Chapter Seven: Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue

"Now I wanna sniff some glue
Now I wanna have somethin' to do
All the kids wanna sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin' to do"

"Give that back!" Draco yelled after the redheaded girl running down the hall. Ginny stopped and turned around.

"Make me." She said defiantly. He caught up to her and tried to pry her hands off his homework; she still held tight.

"That does it!" He said and started tickling her.

"Stop it! All right, I give! Just stop!" He stopped tickling her and took the homework.

"Ha!" He said.

"How rude!"

"Rude is my middle name." He said proudly.

"I expected as much."

"I'm glad you have that high of an opinion of me." He said sarcastically.

"Yes, maybe it's too high." Said Ginny, giggling.

"Whatever."

"Now that's original."

"Yes, it is."

"Good for you!"

They continued talking in this same crazy matter until they got to the portrait of the Fat Lady.

"Goodnight, Draco."

"Night." He replied. Then Ginny did something very strange; she kissed him on the cheek.

"What was…" He started to say but she had already disappeared into the Gryffindor common room. He shrugged and walked to the Slytherin common room. When he walked through the door behind the statue of Salazar Slytherin he was greeted by a blond pug-faced girl falling on him.

"Hello Pansy, would you mind getting off of me?" He said angrily.

"Oh, sorry Draco." She said while having a revolting look on her face that must have been her trying to look seductive.

"Don't ever do that again." He yelled.

"Okay Draco." She said with that same disgusting look and then she walked out of the door.

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Back in the Gryffindor girl's dorms Ginny was sitting on her bed looking at the Christmas present from Draco. It was this beautiful music box with dragons carved into it and when you lifted its lid there were two baby dragons playing with each other. She watched as one chased the other to the edge of the music box and it blew a tiny stream of fire. She turned on the music that came from it and heard a song called "I Need a New Wand" playing. Draco had a weird sense of humor. Luckily Ginny had the same strange sense of humor and loved the music box. It also had a compartment at the bottom. "To store your diary." He had said. Ginny laid back on her bed listening to the music to think. She often just stopped what ever she was doing just to think. Now she was thinking about what to do for her birthday. It was on December 29th. Usually she didn't really have a party, though last year Neville had found out from Ron when Ginny's birthday was and took her out for Butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks. Neville was really nice, and really liked Ginny. She still remembered what happened last year. It was before she left after her third year and he come up to her and asked her to be his girlfriend. Ginny liked Neville, but just as a friend. He was more of a brother than a boyfriend, so she had to tell him no even though it would hurt his feelings. She really hated hurting him like that, and the look on his face made her feel even worse.
She thought that she could possibly have a party in the Gryffindor common room, but Draco wouldn't be able to come to that. Or maybe he could…

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Draco was walking to class when a reddish-black blur ran into him.

"Watch where your going because my—" He said before he got a good look at who had ran into him.

"Because your what, Draco?"

"Um…" He said, searching for an answer that wouldn't result in an angry Weasley.

"Were you going to say your father?" She asked, annoyed.

"Well…" He said, skirting around the issue.

"Yes?"

"Yes."

Ginny looked a little mad.

"Draco, that's not how you should deal with someone who runs into you!" She said, annoyed.

"And why not? It seems perfectly acceptable to me!" He said, trying to defend himself.

"Oh whatever. Here." She said, shoving an envelope into his hands.

"I've got to go, I still need to hand more of these out." She said and then she left. He looked down at the letter in his hands and opened it. He saw two dark red lines shoot out of one of the corners of the parchment and form words and a picture of a tiger. He started to read the letter.

You are invited to the Gryffindor common room on December 29th at 9:00 for Ginny Weasley's sixteenth birthday party. Please leave your mind behind, as it tends to get in the way of the fun. And bring toilet paper.

Draco looked very confused.

Toilet paper? What the…

He put the letter into his bag and walked to Transfiguration.

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Ginny ran into the Potions classroom exhausted. Not only did she practice Quidditch with rest of the Gryffindor team for three hours last night but she had also rushed around the castle delivering invitations to her birthday party on Saturday. She had given them to Draco, Neville, Colin and Vider. She had hesitated inviting Colin, but she thought it couldn't hurt much to have him there. She saw Professor Snape walk over to her and she expected he would take the usual ten points from Gryffindor for being late but he just told her to not be late again. It was very strange to her, usually Snape never passed up a chance to take points off of Gryffindor. Something strange was going on.

"This is so cool, Colin! I've never been invited to a party where there's girls before!" Neville said to Colin as they came back from dinner.

"What about the Yule Ball?" The no longer squeaky voice of Colin Creevey replied.

"Well, they had to invite me, it was a school function. But Ginny invited me! Maybe she does like me…" Neville said, getting a dreamy look in his eyes. Colin shook his head but didn't say anything. They went up to their dorms to get their presents for Ginny and the toilet paper she had wanted everyone to bring. Ginny was waiting when they got downstairs.

"Good, you're here." She said. "We'll just wait for Draco to get here and then the fun begins."

Draco walked down the hall with a small package wrapped in green and silver clutched in his hand. Secretly he was excited because now he had the password to the Gryffindor common room. Oh what fun he could have wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting goody-goodies. Beside for Ginny, she was nice. And Vider, she was okay. He smiled just thinking about all the damage he could cause. He was still confused about why Ginny wanted him to bring toilet paper. He came up to the portrait of the Fat Lady and said, "Nugor." The painting opened and he walked inside the Gryffindor common room. He was greeted by Colin saying, "Let's all sniff glue!" and Ginny saying, "No, I've got something a little different in mind."

Ginny saw Draco walk into the common room and waved. Neville and Colin were a lot less enthusiastic.

"What's he doing here?" Neville said.

"He's my friend."

"Yeah, Draco's cool!" Said Vider.

"Okay, now that that's over with, let me tell you why I asked you to bring the toilet paper…"

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"Ginny, what if we get caught?" Colin said as he used Wingardium Leviosa to wrap Vincent Crabbe in toilet paper while Ginny, Neville, Vider and Draco were busy wrapping the rest of the fifth-year Slytherins in it.

"Don't worry so much, Colin. Who would guess that shy little Ginny Weasley would pull a stunt like this?" She replied.

"It's still risky!"

"Oh stop being such a spoilsport!" Said Vider.

"And now for the Gryffindors." Ginny said with a mischievous look in her eyes.

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Ron woke up feeling very strange, he felt like he was bound. He looked down and started yelling something about Fred and George. He woke all of the other boys in his dorm and they also started yelling. After all, they were wrapped from head to toe in toilet paper. Meanwhile Ginny, Neville, Vider and Colin were laughing their heads off. Back in the Slytherin common room much the same thing was happening, though Draco wasn't laughing as he didn't want to get caught, but his smirk looked a lot more amused than usual. The Gryffindor sixth-year boys then noticed something: Neville wasn't wrapped in toilet paper like the rest of them. Finally the pranksters were no longer thought to be innocent. Luckily they didn't get points taken off, though they did get detention. But, it was definitely worth it.