from me!" She yelled. She tried to put all sorts of spells and curses on Ginny, but Ginny changed into her Animangus, the emerald tree boa, and leaped upon her neck.
"Help! Mercy! You can have Dwakie-Poo all you want! Just stop strangling me!" Pansy choked as Ginny curled around her neck.
"Only if you and your Death Eaters leave this instant and never attack anybody again!" Ginny yelled after she leapt off of Pansy's neck, knocking her wand to the ground and changing back into the red headed girl that she was.
"No! Give me back my wand!" Pansy yelled.
"I got a pickle, I got a pickle, I got a pickle hey, hey, hey, hey!" A voice that Ginny recognized as Emily's sang. All of a sudden, all of the Death Eaters except Pansy Disapparated, as if they were frightened of the singing. Pansy just stood there pouting.
"Hey Dwakie-Poo! Your REAL girlfriend has come back for you! Come with me! Your father wants you too!" Pansy shouted over to Draco.
"Ack! Pansy! Go away! I'm not a Death Eater, and I will never be one! You can tell my father that!" Draco cried.
"But if you are one, you can hang out with me!" Pansy pouted.
"I don't want to hang out with you! Now go away before you poison us with the fumes from your perfume!"
"I'm not leaving without you!"
"I got a pickle, I got a pickle, I got a pickle hey, hey, hey, hey!" Emily sang again.
"Aaah-" Pansy started and Disapparated.
Everyone then asked Emily how she got the Death Eaters to go away just by singing her stupid, babyish song.
"Oh, the Death Eaters just aren't used to Soprano voices, that's all," Emily answered. She became pretty popular after that.
A few weeks later, Ron and Harry got in trouble for starting a food fight. They were arguing about why a monkey was found in their dormitory. They started throwing rolls at each other, and soon all sorts of food was flying everywhere, and everyone else had joined in. Ginny found it quite fun to throw mashed potatoes at Ron, and she felt like a kid again to be doing something as silly as being in a food fight.
Ron and Harry went to Dumbledore's office, and everyone thought they were going to get in super big trouble. But they came out beaming, and they said Dumbledore said that he had the most fun he had had in a long time. Of course they received detention and they had to help clean up the Great Hall, because the house elves wouldn't let them do it alone.
In a few weeks after that, Emily, Lexie, Angel, Gina, Arnold, Andy, and Anna tried teaching Ginny about Thanksgiving. Ginny just said it was great that in America they got Thursday and Friday off and that they had a big turkey dinner to give thanks for everything, but that she wasn't American. That night, though, turkey was served for dinner.
A week after that, Hogwarts got flooded. There was a huge rainstorm, and a huge leak in the ceiling. On the fifth and fourth floors, the water was up to Ginny's ankles. The Great Hall had water all the way up to Ginny's knees. Classes were cancelled because students couldn't get to different rooms. Draco and Ginny went to a classroom and pigged out on candy and talked all afternoon. They didn't care if their feet got wet.
Two weeks after that, the Christmas break began. Draco didn't go home, and Ron and Ginny stayed at school because their parents went to Egypt to visit Bill. Harry of course stayed, and Hermione stayed because her parents went to Sweden because they got airplane tickets from their jobs. Hermione didn't want to leave her friends, so she stayed.
The break was great. No work to worry about, and Ginny had a lot of fun. She and Draco would go and build snowmen and ice skate on the lake and have snowball fights. They and the trio would often go and see Hagrid.
One day, Ginny and Draco snuck into the Forbidden Forest. They took some pictures of the trees and animals. There were a few ferns and mosses growing on and around the trees. They saw a few centaurs who told them to get out of the forest. As they walked out of the forest, Ginny could have sworn that she saw a werewolf. She and Draco ran as fast as their legs would carry them out of the forest.
On Christmas Eve, there was a dueling tournament with all the students who were at Hogwarts, which was about 12. Draco and Harry made it to the finals, but before they could finish the tournament, Professor McGonagall caught them. They were all sent to their dormitories until dinner. The dinner was great, and everything was very jolly.
Christmas Day was so much fun. Ginny got the usual mince pies and a sweater from her Mum. From Ron she got a few Cds, from Hermione she got some clothes, from Harry she got some books, from Fred and George she got some of their tricks, from Percy she got stationary, from Bill she got a map of Egypt, from Charlie she got a book on dragons, and from her Dad she got a Muggle thing called a telephone. She had seen them before, but she had never used one before. She had thought Draco forgot about her, but when she started throwing all of the packaging of her presents, she found a tiny little box. Curious, she picked it up and opened it. She pulled the red satin ribbon from the package and let it slide through her fingers onto the floor. There was no wrapping paper, just a pale green box that could fit into her palm. She opened it and dried rose petals floated to the floor, perfuming the room. Cushioned with the petals was a small, crystal ball, about three times the size of a marble.
"Thank you so much!" Ginny cried as she ran towards Draco and gave him a big hug in the hallway.
"For what? Oh, here's your Christmas present. I'm sorry that I couldn't get it by your bed. My owl won't go near Gryffindor Tower," Draco replied, taking a small box out of his pocket. "And thanks for your present."
"But I haven't given you my present yet! I don't have an owl! And then where did this come from if not from you?" Ginny asked, pulling out the crystal ball.
"That's what I thought you gave me!" Draco gasped. "I got it in a pale red box with a green satin ribbon on it with rose petals in the box!"
"Same here, just the colors switched around. Hmm, this is weird," Ginny pondered. She placed the ball in the middle of her palm, staring at it in wonder. Draco followed suit. At that moment, when the balls were next to each other, an image of fire showed up inside of them.
"What's going on, Draco? Is this some sort of sign?" Ginny asked.
"I know what these are," Draco said slowly, his eyes glazed with memories. "My parents have these. They tell the bearer how they will die when they are next to a crystal ball with the owner having the same fate. I forget what they're called."
"You mean we will die from being burned?" Ginny asked, terrified.
"Not unless you smash the crystal ball right before you will die from being burned. But not before. Keep it with you at all times," Draco said seriously.
"Ok, I will," Ginny said. "Oh, here is your present." Ginny handed Draco a bottle wrapped in paper, and Draco gave Ginny a small, wrapped box. They opened their presents.
"Ooh! Pixie dust!" Draco giggled. Ginny started giggling along with him.
"Some must have fallen out and onto us! It makes you happy!" Ginny giggled. She opened her present and inside were beautiful pearl drop earrings with silver studs. "Thank you! They're beautiful! I love them!"
"Well, shall we get some breakfast?" Draco said, taking Ginny by the hand and leading her to the Great Hall.
After Christmas vacation, Draco's Mum came to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Snape once again got to be only the potions master. She was a pretty good teacher.
"Hello! I'm Mrs. Malfoy, but soon will be Ms. Longbottom, because I'm going through divorce with my husband," Mrs. Malfoy said.
"Excuse me, but did you just say 'Ms. Longbottom'? Are you related to me?" Neville said nervously.
"Of course! I'm your long lost aunt. I asked Dumbledore to tell you, but I guess he didn't. Oh well, back to the lesson. So, where are you in the textbook?"
"We just finished learning about trolls," Hermione said.
"Very well then, we shall now work on boggarts," Mrs. Malfoy said. Everyone groaned. They had been learning about boggarts every year since Lupin came. They were all masters at defeating them.
Mrs. Malfoy lead them to a closet, and asked Harry to step forward and get rid of the boggart. As he stepped close to the closet, Mrs. Malfoy opened the door, and out came a dementor. Harry immediately fainted and was taken to the Hospital Wing.
"Phobophobic!" (Or however you spell it) Ginny whispered in Draco's ear. Draco laughed.
"Ok then, Hermione, you try," Mrs. Malfoy said.
Hermione walked up, and the dementor changed into a hairbrush. "Ack!" Hermione screamed and ran out of the room.
"Ron!" A huge spider that Ginny guessed must have been eight feet tall with long, hairy legs and pincers appeared. Ron fainted on the spot and was taken to the Hospital Wing.
Students kept on getting too scared by the boggart to try defeating it, and soon almost everyone was in the Hospital Wing due to fainting. Only Draco and Ginny were left.
"Draco dear, why don't you give it a try? It's only you and Ginny now." Draco stepped up to the boggart and it changed into Lucius.
"So have you decided whether to join me and my fellow Death Eaters? Or will you take the harder and less rewarding path of your mother?" Lucius boomed.
"Riddiculus!" Draco yelled. But the boggart just got out a whip and slashed Draco across the face.
"Ginny, could you please get rid of the boggart? I want you to try and I need to take Draco to the Hospital Wing. Don't get into any trouble!" Mrs. Malfoy said. She picked Draco up and walked out of the room. Ginny stepped up to the boggart and it changed into a tunnel with a bright white light at the end. It was the legendary Light-At-The-End-Of- The-Tunnel-That-You-See-When-You-Die.
"Riddiculus!" Ginny shouted. The tunnel immediately sprung up with flowers. Ginny laughed, and with a puff of smoke, the boggart was gone. Ginny grabbed her bag and walked over to the Hospital Wing to visit the many students who fainted.
"You're scared of your father?" Ginny asked Draco.
"Hell yea," Draco replied. "Getting whipped is ordinary stuff."
"I'm sorry. Maybe I could adopt you. Well, actually my parents probably wouldn't want another kid, especially a guy who likes their daughter," Ginny said.
"We could elope."
"Sure. That would be great. How about when we graduate?"
"That's when I'm getting the Dark Mark. I don't know if my Mum will be able to protect me, especially if my father uses his Death Eaters to scare her. I can maybe escape my father for a year and after you graduate we could get married."
"I would love that. I need to get to get to class now. You too. I think you're fine," Ginny gave Draco a kiss on the cheek and ran off to her class. She had potions, and Professor Snape sure seemed more relaxed than usual. He actually smiled at Ginny. That was a big change.
The first semester went fine. Ginny got great scores on her semester exams, and she had Draco to be with. The second semester was sure to be just as great as the first.
How did you like it? I'm sorry I haven't updated forever, but my cat had surgery, and I was in five concerts in one week and the next week I had a play, so I was really busy. But for Hanukah I got a PowerBook G4 with a 12 inch screen! That means I can write a lot more! Yay! Anyways, merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, happy Kawanza, and happy any other holiday that you might celebrate! Hope you get lots of presents! And a happy new year! Best wishes, (!
The Quiddinch tryouts were in October. Ginny became a Chaser, and Harry got to be a Seeker again. Andy got to be a Chaser, and she could tell he was a great Quiddinch player. He said that before he came to Hogwarts, he used to play some Muggle sport called "basketball". He said it was played by running around a court and throwing a rubber ball into tall baskets. But not as tall as Quiddinch hoops. Of course since he was modest, he wouldn't admit how good he was at all sports. But his friends said he was really good.
Emily, Angel, and Lexie got to be Chasers on the Slytherin team. Gina became a Beater for the Slytherin team. During the first game between Slytherin and Gryffindor, a funny thing happened.
Gryffindor was beating Slytherin by 20 points. It was a pretty good game. Everyone was watching, including the teachers, as usual. The week before, Gina had gotten mad at Mr. Mark for giving her a bad grade when she thought she deserved a better grade. A Bulger was coming towards her, and at that moment, Mr. Mark yelled out, "C-!". She turned in his direction, and "Accidentally" whacked the Bulger straight towards him.
"Oops! Sorry Mr. Mark!" Gina yelled when he got hit in the face by it. He was taken to the Hospital Wing, and during all of the confusion of that, Harry caught the Snitch. Draco took Ginny out for ice cream for some odd reason after the game.
A week after that, Ginny had to go and spy on Tinieblas with the trio. All they found out was that he really liked singing about taking over the world.
Another week after that, a bunch of Death Eaters tried attacking the school. Draco and Professor Snape had to go out and lie to them and say that the Dark Lord meant to say to attack themselves instead of Hogwarts. That didn't work, so all the students of Hogwarts had to go and attack them. Ginny tried dueling with a Death Eater. She took of their hood and mask and found out it was Pansy.
"How dare you steal my Dwakie-Poo from me!" She yelled. She tried to put all sorts of spells and curses on Ginny, but Ginny changed into her Animangus, the emerald tree boa, and leaped upon her neck.
"Help! Mercy! You can have Dwakie-Poo all you want! Just stop strangling me!" Pansy choked as Ginny curled around her neck.
"Only if you and your Death Eaters leave this instant and never attack anybody again!" Ginny yelled after she leapt off of Pansy's neck, knocking her wand to the ground and changing back into the red headed girl that she was.
"No! Give me back my wand!" Pansy yelled.
"I got a pickle, I got a pickle, I got a pickle hey, hey, hey, hey!" A voice that Ginny recognized as Emily's sang. All of a sudden, all of the Death Eaters except Pansy Disapparated, as if they were frightened of the singing. Pansy just stood there pouting.
"Hey Dwakie-Poo! Your REAL girlfriend has come back for you! Come with me! Your father wants you too!" Pansy shouted over to Draco.
"Ack! Pansy! Go away! I'm not a Death Eater, and I will never be one! You can tell my father that!" Draco cried.
"But if you are one, you can hang out with me!" Pansy pouted.
"I don't want to hang out with you! Now go away before you poison us with the fumes from your perfume!"
"I'm not leaving without you!"
"I got a pickle, I got a pickle, I got a pickle hey, hey, hey, hey!" Emily sang again.
"Aaah-" Pansy started and Disapparated.
Everyone then asked Emily how she got the Death Eaters to go away just by singing her stupid, babyish song.
"Oh, the Death Eaters just aren't used to Soprano voices, that's all," Emily answered. She became pretty popular after that.
A few weeks later, Ron and Harry got in trouble for starting a food fight. They were arguing about why a monkey was found in their dormitory. They started throwing rolls at each other, and soon all sorts of food was flying everywhere, and everyone else had joined in. Ginny found it quite fun to throw mashed potatoes at Ron, and she felt like a kid again to be doing something as silly as being in a food fight.
Ron and Harry went to Dumbledore's office, and everyone thought they were going to get in super big trouble. But they came out beaming, and they said Dumbledore said that he had the most fun he had had in a long time. Of course they received detention and they had to help clean up the Great Hall, because the house elves wouldn't let them do it alone.
In a few weeks after that, Emily, Lexie, Angel, Gina, Arnold, Andy, and Anna tried teaching Ginny about Thanksgiving. Ginny just said it was great that in America they got Thursday and Friday off and that they had a big turkey dinner to give thanks for everything, but that she wasn't American. That night, though, turkey was served for dinner.
A week after that, Hogwarts got flooded. There was a huge rainstorm, and a huge leak in the ceiling. On the fifth and fourth floors, the water was up to Ginny's ankles. The Great Hall had water all the way up to Ginny's knees. Classes were cancelled because students couldn't get to different rooms. Draco and Ginny went to a classroom and pigged out on candy and talked all afternoon. They didn't care if their feet got wet.
Two weeks after that, the Christmas break began. Draco didn't go home, and Ron and Ginny stayed at school because their parents went to Egypt to visit Bill. Harry of course stayed, and Hermione stayed because her parents went to Sweden because they got airplane tickets from their jobs. Hermione didn't want to leave her friends, so she stayed.
The break was great. No work to worry about, and Ginny had a lot of fun. She and Draco would go and build snowmen and ice skate on the lake and have snowball fights. They and the trio would often go and see Hagrid.
One day, Ginny and Draco snuck into the Forbidden Forest. They took some pictures of the trees and animals. There were a few ferns and mosses growing on and around the trees. They saw a few centaurs who told them to get out of the forest. As they walked out of the forest, Ginny could have sworn that she saw a werewolf. She and Draco ran as fast as their legs would carry them out of the forest.
On Christmas Eve, there was a dueling tournament with all the students who were at Hogwarts, which was about 12. Draco and Harry made it to the finals, but before they could finish the tournament, Professor McGonagall caught them. They were all sent to their dormitories until dinner. The dinner was great, and everything was very jolly.
Christmas Day was so much fun. Ginny got the usual mince pies and a sweater from her Mum. From Ron she got a few Cds, from Hermione she got some clothes, from Harry she got some books, from Fred and George she got some of their tricks, from Percy she got stationary, from Bill she got a map of Egypt, from Charlie she got a book on dragons, and from her Dad she got a Muggle thing called a telephone. She had seen them before, but she had never used one before. She had thought Draco forgot about her, but when she started throwing all of the packaging of her presents, she found a tiny little box. Curious, she picked it up and opened it. She pulled the red satin ribbon from the package and let it slide through her fingers onto the floor. There was no wrapping paper, just a pale green box that could fit into her palm. She opened it and dried rose petals floated to the floor, perfuming the room. Cushioned with the petals was a small, crystal ball, about three times the size of a marble.
"Thank you so much!" Ginny cried as she ran towards Draco and gave him a big hug in the hallway.
"For what? Oh, here's your Christmas present. I'm sorry that I couldn't get it by your bed. My owl won't go near Gryffindor Tower," Draco replied, taking a small box out of his pocket. "And thanks for your present."
"But I haven't given you my present yet! I don't have an owl! And then where did this come from if not from you?" Ginny asked, pulling out the crystal ball.
"That's what I thought you gave me!" Draco gasped. "I got it in a pale red box with a green satin ribbon on it with rose petals in the box!"
"Same here, just the colors switched around. Hmm, this is weird," Ginny pondered. She placed the ball in the middle of her palm, staring at it in wonder. Draco followed suit. At that moment, when the balls were next to each other, an image of fire showed up inside of them.
"What's going on, Draco? Is this some sort of sign?" Ginny asked.
"I know what these are," Draco said slowly, his eyes glazed with memories. "My parents have these. They tell the bearer how they will die when they are next to a crystal ball with the owner having the same fate. I forget what they're called."
"You mean we will die from being burned?" Ginny asked, terrified.
"Not unless you smash the crystal ball right before you will die from being burned. But not before. Keep it with you at all times," Draco said seriously.
"Ok, I will," Ginny said. "Oh, here is your present." Ginny handed Draco a bottle wrapped in paper, and Draco gave Ginny a small, wrapped box. They opened their presents.
"Ooh! Pixie dust!" Draco giggled. Ginny started giggling along with him.
"Some must have fallen out and onto us! It makes you happy!" Ginny giggled. She opened her present and inside were beautiful pearl drop earrings with silver studs. "Thank you! They're beautiful! I love them!"
"Well, shall we get some breakfast?" Draco said, taking Ginny by the hand and leading her to the Great Hall.
After Christmas vacation, Draco's Mum came to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Snape once again got to be only the potions master. She was a pretty good teacher.
"Hello! I'm Mrs. Malfoy, but soon will be Ms. Longbottom, because I'm going through divorce with my husband," Mrs. Malfoy said.
"Excuse me, but did you just say 'Ms. Longbottom'? Are you related to me?" Neville said nervously.
"Of course! I'm your long lost aunt. I asked Dumbledore to tell you, but I guess he didn't. Oh well, back to the lesson. So, where are you in the textbook?"
"We just finished learning about trolls," Hermione said.
"Very well then, we shall now work on boggarts," Mrs. Malfoy said. Everyone groaned. They had been learning about boggarts every year since Lupin came. They were all masters at defeating them.
Mrs. Malfoy lead them to a closet, and asked Harry to step forward and get rid of the boggart. As he stepped close to the closet, Mrs. Malfoy opened the door, and out came a dementor. Harry immediately fainted and was taken to the Hospital Wing.
"Phobophobic!" (Or however you spell it) Ginny whispered in Draco's ear. Draco laughed.
"Ok then, Hermione, you try," Mrs. Malfoy said.
Hermione walked up, and the dementor changed into a hairbrush. "Ack!" Hermione screamed and ran out of the room.
"Ron!" A huge spider that Ginny guessed must have been eight feet tall with long, hairy legs and pincers appeared. Ron fainted on the spot and was taken to the Hospital Wing.
Students kept on getting too scared by the boggart to try defeating it, and soon almost everyone was in the Hospital Wing due to fainting. Only Draco and Ginny were left.
"Draco dear, why don't you give it a try? It's only you and Ginny now." Draco stepped up to the boggart and it changed into Lucius.
"So have you decided whether to join me and my fellow Death Eaters? Or will you take the harder and less rewarding path of your mother?" Lucius boomed.
"Riddiculus!" Draco yelled. But the boggart just got out a whip and slashed Draco across the face.
"Ginny, could you please get rid of the boggart? I want you to try and I need to take Draco to the Hospital Wing. Don't get into any trouble!" Mrs. Malfoy said. She picked Draco up and walked out of the room. Ginny stepped up to the boggart and it changed into a tunnel with a bright white light at the end. It was the legendary Light-At-The-End-Of- The-Tunnel-That-You-See-When-You-Die.
"Riddiculus!" Ginny shouted. The tunnel immediately sprung up with flowers. Ginny laughed, and with a puff of smoke, the boggart was gone. Ginny grabbed her bag and walked over to the Hospital Wing to visit the many students who fainted.
"You're scared of your father?" Ginny asked Draco.
"Hell yea," Draco replied. "Getting whipped is ordinary stuff."
"I'm sorry. Maybe I could adopt you. Well, actually my parents probably wouldn't want another kid, especially a guy who likes their daughter," Ginny said.
"We could elope."
"Sure. That would be great. How about when we graduate?"
"That's when I'm getting the Dark Mark. I don't know if my Mum will be able to protect me, especially if my father uses his Death Eaters to scare her. I can maybe escape my father for a year and after you graduate we could get married."
"I would love that. I need to get to get to class now. You too. I think you're fine," Ginny gave Draco a kiss on the cheek and ran off to her class. She had potions, and Professor Snape sure seemed more relaxed than usual. He actually smiled at Ginny. That was a big change.
The first semester went fine. Ginny got great scores on her semester exams, and she had Draco to be with. The second semester was sure to be just as great as the first.
How did you like it? I'm sorry I haven't updated forever, but my cat had surgery, and I was in five concerts in one week and the next week I had a play, so I was really busy. But for Hanukah I got a PowerBook G4 with a 12 inch screen! That means I can write a lot more! Yay! Anyways, merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, happy Kawanza, and happy any other holiday that you might celebrate! Hope you get lots of presents! And a happy new year! Best wishes, (!