Draco Malfoy and the Beauty Queen
Disclaimer: Harry Potter, Hogwarts, and its characters are created by the genius, Joanne Karen Rowling, and belongs to her, the publishers (Scholastic, Bloomsbury and Raincoast), and Warner Bros. Nothing belongs to me, except for the original characters that I created.
A/n: I'm truthfully sorry that this chapter is late! Correction to myself, very very very very very late. I've a huge writer's block for this story for a very long time, plus, the tons of homeworks that had been piling up my desk, and my newfound avid interest in Japanese anime. And waiting for the fifth book, I only read a few pages, so, don't tell me anything! To all the reviewers who patiently waited, I'm really really sorry. Come to think of it, I got 175 reviews for 7 chapters, wow, that's an average of 25 reviews per chapter. This makes this story the most reviewed story I've written. Here's Chapter 8, enjoy reading and keep on bringing the reviews in!.
Thanks to the reviewers:
quiet_apparition - thanks for reading, even though you didn't like it. Although sometimes I don't tolerate flames. The only thing I couldn't really tolerate is when you said about OOC, I admit, Draco is a little bit OOC, I explained it in chapter 4. Harry seemed Harry, Ron is infuriated that his sister is going out with Draco Malfoy, and besides, if you read the book, Ron hated Draco so much. Hermione tried to stop Ron from fighting, she always does. Lavender do not play such a large role, Fred and George didn't make an appearance, except for the invisible canary cream. While the rest of the characters are characters that I made up in my head. But thanks. Megan - here it is, chapter 8. Enjoy reading. LizEvans - thanks for thinking that chapter 7 is a great chapter. I do hope you find chapter 8 better, after all, I spent quite a lot of time over it. Thanks. twoc2bcool - thanks for thinking that it was awesome. I got the idea after watching Miss World. lizzy - Thanks for thinking it is good, and I'm in the process of writing it, don't know when I'm going to be finished. kittyluver - Well, thanks for loving my story, and here's chapter 8. Marisa - thanks for thinking it is awesome, and here's chapter 8, enjoy. ann - here's something for you to review, chapter 8. Enjoy reading. Katie Lennon - thank you for thinking that it is an excellent story and loving the idea. Hope you read more D/G fics out there, there are some nice ones. nicole - Thanks for loving my story, and here's chapter 8, don't forget to review. Angelic Vampire - Thanks for loving my story, and here's chapter 8, don't forget to review afterwards. Elenya - here's more, read on. Marissa - here is chapter 8, read on to find out what happened. bebe-chrissy - thanks for thinking it is interesting, and thanks for putting it on your Favourites list. Here's chapter 8. draco-m's-hun - thanks for reading the story, and here's chapter 8. Hope you like it. LonLey TeNsHi - here's chapter 8, hope you like it. Missy - Here's more! Hope you like it. Piggie - perhaps you could be my Beta-reader, thanks for enjoying the story. SAngel - thanks for loving the fic, here's chapter 8, hope you enjoy reading it.
Chapter 8
"What am I gonna do? Probably nothing," Ginny answered. "Will you excuse me so that I can return to my room?"
"Well, yes. By the way, here's your key to your new vault in Gringotts," Mandy anwered. "We wanted to give it just now, but none of us remembered to bring it,"
"Thanks," Ginny answered again. "Is my curfew over?"
"Well, technically, yes," Mandy answered back. "If you want to go out tonight, it's okay,"
"Ok," Ginny replied, and went upstairs.
*****
Ginny placed the key protectively in her suitcases, and whispered, "Draco..."
"Here I am," Draco whispered from the window. Indeed, Draco was there, on his Firebolt.
"Come in," Ginny whispered. Draco entered the window on his Firebolt, and descended in the room.
"What are we gonna do tonight?" asked Draco.
"Perhaps we could just find out about each other more," Ginny answered. "There's no curfew anymore, but..."
"But you are the prime target for stories, because the rest of them went home already," Draco supplied.
Ginny nodded.
Both of them sat next to each other on the couch.
"Hmm, where shall we start?" asked Draco.
"Let's start with birthdays, when's yours? Mine's on the -"
"21st August," Draco supplied. "your birthday,"
"Hey, how do you know?" asked Ginny.
"TeenWizard," Draco replied. "Mine's on the 20th August,"
"Okay," Ginny said. "I have six brothers,"
"An only child," Draco replied.
"I have an overprotective mother, and a really eccentric father," Ginny said.
"I have a once abused mother, who is now in the process of recovery, and a really wacko father, who died during the attack," Draco replied.
"I know about your father," Ginny said sympathetically.
"Well, if it weren't for him, you won't meet Voldemort, so he's really wacko," Draco turned to Ginny.
"Yeah, you are right,"
"What else?" asked Ginny.
"Hmm, favourite food?" asked Draco back.
"Anything my mother cooks," Ginny answered. "You?"
"Nothing in particular, all the meals cooked by the house elves are tasty," Draco replied. "Favourite drink?"
"Again, nothing in particular," Ginny answered. "You?"
"Ice wine," Draco replied. "I should let you taste it next time,"
"Best mates?" asked Ginny. "I know yours are Crabbe and Goyle,"
"Well, Vincent joined me after his initiation to defeat Voldemort, Gregory didn't," Draco answered. "You could say that Goyle's not my best mate, while yours is the boy crazy with cameras and Potter,"
"Yeah, Colin Creevey," Ginny replied. "He's my best mate,"
"You didn't get initiated?" asked Ginny.
Draco shook his head and rolled up his sleeves, and showed his forearm, sure enough, there's no sign of the Dark Mark.
"Nope, I ran away from home, and went to Professor Snape's place," Draco answered. "I received protection from Dumbledore,"
"You fought in the war," Ginny said sulkily. "I didn't,"
"Don't feel bad that you didn't take part in the war," Draco replied. "It was a horrible time,"
"Favourite colour?" asked Ginny.
"None in particular, but I fancy black," Draco answered. "Yours is green, right?"
"Nope," Ginny replied. "I like white, it's hard to find colours that clash horribly with my hair,"
"Green doesn't clash," Draco said. "You even wore a green blouse with silver buttons, and a green skirt with silver streaks during your TeenWitch interview,"
"Yeah, true," Ginny replied. "You remembered that detail?"
"How could I forget?" asked Draco. "You look absolutely gorgeous in that photo,"
"Thanks," Ginny replied shyly. "Draco..."
"Hmm?" asked Draco, and wrapped his arms around Ginny, while Ginny placed her head on his chest.
"When did we fall in love?" asked Ginny.
"Hmm, I don't know about you," Draco answered. "But I fell in love with you when I sent in the vote,"
"Really?" Ginny asked, and got up, but Draco pushed her back down.
"Yeah, your brown eyes were tempting me," Draco answered. "Do you love me too?"
"Well, yeah..." Ginny answered. "I don't hate you, right?"
Draco nodded.
"In two weeks, Hogwarts is starting," Ginny said. "Are you sure you can handle my brothers?"
"Of course I can," Draco replied. "Ronald Weasley is no sweat for me,"
"No, Draco, the whole clan,"
Draco smiled, "I'll try to like them, and they should try and accept me,"
"Draco, how did you manage to help Professor Snape?" asked Ginny.
Draco shivered. "Please don't ask, it was a terrible time, my father could kill me if he found me,"
"That man do not have any ounce of love for me, all he cared was for the restoration of power to Voldemort," Draco continued. "I helped Snape in secret, using the invisibility cloak that my very own father gave me,"
Ginny held Draco's hand, it was very cold.
"Draco, I'm sorry I asked," Ginny said.
"It's okay, it's over already," Draco replied. "There's no need for you to worry,"
******
~~The Burrow~~
Only a few people are at the Burrow, with Fred and George in the Swiss Alps, Charlie in Romania and Bill in Egypt. Percy had moved to an apartment in London to live with Penny. There's only Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Ron, Harry and Hermione at the Burrow.
"Why is Ginny not here yet?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Perhaps she decided to stay at the Leaky Cauldron, Mrs. Weasley?" asked Hermione. "After all, all of us are going to the Diagon Alley tommorow,"
"Hah, just an excuse to be with Malfoy!" Ron muttered.
"Ron, Malfoy's not that bad," Harry said. "I read in an article in the Daily Prophet that he helped Snape in the Order,"
"That's true, Harry, young Malfoy helped Serverus Snape in secret," Mr. Weasley said. "We only found out from Albus Dumbledore when we wanted to seize the Malfoy fortune,"
"And Ginny is no longer a little girl," said Hermione. "She's a sixteen-year-old,"
"A sixteen-year-old who had undergone a lot of things in life," Harry said. "She's no longer your little baby, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley,"
"We know, Harry," Mr. Weasley replied. "It's just that, she grew up so fast, none of us realise it,"
"Oh, we do realise that she's all grown up, dad," said somebody in the background.
"Who's there?" asked Mrs. Weasley, and turned to look at the clock bearing the Weasleys' names, it was Fred and George, who's hands are now on home.
As a matter of fact, it *was* Fred and George.
"We saw Ginny in Muggle London, looking so in love with Draco Malfoy, they were holding each other close," Fred said. "Both of them didn't notice that we were in the shadows,"
"What are you doing in Muggle London?" asked Mr. Weasley. "Did you take the Underground?"
"We were passing by, before going to Diagon Alley," answered George. "And yes, we took the Underground,"
"And guess what we found out in Diagon Alley?" asked Fred. "This!"
It's the issue of the TeenWitch and TeenWizard, where Ginny and Draco are found on a broomstick in the sky of the Diagon Alley.
"I got both of them from Flourish and Blotts," Fred said. "George and I have always realised that Ginny is no longer a little sister, but reading the interview made us realise a little bit more,"
**********
~~Ginny's room in the Leaky Cauldron~~
Draco and Ginny ended up sleeping on the couch, after talking the whole night away.
*********
~~The next morning~~
~~The Burrow~~
"Are you joining us to the Diagon Alley, Fred, George?" asked Mrs. Weasley, when she saw the twins join them for breakfast.
"Yeah," Fred answered. "We'd like to open the shop, it's been closed all this time,"
"And we wanted to see Ginny," George added.
"I do hope she's not with the Malfoy git when we arrive at her hotel room," Ron muttered.
Owls started arriving after that.
"Ginny's O.W.Ls results are here," Mrs. Weasley said, "And your lists of schoolbooks,"
"Let me open Ginny's O.W.Ls result slip," Mr. Weasley said. "And then, send it to her,"
Mr. Weasley opened Ginny's O.W.Ls result slip. "Wow!"
"What do you mean? Wow! Dad?" asked Ron.
"Ginny got 21 O.W.Ls!" Mr. Weasley cheered. "Even better than Percy and Bill!"
"Wow!" Hermione muttered. "I only got 13 O.W.Ls,"
Mr. Weasley immediately sent the result slip to Ginny.
"She'll probably get transferred straight to the seventh year," Hermione wondered out loud. "What does her school books list say?"
"You are right, Hermione," Mrs. Weasley answered, looking at Ginny's schoolbooks list. "She is promoted to the seventh year! All her books are seventh year books!"
"How did she get promoted?" asked Fred, "I thought you need to learn sixth year before moving to seventh year,"
"Ginny took some advanced lessons last year, Fred," Hermione answered. "She took more subjects than I, but unlike me, she took advanced stuffs,"
"Well, let's go to the Diagon Alley now," Mrs. Weasley said.
And then, they proceeded to go by the Floo powder.
'My least favourite mode of transportation,' Harry thought.
*********
~~The Leaky Cauldron~~
~~Ginny's room~~
Ginny woke up to find herself in the arms of Draco Malfoy.
And then...
end of chapter 8 - please read and review.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter, Hogwarts, and its characters are created by the genius, Joanne Karen Rowling, and belongs to her, the publishers (Scholastic, Bloomsbury and Raincoast), and Warner Bros. Nothing belongs to me, except for the original characters that I created.
A/n: I'm truthfully sorry that this chapter is late! Correction to myself, very very very very very late. I've a huge writer's block for this story for a very long time, plus, the tons of homeworks that had been piling up my desk, and my newfound avid interest in Japanese anime. And waiting for the fifth book, I only read a few pages, so, don't tell me anything! To all the reviewers who patiently waited, I'm really really sorry. Come to think of it, I got 175 reviews for 7 chapters, wow, that's an average of 25 reviews per chapter. This makes this story the most reviewed story I've written. Here's Chapter 8, enjoy reading and keep on bringing the reviews in!.
Thanks to the reviewers:
quiet_apparition - thanks for reading, even though you didn't like it. Although sometimes I don't tolerate flames. The only thing I couldn't really tolerate is when you said about OOC, I admit, Draco is a little bit OOC, I explained it in chapter 4. Harry seemed Harry, Ron is infuriated that his sister is going out with Draco Malfoy, and besides, if you read the book, Ron hated Draco so much. Hermione tried to stop Ron from fighting, she always does. Lavender do not play such a large role, Fred and George didn't make an appearance, except for the invisible canary cream. While the rest of the characters are characters that I made up in my head. But thanks. Megan - here it is, chapter 8. Enjoy reading. LizEvans - thanks for thinking that chapter 7 is a great chapter. I do hope you find chapter 8 better, after all, I spent quite a lot of time over it. Thanks. twoc2bcool - thanks for thinking that it was awesome. I got the idea after watching Miss World. lizzy - Thanks for thinking it is good, and I'm in the process of writing it, don't know when I'm going to be finished. kittyluver - Well, thanks for loving my story, and here's chapter 8. Marisa - thanks for thinking it is awesome, and here's chapter 8, enjoy. ann - here's something for you to review, chapter 8. Enjoy reading. Katie Lennon - thank you for thinking that it is an excellent story and loving the idea. Hope you read more D/G fics out there, there are some nice ones. nicole - Thanks for loving my story, and here's chapter 8, don't forget to review. Angelic Vampire - Thanks for loving my story, and here's chapter 8, don't forget to review afterwards. Elenya - here's more, read on. Marissa - here is chapter 8, read on to find out what happened. bebe-chrissy - thanks for thinking it is interesting, and thanks for putting it on your Favourites list. Here's chapter 8. draco-m's-hun - thanks for reading the story, and here's chapter 8. Hope you like it. LonLey TeNsHi - here's chapter 8, hope you like it. Missy - Here's more! Hope you like it. Piggie - perhaps you could be my Beta-reader, thanks for enjoying the story. SAngel - thanks for loving the fic, here's chapter 8, hope you enjoy reading it.
Chapter 8
"What am I gonna do? Probably nothing," Ginny answered. "Will you excuse me so that I can return to my room?"
"Well, yes. By the way, here's your key to your new vault in Gringotts," Mandy anwered. "We wanted to give it just now, but none of us remembered to bring it,"
"Thanks," Ginny answered again. "Is my curfew over?"
"Well, technically, yes," Mandy answered back. "If you want to go out tonight, it's okay,"
"Ok," Ginny replied, and went upstairs.
*****
Ginny placed the key protectively in her suitcases, and whispered, "Draco..."
"Here I am," Draco whispered from the window. Indeed, Draco was there, on his Firebolt.
"Come in," Ginny whispered. Draco entered the window on his Firebolt, and descended in the room.
"What are we gonna do tonight?" asked Draco.
"Perhaps we could just find out about each other more," Ginny answered. "There's no curfew anymore, but..."
"But you are the prime target for stories, because the rest of them went home already," Draco supplied.
Ginny nodded.
Both of them sat next to each other on the couch.
"Hmm, where shall we start?" asked Draco.
"Let's start with birthdays, when's yours? Mine's on the -"
"21st August," Draco supplied. "your birthday,"
"Hey, how do you know?" asked Ginny.
"TeenWizard," Draco replied. "Mine's on the 20th August,"
"Okay," Ginny said. "I have six brothers,"
"An only child," Draco replied.
"I have an overprotective mother, and a really eccentric father," Ginny said.
"I have a once abused mother, who is now in the process of recovery, and a really wacko father, who died during the attack," Draco replied.
"I know about your father," Ginny said sympathetically.
"Well, if it weren't for him, you won't meet Voldemort, so he's really wacko," Draco turned to Ginny.
"Yeah, you are right,"
"What else?" asked Ginny.
"Hmm, favourite food?" asked Draco back.
"Anything my mother cooks," Ginny answered. "You?"
"Nothing in particular, all the meals cooked by the house elves are tasty," Draco replied. "Favourite drink?"
"Again, nothing in particular," Ginny answered. "You?"
"Ice wine," Draco replied. "I should let you taste it next time,"
"Best mates?" asked Ginny. "I know yours are Crabbe and Goyle,"
"Well, Vincent joined me after his initiation to defeat Voldemort, Gregory didn't," Draco answered. "You could say that Goyle's not my best mate, while yours is the boy crazy with cameras and Potter,"
"Yeah, Colin Creevey," Ginny replied. "He's my best mate,"
"You didn't get initiated?" asked Ginny.
Draco shook his head and rolled up his sleeves, and showed his forearm, sure enough, there's no sign of the Dark Mark.
"Nope, I ran away from home, and went to Professor Snape's place," Draco answered. "I received protection from Dumbledore,"
"You fought in the war," Ginny said sulkily. "I didn't,"
"Don't feel bad that you didn't take part in the war," Draco replied. "It was a horrible time,"
"Favourite colour?" asked Ginny.
"None in particular, but I fancy black," Draco answered. "Yours is green, right?"
"Nope," Ginny replied. "I like white, it's hard to find colours that clash horribly with my hair,"
"Green doesn't clash," Draco said. "You even wore a green blouse with silver buttons, and a green skirt with silver streaks during your TeenWitch interview,"
"Yeah, true," Ginny replied. "You remembered that detail?"
"How could I forget?" asked Draco. "You look absolutely gorgeous in that photo,"
"Thanks," Ginny replied shyly. "Draco..."
"Hmm?" asked Draco, and wrapped his arms around Ginny, while Ginny placed her head on his chest.
"When did we fall in love?" asked Ginny.
"Hmm, I don't know about you," Draco answered. "But I fell in love with you when I sent in the vote,"
"Really?" Ginny asked, and got up, but Draco pushed her back down.
"Yeah, your brown eyes were tempting me," Draco answered. "Do you love me too?"
"Well, yeah..." Ginny answered. "I don't hate you, right?"
Draco nodded.
"In two weeks, Hogwarts is starting," Ginny said. "Are you sure you can handle my brothers?"
"Of course I can," Draco replied. "Ronald Weasley is no sweat for me,"
"No, Draco, the whole clan,"
Draco smiled, "I'll try to like them, and they should try and accept me,"
"Draco, how did you manage to help Professor Snape?" asked Ginny.
Draco shivered. "Please don't ask, it was a terrible time, my father could kill me if he found me,"
"That man do not have any ounce of love for me, all he cared was for the restoration of power to Voldemort," Draco continued. "I helped Snape in secret, using the invisibility cloak that my very own father gave me,"
Ginny held Draco's hand, it was very cold.
"Draco, I'm sorry I asked," Ginny said.
"It's okay, it's over already," Draco replied. "There's no need for you to worry,"
******
~~The Burrow~~
Only a few people are at the Burrow, with Fred and George in the Swiss Alps, Charlie in Romania and Bill in Egypt. Percy had moved to an apartment in London to live with Penny. There's only Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Ron, Harry and Hermione at the Burrow.
"Why is Ginny not here yet?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"Perhaps she decided to stay at the Leaky Cauldron, Mrs. Weasley?" asked Hermione. "After all, all of us are going to the Diagon Alley tommorow,"
"Hah, just an excuse to be with Malfoy!" Ron muttered.
"Ron, Malfoy's not that bad," Harry said. "I read in an article in the Daily Prophet that he helped Snape in the Order,"
"That's true, Harry, young Malfoy helped Serverus Snape in secret," Mr. Weasley said. "We only found out from Albus Dumbledore when we wanted to seize the Malfoy fortune,"
"And Ginny is no longer a little girl," said Hermione. "She's a sixteen-year-old,"
"A sixteen-year-old who had undergone a lot of things in life," Harry said. "She's no longer your little baby, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley,"
"We know, Harry," Mr. Weasley replied. "It's just that, she grew up so fast, none of us realise it,"
"Oh, we do realise that she's all grown up, dad," said somebody in the background.
"Who's there?" asked Mrs. Weasley, and turned to look at the clock bearing the Weasleys' names, it was Fred and George, who's hands are now on home.
As a matter of fact, it *was* Fred and George.
"We saw Ginny in Muggle London, looking so in love with Draco Malfoy, they were holding each other close," Fred said. "Both of them didn't notice that we were in the shadows,"
"What are you doing in Muggle London?" asked Mr. Weasley. "Did you take the Underground?"
"We were passing by, before going to Diagon Alley," answered George. "And yes, we took the Underground,"
"And guess what we found out in Diagon Alley?" asked Fred. "This!"
It's the issue of the TeenWitch and TeenWizard, where Ginny and Draco are found on a broomstick in the sky of the Diagon Alley.
"I got both of them from Flourish and Blotts," Fred said. "George and I have always realised that Ginny is no longer a little sister, but reading the interview made us realise a little bit more,"
**********
~~Ginny's room in the Leaky Cauldron~~
Draco and Ginny ended up sleeping on the couch, after talking the whole night away.
*********
~~The next morning~~
~~The Burrow~~
"Are you joining us to the Diagon Alley, Fred, George?" asked Mrs. Weasley, when she saw the twins join them for breakfast.
"Yeah," Fred answered. "We'd like to open the shop, it's been closed all this time,"
"And we wanted to see Ginny," George added.
"I do hope she's not with the Malfoy git when we arrive at her hotel room," Ron muttered.
Owls started arriving after that.
"Ginny's O.W.Ls results are here," Mrs. Weasley said, "And your lists of schoolbooks,"
"Let me open Ginny's O.W.Ls result slip," Mr. Weasley said. "And then, send it to her,"
Mr. Weasley opened Ginny's O.W.Ls result slip. "Wow!"
"What do you mean? Wow! Dad?" asked Ron.
"Ginny got 21 O.W.Ls!" Mr. Weasley cheered. "Even better than Percy and Bill!"
"Wow!" Hermione muttered. "I only got 13 O.W.Ls,"
Mr. Weasley immediately sent the result slip to Ginny.
"She'll probably get transferred straight to the seventh year," Hermione wondered out loud. "What does her school books list say?"
"You are right, Hermione," Mrs. Weasley answered, looking at Ginny's schoolbooks list. "She is promoted to the seventh year! All her books are seventh year books!"
"How did she get promoted?" asked Fred, "I thought you need to learn sixth year before moving to seventh year,"
"Ginny took some advanced lessons last year, Fred," Hermione answered. "She took more subjects than I, but unlike me, she took advanced stuffs,"
"Well, let's go to the Diagon Alley now," Mrs. Weasley said.
And then, they proceeded to go by the Floo powder.
'My least favourite mode of transportation,' Harry thought.
*********
~~The Leaky Cauldron~~
~~Ginny's room~~
Ginny woke up to find herself in the arms of Draco Malfoy.
And then...
end of chapter 8 - please read and review.